UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
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COLLINS'S
^Peerage of Cnslanti:
GENEALOGICAL, BIOGRAPHICAL, AND HISTORICAL.
GREATLY AUGMENTED, AND CONTINUED TO THE PRESENT TIME,
SIR EGERTON BRYDGES, K. J,
IN NINE VOLUMES. VOL. VIIL
LONDON:
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1812.
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CONTENTS OF VOL. VIH.
BARONS FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF MR. PITT'S MINISTRY IN 1/34, TO THE CONCLUSION OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
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Carteret, Lord Carteret 1
Eliot, Lord Eliot 3
Bulheley, Lord Bulkeley 8
Cocks, Lord Somers 19
Parker, Lord Boringdon 28
Hill, Lord Berwick 33
Dutton, Lord Sherlorne SQ
Gordon, Lord Gordon 56
Scot, Lord Montagu of Boughton 5^
Douglas, Lord Douglas of Amhreslury , (since extinct) 58
Eeresford, Lord Tyrone 74
Boyle, Lord Carlton 101
Harlord, Lord Siifficid 107
Carleton, Lord Dorchester. 10()
Eliott, Lord Heathjietd 119
Kenyan, Lord Kenyon 127
Curzon, Barofiess Howe • . . 133
Neville, Lord Braylrooke 153
Amherst, Lord Amherst l6l
Chichester, Lord Fisherwick 177
Grimslon, Lord Verulam 209
Douglas, Lord Douglas of Douglas 227
Gage, Lord Gage 249
Douglas, Lord Douglas of Lochleven 27 1
Thurhw, Lord Thurlow 284
Eden, Lord Aukland 28/
Fitzpatrick, Lord Upper Ossory 293
Pliipps, Lord Mulgravc 311
Lyttelton, Lord Lyttelton 3lG
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Agar Ellis, Lord Mendip 360
Bridgeman, Lord Bradford 36/
Peachey, Lord Selsey 3/6
Dundas, Lord Dundas 380
Pelham, Lord YarloroTigh 387
Hood, Lord Hood of Catherington 400
Stuart, Lord Stuart of Castlestuart 402
Stewart, Lord Stewart ofGarlies 418
Stopford, Lord Saltersford 445
Dawnay Lord Dawnay . , 453
Brodrick, Lord Brodrick 4G0
Rous, Lord Rous 476
Calthorpe, Lord Calthorpe 4S1
Burrell, Lord Gwydir 496
Basset, Lord De Dunstanville oud Basset 502
Lascelles, Lord Hareivood 508
Rolle, Lord Rolle 5l6
Campbell, Lord Cau'dor 530
IFellesley, Lord Wellesley 532
Smith, Lord Carringion 547
Townshend, Lord Bayning 551
Grenville, Lord Glastonbury 553
Powlett, Lord Bolton 555
Elliot Murray Kynyvmound, Lord Minto 55Q
IVodehouse, Lord IFodehouse 5d2
Rushout, Lord Northwick 5/2
Powys, Lord Lilford 5^"^
Lister, Lord Ribblcsdale 584
Mackenzie, Lord Seaforth oQ-i
Scott, Lord Eldon 602
Fitzgibbon, Lord Fitzgibbon 605
(ps" The Readev is requested to turn also to the Addenda at the end of fhe Volume for the latest dates, and a few corrections, of every article.
THE
feeeagjE of England.
CARTERET, LORD CARTERET.
Henky-Frederick Carteret, Lord Carteret, second son of Thomas Thynne, second Fiscount JFeymouth,'^ by his second wife. Lady Louisa Carteret, daughter of John, Earl Gran- ville, was born November 17th, 1/35, and has taken the name and arms of Carteret, by virtue of bis Majesty's royal sign manual, pursuant to the will of the late Earl Granville.
On April ipth, 1768,^ he was made one of the Masters of his Majesty's Household, which he resigned in December 1770^ on being appointed one of the joint Post Masters-general, M'hich he retained till June 23d, 17^9? and was advanced to the Peerage by patent, dated January 29th, 1784, creating him Bakon Carte- bet, of Hawnes, in the county of Bedford, and to the heirs-male of his body lawfully begotten, with remainc^ers to the Honourable George Thynne, second son, the Honourable John Thynne, third son, and the fourth, ffth, sixth, seventh, and every other son and sons, severally and successively, of the right Honourable Thomas, Lord Viscount Weymouth (late Marquis of Bath), and the respec- tive heirs male of their bodies, lawfully begotten. His Lordship is unmarried.
* S;e Vol. II. p. 509, for the descent of this family. *> London- Gazette.
VOL. VIII.
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Title. Henry-Frederick Carteret, Baron Carteret, of Hawnes, in the county of Bedford.
Creation. Baron Carteret, of Hawnes, in the county of Bed- ford, January 29th, 1784, 24 George III.
Arms. Quarterly, first and fourth Gules, three clarions, or claricords. Or, for Granville 5 second and third. Gules, four fusil j conjoined in fess. Argent.
Crest. Above a wreath a mount, thereon a squirrel sejant, cracking a nut, all proper.
' Supporters. Two winged stags. Gules, attired, Or,
Motto. Loyal devoir.
Chief Seat;
LORD ELIOT.
EE.IOT, LORD ELIOT.
This family flouribhed for eight or ten generations in Devonshire, before they transplanted themselves into Cornwall, and had matched into several considerable families in that county; as the Sigdens, Cotlands, Bonviles, Sumasters, Fitz, Careswells, &c. Anno 1433, Walter Eliot was returned among the gentry of Devonshire.
And to this family, as it should seem by the arms, was allied. Sir Richard Eliot, made by King Hen. VIJI. one of the Justices of the King's Bench, who by his will, dated 1520, bequeathed his body to be buried in the cathedral of Salisbury,^* of which church Robert Eliot died Sub-dean, anno 15(32.''
The pedigree entered in the visitation of Cornwall, made in 1620,*^ commences with
John Eliot, who by his wife, Jane, daughter of John Bonvile, of Shute, in com. Devon, was fluher to
Edward Eliot, of Cutland, in that county, who married Alice, daughter of Robert Guye, of Kingsbridge, and had issue two sons;
First, John Eliot, of St. Germain's, in Cormvall, whose first wife was Grace, daughter of John Fitz, of Tavestock, in Devon- shire; and his second, Mary, daughter of John Bruin, of Pli- mouth.
Second, Thomas Eliot, married to Joan, daughter of John Norbrooke, of Exeter, by whom he had issue four sons; First, Richard. Second, Hugh. Third, Walter. And, Fourth, Ed- ward. Also an only daughter, Alice.
a Willis's Notitia Parliamentaria, Vol. II. p. 144.
* Antiquities of Salisbury, p. 307. < C. i, in Coll. Arm.
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Richard Eliot, the eldest son and heir of Thomas^ purchased the site, >kc. of the priory of St. Germain's, to which he gave the *name of Port Eliot,'* where he lived with great hospitahty.'^ He was buried in St. Germain's churchy June 24th, i60Q, leaving by his wife, Bridget, daughter and coheir of Nicholas Carswell, of Hache, an only son.
Sir John Eliot,'Knt. born and baptized at St. Germain's, April 20th, 15Q0; who became a gentleman commoner of Exeter Col- lege, O.xford, in 160/, where he continued two or three years, and then removed to the inns of court; and May lOth, J6l8, re- ceived the honour of knighthood from King James I. was elected representative for the borough of Newport, in Cornwall, to the last parliament of that reign, and was re-elected to the first par- liament of King Charles I. which being soon dissolved, he was chosen for St. Germain's to the ensuing parliament, and in 3 Car. I. was Knight of the shire for Cornwall,
Sir John being a great opposer of the court, was appointed by the House of Commons one of the managers of the impeachment of the Duke of Buckingham, for which he, with .Sir Dudley Diggcs, the other ma?iager, were committed prisoners to the Tower, but were soon after released j on March 1st, l628, Sir John Eliot, and other members of the House of Commons, were committed close prisoners to the Tower, for refusing to answer before the Privy Council for what was said or done in the Parlia- ment; and on May 29th following, an information was exhibited against them in the Star Chamber, for their undutiful speeches in the late Parliament; in Michaelmas term following, upon an infor- mation in the King's Bench, they pleaded to the jurisdiction of the court, but were over-ruled, and afterwards adjudged to be impri- soned during the King's pleasure, to give security for their good behaviour; and Sir John Eliot was also fined two thousand pounds: they were afterwards offered to be released on their making sub- mission, which they refused, and Sir John Eliot died in the Tower, and was buried in the chapel there.
By the intjuisition taken after his death, it appears that he died November 27th, 8 Car. I, 1 632, leaving John, his son and heir, then twenty years and forty days old.*" Sir John married Rcdi- gund, daughter and coheir to Richard Gedy, Esq. by whom he had several sons and two daughters; the eldest of which was
^ Not. Pari, prxdict. e Cjrew's Survey of Cornwall, p. 109.
^ Inciuis. post Murt. in Cur. Wjrd.
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Elizibeth, wife to Colonel Nathaniel Fiennes, second son of Wil- liam, the first Viscount Say and Sele.s
Nicholas, his fourth son, was ancestor to the present Peer. John, the eldest son and heir, was baptized at Port Eliot, October ISth, 1012. He represented the borough of St. Germain's in 15 Car. L and the two first Parliaments of Car. IL and was buried near his grandfather, in the .south ayle, or nave, of St. Germain's church, March 25th, l6S5, leaving an only son and heir,
Daniel Eliot, who represented the borough of St. Germain's in several parliaments, and was buried among his ancestors, Oc- tober 2Sth, 1702, leaving an only child, Catharine, married in 1707, to the learned antiquary, Browne Willis of Whaddon Hall, in Buckinghamshire, Esq.'' By his will he bequeathed his estate, in order to keep np the name of his family, to Edward Eliot, grandson to Nicholas Eliot, fourth son of Sir John Eliot above- mentioned.'
Which Edward Eliot, Esq. (grandson to Nicholas Eliot be- forementioned), represented St, Germains in Parliament, from 1705 to 1714, was elected for Lest withel in 1716, was appointed one of the commissioners of the Excise in 1720, and chosen for Les- kard in September 1 722, but died the same year without issue, and was succeeded by his brother,
Richard Eliot, of Port Eliot, Esq. who was elected to par- liament for St. Germain's in 1733, for Leskard in 1741, and again for St. Germain's in 17-17j he was also Auditor and Receiver- general to the Prince of Wales, and died November IQth, 17-18^ aged about fifty-three, and was buried at St. Germain's. He mar- ried March 4th, 1726, Harriot, natural daughter of the Right Honourable James Craggs, Esq. Secretary of State in the reign of King George L and by her (who was re-married November 14tb, 1749, to the Honourable John Hamilton,'' brother to James, Earl of Abercorn), had issue three sons and six daughters. The sons were.
First, FMward, first Lord Eliot.
Second, Richard, who entered into the royal navy, and died under age.
% See Vol. VII. art. Say and Sele.^ *> She died, October 14th, 1724, aged thirty-four, and was buried at Bleachley,
' Not. Parliam. praedict. '' By whom she was mother of tlie present Marquis of Abercorn. See VJ. II. P' 534-
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Third, John, who was a Captain in the navy, and died Gover- nor of West Florida, unmarried.
Anne, the eldest daughter, married Hugh Bonfoy, Captain in the navy.
Harriot, the second daughter, married Pendock Neale, of Tollerton, in Nottinghamshire, and died without issue 1776; Augusta and Hester, the third and fourth daughters, died infants; Ehzabeth, fifth daughter, was wife to Sir Charles Cocks, of Dum- bleton, in Gloucestershire, Baronet, afterwards Lord Somers, and died 177 1 3 3nd Catharine, the youngest daughter, is unmarried.^
Edward, first Lold Eliot, born July 8th, 1727, was on his father's death chosen representative for the borough of St. Germain's, and constantly sat in Parliament, either for the county of Cornwall, or some borough therein, till his advancement to the peerage by patent^ dated January 30th, 1784, whereby he was created Baron Eliot, of St, Germain's, in Cornwall, and to the heirs-male of his body; his Lordship is also Receiver-general of the Duchy of Cornwall.
His Lordship was married September 25 tb, 1756, to Catherine, sole daughter and heir of Edward Ellison, of South Weald, in Essex, Esq. (by a daughter of Edward Gibbon, Esq. a South-Sea Director,' and grandfather of the late historian), by whom he had issue four sons.
First, Edward, died an infant.
Second, Edward-James, born July 1758, elected M. P. for St, Germain's 1780; and for Leskard, 1784, 179O, 17^6; made a Lord of the Treasury, July 13th, 1782; and again December 17th, 1783, which appointment he held till 1793.'" He died during his father's life, in September 1/97, having married Lady Harriot Pitt, daugh- ter of William, first Earl of Chatham, and by her (who died Sep- tember 25th, 1780"), had issue a daughter, born September 20th, 1786, who married Lieut. -Colonel Pringle of the Foot-guards,
Third, John, present Peer.
Fourth, William, born April 1st, 1766, married, first. Lady Georgina-Augusta Levcson Gower, daughter of Granville, first Marquis of Stafford (by Lady Susan Stewart), who died in I8O6; and, secondly, February 13th, I8O9, Letitia, eldest daughter of Sir W. P. A. A'Court, Bart, who died in child-bed in January 1810, of twins, who died. In 1798, he was Envoy to the Slates Gene-
1 See Oent. Mag. 1797, Part II. for pedigree of Gibbon. ^ In 1794 he accepted a Troop in the Cornwall Fencible Cavalry.
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ral; and in 1796, Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Bavaria; and has lately been appointed a Lord of the Treasury.
His Lordship, in l/SQ, assumed the name and arms of Craggs} and dying February 28th, 1804, was succeeded by bis eldest sur- viving son,
John, present and second Lord Eliot, who was born Sep- tember 28th, 1761 ; and married, September Sth, 179O, his rela- tion, Caroline Yorke, sister to the present Earl of Hardwickej but has no issue.
His Lordship, while a younger son, was brought up to the Bar j and while a Commoner, represented in parliament Leskard, and St. Germain's.
Title. John Eliot, Baron Eliot, of St. Germain's, in the county of Cornwall.
Creation. Baron Eliot, January 30th, 1/84, 24 George IIL
Arms. Argent a fess. Gules, between two bars gemelles wavy, Azure, Eliot; but at present uses the arms of Craggs.
Crest. On a wreath an elephant's head coupt Argent, collared Gules.
Supporters. Two eagles reguardant, with wings expanded^ proper, and charged on their breasts with an ermine spot.
Motto. OCCURRENT NUBES.
Chief Seat. Port Eliot, in Cornwall, which was fornaerly the Priory of St. Germains.
PEERAGE OF ENGLAND.
BULKELEY, LORD BULKELEY.
This ancient and noble family, as appears by a curious illumi- nated pedigree in his Lordship's possession, is descended from
Robert Bulkeley, Esq. Lord of the manor of Bulkelcy, in the county Palatine of Chester, in the reign of King John, and was succeeded therein by his son
William, who had five sonsj
First, Robert.
Second, Willock, of Petty Hall, in Cheshire, whose son, Ri- chard, married Mary, daughter of Hugh Venables, Baron of Kin- derton, and had an only son of his own name.
Third, Roger, of Orton Madock, in Cheshire.
Fourth, Ralph, seated at Rudal Heath, in the same county, but died issueless.
Fifth, David, from whom the Bulkeleys of Bickerton, in Cheshire descended.
Robert Bulkeley, of Bulkeley, Esq. the eldest son, married a daughter of Thomas Butler, Baron of Warrington, in Cheshire, by whom he had two sons.
First, William, his heir.
Second, Peter, ancestor to the Bulkeleys, of Wore, in Shrop*- shire 5 and Broxton, in Cheshire.
Also four daughters J viz. Alice, married to Weaver;
Maud, to • Hampton; Janet, to John Larkton; and Mar- garet, to Griffith Vichan ap Jer Griffith ap Jei-worth Goch.
William, the eldest son and heir of Robert, was living at Bulkeley, in the year 1302, and was twice married : first, to Maud, daughter to Sir John Davenport, Knt.j secondly, to Alice, daugh- ter of Vrian (or Bryan) St. Piere.
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By the latter wife, he had one son, Richard, to whom he gave the manor of Prestland, in Cheshire, whereupon he assumed that surname, which his descendants continued to use.
The issue by the forjtier venter were, five sons.
First, William, living at Bulkeley in 1314; but his line ter- mingted in a granddaughter, Alice, wife of Thomas Holford, of Holford, in Cheshire, Esq.
Second, Robert, of whom presently.
Third, Roger, to whom his father gave the manor of Nor- bury, in Cheshire, which became the surname of his descend- ants.
Fourth, Thomas, seated at Alpraham, in Cheshire, in right of his wife, Alice, daughter and coheir of Matthew Alpraham, of Alpraham, by whom he left a daughter and sole heir. Heller^ married to Sir Thomas Ardern, of Aldford, in Cheshire, Knight.
Fifth, Peter.
Robert Bulkeley, second son of William, became seated at Eaton, in Cheshire, which he had of his father's gift. He wa* Sheriff of the county in 1341, and married Isabel, daughter of Philip Egerton, of Malpas, in Cheshire, and had by her a daugh- ter. Cicely, married to Thomas Weaver, of Cheshire, and had two sons.
First, Robert, from whom the Bulkeleys, of Eaton and Bur- gate, in Cheshire.
Second, Richard, ancestor to Lord Bulkeley. Which Richard married Agnes, daughter and coheir to Roger Chedel, of Chedcl, in Cheshire, and had with her that estate in which he was suc- ceeded by his only son,
RicHAKD, who took to wife Alice, daughter to Sir Ralph Bos- tock. Knight; and had,
William Bulkeley, of Chedel, Esq. who, in the reign of Henry VL being Constable of Beaumaris, in the Isle of Anglesey, hindered the Duke of York from landing there in his return from Ireland, to join the Earl of Warwick against the King. He mar- ried Ellen, daughter to Guilliam ap Griffith, of Pentrie Esq. and died in 1484 (2 Richard III.), leaving issue six sons, and four daughters; viz.
First, Rowland, his heir, who was seated at Beaumaris.
Second, William, of Burgat, in Hampshire (who, by the daughter and heir of Sir John Popham, had Robert his heir, who married Ann, daughter of John Poyntz, of Acton, in Gloucestes- shircj Esq. and had issue three sons; of whom, Robert, the eldest,
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living in 1505, married Joan, daughter to William Gascoigne, of Carrington, Esq.
Third, Hugh. Fourth, Richard. Fifth, Edward (or Ed- mund), who died young. Sixth, William.
The daughters were, Janet, married to Hugh ap Llewellin ; Ellen, to Robert ap Meredith; Agnes, and Alice.
Rowland Bulkeley, of Beaumaris, Esq. the eldest son, mar- ried Alice, daughter and heir to William Beconsal, of Beconsal,
in Lancashire. Esq. by his wife — — , daughter and heir of
Ashton, and had issue five sons, and two daughters; viz.
First, Richard, his heir.
Second, William, from whom the Bulkeleys, of Porthamel, in the Isle of Anglesey.
Third, Hugh. Fourth, Henry. Fifth, Robert.
Ellen, wife of Sir William Norreys, of Speakc, in Lancashire, Knight; and Margaret, married to George Booth, of Dunham, in Cheshire, Esq.
Sir Richard Bulkeley, the eldest son, succeeded his father, Rowland, at Beaumaris, was honoured with knighthood, and made Chamberlain of North Wales in 1534 (26 Henry VIIL) being then twenty-eight years old : he married Catherine, daughter of Sir William Griffith, junior, of Penrhyn, in the county of Caer- narvon, Chamberlain of North Wales, and had by her two daugh- ters; Eleanor, married to John Ardern, of Ardern, in Cheshire; and Jane, married to Maurice Wynn (or Gwynn), of Gwythcr, in Caernarvonshire, Esq. also four sons ;
First, Richard.
Third, Rowland. Third, John. And, Fourth, Thomas.
Sir Richard Bulkeley, of Beaumaris a?id Chedel, the eldest son, was knighted in 15/6, represented the county of Anglesey in several parliaments in the reigns of Queen Mary and Queen Eh- zabeth, to the latter of whom he proved an excellent soldier and faithfial servant on many occasions, and was also Chamberlain of North Wales.
He married to his first wife, Margaret, daughter of Sir John Savage, of Rock Savage, and Clifton, in Cheshire, Knight,
And to his second, Agnes (or Ann), daughter of Thomas Nedham, of Shavington, in Shropshire, Esq. and had issue by both venters.
But we shall first treat of the descendants of the latter mar- riage, the issue of which were eight sons, and two daughters; via.
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First, Launcelot. Second, Arthur. Third, Tristram, who all died young. Fourth, George, Fifth, Edward, who both died issueless.
Sixth, Launcelot, Archbishop of Dublin, of whom pre sently.
Seventh, Arthur, Vicar of Coydan, in 1596 (who married Jane, daughter and heir to Rhyse Wynn, ap William, ap Price, of Coydan, and had issue WiUiam; Thomas, who married Eliza- beth, daughter to John Brereton, of Eglesham; and Catherine, wife to Peter Hanmer, of Carvalacb, Esq.; William, the elder son of Arthur, married, first, Agnes, daughter of William Wil- liams, of Cogwithlan, by whom he had two sons, WiUiam, and Arthur; and, secondly, Ann, daughter to David Lloyd, of Lloyd- yard, in Anglesey, by whom he had a daughter, Ann; William, who succeeded at Coydan, married, first, Margaret, daughter of Richard Parry, Bishop of St. Asaph, by whom he had four sons, and one daughter; viz. Richard, ancestor to the Bulkeleys, of Coydan; Rev. Launcelot Bulkeley; John, Charles, and Ellen;
and by his second wife , daughter of Gayner, he had
two daughters, Mary, and Catharine.
Eighth, Tristram, youngest son of Sir Richard, married Ann, daughter of Jenkyn ap Griffith ap Lhuellin, and had two sons, and four daughters; John, who died without issue; William, who married Ann, daughter and heir to Owen Griffith, of Drcvan; Agnes, wife to Hugh, second son to Pierce Lloyd, of Gathodogej Mary, Jane, and Jannet.
Sir Richard's two daughters, by his second wife, were, Grizel, married to Sir Henry Power, of Bersham, in Denbighshire, Con- stable of the castle of Maryborough, Knight Marshal of Ireland, Governor of Leix, Privy Counsellor, and created Viscount Va- lentia; she died September 8th, l641, and was buried in St. Pa- trick's church, Dublin; and Mary, married to James Eaton, of Dudleston, in Shropshire, Esq.
Dr. Launcelot Bulkeley, the sixth son of Sir Richard, was ad- mitted a Commoner of Brazen Nose College, Oxford, in 158/, the eighteenth year of his age, and taking his degree of M. A. in J 593, was on the 13th of November, in that year, ordained Dea- con, and the same day instituted to the rectory of Llandyffnan, to which was added, on the 4th March following, the rectory of Llan- degvaine, otherwise Beaumares, of which Lord Bulkeley is patron; on March 25th, 1594, he was admitted into priest's orders; after which, being made Archdeacon of Dublin, he took the degree of
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D. D. in that university j and by letters patents dated August 11th, 1619, was promoted to that archiepiscopal seej soon after which, he was sworn of the Privy Council j and on April I5th, 1624, appointed one of the Commissioners for the preservation of the peace in the provinces of Leinster and Ulster, during the Lord Deputy Falkland's absence, to visit the new plantations in the north: he died at his palace of Tallaght, September 8th, ]650, in the eighty-second year of his age, and was buried in St, Patrick's cathedral. He married Alice, daughter of Rowland Bulkeley, of Beaumares, Esq. and had issue by her, who was buried with him in February \654, two sons and two daughters j viz. First. Rev. William Bulkele}-, Archdeacon of Dublin. Second, Rev. Richard Bulkeley, D. D. of Bawne, who died about the commencem^ent of the troubles in l64l (leaving three orphans under the tuition of their uncle, William) j Mary, married to William Bulkeley, of Porthamel, Esq.; and Grisild, to the Rev. Dr. Ambrose Aungier. William Bulkeley, D. D. Archdeacon of Dublin, lived at Miltown, which, wich many other houses and castles, belonging to the Pro- testant nobility and gentry in the counties of Dublin and Wick- low, were burnt in 1641, to prevent the English from planting any garrison in those parts j and it appears from the depositions, concerning the murders and losses of the Protestants, that he also lost in rents, 5301. a year; in stock, 4501. in buildings at Old Bawne, which were wasted and destroyed 30001.; in rents, tythes, &c, at Dunlavan, and elsewhere, 63151.; that his father, the Archbishop, lost in cattle, houses burnt, and rents, 370I.; and the orphans of his brother, 5051. 18s. He was a person of great virtue and piety; one who made it bis only employ to serve the church, and his diversion to improve and adorn his estate with plantations, whereby, from a rude, desolate, and wild land, he brought it to be a most delightful patrimony. He married Eli- zabeth, daughter to Henry Mainwaring, of Kilkenny, Esq. one of the Masters of the High Court of Chancery, in Ireland; she brought into this family divers castles, houses, and gardens, near to and within the precinct of the Dominican abbey of Black Friars, in Kilkenny; the impropriate rectories of Bananogh, otherwise called Castledough, Dysert, and Kilferah, with the glebes thereof, &c. in the county of Kilkenny, He made his will, December 3d, 1670, and died the year following, at the age of seventy-three; having had issue three sons, and three daugh- ters; viz. First, Sir Richard, his heir. Second, Arthur, who died uomarried in 1666. Third, Lancelot, who died a bachelor; the
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daughters were, Alicia, married to Henry Martin, Esq. son and heir to Anthony Martin, Bishop of Meath; Mary, wife of Lan- celot Dowdall, of Mountown, in the county of Meath, Esq.; and Agnes, first married to Edward Chichester, Esq. grandson to Ed- ward, Viscount Chichester j and, secondly, to Roger Masterson, of Prospect, and Monyseed, in the county of Wexford, Esq. Which Sir Richard, who succeeded at Old Bawne, was also seated at Dunlavau, in the county of Wicklow. He obtained a grant, dated March 24th, 1661, for a weekly tnarket, and two fairs to be held in the year, at Dunlavan, where he had a good estate; and being a man of great merit and goodness, was created a Baronet of Ireland, by patent, December yth, l682. In lf)50, he married, first, Catharine, daughter and coheir of John Bysse, Esq. Chief Baron of the Exchequer, in Ireland, and by her, who died in 1664, the twenty-first year of her age, had two sons, Ri- chard and John ; his second wife was Dorotliy, daughter of
Whitfield, Esq. by whom he had no issue; and he dying in 1Q35, she re married with William Worth, Esq, Baron of the Exchequer, in Ireland, and died, January 1 2th, 1/04, and was buried in St. Patrick's church, Dublin.
Sir Richard Bulkeley, second Baronet, the eldest son and heir, had his education in the universities of Dublin and Oxford, and took the degree of A. B. in the latter. May 21st, 168O. He was a person of good understanding and reason, which in divers respects were much improved by the imperfect symmetry and deformity of his body; for, in the course of his childhood, his faculties were so extraordinary, that in a few years he acquired a very great share of learning, and was blessed with so great a me- mory, that his learning and knowledge were therein most securely treasured up. At sixteen years of age, he had a large stock of human learning, and faculties of soul scarcely equalled; wit, fancy, and apprehension extraordinary, with a memory almost miraculous. Yet with all this fund of reason apd literature, he was strangely deluded and led away by the unreasonable infatua- tions of a set of enthusiastical pretenders to prophecy, who first appeared amongst the French Camisars and Hugenots ; with these he engaged so deeply, that not only his estate partly supplied their extravagances, but he prostituted his excellent pen in defence of their frenzy, and misapplied his great capacity and good sense, by submitting them to their groundless delusions, and was only pre- vented by death from selling his estate to distribute amongst them.
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He lies buried in Ewell church, in Surrey, under a black marble, with the following inscription :
Here lieth the body of
Sir Richard Bulkeley, Bart.
Who departed this life,
April the 7th, 17 10,
in the 47th year
of his age.
And also of Lucy his wife
Who departed this life
October the gth, 1710, in the 47th
year of her age.
She was daughter of Sir George Downing, of Hatley, in Cam- bridgeshire, Bart, (and was re-married, in August 1710, to the above-mentioned William Worth, Esq.) and leaving no issue, the title lecame extinct; for his brother, John Bulkeley, who died July 18lh, 1699, left by Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Henry Whitfield, Esq. an only daughter, Hester, who became heir to the estate, and was married, April I5th, 17^*2, to James Worth Tynte, Esq. younger son of the said Mr. Baron Worth, and died August pth, 1723.
We nowi"eturn to the issue of Sir Richard Bulkeley, of Beau- maris, by his Jirst wife, Margaret Savage, which were, ^
First, Sir Richard, his heir.
Second, John, who, by Margaret, daughter of Morgan,
had a son, Charles, and a daughter, Margaret.
Third, Thomas. Fourth, Rowland. Fifth, Charles; all died without issue.
Sixth, Daniel, who married Ellen, daughter of Rowland Bulkeley, of Porthamel, Esq. and had issue, Richard, Rowland, Thomas, John, Margaret, and Ellen.
Sir Richard's daughters were, Margaret, and Ellen, who died unmarried; Catharine, married to Griffith ap John Griffith, of Llyn; Elizabeth, wife of Owen Holland, Esq, 3 and Jane, to Ro- bert ap Hugh Creuthyn, Esq.
Sir Richard Bulkeley, the eldest son, succeeded at Beaumaris. He received the honour of knighthood; and by King James Ist's instructions to William, Lord Compton, PresidenI of Wales, dated November 12th, 1617, was appointed of Council to his Lordship
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for that principality. He died, June 28th, l62l, and was buried at Beaumaris, with his ancestors; having been twice married.
First, to Catharine, daughter to Sir William Davenport, of Bromhall, in Cheshire, Knight.
And, secondly, Mary, daughter of William, Lord Borough, of Gainsborough, in Lincolnshire.
By the former he had one daughter, Elizabeth, and a son,
Richard Bulkeley, of Chedel, Esq. who died before him, leav- ing, by Catharine, daughter of George Needham, of Thornset, in Derbyshire, Esq. several sons and daughters. Richard, the eldest son, succeeded at Chedel, and married Dorothy, daughter of Sir Thomas Hoskins, of Oxsted, in Surrey, Knight, by whom he had an only child, Dorothy, who was married to Henry, third son of Sir Henry Ayloffe, Baronet.
The issue of Sir Richard Bulkeley, and Mary Borough, were, two sons.
First, Richard, his heir.
Second, Thomas, created Viscount Bulkeley, of whom here- after.
And four daughters; Penelope, married to Sir Edwyn Sandys, of Ombersley, in Worcestershire, Knight, ancestor to the Lord Sandys; Elizabeth, to George Shilletto, of Heath Hall, in York- shire, Esq.; Margaret, to Thomas Porter, of \^'arwickshire, Knt.; and Katherine, to Sir Edvvyn Sandys, of Northbourne, in Kent, Knight (by whom she was grandmother of Sir Richard Sandys, of Northbourne,^ Bart.)
Thomas, frst Viscount Bulkeley, the younger son, was seated at Baron Hill, near Beaumaris ; and being a person of great merit and strict loyalty to King Charles L was advanced, by patent, under the privy seal, dated at Oxford, January 6th, l643, to the dignity of Viscount Bulkeley, of Cashel, in the kingdom of Ireland.
He first married Blanch, daughter of Robert Coytmore, of Coytmore, in Caernarvonshire, Esq.
And, secondly, the daughter of Mr. Cheadle, who was some- time his Lordship's steward; by the latter he had no issue; but
By the former he had five sons and four daughters.
First, Colonel Richard Bulkeley, who was treacherously mur- dered by Richard Cheadle (for which he was executed at Con- way), and left no issue by his wife, Catharine, daughter of Sir Roger Mostyn, of Mostyn, Knight.
Second, Robert, who succeeded to the title.
•3 See Letters of Mrs. Elizabeth Carter.
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Thirds Thomas Bulkeley, of Dinas, in tlie count)^ of Caernar- von, who married Jane, daughter and coheir of Griffith Jones, of Castlemarch, Esq.
Fourth, Henry, who was master of the household to King Charles II. and James II. and married Lady Sophia Stewart, and had issue, two sons; James, who settled in France, and left issue; and Francis; and four daughters; Charlotte, married to Daniel, Viscount Clare, of Ireland; Ann, married to James, Duke of Ber- wick; Henrietta; and Laura.
Fifth, Edwyn, who died unmarried.
His Lordship's daughters were; First, Catharine, married, first, to Richard Wood, of Rosemore, in Ireland, Esq.; secondly, to Richard Wynn, of Branas^ Esq. Second, Lumley, married to Pierce Lloyd, of Llygwy, Esq. Third, Mary, wife to Sir Roger Mostyn, of Mostyn, in Flintshire, Bart. And, Fourth, Penelope, wedded to Sir Griffin Williams, of Vaynol, in Carnarvonshire.
Robert, second Viscount Bulkeley, the eldest surviving son and heir, was Sheriff of the county of Anglesey in l65S, and served for the same in the parliament which restored King Charles II. continuing to be its representative till his death, which happenec", October 18th, 1688. He married Sarah, daughter of Daniel Har- vey, of Coombe, in Surrey, Esq. and had issue three sons, and six daughters.
First, Richard, his heir.
Second, Robert, educated at Oxford, and presented, May 23d, 1083, with the degree of LL.D, by James Duke of York; he was also representative in parliament for Beaumaris.
Third, Thomas, representative for the county of Caernan-on.
The daughters were; Elizabeth, born l655, married to John Griffith, of Glynn, in Caernarvonshire, Esq.; Katharine, married to Philip Atkinson, D.D.; Penelope, who died unmarried; Lumley Martha, married to Roger Price, of RhiWlas, Esq.; and Eleanor, to Sir William Smith, of Vinall, Bart.
Richard, third Viscount, was born l658; he represented the county of Anglesey in parliament from 168O till his death; and in 3701, was appointed Vice- Admiral of the north part of Wales,
He married, first, Mary, eldest daughter to Sir Philip Egerton, of Egerton and Oiilton, in Cheshire, Knight.
And, secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry White, of Hawthlin, in Pi^mbrokeshire, Esq. By the latter he had no issue
And by i\\^, former, an only child,
RiCHAHD, fourth Viscount, who succeeded his father, »
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August gth, 1/04 ; was representative for the county of Anglesey, from 1/05, till his death j also Constable of Beaumaris castle, and Constable of North Wales; on November 2d, 1713, vi^as made Constable of Caernarvon castle, and departed this life at Bath, June 4th, 1724; having always distinguished himself by a steady adherence to principles of loyalty, a disinterested zeal for the good of his country, and the strictest regard to every social virtue. He married Lady Bridget Bertie, eldest daughter to James, Earl Of Abingdon, and by her, who died in June 1'753, left issue two sons,
Richard and James, successively Viscounts Bulkeley.
And four daughters; Firstji Bridget, who died unmarried. Second, Eleanor, married to George Harvey, of Tiddington, in Oxfordshire, Esq. Third, Ann, wife to William Bertie, D. D. brother to Willoughby, third Earl of Abingdon. Fourth, Eliza- beth, married to William Price, of Rulace, Esq. Fifth, Lurhley, And, Sixth, Sarah, both died unmarried.
Richaud, Jifih Viscount, born in 17O8, was, in March I730, elected member of Parliament for Beaumaris, and was re-chosea at the next general election; he was likewise Governor of Beau- maris castle, and Chamberlain of North Wales; on January 12th, 1731-2, his Lordship married Jane, daughter and heir of Lewis Owen, of Peniarth, in Merionethshire, Esq. but dying without issue, March 15lh, 1738-g, his Lady was re-married, in June fol- lowing, to Mr. Edward Williams, one of the Land Waiters in the Custom House, London; and the title descended to his brother,
James, sixth Viscount, who, on April 19th, was elected repre- sentative in parliament for Beaumaris, was also Constable of the castle there, and Chamberlain of North Wales; in August 1749, he married Emma, sole daughter and heir of Thomas Rowlands, of Caeru, in the Isle of Anglesey, Esq. by which Lady (who was, secondly, married to Sir Hugh Williams, of Penrhyn, in Caernar- vonshire, Baronet,^ and died August 18th^ 178O), he had issue two daughters,
Bridget, who died unmarried ; and Eleanora, who died young.
Also a posthumous son, Thomas-James, the present Lord Bulkeley.
His Lordship died. May 23d, 1752, aged thirty-five; and his Lady being then with child, the title lay dormant till she was de- livered of
Thomas-James, now seventh Viscount Bulkeley, of Ireland,
'' By whom she was mother of the present Sir Robert Willisms, Bi.'^r. VOL. VTU. C
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and FIRST Lord Bulkeley, Baron of Beaumaris, in the Islt of Anglesey, born on December 12th, 1752: at the general elections in 177'ij and 1/80, his Lordship was chosen representa- tive for the county of Anglesey j was created a Peer of Great Britain, by the title of Lord Bulkeley. Baron of Beaumaris, in the Isle of Anglesey, by patent, dated May 14th, 1784 j and is likewise Lord Lieutenant and Gustos Rotulorum of the county of Caernarvon.
His Lordship, on April 27th, 1777, was married to Elizabeth- Harriot, only daughter and heir of the late Sir George Warren, of Poynton, in Cheshire, Knight of the Bath, by Jane, daughter and heir of Thomas Revel/ of Fitcham, in Surrey, Esq.'' but has no issue.
Titles. Thomas-James Bulkeley, Lord Bulkeley, Baron of Beaumaris, in the Isle of Anglesey j also Viscount Bulkeley, of Cashel, in the county of Tipperary, in the kingdom of Ireland.
Creations, Lord Bulkeley, Baron of Beaumaris, by patent. May 14th, 1784, 24 George III. and Viscount Bulkeley, of Cashel, by patent, January 19th, l643, 19 Charles I.
Arms. Sable, a chevron between three bulls heads, cabossed, Argent, quartering Warren, of Poynton 3 viz. cheeky. Or, Azure, on a canton. Argent, a lion rampant.
Crest. In a ducal coronet. Or, a bull's head. Argent, armed. Or.
Supporters. Two bulls, Argent, armed and unguled, Or, each gorged with a collar dancette. Gules.
Motto. NeC TEMERE, NEC TIMIDE.
Chief Seat. At Baron Hill, in the Isle of Anglesey.
c Mr. Revel was formerly M. P. for Dover. * By Jane, daughter and coheir of the Hon. William Egerton, younger brothei of Scroop, first Duke of Bridgewater. See Vol. III. p. 206.
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COCKS, LORD SOMERS,
This ancient family was seated in the county of Kent so early as the beginning of King Edward the Ist's time, in the fourteenth year of whose reign Walter le Cock^ son and heir of Thomas le Cock, was assessed at 6s. 3d. as an aid for the sixteenth part of one Knight's fee, for the scite of a messuage and lands (late belonging to WaUer le Cock), in Ospringe, as appears by the memorandums in the Exchequer of that year. In the reign of King Edw. II. Richard Kancis and Basilia, relict of Roger Cock, held the half ot" a quarter of a Knight's fee in Ospringe afore- said, as proved by the book of Knight's fees. Thomas le Cock, of Ospringe, held at the time of his death, anno 13 Edward III. the scite of one messuage and twenty acres of land in Ospringe of the King in capita, by the service of nineteen pence per annum, and paying ward to Dover castle, and Walter le Cock was found to be his son and heir. These premises continued in this family, in l6 Henry VIII. when Richard Cokkys died seised thereof, hold- ing them i?i capite, and Richard Cokkys was his son and heir; but the estate was soon after sold, and the family removed into Gloucestershire; yet the lands were called by their name for many years after.
Thomas Cocks, of Bishop's Cleevc, in Gloucestershire, Esq. died in l60I, and was buried in that church, but his monument was destroyed by the fall of the steeple in l6c)(i. He married
Elizabeth, daughter of Holland, of Lancashire, and had issue
three daughters.
Ann, married to — — Barnsly, of Barnsly Hall, in Worcester- shire, Esq.; Dorothy, first married to Hutchins, Esq. of
Durabletnn, in Gloucestershire, Esq. who left her that estate at
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his decease, and she was afterwards married to Sir Charles Percv, Knight, son of Henry, eighth Earl of Northumberland, and was buried at Dumbleton, June 28th, 16^6; and Elizabeth, wife of Stafford, of Staffordshire, Esq.
He had also ten sons who lived to be men, whereof,
The two eldest, according to the custom of those times, made tneir campaign in the wars.
Two of the others were bred up to the law, one of which was in the reign of King James I. sent on an embassy to the Czar of Muscovy.
The other, named Charles, was a Bencher of the Middle Temple, and died August 1 3th, l654, and was buried at Dum- bleton.
Four were merchants; and the other two divines.
One of them, named Peter, was Rector of Bishop's Cleeve, and was buried in that church in l6l2; he married the daughter of the Hon. Charles Bridges,, of Wilton Castle, co. Hereford, second son of John, first Lord Chandos, sister to Sir Giles Bridges, Bart.
Richard Cocks, the second surviving son of the above named Thomas, was seated at Castle-ditch, in the county of Hereford, and married Judith, daughter and coheir of John Elliott, of the city of London, Merchant, by whom he had issue.
First, Thomas, his eldest son and heir.
Second, Richard, who resided at Dumbleton, in Gloucester- shire, and was created a Baronet, February 7th, \QQ\, but his issue is extinct.
Thomas, the eldest son, succeeded to the estate at Castle- ditch, on the death of his father j married Ann, daughter of Am- brose Elton, of Ledbury, in the county of Hereford, Esq. and had issue three daughters,
Dorothy, married to Robert, Viscount Tr.icy, of the kingdom of Ireland; Judith, wife to — — Tracy j and Elizabeth,
Also five sons.
First, Thomas, who succeeded at Castle-ditch, and left issue by Mary his wife, two sons.
1. John, who died unmarried.
2. The Rev. Thomas Cocks, who enjoyed the Castle-ditch estate, after his brother's death, and was buried in Estnor church,
June 27th, 1724, leaving by his wife, the daughter of
Hall, of Leicestershire, an only daughter and heir, Mary, born January 1703, and married in 17'-^'** to her cousin, John Cocks, hereafter-mentioned.
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John, second son of Thomas and Anne, died unmarried. Third, Richard. Fourth, Henry.
Charles, fifth son of Thomas and Anne, was Justice of the Peace for the county of Worcester, and elected member of par- liament for the city of Worcester in l6g2, and represented the borough of Droitwich in seven parliaments. He married Mary daughter of John Somcrs, of Clifton upon Severn, in the county of Worcester, Gent, and sister and coheir to John, Lord Somers, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, by whom he had three daughters and two sons.
Catherine, the eldest daughter, married James Harris, of the Close, in Salisbury, Esq. in which cathedral she lies buried with the following inscription ;
H. S E.
Catherina Harris,
Caeoli Cocks de Vigornia filia,
Virtutibus ornatissimaj
Jacobi Harris de Clauso Saruni Uxor,
Nunquam non desiderata.
Obijt 13 die Junij
. f ^Etatis 24« Anno < ^
i Dom. 1705."
Elizabeth, the second daughter, died young.
Margaret,*' the third daughter, was married on March IQth, 1719^ to Philip Yorke, Esq. afterwards created Earl of Hardwicke. and made Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain j she died September 10th, 1761, and was buried at Wimpole, in Cambridge- shire.
The sons were.
First, James Cocks, of Bruckmans, in Hertfordshire; and of Ryegate, in Surrey, Esq. for which last place he was representa- tive in parliament from 1713, to 1747; he died May 23d, 1750, aged sixty-five,'' and was buried at Weston, in Shropshire. He married, first, in September 17 \S, to Lady Elizabeth Newport, eldest daughter of Richard, Earl of Bradford, but she died with- out surviving issue, and was buried at Weston; his second wife
a See Vol. V. title Malmsbury.
^ She had been mairied before. See Nash's Worcestershire.
<" Coff.n-plate.
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was Ann, youngest daughter of William, fourth Lord Berkeley, of Stratton, to whom she was married in May 1/37, and she died February 3d, 1738-9, in child-bed, of their only issue,
James, who was slain at St. Cas, on the coast of France, Sep- tember nth, 1/58, unmarried; whereupon the estates he died possessed of in Hertfordshire, Surrey, Kent, &c. descended to his uncle.
Second, John Cocks, of Castle-ditch, in the parish of Estnor, Herefordshire, Esq. which estate he possessed in right of his wife, Mary, sole daughter and heir of the above-mentioned Rev.Thomas Cocks, of Castle-ditch, to whom he was married in 1/24; he died June 24th, 1771> a"d was buried at Estnor; she survived till 1779> and was interred near him. An elegant marble monument is erected for her, with the following inscription :
Underneath are interred
the Remains of Mus. Mary Cocks,
widow of John Cocks, Esq.
and only child
of the Reverend Thomas Cocks,
late of Castle-ditch.
She was born in January 1703, N. S.
and departed this life the 4th of February, 1779, ^ged yQ.
She was blest by Nature
with a contented mind, with chearfulness
and benevolence in the highest degree;
Qualities so amiable could not fail
of gaining the esteem of all who knew her
from the earliest infancy,
and certainly no one was
throughout life more beloved :
Her heart was soon touched
with the hearing of distress; and her hand as
immediately stretched out to relieve it;
to this part of her character, her poorer
Neighbours can feelingly testily.
In a dissipated and extravagant age
she was frugal and industrious.
And even her hands continually employed
in some useful work.
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In every reJaiion of life
she discharged her duty
most exemplarily.
There never was a better mother of children j
She taught them all to read herself,
and trained them up most diligently
in the way they should go,
by example as well as precept.
The chearfulness and benevolence of her
temper, had their best stay and support,
in a constant and lively sense of religion.
As she accepted every blessing of Providence
with joy and thankfulness,
so under every affliction she was
intirely resigned to the divine will.
A Christian frame of mind was so
established in her, that she knew not,
by her own feelings, what narrowness,
selfishness, or any wrong affection was.
Her countenance itself shone with the
purest benevolence, bespeaking that a faith
of the gospel was the principle
firmly rooted at her heart.
Her life was lengthened to almost
the longest natural term, as a peculiar
blessing to the neigbourhood, to her
family and friends 3 even at last they could not
but regret her loss, though her body was grown
very infirm; but her inind still continued
chearful, and was filled with the joyfullest
anticipation of the happiness she was going to.
Few have been so exact to live the life of
the righteous, and no one ever enjoyed
more blessedly the supreme reward of
dying the death of the righteous.
This monument, in token of filial piety
and her own most affectionate regard,
is put up by her sorrowing daughter,
Elizabeth Cocks, whose sole consolation
is the firm belief, that through the mercies
of Christ they shall be once more united ^ '
in a belter ^tate, never to part again.
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They had issue twelve children; viz.
First, Charles, first Lord Soramers.
Second, Thomas, born 172/, and died in 172Q.
Third, Mary, born June 1/28, f both living 1/54,
Fourth, Elizabeth, born July iptb, 1729. j unmarried.
Fifth, John, A.M. Rector of Suckleigh, in Worcestershire, and Prebendary of Bristol, living, 1*84, unmarried.
Sixth, Joseph, who was bred to the law, and had the degree of Barrister; he died April 4th, 1775, leaving, by Margaret his wife, daughter of John Thorniloe, of Worcester, Esq. two daughters; Mary, wife of William Russell, of Powyck, in Wor- cestershire, Esq. Barrister at law; and Margaret.
Seventh, James, a Banker, born June 22d, 1734, and mar- ried, November 5th, 1772, to Martha, daughter of Charles Wat- son, Esq. Vice-Admiral of the Red, by whom he has issue. Of ■whom, Catherine married, November 17th, 1800, Joseph Yorke, eldest surviving son of the late Bishop of Ely; Anna married her cousin, the Hon. and Rev. Reginald Cocks.
Eighth, Philip, A. M. Rector of Acton, in Middlesex, and Prebendary of Lincoln, born February 27lh, 1739, and died Sep- tember 17th, 1797. unmarried.
Ninth, Thomas-Somers, born December 3d, 1737, and was in partnership with his brother, James, in a capital banking- house at Charing Cross; on August 2Qth, 1768, he was married to Ann, daughter of Alexander Thistlethwayte, of Southwick Place, in Hampshire, Esq. and had issue. He died November 1.5tb, 1796.
Tenth, Richard, born in August 1740, a Barrister at law, and unmarried.
Eleventh, Robert, born 1711,nnd died 1^65, unmarried; and.
Twelfth, Timothy, born 1743, who died 1757.
Chakles, first IvORP SoMEKS, the eldest son and heir, was born at Castle-ditch, June 2()th, 1725, to which estate, and several others, he succeeded on the death ot his father, as also to the estates at Dumbleton, and elsewhere, on that branch of the family becoming extinct.
He represented the borough of Ryegatc ii three parliaments; ■was created a Baronet of Great Rntain by letters patent, dated Septeiubcr 19th, 1772; and created a Peer of Great Britain by patent, dated May 17th, 1784.. by the title of Lord Somers, Ba- ron of Evesham, in the countij of Worcester, ai^d ihc heirs-male of his body lawfully begotten.
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His Lordship was twice married; first, on August 2d, 1/59, to Elizabeth, fifth daughter of Richard Eliot, of Port Eliot, in the county of Cornwall, Esq. and sister to Edward, the kite Lord EUot; by which Lady, who died January 1st, l//], and was buried on the eighth of the same month at North Minis, in Hert- fordshire, he had issue.
First, John-Soraraers Cocks, present Peer.
Second, Mary-Judith, born February 2d, 1762.
Third, Harriot-Margaret, who died young.
Fourth, Charles-Edward, died an infant.
Fifth, Edward-Charles, for whom an elegant monument is rrected in Estnor church, with this inscription :
Within this chancel
are interred the remains of
Edward-Charles Cocks,
a youth of 14 years of age,
unfortunately drowned at Westminster school,
unfortunately for his friends,
not for himself;
for he was innocent and good,
his faults and frailties trivial;
to him, therefore, to be taken out of this world must be
happiness.
Through the merits of Christ Jesus,
his Lord and Saviour,
of whose blessed sacrament he was partaker
the day before his death.
To his father, and his friends who knew him,
he was deservedly dear;
(at school universally beloved)
to his elder brother
he was almost every thing that could be wi.^hed.
His brother now erects to his memory
this monument,
as a sincere testimony of his love, his esteem,
and his high opinion of him.
J. SoM.NJEBS COCRS.
2(> PEERAGJE of ENGLAND.
He was third son of Sir Charles Cocks, Bart, of
Castle-ditchj and Elizabeth, daughter of Richakd
ELifTT, Esq. of Port EHot, in the county of Cornwali,
His mother was delivered of two sons at one birth,
on the 23d of January 176/,
At Marseilles, in France, of whom the elder,
Chakles-Edward, died a few days atter he
first saw the liglit, and was buried at that place 3
the younger Edward-Charles
grew as a lily in the firld.
The last day of his lite in this world^
was the 6th of August l/Sl.
Thy will, O God! he done.
Sixth, Harriot, born August 28th, 1769, unmarried.
His Loidship married. May 20th, 177^, to his secojid wife, Anne, daughter of Reginald Pole, of Stoke, in the county of De- von> Esq. who took the additional surname of Carew; by Anne, daughter of Francis Bull::'r, Esq. of Morval, in Cornwall j and by her he had issue two sons,
Philip- James, born December 2d, 17/4; late Lieut. -Colonel in the First regiment of foot guards; and late M, P, for Ryegate. And
Reginald, born January 14th, ^777> and died November l(>th, 1805; having married, on December 21st, 1802, his cousin, Anne, second daughter of James Cocks, Esq.
And one daughter; Anna-Maria, boni March 14th, 1773; married, Decen)ber 4th, 1797> the Rev. Philip Yorke, Prebendary of Ely, fourth son of the late Bishop of Ely,
His Lordship died January 30th, iSOt), aet. 81 ; and was suc- ceeded by his eldest son,
John Someus Cocks, present and second Lord Somers, who was born March tJth, 1700, and represented, first, Grampound; and afterwards Ryegate, in parliament.
His Lordship married, in 1785, Margaret, sole daughter and heir of the Rev. Dr. 1'readway Nash, D. D. of Beven, near Wor- cester (^///e Historian of WorcesterslnreJ , by whom he has ^veral children.
His eldest son is Captain in the Eaijs, or second Regiment of drag^oon guards; and ^L P. for Ryegate.
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Philip, second soti; is Captain in the l6th regiment of Light dragoons.
Titles. John Somcrs Cocks, Lord Somers, Baron of Evcshain, and Baronet,
Creations. Baronet, September 19th, 1772, 12 George III.; and Lord Somers, Baron of Evesham, in the county of Worces- ter, May ]7th, 1784, 2-i George IIL
Arms. Sable, a chevron, Or, between three stags' scalps and attires. Argent.
Crest. On a wreath, a mount proper, and thereon a stag lodged and reguardant, Argent.
Supporters. On each side a lion, Ermine, gorged dancettc. Vert.
Motto. Prodesse aUAM conspici.
Chief Seats. At Castle-ditch, in the county of Hereford 3 at Dumbleton, in the county of Gloucesterj and at Ryegate, in Surrey.
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PARKER, LORD BORINGDON.
Edmund Pakkee, of North Moulton, in the county of Devon, Esq. of a very ancient family in that p^art of the kingdom (said to have resided at this seat from the latter end of the 14th century) by his last will and testament, bearing date May 1 8th, l6l], to which is annexed a codicil, dated the 1 1 th of next month, directs that his body should be buried in the choir of North Molton church; he married Dorothy, daughter of Sir Clement Smith, of Little Baddow, in Essex, Knight, Chief Baron of the Exchequer; and had issue one son, John, and four daughters; Francis, living Jn l6ll, unmarried; Jane, wife of John Norleigh, of Norleigh, in Devonshire, Esq. Elizabeth, married to Walter Harlewin, E'-q. and Mary, to George Drake, of Whitcombe, in Devonshire, Esq.
JoH^f Parker, Esq. the only son, died in his father's lifetime, in the year l6lO, leaving issue by his wife, Frances, daughter of Jt ronemy Mayhcw, of Borivgdon, in Devonshire, Esq. three sons;
First, Edmund.
Second, Thomas, who was twenty-six years of age, when tlic visitation of Devonshire was made in l620.
Third, John, then twenty-one years old. — Also one daughter, Ann, who died unmarried.
Edmund Parker, Esq. the eldest son, became heir to his grandfather, and was twenty-seven years of age in 1620: he made his last will and testament, November 6ih, l642, which was proved, November 1st, ItJ-JO, and therein appointed to be buried at North Molton. He married Amy, youtigest daughter of Sir Kc'Avard Sfvmour, of Bury Pomeroy, in the county of Devon,
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Baronet, ancestor to the present Duke of Somerset ; and had issue ^ by her eight sonsj
First, £dw;ird, who died in his father's lifetime unmarried
Second, Edmund, who became heir.
Third, John, baptized, February 24th, \6\3.
Fourth, William, born l6l3, and was living in 16'42.
Fifth, Henry. Sixth, Charles. Seventh, Richard. And, Eighth, James, all living l6'42.
Also five daughters; First, Elizabeth. Second, Amy; who was third wife to Sir John Davie, of Greedy, in Devonshire, Ba- ronet. Third, Dorothy. Fourth, Mary. And, F.fth, Sarah, were unmarried in 1642.
Edmund Parker, Esq. the eldest surviving son and heir, was seven years old in I6IO; he at first resided at Boringdon, where he enjoyed an estate which came to him from his grandmother, but afterwards removed to the family seat at North Molton, where he departed this life in October 169I ; his will is dated, July 8th, lt)80, and the probate thereof October 31st, \Q(J\, where he di- rects his body to be buried at North Molton. It does not appear into what family he married; but his will certifies, that he had six son?, and a daughter, all living in 16SO3 viz.
First, George, his heir.
Second, Edmund, who left four sons.
Third, Edmund (father to John, Edmund, Thomas, and George,)
Fourth, William. Fifth, Francis. Sixth, Charles. And, Mary, who were all living in 1/25, as appears by the marriage settlement of John Parker, hereafter mentioned.
Geouge Parker, of Boringdon, Esq. the eldest son and heir, married, first, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Fowell, of Fowells- combe, in Devonshire, Baronet, but she dying in 169I, without issue.
He, secondly, married Ann, daughter of John Buller, of Morva), in the county of Cornwall, Esq. by whom he had three sons;
First, Edmund, who died before 1725, unmarried.
Second, John, who became heir.
Third, Francis, of Blagdon, in Devonshire, Esq. who left
'•^ From a branch of the Parkers, of Boringdon, was descended Thomas Par- ker, of Hoberton, co. Dev. whose sixth son, Hugh, Alderman of London, was sreated a Baronet, i68i, with remainder to his nephew, H^-nry. From him come the Baronets of Lung Melfo.d, in SutF. and the lat- AdniiraJ Sir Hydt Parker.
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three daughters; First, , married to John Baring, of Radford,
in Devonshire, Esq. Second, Elizabeth, first married to Thomas Baring, of Larkbeerj'' and, secondly, to William Spicer, of Ware,
near Exeter, in Devonshire, Esq. And , to John Fryer, of
Exeter. He died 1743.
John Parker, Esq. the eldest surviving son and heir, succeeded to the family estate on the death of his father in 1743. On June 26ih, 1/25, he was married to Lady Charlotte Poulett, second daughter of John, Earl Poulett, with whom he had 60OOI. for- tune, and his father gave him 60OOI. to purchase lands, as appears by the marriage settlement, bearing date the 11th of the same month. He died, April 1 8th, 176S, his Lady, on August l6th, 1/58, and were buried at Plimpton Mary, in the county of Devon; they had three sons, and three daughters; viz.
First, George, who died an infant. Second, John, first Lord Borlngdon.
Third, Montague-Edmund Parker, of Whiteway, in the pa- rish of Chidleigh, married Charity, daughter of Paul Ourey, Esq. and has two sons, Montagu and Francis.
Henrietta, the eldest daughter, died unmarried, 1808; Catha- rine, married to Henry Lambert, of Hope End, in the county of Hereford, Esq.; and Bridget, to Redmond Kelly, of Isleworth, rn Middlesex, Esq. Lieutenant-Colonel of the East Devonshire militia; and had issue by him (who died 1/98); First, Ellen-King. Second, Susan-Barbara. Third, Lieutenant-Colonel John Francis Kelly, of the first Foot-guards. Fourth, Montagu-Henry, in the Navy. Fifth, Hinton.
John, fiust Lord Bokingdon, the eldest surviving son and heir, represented the county of Devon in several parliaments, and was advanced to the Peerage, by letters patent, dated May ISth, 1784, by the title of Baron Boringdon, nf Boringdon, in the county of Devon, and to the heirs-mnle of his body lawfully be- gotten.
His Lordship's first wife was Frances, daughter of Josiah Hort, D.D. Archbishop of Tuain, in Ireland, and sister to Sir John Hort, Baronet; they were married in December 17O3, and she died without issue, in \'J()4.
His second Lady, to whom he was married, INLay iSth, 1760, was Theresa, daughter of Thomas Robinson, Lord Grantham (and sister to Thomas, the late Lord); she died December 21st, 177''^;
l" Ry whom she was mither of the prest-nt Sir Frnncis Bjiing, Kjrt. Sec.
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and was buried at Plimpton Mary, in Devonshire, leaving issue one son,
John, born May 3d, 17/2.
And a daughter, Theresa, born September 2'2d, 1775, married April i7ih, 171)8, the Hon. George Villiers, M.P. youngest bro- ther of the Earl of Clarendon.
A few days after her birth, her mother " received a stroke of the palsy, of which she appeared recovering; but receiving a se- cond stroke, and soon after that a third, it put an end to the life of one of the most valuable of women.
" Her amiable disposition, her softness and gentleness of man- ners, endeared her to every one that had the happiness of know- ing her. Her whole pleasure and ambition were centered in a consciousness of properly discharging all the duties of a wife, a mother, and a sister; and she neither sought for, nor expected fame out of her own house. As she made no ostentation of her virtues, she excited no envy; but, if there had existed so depraved a being as to wish to wound so fair a character, the mobt artful malignity must have searched in vain for a weak part,
" Her virtues were uniform, quiet, and habitual: they were not occasionally put on; she wore them continually; they seemed to grow to her, and be a part of herself; and it seemed to be im- possible for her to lay them aside, or be other than what she was.
" Her person was eminently beautiful; but the expression of her countenance was far above all beauty that proceeds from re- gularity of features only. The gentleness and benevolence of her disposition were so naturally impressed on every look and motion, that, without any affected effort or assumed courtesy, she was sure to make every one her friend that had ever spoke to her, or even seen her.
" In so exalted a character, it is scarce worth mentioning her skill and exact judgment in the polite arts. She seemed to pos- sess by a kind of intuition, that propriety of taste and right think- ing, which others but imperfectly acquire by long labour and application."'^
His Lordship died April 27th, 178S, and was succeeded by hi-i only son,
John, present and second Lord Bokingdon, who married^ first, June 20ih, 1804, Lady Augusta Fane, second daughter of John, Earl of Westmorland; by whom he had issue,
« This character is said to have been written by Sir Jrshua Reynolds.
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Heniy-Villiers, born May 28th, 1808.
This mariage was dissolved by act of parliament, February l4th,
I8O9.
His Lordship is re-married to Miss Talbot.
Title. John Parker, Baron Boringdon.
Creation. Baron Boringdon, of Boringdon, in the county of Devon, by patent May ISth, 1784, 24 George IIL
Arms. Sable, a stag's head cabossed, between two flaunches. Argent.
Crest. On a wreath, an arm erect, vested Azure, cuff Argent, hand holding an attire of a stag, proper.
Supporters. Dexter, a stag. Argent, sinister, a greyhound reguardant. Sable, each collared. Or, and thereto antique shields appendant. Gules, that on the dexter charged with an horses head coupt. Argent, bridled, Or; the sinister with a ducal coro- net, Or.
Motto. Fidelia certa mekces.
Seats, At Boringdon and Saltram, in the county of Devon,
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HILL, LORD BERWICK.
The name of the male line of this family was Harwood. The late Peer's father assumed the name of Hill, in right of his mother^ who was sister to Dr. Richard Hill.
It appears by the visitation of Shropshire, made in the year 1623, ^ that the name of this ancient family was originally written Hull, from their residence at a place so called in Shrop- shire.
Hugh Huil, of Hull, was living temp. Edw. II. and mar- ried Eleanor, daughter and coheir of Hugh de Wlonkeslow, of Wlonkeslow in Shropshire, whereby he became possessed of that estate, and was father to
William Hull, of Hull and IFlonkeslotv, Esq. who flourished in the reign of Richard II. and was succeeded by his son
Griffith (or Geoffry, as in the Baronetage) living temp. Hen. IV. and had issue by his wife Margaret, sister of Griffith Warren, Lord of Ightfield, in com. Salop, Esq. a son and heir,
Humphry, who was commonly called Hill (as his descend- ants have since been). He resided at Buntingdale, and married Agnes, or Ann, daughter and coheir of John Bird, of Charlton, (niece and heir of David de Malpas) by whom he had three sons and four daughters.
First, William, ancestor to the Hills, of Hill-Court, in Shrop- shire.
Second, Ralph, of whom pressntly.
Third, Thomas, seated at Malpas and Hodnet, who, by Mar-
* The original in the Heralds Office, not C 20,
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garet, daughter of Thomas Wilbraham, ofWoodhay^ in Cheshire^ was father to Sir Rowland Hill, Knight, Lord Mayor of Louden, 4 Edward VI. ; William, parson of Stoke, in Shropshire; and four daughters, ^ who at length became coheirs to their brother Sir Rowland.
The daughters of Humphry were; Beatrix^ wife of William Bromley ; Catherine, married to Thomas Needham ; Elizabeth, married to Thomas Lemans, and Joan, to Thomas Gay wood.
Ralph Hill, ihe second son of Humphry, married
daughter of Thomas Greene, of Greene's Norton, Esq. by whom }ie was father of
William Hill, of Bkchley , in Shropshire, who married Eliza- beth, daughter of William Bostock, of Say, and had by her three sons.
First, William, who by Catherine, his wife, daughter of Tho- mas Bulkeley, of Ovre, in Shropshire, Esq. became ancestor to the Hills oj" Bleckley and Soulton.
Second, Humphry, ancestor to Lord Berwick.
Third, Rowland, married to Margaret, daughter of William Forster.
Hl'MPHRY Hill, jreco?if/ son of William, was seated at Bleckley
and Soulton, in Shropshire, and by Alice, daughter of
Bulkeley, of Stanlow, had issue tive sons.
First, Rowland, ofwkom presently.
Second, William, died young.
Third, Robert, of Adderly, who left issue, Humphry.
Fourth, John, who died young.
Fifth, Thomas, married to Elizabeth, daughter of , . . . Dancy, of Lancashire, and left no issue.
Also four daughters, Mary, Jane, Catherine, and Dorothy.
Rowland Hill, the eldest son and heir, was living at Haivke^ stone, in Shropshire, anno I592: he married Mary, daughter of Thomas Dycher, of Muckleton, in Shropshire, Esq. and had by her two daughters, Mary, married to Thomas Salisbury, of Flint- shire ; and Elizabeth, to Thomas Braddock, of Kayhowell ; and one son,
Rowland Hill, of Hawkstone, Esq. who died in 1644. '^ His wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas JoUey, ^ of Buglawton,
b Whence came the noble family of Leigh, of Stoneleigh, com. Warw. &c. c Visit ot Shropshire, 1663, in the Heralds OfTicc, C, 35. •t Shaw says, " daughter of William Jolliffc, of Leke, com. StafT.'' first, Staff, vol. ii. p 44.
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in Cheshire^ Esq. by whom he was father of six sons, and as many daughters : the sons were.
First, Rowland, his heir.
Second, Humphry.
Third, Thomas.
Fourth, Jnmes. - Fifth, John J who all died without issue 3 and.
Sixth, Another John.
The daughters were; first, Jane, wife of Thomas Pltchford, of Lee, in Shropshire; second, Anne, unmarried; third, Sarah, wife of John Cotingham, rector of Halstead, in Kent; fourth, Elizabeth, married to Richard Taylor, of Sherington, in Shropshire ; fifth, Abigal, wedded to John Colt, of London ; and, sixth, Mary, unmarried.
Rowland Hill, of Hawkstone, Esq. the eldest son and heir, was thirty-nine years of age at the time of the visitation of Shrop- shire, in 1663, and remarkable for his great piety, charity and wisdom ; he suffered very much by the rebels in the beginning of the civil wars of King Charles I. by coming to the relief of his father, whom they had detained prisoner in the castle near Hawk- stone. He married Margaret, daughter of Richard Whitehall, of Duddington,*^ in Shropshire, Esq. and had issue seven sons and
seven daughters, of whom one was wife of Barbour, Esq.
descended from a good family at Flashenbrook, com. Staff, and had by her a son Samuel, who took the name of Hill. Margaret, another daughter, married Thomas Harwood, Esq. and had a son Thomas, hereafter mentioned, who took the name of Hill also.
First, Rowland, the eldest son, died unmarried.
Second, Richard, the second son, entered into holy orders, and had afterwards the degree of LL. D. conferred upon him. He was, in the time of King William, envoy extraordinary to the court of Brussels 3 as also in that reign, and Queen Anne's, to the courts of Turin, and of all the other Italian princes, except the Roman Pontiff, In King William's reign, he was paymaster of Ms Majesty's armies in Flanders, where, by his remarkably punc- tual and just dealings, he acquired so great credit, as to be able by it to subsist the armies there when remittances came too slow for that purpose from England ; which great service gained him the favour of the King his master, who, soon after the conclusion of the peace, appointed him to be one of the lords commissioners for executing the high office of Lord High Treasurer of England,
« Or " Whitchurch." Sh.i'w.
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His merit also recommended him to the favour of Queen AnnC;, who, soon after her accession to the throne, appointed him one of the council to his Highness, George Prince of Denmark, as Lord High Admiral of England; and, in 1/05, sent him to the Duke of Savoy, a Prince remarkable for his politics, with whom he suc- ceeded so well as to bring him into the grand alliance.
In the reign of King George f. he retired from civil employ- ments, and became fellow of Eton College, which fellowship he held till the time of his death.
He was a statesman of great abiliiies and eminent integrity, a man of general knowledge, and remarkable for his extraordinary fine address and good breeding. He added much to his own pri- vate estate and fortune, which was of itself considerable, great part of which he gave among his relations in his lifetime, and the rest at his death ; he augmented many poor livings, and was a considerable benefactor to St. John's College, Cambridge (where he received his education), and an ornament to that society; he left it five rectories, viz. Ditchingham, South and North Lopham united, the two Forncets ditto, Sturston, and Aldborough ; his heir to present, but always a fellow of that college. He subscribed largely to public works of charity, and did a great many private ones, in a wise and well-chosen manner. A few months before his death, by the favour of his Majesty King George I. he obtained for his family the dignity of a Baronet of Great Britain, in the per- {jon of his nephew and heir at law, Rowland Hill, of Haivkstone, Esq. to him and the heirs male of his body ; in default of such, to his nephew, Samuel Hill, ^ of Shcnslon Park, in Staffordshire, Esq. and the heirs male of his body ; in default of such, to his nephew, Thomas Hill, of Tern Hall, in Shropshire, Esq. and the heirs male of his body; and in default of such, to his nephew the Rev. Mr. Rowland Hill, s rector of Forncett, in Norfolk, and the heirs male of his body; which title of Baronet is now enjoyed by Sir John Hill, of Hawkstone. This eminent person departed
« The son of a sister already mentioned by Barbour, Esq. who had
by her a daughter Elizabeth, wife of John Egerton, Esq of Tatton park, in Cheshire; and the above Samuel, his son and heir, who took the name of Hill, and was seated at Shenstone Park near Lichfield, where he died Feb. list, 1758, aged sixty-seven, without issue by his only wife Lady Elizabeth Stanhope, second daughter of Philip, Earl of Chesterfield, who died Nov. 24th, 1727, aged twenty-four. Mr Samutl Hill left all the unentailed part of his property to his nephew and godson, Samuel Egerton, Esq. of Tatton park, Cheshire, See vol iii. p. 200; and Shaw's Stafl" vol ii p. 45. c Second son of Thomas Harwood by Margaret Hill.
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this life, unmarried J at Richmond, in Surry, June llth, 1727, in the seventy-third year of his age, and was buried at Hodnet, in Shropshire
Margaret Hill, the sister, who married Thomas Harwood, Esq. '' had issue by him two sons and two daugliteis ; viz. Hrst, Thomas; second, Rowland, rector of Forncet in Norfolk, who died unmarried; third, Martha, wife of William Gough. Esq. of Old Fallings; and, fourth, Anne, wife of John Kynaston, of Hordley, Esq.
Thomas Hill, Esq. of Tern-hall, eldest son, assumed the name of Hill, on succeeding to part of his uncle's fortune. He was many years representative in parliament for the town of Shrewsbury, and dying in June, 1782, aged about ninety, was buried at Attingham, in Shropshire.
His first wife, was .... daughter of Sir Littleton Powis, Knt. judge of the Common Pleas, (who died March lO'th, 1/32) by whom he had issue Thomas, who died young; a daughter mar- ried to Burton, Esq. of Longnore, near Shrewsbury, who
had issue by her; and Margaret, married to Kennet Sherard, Earl of Harborough
He married, secondly, Susannah Maria, eldest of the four daughters and coheirs of William Koel, Esq. a judge of the Common Pleas, and by her, who died February 14th, IjQO, aged forty-one, and was buried at Attingham, he had two sons;
Fiist, Noel, first Lord Berwick.
Second, Samuel, who died unmarried.
Also, two daughters ; Maria, first married to Sir Brian Brough- ton Delves; of Broughton com. Staff. Baronet ; secondly, to Henry Errington, of Sandoe, in com. Northumb. Esq. ; and Susanna, who died unmarried.
Noel Hill, first Lord Berwick, represented the county of Salop in three parliaments, and was colonel of militia of the same county; on May ipth, 1/84, he was by patent advanced to the dignity of a Peer of Great Britain, by the style and title of Baron Berwick, of Attingham, in Shropshire, and to the heirs male of his body.
His Lordship married, November l/th, 1/68, Anna, second daughter of Henry Vernon, of Hilton, in com. Stafford, Esq. by whom he had issue three sons.
" This Thomas Harwood was a younger son of John Harwood, a consi- derable tobacco and sugar merchant in London, temp Car. II- whose eldest ton, John; was LL. D.
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First, Thomas Noel, the present Lord.
Second, William, M. P, for Shrewsbury, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the court of Sardinia,
Third, Richard, in holy orders, rector of Thornton, in Che- shire, and Berrington, in Shropshire 5 married, in October, 1800, Frances, daughter of the late William Mostyn Owen, Esq. and has Richard Noel, and other issue.
Fourth, Henrietta Maria, married, April 10th, 1793, Charles, Lord Bruce, only son of Thomas Bruce Brudenell, Earl of Ayles- bury, K. T.
Fifth, Anne ; and.
Sixth, Amelia Louisa.
His Lordship died in January, l/Sg, and was succeeded by his eldest son,
Thomas Noel, the present and second Lord Berwick, who was born October 2 1st, 1770-
Tiile. Thomas Noel Hill, Baron Berwick, of Attingham, ia Shropshire.
Creations. Baron Berwick, of Attingham, May IQth, 1784, 24 Geo. III.
Arms. Ermine, on a fess Sable, a castle, triple towered pro- per; in a canton, Gules, a martlet. Or.
Crest. On a wreath the upper half of a tower. Argent, with a fawn trippant on the battlements, proper, collared and lined. Or.
Supporters. Dexter a Pegasus, Argent, plain, collared, sable, and thereon a martlet. Or ; sinister a stag, proper, collared as the dexter, and thereon a leopard's face. Or.
Motto. Qui uti scit ei bona.
Chief Seat. At Tern park, in Shropshire. ^
" Shenstone park, in Staffordshire, was sold in January, 1797^ to
Giovc, Ebq-
LORD SHERBORNE.
^gl^
BUTTON, LORD SHERBORNE.
Ihis ancient family is denominated from the town o{ Diittnn, in Cheshire; for Odard, being seated there in the Conqneror's time, is posterity were surn^nmed de Button, from the place of their residence.
Sir Peter Leycester, in his Historical Antiquities of Cheshire, has given las the pedigree of the Buttons of Button, which, he says, is faithfully collected from the evidences of that family, and other good records and deeds ; and is as followeth. ^
Odard, or Udard, sometimes also written Hodard and Hudard, came to England with William the Conqueror, and seated himself at Button; a good part whereof Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester, gave unto him, as appears by Doomsday-book.
The ancient roll of the Barons ofHalton saith, that with Hugh, Earl of Chester, came one Nigell, a nobleman ; and with Nigell came five brethren, to wit, Hudard, Edard, Wolmere, Horswyne, and Wolfaith, a priest, to whom Nigell gave the church of Run- corne 3 and unto Hudard the same Nigell gave Weston, and Great Aston (now divided into two townships, Aston Grange, and Aston juxta Sutton), pro tino Feodo Militis ; and from this Hudard came all theDuttons.^ And, in the record of Dooms- day, Odard held Aston, under William Fitz-Nigcll, Baron of Halton j and also Odard and Brictric held Weston, under the said William, anno Dom. 1086. Whether those five brethren afore-
» Leycester's Cl)eshire, p. 249, and the following pages, from whence jthis account is taken, till we come to the Sherborne branch. '' Monast Ang. pars 2, iS;,
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named were brethren to Nigell, is a doubt ; for then, mcthinks, he should have said, Qiimque fralres siii : whereas he says only, Cuvi isto Nigello venerunt quinqiie Fralres, *= and so names them.
This Hudard's, or Odard's sword, was in 1665, " in the cus- tody of the Lady Elinour, Viscountess Kilmorey, sole daughter and heir of Thomas Button, late of Button, Esq. deceased ; which sword hath for many ages past been preserved, and passed over from heir to heir (like Agamemnon's scepter), as an heirloom, by the name of Hudard's sword ; and so at this day it is by tra- dition received and called."
Hugh, son of Hodard, had those lands which he held in capite, or immediately of the Earl of Chester, confirmed unto him by Randle the second, surnamed de Gernoniis, Earl of Chester, about the latter end of Henry I. These lands, I conceive, were those which he held in Button,
Hugh de Button, son of Hugh, son of Hodard, had the lands which his father Hugh held of the Baron of Halton, confirmed unto him by William, son of Nigel), constable to Randle the second, and by William, his son, on that day when the said Wil- liam, the father, and William, the son, did visit Hugh, the son of Hodard, on his death-bed at Kekwick ; at which time Hugh, the son of Hodard, gave unto William, the father, his coat of mail and his charging horse 5 and Hugh, the son of that Hugh, gave unto William, the son, a palfrey, and a sparrow-hawk. This was about the end of the reign of King Henry 1,
The lands here confirmed I conceive to be Weston and Kek- wick, and perhaps some others.
This Hugh de Button had issue.
First, Hugh Button, son and heir.
Second, Adam de Button, another son, from whom the IFar- hurtons of Arley are descended.
Third, Geffery de Button, another son, from whom the Buttons ofChedill, in this county, were propagated, who assumed thesur-
<^ Though Sir Peter Lcyccstcr, in this place, makes it a question, \v]iether these five brethren, that attended Nigell, were his brothers; because tlie re- cord does not say, with him (NigellJ came his five brothers, but with him came five brotlicrs; but this doubt Sir Peter himself solves, in page 351, of his Antiquities of Cheshire; where, speaking of the antiquity of the church of Runcorne, he says, " We read in an ancient roll, that Nigell, Baron of Halton, gave the church of Runcorne to Wolfaith, a priest, his brother, in the reign of the Conqueror."
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name of Chedill, and continued to the reign of Edward III. till Sir Roger de Chedill (the last of that family) dying 1 Edw. III. 132/, left his inheritance to be shared by his two daughters and heirs, Clemence and Agnes : and out of that family de Chedill, branched Hamon Button, under Edward I. younger son to Sir Geffrey Dutton, of Chedill, to whom his father gave Aslilcy, 13 Edw, I. 1285, which he purchased for him. The posterity of this Hamon assumed the surname of Ashley, from the place of their residence, as was the manner of those ages ; which family of the A&hleys, of Ashley, continued to the end of Henry VIII. about which time Thomasin, daughter and heir of George Ashley, of Ashley, Esq. brought that inheritance to Richard Brereton, of Lee-Hall, not far from Middlewich, by marriage, who was a younger son of Sir William Brereton, of Brereton, in this county ; in which name of Brereton, of Ashley, it continued but four descents, and was divided among the three sisters of Thomas Brereton (the last Brereton, of Ashley) and their heirs, anno Dom. 166 1.
Hugh Dutton, of Dutton, son of Hugh, married ,
daughter of Hamon Massy, Baron of Dunham Massy, resnantc Henrico secundo : with whom her father gave in free marriac^e lands in Suttersby, in Lindsey in Lincolnshire, and had issue-' Hugh Dutton, eldest son, Thomas Dutton, John Dutton, and Adam Dutton. He purchased Little Moldesworth, for 50 mark?, from Robert son of Matthew de Moldes worth, about 1250. Also Alice, wife of William Boydell, of Dedeston.
This Hugh Dutton bought Preston, nigh Dutton, of Henry de Nuers, and Julian, his wife, reddendo oclo solidos annuatim, ad festinn Saiicti Martini: which Handle Blundevill, Earl of Chester, confirmed, about the reign of King John. He purchased also the town of Little Legh, in fee farm, from Simon, son of Osberne, rendering the yearly rent of two marks of silver at the feast of St. Martin ; which rent is yet paid by his heirs to the Earl of Derby, as of his manor of Harden, anno Dom. 1666. And Roger Lacy, constable of Cheshire, and Baron of Halton, acquitted this Hugh Dutton de jvdice de Legha, that is, of linding a judger to serve at HaltoUj for Little Legh yearly, about the reign of Richard I. or
^ I do conceive here was another Hugh Dutton, son and heir of this Hugh, who married Muriel, daughter of Thomas le Despenscr, and he had issue, Hugh, Thomas, John, and Adam, as there followeth. And, if so, tome of these acts may belong to that Hugh, which are ascribed to this Hugh.
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beginning of King John's reign. He purchased also the moiety of Barnton from William, son of Henry, son of Serlo, which Ro- bert de Mesnilwarin held.
He had also the magistracy, or rule and authority, over all the letchers and whores of all Cheshire, granted unto him and his heirs by John, constable of Cheshire, and Baron of Halton, as freely as the said John held the same of the Earl of Chester; saving the right of the said John to him and his heirs ; which are the very words of the deed, only rendered by me in English : so that he holds it, as it were, under the Baron of Halton, who re- serves his own right by a special reservation.
This privilege, over such loose persons, was granted, first, unto Roger Lacy, constable of Cheshire, under Richard L by Randle, surnamed Blundevill, Earl of Chester, in memory of bis good ser- vice done to the Earl, in raising the siege of the Welshmen, who had beset the Earl in his castle of Rothelent, in Flintshire : for, the constable having got a promiscuous rabble of such like per- sons together, and marching towards the said castle, the Wel:ih (supposing a great army to be coming) raised their siege, and fled ; so saith the ancient roll of the Barons of Halton : this roll sailh, that rabble consisted of players, fiddlers, and shoemakers. The deed here toucheth letchers and whores 3 the privilege and custom used at this day by the heirs of Dutton, over the min- strelsie and common tiddlers ; none being suffered to play in this country without the licence of the Lord of Dutton, who keeps a court at Chester, yearly, on Midsummer day^ for the same, where all the licenced minstrels of Cheshire do appear, and renew their licences : so that the custom seems to have been altered to the fiddlers, as necessary attendants on revellers in bawdy-houses and taverns.
And it is to be observed, that those minstrels, which are li- cenced by the heirs of Dutton, of Dutton, within the county pala- tine of Chester, or the county of the city of Chester, according to their ancient custom, are exempted out of the statute of rogues, '^
<= In the reign of Hen VII. a quo wananto was brought against Law- rence Dutton, of Dutton, Esq. to shew why he claimed all the minstrels of Ciicshire, and in the city of Cliestcr, to meet before him at Chester, yearly, on the feast of St. John the Baptist, and then and there to give him four bottles of wine and a lance ; and also every minstrel to pay him four-pence halfpenny ; and every whore, following her calling, to pay him four-pence : to which he pleaded prescription.
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39 Eliz. cap. 4. which proviso hath been continued in every statute since concerning vagabonds. '
Hugh Button, of Button, son and heir of Hugh, lived 1234, 18 Hen. III. He purchased from Richard de Aston, son of Gil- bert de Aston, six bovates of land, in Aston juxtii Button, in the beginning of the reign of Henry III. which land belongs to Button Beniain at this day {1666). He also built Poosey chapel, about 20 K. Hen. III. ]236, which undoubtedly stood upon part of that land bought from Aston 5 for that chapel is in Runcorne parish, Tliis Hugh gave to John, his brother, the third part of all the town of Bolinton, in Maxfiekl hundred, which Thomas le Be- spenser gave in free marriage Hugoni palri meo cum Muriela vialre mca : s which deed was made about the year of Christ 1234-
This Hugh de Button died without issue ; and Thomas, his brother, succeeded heir.
Sir Thomas Button, of Dutton, brother and heir to Hugh, lived anno Bom. 1240, 33 Hen. III. and 1268, 53 Hen. III. He purchased Clatterwigge, a hamlet in Little Legh juxta Barlerton, from Hugh de Clatterwigge, about 1244, 2f) Hen. III.
He built the chapel at the manor house of Button, towards the end of Henry Ill's reign.
He married Philippa, daughter and heir of Vivian de Sandon, or Standon, by whom he had lands in Staffordshire ; and had issue Hugh Button, son and heir 5 Thomas, another son, to whom his father gave Great Rownall, and Little Rownall, in Staffordshire, by the consent of Philippa, his wife : but I conceive this younger son Thomas died without issue, because I find Philippa, in her widowhood, granting these two manors of Rownall to Sir Robert Button, her other son, and to Agnej, his wife, daughter of Wil- Ham de IVIere, in Staffordshire : Margaret, a daughter, married William Venables, son and heir of Roger Venables, of Kinderton, 38 Hen. III. 1253 j and Catherine, married John, son of Vrian dc Sancto Petro. So I find in an old pedigree.
This Sir Thomas was sheriff of Cheshire 1208, 53 Hen, III. He died in the beginning of the reign of Edw. I. Philippa was living, a widow, 129O and 1294. Sir Hugh Button, of Button, Knight, son and heir of Sir
^ See Lysons's Magn. Brit, vol ii p. i^tT- Cheshire, p 523. & The original penes Downcs of Shrigley, 1054.
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Thomas, bouod himself to the Abbot of Vale-Royal, to make a foot-bridge at Acton, and to find a boat and ferry-man at Acton Ford, about 12S(3; the same is now made a county bridge. He also was bound to William Gerard, his 'squire, in zind robd armigerorum annuatim ad totam vilam suain ad frstum natalis Domini, 13 Edw. I. 1285. He purchased Barterton, and married Joan, daughter of Sir Vrian de Sancto Petro, vulgo Sampier; (I have no authority for this, but an old pedigree;) and had issue Hugh Button, son and heir 3 and William Button, who married Maud, daughter and coheir to Sir Richard Stockport, of Stock- port, 1305 ; which William, with others, was indicted 35 Edw. I. for taking away the said Maud, by force, from Bunham Massy, being then in the custody of Hamon Massy; whom they took out of her chamber into the court, stripping her of all her clothes, gave her smock, saith the record; Robert Button, parson of Ec- cleston, 1320: also Margaret, a daughter.
This Sir Hugh died 22 Edw. I. i2(J\ ; Joan, his lady, survived} she was living 12f)8.
Sir Hugh Button, of Button, Knight, son and heir of Sir Hugh, born the eighth day of Becember, 5 Edw. I. 127S, at Button, and baptized at Great Budworth the day following : he sued the prior of Norton, before Adam Burnm and Nicholas Gruchundelee, commissaries of the Bishop of Liichtield and Co- ventry, at the visitation of the arch-deanery of Chester, anno Bom. 1315, for not finding a chaplain and lamp at Poosey chapel, according to the original grant, which \m there produced : and John Olton, then prior, confessed the same, and was ordered to find them : this priory was of the order of St. Augustine.
He married Joan, daughter of Sir Robert Holland, of Holland, in Lancashire, and had issue Thomas Button, son and heir ; Wil- liam, parson of Thornton, 22 Edw. IIL ; Gelfrey Button, another son ; and Robert Button, another son.
This Sir Hugh was made steward of Halton, 24th Becember, 20 Edwad IL and died 1 Edward IIL 132(5, at the age of fifiy years.
Joan, his widow, afterwards married Kdmiuid Talbot, of Ba- ghall ; and after, to Sir John Ratclitf, of Urdeshall, in Lancashire, living 11 Edw. IIL and 20 Edw. Ill,
Sir Thomas Button, of Button, Knight, son and heir of Sir Hugh and Joan, was fifteen years old on Whitsunday, 132(), 3 Edw, III. He purchased those lands in Button which for-
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merly belonged to Halton fee ; and also those lands in Dutton which formerly belonged to Boydell, of Dodleston ; and so made the township of Dutton entirely his own.
This Thomas was made seneschal, governor, and receiver of the castle and honour of Halton, in Cheshire, by William Clin- ton, Earl of Huntington ; and also of all his lands and manors in Cheshire and Lancashire, (^z/amf/iw bene se gesserit, which the Earl farmed unto him for four hundred and forty marks yearly, dated at Maxstock, \g Edw. IIL
It seems he was indicted, for that he and others came with armed power (when King Edward IIL was out of England) •within the verge of the lodgings of Lionell, the King's son. Pro- tector of England, and assaulted the manor of Geaumes, nigh Reading, in Wiltshire, and there slew Michael Poynings, the uncle, and Thomas le Clerke, of Shipton, and others, and com- mitted a rape on Margery, the wife of one Nicholas de la Beche, for which the King pardoned him ; and he found Sir Bernard Brocas, Sir Hugh Berewyk, Philip Durdanyt, and John Haydoke, his sureties in the Chancery, for his good abearing, 26 Edw. III. He was, by several commissions, employed for the apprehend- ing of certain malefactors, robbers, and disturbers of tlie peace in this county. One is directed unto him by the name of Thomas Dutton, Equitator in Foresta de Mara, and to Richard Done, forester of the same forest, 14 Edw. III.
Anno Domini 13/9, 3 Richard II. William Eltonhed, prior of the hermit friars, of the order of St. Augustine, at Warrington, in Lancashire, and the convent there, granted to Sir Thomas Dutton, Knight, a perpetual chantry j to wit, that a sufficient friar, of the convent of Warrington, shall be especially elected to pray for the salvation of Sir Thomas, his children, and of Philippa, his wife, and her parents j and for the soul of Dame Ellen, late wife of the said Sir Thomas, their children and parents, when they shall die, at the great altar of their chuich yearly for ever} and that their names be written down in their Martyrologyj whereunto the prior and convent were bound, under a penalty of three shillihgs and four-pence, to be levied by the provincial prior upon omission of such form of service J and if for a week or a fortnight it were omitted, then must they double the time omitted in manner afore- said : if neglected for six months, then upon pain of suspension : if for a year, then upon excommunication, until the time omitted be made up : whereunto are witnesses, Thomas, abbot of St. Wer-
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burge, of Chester; Stephen, abbot of Vale Royal ; Richard, prior of Norton; and Roger, prior of Berkenhed. This was confirmed by Henry de Towesdale, provincial prior of the hermit friars, of the order of St. Augustine, in England, with a special injunction, that the said persons be yearly twice commemorated before the whole convent ; once, at the first entrance of the prior of War- rington into the convocation house, yearly ; the other time, on the election day of a fellow prior for a provincial convocation. Dated at Warrington, on Sunday, next after the feast of St. Martin, anno supradicto.
This Sir Thomas sealed usually with his coat of arms and crest, to wit, quarterly, a fret in the second and thirds over which, upon the dexter angle of the escutcheon, a helmet, and thereon a plume of feathers.
Amio Domini 1344, Robert Monning, of Tatenhale, grants to Thomas de Dutton, and his heirs, all the magistracy of the min- strels, cum omnibus pertinentiis, prout in Charta originali plenius continetur. I conceive he was but a feoffee.
This Thomas was sheriff of Cheshire 30 and 33 Edward III. and was a knight 35 Edward III, He died 1381, aged sixty- three. He married two wives : the first was Ellen, one of the daughters and heirs of Sir Peter Thornton, of Thornton, the eldest daughter, by whom he had issue.
First, Sir Peter Dutton, who died without issue 35 Ed. III.
Second, Thomas Dutton, another son, died also without issue.
Third, Sir Lawrence Dutton succeeded heir to his father.
Fourth, Edmund Dutton, another son, was ancestor to the Duttons, of Sherborne, of whom we are to treat.
Fifth, Henry Dutton, fifth son ; and.
Sixth, William Dutton, another son.
His second wife was Philippa, the widow of Sir Peter Thorn- ton, She was (as I conceive) a later wife to Sir Peter Thornton, not mother of the coheirs.
Sir Lawri;nce, eldest surviving son, succeeded, and died without issue 1392, aged fifty three ; his widow re-married Sir William Rrereton, of Brereton.
Edmund Dutton, tha fourth son of Sir Thomas, married Joan, daughter and heir of Henry Minshull, de Church Minshull, by whom he had the manors of Church Minshull and Aston Mon- dram ; and had issur,
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First, Sir Peter Button, who became heir to his iincle, Sir Lawrence DuttoJi, of Dutton ; he died 1433.
Second, Hugh Dutton, of whom the Duttons, of Hatton, nigh Warton, in Cheshire, whose posterity afterwards, in process of time, became heirs of Dutton lands under Henry VIII.
Third, Lawrence Dutton, another son ; and Thomas Dutton, another son ; Agnes de Dutton, a daughter, married William Leycester, of Nether Tabley, ISpS, 22 Richard II. and Ellen, another daughter.
John Dutton, of Dutton, son and heir of Sir Peter, married Margaret, daughter of Sir John Savage, and dying 1445, left
Sir Thomas Dutton, of Dutton, who being slain at the battle of Blore-heath, 1459, left issue John Dutton, of Dutton, Esq. who was succeeded by his brother,
Roger Dutton, of Dutton, Esq. who dying 1499, left by Joan, daughter of Sir Richard Aston,
Lawrence Dutton, of Dutton, Esq. who died without lawful issue 1525.
A great controversy now arose between the heirs general of Sir Thomas Dutton, of Dutton, who died 1459, ^nd Sir Piers Dutton, of Hatton, the next heir male. The daughters of this Sir Thomas Dutton, sisters of John Dutton, and Roger Dutton, and aunts of the last Lawrence Dutton, were Anne, wife of Sir Thomas Molineux, of Sefton ; Isabel, of Sir Christopher Sothe- worth, of Sotheworth ; Elizabeth, of Ralph Bostock, of Bostock -, Margaret, wife of Thomas Aston, of Aston ; and afterwards of Ralph Vernon of Haslington ; and Elinor, of Richard Cholmon- deley, of Cholmondeley.
The manor of Dutton, with the advoury of the minstrels of Cheshire, was adjudged to the heir male. Sir Piers.
Hugh Dutton, Esq. second son of Edmund, married Petro- nella, daughter of Ralph Vernon, of Hatton, in Cheshire, Esq. and had by her two sons, John and Lawrence.
John, the eldest son, was settled at Hatton, and married Margaret, daughter of Sir William Athurton, of Athurton, in Lancashire, Knight, by whom she had three sons,
First, Peter, living at Hatton, 1464.
Second, Richard, ancestor to the Sherborne branch.
Third, GeofFry.
Peter married Margaret, daughter and coheir of Robert Grosvenour, by whom be had issue
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Peter Button, of Hatton, who by Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Sir Robert Fouleshurst, had issue
Sir Piers Button, adjudged to be heir male, who built, 1539, the new hall at Button, still in part remaining, and had by Elinor, daughter of Thomas Legh, of Adlington,
Hugh Button, who by Jone, daughter of Sir William Booth, had
John Button, of Button, who died 16O8, father by Elinor, daughter of Sir Hugh Calveley, of
Thomas Button, of Button, Esq. who by Thomasine Ander- ton, had Elinor, daughter and heir, married to Gilbert Lord Gerard, of Gerard's Bromley, whose son Button, Lord Gerard, was father of Charles, Lord Gerard, from whom came Bigby, last Lord Gerard, who died 17] 1, whose daughter and heir married James, Buke of Hamilton, who was created Baron Dutton, of Dutlon, and Buke of Brandon, '&c. (See title Brandon, vol, i,)
Richard Button, 5Pco?zf^ son of John Button, of Hatton, had issue Ralph Button, who had two sons. First, William.
Second, Richard, from whom the Buttons of Cloughton and Dally, in com. Ebor. were descended.
William, the eldest son and heir to Richard Button, lived at Chester, and had issue by his wife Agnes, daughter of John Con- way, of Flintshire, Esq. several children, whereof Thomas was the second son.
This Thomas Button, second son, purchased the manor of Sherborne, in Gloucestershire, which had belonged to the late dis- solved abbey of VVinchecombe. He married, first, Mary, daughter
of Meyney, '' by whom he had only a daughter, Anne,
wife to John Warnfoid, of Sevenhampton, in com. Wilts, Esq.
And by his second wife, Margaret, daughter of Stephen Kirton, Esq. alderman of the city of London, and relict of Sir Thomas Withers, Knight, he had two sons, William, who continued the line, and Thomas, who died without issue; also a daughter, Eleanor, married at Sherborne, November 24th, 158(5, to Ralph Salvyne, of Newbiggin, in Yorkshire, Gent, and afterwards kniohted. Thomas the father, dying October -Ith, 1581, was buried at Sherborne, and succeeded by his eldest son,
William Button, of Sherborne, Esq. who served the office of
h From the pedigree drawn up for Lord Sherborne, 1784.
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sheriff for the county of Gloucester in 15()0, and ifiOl ; he mnr- ried Anne, daughter to Sir Ambrose Nicholas, Knight, Lord Mayor of London, and by her (who, secondly, married to Sir Paul Tracy, of Stanway, in Gloucestershire, Bart, and was buried at Sherborne on February 23d, lOjO) had issue seven sons and four daughters : the sons were.
First, Thomas, baptized September 15th, 15QI, and buried at Sherborne, January 6th, ]6lO.
Second, William, baptized at Sherborne, May 2d, 1593, and buried there the 5th of the same month.
Third, John, who became heir to the estate, of whom pre- scntly .
Fourth, Ambrose, baptized at Sherborne, November 21stj 1596, and buried at Sherborne, May 9th, following.
Fifth, William, baptized at Sherborne, January 5th, 159S.
Sixth, Giles, baptized at Sherborne, April 1, \Q05; both living in 1617, but died without issue.
Seventh, Sir Ralph, of whom hereafter.
The daughters were, first, Anne, baptized at Sherborne, Aug. 22d, 1585; second, Eleanor, baptized November l/th, I5S(5, buried at Sherborne, April 26tlr, l604 ; third, Elizabeth, baptized at Sherborne, January pth, 1587; and, fourth, Mary, baptized at Sherborne, October 22d, 1589, married, first, to George Fetti- place, Esq.; secondly, to Sir George Kleetwocd^ of Woodstock Park, in Oxfordshire, Kright
William, the father of these children, made his will, June 4th, 1617, which was proved November I8th, 1(518, in rvhidi year he died, and was buried at Sherborne, being succeeded in' his estates by r . .-
John Dutton, of Sherlorne, Esq. his eldest surviving s6i>; baptized at Sherborne, October 5th, 159-I : he was &ome»,ime knight of the shire, and deputy lieutenant of the county of Glou- cester : his will bears date January l4th, 1055, to which a ctxiiCi'l was annexed three days after, and the probate thereof is ^ated June 30th, l6"57; he died January 14th, and was bnried at Sher- borne, February 18th, 165(5-7.
His first wife was Elizabeth, only daugliter of Sir Henry Baynton, of Bromham, in com. Wilts, Knight, and by her, who died April 28th, and was buried at Sherborne, May 3d, lo38, aged forty-two, he had issue one son, William, baptized January 10th, 1623, who died April 11th, ]628, and was buried at Sher- borne the next day; and three daughters, first, Lucy, baptized at
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Sherborne, June 2d, 1621, and buried there April 2d, l623 ; se- cond, Lucy, baptized at Sherborne, April ptb, 1624, and married there November 26th, 1638, to Thomas Pope, Earl of Downej and, third, Elizabeth, married to George Colt, of Colt Hall, in Suffolk, Esq.
His second wife was Anne, fourth daughter of John King, D, D. Lord Bishop of London, by whom he had no issue ; and she, surviving him, was afterwards married to Sir Richard-Grub- ham How, of Compton, in Gloucestershire, Bart.
The inscription upon his monument, in the chancel of the church of Sherborne, is as follows :
John Button, of Sherborne, in Gloucestershire, Esq. son of William Datton, and Anne, the daughter of Ambrose Nicholas, Knight, a person of a sharp understanding, and clear judgment, every way capable of those eminent services he underwent, as knight of the shire in several par- liaments, and as deputy lieutenant} one, who was master of a large fortune, and owner of a mind equal to it : noted for his hospitality far and near, and his charitable relief of the poor; which makes his memory honoured by the best, as his loss lamented by the last. He died, &c.
That he was a zealous asserter of the liberty of the subject, widistanding all royal encroachments upon the same, appears in the great opposition he made to that arbitrary business of the loan-money, for refusing which he was committed to Gloucester prison, and whilst there elected knight of the shire. How steady and equal he carried himself afterwards (avoiding those furious courses so natural to injured people, and which too many at that time unhappily pursued) we learn from the Oxford historian, *Sv\\G, in his ylthence Oxonienses, gives the following character of
1" John Button, of Sherbourne, in Gloucestershire, Esq. — He ■^as one of the knights for that county, to sit in the said parlia- ment, 1040 3 but being frighted thence by the tumults that came '.nji'to the parliament doors, as other royalists were, he conveyed hicoself privately to Oxford, and sate there. He was a learned
' Wood's Athcn. Oxon. vol. ii. p. 2S> edit, i?*!-
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and a prudent man, and as one of the richest, so oqc of the meekest, men in England. He was active in making the defence, and drawing up the articles of Oxon, when the garrison was to be surrendered to the parliament. For which, and his steady loyalty, he was afterwards forced to pay a round sum in Goldsmith's-hall at London."'^
We now return to the seventh and youngest son of William by Anne Nicholas, which was,
Sir Ralph Button, Knight, which honour he received at Woodstock, in August l624. In the reign of King Charles the First he was gentleman of the privy-chamber in extraordinary, and high sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1630; and being zealously attached to the interest of his sovereign in the great rebellion, his estate was sequestered, for which a composition of 952/. 17^. id. was paid, and he forced to fly beyond sea ; but, being beat back
k It appears, by the list of those that compounded for their estates, tliat this John Button, Esq paid 5216/. 4^. for his ; it likewise appears, by Wood's Athense Oxon. how loyal he was in tlie beginning of the troubles; and yet we find in the following extract of his will, dated January 14th, 165 j, these particulars; " I humbly request and desire, that his Highness, the Lord Pro- tector, will be pleased to take upon him the guardianship and disposing of my nephew, William Button, and of that estate I by deed of settlement hath left him ; and that his Highness would be pleased, in order to my former de- sires, and according to the discourse that hath passed betwixt us, thereupon, that when he shall come to ripeness of age, a marriage may be had and solem- nized betwixt my said nephew, William Button, and the Lady Frances Cromwell, his Highness's youngest daughter, which I much desire, and (if it take effect) shall account it as a blessing from God." He gives, by the said will, 5C0/. to the poor of Northleach, in com. Gloucest. with legacies to the poor of Sherborne, and other places ; and gives several legacies to his ser- vants ; and gives his estate to his nephew, William Button, and the heirs males of his body, andfor default of such issue, to his nephew, Ralph Button, and the heirs male of his body, and for default of such issue, to his own light heirs forever. Gives 800/. to his nephew Ralph, to buy an annuity of 100/ per ann. .'>.nd gives 500/ to his wife, with all tlie plate and household goods she brought when he married her, and bequeaths her all his coaches and coach-horses, and two saddle nags. Orders his body to be interred in a comely decent manner in the vault which he lately built, and caused to be made in the isle of Siierborne church, where he usually sat, without pomp or needless expence ; and orders the sum of 150/. out of his personal estate, to be bestowed in the making of a monument within the said isle, for himself and his two wives; and appoints Sir William Brovvnlow, of High Holborn, in Middlesex, Bart. Sir William Chadwell, of Lincoln's-Inn, in Middlesex, and Gabriel Becke, of Lincoln's-Iim, Esq. his executors; and gives unto them 1200 ounces of plate. This will and codicil was proved at London, June 30th, 1657, before the judges for probate of wills, and signed Smiou RoUeston, register. See for it Ruthen, p. 249.
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by contrary winds in his passage from Leith to France, he was cast away on Brant Island, and there died in the year 1646.
He married Mary, daughter of Sir William Buncombe, c*f London, Knight, and had by her two sons, William and Ralph, ancestor to the present peer.
William, the eldest son, succeeded to the estate at Sherborne, as heir to his uncle, John ; was high sheriff of the county of Glou- cester in 1(567, died March 24th, 1 674-5, and was buried at Sher- borne, on the fifth of the succeeding month. He married Mary, daughter of Sir John Scudamore, of Dromore, Lord Viscount Scudamore, and relict of Thomas Russell, Esq. eldest son of Sir William Russell, of Streynsham, in W^orcestershire, Bart, but had issue only a son, John, baptized August 24th, and buried at Sherborne, November 8th, l664: whereby the family estates devolved upon his brother Ralph, youngest son of Sir RalpU Button, just mentioned.
Which Sir Ralph was some time knight of the shire for the county of Gloucester, and was created a Baronet of Great Britain^ to him and the heirs male of his body, by patent, bearing date June 22d, 1678. He first married Grisell, daughter of Sir Ed- ward Poole, of Kemble, in Wilts, Knight, and by her, who was buried at Sherborne, February 25th, 1677, bad two daughters, Elizabeth, baptized at Sherborne October 14th, 1675, who be- came wife to William Green, of London, Esq. ; ;>nd Griseil, bap- tized February 18th, \6'J'J-B, and buried at Sherborne Septembe,* Jlth, 168I.
His second wife was Mary, only daughter of Dr. Peter Bar- wick, physician in ordinary to King Charles the Second, by whom he had four sons and three daughters.
First, Sir John Button, of Sherborne, second Baronet, some time knight of the shire for the county of Gloucester, who died February 1st, 1742-3, aged sixty-one, and v/as buried at Sher- borne the fourth of the same month, having had two wives, first, Mary, sole daughter and heir of Sir Rushout Cullen, of Upton, in Warwickshire, Bart, but she died without isf.ue, and was buried at Sherborne, on May 23d, l/lt); and by his second wife, Mary, daughter of Sir Francis Keck, of Great Tew, in Oxfordshire, Bart, they had only a daughter, Mary, of whom her mother died in child-bed ; and they were both buried at Sherborne, on June 15 th, 1729.
Sir John having survived all his brothers, and dying without issue, the barojjctagc became extinct at his death.
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Second, William, buried at Sherborne, March 22cl, i683.
Third, Clement, died an infant, i6sy, and buried at Sher- borne.
Fourth, Ralph, died unmarried, December 13th, and buried the l6th of the same month, ]7l6, at Sherborne.
The daughters of Sir Ralph Dutton, Bart, were.
First, Mary, married at Sherborne, October 29th, 1719, to Sir Thomas Read, of Shipton, in Oxfordshire, Bart,
Second, Anne, grandmotlicr to the present Lord Sherborne^
Third, Jemima, who died unmarried, ' and was buried at Sher- borne, February 10th, 1/62.
Anne, the second daughter of Sir Ralph Dutton, Bart, by his second wife, married James Napcr, of Loughcrew, in the county of Meath, in the kingdom of Ireland, Esq.; he died in 1716, aged fifty-six; she, in 17 18, aged forty-eight 3 and were buried at Loughcrew : they had issue, two sons and two daughters, tiz.
First, James Eenox Naper.
Second, William Naper, of Druce Town, in the county of Meath, Esq, who died unmarried.
Anne, married to Pollard, of Castle Pollard, in the
county of West Meath, Esq. ; and Mary.
James Lenox Naper, of Loughcrew, Esq. the eldest son and heir, was by the will of his uncle. Sir John Dutton, Bart, pos- sessed of the manor of Sherborne, in Gloucestershire, whereupon he assumed the surname and arms of Dutton, He was buried at Sherborne, September 14th, 1776, aged sixty-three, having been
twice married, first to daughter of General Ingoldsby ;
secondly, to Jane, daughter of Christopher Bond, of Newland, ia Gloucestershire, Esq.
By the former he had issue only a son, John Lenox Naper, who assumed the name and arms of Dutton, but died unmarried^ and was buried at Sherborne, September 7th, 1771-
By his second wife he had four sons and six daughters ; the sons were,
First, James, now Lord Sherborne. .' .
Second, William, baptized at Sherborne, June 3d, 17-^9^ who used the name and arms of iSaper, and died November 2Sth, 1791, haying married Miss Travell, by whom he left an infant son.
•She died the 6th.
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Third, Thomas^ baptized 21st, and was buried at Sherborne, October 23d, 1751.
Fourth, Ralph Button, of Gressen Hall, in Norfolk, Esq. bap- tized at Sherborne, November 10th, 1/55, and died February 25, 1804, having married Miss Honor Gubbins, who died without issue in January ISOJ.
The daughters were, Jane and Jemima, who died infants ; Anne, married at Sherborne, January 15th, 176O, to Samuel Blackwell, of Ampney Park, in Gloucestershire, Esq. ; Mary, baptized at Sherborne, June 24th^ 1750, and married there May 25th, 1769, to Thomas Master, of Cirencester, in Gloucester- shire, Esq. J Frances, baptized at Sherborne, October 2Sth, 1752, and married there, September gth, 1771^ to Charles Lambert, of Beau Park, in the county of Meath, in Ireland, Esq. ; and Jane, married at Sherborne, October 5th, 1/75, to Thomas William Coke, of lyongford, in the county of Derby, and of Holkham, in the county of Norfolk, Esq. and died January 28th, 1800, leaving two daughters.
James Dutton, now Lord Sherborne, the eldest son and heir, was baptized at Sherborne, October 27th, 1744, represented the county of Gloucester in 178O, and was by patent, dated May 20th, 17S4, created Lord Sherborne, Baron of Sherborne, in the county of Gloucester, and to the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten.
His Lordship was married at Longford, in the county of Derby, on July 7th, 1774, to Elizabeth, daughter of VVenman Roberts Coke, of Longford, aforesaid, Esq. by whom he hath issue one son and three daughters, viz.
First, John, born in February 1779> married, August 11th, 1803, the Honourable Mary Legge, only child of Henry, present Lord Stawel.
Second, Elizabeth Jane, born May 28th, 1/7^, married, Ja- Xiuary 14th, 1803, Thomas, Viscount Andover, son and heir ap- parent of Cliarles Earl of Suftolk and Berkshire.
Third, Anne Margaret, born in November 177^^ married, April 26th, I8O6, Prince Bariatinsky, of the Russian Empire, and died at St. Petersburgh in March I8O7, leaving a son.
Fourth, Frances Mary, born in December 1/77.
Titles. James Dutton, Lord Sherborne, Baron Sherborne, of Sherborne, in Gloucestershire.
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Creation. Lord Sherborne, Baron of Sherborne, in the county of Gloucester, May 20th, 1784, 24 Geo. III.
yJnns. Quarterly, Argent and Gules, in each piece of tlie second a fret. Or, a crescent for difference.
Crest. On a wreath, a plume of Ostrich feathers, Argent, Azure, Or, Vert and Gules, alternately.
Motto. Servabo fidem.
Cliief Seats, At Sherborne, in Gloucestershire.
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GORDON, LORD GORDON.
George Gordon, (commonly called Marquis of Huntley, Earl of Norwich,) eldest son and heir apparent of Alexander, Duke of Gordon, was born February 2d, 17/0. In 1806, he was elected M. P. for Eye in Suflfolk j and on April lltb, IS07, was called up to the House of Peers, by writ of summons, as Baron Gordon of Huntley; and placed in his father's English Barony, of the date of July 12th, 1784.
His Lordship having entered into the army, raised the Q2d re- giment at the beginning of the late war ; and has since risen to the rank of major-general, and been appointed colonel of the 4 2d regiment of foot. He served in the expedition to Holland in ] 799 3 and again in that to Walcheren ui ISOij.
His Lordship is unmarried.
Titles. George Gordon, Baron Gordon, of Huntley: Creation. Baron Gordon, of Huntley, b}'^ letters patent July
)2th, 1784; and writ of summons April 11th, I8O7.
For ylrms, Crest, Supporters, seethe article of Earl of Nou-
wicH, (Duke of Gordon) vol. v.
LORD MONTAGU.
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SCOTT, LORD MONTAGU, OF BOUGHTON.
Henry James Montagu Scott, Baron Montagu, of Bough- ton, in Northamptonshire , succeeded to this barony. May 28th, 1790, on the death of his grandfather, George, last Duke ofMou' tagu,^ agreeable to the limitation of the patent granted in lysQ. He then took the additional name of Montagu.
His Lordship is the second son of Henry, Duke of Buccleuch, Knight of the Garter. (See title Earl of Doncaster, vol. iii.)
His Lordship was born December l6th, 177<5, and married, November 22d, 1S04, Margaret, daughter of Archibald, Lord Douglas, of Douglas (by Lady Lucy Graham).
Title. Henry James Montagu Scott, Baron Montagu, o^ Boughton,
Creation. Baron Montagu, of Boughton, by patent August 8th, 1786.
Arms. Same as Earl of Donc aster fDuke of BuccleughJ, quartering Montagu. See vol. iii.
Crest. Same as Doncaster.
Supporters. Same as Doncaster.
Motto. Amo. Same as Doncaster."
Chief Seat. Boughton House, Northamptonshire.
* See title Ear l o? Cardigan, vol- iii-
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DOUGLAS, LORD DOUGLAS OF AMBRESBURY,
(DUKE OF qUEENSBERRT IN SCOTLAND.)
The following account of this family is principally in the words of Craufurd.
The Barony of Drumlanrig, in Drumfrizeshire, did anciently belong to the Earls of Marr, Thomas, Earl of Marr, gave these lands to William, Lord of Douglas, whose sister, the Lady Mar- garet, he had married, which King David II. did, by his royal charter, confirm ' Willielmo Domino de Douglas, Omnes Terras Baronise de Drumlanrig, cum Pertinen, Tenend. et Habend, eidem Willielmo Domino de Douglas, et haeredibus suis, libere et quiete, plenarie, integre et honorifice, cum omnibus libertatibus, commoditatibus, Assiamentis, et justis pertinentiis suis, sicut charta dilecti consanguinei nostri Thomae Comitis Marriae, eidem Willielmo Domino de Douglas, et Margaretae Sponsse suae, con- sanguineae nostrae, inde confecta plenius proportat et testatur.'
To this William, Lord, thereafter Earl of Douglas, who died 1384, succeeded James, second Earl of Douglas, his son, who by his charter gave the Barony of Drumlanrig to William Douglas his son J of which, for the fixing the origin of this illustrious branch of the house of Douglas, I shall present the reader with an exact copy, as I transcribed it from the original.
" Omnibus banc chartam visuris vel audituris, Jacobns Comes de Douglass, Dominus vallis do Lydalc, ac baroniae de Drum- lanrig, salutem in Domino sempiternam. Noveritis nos dedisse, concessisse, et hac charta nostra conlirmasse Willielmo de Douglas, filio nostro, pro homagio et servitio suo, omnes terras nostras
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totlus baroniae de Drumlanrig, infra vicecom. de Dumfrise, tenend. et habend. omnes dictas terras praefatoe baroniae, cum per- tinen. eidein Willielmo et hoeredibus suis, de corpore suo legitime procreandis ; quibus deficientibus, Archibaldo de Douglas lilio nostro, et hsredibus suis, de corpore suo legitime procreandis, in feudo et hsereditate in perpetuum reservata, nobis et haeredibus nostris, regalitas ejusdem faciendo inde nobis et haeredibus nostris, servitium unius militis in exercitu nostro, nomine Albae firmae. In cujus rei testimonium present! chartae sigillum nostrum fecimus apponi, his testibus. Domino Archibaldo de Douglas, Domino Galuidiae, Jacobo de Douglas, Domino de Dalkeith, Jacobo de Lindsay, Domino de Crawfurd, Willielmo de Lindsay, Roberto Colevyle, Willielmo de Borthewick, consanguineis nostrls mili- tibus, Adamo Forrester, Adamo de Hoppringle, Allano de Lau- dere, et multis aliis,"
This James Earl of Douglas lost his life in the battle of Otter- burne, 1388.
This Sir William Douglas, the Jirst Baron of Drumlanrig, » being a brave gentleman, ^ signalized himself in the wars against the English in his time 3 in 1411, together with Gavin Dunbar, son to the Earl of March, he burnt and plundered the town of Roxburgh, <^ then in the possession of the English, which was per- formed with great resolution and courage. The war at length ending in a truce in 1412, ^^ Sir William Douglas and the Lord Clifford were the chief challengers at a solemn tournament held by the Earl of Westmorland at Carlisle, but my author ' is not particular as to the event. The same year he had the honour to be sent by the governor of Scotland, the Duke of Albany, ambassador to the court of England, to solicit the re- lease of King James L who was then kept a prisoner in that realm, ^ when he obtained from his captive sovereign a charter, all written fair out in the King's own hand, onvellum, s the very finest I ever saw, in these words :
a It may be here observed, that this noble family has ahvays canied the arms of Marr quartered with their own, which denotes their descent from Margaret, heiress and Countess of Marr.
b He was twice in England, in 1397, and 1405, for which he had safe
conducts from Rich. II. and Hen. IV. Rymer, vol. viii. p- 25,421, 429.
c Extracta e Chron. Scotiae- "^ Rymer's Foedera Angli*.
« Sir William Dugdale, in his Baronage of England.
f Rymer's Feedera.
e Charta penes Ducem de Queensbeiry.
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" Jamis, throw the Grace of God, Kyinge of Scottis, til all that this Lettre heris or seis, sendis Gretynge ; wit ze, that we haue grantit, and be this present Lettre grantis a special confir- mation in the mast Forme, til our Trust and Wele belofit Cosyng, Sir William of Douglas of Drumlanrig, of all the Lands that he is posest and charterit of within the Kyngdome of Scotland, that is to say, the Landis of Drumlanrig, of Hauyke, and of Selkirk : the which Charter and Posessions be this Lettre we confirm. In Witties of the Whilk, this present Lettres we wrate with our proper Hand, and the Signet ussit in selying of our Lettres, as now at Croydon, the last day of NovembrC;, the Yeir of our Lord 1412."
In I4l6, Sir William Douglas, of Drumlanrig, was joined in commission with the Earls of Athole, Fife, Buchan, Marr, Douglas, and Crawfurd, George Dunbar, son and heir to the Earl of March, the Bishop of Glasgow, and Sir William Graham, to treat with the English about the relieving of King James, s but for some reasons of state, that grand affair could not be brought to a close, though it is not to be doubted but those great men, who had the horlour to be employed in the treaty, did all they could to have it concluded. Thereafter in I4i20, when the English carried over King James into France, '' to try if his presence could draw the Scots, who were in the French service, over to that of the English, Sir William Douglas, of Drumlanrig, went over to wait on his master j in order to which he had a safe conduct <rranted him from the King of England, but with this remarkable proviso, that he should do nothing prejudicial to him, or to his dearest father the King of France ; but the Scots did well then distinguish the deference which they owed to their King when captivated, and when independent and free ; for though they sent persons to guard his sacred person, yet they adhered firmly to that interest which he seemed outwardly to oppose, though I have no reason to believe but that Sir William Douglas kept his promise to the King of England, and did not engage against the English interest at that time, vet he afterward lost his life in the service of France, at the battle of Agincourt, in 1427, ' leaving issue by Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Sir Robert Stewart, of Durisdeer and Rosylh,
s Rymcr's Fcedcra Angllx. h Aberciomby's Life of King James I- 1 Mr. David Simpson's Account of the House of Drumlanrig, M. S. penes mc.
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William Dovglxs, second Lord of Dnnnlanrig, his son and heir, '^ who was one of the hostages sent to England, for the re- demption of King James I. in 1427, in exchange of another Baron of the same rank and fortune with himself, which was expressly provided in the treaty of redemption, but when he was relieved again, it has not occurred to me.
This Sir William being, like his father, a warlike man, sig- nalized himself in most of the actions between the Scots and English, particularly at the battle of Sark, anno 14-J8, where the Scots obtained a most glorious victory, under the command of Hugh Earl of Ormond, brother to the Earl of Douglas, where Sir William did to a very eminent degree manifest his valour and conduct 3 and departing this life in the year 1458,' left issue by Janet his wife, daughter of Sir Herbert Maxwell, Lord of Car- iaverock, '"
William, his son and heir, third Lord of Drumlanrig, who, though he did not long outlive his father, yet he gave many signal proofs of his valour in several actions, particularly at the siege of Roxburgh, where King James II. lost his life j and in that other bold attempt at Alnwick, anno 1403, where the French garrison was relieved by the Earl of Angus, in the face of a nu- merous English army, " which was double the number of the troops the Earl had under his command ; and departing this life in 14(54, " left issue by Margaret his wife, daughter of William Carlyle, Lord of Torthorald, a younger son, John, bred to the church ; also
William, his son and hew, fourth Lord of Drumlanrig, who treading in the steps of his heroic ancestors, was slain in the ser- vice of his country at the battle of Kirkonel, in that unnatural in- vasion of the Duke of Albany against his own brother. King James II. on the 22d of July MS4, '' leaving issue by Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Sir Robert Crichton, Lord of Sanquhar, an- cestor to the Earl of Drumfrise, ^ > . . t
First, James, his successor.
Second, Archibald, of whom the Douglases of Cashogle.
*= Charta penes Ducem tie Quecnsberry, in an indenture between Wil- liam Douglas, Lord of Drumlanrig, and William Douglas, Lord of Leswalt, in the year 1427-
i Mr Simpson's Account of the House of Drumlanrig.
m Ibid. n Ibid. o Ibid:
P Mr Thomson's Hist. Collections.
s Charta penes Ducem de Queensberry.
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Thirdj George, of whom the branch of Pinzire, ^ Fourth, John, vicar of Kirkonnel. ' Likewise several daughters j
Margaret, married to John Lord Cathcart, * and had issue. Elizabeth, to John Campbell, son and heir apparent of James Campbell, " of Wester Loudoun.
Janet, first to William Lord Somerville, and secondly to Alex- ander Gordon, at that time son and heir apparent of John Gordon, of Lochinvar,^ ancestor to the Viscounts of Kenmure.
Which James, fifth Lord of Drumlanrlg, in 14/0, married Janet, daughter of David Scot, of Buchleugh, > by whom he had William his successor, and a daughter, Janet, married to Roger Grierson, of Lag, and dying in 1408, ^ was succeeded by
William, his son, sixth Lord of Drumlanrlg, who did not long survive his father, for he lost his life with King James IV. and the flower of the kingdom, at the fatal battle of Flowdoun . September Qih, 1513,^ leaving issue by Elizabeth his wite> daughter of Sir John Gordon, of Lochinvar, First, James, his successor.
Second, Robert, Provost of Lincluden, of whom the branch of the Douglases of Barfurd, ^ and two daughters ; Janet, married (o Robert Lord Maxwell J and Agnes, to Andrew Cunningham, of Kirkshaw.
Which James, seventh Lord of Drumlanrlg, was one of these loyal Barons who, in 1526, attempted to relieve King James V. from the Earl of Angus, who kept him in no other condi;ion than that of a prisoner ; but the attempt proving unsuccessful, he was obliged to take out a remission for it. During the war in the minority of Queen Mary, he behaved very loyally, for which the Duke of Chattlerault, the governor, confered the honour of knighthood on him; and in 1553, the Queen made him warden of the East Marches, with a full power of justiciary, on the sur- render of Sir John Maxwell, of Tareaglts. '•' Which office he discharged with great wisdom and courage for many years there-
r Mr. Simpson's Account of the House of Oueensbcrry.
s Charta penes Doniinum Catlicurt ad annum 1497-
t Ibid. u Chaita penes Ducem de Oueensberry, ad Annum 1496.
X Chaita penes Dominum Cathcait.
y Charta penes Ducem de Qucensberry, ad annum 1470, Novcmb. fih.
z I find him then alive from tlie writs of tlie family.
a Charta penes Ducem de (2iicensbcrry.
^ lb. ctiamcliarta in Pub. Arch, ad annum i6ia. ' Ibid-
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after, even till his old age, tliat he resigned the otiice, which was thereupon given to Sir John Maxwell, Knight, He married, first, Margaret Douglas, '' daughter of George, master of Angus, by whom he had two daughters ; Janet, married to William Douglas, of Cashogle, '^ and again to John Charters, of Airxisficld ; and Margaret, to John Jerdan, of Applegirth. •" From this Lady Sir William was divorced, and thereafter, by a dispensation from the Pope's Legate, he was married again to Christian, s daughter of John, master of Eglintoun, son of Hugh, Earl of Eglintoun ; by her he had Sir William Douglas, of Hayick, who died before his father, and four daughters.
Margaret, married to Robert Lord Sanquhair, and again to William Earl of Menteth.
Helen, to Roger Grierson, of Lag, '' and had issue.
Janet, first to James Tweedie, of Drumlezer ; ' and after- ward to William Kerr, of Cesford, ^ ancestor to the Dukes of Roxburgh.
Christian, to Sir Alexander Stewart, of Garlies, ' ancestor to the Earl of Galloway, and had issue.
He lived to a great age, and died 1578.
Sir William Douglas, of Hayick, Sir James's son, though he died a young man, yet he gave many proofs of his prudence and courage in suppressing the English inroads, and the disorders com- mitted on the borders. When the war broke out in the reign of Queen Mary, he adhered to the interest of the young Prince, Kino- James VL with singular fidelity, was at the field of Langside, where he signalized his valour, and contributed very much to the overthrow of the Queen's party ; and he was so zealous in the cause, that afterward he commanded in that action betwixt Leith and Edinburgh, in 1572, where the Earl of Huntly, who maintained the Queen's authority, was worsted, and many of his adherents slain j and dying anno 1574, left issue by Margaret his wife, daughter of Jamts Gordon, of Lochinvar, "^ James, who succeeded his grandfather; likewise three daughters,
d Charta penes Ducem de Queensberry, ad annum 1530. e Ibid. Ibid.
2 He got a charter under the great seal, Jacobo Douglas de Drumlanrig ft Christiana Montgomery ejus sponsor, of several lands in Dumfrieshtre, October 30th, 1545.
h Charta penes Ducem de Queensberry, ad annum 1530.
i Ibid- ^ Ibid. 1 Ibid, etiam Charta in Pub. Arch.
«n Charta in Pub. Arch, etiam Charta penes Ducem de Queensberry.
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Margaret, married to Sir Robert Montgomery, of Skelmurly, Bart. " and had issue.
Janet, to Sir James Murray, of Cockpool, ° and had issue.
Christian, to Robert Dalziel, younger of that ilk, '' there- after Earl of Carnwath.
Sir James Douglas, of Drumlanrig, dying on the 27th of Sep- tember, 1578, 1 was immediately succeeded in his estate by his grandson
Sir James, eighth Lord of Drumlanrig , who being a person of great wisdom and prudence, was a very happy instrument in reconciling the discords among the nobility and the contending factions at court, which had rendered the reign of King James less pleasant to him, till his accession to the English crown. Sir James was no less wise than valiant, he having frequent occa- sions of exerting his courage and conduct in those unhappy fends and mutual incursions, which infested the south-west parts of the kingdom before the union of the crowns. He married Mar- garet, daughter of John Lord Fleming, sister to John, first Earl of Wigtoun, "■ by whom he had.
First, William, his successor, the first Earl of Queensbcrry.
Second, Sir James Douglas, of Mouswald.
Third, David Douglas, of Airdoch.
Fourth, George Douglas, of Pinzrie.
Likewise two daughters ; Janet, married to William Living- ston, of Jerwiswood, ancestor to Viscount Teviot 3 and Helen, to John Menzies, of Castlehill.
And departing this life October l6ih, l5l5, was succeeded bv^
Sir William, his son and heir, _first Earl of Queenslerry, who being a gentleman of great parts and singular prudence, was par- ticularly known and favoured by King James VL whom he had the honour to enteitain at his house of Drumlanrig, in his return into England, in the year iQlJ : nor was he less regarded by King Charles L who was graciously pleased to create him a Peer by the title oi Lord Viscount Drumlanrig, on the 1st of April, 162s ; ^ and further, for the greater splendor of his Majesty's co- ronation, he was by letters patent, bearing date June 13th, 1G33, raised to the honour of Earl of Quet'iislerry. ' He married Isabel, daughter of Mark, first Earl of Lothian, by whom he had
First, James, his successor.
n Charta in Pub. Arch ctiam Charta penes Ducein de Qiiecnsberrj*.
o Ibid. P Ibid. <l Ibid.
r Ibid. 5 Charta in Tub Arch. ' Ibid.
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Second, Sir William Douglas, of Killhead, created a Baronet 1608, ancestor of Sir Charles Douglas, of Killhead, Bart. Third, ArclMbail Douglas, of Dornock. Fourth, Robert, died unmarried.
And two daughters 5 Margaret, married to James Earl of Hartlield ; and Janet, to Thomas Lord Kircudbright .; and dying on JVIarch 8th, 1640, was succeeded by
James, his son, second Earl of Queensherry, who suffered much for his loyalty to King Charles L during the civil war; for when he was endeavouring to join the Marquis of Montrose, be- fore the battle of Philiphaugh, he was made prisoner, and after- wards fined in 120,000 merks, whicli he paid.
After the battle of Kelsyth, he thought to have joined Mon- trose; but the leading men of Glencairn, who bad raised a great force for the defence of the country, as they pretended, sur- prized him in the mean time, carried him prisoner to Carlisle antl there delivered him to the governor, who closely confined liim for some time. After he obtained his liberty, thinking to be even with the Glencairn men, he obtained from the King a grant of jurisdiction over their country, the amplest that could be be- stowed ; but that grant was taken from him by the parliament 1649.
In 1654, he was again condemned by Oliver Cromwell to pay 4000/. sterling as a new mulct, for his malignancy and rottenness of heart, according to the language of those times.
He married, first, Mary, daughter of James Marquis of Hamilton, by whom he had no issue ; and again Mar"-arer, daughter of John Earl of Traquair, Lord High Treasu'er of Scot- land, by whom he had.
First, William, his successor.
Second, Lieutenant-General James Douglas, who died at Namur in 169I, having married and had issue, which are nov/ extinct.
Third, John, killed at the siege of Treves 1675.
Fourth, Robert, killed at the siege of Maestricht 16/6.
Likewise five daughters ; first, Mary, married to Alexander Earl of Galloway; second, Catharine, to Sir James Douglas, of Kellhead, Bart, and had issue; third, Henrietta, to Sir Robert Grierson, of Lagg, and had issue ; fourth, Margaret, to Sir Alex- ander Jaidane, of Applcgirth, Bart, and had issue; and second!/, VOL. yiii, y
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to Sir DavidThoirsj fifth, Isabel, to Sir Wiiliam Lockliart, of Carstairs, Bart, and had issue.
And dying on the 15th of August 16/1, was succeeded by Wiliiam, his son, third Earl of Queensberry, who being a nobleman of very great parts, was in 166/ sworn of the privy- council to King Charles II, and thereafter, June 1st, l6S0, made Justice Genera], " on the removal of Sir George Mackenzie, of Tarbat J also his Majesty, as a testimony of his special favour, was pleased to create the Earl, Lord Douglas, of Kinmont, Middlebie, and Dornock, Viscount of Nith, Torthorald, and Ross; Earl of Drumlanrig and Sanquhar ; and Marquis ofQueenslerry, by letters patent, bearing date February 11th, -"^ lGS2, >' and in less than six months thereafter, upon some alterations in the ministry, the Marquis of Queensberry was preferred to be Lord High Trea- surer OF Scotland, and the Earl of Perth made Justice General in his room ; ^ likewise, in September thereafter, he was made constable and governor of Edinburgh castle, and one of the ex- traordinary Lords of the session. Finally, that no honour might be wanting which his Majesty could confer upon him, he was raised to the honour of Marquis of Dumfriesliire, and Duke of Queensberry, February 3d, l6S4 5 ^ about which time he was ad- mitted one of the lords of the privy-council for the kingdom of England.
As the Duke had been in great favour in the reign of King Charles II. he was no less so in the beginning of King James VII. who not only continued him in his former posts, but likewise made him Lord High Commissioner to represent his royal person in his first session of parliament \6S5 ; and the same year he, and James Lord Drumlanrig, his son, were constituted his Ma- jesty's lieutenants in the shires of Drumfriese and Wigtoun, and the Stewartries of Annandale and Kirkcudbright. In l6s6, the treasury being turned into commission, the Duke of Queensberry was made president of the council, but the measures that were
11 Charta in Pub. Arch, eti.un Charts penes Duccm de Queensberry.
X Ibidem, y In April following he obtained the King's manual to tlie Lord Ljon, King of Arms, ordering the double trcssure to be superadded to his armorial bearings, as it is in the royal achievement.
•'• Charta in Pub. Arch. May ist. 1682, making the Earl of Perth Justice General, and another making the Marquis of Queensberry Lord High Trea- surer, July 15th, iGyz-
a Charta penes Ducem de Queensberry.
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soon after taken at court, noi suiting with his temper and princi- ples, and for his not complying with the project of taking away the penal laws against popery, he was in six. months tliereafter deprived of all public employments, and thereafter lived prudently and cautiously" through the rest of that reign ^
His Grace married Isabel, daughter of William Marquis of Douglas, by whom he had,
irst, James, his son and heir.
Second, William, Earl of March; and,
Third, Lord George, a young nobleman of great hopes, who died in \QQo.
And a daughter Anne, married to David Earl of Weems.
Departing this lite at Edinburgh March 2Sth, iQQ5, he was with great funeral solemnity interred at the church of Duris- deer, with his ancestors, where there is a magnificent monument erected for him. '=
James, secojid Duke of Quecnslerry, his son and successor, was born on the 18th of December, iQQ'l; after he had gone through the course of his studies at the University of Glasgow, he went into foreign parts, to accomplish himself by travels, anno l6'80, and upon his return in 1684, was by King Charles II. made one of the privy-council, and lieutenant-colonel of a reg'- nient of horse commanded by Lieut. -General Graham, thereafter Viscount of Dundee ; and he continued in these posts till the year 1688, about which time he quitted them for ill usage at court, and upon the account of the disagreement of his princples with their measures.
The revolution then happening to come on, he appeared early in it, and was by the Prince of Orange, upon his acceptance of
a He rebuilt his finecastlethere, which with its gardens, afterwards higlily improved and finished, yielded to none in Scotland for stateliness and elegance» He also greatly improved his estate, which had been much impaired by the loyalty and sufferings of his father and grandfather, and the iniquities of those unhappy times. Douglas, p. 566.
b He seems, by Burnet's account, to have been a man of despotic priji- ciples, inclined to go into all King James's violences, except in religion, 10 which he was so steady, as to have incurred great dangers, and at one time disgrace. Editor.
<^ " Two great men,'' says Burnet, " died this winter; tlie Dukes of Hamilton and Queensberry: they were brolhers-in-law, and had been long great friends ; but they became irreconcilcable enemies. The lirst had more application, but the other had the greater genius. They were incompatible with each other, and indeed with all other persons j for each loved to be ab- solute, and direct every thing." Editor,
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the government, made colonel of the Scots horse guards, and at the same time one of the privy-council, and one of the gentlemen of his Majesty's bed-chamber.
In 1690, King William sent him into Scotland, to command a separate body of troops under lieutenant-general Mackay ; two years after, he was made one of the lords of the treasury ; and in the parliament 1693, he was authorized to sit and vote as Lord High Treasurer, for his father being then alive, and he not a peer, he could not otherwise sit, but as an oflicer of state, which de- pends on the sovereign's nomination.
The Duke, his father, departing this life as aforesaid in 16Q5, he laid aside all thoughts of military employments, quitted the command of the guards, and was thereupon made Lord Privy Seal, and one of the extraordinary lords of the session.
His Majesty in 1/00 was pleased to make him Lord High Commissioner to represent his royal person in parliament, where he held two sessions by virtue of two distinct patents j and upon his return to court, his Majesty, on June 8th, 17OJ , was pleased to honour the Duke with a distinguishing mark of his royal favour, for that evening, a chapter being held of the most noble Order of the Garter at Kensington, where the sovereign was present, the Duke was then elected a companion of the order, and installed at Windsor the 10th of July thereafter. His Grace having served King William as long as he lived with great lidelity, her Majesty Queen Anne, upon her accession to the throne, first made him secretary of state ; and entertaining the same just sentiments of his ability and conduct, appointed him to be her commissioner to re- present her royal person in that session of parliament which met at Edinburgh, the pth of June, 1/02 ; but the legality of that session meeting with great opposition from a strong party in the parliament, who declared openly that they did not conceive them- selves warranted to meet and act in that session aija parliament, "^ and therefore did not only dissent from any thing that should be done or acted therein, but withdrew, and removed from their at- tendance : wherefore her Majesty, to quiet the minds of her peo- ple, was pleased to order the Duke to prorogue the parliament, which his Grace did, and thereupon set out for London ; where he was soon thereafter appointed one of the commissioners upon the part of Scotland, for treating of an union betwixt both nations 3
d The Duke of Hamilton presented a pajcr, which contained the reasons of his dissent, wliich may be seen at large in the History of Europe, and the Memoirs of Scotland ; but it is foreign tojny pvirposc to insert it here.
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but though the commissioners of the respective kingdoms met several times, and settled preliminaries on both sides ; yet upon a more mature deliberation, the court concluded that it was not a fit season to promote that business, but to suspend the further prosecution of it until a more favourable conjuncture. The former parliament being dissolved, it was necessary another should be called, as had been usual at the entrance of all sovereigns to the crown ; and therefore her Majesty issued out writs for the calling of a new parliament, which met according to summons upon the 6th of iVIay 1703, to which the Queen was pleased to honour the Duke of Queensberry, by appointing his Grace to re- present her royal person, as lord high commissioner. The parlia- ment being opened with great solemnity, they began cheerfully in passing an act, recognizing her Majesty's title to the crown j but that unanimity did not long continue among them ; for a very strong party in the pnrliament having brought in and carried an act for the security of the kingdom, presented it to the lord commissioner, for the royal assent ; but the act of security being transmitted to the court, the English ministry were so wholly averse to it, and the country party in the parliament of Scotland as strenuously insisting to have it pass, all the Duke could well do in such a conjuncture, was to keep it off till he should receive in- tructions from above; which he did with the utmost dexterity, till her Majesty having declared that some difficulties having fallen in in that affair, so much pressed, she would take time to consider them before she could be determined to give the royal approba- tion ; and therefore ordered the lord high commissioner to adjourn the parliament on the l6th of September, after they had sat full three months, which the Lord Chancellor did in the usual forms.
How great soever these services of the Duke's were esteemed to be for a time, yet it is certain, that in less than a year there- after, upon a change of some measures at court, his Grace was removed from all public employments, except that of one of the extraordinary lords of the session, which was for life, and of which he could not be deprived. ^
But upon another change at court, in 1/05, ^ when the Duke of Argyle was declared commissioner for holding the session of parliament that year, the Duke of Queensberry was made lord privy-seal in place of the Earl of Rothes, and one of the commis-
e See Burnet's Hist Own Times. ^ He was brought in again for the putpor.e of carrying the union. See Burnet,
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sioners of the treasury. It is foreign to my design to assign the reasons here of the change that was found in the disposition of the English ministry, in reference to the act of security, which had passed in the parliament 1704, from what it had been in the ses- sion before, wherein the Duke preceded as lord high commis- sioner. However^ the fore-mentioned act of security put the English ministry under a necessity of effecting the union of the two kingdoms; and in order thereto, her Majesty being em- powered by the parliament in 1705, did nominate and appoint commissioners to treat with those of England, for uniting the two kingdoms, of which number the Duke of Queensberry the lord privy seal was one.
The commissioners of both kingdoms having accordingly met at London on the 16th of April, 1706, the preliminaries were easily agreed to on the 24th. The two succeeding months were taken up in carrying on the treaty, and being much forwarded by her Majesty's royal presence and recommendation to bring it to a conclusion, the articles were completed and signed on the 22d of July thereafter.
Though the treaty of union was concluded by the respective commissioners of Scotland and England, yet it behoved to be ap- proved and contirmed by both parliaments before it could be per- fected ; and the parliament of Scotland being to meet for that end the (5th of October, the Duke of Queensberry was pitched on as the fittest person to be her Majesty's commissioner to bring that great affair about in parliament.
So difficult and nice a work as incorporating the two king- doms, could not be effected without very considerable opposition, both from within doors and without; but his Grace being sup- ported by her Majesty's authority, and a full and hearty concur- rence of a majority in the parliament, (who were well affected to the union) went on vigorously in the prosecution of his duty, and with so much dispatch, that the whole treaty was enacted and ra- tified on the lOth of January, 1707, by the lord commissioner, by the touch of the royal scepter, in the usual manner.
The Duke of Queensberry having thus concluded the union, and surmounted all the dithculties he met in his way to complete it, in April thereafter set out for London, where he found that gracious reception from the Queen which his eminent services had deserved : and it was but very just that he who had expended so much of his time in the public service, should have some suitable compensation; and therefore the Queen gave him the compli-
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ment of a pension of 3000/. per ann. out of tlic post office. Her Majesty's goodness and bounty did not stop here, seeing she was pleased, in May, 17O8, to create him a peer of Great Britain, by the titles of Baron Rippon, MARauis of Bevkrly, and Duke OF Dover ; which honours were to descend to the Earl ofSollo- iL<ay, his second son.
The Queen continuing still her royal favours to his Grace* was pleased, on the 91 h of February, 1709> to declare in council, that by reason of the increase of the public business, she thought fit to appoint a third Secretary of State of Great Britain, and having named the Duke of Queensberry the person, he was thereupon sworn into the office, which he enjoyed till his death, Jul}"- Oth, 1711, after a short indisposition, which the physicians call the iliac passion.
He married, December 1st, 168.5, the Lady Mary Boyle, daughter of Charles Lord Clifford, son of Richard Earl of Burling- ton and Cork, and by her, who died in London October 2d, 1709, be had.
First, William, born at Edinburgh May ISth, l6y6, and died seven months after.
Second, James, born in London November 12th, IGgj , who was of an infirm constitution both of body and mind.
Third, Charles, who succeeded to the honours.
Fourth, Lord George, born in London February 20th, l/OJ, died at Paris, aet. twenty-four.
Fifth, Lady Isabel, died unmarried.
Sixth, Lady Jane, married, 1720, to Francis, DukeofBuc- cleugh, and had issue.
Seventh, Lady Anne, married, 1733, the Hon. William Finch, and died 17-^1 > s. p.
Charles, second son, succeeded as third Duke of Queensleiry, and SECOND Duke of Dover. He was born at Edinburgh No- vember 24th, 1698, and in 1707> was created Earl of Soloway, Viscount Tilers, &c. In 1717* ^^ set out on his travels 3 and after passing through France, arrived the beginning of November that year at Venice, which he left the last of Februaiy 1717-I8, intending to go to Rome on his return to England.
When he came of age, he claimed his seat in the English house of peers as Duke of Dover 3 but the house of lords then construed the articles of union to restrain the King from conferring an English peerage on a Scotch peer 3 a construction which has only been reversed in the middle of the present reign.
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On May 3 1 st, ] 726, his Grace was sworn of the privy-counci] ; on June 25th, 1/25, was appointed a lord of the bed-chamber; and on December 11th, 17'^7> W'^s made vice-admiral of Scotland, In April, 1748, his Grace accepted of the situation of gentleman of the bed-chamber to Frederick, Prince of Wales, He was after- wards appointed lord keeper of the great seal for Scotland j and in 1762, on the death of the Marquis of Tweedale, constituted lord justice general of Scotland.
His grace married, on March 20th, 1719-20, the Lady Cathe- rine Hyde, s second daughter and coheir of Henry Hyde, Earl of Rochester, and by her had issue two sons.
First, Henry, Martinis of Beverley, born October 30th, 1722, ■who betook himself to a military life, and served two campaigns under the Earl of Stair, in which he distinguished himself at the siege of Coni. He afterwards got the command of a regiment in the service of the States of Holland. Jleturning home, he mar- ried, July, 1754, Lady Eliz:ibeth Hope, daughter of John Earl of Hopetoun^ but on his journey from Scotland to England, October 19th following, having left his carriage, and mounted his horsr, his pistol, which he had drawn from his holsters, to tire among some rooks, discharged Itself as he cocked it, and shot him dead, to the inexpressible grief of his parents. His Lady died in April 1756, without issue.
Second, Charles, Marquis of Beverhj, born July 27th, 172G, was member of parliament for the county of Dumfries in Scot- land, 1747, &c. But going to Lisbon for his health, died there unmarried in October, 1750.
The Duchess died in 1777:. a"d the Duke dying without issue, October 22d, 1 778? was succeeded in his Scotch honours, by his cousin, James, third Earl of March, who became ybwr/A Duke of Queensbcrry, grandson of William Douglas, Earl of March, younger son of William, first Duke of Queensberry.
Which Lord William Douglas, being in great favour witli King William, was created Ear/ of March, and Lord Doug/as of Niedpath, Lyne, and Mannerhead, by patent dated April 20th, 1697. He died 1705, leaving by Lady Jane Hay, daughter of John, Marquis of Tweedale, three sons and three daughters, viz.
First, William.
Second, John Douglas, of Broughton, Esq, member of parlia- ment for Tweedale, died s. p.
^ The patroness of Gayi and celebrated by Prior.
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Third, James Douglas, of Stow, Esq. died s. p.
Fourlh, Lady Isabel 5 fifth. Lady Mary ; sixth, Lady Jane.
He died 1/05, and was succeeded by his eldest son,
William, second Earl of March, who married Lady Anne Hamilton, eldest daughter of John, Earl of Selkirk and Ruglen, by whom he had issue
James, third Earl of March, born 1/2.5, who in 1/78 became fourth Duke of Queenslerry, and was created a British peer by the title of Loud Douglas of Ambresbury, in Wiltshire, Aug. 8th, 17S8. His Grace was many years lord of the bed-chamber to his present Majesty.
Titles. James Douglas, l^ord Douglas of Ambresbury, Duke and Earl of Queensberry, IVIarquis of Dumfries, Earl of Drum- lanrig and Sanquhar, Earl of ^larch. Viscount Nith, Drumlanrig, Torthorald, and Ross; Lord Donglas of Hawick and Tibbers; Lord Douglas of Kilmount, Middleby, and Dornock ; and Enron Douglas of Niedpath, Lyne, and Mannerhead.
Creatio7is. Baron Donglas of Ambresbury, in Wilts, August 8th, 17S8 : also the following Scotch honours5 Duke of Queens- berry and Marquis of Dumfries, February l]th 1682; Earl of Queensberry, June J3th, 1(333; Lord Douglas of Hawick and Tibbers, and Viscount Drumlanrig, April 1, 1(328; Lord Douglas of Kilmount, Middleby, and Dornock, Viscount Nith, Drum- lanrig, Torthorald and Ross; Earl of Drumlanrig and Sanquhar, and Marquis of Queensberry, February 11th, 1(J82; Earl of March j and Lord Douglas of Niedpath, Lyne, and MannerJiead, April 20th, l(i97.
Arvis. Quarterly, first and fourth. Argent, a heart Gules, imperially crowned proper; second and third. Azure, a bend Or, all within a bordure.
Supporters. Two Pegasuse?, or flying horses, Argent, their manes, wings, tails, and hoofs. Or.
Crest. On a wreath, a heart, as in the coat, between two wings expanded. Or. Motto. Forward,
Chief Seats. Drumlanrig, in the county of Dumfries ; Am- bresbury, Wilts ; and Richmond, Surry.
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PEERAGE OF ENGLAND.
BERESFORD, LORD TYRONE.
{MJRQUIS OF WATERFORD IN IRELAND.)
This ancient family of Beresford hath flourished for many cen- turies in the counties of Stafford, Warwick and Leicester, and in former times wrote their name Bereford ; being originally of Beresford in the parish of Alstonfield in the first mentioned county, whence spreading into those of Derby, Nottingham, Kent, Lincoln, and city of London, a branch of the Kentish line re- moved into Ireland, and was advanced to the honourable degree of Baronet of that kingdom, in the person of Sir Tristram Beres- ford, and to those of Baron, Viscount, and Earl, in his great grandson Sir Marcus Beresford, Earl of Tyrone.
His Lordship's descent was directly derived from John de Beres- ford, who vi?as seized of the manor of Beresford (in old deeds sometimes wrote Bereford) in the county of Stafford, October 4th, 103/ (I Will. Rufus) and therein was succeeded by his son,
Hugh, who had issue
Aden de Beresford, the father of
John, who had two sons, Hugh, and William who had an only daughter Julian.
Hugh, who succeeded, was living J4 Henry IH. 1249, ^^^^ was father of
John Beresford, living in the time of Edward L whose son
Aden was Lord of Beresford in the county of Stafford, in 8, iQ, and IJ Edward IL and his son
John was lord thereof 18 and 21 Edward IIL and had three sons, Jolm his heir 3 Richard, living y liich. IL who kft no issQe; and Adeii.
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John, the eldest son, lived in the reigns of Edward III. and Richard II. and had issue
John Beicsford, of Beresford, who in 1411, 13 Hen. IV. gave to his son Aden all his estate in Alstonlield, together with the office of one of the foresters of Malbonfrith Forest with Houseboote, Heyboote, and common of pasture there for thirteeo cows and a bull, thirteen mares and a horse, and for thirteen sows and a boar, to hold to him and his heirs, at the rent of two-pence. The wife of this John Beresford was named Cicely, and by her he had two sons, John, and the said Aden, who died childless.
John Beresford, Esq. in 1 Edw. IV, granted all his lands in the counties of Stnflbrd and Derby, to John, Lord Audley, and other trustees ; and in \46g (10 Edw. IV.) he had a release froni John Pole of eighteen-pence a year rent, issuing out a tenement in Wolscoate; and in 1474 settled an estate on his son John, and Margaret his wife upon iheir marriage. The year after this he died, and having married Elizabeth, daughter of William Basset, Esq. of Blore in the county of Staftbrd, had four sons.
First, John, his heir.
Second, Thomas, ancestor to Lord Tyrone.
Third, Llenry ; and.
Fourth, William, who both died childless,
John Beresford, Esq. Lord of Beresford, the eldest son, mar- ried Maro-aret, daughter of Robert Davenport, of Broomhall in Cheshire, Esq. by his wife Joan, daughter of Lawrence Fitton, of Gawseworth, Esq. and had John his heir ; and Cicely married in 1506, (21 Hen. VII.) to Thomas Broughton, of Rugeley in the county ofStat^brd, Esq.; John, who succeeded at Beresford, was also of Enston in that county, where he lived from 1 Rich. IIL to 27 Hen. VIII. and in 1483, married Elizabeth, daughter of Hugh Erdeswiek, of Sandon in Staffordshire, Esq. who died in J463, by his wife Cicely, daughter of William Basset, of Blore, and had issue Robert} John, who died unmarried ; and a daughter mar-
j-ied to Noel, of Hilcot in Statlbrdshire. Robert, the
eldest son, married Mary, daughter of John Barbour, of Flasbrook, Gent. ^ by whom he had Sampson Beresford, living at Beresford and Enstnn in the reigns of Henry VIII, and Eliz. and marrying Anne, daughter of John Morgan, of Comberton in Worcestershire, had five sons and two daughters; Edward, Walter, John, George, Robert; Mary, married to Thomis Dixwell of Whiltinglon ; <ii-d
a Seeart.of Lord Berwick, p 3c, 36.
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Catherine, to George Lee, of Mayfield, otherwise Mathfield, both in the county of Stafford. Edward, who succeeded, married Do- rothy, d.iughter of Aden Beresford, of Fenny Bentley in Derby- shire, and dying June 6th, l620, had an only daughter and heir, OUve, born in ISpi, and married to Sir John Stanhope, of Elvas- ton, ^ half brother to Philip, the lirst Earl of Chesterfield, to whom she was first wife ; she died Jan. 2y, l6l4, and had an only child, Olive, married to Charles Cotton, <= of London, Esq. (son of Sir George Cotton) mother by hira of Charles Cotton,'^ of Beresford, Esq. born in 1(J30, who married, first, Isabella, daughter of Sir Thomas Hutchinson, of Outhorp *-" in the county of Nottingham ; and secondly Mary, daughter of Sir William Russel, of Strensham court in Worcestershire, widow of Wingfield Cromwell, Earl of Ardglass, by whom he had no issue ; but by the first had Beres- ford Cotton his heir, born in l65S, and a daughter married to Dean Stanhope, &c.
We now return to Thomas, second son of John, Lord of Be- resford and Enston, ancestor to the Lord Tyrone, ile was seated at Newton, otherwise Newton-Grange, and Bentley in the county of Derby, in the reigns of Henry VI. and Edward IV. j the former of whom he served in the French wars, and is reported to have mustered a troop of horse of his sons, with his and their servants, at Chesterfield. He lies buried in the church of Fenny Bentley, under a fair alabaster monument, with this inscription;
Here lieth the corps of Thomas BiiREsroRD, Esq. the son of John Beresford, late Lord of Bekesford in the county of Stafford, Esq. and Agnes his wife, the daughter and heir of Piobert Flassal in the county of Chester, Esq. who had issue sixteen son:> and five daughters. Thomas departed this life the 23d of March 14/3, and Agnes departed this life the l6lh of March 1467- Here also lieth Hugh, third son of Thomas and Agnes.
b Sir Joiin Stanhope, by his second wife Mary, daughter of Sir John Rat- cliffb of Oatsal in Lancashire, Knight, was great grandfather to William, Earl of Harrington, sworn L. L- of Ireland, September 13th, 1747.
c For wliose character sec Lord Clarendon's Life, and Cens. Lit- vol. ix. p. 340.
<i Charles Cotton the poet. See Hawkins's edition of Walton's and Cotton's Angler, and Topographer, vol iii. See also Chalmers's Edition of British Poets. <: Ste Life of Col. Hutchinson, lately publisheil ; and art Byron, vol vii.
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On the side of the Tomb; Qiiem tegit hoc Marmor, si forte requiris. Amice,
Nobile Beresford tu tibi Nomen habes. Luce Patrum claras, proprio sed Lumine major,
De gemina merito Nomina Luce capit. Largus, Doctus, Amans, aiuit, coluit, recreavit
Miisas, Jus, Vinctos, Sumptibus, Arte, Domo^ Militia excellens, strenuus Dux, fortis et audax,
Francia testatur, Curia testis Agens.
On the other side of the Tomb : Nunc j:icet in tumulo resolutus Pulvis in isto
Lutimi, Bulla, Fumus, Pulvis et Umbra sumus. Dum loquimur, morimur j subito vanescimus omnes;
Si sapiens homo sis, disce, Memento Mori.
Upon the pulpit :
Vivere qnisque diu cupit,
sed bene nemo, ast bene quisque
potest vivere, nemo diu.
His said wife Agnes, was daughter and heir to Robert Hassal, of Arcluyd in Cheshire, Esq. whose coat armour of Parti per Chevron Argent and Or, three Pheons Sable, a Crescent for Dif- ference, is quartered by the Earl of Tyrone : and their said sixteen sons and live daughters were
First, Aden Beresford, Esq. Lord of Bentley and Bircham, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Roger Eyre, of Home, or Keyton, in the county of Nottingham, and had two sons and one daughter, George; Humphry, who died childless; and Anne, married to William Hcywood, of Stonylowin Statfordshire, Gent. George, who succeeded, married Benedicta, daughter of Humphrey (or Roger) Bradborne, of Hoghe in Derbyshire, Esq, and had William, who left no issue; and Aden Beresford, of Fenny Bentley, Esq. who made his will in ]. '59s, and by Ursula, daughter of Thomas Rolleston, of Lea, Gent, had seven sons, who all died without issue, and six daughters his coheirs, viz. Elizabeth, (first married to Humphry Barlow, of Stoke, Esq. who dying July 10, 13/0, left an only child, LTrsula ; and she married, secondly, Richard Parkyns, of Bunny in the county of Nottingham, Esq. counsellor at law, recorder of Leicester and Nottingham, and by
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him, who died July 3d, l603, was great grandmother to Sir Thomas Parkyns, created a Baronet May 18th, 168I, (ancestor of
Lord RanclifFe) ; Anne, married to Sellers, of Criche in
Derbyshire ; Maud, to Whitehall j Mary, to
Ben tley, of Hungry Bentleyj Dorothy, to Edward Beresford, of Beresford, Esq. ; and Hellen, to John Whitehall, of Yeldersley in Derbyshire, Gent, living in 161 1 .
Second, Thomas Beresford, of Newton, who married Margaret, daughter and heir to Roger Wolgattethorp, and died childless be- fore 1512.
Third, John, of Bradley-Ash in the parish of Bentley.
Fourth, Hugh, died unmarried.
Fifth, Hugh, also of Newton, having the manor house and better moiety of the manor of Newton-Grange by gift from his father, and lies buried in the church of Fenny-Bentley, with an inscription upon the South wall, expressing that he died in 15l6, that his son Lawrence died in 15/7, and his grandson in XQOJ ; concluding thus.
No Epitaph needs make the just man fam'd. The good are prais'd, when they be only nam'd.
His wife was Agnes, daughter of John Longston, of Longston in Derbyshire, and he was ancestor to the Beresfords of Newton, Ahlonfield, Duffield, and Radlorne m Derbyshire ; of Ca/vercroJ}, and Gnrrington in Leicestershire ; of Stately in JFarwickshire ; and of Mayfield and Cank in Staffordshire.
Sixth, Robert, of Hillesdale in Staffordshire, who by Joan, danc'hter of Thomas Cantrell, was progenitor of the family there, and of Alsop in Derbyshire, both which terminated in heirs ge- neral.
Seventh, Humphry, of Newton- Grange, (by some called the second son) ancestor to Lord Tyrone.
Eighth, Edward, seated at Barnbough in Yorkshire, 12 Hen. Vin. in the 15th of which reign he was reader of Gray's Inn, and married Joan, only child of Pierce Clotton, Esq.
Ninth, Denys, of Cutthorpe in the county of Derby, whose posterity settled at Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire.
Tenth, RaufF, died young.
Eleventh, Roger, sheriff' and alderman of London 5 Hen. MIL whom Fuller, in his IFbrthies, makes to use Sab/e, three Bears Sallant, Or, for his coat armour. He left no issue.
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Twelfthj Rauff, who married Emma, daughter of Williani Elton.
Thirteenth, WilHam, who by Alice, daughter of Thomas Parker, had two sons, viz. Denys, of Beresford, of Cutthorpe, and Birchover in Derbyshire, who left no issue 3 and Christopher, of Long Ledenham, in the county of Lincoln, who died October 12th, 15yO, and was there buried, having issue by Bridget,
daughter of Needham of the county of Derby, five sons,
viz. William, (who by his second wife, Winifred, daughter of Sir Bryan Lascelles, of Gateford in Nottinghamshire, Knight, was ancestor to the family of Long Ledenham) ; Francis, of Rowston,
who mirried Prudence, daughter of Thornhill, of Oustoii
in the Isle of Axholme, Lincolnshire, and was progenitor of the families at Rowston, and at Fulbeck in the said county ; George ; John, rector of Scopwick in Lincolnshire : and Edward.
Fourteenth, Lawrence, of Lea Hall, who married Anne, daughter of Thomas Cockaine, of Lea, and died childless before 11 Hen.VflL
Fifteenth, Godfrey,
Sixteenth, James Beresford, LL. D. canon residentiary, and prebendary of Frees in the cathedral of Litchfield, (where he lies buried) and founder, August 20th, 1512, of Beresford's chantry in the church of Fenny Bentle)\ He was also vicar of Chester- field and Worksworth ; and founded two fellowships and two scholarships in St. John's college, Cambridge, February 12t!i, 11 Hen. VIIL to be called Beresford's fel/ou's and scholars, fur whose maintenance he gave 400/. to the college, wherewith they purchased lands, then of 20/. a year, and the seal to this grant was a Bear Satiant.
First daughter, Alice, was married to John Shalcross, of Shal- cross in Derbyshire, Esq.
Second, Agnes, to Ralph Walker, of Castern in Staffordshire, Esq.
Third, Joan, died unmarried.
Fourth, Cicdy, married to Thomas, son and heir to Roger Chetwoode, of Oakley in Stafl:ordshire, andhad Roger Chetwoode, of Warleston, who died 2/ Hen. VUL
Fifth, Johanna, to William Fcrne, of Parwich in Derbyshire, Esq.
Humphry Beresford, of Xeu'ton Grange, Esq. seventh son, ancestor to Lord Tyrone, married Margery, daughter of Edniond Berdesley, or Bereslcy, and had two son>, viz.
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First, John, who in 1505, married EHzabeth, daughter of Robert Fitz-Herbert, of Tissington in Derbyshire, and had an only child Agnes, married to George Fitz-Herbert, Esq. of the same place.
Second, George, who succeeding to the estate, lived at Newton Grange, was steward of the town of Nottingham ; and by Helen, or Eleanor, daughter of Thomas Greene, of Sussex, Esq. had two sons and three daughters, viz. First, Michael, his heir.
Second, Nicholas, of Kenton in the county of Nottingham, who married Rose, daughter of John Fitz- William, Esq. and had seven sons ; George, born in 1540, ancestor to the family at Kenton ; Richard, Thurstan, James, Thomas, Benedict, and Francis.
Daughter Anne, married to John Savage, Esq. and had a son. Sir Arthur.
Grace, to John Neclam, of Caswick in Lincolnshire, Mary, to John Rowe, of Uffington in the same county, Esq, and she dying July 24th, 1576, left Sir Francis Rowe, Knight.
Michael Beresford, Esq. the elder son, was a?i officer in the court of wards, and seated at Otfordand the Squirres'^ in the parish of JVestram in Kent, where he was living in 15/4; and marrying Rose, daughter of John Knevitt of the same county, had seven sons and four daghters viz.
First, George, who succeeded at Squirres, and by Elizabeth, daughter of Randle Cam, citizen of London, was ancestor to the family of that place.
Second, Richard, of Ashburnham in Sussex, who married the daughter of Sir Edward Pelham, Knight, and left issue, Henry his |ieir and six other children.
Third, l'ristram,//'o?u wliom the Lord Tyrone derives. Fourth, James, died childless.
Fifth, Thomas, D. D, and vicar of St. Sepulchre's, London, who by Sarah, daughter of Rev. Dr. Withers, left William hi^ heir, and other children.
Sixth, Cornelius, of Chilham in Kent, who married, iirst, Eli- zabeth, daughter of Thomas Sulyard, of Delaware in that county, Esq. by whom he had one daughter Dorothy ; he married, se- condly, Dorothy, daughter of Edward Pctley, of Chelesficld, Esq, ^pd had issue ; Anne, married to her tlrst cousin, Thomas Beresi
•; Now the scat of John Wardc, Es(^.
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ford of Clifford's Inn, third son of the aforesaid George Bcrcsford of the Squirries, Esq. by whom she had Anne and Elizabeth} Elizabeth; and Rose).
Seventh, Henrv^ who died without issue. Daughter Bennet (was married to Sir Thomas Harfleet, alias Septuans, of Moland in Ash, com. Kent, Knight). Frances-, (to Robert Leigh, of Beckenham). Dorothy, (the first wife to Thomas Petley, of FiJson). Anne, (to Sir William Southland, of Lee^ near Canterbury, Knight, all in the county of Kent. He died May 1st, l638.)
Tristram Beresford, Esq. the third son, was born before the year 15/4, and coming into Ireland, as manager for the corpora-' tion of Londoners, known by the name of the society of the New Plantation in Ulster, at the time they made the plantation in the county of Derry, in the reign of James I. settled at Coleraine in the
county of Londonderry, having issue by the daughter of
Brooke, of London, two sons and three daughters, viz. First, Sir Tristram, his successor.
Second, Michael, of Dungarvan and of Coleraine, E.sq. who, November 2lst, l653, was constituted, with his brother, and others, commissioners in the precinct of Derry, for examining the delinquency of the Lish, in order to the distinguishing of their qualifications for transplantation ; and in l654he was sheriff of the counties of Deny, Donegall, and Tyrone, of which he was also a commissioner of the civil survey and revenue. He married Mary, daughter of Sir John Leake, Knight, and by his willj^ dated July 5th, l660, directed his body to be buried in the church of Coleraine, in his father's sepulchre, which was done accord- ingly ; and he had issue by her, who was buried at Temple Patrick in the county of Antrim, one son Tristram, who died young 3 and four daughters his coheirs, viz. Anne, married to Thomas Whyte, of Redhills in county of Cavan, Esq. ; •-' Olive, ^rst to Thornton, and secondly to Sir Oliver St. George,
a There is a memorial for them in the church of Ickham in Kent, in which parish the seat of Lee stands. Thomas, grandson of Sir William South- land, sold Lee in 1676 to Sir Faul Barrett, Serjeant at law, whose great great great grandson, Thomas Barrett Brydges, an Ensign in the first regiment of Foot-Guards, now owns it. See Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting, vol iv. p. 94; and Hasted's Kent, vol. iii. p 665.
b Prerog. Office.
c He was the son of Francis Whyte, Esq secretary to the L. D. Gran- dison, who died May 29th, 1622, by Dorcas, whom he married in 1618, and fjie re-married with George Edwards, of Dublin, £sq. one of her husbansd' yoL. VIII. G
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of Headford in Galway, Bart. ; "^ Elizabeth, to captain Robert
Shields i and to Arthur Upton, of Temple Patrick,
Esq.«
Thiidj a daughter Anne was tirst married to Sir Edward Dod- dington, and ^condly to Sir Francis Cooke, Knights, and was buried at Coleraine.
Fourth, Jane, to George Gary, of Redcastle in the county of Donegall (descended from the Carys, of Clonelly in Devonshire) and by him, who died April 22d, 1040, had five sons and four daughters, viz. Francis, of Redcastle, who married Avice, sister to Captain Henry Vaughan, and they both lie buried in the church of Redcastle, having had issue Francis ; Chichester, who died unmarried 3 William j Arthur, who died unmarried; Mar- garet; Avice; and Letitia : George; Edward, of Dungiven in the county of Derry, who died June 4th, l686, leaving issue Ed- ward; George; Tristram; Elizabeth; Mary; Anne; and Jane: Robert, of Whitecastle in the county of Donegall, who died in March l6Sl, leaving Robert; George; Edward; Tristram; William; Anne; Letitia, and Mary.
Fifth, Susannah, married to Ellis.
Sir Tkistram Beresford, of Coleraine, Knight, andjirst Ba- ronet, the eldest son, represented the county of Londonderry in the parliament of lO'Sl ; and King Charles IL taking into his princely consideration his faithful services and sufferings, and being desirous to place upon him and his posterity some mark of his royal favour, was pleased by privy-seal, dated at Whitehall
executors : she is mentioned in her brother Michael's will, by the description of Mrs. Susan Ellis, widow, third daughter of Sir Robert Newcomen, Knt. and Bart.; and his issue were three sons and three daughters; Francis; Michael, who died unmarried ; Thomas, killed at the battle of Aghram ; Mary, married to Alexander, son of Robert Saunderson, of Castle Saunderson in the county of Cavan, Esq ; Dorcas, to Paul, son of Sir Francis Gore, of Corstown in the county of Kilkenny, Esq.; and Dorothea, who died June jd, 1695. Francis, the eldest son, married Mary, daughter of Sir John Edgeworthe, of Lizard in the county of Longford, Knight, and had two daughters, Mary and Anne; and a son Thomas Whyte, of Redhills, Esq. who, January 26th, 1708, married Sarah, youngest daughter of James Napier, of Loughcrew in Mcalh, Esq. and deceasing January loth, ly^ij, left issue by her (who die<l January 16th, 1762, and was buried at Belturbet,) an only son Francis, of Redhills, Esq. ; and four daughters, Elizabeth, who was mar- ried to Marcus Smith ; Mary, to Edward Ellis, Esq. ; Sarah, to Essex Edge- worthe ; and Anne, January 3d, 1749, *o John White, of Rathgowan in tin county of Limerick, Esq. Decree in Chancery, 1627. Prcrog. Office, d Prerog. Office. e Of Lord Tcmpletown's family.
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March 24th, l6(54, and by patent at Dublin May 5th, iCC.J, to create him a Baronet J He departed this life January 15th, 1673, and 28th was buried at Coleraine, having married, first, Anne, eldest daughter of John Rowley, of Castleroe in thecountv ofDerry, Esq. by his M'ife Mary, daughter of Robert Gage, of Randes in the county of Northampton, Esq. by whom he had an only son Randal, and two daughters, Mury j and Elizabeth, who died unmarried, and was buried at Coleraine.
His second wife was Sarah, daughter of Sackville,
Esq. and by her he had three sons and three daughters.
First, Tristram.
Second, Michael, father of the Rev. Sackville Beresford, A.M. now deceased, and of a daughter Anne, married October 17th, 1747, to Thomas Taylor, Esq. Lord Mayor of the city of Dublin for the year 1/51.
Third, Sackville, who died unmarried before 1683.
Susanna, married to William Jackson, of Coleraine, Esq. and had a son William and other children j William married Eliza- beth Gorges, and had a numerous issue, one of whom, Elizabeth, married Captain Francis Howard, father of Gorges Edmond Howard, who, September 17th, 1743, married Arabella, eldest daughter of Captain Philip Parry, of Dublin, merchant, by whom he had two daughters, his coheirs, the elder married Mr. Hunter; and Catherine, the younger, married Captain Hamilton Gorges, third son of Richard, of Kilbrew in the county of Meath, Esq. he died June 21st, 1786.
Sarah, first to Paul Erasier, Esq. ; and secondly to Edward Cary, of Dungiven, Esq. and dying April 13th, 1(J83, she was buried at Coleraine.
And Anne, to Henry Flart, of Kllderry s in the county of Donegall, Esq.
Sir Randal Beresford, the second Baronet, was member for Coleraine in the first parliament after the restoration, and in July, 1662, ^ married Catharine, younger daughter of Sir Francis An- nesley, Lord Viscount Valentia (by his second wife Jane, si.ster to Philip, the first Earl of Chesterfield). He made his will October
f April 28th, 1662, he passed patent for a Thursday market, and two fairs, to be held May 14th and October 14th, at Ballymulley in tlie county of perry ; aod had three grants of lands under the Acts of Settlement. e, Information of Rev. William Chichester. i> Articles %, q, ]uly 16G2, 5000/. fortune.
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4th, 168I, proved June 2f5th, l632, and left to his lady, all his personal estate, for the payment of his debts, and maintenance and education of his children ; to whose care, tuition, and guar- dianship, he devised them 5 appointed his wife executrix, and the Earl of Anglesey, lord privy-seal, overseer, and to give his bust assistance in her affairs, and desired his acceptance of a ring, value 30/. ' he deceased in October l6"81, and was buried at St. Martin's in the Fields, London, having had issue by her, who died April 3d, 1/01, and was buried at St, Michan s, Dublin, three sons and two daughters, viz.
First, Arthur, who died young at Kensington near London, and is there buried.
Second, Sir Tristram,
Third, Francis, who died young at Ballykelly in the county of Derry, and lies buried there,
Jane, married to lieut. -general Frederic Hamilton, of Wal- worth in the county of Derry, "^ by whom she had no issue, and dying in I716, wns buried under a handsome monument at Wal- worth 5 where he was also buried,
Catherine, married in l6g7, to Matthew Pennefather, of Cashel in the county of Tipperary, Esq.' and died his widow in Dublin, March 21st, 1755.
i Prerog. Office.
^ He was member of parliament for Coleraine a privy counsellor, colonel of the royal regiment of foot, and died March 26th, 1732; having by his will, bearing date August 25th, 1731, devised his leases of the manor of Walworth and divers other lands, which he held from the fishmongers company, Lon- don, to his nephew Sir Marcus Beresford, Viscount Tyrone, and his assignees, ratifying and confirming such disposition as he had made thereof in his Lord- ship's marriage settlement, dated July 16th, 1717. He Iea\es his estate in the counties of Tipperary and Kildare to Frederic Cary, second son of his niece, Anne, daughter of his brother George Hamilton, Esq- and wife to Henry Cary, of Dungiven, Esq. and his heirs male, remainder to her younger sons and their heirs male, they respectively to take and use the surname of Hamilton ; remainder to Edward her eldest son, and his issue male and female, Sec- He bequeathed 50/. towards rebuilding the old ruinous church at Holy-Cross, in the county of Tipperary, with 350/. to be laid out at in- terest, or in purchasing lands, the annual produce thereof to be paid for ever to the clergyman, who performs the cure and service of the said church; and 30/. to the poor of the parish of Taunafinlagan in the county of Derry.
' He was lieutenant-colonel to General Sabine's regiment in Oueen Anne's wars, and at the first attack of the French in the battle of Oudcriarde, behaved with great gallantry, and received many wounds; so that returning to Ireland, lie was rewarded, June 3d, 1709, with the post of muster-master- general; and Dccgmber 23d, i7iti, appointed comptroller and accomptant.
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Sir Tbtstram Beresford, of Colcrainc, (he third Baronet, born in I669, was attainted May /th^ 1689, by King J^ames's par- liament, and commanded a regiment of foot in defence of the protestants, against the attacks of that King on their liberties and properties. March, 4th, 16qS, he made his will, and directed his body to be with all decency reposed in a vault, under his seat in the church of Coleraine, which he desired should be made for that purpose, according to the directions he laid down in his will; and that a small monument should be erected in the wall over his seat, in memory of him and his ancestors : he confirmed a rent charge of 500/, a year, formerly settled upon his wife, is- suing out of his estates of 1218/. a year, in the counties of Derry and Cavan, as also a provision of 2000/. for daughters portions, which with 2000/. more, (being two-parts of 3000/. which he allowed by his deed dated July l/th, 1008, to charge on his es- tate) he declared was in full restitution of all portion to his daughters, appropriating to his eldest daughter Suisanna Cathe- rine 1400/. to his second, Arabella Maria, gOO/. to his third, Jane, and to his fourth, Aramintha Olivia, 850/. apiece, and if any of them died before marriage, their portion to be equally divided between the survivors 5 provided for the payment of his debts; constituted his wife and her sister Arabella Susanna, Lady Matrij]^ after Lady Dungannon, and Sir John Magill, Bart, his joint ex- ecutors, leaving the sole guardianship, tuition and education of his children to them, as also the management of the estate during their minorities, and as a token of his affection to them, desired their acceptance of mourning, with twenty guineas to each for buying of rings; and lastly, the expences of his funeral, the build- ing the said vault and monument, not to exceed 300/., sterling, bequeathed 10/. to the poor house-keepers, and poor of the parish of Coleraine, and 5 1, to the poor inhabitants of the parish of Erragilkeragh, alias Ballinesaggard, "' and died June ]6th, 1701; He married, in February 1687, Nichola Sophia, youngest daughter and coheir to Hugh Hamilton, Baron of Glenawly ; " and by her
general of Ireland, which he held to his death, November 27th, 1733. H'S surviving issue were four daughters; Jane, married to William Palliser, of Rathfarnham, Esq.; Levina, who died unmarried May 14, 1734; Dorothea, married to William Williams, of Mount Williams in Meath, Esq. fwho kft her a widow January 6th, 1750, and she died August nth, 1755, leaving one flaughter) ; and Elizabeth, Countess of Antrim. m Prerog. Office ■ Sir Claud Hamilton, of Cochonogh in Scotland, Knt. had two sons,
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who re-married with lieutenant-general Richard Gorges, of Kil- brew in the county of Meath, had issue one son.
Sir Claud, of Castletoome in the county of Antrim, Knight, who left no sur- viving male issue; and Dr. Archibald Hamilton, made Archbishop of Cashel April 20th, 1G30, who being a great sufferer in the rebellion of 1641, to the amount of 9090/. and forced to fly for the safety of his life, retired into Sweden, and died at Stockholm in 1659, near eighty years old, having had several sons, of whom Hugh, the second, was created Baron of Lunge in Sweden; lived at Baljygally in the county of Tyrone, and was advanced March 2d, 1660, to the dignity of Lord Hamilton, Baron of Glenawly in the county of Fermanagh. He married Susanna, youngest daughter of Sir Wil- liam Balfour, of Mount- Whany and Pitcullo in Fifeshire, Knight. In lO-S he bequeathed the interest of 20/ for ever to the poor of the parish of Erigil- keroye, to be distributed by the minister and churchwardens, for tlie time being, * and dying at Ballygally in April 1679, was buried in the church there; having issue by her (who remarried with Henry Mervyn, ofTrelick. in Tyrone, Esq. died December nth, 1687, and was buried at St- Werburgh's) two sons and three daughters; William, Lord Glenawly, who died without
issue in February 1680; , who died young; Henrietta-Amelia,
buried at St. Petei''s, Dublin, September i6th, 1669 ; Arabella-Susanna, mar- ried July id, lOSj, to Sir John Magill, of Gill-hall in the county of Downe, Bart, and by him, who died in July 1701, had no surviving issue; and she married, secondly, Marcus, Viscount Dungannon, pursuant to deeds dated April 29th and 30th, 1700; and the said Nichola-Sophia, Lady Beresford, who, in April 1704, married, to her second husband, lieut. -general Richard Gorges, whose family, which hath been long seated at Kilbrew in the county of Meath, we shall thus delineate, and begin with Robert LL.D. who mar- ried Jane, daughter of Sir Arthur Loftus, Knight, and sister to Adam Vis- count Lisbourne, and had issue by her (who died in 1728, and was buried in her family vault in St. Patrick's cathedral, Dublin), two sons and two daughters; Richard, his heir; Robert, who died without issue; Dorothy, died unmarried ; and Elizabeth, married to William Jackson, of Colernine, and had issue. Richard Gorges, of Kilbrew, Esq. was baptized March 22d, 1662, and embracing a military life, became a lieutenant-general; in April 1704, he married, as before observed, to his tirst wife Nichola Sophia, relict of Sir Tristram Beresford, and by her, who died February 23d, I7i3,ar,d was buried in the Earl of Cork's tomb, in St. Patrick's, Dublin, had issue. He married, secondly, in December 1716, Dorothy, younger daughter of James Stopford, of Tarah-hill in Meath, Esq, and widow of Edward fourth Earl of Meath; she died without issue by him at Kilbrew, April 10th, 1728, and he deceasing on the 12th, they were interred at the same time in a chapel con- tiguous to the house of Kilbrew, under a magnificent tomb of white marble. His children were, Richard, of Kilbrew; Hamilton, of Catherine's Grove, county of Dublin, member of pailiamcnt for Swords in the same cou-ity, April 27th, 1734, he married Catherine, daughter of John Keating, Esq. and dying April 8th, 1786, left issue by her (who was born in 1705) an only son, Richard, educated in Brazen-Nosc-Collcge, Oxford, married, March 1st,
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Sir Marcus, Earl of Tyrone.
And four daughters, viz. Susanna-Catherina, born in London July lst/l68()j married to Hyacinth Richard Nugent, Lord Rivcr- ston, who died without issue March 8th, 1737, and she deceased March 30th, l/OSj Arabella-Maria, born in Dublin November Ist, 1690, died unmarried in 1732 ; Jane, born at Coleraine De- cember 23d, 1691, married in April 1711,° to Gorges Lowther, of Kilrue in the county of Meath, Esq. member of parliament for Ratoath, and dying October 20th, 1764, was interred at Ratoath j v and Aramintha Olivia, who died in 1729, unmarried.
1775, to the daughter and heir of Arthur Francis Meredith, of DoUardstown in the county of Meath, Esq. and was created a Baronet in 1787, by the name of Richard Gorges Meredith; Lucy, married first to William, former Lord Howth, and secondly, to Nicholas VVeldon, of Gravelmount in the county of Meath, Esq.; and Dorothy, to John, the first Lord Desart. Richard, of Kilbrew, member of parliament for Augher, as he was for Enniskillen, mar- ried Elizabeth, daughter of Fielding, of Dublin, Esq. and had four sons
and eight daughters, viz. Richard, who died lieutenant-colonel of Lord Drogheda's regiment of light dragoons; he, April 27th, 1755> married Ca- therine, younger daughter of Thomas Christmas, of Whitfield in the county of Waterford, Esq. and left one son, deceased; Joiin, deceased; Hamilton, of Kilbrew; Robert, D. D. vicar of Dunboyne and Kilbrew in Meath, which he resigned in 1768, for the rectory of Termonfeckan, and in 1789, was dean of Kilmacduagh; the daughters were Dorothy-Sophia, married, in 1748, to John Graham, of Flatten in the county of Meath, Esq. ; Jane ; Eliz- abeth, who died young; Catherine; Lucy; Susanna; Amelia, baptized Oc- tober 3d, 1737 ; and Elizabeth, baptized December ist, 1738. Hamilton, on the decease of his brothers, succeeded at Kilbrew ; he was baptized February Sth, 17391 was for sometime captain of foot, and April 6th, 1768, married Catherine, younger daughter and coheir to Gorges Edmond Howard, Esq. (who died in 17S6J, and by her who is deceased, has issue. Lodge's Collect, o Articles dated May 30th, 1711. P He left her a widow June nth, 1716, and had two sons and two daughters, viz. Gorges, his heir; Marcus, who in September 1743, married Catherine, sister and heir to Sir Edward Crofton, of Moate in the county of Roscommon, Bart, on whose decease he took the name of Crofton, and June 12th, 1758, was created a Baronet; daughter Copula-Beresford, born Feb. 23d, O. S. and died young; and Sophia Beresford, married fir^t, February 9th, 1726, to Rowley Hill, of Ballykelly in the county of Derry, Esq. chosen in January, 1733, burgess for Ratoath, who died in 1739. leaving issue, Hugh, born January ist, 1727-8; George, drowned at sea; Jane, born May 15th, 1733, married August 16th, 1753, to John Tew, of Culmullen in the county of Meath, Esq. who left her a widow September 0th following; Caiherine, baptized July 2d, 1734, and married in 1752 to Alexander Stewart, of Actow in the county of Antrim, Esq.; and Mary: secondly, to Samuel Moore, M. D. of Derry, and died in October 1746, leaving issue by him, who died in 1763, one daughter Sophia. Gorges Lowther, Esq. who succeeded at Kilrue, was born Novembei- jth, i7i3;he was sherift'of the county of Meath
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Sir Marcus Beresford, the fourth Baronet, first Eail of Ty- rone, baptized July 27th, \6gA, was left under the guardianship of Marcus Viscount Dungannon, and Arabella Susanna his wife, andj before he attained his full age, A'as chosen to parliament for the borough of Coleraine, which he continued to represent, until King George I. was pleased to advance him to the peerage by privy-seal, dated at St. James's June nth, and by patent 'i at Dublin November 4th I720, with the creation fee of twenty marcs, and September 25, IJ'll, he took his seat in the house of peers. ■■ To which honours King George II. added the superior
in i739« and chosen for the borough of Ratoath in the same year, and was many years representative for tlie county of Meath in parliament. On April 3d, 1758, he married Judith, daughter of John Usher, of Carrick in the county of Leitrim, Esq. by whom he had a son George, who married, July 28th, 1767, Frances, eldest daughter of Chambre Brabazon Ponsonby, of Ashgrovein the county of Kilkenny, Esq. and by her, who survived him, had several children; and a dau^jhier Sopliia, who became the second wife of William Irwine, of Castle Irwine in the county of Fermanagh, Esq. and had a numerous issue, the eldest of whom, Major Irwine, was married in 1 787, to Elizabeth Judge D'Arcy, only daughter and heir to Judge D' Arcy, of Grange-
begg. Esq who died in February 1760, 'by his wife , daughter of Eit-
ward Nugent, of Robinstown, county of Westmeath, Esq. whom he married in July 1765, and she survived him,] eldest son and heir to John D'Arcy of same place, by his wife Elizabeth Judge, Lodge.
q The Preamble. Quorum progenitores longa annorum serie insignia propter facinora ac virtutes inclaruerunt, fprout Beresfordiorum genus, ex quo in Brittanniam cum antccessore nostro Guiieimo primo penetrarunt) hos mcrito nostris honoribus dignari sequum existimamus. lllius prceclarcc gentis unus, nomine Tristram Beresford, Jacobo primo, quo in Abavo gloria- mur, regnum ineunte, in Hiberniam transiit, ubi multa in rem Anglicanam Provincia in Ultoniensi, nondum satis stabilitam, praeclare gessit. Hujus inde filius Tristram Beresford Eques, cui cohortis regimen erat commi sum, multa cum gloria, rebelles contra Protestantes anno niillessimo sexcentissimo qua- dragesimo primo immanitcr sievientes debellare congrcssus est, undo propter insignem in pra2lii3 virtutem, titulo Baronettidecoratus est. Pronepos Marcus Beresford Eques, majorum vcsligiis insequens, atque admodum juvenis, Par- liamento Hibernico, anno millesimo scpt'ngentesimo decimo tertio, nostrse regali familia;, blanditiarum nee non iiiinarum sccurus, summa magnanimi- tate et constantia adhaesit Cum paulo post horum justrium regnorum obti- nuissemus, quasi specimen favoris nostri, inter Rarones Hibernicos collocarc statuimus, verum, illo supplicante, honoris illius dilationem, petitionem ini- petravit, ex co tempore Comiti.s Tyroniensis unicam filiam in matrimonium duxit, hasrcdem ex Asse Gcntis antiquis.>ini£e, ncmpe de la-Powers, qui in Hiberniam cum progenitoie regali nostro Heiuico sccundo migraverunt, ex quo perpctuas ci latas posscssioncs, liabentes, midti fucrunt nominis ; digni- tatem, virtutibus ct prosapioe tarn nobili debitam, pra?s?rtim in virum tarn cgrcgium atque (k nobis tain bene nicrcntcm, ultciius dofcrre luud aequuni csiC Lxistimemus. Scialis igiiur, il-c. Rot. A . 7 Geo. I. i, i. '■ Lords' Jour. vol. ii. p. 69J.
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one of an Earl, creating his Lordship Earlof Tyrone ly privy-seal, bearing date at Kensington June 2()tii, and by patent^ July iSth, 17-16,' and October 8th, 174;, he took his seat by that title."
July idlh, 1717, his Lordship married the Lady Catherine Poer, daughter and heir to James, Earl of Tyrone, " Li February
s The Preamble. As it hath been the constant practice of our royal pre- decessors to reward virtue and advance merit, by conferring lionours and dig- nities upon such persons, as have entitled themselves to receive those favours, by their personal qualifications and public services; and, in particular, as our royal father, in consideration of the ancient extraction, eminent services, and distinguished loyalty of Sir Marcus Beresford, and of his marriage with the daughter and heir of the Ri^ht Hon. James De-la-Poer, Earl of Tyrone, did advance him from the degree of a Baronet, to the state and dignity of Baron Beresford, of Beresford, and Viscount of Tyrone: so we, equally studious to do justice to a persevering virtue, and demonstrate, by some signal testimony of our esteem, how acceptable it is to us, and how freely we are disposed to proportion our favours to the deserts of oursubjects ; haveon a full assurance, taken into our consideration how our said faithful and beloved Sir Marcus Beresford, Lord Viscount Tyrone, hath adorned his dignity by his conduct, and hath rendered himself worthy of an addition of honour by his inviolate attachment to our royal person and government ; his unatiected zeal for the established religion ; his strenuous support of the constitution and laws of his country, even in the most critical and hazardous times; his unbounded charity, and constant provision of work for numbers of poor; with many other qualities and virtues equally deserving our royal notice: these reasons readily induce us to confer the superior title and degree of an Earl on a person, so well qualified to receive, and withal, so well enabled to support the honour by an affluent fortune. Know ye therefore, Sec.
t Rot. Cane. 2o. Geo. II. 3a. p. Do. u Lord's Jour. vol. iii. p. (,6z-
X We shall here briefly deduce her ladyship's descent from Sir Roger La-Poer, (sometimes written Power,) who accompanied Richard Strongbow, Earl of Pembroke, in his expedition to Ireland, to reinstate Dermoid Mac- Murrough in his kingdom of Leinster, and after the success of that enterprize, assisted John de Courcy in his reduction of Ulster, for which services he was rewarded with divers lands. Cambrensis thus writes of him ; " If it might be said without offence, there was not one man, who did more valiant acts than Roger le Poer ; who, although he were but a young man and beardless, yet he shewed himself a lusty, valiant, and courageous gentleman, and who grew into such good credit, that he had the governm jnt of the country about Leighlin, as also in Ossory, where he was traitorously killed; on whose slaughter a conspiracy was formed among the Irish to destroy the English, and many castles were destroyed." He married the niece of Sir Amory St. Laurence, ancestor to the Earl of Howth, and was murtleicd in 118(3, leaving issue John Le Poer, living 1197, the father by Etheldrcda wlio was living in 1325,* of Matthew, the father of Sir Eustace, who sat in parliament in 1295,
♦ Mss. pedig. Trin. Coll. Dub. Class, f Tab- 4, Nj. i8.
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1743-4, Lady Tyrone gave 50/. towards the erecting of the hos- pital for incurables in Dublin ; put up ten beds for the use of the said hospital, and subscribed 50 /. a year for their support.
ofwhich pavHament Cox has given a list, * and in U97 (25 Edw. I.) the King sent to John Wogan, Lord Justice, commanding him to give summons to the nobles of Ireland, to prepare themselves with horse and armour to serve against the Scots, and v^'ithal wrote to the said nobles, and among others to //5i;V Sir Eustace. (Holling. p. 63. See the letter in Sir George Carew's col- lection, a manuscript in the Bodlean Library, vol. iii. p. 51, who quotes thus, Clausae, de anno, 23 Edw. I. M. 14, in scedula pendente, and there is also in the same book and page, another letter, from the same King to his nobles, and among others, to this Sir Eustace, Clausas de anno 30 Edw. I. M, 16, in scedula pendente.) He died in 131 1 + leaving issue Lord Arnold La- Poer, who in 1309 slew Sir John Boneville in single combat, and was ac- quitted of the fact in a parliament held at Kildare in 1310, it being proved to be done in his own defence, j He was one of King Edward I. commanders in the army which opposed Edward Le Brus in 1315. S I" ^l-S^ King Ed- ward II. made him Seneschal of the county and city of Kilkenny, but in 1327 he caused great disturbances among the nobles, by calling the Earl of Desmond Rhymer -,^1^ in 1328 he was arrested, and accused of heresy by Richard Lederede, bishop of Ossory, and confined in the castle of Dublin, where he died before he could be tried ; and though the Lord Justice Rayer, (R.oj;er) Outlaw Prior of Kiimainham, made it appear that Lord Arnold was falsely accused, yet he remained a long time unburied, because he died un. aisoykd ; H he left issue Lord Robert Foer, Seneschal of the county of Wex- ford, and treasurer of Ireland, to whom a liberate of 40/. was granted, July 16th, 1335, in recompence of his charges and services, in suppressing and paci- fying certain discords between the English and Irish in those parts, for the good of the commonwealth** To him succeeded his son Matthew, living 23 Edward III. who by his wife Avlcla, (living in 1342) had John, living in the reign of the said King, and by Joan his wife, had Richard, who deceased in 1371,1+ leaving a son Nicholas, who was summoned to purliamem by •writ, November 22d, 1375, (48 Edw- III.) January 20th, 1378, (i Ric. II.) September nth, 1381, (4 Ric II.) and April 29th, 1383, (5 Ric. II.); these are the most ancient writs of summons to parliament that remain on record, in the rolls office of Ireland, and from the first of them the present Marquis of Waterford, as Baron La Poer, derives. This Nicholas, lived to a great a^e, and died, the year unceriain, leaving issue Richard Lord La Poer, of Curragh- niore, mentioned in a grant of lands from Henry VIII. to Edward Poer, the Bastard hrothet of Peter Lord La Poer, the son of this Richard Lord La
* Cox p. 85, 86. + Cambden and Marlboro' sub hoc Anno.
J Hoi. p. 65, Camb. sub hoc Anno- Cox, p 91 •
^ Camb and Marlb. sub hoc anno. Hoi p. 66, Camp. Cox p. 94-
II Campion, p- 87. Davis, p. 134^ Camb. sub hoc anno. Cox, p 107.
5 Camb- and .Marlb sub hoc anno. p. 87.
**■ Rot. yo. Edw. I II. f. see also 170. Edw. 111. f.
+ + MS Trin. Coll.
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His Lordship deceased at Tyrone House in Dublin, April 4th, 1763, having had issue by his Lady, who survived him, seven sons and eight daughters, viz.
Poer, * who married Catherine, daughter of Sir Richard Butler, Earl of Or- mond, who died in 1405, and by her had issue,
Peter Lord La Poer, mentioned in the above grant, + who married the daughter of the Lord Decies, and by her had a son Richard, created Lord Bartn La PoeVfof Curraghmore, September 13th, 1535; he was slain in the service against the Irish rebels in 1539 or 1541, J and at the time of his de- cease, vvas seized in fee of the manors of Curraghmore, Culefin, Gortbady and other hereditaments in the county of Waterford. He married Catherine,^ second daughter of Pierce the eighth Earl of Ormand, and by her, who re- married with James the fourteenth Earl of Desmond, and died March 17th, 1552,11 had a daughter EUice, married to Thomas Fitzgerald, eldest son of James the lifteenth Earl of Desmond, by his first wife ; and four sons, viz. Peter, his heir; John, of whom hereafter ; and Thomas, of Culefin, who had issue James, his successor, father of Thomas, of Culefin, who died there December 15th, 1637, and was buried in the chapel of Kiloonney in the county of Waterford, leaving issue by his wife Margaret, daughter of Peter Butler, of Monynory in the county of Wexford, Esq. four sons and four daughters, viz. Peter, of Culefin, who married Catherine, daughter of William Wall, of Coolenemucky in the county of Waterford, Esq ; Richard, who married Gyles, daughter of David Power, ofCoohoe, in the same county. Cent.; John, who died without issue ; James; daughter Joan ; Gyles, mar- ried to Geffrey Fanning, of Fannningston in the county of Tipperary, Gent. ; Catiierine; and Margaret, married to Richard Power, of Balinecurry in the county of Waterford, Gent.
Peter, Lord La Poer, the eldest son of Richard Lord La Poer, suc- ceeded his father; he was born in 1522, and dying unmarried December ioth, i545» was succeeded by his brother
John (More) Lord La Poer, born in 1527 : he sat in the parliament held by theL- D. Sussex, January i2tli, i559» as he also did in Sir John's Perrott's April 26th, 1585. In 1556 he marched at the head of a considerable army, to the assis':ance of the chief governor Sydney, against the rebel Shane O'Neil, Earl of Tyrone, and was a person of great worth, as appears from Sir Henry Sydney's account of the province of Munster to the lords of the council, dated February 27th, 1575, who makes this honourable mention of him: " The day I departed from Waterford, 1 lodged that night at Corragmore, the house that the Lord Power is Baron of ; where I was so used, and with such plenty and good order entertained (as adding to it the quiet of all the country adjoining, by the people called, Poiver Countiy, for that that surname has been since the beginning of Englishn.en's planting inhabitants there) it may be well compared with the best ordered country in the Englhh Pale. And the lord of the country, though he be in scope of ground a far less ter- ritory than his neighbour is, yet he lives in shew far more honourably and
* MS. Trin. Coll. f Rot- Pat 370- Hen. VIII.
X Rot. Pat.de Ao. i Eliz
S Sydney's State Paper*, vol. i. p. <^o. |j Rolls OfS. and Lodge-
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lary 22d, 1727. > 23d, 1733. J
First, James.
Second, Marcus, baptized February 22d, 1727. ^died young- Third, Marcus, born December Fourth, George De la Poer, Lord Tyrone.
plentifully than he or any other, whatsoever he be, of his calling, that lives in that province. And albeit the soil, for the most part, of itself, is very barren ; yet is there not any gentleman or freeholder of that country, but may. make more of an acre of land there, than they have of three in the county of Kilkenny, the next county confining on the one side (where the soil is very goody or in the Decies, the lordship next adjoining on the other side ; and this was openly spoken before me, and affirmed by credible persons, having land in both and this was yielded for the reason, for that they suffer no idle man in the one, and are oppressed with them in the other." * By Ellen, alias Margaret, daughter of James, the fifteenth Earl of Desmond, he had Cathe- rine, or Ellen, married to Peter, the seventh son of James Earl of Ormond, a rebel in 11569, and his successor Rich a rd, Lord Poer, who had a warrant from Queen Elizabeth, dated at Greenwich, May 31st, i^SS, ordering a grant to be passed in fee-farm to Richard, the grandson of this Richard, by the name of Richard Poer, son and heir of the Lord Poer, of so much of the crown lands, as would amount to 50/. a year English, " in respect as well of his own, as of his ancestors good services done unto us and our progenitors; his grariJ' father the Lord Poer, having been slain in that realm of Ireland, in service against the rebels ; his uncle having been slain at Bulloigne, in the service of our late father of happy memory, and his own father, (then living) and also liimself having in that our realm, and in thit our time, been sore wounded in our tervice." + He married Catherine, daughter and heir to John, Vis- count Buttevant, and dying at Curraghmore, August 2d, 1607, ^^^ 'ssne five sons and three daughters, viz John (Oge) his heir apparent ; Pierce, of Mona- largey in the county of Waterford, who manied Catherine, fourth daughter of Walter, Earl of Ormond; Julia, married in 1615 to Thomas, Lord Kerry ; Ellen, to David Condon, chief of his Sept; and Elizabeth, first to David, Viscount Buttevant, and secondly, to Patrick, son of Sir John Sherlock, of Balina-Clarahan in Tipperary, Knight.
John (Oge J the eldest son was killed in his father's lifetime, by Edmund Fitz-Gerald, tbe ivhi'ie knight, % and having married Helen, daughter of David Viscount Buttevant, had issue (by her who remarried first with Thomas Dulie, the tenth Earl of Ormond, and secondly with Sir T. Somerset, Vis- count Cashel), John, successor to his grandfather ; and Ellen, wife to Maurice, Viscount Fermoy. John, Lord La Poer being only eight years and a half old at his grandfather's death, became the ward of King James L who, De- cember 7th, 1606, granted his wardship to his mother; but March 30th, 1629, he had a special livery of his estate, ^ (he became a hinatic before the re- bellion of 1641,) and marrying Ruth, daughter and heir to Robert Pyphoe, of St. Mary's Abbey, Esq. had five sons and four daughters, viz Richard, created Earl of Tyrone; Pierce, of Killowen in the county of Waterford,
* Sydney's Letter?, vol. i. p. 90. + Rot. A'', i Eliz.
\ MS. Pedig. Trin Coil. S Rot. 23 Car. 11.
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Fifth, John, born March 14th, 1737-8, was educated in the University of Dublin, took the degree of A. B. February 26lh,
who married Honors, daughter of John, the second Lord Britt-i% Iiaviiig issue Richard, who died there in February 1635, leaving by Ellen, daughter of William Butler, of Balliboe county of Tipperary, Gent. ; John, his heir, which John, mar- ried Ellen, daughter of Daniel Magragh, of Mountain-Castle in the county of Waterford; Pierce, whose daughter Judith, was married to Mr. Ducket; James, Ellen, and Anne;* and founded the family at Rathcormack in the county of Waterford: Robert; John, who died unmarried in Dublin ; David, who died there August 17th, 16S1, and was buried at St. Michan's; Ellen, married to Thomas Walsh, ofPiltown, senior, Esq.; Catherine, to John Fitz-Gerald, of Dromana Esq whose only daughter, Catherine, was mother of John, late Earl Gran- dison ; Aiargaret and Mary.
Richard, Lord Le Poer, first Earl of Tyrone, who succeeded, was married May 20, 1673, to Catherine, daughter and heir to John Fitz-Gerald, of Dromana and the Decies, Esq. (who died in 1662) : they were married by Gilbert, archbishop of Can- terbury, in his chapel at Lambeth : but she afterwards married Edward Fitz-Gerald Villiers, Esq. and was mother of John, late Earl Grandison.f This Richard, was created, by patent dated at Westminster Oct. 9, same year, Viscount Decies and Earl »f Tyrone. Preamble. Sciatis quod, nos grata et laudabilia servitia, quce dilectuset fidelis Richardus, Dominus Baro de la Power de Curraghmore m comitatu nostro Waterford in regno nostro Hibernias, ac antecessores et faniilia ejus in guenis contra rebelles in Hibernias, in quibus plurimi eorum occubuerunt, nobis et pro- genitoribus et predecessoribus nostris, regibus et Reginis Auglix, multipliciter im- penderunt, et qua? dictus Baro constanter impendere non desistet : nee non specimina crescentis virtutis, strenuitatem, circumspectiovjem, et fidclitatem ipsius Richardi Baronis de la Power et Curraghmore, quibus omnes ante- cessores ejus praeire indies conatur, perpendentss qu^eque incitaro et remunerare decrevimus, de gratia nostra speciali, &c. with twenty marcs creation fee for sup- port of the title of Viscount, and 20/. for that Earl,| and dying in the Tower of London, October 14th, 1690, was buried at Farnborough in Hantshire, the burial place of Arthur, Earl of Anglesey, whose eldest daughter Dorothy, he had mar- ried in 1654, and by her, who died at Waterford, and was buried in the cathe- dral there, he had issue Arthur, Vvho died young in Waterford ; John and James, Earls of Tyrone ; and Dorothy. It is very remarkable, that in so long a suc- cession in this family, and in a country continually disturbed and torn by rebel- lion and civil wars, that not one of this family was ever engaged in any rebellion against the crown of England, nor was there ever a forfeiture in the family dur- ing the space of 600 years that they have been planted in Ireland ; and they at this day enjoy the old family lands, and reside at the same place that they were origi- nally settled in, in the county of Waterford. In a grant of letters patent from King Charles II. to this Richard Lord La Poer, bearing date May 9th, 23 of his reign, there is this recital, " That the ancestors of the said Richard Lord La Poer, from their first planting in Ireland, for about four hundred years, had entirely preserved their faith and loyalty to the crown of England ; in consideration there.
* MS. Pedig. Trin. Coll.
f Plea and Ans. Villiers to Poer, 14 November, 1G76.
\ Rot. Pat.2Go. Car. II. 3a. p. f. R. 9,
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1754, and having studied the law in the inns of court, was ad- mitted a barrister in Hilary Term 1 76O. In i 770, he was ap- pointed a commissioner of his Majesty's revenue, at which board he for many years presided j and in 1772, he was appointed by patent, taster of wines in the port of Dublin. He served several
fore, of the merit of this Richard and his ancestors, and to encourage the loyalty of others, &c.'' This carries the antiquity of the family to the 56 of Henry III. the year 1270.
John, the second Earl of Tyrone, dying a batchelor in Dublin, was buried in the church of Carrick, under a black marble monument, with this inscription:
Here lieth the Body of the
Right Honourable John Power
Earl of Tyrone,
who died the 14th of October
1693, in the 29 Year of his '
Age.
James, his brother and heir, the third Earl, was governor of the county and city of Waterford ; and December 13th, 1692, married Anne, elder daughter, and (with her sister Elizabeth, wife to James May, of Mayfield, Esq.) coheir to An- drew Rickards, of Dangan-Spidoge, in the county of Kilkenny, Esq. (who died August 18th, 1693,) by his wife, Anne, daughter and heir to the Reverend Thomas Hooke, of Dangan-Spidoge, D. D. who by his will dated October 10th, 1671, proved August 3d, 1672, devised to his wife Anne, the town and lands of Dangan-Spidoge, which he purchased in the name of Ashburnham, Esq. for life upon condition that she should, within six months after his decease, make a lease thereof to his daughter Anne, wife of Andrew Rickards, during both their lives, at the annual rent of 80/. remainder after her decease to his said daughter and her heirs for ever: he also gave unto his said wife his house in the great cloister of Christ Church of Chichester, called by the name of Mortimer's Chantry, to her and her heirs, and the lease of the farm which he holds of the church of Chichester, and gave her twenty old gold pieces, and a little box of gold, and wills her not to part with it, but to leave it to her daughter Anne, • and by her, who in July, 1716, remarried with George Mathew, of Thomastown in Tipperarj', Esq. and died at tlie Bath September 26th, 1729, ast. fifty-nine, had an only daughter and heir, the J_,ady Catherine Poer, married as in the text. His Lordship lies buried (with Anne his wife,) in Carrick, with this memorial on a neat white jnarble monument :
Here lies the Body of James Power, Earl of
Tyrone, who died the 19th of August 1704,
in the 38th year of his Age.
And also the Body of Anne his wife,
who departed this Life the 26th Day
of September 1729.
Thus the male line of this truly ancient family became extinct, but the Countesi
Dowager of Tyrone, on claiming as her right the barony of La Poer, the same
was admitted by the House of Lords of Ireland (as we have aheady shewn)
jnd allowed and confirmed by his Majesty.
• Prerog. Offic.
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parliaments for the county of Waterford, both in Ireland, and in the imperial parliament ; and was sworn of his Majesty's most honourable privy councils in Great Britain and Ireland. He died in November 1805.
On November 12tb, IT^Oj he married to h'lsjirst wife Anne Constantia Ligondes, of the house of Ligondes, of Auvergne in France (whose grandfather was colonel in the French service, and being taken prisoner at the battle of Blenheim, was sent to England with Mareschal Tallard ; he there mnrried Frances, Countess Dowager of Huntingdon, relict of Thomas, sixth Viscount Kilmorey, and also of Theophilus, seventh Earl of Huntingdon; by this Lady, who died December 27th, 17^3, the Colonel had one son, the father of Mrs. Eeresford) and by her, who died October 25t:h, 1772, and was buried at Clone- gam, he had four sons and five daughters, viz. first, Marcus, born February 14th, 176-J, member of parliament for the borough of Dungarvan, 1 789, Sec. and joint taster of wines with his father : he died in November 1797j having married Lady Frances Arabella, youngest daughter of Joseph, Earl of Miltown, by whom he left sons, of whom the eldest is in the army. Second, George De la Poer, born July 19th, 1765, Lord Bishop of Kilmore, married Frances, daughter of Jarvis Parker Busne, Esq. of Kilfane, and has issue. Third, John Claudius, born October 23d, 1766, member of parliament for Dublin city, 1799, married, July 179^, Miss Menzies. Fourth, Charles Cobbe, in holy orders, born October 22d, 1770. Daughter Catherine, born September 28th, J761, married to the Right Honourable Henry Theophilus Clements, brother to Robert, late Earl of Leitrim ; Elizabeth, born No- vember 24lh, 1762. died August 15th, I7S3, and was buried at Clonegam ; Nannette-Constantia, born April l6th, 1768, mar- ried January 7th, I79O, Robert Uniacke, Esq. of Wood- house, in Waterford; Jane, born June 13th, 1769, and married in October 1788, to George, eldest son of Sir Hugh Hill, of Londonderry, Bart. ; and Aramintha.
He married secondly, June 4th, 1774, Barbara, second daughter of Sir William Montgomery, of Magbie-hill in Scoc- land, who died in Dublin, December 1788, and by her had issue William Barre, born May 12th, 178O, died May 29th, 1782, and was buried at Kinsely in the county of Dublin ; James Hamilton, born February 18th, 1782, died November 7th, IS06; Henry Barre, born September 25th, 1784; Hannoh, born May l6tl).
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1775; Barbara, born July 8th, 177O, died May 8th, 1786; Frances Honoria, born September 3d, 1777 3 Anna Maria, born October 30th, 1778, died October 11th, 1779; and Elizabeth, born January 27tb, 1 786.
Sixth, William Hamilton, born May 8th, 1739, died in 1740, and was buried at Clonegam.
Seventh, William, Archbishop of Tuam, born in April 17-13, entered into holy orders, was presented to the rectory of Urney in the diocese of Derry ; consecrated pursuant to letters patent, April ()th, 178O, Bishop of Dromore, and thence translated in April 1782, to the episcopal see of Ossory, from whence he was translated' to the Archlishopric of Tuam, 1795. June 12th, 1763, he married Elizabeth, second daughter of the late John Fitz-Gibbon, Esq. representative in parliament for the borough of Newcastle, and sister to John, late Earl of Clare, Lord Chancellor of Ireland. And by this Lady, who died August 24th, I8O7, hath had issue ten sons and six daughters, of whom Tho- mas, Henry, John, Henry, William, William, and Elizabeth, died infants, and were interred at St. Peter's in Dublin ; and the others were, first, Marcus, in the army, died I8O7 ; second, John, in holy orders ; third, George de la Poer, in holy orders, married Susan, daughter of Hamilton Gorges, Esq. ; fourth, Wil- liam, in holy orders, married, July lyth, 1804, Lady Anne Bennet, second daughter of Charles Earl of Tankerville ; Cathe- rine, married May 4th, 1794, Reverend Arthur Preston ; Ara- mintha, married, January 25th, 1796, Thomas Birmingham Sewell, Esq. ; Harriot, married Reverend William Armstrong ; Frances; and Louisa, married, April l6th, 180t), Thomas Hope, Esq.
Daughter, Lady Anne, married August l6th, 1738, to Wil- liam Annesly, created Viscount Glerawley.
Lady Jane, married August 10th, 1743, to the Right Hon. Edward Gary, of Dungiven in the county of Derry, knight of the shire for Derry, and a member of the privy-council in Ireland, but had no issue.
Lady Elizabeth died young, and was interred at St. Peter's in Dublin.
Lady Catherine, married, December 8th, 1748, to Thomas Christmas, of Whitetiekl in the county of Waterford, Esq. knight of the shire for Waterford : he deceased without issue, March 28th following; and March 23d, 1754, she remarried with the Right
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Hon. Theophilus Jones, v died March 28th, l7G3,and was buried at St. George's chapel Dublin, leaving issue.
Lady Sophia, died in September 1/40, and was buried at Clonegam.
Lady Aramintha, born September l/th, 1730, and married April 2'lth, 1755, to George Paul Monck, of St. Stephen's-Green, Esq. by whom she had Aramintha-Louisa, married to the late Rev. Gustavus Hume, rector of Elderoninc and Rathdown, who both died in May 1805.
Lady Frances Maria, born October Qth, 1731, and married, April I3th, 1762, to Henry Flood, of Family in the county of Kilkenny, Esq. member of parliament for Kilbeggan, and son of the Right Hon. Warden Flood, lord chief justice of the King's Bench.
Lady Elizabeth, born August Sth, 173(5, and married. May 1, 1751, to Thomas Cobbe, of Newbridge, county of Dublin, Esq. only son of Dr. Charles Cobbe, who died Archbishop of Dublin, and by him hnd issue Charles, born November 14th, 175S, late inembcr of parliament for the borough of Swords ; Catherine, married to the late Hon. Henry Pelhara, brother to the present Earl of Chichester ; and Elizabeth, married, in November 1784, to Sir Henry Tuite, of Sonagh in the county of Westmeath, Bart, but halh no issue. ^
We return now to Elizabeth, Countess Dowager of Tyrone, who considering herself as the lineal and chief representative of the ancient and noble family of De La Poer, on the decease of the Earl her father, preferred a petition to the King, praying the restoration to her and her family of the ancient barony of La Poer,
y Son of Walter Jones, of Headford, coun?/ of Leltrim, Esq. manied in 1722 to Olivia, eldest daughter of Chidley Coote, of Coote-Hall in the county of Roscofnon, Esq. (by his second wifej and dying in May 1756, left issue by her, Theophilus, and four daughters, Margaret, married in 1754, to her cousin Chidley Morgan; Catherine, to the latt; Sir Nathaniel Barry. M. D. of
Dublin, Bart. ; Elizabeth, to Doctor Crofton, son of Cro.ton, of Lis-
burn in the county of Leitrim, Esq ; and Frances, to lieut -general Thomas Bligh, being his second wife. Theophilus, the only so;:, was chosen to re- present the county of Leitrim in parliament, in 1768 he was chosen for Cole- raine, and was afterwards M. P. for the borough of Monaghan ; he was appointed secretary to the Earl of Bri;.tol when lo/d lieutenant ; was sworn of the privy-council, and made collector of the port of Dublin ; he had two sons by his first wife; and in ij6t', he married, secondly, Anne, third daughter of Colonel Jolin Murray, deceased ^by tlic Lady Dowager BlayneyJ and hath issue. (Lodge Collect.}
z Pedigree entered in Britibh House of Lords, Ulster's OfBce, Lodge Collect, and Family Information.
VOL. vin. a
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which petition by royal authority was referred November oth, 1767, to the consideration of the house of peers of Ireland, who appointed the l6th to hear council on her behalf, which being done, and on the examination of witnesses it was resolved, " That the Right Hon. the Countess Dowager of Tyrone hath fully proved her claim to the Barony of La Poer, in fee, and hath a right to the said barony in fee." ^ On the following day the house came to this further resolution, " That the Speaker do at- tend his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant with the resolution of this house of yesterday, whereby the Right Hon. Catherine, Countess Dowager of Tyrone, hath proved her title to the ba- rony of La Poer, in fee, and lay the same before his E.\cel- lency," ^ which resolutions being transmitted to his Majesty, he was graciously pleased to confirm the same, as appears by the fol- lowing letter to George, Viscount Townshend, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
Whitehall, December 19th, 1767.
" My Lord, " Having laid before the King your Excellency's letter of the 19th November, inclosing the resolution of the House of Lords of Ireland, on the petition of Catherine, Countess Dowager of Ty- rone, to his Majesty, referred to their Lordships' consideration, together with the report of his Attorney and Solicitor Generals of the kingdom of Ireland, and divers proofs in support of the said petition ; by which the petitioner sets forth her claim to the barony of La Poer, in fee, by descent of her grandfather, Richard, who sat and voted in parliament as Baron La Poer, till the twenty- fifth year of his late Majesty, King Charles II. he was advanced to the title and dignity of Earl of Tyrone, to him and heirs male ef his body: which resolution of their Lordships states, 'That the Right Hon. Catherine, Countess Dowager of Tyrone, hath fully proved her claim to the barony of La Poer, in fee, and hath a right to the said barony in fee." I am hereupon to acquaint your Excellency, that his Majesty is graciously pleased to confirm the .same 5 and to order that the said Catharine, Countess Dowager of Tyrone and her heirs, be allowed to enjoy all the rights and privileges belonging to the said barony of La Poer.
" I am, with the greatest truth and respect, " My Lord, " Your Excellcncy'5 most obedient humble servant,
"SHELBURNE."-^
a Lord's Jour iv. 418,420,421. t" Ibid. » Ibid. 441.
LORD TYRONE. g^
Her Ladyship deceased July l6th or 27th, 1 769, when the aforesaid barony devolved on her eldest son
Sir George De la Poer, the second Earl of Tyrone, and Jirst Marquis of JVatsrf or d, snd first Lord Tyrone q/" //at'er/brrf- JFest, who was born January 8th, 1/35, and succeeded to the Earldom April 4th, 1763; on October 7th, 1766, he was made governor and custos rotulorum of the city and county of Water- ford. His Lordship was a member of the privy-council in Ire- land, an original Knight Companion of the msst illustrious Order of St. Patrick, and August 21st, 1786, his Majesty was pleased to call him to a seat in the British House of Peers, by the title of Baron Tyrone, of Haverford-lVest in the county of Pemlroke. On August 19th, 1789, he was created Marquis of Woterford. His Lordship married, April 18th, 1769, Elizabeth, only daughter of Henry Monck, Esq. by his wife Lady Anne Isabella Bentinck, second daughter ofHeniy, Duke of Portland, and by her had issue.
First, Marcus, Lord La Poer, born March 17th, 1771, de- ceased August lOth, 1783.
Second, Henry, born May 23d, 1772, present peer.
Third, Lord John George, born November 22d, 1773, now Lord Bishop of Raphoe.
Fourth, Lord George Thomas, born February 12th, 178I, lieutenant of the second dragoon guards, or Queen's bays, married, November 22d, 1S08, Miss Henrietta Schutz, of Suffolk, by whom he has issue.
Fifth, Lady Isabella Anne, born May 28th, 1776.
Sixth, Lady Catherine, born llth, 1777-
Seventh, Lady Anne, born July 26th, 1779-
Eighth, Lady Elizabeth Louisa, born February 2d, 1783.*^
The Marquis deceasing December 3d, 1800, was succeeded by his son
Henry, present and second Marquis of TVaterf or d, and seconb Lord Tyrone.
His Lordship married, August 29tb, 1805, Lady Susan Hussey Carpenter, only daughter and heiress of George, late Earl of Tyrconnel ; and has issue
A daughter, born November 8th, I8O7.
Titles. Henry De La Poer Beresford, Marquis of Waterfbrd, Earl, Viscount and Baron of Tyrone, Baron La Poer, Baron Ber;s-
d Family Informaiton.
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ford, and Baronet, in Ireland : also Baron Tyrone of Haverford West, in Great Britain.
Creations. Baronet May 5th, 1 665, l/Car. II. 3 Baron La Poer in fee. Baron Beresford of Beresford in the county Cavan, and Viscount of the county of Tyrone November 4, 1/20, 7 Geo. I. Earl of the same county July 18th, 1746, 20 Geo. IL ; and Marquis of Waterford in Ireland, August 19th, 1789 ; Irish ho- nours. Also Baron Tyrone of Haverford -West in the county of Pembroke August 21st, 1786, 26 Geo. III.
Arms. Argent, crusuly fitchee, three fleurs-de-lis and a border ingrailed, sable.
Crest. On a wreath, a dragon's head, erased or, with a spear broken through his neck, gules, the point, argent, thrust through his upper jaw.
Supporters. Two angels, proper, in silver vestments, with cFolden hair and wings^ each holding in his exterior hand a sword erect, of the first.
Motto. Tandem fit surculus arbor. But his Lordship now uses, Nil nisi cruce, the motto of his mother's family.
Chief Seats. Curraghmore in the county of Waterford, a noble seat, sixty-three miles from Dublin. Walworth in the county. of Londonderry, adorned with the finest plantations iu tha north, 112 miles from Dublin.
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BOYLE, LORD CARLTON.
{KARL OF SHANNON IN IRELAND,)
Under the i'ltle of Lord Boyle of Marston, vol. vii, it appears that Rogrr, first Earl of Orrery, had a younger son, Henry Boyle.
This Henry Boyle, second son, was seated at CastJemartyr in the county of Cork J and being an active asscrter of the protes- tant interest in the province of Munster, he was very obnoxious to the Irish government ; so that, February 26th, 1688, he was besieged in his house of Castlemartyr, by General ^Nl'Carthy, with a strong body of horse, and two field pieces. Being determined to defend the castle, he had collected about 140 gentlemen and servants, but being persuaded to use no resistance, he surrendered* on the General's promise, that neither their persons nor estates should be molested; without the least regard to which promise the next morning the General caused the house to be plundered, and conveyed, in a disgraceful manner. Captain Boyle and his family to Cork. After some confinement he removed with his family in May 16S9, to England, to avoid the troubles then in- creasing in this kingdom; for which he was attainted by the Irish parliament, and had his estate sequestered. But being made lieutenant colonel to Duke Schomberg's regiment of horse, he re- turned to Ireland, contributed much to the honour gained ac the river Boyne, where his colonel was slain ; and afterwards going irrto EJanders died there in 1693, leaving issue, by Lady Mary O'Brien, daughter of Murrogh, the first Earl of Inchiquin, four sons and two daughters, viz.
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First, Roger, who died unmarried in 1705.
Second, Henry, who was created Earl of Shannon.
Third, Charles, sometime Captain of the Strombolo man of vrar.
Fourth, William, captain in Duke Schomberg's regiment of horse; July 14th, he was appointed a commissioner of appeals in Ireland. In 171I he married Martha Beaufoy, daughter and heiress to Sir Samuel Garlh, Knight, physician general to the army : he died in September 1/25, leaving issue by her (who March 7th, l?-*/? re-married with Mr. Graham, of London, merchant) two sons and three daughters, viz. Henry, captain of a troop of horse, who died at Bath February 14th, 1756; and Ro- bert, who being dead, his estates in the counties of Oxford, War- wick and Bucks, devolved on his sisters; Beaufoy, who, June 11, 1736, married John Wilder, of Shiplake in the county of Oxford, Esq.; Henrietta, married, December pth, 1/36, to William Nichols, ofFroyle, county of Bucks, Esq.; and Elizabeth, born in 1715, and married, October gih, 1/36, to Matthew Graves, of Chiswick in Middlesex, Esq. whose daughter married, in August 1760, to William Bainbridge, of Huglescoate-grange, in county of Leicester, Esq.
Daughter Elizabeth, married, in 17C9, to Brett ridge Badham, of Rockfield in the county of Cork, Esq. but had no issue; and
Margaret, married to Joseph Deane, Esq. ^ and died in July
1717.
Henry, ^/ir5< Earl of Shaimon, succeeded his father at Castle- martyr ; in October 1/15, he was chosen knight of the shire for Cork, which county he represented until he was advanced to the peerage; April 13th, 1733, he was sworn of his Majesty's privy-
a He was grandson of Joseph Deane, of Cromlin near Dublin, Esq. whose son Joseph, by Elizabeth, (daughter of Dr. John Parker, Archbishop of Dublin,) whom he married in 1673, was October 14th, 1714. appointed chief Raronof the Exchequer, but died May 4th, 1715, and was buried in the Earl of Cork's vault at St. Patrick's, Dublin, leaving five daughters, his co- heirs, viz. Elizabeth, married to Lord Doncraile; Anne, first wife to Arthur Hill, Esq. created Lord Dungannon ; Mary, married, in 1725, to John Bourk, created Earl of Mayo; Catherine, December 17th, 17351 to John Lysaght, created Lord Lisle; and Margaret, married, April 7th, 173,2, to John Fitz- Gcrald,of Innishmore in Kerry, Esq. M. P. for Dingle, and by him, who died in June 1741, had two sons and two daughters, Maurice, born in 1733; Jo- seph, and Margaret, both deceased ; and Elizabeth, married, in October 175a, to Richard Townsend, of Castle Townscnd, in the county of Cork, Esq. fChancery pleadings )
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council ; October 4th following, he was made choice of by the House of Commons to be their Speaker, and November lyth, was appointed Chancellor of the ExcHEauER, which, No- vember 6th, 1/35, he exchanged with Dr. Marmaduke Coghill, for the employment of a commissioner of his Majesty's revenue, but resigning that in March l/Sp, he reassnmed, April 11th, his place ot Chancellor of the Exchequer. May 3d, 1734, he was sworn one of the lord^ justices of Ireland, and lilled that high office fifteen several times, viz. on said May 3d, May 19th, 1/36, May 28ih, 1/38, April 18th, 174O, February 18th, 1741, De- cember 3d, 1742, April 12th, 1/44, April 25th, 1746, April 20th, 1748, April 20th, 175O, May 27th, 1752, May 10th, 1758, May 20th, 1760, May 3d, 1762, and May 15th, 1764. ^ On account of his long and eminent services in the station of Speaker to the house of commons, his Majesty King George IL was pleased, April 13th, l/St), to grant to him and his representatives for the term of thirty-one years from Lady-day last preceding, the an- nual sum of 2000/. 8 By privy-seal bearing date March 15th, '' and by patent April 17th, 1756, ' he was created Baron of Cast /e- viartyr, Fiscount Boyle oJ'Baudon, and Ear/ of Shannon, by whicli latter title he took his seat in the house of peers, 26th of that month ; '^ May 3d, same year, his Lordship was appointed go- venior of the county of Cork, during the absence of the Duke of Devonshire.
He married, first, Catherine, daughter of Chldley Coote, of Killester, Esq. ; she died without issue May 5th, 1725, and was buried at Ballyclogh in the county of Cork, on the south side of which church is a monument erected to her memory. ' He mar- ried, secondly, in September 1/26, the Lady Henrietta Boyle, youngest daughter of Charles, the third Earl of Cork, and by her, who died December 13th, 1746, and was interred in the Earl of Cork's vault in the cathedral of St. Patrick in Dublin, had issu« one son, who died an infant, live other sons, and three daughters, viz.
f See a short sketch of the mode in which the Irish government was conducted at this time, in a masterly tract of the late Earl of Macartney, in his Works.
f Pension List.
h Rot P;it, de Ao. 290. Geo. II. 4.>. p, f. R.25.
i K'.em. p 26. k Lords' Jour. vol. iv. p. 60.
1 See Smyth's Cork, vol.i. p. 306.
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First, Richard, Viscount Eoyle.
Second, Henry, who assumed the name of Walsingham, was a captain in Lord George Sackville's regiment of horse, married Lucy, eldest daughter of John Martin, of the city of Dublin, Esq. and deceasing at Bristol, March 27th, I'JBQ, left issue by her (who remarried with James Agar, of Gowran in the county of Kilkenny, Esq. created Viscount Clifden, and died July 26th, 1S02) an only son Henry, born June \2ih, 1753, and deceased in June
Third, William, who died April 13th, 17-10, and was buried at Finglass.
Fourth, Charles, born in May 1734, was a cornet of horse, and aid-de-camp to his father as a lord justice. He died at Bristol June 6th, ]758,
Fifth, Robert, born in March 1736. On the death of his nephew Henry, he took the surnaiTi° of JFalsingham, repi-esented the borough ofDungarvrin in the prirliaaient of Ireland, and that of Knaresborough in tne Britis^h pailiaraent. In October 1779, he commanded his Majesty's ship the Thunderer in the West Indies, when he periihed, with ail his crew, in a violent hurri- cane. He married^ July J 7th, 1759, Charlotte, the only surviv- ing coheir of Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, Knight of the Bath, by Frances, second daughter and coheiress of Thomas Earl of Conyngsoy, and b) her, who died in 1790, had issue a son Richard, bcrn in 17G2, who died at Bristol October 13th, 178S; and Charlotte, now Baroness de Roos, for whom see vol. vi.
Sixth, daughter Lady Juliana, married to Somerset-Hamilton, Earl of Carrick, and died February 22d, 1S04.
Seventh, Lady Mary, baptized August 13th^ 1/31, and died April 11th, 1740.
Eighth, Lady Jane, baptized September 22d, 1737, and died April 23d, 17-1 8.
His Lordship died at his house in Henrietta-street, Dublin, of the gout in his head, September 27th, 17^4, in the eighty- second year of his age^ and was interred in the Earl of Cork's tomb, in the chcir of St, Patrick's cathedral, being succeeded by his only surviving soU;-
Richard, the second Earl of Shannon, and first Lord Carlton, who was born January 30th, 1727^ was chosen to par-
") Lodge.
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liament in 174Q, f^r the town of Dungarvan, and in 1/61, for the count; cfCork. He sat first in tlie house of peers on the death of his father, October 22d, 1/05." in 17^'<3, he was r.j^pointed master-general of the ordnance, in which office he was suc- ceeded, in 1770, by Chailes Earl of Drogheda, " and ssworn of his Majesty's most honourable privy-council. In December 17S], he was appointed one of the vice treasurers of Ireland. On the first institution of the order of St. Patrick, his Lordship was ap- pointed an original knight companion of that illustiious order ; appointed governor of the county of Cork, and in September 1780, his Majesty was pleased to grant to him and his heirs male the dignity of a Baron of the kingdom of Great Britain, by the name, style, and title of Lord Carleton, Baron of Carleton in the comity of York.
On December 1 5th, 1/63, his Lordship married Catherine, eldest daughter of the late Right Honourable John Ponsonby, brother to William, late Earl of Bessborough, and by her Lady- ship, who was born April 2Qth, 1747, had issue two sons, and two daughters J the elder of whom died young; and the younger are,
First, Henry, Viscount Boyle, present peer.
Second, Lady Harriot, m.i'ried, February ]2th, 1/84, Francis Bernard, Esq. now Earl of Bandon.
His Lordship dying May 20th, IS07, was succeeded by his only surviving son,
Henry, present and third Earl of Shannoji, and second Lord Carleton.
His Lordship was born August 8th, 1771j ^nd mnrricd, June 9th, 1798, Sarah, fourth daughter of John Hyde, Esq. of Castle Hyde, and has had issue
Richard, died an infant.
And four daughters.
Titles. Henry Boyle, Earl of Shannon, Viscount Boyle of Bandon, and Baron of Castlem.artyr ; and Laron of Carleton in the county of York.
Creations. Earl of Shannon, Viscount Cnndon, and Baron of Castlemartyr in the county of Cork, April iCth, 1756. 29 Geo. II. ; and Baron Carleton of Carleton in the county of York Sep- itember 1787, 26 Geo. IIL
" Lords Jour. vol. iv- p. 341. • Beatson's Index.
106 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND
Arms. Parti per bend crenelle, argent and gules.
Crest. A lion's head erased, parti per bend crenelld, argent and gules.
Supporters. Two lions, parti per pale, the dexter gules, the sinister of the second and first.
Motto. Spectemuk agendo.
Chief Seat. Castlemartyr in the county of Cork^ 123 milet from Dublin.
LORD SUFFIELD.
lO;
HARBORD, LORD SUFFIELD.
IIarbord Haruord/ o(Gunt07iin Norfolk, Esq. elected member of parliament for that county 1/28, died in January 1/42, having had issue
A daughter and heiress, married to William Mordeh, Esq. who had by her a son and heir.
Sir William (MordenJ Harbord, who succeeded in 1/42 to the estate of his maternal grandfather, and assumed the name of Harbord in conformity to the will of his said grandfather.
He was elected a Knight of the Bath, in May 1/44, by the name of Sir William Harbord; and created a 5aro«c/ March 22d, 1745.
He represented Berealston in Devonshire, 1/34, 1741, 1/47.
He married Miss BritifFe,'^ by whom he left issue
Sir Harbord Hareord, second Baronet, and first Lord SuFFiELD, born January 26th, 1734, who during his father's lift was elected member of parlinment for the city of Norwich, 1755, 1762, and 176s ; and again after his father's death in 17/4, 1780^ and 1784.
He married, October 27th, I7f50, Mary Asshelon, daughter and coheir (with the wife of Sir Thomas iigerton, Bart, now Earl of Wilton) of Sir Ralph Assheton, of Lancashire, Bart.
a Sir Charles Harbord was M. P. for Launceston in Cornwall, 1660, i66i> 1678. William Harbord was M- Pfor the same in 1688; and appears also io have been returned in the same year for Thetford, co. Norf
b Robert BritifFe was M. P. 1722, and 1717 ; and died 1749, ^i'^^ "''*' jiinctv.
108 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND.
He was elevated to the peerage August 8th, 1786, by the title of Lord Suffield, of Suffield in Norfolk.
He died February 4th, 1810, aet. seventy-seven, having had issue by his Lady aforesaid,
First, Charles, born July 12th, l/Sl, died an infant.
Second, Mary, born November 11th, 1763, married, August 12lh, 17S3, Sir George Army tage, of Kirklees in Yorkshire, Bart. and died August 13th, 179O.
Third, William Assheton, present peer.
Fourth, Louisa, born September 2gth, 1767.
Fifth, Catherine, bom June 24th, 1773 j married, October 19th, 1802, John Petre, Esq.
Sixth, Edward, born November 10th, 1792, barrister at law, and member of parliament for Yarmouth in Norfolk, married, I8O9, Georgina, only child of the present Lord Vernon.
William Asshetox, eldest son, succeeded as second Lord
SurFIELD.
His Lordship, while a commoner, was returned in 17()0 member of parliament for Luggershall in Wilts; and in ISO6, for Plympton-Earle, com. Dev.
In 1794, he raised the Norfolk regiment of fencible cavalry.
His Lordship married, on June 4th, 1792, Lady Caroline Hobart, second daughter and coheir of John, second Larl of Buck- inghamshire.
Titles. William Assheton Harbord, Lord Suffield and Bart.
Creations. Baron Suffield of Suffield in Norfolk, August 8tb, 1786; and Baronet March 22d, 1745-6.
Jrms. Quarterly azure and gules, an imperial crown, or, be- tween four lions rampant in saltier, argent.
Cnst. On a chapeau, gules, lined ermine, a lion couchant, argent.
Supporters. On the dexter a lion, ducally collared with a chrin ; on the sinister a leopard guardant, ducally collared also^ and chained.
Motto. i^aUANlMITEK.
Chief Seats. Gunlon and Blickling'* in Norfolk, a Fonneily the Hobarl scat.
LORD DORCHESTER. 1Q(J
CARLETON, LORD DORCHESTER.
I HIS is an ancient family who removed from the north of Eng- land to Ireland.
Their ancestor Baldwin was father of Jeffrey de Cakle- TONj whose son
Odard De Carl-eton had issue
Henry De Carlcton, lather of
Gilbert De Carleton, whose son
William De Carleton, by Helen, daughter of , had
issue
Adam De Carleton, living 15 Edw. I. who by Sarah, daughter of Adam, of Newton, was father of
John De Carleton, 22 Edw, L who by Dorothy, daughter of Henry Brougham, had issue
Thomas De Carleton, I9 Edw. LI. who by Joan, daughter of Roger De Lancaster, was father of
John De Carleton, 30 Edw. IIL who died before 17 Rich, 11. leaving by Margaret, daughter of John De Morton (who wa& alive in 1384),
Thomas De Carleton, 22 Rich. IL 8 Hen. IV. and 27 Hen. VI. who married Alice, daughter and heir of George Dawbury, of com. York, and had issue,
Thomas De Carleton, born 1 Hen. VI. who died 1 1 Hen,
VIII. having married a second wife, daughter of Col-
lison ; but by his first wife, Agnes, daughter of Thomas Wy- bergh, of Clifton, com. Westmoreland, he was father of
Tbom.vs De CarletoD, born about the 20th of Edw. IV. who
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died 4th of Philip and Mary, leaving by Mabel, daughter and co- heir of Carlisle, of Carlisle com. Cumberland,
First, Thomas Carleton, of Carleton, born 1547, died 15()8» aged fifty-one, who by Barbara, daughter of Hugh Lowther, of Lowther^ com. Westmoreland, had two Sons, first, Sir Thomas Carleton, of Carleton, Knight, died s. p. about l638, having mar- ried Elizabeth, daughter of John Strelly, of Woodborough, com. Notts, relict of Marmaduke Constable, of Wassand, com. Yorkj second, Gerard Carleton, died in the lifetime of his elder brother,
having married Nichola, daughter of Elliot, of Redhugli
in Scotland, by whom he had Sir William Carleton, of Carleton, com. Cumberland, Knight, aged fifty-eight, on March 25th, \QQ5, who had two wives ; first, Dorothy, daughter of Sir Chris- topher Dalston, of Acorn-Bank, com. Westmoreland, by whom he had a daughter Mary, aged eighteen, in l665 ; secondly, Bar- bara, daughter of Robert Delaval, of Cowpen, com. Northumb. by whom he had a son Robert, aged eight years in l665, and a daughter Alice.
Second, Launcelot Carleton, his second son, of Bramplon- Foot in Gillesland, com. Cumberland, born in 154^. He settled afterwards at Rossfad near Inneskillen in Ireland ; and died in I6l5, aged sixty-six. He married Eleanor, daughter of Kirkby, of Kirkby, com. Lancaster, and had issue.
First, Launcelot, oftvhom presently.
Second, Ambrose Carleton.
Third, Thomas Carleton, equerry to King Charles L who, by the daughter of Graham, had John Carleton, Gent, who died July 20th, 1703, aged sixty-seven, and was buried at Pancras, having married Susanna, daughter of Sir Hugh Ackland, Bart, who died February 5th, 1696", aged sixty-two.
Fourth, Roger.
Fifth, Charles.
Sixth, Guy Carleton, born at Brampton Foot in Gillesland, about 1604, made Dean of Carlisle in August l6t30, elected Bishop OF Bristol February 11th, 1671, translated to the See o/TChi- CHESTER, January Sth, 167s, died at Westminster July 6th, l685, and buried at the cathedral of Chichester.* He left three
daughters J Elizabeth, wife of Swinho ; Prudence, died
unmarried ; and Hester, wife of George Vane, Esq.
Lancelot Carleton, of Rossfad, eldest son, died in the civil
» See an account of him in Wood's Ath- vol ii. p. 1168.
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wars in the service of King Charles I. having married Mary, daughter of William Irvine, of Castle-Irvine, cona. Fermanagh, Esq. by whom he had two sons.
First, Lancelot, of whom presently .
Second, Christopher, of Market-Hill, com. Fermanagh, who died about 17l6j having married Anne, daughter and heir of the Reverend George Hamilton, rector of Devenish, &c. com. Fer- managh, by whom he had issue, first, Alexander Carleton, of Carleton, in the commission of the peace for that county and for Meath, died November 13th, \7'^5, s. p. : second, George Carleton, of Market-Hill, com, Fermanagh, sheriff of the county of Mo- naghan, and in the commission of the peace for the county of Fermanagh, married Catherine, daughter of John Creighton, of Aughlane, com. Fermanagh, Esq. niece to Sir Robert Creighton, Bart, son of William Creighton Earl of Dumfries, by whom he had, first, John Carleton, married, but died s. p. j second, Alex- ander Carleton, of Dublin, Esq. barrister at law, having, in 17/ U married Evelyn, daughter of Gilbert Pepper, of com. Meath, Esq. (by whom he had George James Carleton, eldest son, a lieutenant of marines; William C:irleton, Esq. second son, died s. p. ; and John, third son) : third, Christopher Carleton, of Market-Hill, in the commission of the peace for the county of Fermanagh, mar- ried Henrietta Maria, daughter of Colonel John Creighton, by whom he had an only son, George, who died young ; and three daughters and coheirs; viz. Henrietta, died unmarried; Vin- centia, living unmarried 1/71 ; and Mary, married Henry Piesley Le Strange of Moyston, King's County, Esq. : fourth, William Carleton, of Inniskilling, Esq in the commission of the peace for the county of Fermanagh aforesaid ; fifth, George Carleton, A.M. late chaplain to the ^xty-seventh regiment of foot. Lancelot Carleton, A.M. their uncle, (third son of Christopher and Anne Hamilton) was chaplain of a regiment of dragoons in Spain, and rector of Padworth, com. Berks; and dying October 14th, 17^0, was buried at Padworth, having married Barbara, daughter of Thomas Twitty, of Clanes, com. Wore, who died in London, and was buried at St. Luke's church, Middlesex, By her he had issue Alexander Carleton, of London, citizen and banker, his only child, born at Padworth, who died May 10th, 1775, unmarried, and was buried at Islington.
Lancelot Carleton, of Rosfad (tldest son of Lancelot and Mary Irvine) was in the commission of the peace for Fernianagh, *nd high sheriff for that county about l683. He was also high
112 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND.
sheriff for the county of Donegal in l6S(3 ; and died about l6g3. He married Mary, daughter and heir of John Cathcart, of the county of Fermanagh, Esq. by whom he had six sons, viz.
First, Lancelot Carleton, of Rossfad, Esq. a captain in the ninth regiment, and high sheriff of com, Fermanagh; died un- married about 1/00.
Second, Guy Carleton, of Rossfad aforesaid, Esq. high sheriff of com. Fermanagh about 1718; and in the commission of the peace; died 1731, having married Mar}--, daughter of Major Brook, by whom he had Guy, and Lancelot, who died young j and Mary, wife of Philip Perceval, of Temple House, com. Sligo; Sarah, wife of Arthur Cooper, of Tansie Fort, com. Sligo, Esq.; and Jane, wife of Colonel Henry Richardson, of Rich Hill, com. Fermanagh.
Third, Christopher, of zvhom presently, as father of Lord Dorchester.
Fourth, Charles, died in England unmarried.
Fifth, John, an officer in the Queen's army, died of his wounds in a battle in Spain.
Sixth, William, a lieutenant in Cope's dragoons, died un- married.
Christopher, //iJrcZ 5o«, already mentioned, was of Newry, com. Down, Esq. and died in Ireland about 1/33, having mar- ried Catherine, daughter of Henry Ball, Esq. of com. Donegal-, who died in Ireland about 1/57. Ry her he had three daughters, and four sons ; viz.
Catherine, married, but died without issue.
Anne, married John Rotton, of Dublin, Esq.
Conally, younge-st daughter, married Crauford, of
Ireland.
The sons were.
First, William Carleton, captain in the royal Irish regiment of foot, drowned at sea about 1753, married the daugliter of
, of com. Devon, who was drowned at sea with her husband ; and by her had issue, first, William Carleton, born in 1745, a lieutenant in the fifty-seventh regiment of foot, died at
sea unmarried, about 1705 ; second, a daughter, married
Starling, Esq.; third, Christopher, born at Newcastle upon- Tyne in 17^9, a lieutenant-colonel in the army, died at Quebec inl787, s, p. having married, at St. George's Hanover- Square, Lady Anne, second daughter of Thomas Howard Earl of Effing- ham 3 and sister to Lady Dorchester.
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Second, Lancelot;, a lieutenant in General Blakeney'i regi- ment in Jamaica, died in the expedition under Wenlsvorlh, about 1/41, unmarried.
Third, Guy, Lord Dorchester.
Fourth, Thomas, lieutenant-colonel of the twenty-ninth regi- ment, and lie-utenant-governor of New Brunswick, a general in the army, colonel of a battalion in the sixtieth regiment of foot,
married the daughter of Van Horn, of New York ; and
widow of Foyj an officer of artillery, by whom he has
had issue William, and two daughters.
Sir Guy Carleton, third son, first Lord Dorchester, was born at Strabane in L'eland, September 3d, 1/24; and em- bracing a military life, was captain-lieutenant, and lieutenant- colonel of the first regiment tof foot-guards.
On June 18th, 17^7 , he was appointed lieutenant-governor of Quebec; and on February Igth, 1762, was brigadier-general in America.
In November 1/66, he was appointed colonel of the forty- seventh regiment of foot. On April 2d, 17/2, he arriv'ed at the rank of major-general ; and May 28th following, was nominated Governor of Quebec ; and was supposed to have been instru- mental in passing the celebrated Quebec Bill, for the government of that settlement.
In 1775, the American war broke out^ and General Carleton had a field for the display of his military talents. The Congress having resolved to resort to arms, began soon to turn their eyes towards Canada. In that province they knew the late acts were very unpopular, not only among the British settlers, but the French Canadians themselves, who having experienced the difference between a French and British constitution, gave the preference to the latter. ^ " The extraordinary powers placed in the hands of General Carleton, governor of Canada," (says Bisset) " by a late commission, were new and alarming. To co-operate with the disaffected in Canada, and to anticipate the probable and sus- pected designs of this General, the Congress formed the bold pro- ject of invading this province. General Montgomery headed tha expedition; and proceeded with such vigour, that he compelled the fort of St. John's to surrender at discretion on the 2d of No- vember. Hence, crossing St, Laurence, he proceeded to Mon^
^ Bisset, vol. iii p. 277. VQ;-. VIII. }
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treal, which being incapable of defence against the American force. General Carleton evacuated it, and retired to Quebec.
" Having taken possession of Montreal, Montgomer}^ made dis- positions for advancing to besiege the capital of Canada, and there were several circumstances favourable to his hopes of success. The works of the town had been greatly neglected from the time of the peace ; as by the cessions of France, no enemy was conceived to be in the vicinity. The garrison did not consist of above 1100 men, of which very few were regulars j and the greater number of the inhabitants were ill-affected to the framers of their new constitution. General Carleton, though of high military reputa- tion, was by no means conciliating in his manners j his social at- tention was almost solely bestowed on the Canadian r.oblesse, without extending to the much more numerous, and more truly important class of commoners ; and he was considered as the principal instigator of the ministry to the measures which they had proposed for governing that province." *= While the British governor, with these disadvantages undertook to defend Quebec against Montgomery, an attempt was made by Colonel Arnold to take that city by surprize. On November 9th, he arrived oppo- site Quebec ; but before he had time to provide boats and rafts, the city was alarmed, and this delay saved Quebec. But the American General having on December 5th joined Arnold, ap- peared before Quebec, and immediately sent a summons to Carleton to surrender. The British General treated this demand with contempt, and refused to hold any correspondence with a rebel. Between the British troops and the inhabitants, there pre- vailed, contrary to the expectation of their opponents, a perfect unanimity of exertions; and the American commander unpre- pared for a regular siege, attempted to take the place by storm. In this attempt Montgomery fell at the head of his troops, deeply regretted by his countrymen ; and the garrison after an obstinate resistance, drove the assailants away from the town with great loss. '^ Colonel Arnold, thus disappointed in his endeavours against Quebec, resolved nevertheless to continue in the province, and encamped on the heights of Abraham, M'here he fortified himself, and put his troops in such a situation as to be still for- midable. '
At the commencement of the following year, 17/6, Arnold still continued the blockade of Quebec, notwithiitanding a very
« Bisset, vol. ii. p. 283. d Ibul p. 287, -^ Ibiil,
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severe season, and under great difficulties. As the season ad- vancedj they became more active, that they might anticipate the arrival of the troops from England ; they renewed the siege, and erected batteries to burn the shipping. But in the beginning of May, an English squadron made its way up to Quebec ; and on finding succours arrived, the besiegers retired. ^
On May 9th, General Carleton proceeded in pursuit of Ar- nold, just as he had begun his retreat ; and thus the siege of Quebec was raised, after continuing about five months.
In the end of May, several regiments arriving from Ireland and England, together with a regiment from General Howe, and the Brunswick troops, which, when added to those, who were before in the province, amounted to 13,000 men. General Carle- ton prepared for offensive operations. •" The provincials evacuated their conquests, and stationed themselves at Crown Point, whither the British commander did not follow them for the present.
An armament was now prepared for crossing Lake Champlain, in order to besiege Crown Point, and Ticonderago. The Ame- ricans had a considerable fleet on Lake Champlain, whereas the British had not a single vessel. The General therefore used every effort to procure the requisite naval force ; but October was begun, before this was ready to oppose the enemy. On October llth, the British fleet, commanded by Captain Pringle, and under the general direction of Carleton, discovered the American ar- mament ; and engaging them, the conflict continued on both sides for several hours with great intrepidity ; but the contrary wind preventing the chief British ships frpm taking a part, and night coming on, it was thought prudent to discontinue the ac- tion; and Arnold took advantage of the night to retreat, s The Biitish pursued the next day and the day following, and over- took them a few leagues from Crown Point ; where after a furioui battle of two hours they yielded to our superior force and skill.
General Carleton remained at Crown Point till November 3d; and as the winter was commencing, did not think it proper to be- siege Ticonderago. He returned therefore to St. John's, whence he distributed his army into winter quarters.
In the following year, 1777> an expedition being planned from Canada, to effect a co-operation with the principal British force, the command of the armament was conferred on General
e Bissetj vol. iip. 33z. <" Ibid. p. 333.
e Ibid. p. 370.
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Burgoyne. '' Sir Guy Carleton" (for he had been nominated a Knight of the Bath on July 6th, 1776) " from his official situation in Canada, his conduct, and especially his defence of Quebec, might have reasonably expected this appointment ; he was an older general, of more military experience, and better ac- quainted with the country, its inhabitants and resources. Hi> character commanded greater authority than Burgoyne's had hitherto established ; the professional reputation of Burgoyne, indeed, was liable to no objection, but he had not, like Carleton, obtained celebrity. As no military grounds could be alleged for superseding Carleton to make room for Burgoyne, his promotion was imputed to parliamentary intiuence more than to his official talents. Carleton, disgusted with a preference by no means merited, as soon as he heard of the appointment, resigned his go- vernment. The event was such as might be expected from the delegation of important trust from extrinsic considerations, instead of the fitness of the trustee for the service required." '
On August 29th, 1777;. Sir Guy was made a lieutenant-ge- neral in the army; and having now returned to England, was installed at Westminster as K. B. May 22d, 1 J7g.
In 178I, he was appointed to succeed Sir Henry Clinton as Commander int Chief in America, where he remained till the termination of the contest, when after an interview with General Washington, he evacuated New York, and returned to England.
On April 11th, 1786, he was once more appointed Governor OF Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, and, as a re- ward for his long services, was on the 2lst of August following elevated to the Peerage, by the title of Lord Dorchester, '^ of Dorchester in the county of Oxford.
His Lordship remained in this extensive government for se- veral years; ' and returning at length to England, passed his old age in the bosom of his family ; first at Kerapshot, near Basing- stoke^ in Hants ; and afterwards at his seat near Maidenhead.
i Bisset, vol. ii. p. 4.34.. k He seems to have taken this title, because it had been used by one of ewn name, Sir Dudley Carlto?:, who does not appear to have been related to him. This Sir Dudley, an eminent statesman (whose state papers and letters v/ere published by the late Lord Hardwicice) was son of Anthony Carlton, of Baldwin-BrightwcU in Oxfordshire, and was created Viscount Dor- chester, cf Dorchester com. Oxf. 1\i\y zi^ih, Of ChdiX. \. He died February 15th, 1 651. All his children died infants; and the title therefore expired ■with him. 1 See the Duke dc RochefoucauU Lianccmit's Travels in North America,
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His Lordship died November lOth, 1S08, xt. eighty-five ; at >R'hich time he was colonel of the fourth regiment of dragoons, and a general in the army.
His Lordship married at the Bishop of London's Palace at Fulham on May 22d, 1772, Lady Maria, third daughter of Tho- mas Howard Earl of Effiogham, by Elizabeth, daughter of Peter Beckford, of Jamaica, Esq. And by her Ladyship (who was born at Great Bookham in Surry, August 30th, 1753), had issue. First, Guy, an ensign in the third regiment of foot-guards, - born in the parish of St. George, Hanover-square, February 4th, 1773, died unmarried November 10th, 1703.
Second, Thomas, a captain in the army, born in St. George's, Hanover-square, April 30th, 1/74, died unmarried April 17th, 1794.
Third, Christopher, of iv horn presently, as father of ike present peer.
Fourth and fifth, William and Lancelot, both died infants. Sixth, George, lieutenant-colonel in the army, born at Rich- mond, Surry, September 23th, 178I, married, in October 1805, Henrietta, daughter of Edward King, Esq. of Askham-Hajl, com. Westmoreland, by whom he has Maria, born 180(j in Gibraltar Bay, and Henrietta, born at Malta I8O7.
Seventh, Charles, born in Queen Anne-street West, in Julj 1786, died May 22d, 1799.
Eighth, Dudley, born in the Chateau St. Louis at Quebec, June 22d, 1790, a lieutenant in the fourth dragoons.
Ninth, Richard, born in St. Mary-le-bone, February 10th,
1792-
Tenth, Maria, eldest daughter born in the Chateau St. Louis at Quebec, August 20th, 1777, married in May 1810, Wil- liam, second Lord Bolton-
Eleventh, Frances, second daughter, born in Queen Anne- street West, February 3d, 1785, married, August 24th, 1802, the Rev. John Orde, of Kingsclere, Hants, (cousin of Lord Bolton).
Christopher Carleton, third son, already mentioned, (who died before his father) was born in the chateau St. Louis at Quebec, July 23d, 1775, was lieutenant-colonel of the twenty- fifth light dragoons, and died February 6th, 160(5, set. thirty-one, on board the Devonshire East Indiaman then lying in Madras roads, having married, on June cjth, 1/97 > Priscilla Martha,'
1 Her sister married Lieut. Colonel Sir Robeit Wilson, of the 20th dragoons.
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eldest daughter and coheir of William Belford-, Esq. a captain in the army, and grand-daughter of lieutenant-general William Bel- ford of the artillery. By her he had issue.
First, Maria Pelham Carleton, born June 27th, l/pS, and baptized at Dummer, Hants.
Second, Harriet Elizabeth Gcorgina, born July 22d, 1800, died September 22d following, and buried in Mary-le-bone church.
Third, Arthur Henry Carleton, who succeeded his grand- fiather as second Lord Dorchester.
His Lordship was born at Madras February 20th, 1S05, and baptized at St. Helena, in the church there.
Title. Arthur Henry Lord Dorchester, of Dorchester, in Ox- fordshire.
Creation. Baron of Dorchester August Sth, lysQ.
Arms. Ermine, on a bend sable, three pheons heads, argent.
Crest. An arm embowed, holding an arrow.
Supporters. Two beavers, collared.
Motto. Quondam his vicimus aemis.
Chief Seat.
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ELIOTT, LORD HEATHFIELD.
The surname of Eliott in the south of Scolland is said to have come from a village, called Eliott, in the north, and with that name came to the south border '-^ in" the reign of King James L of Scotland, ^
a Niabet gives the names and arms of the following branches.
" Firbt, Eliott, ofRedheugh, now called Lawriston, ii\ Liddisdale, G. •n a bend or, a pipe, or flute, of the first.
Second, Sir Gilbert Eliott, of Stobbs, Bart. G- on a bend engrailed or, a batton azure. Crest, a dexter arm holding a cutlass proper, with the motto Peradventure- As matriculated in the Lyon Register.
Third, Sir Gilbert Eliott, of M into, Bart, of late one of the Senators of the College of Justice, descended of Stobbs, G. on a bend engrailed or, a batton azure, all within a bordure vaiie ; Crest, a de.Kter hand issuing from a cloud and throwing a dart, all proper. Motto, Nonegit arcu.
Fourth, Mr, Adam Eliott, thiid son to the deceased Mr. Henry Eliott, minister of Eedrule, who was lawful son to William Eliott, sometime Pro- vost of Peebles, who was third brother to Gilbert Eliott, of Stobbs; G. on a bend engrailed or, a flute azure, all within a bordure engrailed of the second ; and charged with eight mullets of the third. Crest, a dexter hand, holding a flute proper, with the motto, inestfacunJitas, which shews the figure on the bend to be a pipe or flute.
Fifth, Walter Eliott, of Eskelton, a second son of Eliott, of Unthank, who was descended of the family of Lauriston, G. on a bend indented or, a flute of the first- Crest, a demi-man in armour, proper, with the motto, pro rege et limit e.
Sixth, Simeon Eliott, of Binksnow, of Swinside, descended of the family ef Lauriston, G. on a bend or, a baton azure, all within a bordure of the second, charged with six garbs, as the third. Crest, a gentleman holding a pike in his hand in a watching posture." Nisbet, vol. i. p. 09. b Nisbet's Heraldry, vol j. p. 99.
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Sir Gilbert Eliott, of Stohbs, in the district of Tiviot Dale in the shire of Roxburgh, Baronet of Nova Scotia (whose ancestor was so created 1666), "^ died in Scotland May 27th, 1764, having married Eleanor, daughter of William Eliot, of Weld, or Wells;, in the shire of Roxburgh, Esq. '^
By her he had issue.
First, Sir John Eliott, of Stobh, Bart, father of Sir Francis Eliott the present Bart.
Second, William; third, Gilbert; fourth, Charles; sixth, Eliott Eliott ; seventh, Gavui, all died s. p. and a daughter died young.
Fifth, Arcliibald Eliott, a merchant in London, and secretary to Ramsgate harbour.
Eighth, Sir George Augustus Eliott, first Lord Heath- riELD, was born at the paternal seat in the shire of Roxburgh, December 25th, 17^7-
He received the lirst rudiments of his education under a private tutor retained at the family seat. At an early age he was sent to the university of Leyden, where he made a rapid progress in clas- sical learning, and spoke with elegance and fluency the German and French languages.
Being designed for a military life, he was sent from thence to La Fere in Picardy. This school was rendered the most flimous in Europe by means of the great Vauban, under whom it was conducted. It was afterwards committed to the management and care of the Comte de Houroville. Here it was that the founda- tion was laid of that knowledge of tactics in all its branches, and particularly in the arts of engineering and fortification, which afterwards so greatly distinguished this officer. He completed his military course by a tonr on the continent, for the purpose of geeing in practice v/hat he had been studying in theory. Prussia was the model for discipline, and he continued for some time as a volunteer in this service. Such were the steps taken by the young men of fashion in that day to accomplish themselves for the service of their country. Many of his cotemporaries were then similarly engaged, nobly abandoning the enjoyments of
c Sir Gilbert Eliott, the first Baronet of MiiUo, so created 1700, was grandson of Gilbert Eliott, of Stobl's.
d Sister of Colonel William Eliott, who married Frances, daughter ami coheir of Henry Nassau D' Auvernucrquc, Jiarl of Grantham.
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ease and luxury at home, for the opportunity of seeing actual service.
Mr. Eliott returned, in his seventeenth year, to hii5 native country of Scotland, and was in the same year, l/o/i, introduced by his father. Sir Gilbert, to lieutenant-colonel Peers, of the twenty-third regiment of foot, or royal Welch fuzileers, then lying in Edinburgh. Sir Gilbert presented him as a youth anxious to bear arms for his King and country. He was accord- ingly entered as a volunteer in that regiment, and continued for a twelvemonth or more. At this time he gave a promise of his future military talents, and shewed that he was at least a soldier all coiur. From the tvrenty-third he went into the engineer corps at Woolwich, and made great progress in that study, until his uncle, Colonel Eliott, brought him in as adjutant of the se- cond troop of horse grenadiers. In this situation he conducted himself with the most exemplary attention, and laid the founda- tion of that discipline which has rendered those two troops the finest corps of heavy cavalry in Europe, the Hanoverian body guards and the musketeers of France not excepted.
With these troops he went upon service to Germany, in the war before last, and was with them in a variety of actions. At the battle of Dettingen he was wounded. In this regiment he tirst bought the rank of captain and major, and afterwards pur- chased the lieutenant colonelcy from Colonel Brewerton, who succeeded to his uncle. On arriving at this rank, he resigned his commission as an engineer, which he had enjoyed along with his other rank, and in which service he had been actively em- ployed very much to the advantage of his country. He had re- ceived the instructions of the famous engineer Bellidor, and made himself completely master of the science of gunnery. Had he not so disinterestedly resigned his rank in the engineer depart- ment, he would now by regular progression have been at the head of that corps.
Soon after this he was appointed aid-de-camp to King George ir. and was already distinguished for his military skill and dis- cipline. In the year 1759, he quitted the second troop of horse grenadier guards, being selected to raise, form, and discipline the fifteenth regiment of light horse, called after him Eiiolt's Light Horse. As soon as they were raised and formed, he was appointed to the command of the cavalry in the expedition on the coasts of France, with the rank of brigadier-general. And after
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this he passed into Germany, where he was employed on the staff, and greatly distinguished himself in a variety of movements, while his regiment displayed a strictness of discipline, an activity and enterprize, which gained them signal honour; and indeed they have been the pattern regiment, both in regard to discipline and appointment, to the chany light dragoon troops that have been since raised in our service.
From Germany he was recalled for the purpose of being em- ployed as second in command in the memorable expedition against the Havannah, It was possible to find an officer in the sunshine of the court to whom, under the patronage of a prince, the trap- pings of the chief command might be given ; but an Eliott was wanted to act as well as an Albemarle to shine, and for him they were forced to go to the dusty plains of Germany. The circum- stances of that conquest are well known. It seems as if our brave veteran had always in his eye the gallant Lewis de Velasco, who maintained his station to the last extremity, and, when his garrison were flying from his side, or falling at his feet, disdained to retire or call for quarter, but fell gloriously exercising his sword upon his conquerors.
Our readers will pardon us for the recital of a short anecdote which occurred immediately after the reduction, as it shews that in the very heat and outrage of war the General was not unmindful of the rights of humanity. He was particularly eminent among the conquerors of the Havannah for his disinterested procedure, and for checking the horrors of indiscriminate plunder. To him therefore appeals were most frequently made. A Frenchman who had suffered greatly by the depredations of the soldiery, made application to him, and begged in bad English, that he would in- terfere to have his property restored. The petitioner's wife who was present, a woman of great spirit, was angry at the husband for the intercession, and said, *■' Comment pouvez vous demandcr de grace a' un homme qui vient vous depouiller ? N' en esperez pas." The husband persisting in his application, his wife grew more loud in the censure, and said, " Vous n' etes pas Francois I" The General, who was busy in writing at the time, turned to the woman and said smiling, "■ Madame, ne vous echauffez pas ; ce que votre mari demande lui sera accorde I" " Oh faut-il pour surcroit de malheur," exclaimed the woman, *' que le barbare parle le Francois !" The General was so very much pleased with the woman's spirit^ that he not only procured them their property
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agairij but also took pains to accommodate them in every respect. This was through hte the manly characteristic of the Ge- neral : if he would not sutler his troops to extend, for the sake of plunder, the ravages of war, he never impoverished them by un- just actions. He would never consent that his quarter-masters place should be sold, "■ not only," says he, " because I think it is the reward of an honest veteran soldier j but also because I could not so directly exercise my authority in his dismission should he behave ill."
On the peace, his gallant regiment was reviewed by his Ma- jesty in Hyde-Park ; when they presented to the King the stand- ards which they had taken from the enemy. The King, grati- fied with their high character, asked General Eliott what mark of his favour he could bestow on his regiment equal to their merits. He answered, his regiment would be proud if his Ma- jesty should think, that by their services they were entitled to the distinction of Royals. It was accordingly made a royal regiment of light dragoons. At the same time the King expressed a desira to confer a mark of his favour on the brave General ; but he de- clared, that the honour and satisfaction of his Majesty's approba- tion of his services were his best reward.
During the peace he was not idle. His great talents in th« various branches of the military art, gave him ample employment j and in the year 17/5, he was appointed to succeed General A' Court, as Commander in chief of the forces in Ireland. But he did not continue long on this station; not even long enough to unpack all his trunks ; for finding that interferences were made by petty authority derogatory of his own, he resisted the practice with becoming spirit ; and not choosing to disturb the govern- ment of his sister kingdom on a matter personal to himself, h« solicited to be recalled, and accordingly was so, when he was ap- pointed to the command of Gihraltar, in a fortunate hour for the safety of that important fortress.
The system of his life, as well as his education, peculiarly qualified him for this trust. He was perhaps the most abste- mious man of the age. His food was vegetables, and his drink water. He neither indulged himself in animal food nor wine. 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 hardness, that the things which are difficult and painful to other men, were to him his daily practice, and
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rendered pleasant by use. It could not be easy to starve such a man into a surrender, nor easy to surprise him. His wants were easily supplied, and his watchfulness was beyond precedent. The example of the commander-in-chief in a besieged garrison, has a most persuasive efficacy in forming the manners of the sol- diery. Like him his brave followers came to regulate their lives by the most strict rules of discipline before there arose a necessity for so doing ; and severe exercise, \vith short diet, became habi- tual to them by their own choice. The military system of disci- pline which he introduced, and the preparations which he made for his defence, were contrived with so much judgment, and ex- ecuted with so much address, that he was able, with a handful of men, to preserve his post against an attack, the constancy of "which, even without the vigour, was sufficient to exhaust any common set of men. Collected within himself, he in no instance destroyed, by premature attacks, the labours which would cost the enemy time, patience, and expence to complete ; he delibe- rately observed their approaches, and seized on the proper mo- ment, with the keenest perspection in which to make his attack with success. He never spent his ammunition in useless parade, or in unimportant attacks. He never relaxed from his discipline by the appearance of security, nor hazarded the lives of his gar- rison by wild experiments. By a cool and temperate demeanor, he maintained his station for three years of constant investment, in which all the powers of Spain were employed. All the eyes of Europe were on his garrison, and hi;? conduct justly raised him to a most elevated place in the military annals of the present day.
On his return to England, the gratitude of the British senate was as forward as the public voice in giving him that distinguished mark his merit deserved, to which his Majesty was pleased to add that of Knight of ike Bath ; and an elevation to the peerage by the title of Lord Heathfield, Baron Gllraltar, on June J4th, 1/87, and permitting his Lordship to take also the arms of the fortress he had so bravely defended, to perpetuate to futurity his noble conduct.
He closed a life of military renown at the most critical season for his memory. He died in the seventy-third year of his age, on the 6th of July l/QO, at his Chateau at Aix la Chapelle, of a second stroke of the palsy, after having enjoyed for some week.s pas.t a tolerably good share of health, and an unusual flow of
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spirits. Two days before his death, he dined with his friend Mr. Barclay ; and was in a few days to have set out with that Gentle- man for Leghorn, on his way to Gibraltar. His remains were brought to Dover from Ostend in the Race-horse packet, whence they were conveyed to IJeathfield in Sussex, and there deposited jn a vault built for that purpose, over which a handsome monu- nient is erected. ^
His Lordship married at St. Sepulchre's, London, on June 8th, 17-iS, Anne Pollexfen Drake, daugnter of Sir Francis Drake, of Backland, com. Devon, Bart, ; and by her, who died Fe- bruary 13th, 1772, and was buried in South Audley chapel, had issue.
First, Francis Augustus Eliott, present Peer.
Second and Third, Gilbert and another child died infants, and were buried at Ealing.
Fourth, Anne, born at Ealing in 1754, married at St, George's Hanover-square, on May 21st, 17775 to John Tray ton Fuller, of Brightling com. Sussex, Esq. who has issue hy her.
Francis Augustus Eliott, pre.$ew^ and second Lord Heath- field, was born at Ealing, Middlesex, December 31st, 1750. Entering into the army, he was formerly lieutenant-colonel of the sixth, or Liniskilling dragoons, and advanced to the rank of major-general October 4th, 1794.
On March 15th, l/QS, his Lordship was appointed to the command of the twenty-ninth dragoons ; and in March 1/97, to that of the twentieth dragoons j from whence (on the death of Lord Dorchester in November, 1808), he obtained the fourth dra- goons, which he now commands.
On June iSth, 1799> ^'s Lordship was appointed a lieutenant general ; and on April 25th, 1808, a general.
Title. Francis Augustus Eliott, Lord Heathfield, Baron of Gibraltar.
Creation. Lord Heathfield, Baron of Gibraltar, July 6th,
1/89.
Arms. G. on a bend argent, a baton azure : and on a chief azure, the fortress of Gibralta*-, under it, PLUi ultra, as an augmentation,
« Biog- Diet vol. y. p. 307— -311.
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Crest. A dexter arm, holding a cutlas proper, the arm charged with a key.
Supporters. On the dexter side a ram, on the sinister a goat, facb wreathed with flowers round the neck.
Motto. FoKTITER ET RECTE.
Chief Seals, Heathfield Park, Sussex ; and Buckland, cone.. Devon.
LORD KENYON.
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KENYON, LORD KENYON.
Roger Kexyox left issue by Alice Rlgby
Thomas Kenyon, who married Catherine, eldest daughter and coheir of Luke Lloyd, of Bryn in Flintshire, Esq. and dyinj- 1731, left issue two sons and two daughters, viz.
First, Lloyd.
Second, Thomas, who died under age.
Third, Catherine, married William Middleton, Esq. and died s. p.
Fourth, Dorothy, married William Percival, of Rayton in Lancashire.
Lloyd Kenyon, elJest son, born at Bryn in the parish of Han- mer in Flintshire, March 17th, l6g5-6, married at Hanmer in November ] /SO, Jane, eldest daughter of Robert Eddowes, of Eagle-Hall, com. Chester (by Anne his wife), which Jane was born October 17th, 1703, and died August 25th, 177J, and was buried at Hanmer the 2Sth of the same month. He died in De- cember 1773, and was buried at Hanmer, January 2d, 1774, having had issue by her.
First, Thomas, born September 14th, 1731, buried in the col- legiate church at Manchester, May 24th, 175O.
Second, 'LXoydi, first Lord Kenyon, of whom presently.
Third, Richard, born March 1733, died at Whitchurch, com. Salop, October 29th, 1/51, and was buried at Hanmer.
Fourth, Roger Kenyon, ofCefenin the county of Denbigh, Esq. born April 1735, married Mary, only daughter of Edward Lloyd, of Penyllan com. Denbigh, Esq. by Mary, second daughter of Edward Lloyd, of Plasmadoc in the said county, Esq. Sh« died February 4th; 178I, and was burled at Hanmer. By her ht
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had issue, first, Edward Lloyd Kenyon j second, George j third, Thomas ; fourth, Jane, wife of Henry Ellis, of Poates, Esq. ; fifth, Anne Maria,
The following character of the late Lord Chief Justice Kenyon appeared in a newspaper at the time of his death.
" In the full conviction, that the following biographical and characteristic notices, (which are chiefly drawn from an original source, and not from transient or obscure publications) of this truly excellent magistrate and man, will prove acceptable, we pre- sent them to our readers.
Lloyd, first Lord Kenyon, was born atGredington^ in Fiint-r shire, Oct, 5, 1/32; he was the eldest surviving son of Lloyd Kenyon, Esq. originally of Brynn, in the same county, and one of the younger branches of the ancient family of Kenyon, of Peele in Lan- cashire, His Lordship received the elementary part of his education at Ruthin in Denbighshire, whence he was taken, at an early age, and articled to Mr, W. J. Tomkinson, an eminent attorney at Nantwich in Cheshire. On the expiration of his articles, Mr. Kenyon determined to enter into a line which afforded a more ample scope to his industry and talents, and, accordingly, he be- came a member of the society of Lincoln's-Ipn, in Trinity Term 1754, and after a sedulous application to the requisite studies, was called to the bar in Hilary Term, 176I.
In the early part of his professional career, the advancement of Mr, Kenyon was but slow : he was unassisted by those means which powerful connection and interest afford : added to this, the branch of his profession to which he chiefly applied himself, namely, that of conveyancing, was not calculated to bring him forward into public notice : but the sterling merit of genuine abi- lities, and persevering industry, were not to be overlooked. Mr. Kenyon rose gradually into practice; few opinions at the bar, at the time, carried more weight and authority, and he was frequently recurred to as an advocate. In 1773, an interesting epoch in Mr, Kenyon's private life took place j he formed a matrimonial con- nection with his relative, Mary, the third daughter of George Kenyon, of Peel in Lancashire, the family before alluded to ; and not long after, he contracted an intimacy with Mr. afterward* Lord Thurlow, and Chancellor. About this period too, and for some years after, his practice in the Court of Chancery was very extensive, and of the most lucrative kind, by which, as well as in \he other lines of his profession, he acquired a very considcrablf J * \a the parish of Hanmer.
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l^ropertj. In l/SO a circumstance occurred, which not a little contributed to establish his reputation as an advocate and a public speaker, namely, his being employed as leading counsel lor the defence of the late Lord George Gordon, on a charge of high treason ; on this interesting occasion, Mr. Kenyon's second was Mr. Erskine, who on that day distinguished himself in such a manner, as in a great degree laid the foundation of his future fame. In April 1/82, soon after the accession of the Rockingham party to ministerial power, Mr. Kenyon, was, without serving the intermediate office of Solicitor, appointed to the important situation o{ Attorney-General, and at the same time, chief justice of Chester j in the former office he succeeded the late James Wallace, Esq. father of the Right Hon. Thomas Wallace. The circumstance of Mr. Kenyon's direct promotion to the office of attorney-general, was regarded as a singular instance; this however is erroneous, similar promotions have before occurred, and the case of Sir Ed- ward Law, a late attorney-general, is a recent instance.
In parliament Mr. Kenyon took a decided part in politics, warmly attaching himself to the party of the late minister, Mr. Pitt, and he distinguished himself not a little by his speeches on the noted affair of the coalition, Mr. Fox's India Bill, &c. In M.irch 178-I, he was a[)pointed Master of the Rolh, an office of higli judicial dignity, and generally leading to still highei' lecr^l honours: however, its emoluments fell very short of those which Mr. Kenyon necessarily relinquished by discontinuing his prok:s- sional pursuits as a counsel : about this time he was created a Baronet.
In this situation, Sir Lloyd Kenyon continued until the latter end of May 1/58, wlien on the resignation of the venerable Earl of Manstield, who, for the long period of thirty-two years, had held the honouableaDd very important office of Chief Justice of the CoLRT or King's Bench, he was appointed to succeed him, and at the same time, was elevated to the peerage, by the title of Loud Ken'yon, Baron ofGredinglon, in the county 0/ Flint.
He was now fixed in a situation, which though not nominnllv the highest, is perhaps the most important office in the adminis- tration of the law of this country; and Lord Kenyon furnished an instance nearly as striking as that of the illustrious Hardwickc, that the profession of the law is that which, of all others, afiurds the fairest opportunities for the exertion of genuine talent, antl persevering industry 3 whether the object be the gratihcalion o*
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ambition in the attainment of the highest honours in the state, or the possession of abundant wealth.
Of the character of Lord Kenyon iu his magisterial and judi- cial capacity, convinced it is too well established in the hearts and minds of his fellow subjects, we presume not to speak. His con- duct in those arduous and important situations which he so lately filled, speaks its best and fairest eulogiuni; it has attracted and fixed the applauses and gratitude of his countrymen ; his character and his fame will descend with increasing lustre to an ada^iiring and a grateful posterity.
A few prominent considerations in the course of Lord Kenyon's forensic administration we cannot, however, in justice to him, or consistently with our own feelings, refrain from adverting to. We allude, first, to his laudable, firm, and persevering exertions to keep the channels of the law clear and unpolluted by low and sordid practices, and which were particularly exemplified in the vigilant and salutary exercise of his authority over the attornies of his own court, the utility of which has been experienced in a very considerable degree. Secondly, his unprecedented zeal in the cause of morality and \irtue, which most conspicuously ap- peared in his conduct with respect to cases of adultery and se- duction : on these occasions, neither rank, wealth, nor station, could shield delinquency from the well-merited censure, and re- buke, of offended justice and morality: though much unhappily remains to be done, yet his Lordship's exertions, combined with those of some of the most virtuous and exalted characters of the upper house of parliament, have contributed greatly, notwith- standing the acknowledged inadequacy and imperfection of the law in these respects, to restrain the fashionable and prevailicg vices alluded to.
A third consideration, and which highly redounds to the ho- nour of his Lordship's magisterial character, is the strictness, not to say severity, with which he administered the justice of the law against the pernicious tribe of gamblers of every description, who have for some years infested the metropolis. On these occasions, as well as in those above mentioned, the conduct of this truly vir- tuous judge, was such as incontrovertibly shewed that the law is no respecter of persojis ; and his persevering exertions to restrain the destructive vice of gaming, have been attended with no in- considerable degree of success. Nor should we omit to mention tlie very laudable spirit and firmness, w Inch on all occasions he evinced in maintaining due order and decorum in his court.
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Wc cnnnot conclude this part of our subject, without giving, as supplementary to it, the following concise and comprehensive, but liighly appropriate character of the late chief justice ; it is extmcted from a much esteemed tract, which appeared not long after his elevation to the Bench, and, in almost every particular, perfectly coincides with our ideas on the subject :
" Lord Kenyon may not equal, in talents or eloquence, the pre-eminent character whom he succeeds on the bench of justice; nevertheless, he possesses qualities more appropriate to, and know- ledge more connected with, the important office which he holds. Profound in legal erudition, patient injudicial discrimination, and of the most determined integrity, he is formed to add no common lustre to his exalted station. He does not sacrifice his official to his parliamentary character : the sphere of his particular duty is the great scene of his activity, as of his honour ; and though, as a lord of parliament he will never lessen his character, it is as a judge that he looks to aggrandize it. Such men will be revered for their virtues and their wisdom, when the /)fl?(>' declaimers and the frothy pleaders of the day have long been forgotten."
Li private life, the character of Lord Kenyon was amiable and praise- worthy, in the highest degree ; no man could possibly excel him in the relations of husband and father ; indeed, in the former, he may be considered as a pattern of conjugal virtue. In his mode of living, he was remarkably temperate and regular; but the gratuitous assistance, in his professional capacit)', which it was well known he had often afforded to necessitous and injured indi- viduals, does away the imputation, that a fondness for money was rather a prevailing i7-ait in his character,"
Lord Kenyon had issue by his Lady, three sons, namely.
First, Lloyd, born May 22d, 17/5, whom his father appointed to the office of Philazer of the Court of King's Bench: he stood not long before his death an electioneering contest for the county of Flint. This gentleman died September 15th, 1800, and the manner in which his Lordship was affiscted by this melancholy event, is supposed, in some degree, to have accelerated his own dissolution.
Secondly, George, the present Lord Kenyon. His Lordship was appointed by his late father to the very lucrative situation of joint chief clerk of the Court of King's Bench, on the demise of the late Earl of Mansfield, better known as Lord Viscount Stor- mont ; and joined in the patent with John Way, Esq.
Third, Thomas, born in the parish of St. Giles in the Field,
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September 27th, 1/80, married, April 12th, 1803, Charlotte, sister of William Lloyd, of Aston, Esq. and has a son born June l6th,- 1804.
George, second but eldest surviving son, second and present Lord Kenyon, was born in the parish of St. Giles in the Fields, June 22d, 177(J. ^
His Lordship married, February 1st, 1803, Margaret Emma, daughter of Sir Thomas Hanmer, of Hanmer in Flintshire, Bart. by whom he has issue.
First, Margaret Emma, born November 5th, 1803.
Second, Lloyd, born April 1st, 1805,
Third, George, born February '24th, 180(5.
Fourth, Marianne, born May 29th, ISO7.
Fifth, A daughter, born September 2d, ISO8,
Title. George Kenyon, Lord Kenyon, of Gredington in Flintshire.
Creation. Lord Kenyon, Baron of Gredington, June Qih, 1788.
Arms. Sable, a chevron engrailed or, between three crosses fleure argent, a crescent for difference.
Crest. A lion seiant, holding between his paws a cross fleure.
Supporters. See the plate.
Motto. MaGNANIMITER CRUCEM SUSTINE.
Chief Seat. Gredington, Flintshire.
a His Lordship is author of, " Observations on the Roman Catholic Quesm t!i»," London, iSi'^.tivc. ; higiiiy commctideu by T/^e British Critk- for August, »8io, p. 171,
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CURZON, BARONESS HOWE.
Richard, the late Earl Howe, was advanced to the dignity ol a peer of Great Britain, by letters patent, dated x\pril 20th, 1/82, by the name, style, and title of Viscount Howe, of Lav gar m the county of Nottingham, to iiini and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten; and was fartlier advanced, on August 18th, 1/88, to the dignity of Earl Howe, with remainder to the heirs male of his body; also to the title of Baron Howe, ofLangar in Nolt'mghamshire , with remainder, in default of issue male of his own body, to }ds daughters, in succession, and the issue via/e of their bodies.
Henry Howe, living in the reign of King Henry Ylll. had issue ; first, John Howe, son and heir ; second, Thomas Howe ; third, a daughter, wife of John Walsh.
John Howe, eldest son, of the parish of St. Helen's, Lon- don, made his will on January 24th, 15/3-4; and the preamble shews he had a good judi^^ment, and virtuous mind. He leaves charities to the poor of St. Helen's parish, London, wherein he dwelt J and to twenty poor people, present at his burial, each of them a gown, to be chose by his executor; and also to such poor as shall resort to his burial, 4d. each, as far as 4/, Avould extend. To the poor children of Christ's hospital, 40^-. and the two Compters, and the prison of Newgate, Ludgate, King's Bench, and Marshalsea, to every of them 20^.
He bequeaths to his son, John Howe, his best chain of gold, weighing sixteen ounces; to his brother, I'homas Howe, 20/. and to Humphrey, his son, 10 1. He bequeaths to his son, JoJm, Jiowe, and to his daughters, Susan and Judith, and to his daughtei.
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Hilliard, and her husband ; to his cousin Mr. Alderman Bond, and his wifej to his brother Sharington, and his wife ; to John Lowen, and his wife; and to his cousin George Bond, and his wife J and to every of them, a black gown of cloth, of 1/ or 18^. a yard. To his cousin William Bowreman, of Wells, he bequeaths a black gown of like value, if he fortune to be in London at his burial; or, if he be absent, a ring of gold with a death's head, price 40*. desiring him to receive his yearly rents from Hunspell, and transmit to London, as heretofore he hath friendly done. He bequeaths mourning to every of his servants, dwelling with him at his decease ; and ordains, that his executor reward every of them somewhat besides, according to his discretion, and theii diligent service. Moreover, he charges his executor, that all his debts, in right or conscience, be truly paid and satisfied.
He further bequeaths to the poor of the parish of Usculme, where he was Lorn, 61. \3s, 4d. within six months after his de- cease, by the discretion of the vicar and church-wardens there, for the time being, and of his brother Thomas, and brother-in- law John Walshe.
To his son-in-law, William Hilliard, Gent, and Anne his daughter, his wife, each of them a ring of gold with a death's head, price 50^.
The residue of all his goods, &:c. not bequeathed, he divides among his children, John Howe, Susan, and Judith.
He ordains John Howe, his son, sole executor; and over- seers, Mr. Alderman Bond, and his cousin William Walshe, and leaves to each of them a ring of gold with a death's head therein, of the value of 3/. each, with these words. Memento mori; desir- ing them to be aiding and assisting to his executor, more for old love and acquaintance, than for reward.
Sealed and delivered as aforesaid, and the seal annexed : a fess ingrailcd, letween threb tro/vcs heads, as now borne by his descendants.
As to the disposition of a|l and singular his lands, kc. in the counties of Somerset, Devon, Es^ex, and city of London, and in the suburbs of the same, or elsewhere within the realm of Eng- land, he disposes of them as follows. He settles on his son and heir apparent, John Howe, l)is hci - and assigns, for ever, all that his messuai^e, called the Rose in Smitli ,ekl, and all other his mes- suages in the parishes of St. Sepulchre, London, St. Giles without Cripplegate, St. Thomas the Apostle, and St. Stephen, in Cole- man-street, London : to his daughter Susan, and the heirs of her
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body, his two messuages, with the appurtenances, situate in St. Helen's-close, in the parish of St. Helen, within Bishopsgate j in default, to his right heirs for ever : to Judith, his daughter, and the heirs of her body, his messuage in the said close of St. Helen, late in the tt-nure of Edward Mirtyn, Esq. deceased ; remainder to his right heirs, as aforesaid : to Anne Hilliard, his daughter, now the wife of William Hilliard, Gent, his messuage, garden, and appurtenances, in the tenure of John Butler, Gent, in the said close oi St. Helen ; the remainder as aforesaid.
To his son and heir, John Howe, he bequeaths all that his manor and lordship of Hunspel de la Heies, with the rights, mem- bers, and appurtenances, in the county of Somerset ; and all those messuages, lands, &c. in South Wokingdon in Essex ; and also those messuages, and tenements, in the parish St. John Zachary, in Foster-lane, London, to him and the heirs of his body ; in de- fault, to his said three daughters, Anne, Susan, and Judith, and the heirs of their bodies lawfully begotten ; in default, to his ne- phew, William Walshe, and the heirs male of his body ; in de- fault, to his brother, John Walshe, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten ; the remainder to his right heirs. Also to his said son, John Howe, he bequeaths all his lands and tenements iii Kyttesford, in com. Somerset, and in Washfelde, in Devon ; and, in default of issue, to his brother, Thomas Howe, and the heirs of his body J in default, to his right heiis. In witness whereof, he sets his hand and seal, on May 14th, 1574.
He died on'- the 27th of that month, leaving issue Joha Howe, his son and heir, 18 years of age at the time of his death, as appears by inquisition taken at Taunton, on May 5th, 1570.
Which John Howe took to wife Jane, daughter of Nicholas Crul-liam, of Bishop's Lidiard in com. Somerset, '' grandson and heir of Robert Grubham, of the same place. And the said Jane, by the death of her brother. Sir Richard Grubham, of IVishford in com. IPilts, Knight, who married Margaret, daughter of Wil- liam Whitmore, alderman of London, and died Avithout issue, in 1629, brought a very large fortune to her husband and children. Also George Grubham, brother to the said Sir Richard, dying without issue in 15Q0, left legacies by his will, bearing date'' on April 30th, 1596, to his sister Howe, the wife of John Howe, as
a Cole's Escaet in Bibl. Harlcy prxd
•» Visde com Wilts, Dors, et Somers. c. 22, p. 14, in OtTic. Arm.
c £x Rcjjibtr Drake, quirp 76.
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also to every of her children ; and the residue of his estate to hia brother, Richard Grubham, and appoints him sole executor.
The said John Howe, Esq. by Jane his before-mentioned, had issue'' three sons 5 first, John; second, George; and, third, Laurence; also one daughter, Elizabeth, married to John Bainton, Esq.
Sir George Howe, the second son, was seated at Cold Berwick, otherwise Berwick St. Leonard's in Wilts ; and supplying King Charles L with large sums of money during his troubles, was knighted, and served in parliament for the borough of Hindon, He married Dorothy, daughter of Humphrey Clarke, otherwise Woodechurch, of Woodechurch in Kent, Esq. by whom he left two sons and one daughter, viz. first, Sir George ; second, John, of Sojnerton in Somersetshire, who married the daughter of . ... Strode, Esq. ; and Margaret, wife to John Still, of Shaftsbury, Esq. Sir George Griitham Howe, the elder son, born in 1627, served in several parliaments for Hindon; was created a Baronet Jane 20lh, 166O; married, in l650, Elizabeth, younger daughter of Sir Harbottle Grimston, of Bradfield-Hall in Essex, Bart. and. dying September 26th, lOjO, had many children, who all died voung, except one sou. Sir James, and four daughters ; Dorothy, married to Henry Lee, of Dungeon near Canterbury, Esq. ; Anne, to John Lisle, of Moyle's-Court in Hampshire, Esq.; Elizabeth, to Robert Hovenden, ot Frisley in Kent, Gent. ; and Mary, to Sir George Rooke, vice-admiral of England, who died January 26th, 17O8. S'lY James Hqivp, the ufily son, member of parlia- ment for Hindon, married, first, Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Nutt, of Nackington in Kent, Esq. and she dying September 8th, 1691, he took to his second wife Elizabeth, daughter and coheir
to Stratford, of Hailing in Gloucestershire, Esq. who also
dying in 1702 without issue, the title became extinct by his death on January IQih, 1/35, a^t. sixty-six.
Sir John Howe, eldest son of John by Jane, sister of Sir Richard Grubham, by gift of his said uncle, had the manor of Compton in Gloucestershire, with Wishford and other estates in Wiltshire. He was high siieritf' of the county of Gloucester in 1O5O, and created a Baronet on September 22d, lOdO. He mar- ried Bridget, daughter to Thomas Rich, of Nortii Cerney, in the county of Gloucester, Esq. INLister in Chancery : she lies buried under a handsome marble monument in the church of Withing-,
'1 Vis. lie com. WiltSj &c pr«d.
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ton in Gloucestershire, with the following inscription in small cipitals.
" Bridgett, one of the davghters of Thomas Rich of North Cerney in this Covnty of Glove. Esq. one of the Masters of the liighe Covrte of Chaviicery, and Anne his wife, one of the davghters and Cohuires of Thomas Bovrchier of Barnesly in the said Covnty, E^q. the '23th of Jvly 1()20, was married to John Howe of Little Compton in this Parish, Esq. nephewe and Ilelre of Sir Richard Grobham of Great Wishford in the Covnty of Wiltes Knt. deceased ; with whome shee lived a vertvovs and lovinge wife 21 yeares and xi monelhs, and had Issue (J Children (viz.)
"First, Richard Grobham Howe, borne the 28th of Avgvst 1621, who married Lvcie, one of the Davghters of Sir John St. John of Lyddiard Tregoze in the said Covnty of Wiltes Knt. and Barrt.
" 2dly, John Grobham Howe, borne the 25th of Janvary 1624, who married Annabella, one of the daughters and coheires of Emanvell, late Earle of Sunderland.
" 3dly, December the 4th l6'2(j, Svsanna was borne, who married John Ernie of Berry Towne, in the said Covnty of Wiltes, Esq.
" 4thiy, Third day of March l62g, Thomas Grobham Howe was borne.
"■ othly, The 13th day of Jvne l630, William Howe was borne^ slay Jig at Limtrick in the Kingdom of Ireland.
" blhly. The 4th of March 1(332, Anna Howe was borne, who died very yoviige and lyeth heere buryed.
" 7thly, The 21th day of December ](J33, Elizabeth Howe, was borne, now tJw wife of Thomas Chester of Annslunj in this County, Esqr.
" Stbly, The 22th of October 1635, George Howe was borne, who died younge and lyeth buried at Wishford in the vavlt.
" 9thly, The 27th of November l0"37, Charles Howe was borne,
" And on the 15th day of Jvne 1642, Annoqve iEtatis Svre 465 left them to the protection of the Almighty, and her owne mortality to this ciirth, expeclinge a joylvll rcr^urreetion.'
At the top are the ligures of a man and woman, and bctvvfon them a scutcheon of their arms^ or, a fis hi:lwt:en three H v,ves
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heads coupt sable for Howe, impaled with, per pale sable and gules, a CTOss bottony Jitchy betiveen three Jleurs-de-lis or, for Kich.
Sir Thomas Grubham Howe, third son, was knighted, and married Hesther, daughter and coheir of "^ Sir William Main- waring, Knight, who was killed upon the walls of Chester, l645, on the part of Charles I. but died s. p.
Sir RicHAKD Grubham ?Iowe, second Baronet, the eldest son, married Anne, fourth daughter of Dr. John King, Lord Bishop of London, widow of John Dutton, of Sherborne in Glou- cestershire, Esq. by whom he had an only daughter '^ Lucy, married to Edmund Waller, of Gregories in Bucks, Esq. and one son.
Sir Richard, third Baronet, who represented the county of Wilts in nine parliaments, and married, August 12th, 16/3, Mary, daughter of Sir Henry Frederick Thynne, of Kempsford in Glou- cestershire, Bart, sister of I'homas the first Viscount Weymouth, but by her, who died September 5th, 1735, had no issue, and de- ceasing July 3d, 1730, his title and estates descended to the heirs of his uncle John Grulhani Howe, second son of Sir John thcjirst Baronet.
Which John Grubham represented the county of Gloucester in parliament, from 166I to 167S, and by his marriage became possessed of the manor of Langar in the county of Nottingham, where he fixed his residence ; which manor, formerly the inheri- tance of the Tiptofts, passed from them to the family of Scrope s by the marriage of Roger, Lord Scrope of Bolton, with Margaret, eldest daughter and coheir of Robert Lord Tiptoft 5 and his de- scendant Emanuel, last Lord Scrope of Bolton, and Earl of Sun- derland, having no issue by his wife, the Lady Elizabeth Man- ners, daughter of John, Earl of Rutland, settled it and the rest of his estates upon his natural issue, which he had by Martha Janes, of whom the only son, John, dying unmarried July 31st, KhQ, his three sisters became his coheirs, \vhereof the youngest, named Annabella, upon the partition of the estate, had the manor of Langar allotted to her, and brought it to her husband the said
c Her sister Judith married Sir John Busby, of Addington com. Bucks, Knight, by wiiom slieleft an oalycliild Hesther, m.irricd to the Hon Thomas Egcrton.ot'Iatton-Park, Cheshire, third son of John, third Karl of Bridge. water, Seevol.iii. p. zoo-
1' Mon. Angl vol iii, p. 88- S Thoroton"b Nottinghamshire, p. 104.
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John Giubbam Howe, Esq. King Charles II. by his letters, re- gistered in the office of arms, bearing date the first day of June 1663,'' in the fifteenth year of his reign, in consideration of the good and acceptable service done and performed by John Howe, of Langar, Ksq. her husband, and for a mark of his especial grace and royal favour, granted and ordained, that she, the said Anna- hella, should be had, taken, and esteemed as the daughter of an Earl of this kingdona of England^ and that, for and during her natural life, she have, hold, take, use, and enjoy the style, place, degree, precedency, and privileges thereof, in as full and ample manner, as if she had been the legitimate daughter of Emanuel late Eail of Sunderland ; with a precept of obedience to all and every of his Majesty's subjects : from which time she was styled. The Right Honourable Lady Annabella Howe ; and, havino- sur- vived her said husband, died on March 21st, 1 703-4, in the seventy-fourth year of her age, and lies buried at Stowell, under an handsome marble monument. ' Their issue were four sons and five daughters. Of the sons,
Scrope, the eldest, was ancestor to the present Viscount, and the present Baroness.
And from John Gruhham, the second, the late Lord Ched- worth descended.
Third, Charles, of Grltworth.
Fourth, Emanuel. "^
li Ex Autogr. i Le Neve's Mon. Ang. vol. iv- p. 72-
k Third, Charles, born in 1661, was seated at Gritivorth, in the county of Northampton, and by Eleanor his wife, daughter and heir of Sir William Pargiter, of Gritwoith, Knight, * widow of Sir Henry Bering, Knight, had issue three sons and three daughters. The sons and two daughters died young, and are buried at Gritworth, with their mother, who died July 25th, 1696; Leonora-Maria, their only surviving daughter and heir, married Peter Bathurst, of Clarendon-Park, in Wiltshire, Esq.
Fourth, Emanuel, took, to a military life, and rose gradually, by his merit, to be a colonel of a regiment of foot, and was one of the grooms of the bed-chamber to Kirig William, who confeiredon him a grant of lieutenant of Alice-Holt anil Wolmer forests in Hampshire, after the term of Colonel Wil- liam Legge's grant of forty-five years, which he had surrendered to him for a valuable consideration. In the reign of Queen Anne, he was, on March 9th, J703, promoted to the rank of brigadier-general ; and in 1705, was sent her Majesty's envoy cxtraorilinary to the Elector of Hanover, afterwards King George I. He anived at tiie Hague, and set out tVoni thence on his journey to Elanover, on October 17th, 1705, where he arrived on the i5th of the same
]5ridgcs's Northamptonshire, vol- i. p 126.
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Which ScROPE, the eldest son, firs i Viscount Howe, born in November l6lS, was educated in Christ-church college, Oxford, where, on September 8tli, \QQ5, he commenced master of arts.
month. On May loth, 1707, he was promoted to be major-general of her Majesty's forces ; and was afterwards lieutenant-general of her forces. He died on September 26th, 1709; and by Ruperta his wife, * natural daughter of Prince Rupert, third son of Frederick, titular King of Bohe.nia, by the Princess Elizabeth, only daughter of King James 1. had issue three sons, William, Emanuel, and James; also a daughter, Sophia, who was maid of honour to her late Majesty Queen Caroline, when Princess of Wales, and died on .'\pril 4th, 1726. Major William Howe, eldest son, left an only daughter and heir, by Elizabeth his wife, third daughter and coheir of Wil- liam Pauncefort, Esq. viz. Mary, married to Sir George Smith, of East-StokCi Notts, B,ut. by whom she was mother of the late Sir George Smith Bromley Paunceforte, Bart.
John Howe, Esq. the second son of the before-mentioned John Howe, and Lady Annabella, remarkably distinguished himself by his speeches on several weighty affairs in the house of commons, whereof he was a member, till within a few years of his decease. In the convention parliament, which met at Wejtminstcr, on January 22d, 1688-9, ^^ served for Cirencester, and was constantly chose for that borough ; as f also knight of the shire for the county of Gloucester in the three last parliaments of King William, and in the first, fourth, and seventh years of Oueen Anne. When King William and Qu;en Mary were proclaimed King and Queen of England, on the esta- blishment of their court, J he was made vice-chamberlain to Queen Mary. In i(ig6, he was a strenuous advocate for Sir John Fenvvicke, and his pleading in behilf of that unfortunate gentleman shews his extensive knowledge of the laws, and aversion to unconstitutional measures. In 1C99, when the army was reduced, it was ^ principally owing to Mr. Howe, that the house of com- mons agreed to allow half-pay to the disbanded officers : and wlien the par- tition-treaty was afterwards under the consideration of that house, he ex- pressed his sentiments of it in such terms, that King William declared, that if it were not for the disparity of their rank, he would demand satisfaction with the sword. At the accession of her Majesty Queen Anne, || he was sworn ot her privy-council, on April 21st, 1702 ; and, on June 7th following,? constituted vice-admiral of the county of Gloucester Aho, before the end of that year,'*he was constituted Pay m aster-Ge nf.r al of her Majesty's guards and garrisons, viz. on January 4th, 1702-3. And a new privy-council being settled, on May loth, 1708,1! according to act of parliament, relating to the union of the two kingdoms, he was, among other the great officers, sworn thereof. He continued paymaster of the guards and garrisons till after the accession of King George I XX who appointed Robert Walpole,
* Sandford's Genealogical Hist, of the Royal Family.
+ Willis's Lists of Pari. MS.
X Kennet's Hist, of Engl. vol. iii p. 350. (j Ibid. p. 772.
I Pointer's Chron Hist, p .j-i. S Ibid. p. 473.
'* Ibid. p. 482. -ft Pointer's Chron. Hist. p. 51^3.
'^X Supplement tu Pointer's Hist j). 777.
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He represented the county of Nottingham in the* reigns of Charles It. William III. and Queen Anne ; and was one of those patriots who, on June 26th, 1080, delivered a presentment to the o-rand jury of Middlesex, against the Duke of York, with reasons for indicting him for not going to church j one of which was, that
Esq. to succeed him, on September 13d, 1714; and the privy-council lieinj; dissolved, and a new one appointed to meet on October ist following, lie was also left out of the list. Whereupon, retiring to his seat at Stowell in Glou- cestershire, he there died in the year 1721, and was buried in the cha-.iccl ot the church of Stoweil. He married Mary, daughter and coheir of Humphry Baskerville, of Pentryllos in Herefordshire, Ks(i. widow and relict of Sir Ed- ward Morgan, of Lanternam in Monmouthshire, Bart, by whom lie left issue John, his son and heir.
Which John Howe, oi Stoivell, Esq. on the decease of Sir Richaicl Howe, of Compton in Gloucestershire, and Wishford in Wiltshire, Bart, in 1730, without issue, succeeded to those estates; and was likewise elected, in his place, one of the knights for Wiltshire. Also, on a new parliament being summoned to meet on June 17th, 1754, he was re-elected. And his Majesty was pleased to create him Lord Chedworth, Baron of Chcdivoi th , in the county of Gloucester, by letters patent, bearing date May t2th, 1741, 14 Geo. H. His Lordship mairicd Dorothy, eldest daughter of Henry-Frederick Thyniie, Esq. grandfather of Thomas Lord Viscount Weymouth, by which Lady, (who died at her house in Leicester-square, London, on February 14th, 1777) lie had issue eight sons and five daughters ; first, Richard, who died young; second, John Thynne Howe, his successor; third, Frederick-Henry, third Lord Chedworth ; fourth, Thomas, who was in holy orders, and died June 3d, 1778, having married to Frances, daughter of Thomas White, of Tatting- ston-place in Suffolk, and had issue two sons, both of the name of John : the first died an infant, and the youngest, born August zzd, 1754, became fourth Lord Chedworth ; fifth, Charles, \\ho died unmarried; sixth, Scroop, who died young; seventh, James, who, on July 5th, 1755, married Susanna, daughter and heir of Sir Humphrey Howarth, of Maselwych in Radnorshire, Knight, which Lady died April ist, 175X, and her husband on June 24th, 1772; and William, who died in January 1782, at Cheltenham, aged sixty. nine. The daughters were, Mary, wedded, in 1751, to Alexander Wright, of Bath, Esq.; Anne, who died youyg; another Anne, who married Roderick. G Wynne, Esq. of Brecknockshire, and died June 6, 1764 ; Dorothy and Lucy.
His Lordship died in April 1742, and was succeede<l by his eldest son,
John Thynne Howe, secon» Loru Chedworth, who married, September 23d, 1751, Martha, daughter and coheir of Sir Philip Parker Long, of Arwarton in Suffolk, Bart. He died s. p. on May loth, 1762; and his Lady survived till November 30th, 1775. His bi'othcr,
Frederick Henry, succeeded as third Lor d Che dwor t h ; and dying Uiuiiarried in 1781, was succeeded by his nephew
John (son of his brother Thomas) fourth Lorp Chedworth, a man of most recluse habits, and eccentric character, but of some minor pre- tensions to literature, who spent his time at an house in Ipswich : and dying unmarried October 29th, 1804, aged fifty, divided his large property by a |)e- culiar will, which was long disputed, amorig stiangers; particularly his lawyer and his apothecary.
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there had been clivers letters read in both houses of parliamefit, and at the secret committee of both houses, from several Cardi- nals and others at Rome ; and also from other Popish bishops and agents of the Pope in other foreign parts, which apparently shewed the great correspondence between the Duke and the Pope ; and expressing how the Pope could not chuse but weep for joy at the reading of some of his letters, and what great satisfaction he took to hear the Duke advanced the Catholic religion j that the Pope had granted breves to the Duke 3 sent him beads, and ample indulgences, &:c. But the Court of King's Bench, hearing of this presentment, sent for the jury up and dismissed them.
To prevent the introduction of Popery, by the said Duke of York (who by the death of his brother had succeeded to the crown), and to preserve the constitution of England, the Earl of Devon- shire concerted with Sir Scrope Howe the means for inviting the Prince of Orange to England ; upon whose landing in the West, Sir Scrope joined the Earl at Nottingham, and united with him in a declaration, dated November 22d, l6"8S, of their sense and resolution, which was unanimously subscribed on this principle : " We own it rebellion to resist a King that governs by law 5 but he was always accounted a tyrant that made his will the law ; and to resist such a one, we justly deem no rebellion, but a ne- cessary and just defence." And when necessity forced the Prin- cess Anne from London, he accompanied the Earl with a good body of horse, who marched some miles from Nottingham to conduct her thither.
In the convention parliament, he was one of the knights for the county of Nottingham ; and voted for supplying the vacancy of the throne with King William and Queen Mary ; for which he:irty concurrence in the revolution, he was made a groom of his Majesty's bedchamber, which he held till the King's death, and was advanced to tlie. peerage of Ireland by privy seal, dated at Kensington April 3d, and by patent at Dublin, May l6th, 1701, by the title of Baron Clenaivley and Viscount Howe, with the creation fee of 13/. 6*. 8d. The preamble to this patent running thus: "Cum nos regia mente recolentcs, quam mature predi- lectus & lidelis subditus noster Scroopeus How de Langar in co- mitatu nostro Nottingham, in dicto regno nostro Angliae, miles, se illustravit in defensione rcligionis & libertatis patriae sua^, cum in imminenti periculo ah inimicis, tarn domesticis quam foris, secum extiterunt ; ac etiam repetita ilia testimonia fidelitatis Sc ligeantioe suce, quae persona; nostrse regali ac regimini nostro con-
BARONESS HOWE. Ua
tinuo & manifestc indicavit : et ut futuris teraporibus dignoscatur, quam gratiose accepirans haec laudabilia sua merita ac servitia, nc raomimentum quoddam favoris regalis no,stri,ob benenierita tanta, ipso Scroop How militi & posteris suis exhibere volentes. Sciatis igitur, &c." and her Majesty Queen Anne iu l/ll, constituted him comptroller of the excise.
In 10/4, he was first married to Lady Anne Manners, sixth daughter of John, eighth Earl of Rutland, by whom he had one son, John Scrope, born October 5th, 10/5, who died young; and
two daughters ; AnnabtUa, married to Goulding, Esq. 3
and Margaret, to Captain Mugg.
His second Lady was Juliana, daughter of William, Lord Al- lington, of Horseheath in the county of Cambridgo, and of Kil- lard in Ireland, by his wife Juliana, daughter of Baptist Noel. Viscount Carabden, and departing this life at Langar, January 16th, 1712, was there buried, leaving issue, by her, Emanuel Scrope, his successor, and three daughters.
First, Mary, who in 1720 was appointed one of the maids of honour to Caroline, Princess of Wales 3 on June l-ltl\, \~15, she was niarried to Thomas Earl of Pembroke, by whom she had no issue 3 on October 9th, 1/35, she re-married with the honourable John Mordaunt, brother to Charles, Earl of Peterborough, and died on September 12th, 17-I9.
Second, Juliana, married. May 27th, 1725, to Thomas Page, of Battlesden in Bedfordshire, Esq. second son of Sir Gregory Page, of Greenwich in Kent, Bart, by whom she had no issue, and died his widow in 17SO.
Third, Anne, married May 8th, 172S, to Colonel Charles Mordaunt, only son of brigadier-general Lewis Mordaunt, third son of John Viscount Avalon.
Emaxuel Sceope, the second discount Howe of the Kingdom of Ireland, succeeded to the title of a Baronet of Great Britain, on the death of Sir Richard Grubham Howe, on July 3d, 1730; was member for the county of Nottingham, in the (ith and 7th parliaments of Great Britain; and in May 1732, was appointed goijernor of Bariadoes, where he died on March 29th, 1735, and his corpse being brought to England September 30th following, was deposited in the fanaily vault at Langar.
On April 25th, 1719, his Lordship was married to Mary-So- phia-Charlotte, eldest daughter of the Baron Kielmansegge, master of the horse to King George I. as Elector of Hanover, (by Sophia Charlotte, daughter of Count Platen of the empire, who was
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made a free Denizen of Irelanil, Septemper gth, 1721, and twcf days after created, by patent, Countess of Leinster, and April 10th, 1722, created Baroness of Brentford, and Countess of Dar- lington in England; being also Countess of Platen, and Baroness Kielmansogge in Germany) ; which Lady, who survived till Jane 13th, 1/82, and was buried at Langar, brought a considerable es- tate to this family ; and on April 15th, 17 1 9, the King^ granted to her, and his Lordship for life, the yearly pension of /SO/, to commence from Christmas preceding ; she was also one of the ladies of the bed-chamber to her Royal Highness Augusta, Prin- cess of Wales, and had issue by his Lordship ' six sons and four daughters. The sons were :
First, Scrope, who died an infant.
Second, George-Augustus, who succeeded to the titles.
Third, Richard, the late Earl.
Fourth, John, who died an infant.
Fifth, William, present Viscount.
Sixth, Thomas, who died unmarried, November 14tii, 1/71, in the fovty-first year of his age, and was buried at Langar.
Caroline, the eldest daughter, married John Howe, of Hanslop in Buckinghamshire, Esq.
Charlotte, second daughter, wedded Robert Fettiplace, of Swlnbrook in Oxfordshire, Esq.
Juliana, third daughter, died unmarried.
Mary, fourth daughter, married the late General Sir William Augustus Pitt, oi Highfield in Hampshire, K. B. brother to Georgf*, late Lord Rivers.
George Augustus, the eldest surviving son, succeeded his father as third Viscount Howe; at the general elections in 174/ and 1754, he was chosen representative for the town of Netting-' ham; on May ]st, 1749, was made captain of a company in the tirst regiment of foot-guards, with rank as lieutenant-colonel in the array, and soon after appointed aid-de-camp to his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland ; on September 2Sth, 1757, was constituted colonel of a regiment of foot, and commanded as brigadier-general in the expedition again Ticonderoga, in North America, under General Abcrcrombie, and dis[)]ayed his miiitary talents so as to gain the confidence and love of the w hole army j but was unfortunately slain on JulySlh, 1758, in a skirn)ish with the French, on the march towards that place, which may be con-
) From the Pedigree entered in the House of Peers.
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sidered as one cause of the ill-success of that expedition. General Abercrombie, in his dispatches to Mr. Secretary Pitt (afterwards Earl of Chatham), dated from the camp at Lake George, July 12, 17-5S, gives the following account of this fatal evrnt. " The army continued its march through the wood, with a design to invest Ticonderoga ; but the wood beii'g very thick, impassable with any regularity to such a body of men, and the guides un- skilful, the troops were bewildered, and the columns broke, fall- ing in one upon another.
" Lord Howe, at the head of the right centre column, sup- ported by the light infantry, being advanced, fell in with a French party, supposed to consist of about 400 regulars, and a few In- dians, who had likewise lost themselves in their retreat from the advanced guard ; of these, our flankers killed a great many, and took 148 prisoners, among whom were five oiticers, and three cadets.
" But this small success cost us very dear, not as to the loss of numbers, tor we had o ily iwo officci-" killed 3 but as to conse- quence, his Lordhhip being the first man who fell in this skir- mish 3 and as he was very deservedly universally beloved and re- spected throughout the wl;ole army, it is easy to conceive the grief and consternation his untimely fall occasioned ; for my part I cannot help owning that I felt it most heavily, and lament him as sincerely."
Richard, fourth Viscount Howe, and Earl Howe, and FIRST l.iRON Howe of Langar, was born in 1/25, was edu- cated at Jfton, entered the sea service at the age of fourteen, on board the Severn, Hon. Captain Legge, part of the squadron des- tined fer the So.'ih Seas under Anson. He neKt served on board the Bnifrd, 174J, undei Admiral Know'esj in which he was afterv/ards appointed actin;'; lieutenant ; but h's commission not being confirmed, he returned to Admiral Knowles in the West Indies, where he was nude lieuteiawt of a sloop of war; and dis- tinguished himself bv cutting out an Enj,!ish merchant,!. 'U, which had beiMi t-^ken, fn^m unaer the guns ot the Dutch setllcnient of St. £u-t;itia'5.
In 1/45, he was with Admiral Vernon in tlie Downs; and a short time aitf^r ruis-d to the rank of C'lvancndcr, in the Balti- more sloop of v. ar. In this ship he G!slingui>hrd himself by at- tacking two Frerch frigat- s off tlie coast of Scotland, .'nil of troop, and ammunition, for tne Pretender. These he made sheer
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off. For this aclloii he was made Post Captain, and on April 10, 1/40, appointed to the Triton frigate, and ordered to Lisbon.
He was soon afterwards appointed first captain of Admiral Knowles's ship of SO gmis on the Jamaica station; and at the conclusion of the war, 1/48, returned in her to England.
In March l/50-l, C;iptain Howe was appointed to the com- mand on the Guinea station, in La Gloire, of 44 guns.
At the end of I/jI, he was appointed to the Mary yacht, and soon after to theDclphine frigate, in which he sailed to the Straits, and in which he executed many and important services. Here he remained for about three years, and soon after obtained the com- mand of the Dunkirk of (JO guns. Li this ship he sailed under Adn^iral Boscawen to obstruct the passage of the French fleet into the gulf of St. Lawrence, when Captain Howe took the French ship x\lcide of 64 guns off the coast of Newfoundland.
In 1757, when a powerful fleet was prepared under Sir Ed- ward Hawke, to make an attiick on the French coast. Captain Howe had the command of the M.ignanirae, in which ship he battered the fort in the island of Aix till it surrendered.
In 1758, he was appointed commodore of a small squadron which sailed to annoy the enemy on their coasts. This he effected with his usual success at St. Malo's. On the 1st of August he sailed for Cherbourg ; when the town was taken, and the basin destroyed. The unsuccessful affair of St. Cas followed.
In July of this year, 1758, he succeeded by the death of his elder brother to the Irish title of Fiscount Howe; and in the fol- lowing year was employed in the Channel on board his old ship the Magnanime, and in the month of November was with Hawkc when he obtained the celebrated victory over Conflans.
In March 1760, he was appointed colonel of the Chatham division of marines ,; and in St-ptember following was employed to reduce the French fort on the isle of Dumell.
On August 23d, 1/63, his Lordship was appointed a lord of the admiralty} where he remained till August 1760.
He was then made Treasurer of the Navy ; and in Oc- tober 1770, was promoted to be Rear- Admiral of the Blue, and Commander in Chief in the Mediterranean.
In March 1775, he was appointed Rear- Admiral of the White. He was afterwards chosen to represent the borough of Dartmouth in parliament, 1762, 176S, 1774, 178O. In December of the same year, he was made Vice-Admiral of the Blue.
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In 1776, he was appointed naval commander in chief in Ame- rica; in which command, considering the disadvantages with which he was surrounded, he closed the campaign with honour. He then resigned the command to Admiral Byron j and on hi« return to England in October, immediately struck his flag. In this year he was advanced first to be Vice- Admiral of the White, and then of the Red.
On April 20th, 1/82, he was raised to the English Peerage by the title of Viscount Howe of Lnngar, in the coiaity of Nollingham, and was then appointed to the command of the fleet for the relief of Gibraltar.
In Jan. I7S3, on the accession to power of Lord Rockingham, he was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty, which he re- tained only till April j and to which he was re-appointed on the accession of Mr. Pitt, in December following. He retained this office till July l/SS.
On August 19th, 1/88, he was elevated to an Earldom by the title of Earl Howe, to him, and the heirs male of his body ; and also to the title of Baron Howe of Langar, with remainder to his daughters and the heirs male of their bodies, in succession.
On tlie breaking out of the revolutionary war, 179-^. he ac- cepted the command of the Western squadron.
" Three powerful armaments," says Dr. Bissct, " were pre- pared for the campaign of 1794: one under Lord Hood com- manded the Mediterranean, reduced the island of Corsica, and protected the coasts of Spain and Italy : a second under Sir John Jervis, with a military force headed by Sir Charles Grey, reduced Martinico, Guadaloupe, St. Lucia, and some parts of St. Domingo. But the most illustrious monument of British naval glory was raised by Earl Howe. During the preceding part of the war, France, conscious of her maritime inferiority to Great Britain, had hitherto confined her exertions to cruizers and small squa- drons for harassing our trade. In the month of May, the French were induced to depart from this system of naval warfare. Anxious for the safety of a convoy daily expected from America, conveying an immense supply of corn and flour, of naval stores and colonial productions, the Brest fleet, amounting to twenty- seven sail oT ihe line ventured to sea under the command of Rear Admiral Villaret. Lord Howe expecting the same convoy, went to sea with twenty ships of the line. On the 2Sth of May he de- scried the enemy to windward. Admiral Paisley in the evening
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gave signal to the vanniost ships to attack the enemy's rear. Lord Hugh Seyntiour Conway attacked the Revolutionaire of 120 guns, and being soon supported by Captain Parker of the Auda- cious, so damaged the enemy's ship that she struck ; but escap- ing during the night, she was towed into Rochfort. The next morning the fleets resumed the conflict, but the intermission of a thick fog prevented its continuance. The fog lasted that and the greater part of the two following days. The sun occasionally breaking through the mist, shewed to each other the direction of the fleets ; and Lord Howe employed this time in most masterly manoeuvres to obtain the weather-gage, that he might compel them to fight when the atmosphere should clear, and at length he succeeded. On the 1st of June, the fog being dispersed, our Ad- miral, from his former excellent dispositions, found an opportu- nity of bringing the French to battle. Between seven and eight in the morning, our fleet advanced in a close and compact line : the enemy finding an engagement unavoidable, received our onset with their accustomed valour. A close and desperate engage- ment ensued, presenting the French as combatants worthy of oc- cupying the naval heroism of England. The Montague of 130 guns, the French Admiral's ship, having adventured to encounter the Queen Charlotte of 100 guns, was, in less than an hour, com- pelled to fly : the other ships of the same division seeing all efforts ineffectual against British prowess, endeavoured to follow the fly- ing Admiral; ten, however^ were so crippled that they could not keep pace with the rest: but many of the British ships were so damaged, that some of these disabled ships of the enemy etfected their escape. Six remained in the possession of the British Ad- miral, and were brought safe into Portsmouth, viz. La Juste of SO guns, La Sans Pareille of 80, L' America 74, L' Achille /4, L' Impetueux 74, and Northumberland 74: these, with Le Ven- geur, which was sunk, made the whole loss of the French amount to seven ships of the line. The victorious ships arrived safe in harbour with their prizes: the crews, officers, and Admiral were received with those grateful thanks and high applauses which Britain never fails to bestow on her conquering heroes. Earl Howe was by all ranks and parties extolled for his tactical skill, steady perseverance, and dr^termincd courage ; first, in forcing the enemy, after eveiy evasion, to a clo-e action ; a;iJ then in obtain- irig so >ig.ial an arlvantage o'er a fl -et superior in its number of ships and of me.i, as well as iu bize and weight of metal. The
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year 1794, surpassing In disaster by land the unfortunate 1/77^ or I7SI, by sea equalled the glories of 1759." '"
In 1795, he was appoiiucd Genend of marines on the death of Admiral Forbes.
In 1797, government sent Lord Howe, an officer universally beloved throughout the British fleet, to quell the mutiny. I'hia illustrious conmiandcr having pledged his word to the seamen that governni^nt would faithfully keep its promises, they declared their unlimited confidence in Lord Howe's assurance, and re- turned to their duty.
His Lonlship finally resigned the command of the Western squadron in April 1797-
1a June 1707, he was elected K, G.
His Lordship died at his house in Grafton -street, London, of the gout in his stomach, August 5th, 1799, ^ged seventy-three."
He was si'cceeded in the Irish Viscounty by his brother Sir William; and in tlie English Barony by his eldest daughter Lady Charlotte Sophia Curzon, of whom hereafter.
Sir V/iLLi AM, /jrt'^cw/ and fifth f'iscount Howe, being brougiit up in the army was made a major-general May 22d, 1/72; a lieutenant general August 7th, 1777. ^nd a general October 25th, 1793. He was made colonel of the twenty-third foot. May 1 1th. 17/5; and of the nineteenth dragoons April 21st, 1786.
He was elected member of parliament for Nottingham town on the death of his eldest brother 1758; to which he continued to be elected 1762, 1768, and 1774.
On May 25th, 1775, Major-General Howe, with Generals Burgoyne and Clinton, arrived in America with a considerable reinforcement to General Gage, who^ since the formation of the American army, had confined himself to defence, but now judged his force sufficiently strong for offensive measures. The battle of Bunker's Hill, between Charlestown and Boston, immediately followed ; in which General Howe commanded a division ; and which was gained by the British not without a considt:rable loss. The Americans however asserted that they were really successful, because, though dislodged from one post, they had blocked up the regulars, and by keeping them from offensive operations, frustrated the purpose for which they had been sent. In truth, Boston continued in a state of blockade till the following year.
Ki Bissett's Reign of George III. vol. v. p. fcG—.^c?, ■ Cent Mag. vol- lxi\. p. 724, tOy
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Gage was now returned home, and the command, in 177*5, devolved on General Howe. Washington now besieging Boston, General Howe, being in the greatest distress for provisions, em- barked with the British Loyalists on the 17th of March for Halli- fax, and arrived there in the end of the month. Here he was obliged to remain for two months to receive reinforcements ex- pected from England, with a fleet commanded by his brother Lord Howe J but these not arriving, he resolved to wait no longer 3 leaving Halifax June 11th, he arrived the end of the month in Sandy Hook near New York. At length the reinforce- ments camej Lord Howe reaching Staten island on July 14th. So reinforced, the British army amounted to near 30,000 men.
*■' The commanders," says Bisset, " possessed high characters, and had distinguished themselves in subordinate stations of trust and importance in the former war. The na-val officer had in the year 17-58, on the coast of France, laid the foundation of a fame which was increased during subsequent services : the military gentleman was the distinguished favourite of General Wolfe, led the body which first seized the heights of Abraham, and after- wards supported and advanced the situation in which he was held. It was true, he never had an opportunity of distinguishing him- self as a General, except at Bunkc^r's Hill : and having acted there under the command of another, he merely proved, as before, that he was an active and intrepid soldier : but from his conduct in secondary situations, he was very naturally allowed credit for abi- lities which could fill up the first with equal propriety. From their near relation, no doubt was entertained that there would be the utmost harmony between the General and Admiral ; and the appointment of Lord Howe and Sir William to the chief com- mand of the naval and military operations aflorded general satis- faction in England 5 and the most sanguine expectations were en- tertained of their success. It must bo acknowledged, that their hopes were not without apparently probable grounds." "
Besides iheir military powers, the General and Admiral were appointed, under a late act of parliament, Commissioners for re- storing peace to the colonies, and for granting pardon to such as should deserve the royal mercy, p But tlieir overtures in this way were reje. ted.
The British commander therefore opened the campaign on August 22d, 1776} and the same month won the battle of Long- Island. Overtures of peace were now again made in vain.
• Hist. vol. ii. p 3S2. P Ibid. p. 353.
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In September the General took the city of New-York j and soon after by the capture of Fort Washington, and the surrender of King's bridge, the Briti-^h troops were in possession not only of New York, and the adjacent ishmds, but also of an easy access either to New England, or the Jerseys.
Notwithstanding the^e and other successes of the generals under Lord Cnrnwallis and Sir Henry Clinli.ii, General Howe re- tired into winter quarters. And it must be confessed, that the conduct and event of the winter operations proved very dilTerent from what the friends of Britain e.\pected, and the provincials ap- prehended. The luxury and dissipation in which the winter was passed at head-quarters, has been much blamed. Washington was very ditierently employed.
Summer of I777 being commenced. General Howe opened the campaign by detachments, while with the main army he continued in his present residence.
On June ]2th, he himself attempted by a stratagem to bring Washington to battle, but failed in his design ; and, disheartened, resolved to abandon the Jerseys, and cros^e^l with his army to Staten island.
On July 23d, he sailed on an expedition by sea to Philadelphia. General Washington informed that the army was arrived in Penn- sylvania, crossed the Delaware with his army on the 1 1th of Sep- tember. The British troops advanced to Brandy Wine, a river, which, narrowing from the west, fails into the Delaware below Philadelphia. Here the British gained another victory.
On September 22d, Sir William Howe (for he had been elected a Knight of the Bath in this year) crossed the Schuylkill with his whole army ; on the 26tb he advanced to German Town ; and on the following day, with Cornwallis, took possession of Philadel- phia without opposition. On October 3d was fought the battle of German Town, in which the British were still victorious. Other services were performed by detachments ; and at length in De- cember the Gc-.neral retired into winter quarters at Philadelphia; where the severity of tlie season was passed as the firmer.
The General commenced the campaign of 177^ 'n the begin- ning of March, by the operations of detachments as before. But soon afterwards resigned his command, and returned to Europe; being succeeded by Sir Henry Clinton.
In April \779> a parliamentary inquiry was commenced on the General's conduct. The result of the evidence of Lord Corn- wallis, Major-Gencral Grey, Sir Andrew Snape Haniond, Major
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Montresor, and Sir George Osborne was, that the force sent ta America was at no time equal to the subjugation of the colonies ; and that the difficulty chiefly arose from the alrnost unanimous hostility of the people to the British government, and the natural obstacles of the country, so abounding in woods, rivers, hills, and defiles. 1 The inquiry was soon after abruptly abandoned. ^
His Lordship had some commands at home during the late war; among wliich he commanded at Colchester in 179^-
He married Frances, fourth daughter of the Rt. Hon. William Conolly, of Castletown in the county of Kildare, by the Lady Anne Wentworth, eldest daughter of Thomas, third Earl of Straf- ford ; but by her has no issue.
Lady Charlotte-Sophia, eldest daughter of Richard, late Earl Howe, succeeded her father in August 1799^ ^s Baroness HoAVE OF Langar.
Her Ladyship married, July 31st, 1/87, the late Hon. Penn Assheton Curzon, eldest son of the present Viscount Curzon, who died September 3d, J ^gy ; and by him had issue,
Fiist, George-Augustus-William, born May 14th, 1788, died in January 1805.
Second, Leicester, born November 8th, 1792, since dead.
Third, Richard- William, born December 3d, 1796.
Title. Charlotte-Sophia Howe, Baroness Howe of Langar in Nottinghamshire.
Creation. Baroness Howe of Langar, August 19th, 1788.
Arms. On a fess between three wolves heads couped, sable.
Supporters. Two Cornish choughs, proper, beaked and legged. Gules,
^ Bisset, vol iii. p. 105. r Ibid. p. 107.
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NEVILLE, LORD BRAYBROOKE.
George Neville, Lord Abergavenny, who died September 20th, 1492^ leaving by Margaret, daughter of Sir Hugh Fenne, Knight,
First, George, Lord Abergavenny, who died 27 Hen. VII L father of Henry Lord Abergavenny, who died 153/, leaving Mary, his daughter and heir, married to Sir Thomas Fane.
Second, Sir Edward Neville, of Aldington Park in Kent, who by Eleanor,, daughter of Andrew Lord Windsor, was father of
First, Edward, who succeeded his cousin Henry as Lord Abergavenny in 158/, and died 31 Eliz. See vol. v. art. Aber- gavenny.
Second, Sir Henry Neville, of Billinglere in Berkshire, ^ who
^ In the church of Lawrence-Waltham in Berkshire, is a stately monu- ment for Sir Henry Neville, the father, whereon is the statue of a person kneeling, and facing the East; behind him are the statues of his two wives j and behind them his son in armour, kneeling with his wife beiiinct him. Under him are six Latin verses ; and this epitaph :
<' Here lyeth Sir Henk Y We- V I L L, Knight, descended of the Nc-vilcs, E?iXon% oi Abeiga-venny, who %%cre a branch of the house cf V.'estmerla'id. He was (besides martial service) of the Privy Chamber to King Ili.nry the Eight £■: King Ediva'd xhe Sixt. He dyed the 13th of January, 1593. Issue he had by Dame F.LI z A- BETH, sole hcire to Sir John
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married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Sir John Gresham 5 and had issue
Sir Henry Neville, of Billinghere, of whom Lodge gives the following Memoir.
" He owed his introduction at court," says Lodge, " to a family connection with secretary Cecil, and his promotion there, perhaps, yet more to his own merit, for he was a person of great wisdom and integrity. He was appointed ambassador to France, in April 15gy ; and, in the summer of the following year, acted as first commissioner at the treaty of Boulogne. Unfortu- nately for him, the negociation was concluded a few months before the discovery of Essex's conspiracy ; and at his return he unwarily listened to some hints of that wild design, which his excessive at- tachment to the Earl induced him to conceal. Essex, on his ar- raignment, named him as a party ; he was committed to the Tower for misprision of treason, in the midst of his preparations for returning to his charge in France, and sentenced to pay a heavy tine, which was mitigated to 5000 /. The alteration caused in his pecuniary circumstances, by the rigid exaction of this penalty, compelled him, in the next reign, to accept of oflices beneath his deserts; and contrary to his spirited disposition, we find him projecting and executing various little schemes foi- the relief of James's necessities ; and, in spite of the eflbrts made by his friends to get him appointed secretary, in l6l2, he was never advanced to any higher employment, owing, as it is said, to the King's having conceived a personal dislike to him." He died 1615. There are numerous letters by and to him, in Winwood'* Memorials, of which Hume speaks in high terms.
Sir Henry Neville married Aiuie, daugliter of Sir Henry Killigrew of Cornwall, Knight, by whom he had issue three jons :
First, Sir Henry, of whom presenthj.
Gresham, Knight, by Dame Frances, sole lieii'C to Sir Henry Thwaites, Knight: which Dame Elizabeth dyed 6 Nov. 11573. Dame Fran«es Gresham bu- ried the 27th of October, 1580. And are both lierealso buried, with E;. i- zABETH NxviLi, thc cldcst daughtcf." *
* Ashmolc's Ecikshirc, vol ii. p.43!j432'
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Second, Edward Neville, died s. p. He lies buried at Shil- lingford in Berkshire, witli the following epitaph, on a monument in the north wall of the chancel :
M. S.
D. Edoarih
Nevill, Armi. ex
ilexuosa stcmniatis
Notiliter vetusti serie
Progerminati : cui pater D.
Henricus NEriLLE, Etjues Auratus
extraordinaria Reginae Elizab.
ad Henricum iv. Gall. Regem
Legatione perhonorifice functus aliam
IMusarum et Encyclopaedicam
Nobilitatemj adserentis inter
Regalis CoUegii Cantalrigiensis
Sodales, unius quondam meritissimi
ud blandiorem prolificamque
Conjngii sodalitatem, prolecti
tandem festivo cuniculo
ad Augusdorevi adhuc atque
insolubilem beatae ceternitatis
Societatem evecti. Anno iEtalis
30, Christi, mdcxxxii. Hoc
Uxorifle et obstinatae posthumia;
Charitatis symbolum devuiissimuu*
moerens moerenti, P. A.licia.
Uxor ejus.''
Third, Richard Neville, LL. D. left a daughter.
And five daughters j viz. first, Elizabeth, married Sir Henry Berkeley, of Yartington com. Somerset, Knight; second, Frances, married Richard Wor-ley, of ApulJf rcombc in the Isle of Wight 3 third, Catherine, married Sir Richard Brooke, of Norton in Che- shire, ance^tor to the present Sir Richard Brooke ; fourth, JNIary, married Sir Eduard Leuknor, of Denham-Hall, Sussex; fifth, Dorothy, married Sir Richard Catlyn, of Wingfield Castle, Sulf,
Sir Henry Neville, of BilLiugbere, Knight, eldest son, died June 29th, \6'22, having married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John
b Ashmole's Berkshire, vol. i. p. 181.
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Smith, of Ostenhanger com. Kent, Knight, by whom he had three daughters, and two sons, viz.
First, (!])atherine, married to Sir Thomas Lunsford, sometime lieutenant of the Tower of London ; second^ Mary, wife of ... . Borell ; third, Philippa, married to Jepson. '^
The sons were :
First, Richard, of whom presently.
Second, Henry Neville, of Warfield in Berkshire, a man of some celebrity in his day} who was born at willingbere, became a member of Merton College, Oxford, in lG35, aged fifteen; and soon after translated himself to that of Uni-uersity , wh&xe he con- tinued some years, but took no degree. In the bogiiining of the civil wars, he travelled into France, Italy, and other countries, by which he advanced himself much in the knowledge of modern langii?ges and of men ; and returning in \QA5, or thereabouts, became a Recruiter in the Long Parliament, for Abingdon in Berkshire : at which ti.ne he wiis very great with Henry Martin, Thomas Chaloiicr, Thomas Scot, Jimes Harington, and other zealous ccmmonwealth's-nien. In November 1(351, he was elected one of the council of state, being then a favourite of Orr.er ; but when he saw that person gnped at monopolizing the government, he left him, was out of his favour, 3nd acted little during his u-urpation. In 10.56, he was elected burgess for Rccid- ing, to serve in Richard's parliament, which beiran at Westniit.ster January 'i/th of th.c same year ; and when that person v.'as de- posed, and the Rump Parliament shortly after restored to sit in the house, there was a letter from King Charles II. then in exile, casually put'- into his hands, to be presented to that junto, for his restoration to his kingdom; but the members thereof voting, that it should not be opened or read in the house, they looked upon themselves afterwards, when thpy saw what General Alonk intended, as idiots and desperate fools. At that time he was a great Rota-man, and was one of the chief persons of James Har- ington's club of commonwealth's men to instil their principles into others, being then esteemed a man of good parts, yet of a factious and turbulent spirit ; but after the restoration he skulked for a time, and at length being seized, he was, among others, im- prisoned, but scon after set at liberty. He published, first. The
c Visitation of Bevks 1664, Hail. MSS 1530. A James Heath in his Brief Chron. of the /ale hihfline ivar, &c. Irrn/. 1663, part iii. under the year 1660.
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Parliament of Ladies, l647, 4to. j second, Shuffling, Cultina, and Dealing in a game of Picket, ^c. l65g, 4to. ; third, T/ie Is* of Pines, \66S, 4to. ; fourth, Plato Redivivus, l6Sl, Svo. : of all which publications see more particulars in Wood's Atheme. He also wrote the Preface to Machiavd's IForks, 16/4, and 168O, Svo. &c. He was likewise the author of several copies of verses, printed in several books, which with some people obtained him the name of a poet. He lived tw^enty years before his death in lodgings in Silver-street, near Blooinsbury-market ; and dying ou September 20th, l6o4, was buried at Warfield in Berkshire. " He married Elizabeth, sole daughter of Richard, "^ and niece and heir of Edward, Staverton, of Heathley-flall in Warfield, aforesaid.
Richard Neville, of Billingbere, Esq. eldest son of Sir Henry (by Elizabeth Smith), was justice of the peace, and deputy lieu- tenant of the county of Berks ; and was aet. forty-eight, on March 28th, 1665. He married Anne, eldest daughter of Sir John Heydon, of Baconthorpe com. Norfolk, Knight, lieutenant of the ordnance to King Charles I. By her he had issue two sons and five daughters.
The former were 5 first, Anne, born February ]4th, 1647, married Richard Rainsford, of Dallington com. Northampton, chief justice of the King's Bench ; by whom she had issue Anne Rainsford, sole heir, who died 1707. having married James, second Lord Griffin, of Braybrooke, who was buried at Dingley co. Northampton, Oct. 31st, J 715, having issue, Edward, third Lord Griffin, whodied 1742, \vithoutsurvivii;g issue : and two daughters: Elizabeth, eldest sister and coheir, married, first, Henry ^Neville) Grey, Esq. hereiifter mentioned j and, secondly, John Wallop, Earl of Portsmouth, but died s. p. 1763 : Anne, second daughter, and at length sole heir, married William Whitwell, of Oand'e com, Northampton, Esq. of whose issue a more particular account is given in -vol. vi. under the title of Howard of Ifalden. His son Sir John Griffin (Whitwell), Lo'd Howard of Walden, was created by patent dated September 5th, 1/88, Baron of Er.vy- BRooKE in the county of Northampton, to hitn a;.d the hi irs inr.le of his boc; 5 and in default of buch issue, tit Tacf^AKn Aldaorth Neville, Esq. of Bid high ere in the county of Berks, and to the heirs male of his bndii lav f idly be^ntten.
Second, Mirabel Neville, born November 15th, XQZO ; third,
e Woort'j Aih. vol. ii p 51?. He died i6j6. See his epitaph iu Ashmole'* Berks, vol. ii. p. 441.
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Elizabeth, born May 6th, 1657 ; fourth^ Catherine^ born June 23d, 1659.
Fifth, Frances Neville, born May ipth, \665, married Sir Richard Cocks, of Dumbleton com. Gloucester, Bart, and died February 1st, 1723-4, set. sixty. See her epitaph at Dumbleton, in Bigland's GIouc. vol. i. p. 502.
John Neville, son and heir, born July 23d, 1(552, seems to have died without issue.
Richard Neville, of BilUnghere, Esq. second son, born Oc- tober 12th, 1655, represented Berkshire in parliament till I/IO. He married Catherine, daughter of Ralph Grey Lord Grey, of Wark, sister to Ford, Earl of Tankervillej ^ and by her had issue two sons and a daughter; viz.
First, Grey Neville, born September 23d, l6SI, and married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Boteler, of Woodhall com. Hertf. but died in 1723, s. p.
Second, Henky Neville, born August 17th, l683, took th» name of Grey by act of parliament pursuant to the will of his uncle Ralph Lord Grey. He died in 1/40, s, p. having married Elizabeth, already mentioned, eldest sister and coheir to Edward third Lord Griffin ; who surviving him remarried John Wallop, Earl of Portsmouth, but died 1762, s, p. and was buried near her first husband at Lawrence Waltham.
Third, Catherine Neville, died in 172O, and was buried at Ruscombe, Berks, having married Richard Aldworth,^ of Stanlake com. Oxf. Esq. who died in May 1733, Jeavinc; issue
Richard Neville Aldworth, of S'/a«/o^(? aforesaid, only son, bcrn September 3d, 1/17^ took the surname and arms of
f See vol. V. art. Earl Grey.
g There was a family of this name seated at Wanting, Berks, (jf whom was Thomas Aldworth, of Wanting, act. thirty-tiiree, 1664, who by Margaret, daughter of Thomas Castle, of Wanting, was father of Thomas Aldworth, set. twelve, 1664.
Richard Aldworth, of Newmarket, com. Cork in Ireland, waschief Re- membrancer of the Exchequer, and married, 1677, Mary, daughter and heir of William Crofton, of Temple-House, com. Sligo, Esq.
Sir Kithard Ahlworth, of Newmarket, was Provost Marshal, and Vice- President of the Provinceof Munster; and from him descended Richard Aid- worth, of Newmarket, M. P. for Lismore, who hy Elizabeth, daughter of Arthur St Leger, Viscount Doneraile, had St Leger Aldworth, second son, who took the name of S/. leger, and was created Baron Doneraile 1776, and Viicount Doneraile 1785. See ArchdalF s hi J} Peerage, vol. vi. p. I2i.
Richard Aldworth, of Hiuton-Pipard in Wilts, Gent was buried at Rus- Winbc, March ijih, i6j8. See Ashmole's Berks, vol, ii. p 400.
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Neville (on the death of Elizabeth Countess of Portsmouth), by his Majesty's licence dated August 30th, 1762. He was appointed under secretary of state in l/'IB ; secretary to the embassy at the court of France August xyOl ; and minister plenipotentiary there in 1763. He was member in four successive parliaments from 1747 to 1774, for VVallingford, Sec; and dying July 17th, I7y3, was buried at Ruscomb in Berks; having married Magdalen, daughter of Francis Callandrini, first Syndic of tlie Republic of Geneva, who died June 17th, o. s. 175O, aged thirty-two, and was buried at Ruscombe aforesaid. By Ler he left one daughter and one son ; viz.
Frances Neville, born June 23d, l/Ag, married at St. Mary- le-bone in 179-lj to Francis Jalabert, of Crouchland com. Sussex, Esq. ; and
Richard Aldworth Neville, present and second Lord Br A\ BROOKE, only son and heir, born in Duke-street, West- minster, July 3d, 1750, N. S. Member of parliament for Read- ing, Berks, from 17^2, till his accession to the peerage.
In May 2,0th, 1797. f>n the death of John Lord Howard, of Walden, and Lord Braybrooke, he succeedfj to the latter Barony, according to the limitation already mei'tioiiccl, at p. 157.
His Lordship is now lord lieutenant of E-isex, iScc.
His J^ordship married at Stow, com. Bucks, June 19th, 1780, Catherine, youngest daughter of the Rt. Hon. George Grenville, and sister to George, now Marquis of Buckingham 3 and by her, who died November tith, 179*3, and was buried at Lawrence- Waltham, has had issue six sons and four daughters : viz.
First and second, two male infants, died the day of their birth, March 2d, 17SI.
Third, Catherine, born February 23d, 1/62, in Pall-Mali, and baptifed there.
Fourth, Richard, son and heir, born September 26'tb, 1783, at Stanlake, and baptized at Ruscombe. He is now member of parliament for the town of Buckingham.
Fifth, Frances, born June 5th, 17S.a, died May 8th, 1786, and buried at St. James's, Westminster.
Sixth, Mary, born at Stanlake, August oth, 17S6, and bap- tized at Ruscombe; married, April Uth, 180t), Sir Stephen Richard Glynne, of Hawarden Castle in Flintshire, Bart.
Seventh, Henry, born in Pall-Mali, March 1st 1788; a cap- tain in the fourteenth dragoons, died in Spain, August I8O9, after the batUe of Talavera.
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Eighth, George, born at Stanlake August 17th, l/Sg, baptized at Ruscombe.
Ninth, Caroline, born in the parish of St. George Hanover- square, October 6th, 1792.
Tenth, William, born in the parish of St. George Hanover- square, June nth, 1796'
Title. Richard Aldworth Neville, Baron of Braybrooke ia the county of Northampton.
Creation. Baron of Braybrooke by patent September 5th, 178S.
Arms, First and fourth, sable, a griffin segreant argent, beaked and langued, or ; second and third, gnles, a saltier argent, charged with a rose of the field, and a crescent for difference.
Crest. On a wreath, a talbot's head, erased sable.
Supporters. Two lions regardant argent, raaned sable.
Motto. Ne vile velis.
Chief Seats. Audley End near Saffron Walden, Es^x 3 Bi!- lingbere, Berks.
LORD AMHERST. l6l
AMHERST, LORD AMHERST.
The family of Amherst, as is proved by a pedigree, collected from ancient evidences (preserved in the Heralds Office, London) is descended from Saxon original. ^
In the 22d year of tlie reign of King Richard the lid. Johm Amherst was living at Amherst, in the parish oi Pehenbury, alias Pemhury, in the county of Kent.
He was succeeded in that estate by Thomas, his son and heir, who was father to
Thomas, of the same place, who was succeeded there by his ion and heir,
A third Thomas, father of
a "HAMo,Lord Marourd, Blen, Lavington, Estrusted, Biersted, now called Brasted, Nettlested, Ditton, and other lands in the county of Kent ; was sheriffof that county at the time of the general survey, made by order of William the Conqueror, and entered in Doomsday-book, which is still pre- served in the Exchequer. He continued sheriff to the middle of the reign of King Henry I. for in the year ii n, Hugh, Abbot of St. Augustine's, granted Bodesham and Smetheham to Hamo, and at the same time Hamo madea grant of other lands, in the town of Fordvvich, to the said Abbey.
The records of Christ Church, Canterbury, and the deeds of the hospital of St. Laurence, prove, that one of the name of Hamo held the lands above- mentioned in the reigns of King Richard II. and King John.
Hamo, Bishop of Rochester, founded an hospital at Hythe, for ten poor men : he likewise built the palace at Hailing, for the use of his successors in that see.
Hamo deHerstIs mentioned by Philipot, page 5, to be flourishing in the second year of King Edward III. In the next reign of Richard II. the name appears, by record, to be then wrote Amherst of Amherst, they having dropped the Norman de, and the aspirate H." This sort cf Jeducthn must stand on the credit of the last editor ! rOL. VIII. M
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A fourth Thomas, whose son and heir, Richard, ^ had three sons ; first, Richard ; second, William; and third, JefFery, ancestor of Lord Amherst.
First, Richard Amherst, Esq. the son, was seated at Bay- Hall, in Pelenhury , alias Pemhury, in the county of Kent, which estate he purchased, '^ and at Lewes in the county of Sussex. Having applied himself with great assiduity, to the study of the laws, he was called to the degree of serjeant at law, and was made Serjeant to Queen Elizabeth; he was also high steward of all the manors, lands, and possessions within the county of Sussex, be- longing to Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset, Lord High Trea- surer of England, which Earl, by his will "^ dated Aug. 11th, 1607, therein styling him his beloved friend, bequeathed to him forty pounds. He was founder of the alms-houses at Pembury, where he was born. His will bears date August Sth, l630, and the probate thereof May 3d, 1032.
By his second wife, Margaret, youngest daughter of Sir Tho- mas Palmer, of Wingham, in Kent, Knt. and Bart, and sister to Sir Roger Palmer, Knight of the Bath, and Baronet (who survived him) he had two daughters ; Frances, living unmarried, at tlie visitation of the county of Sussex, in 1634; and Margaret, mar- ried to Sir James Colebrand, of Lewes in Sussex, Bart.
And by his first wife, Anne, who was the daughter and coheir of William Reynes, of Mereworth in the county of Kent, Esq. he had a daughter, Anne, baptised at Pembury, January 1st, 1 602-3, and an only son,
Richard Amherst, of Bay-Hall aforesaid, Esq. who was bap- tised at Pembury, May 17th, 1600, and dying, August 29th, 1664, was buried in the chancel of the parish church of Pembury, as was his wife Dorothy, on July IQth, 1 654 ; she was daughter of John Craddock, of Ludesdown, and of the parish oflghtham in Sussex, Gent, descended from the ancient family of Craddock, alias Newton, of the county of Somerset, and on a grave-stone in the said chancel, are these inscriptions :
b From the same ancestors, as it seems, are sprung the Amhersts of West Farleigh and Boxley, in Kent ; whose ancestor was Nicholas Amherst, temp. Jam I.
Nicholas Amhurst, the poet, was born at Marden in Kent, the grandson of a clergyman. He died April 27th, 1741. See Biogr. Diet. vol. i. p-jig-
c Ot Robert Saclcvillc, Earl of Dorset, in the seventh of King James I Hasted's Kait, vol ii. p. 358.
d Ex Regist. vocat. Dorset, qu. 1. in Cur. Prxrog.- Cant.
LORD AMHERST. 1 63
Among the remains of the dead, lies interred here, the body of Richard Amherst, late of Bay-hall, in the county of Kent, Esq. who departed this life on the 29th of August, 1664, in the 65th yeare of his age.
And also the body of Dorothy, his deare wife, who left this mortal world on the 18th of July, l654, in the 58th year of her age, having been married 27 yeares, having borne six sons and five daughters ; whereof William, Richard, Isabella, and her youngest son, dead borne, lye interred on her left hand, hoping for a joyful resurrec- tion at the coming of our blessed Saviour.
Prepare for Death, that hour will come ; And after Death the day of Doome. Dorothy Amherst.
The sons were.
First, William, who died young.
Second, William, hereafter mentioned.
Third, Charles, who died uninarried, and was buried, No- vember lCi[h, l/Oj,^ at Pembury. ''
Fourth, Richard, who died young, and was buried at Pembury, June 26th, 1654 ; and.
Fifth, Henry, who died young.
The daughters were, Margaret, who died unmarried ; Isa- bella, who died very young, and was buried at Pembury, on March 24th, \665-6;
Third, Elizabeth, who became at length coheir to the estate, and was buried at Pembury, Jan. 30, 1707-8, having been married to Sir Henry Sclhy, Knight, serjeant at law (by whom she had issue, Charles Selby, who took the name o( Amherst, inherited the Bay-hall estate, married Margaret, daughter of John Robin- son, of com. Denbigh, Esq. relict of Sir George Strode, Knight,
r Hasted says, Nov. 9th, 1709. \ This diaries Amherst, by his will, dated March 2d, 1702, gave his es- tate (subject to the life-interest of his two sisters. Lady Elizabeth Selby, and Mrs. Dorothy Amherst) to his nephew Charles Selby, and the heirs male of his body ; in default of male issue, to Jeffery Amherst, Esq. eldest son of Arthur, late M. D. indcfault of male issue, to Jeffery .'Vmhcrst, Esq. of River- head, and his heirs male; in default of male issue, to the heirs male of .Mr. William Amherst, late a silkman in London, &c. &c. &.c. &c. So:
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died 8. p. and was buried at Pembury, March 8th, 1744-5 5 and Dorothy, who married John Browne, of the county of Salop, Esq. and had issue Charles Brown, Esq. of Bay-hall, who died 1753, s. p.) 3 and
Dorothy, the youngest daughter, and at length coheir (with her sister Elizabeth), was second wife to her second cousin Jeffery Amherst, of Riverhead, as hereafter-mentioned,
William, the eldest surviving son of Richard Amherst, of Bay-hall, Esq. and his wife, Dorothy Craddock, before-mentioned, died unmarried, and was buried at Pembury 3 within the com- munion rails of which church is a black marble grave-stone, whereon is engraved the following inscription :
Orimur. Morimur.
Inter reliquias mortis, hie sepelitur corpus Gulielmi Amherst, generosi (filii natu maximi Richardi Am- herst de Bay-hall in comitatu Kant, arraigeri) qui ex hac luce migravit x° die Decembris, Anno Domini 1663, aetatis suae xxxii°. In cujus memoriam Do- mina Dorothea Amherst, ejus soror charissima hoc posuit monumentum.
Flos jacet hie juvenum3 lachrymas cohibere potestis ?
In tumulum gemitu non comitatus eat ? Natu morigeri, cognati, fratris, amici.
Singula praestiterit munia fidus erat, Sobrietas, probitas, pietas, prudentia, candor,
Quaeque bonum sapiunt hunc coluere virum, Spiritus in coelo remanet, corpusque sepulchro
Mundum deservit, raptus amore Dei.
Having brought the male descendants of Richard Amherst, Serjeant at law, to a conclusion, we now come to treat of his two younger brothers, the eldest of whom was William, who left a daughter, Mary, married to John Champs, of Tunbridge in Kent 3 and the youngest was Jeffery, from whom the present Lord Amherst is descended.
Which Jeffery Amherst having entered into holy orders, was inducted into the rectory of Horsemonden in Kent, and in his last will and testament (which bears date September 2'<th, l64y. and was proved on December 2d, 1662), is styled of Southes in the county of Sussex, Clerk, and thereby directs to be buried iii
LORD AMHERST. i65
the chancel of that parish church. He married Joatij daughter of John Barnden, Gent, by whom he had an only daughter^ Mar- garet, married to Tristram Thomas, of Rotherfield, in com. Sus- sex, Esq. and three sons; first, Arthur j second, Richard; third, John.
Arthur Amherst, the e/dest ^ son, '' having studied four years at the University of Oxford, removed to that of Bourges in France, where he took his degree of doctor in physic, was after- wards practitioner in his faculty at Hastings in Sussex; and was incorporated into the University of Oxford, on November 11th, 1662. He afterwards practised at Tunbridge in Kent, where he died, and in the cross aile, at the east end of that parish church, is a black marble grave-stone, thus inscribed :
Arthurus Amherst, M. D.
Vir, Maritus, Parens, Medicus,
Integer, amans, providus, peritus,
Regi fidelis, suis charus, omnibus amicus.
Obijt Jul. 2. A. D. 1678.
iEtat. suae 63. ^
By his last will and testament, dated June 21st, 1678, and proved, July l(5th, 168O, he directs to be buried by his wife Eleanor, who died before him. She was the daughter of Sir Tho- mas Tresse, Knight, Gentleman Pensioner to Charles I. and had issue two sons ; first, Jeftery, seated at Fishall, near Tunbridge in Kent, Esq. who married . . . . , daughter of Sir Robert Knightlej', of Easted (Ashted) in Surry, Knight; second, William (whose (laughter Anne was living at Sevenoaks in Kent, in 1767') Also two daughters, Margaret, the wife of General Walter Baynes j
and Dorothy, married to Kitchingham, of Southborough,
in Sussex.
Richard Amherst, second ' son of Jeffery, rector of Horse- monden, died before his father in l647; he married Mary, daughter of Bowen, and had issue Richard, and Eliza- beth.
John Amherst, the youngest son of the said Jeffery, was one of the benchers of Gray's-Inn, and a counsellor at law; he made
£ HastcJ, vol. i p. 3£4, makes liim sece/id son- ii Wood's Fasti Oxon. p.Szj- i Hasted makes liim e/dcii son.
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his will, November igth, 1686, which was proved May 25th, 1691. He was buried at Mickleham in Surry, on the north side of the chancel of which parish church, on a black marble grave- stone, is this inscription :
Johannes Amherst, Armiger,
Honorabilis Hospitii Gr mens is Socius et
^ Lector anno MDCLXIX.
Religionis, Ecclesiae, Patriaeque amans.
r^u". .. •. \ Salutis MDCXCI.
Obnt quarto Man anno | ^^^^.^ ^XXL
On another black marble grave-stone (in the same church) is this inscription for his third wife :
Memoriae sacrum,
Dominae JanjE Onslow,
Filiae Francisci Stydolfe, Equitis
Aurati. Tertiae Uxoris Maritus tertius, hoc
marmor incidi curavit, Johannes Am- herst, Armiger, non minus amoris Monu- mentum quam doloris : Primo Viro, Henri- co Yates, Armigero, binam peperit pro- lem Elizabetham et Henkicum. Se- cundo, Henrico Onslow, Equiti Aura- to bis binam, quorum supersunt Ricardus et Anna. Tertio, se dedit, castosque amores, adeoque se familiae Amherstian£e, totam inservit, ut se Viro, natam Viri Filio,
He married thiee wives J first, Margaret, third daughter and coheir of JefFery Kirby, citizen and merchant of London, (who fined to be excused serving the office of Alderman of the said city) by Dorothy, daughter of William Baye, and heir to her brother j secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of Bickerton, of Leicester- shire, Esq, relict of Triggs, Esq. of the same county ; also
of Higgison, Alderman of London 5 she died in I667.
His third wife was Jane, third daughter of Sir Francis Stydolphe, of Mickleham, in Surry, Knight, widow, first, of Henry Yate, Esq. 5 secondly, of Sir Henry Onslow, Knight, both of Warn -
t This is covered by a pew.
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liara in Sussex : he had no issue by the two last wives ; but by the first he had three sons^
Firstj JefFery, who continued the line.
Second, John ; third, John, who both died young.
Also three daughters; first, Margaret, born March 27th, and baptised April 1st, l651; second, Annabella, born the 14th, and baptised the 19th of January, l6'54; married to John Mill, of Brewhurst in Sussex, Esq. : third, Mary, born the 7th, and bap- tised the 14th of March, 1055} married Yate, of Sussex,
Esq.
Jeffery, the only surviving son and heir, was born the 11th, and baptised the 12th of January, }64g ; and applying himself to the study of the law, became a bencher of Gray's-Inn. He was the first of the family, seated at Riverhead in Kent } and was buried at Pembury, August 15th, 1713.
He married, first, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Yate, of Warnham in the county of Sussex, Esq. by his wife Jane, daughter of Sir Francis Stydolphe, of Mickleham in Surry, Knight, before- mentioned 5 his second wife, (to whom he was married at Pem- bury, by a special licence, on May 4th, 1687) was his second cousin, Dorothy, daughter and at length coheir to Richard Am- herst, of Bay-hall, Esq. by his wife, Dorothy, daughter of John Craddock, before-mentioned ; she died without issue, and was buried at Pembury, May 4th, 1712.
By his first wife, Elizabeth, he had six sons and four daughters.
First, John, baptised at Warnham, April 10th, 1672, died March 10th, 1676, and was buried at Warnham.
Second, Jeff'ery, his heir.
Third, Henry, 1 , .1 j- j
>■ both died young. Fourth, Henry, J
Fifth, Richard, who died young, March 11th, 168I, and was buried at W'arnham,
Sixth, Charles, who died an infant, August 1 1th, 1(532, and was buried at Warnhnm.
The daughters were.
First, Jane, born the lOih, and baptised the 15th of April, 1673, at Warnham, and married Boyd, Esq.
Second, Margaret, baptised IQth February 1674, at Warnham, and married to John St^yliard, of Pendell-court, in the parish of Bletchinsiley in the county of Surry, Esq. who is buried in that
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parish churchy and whose grand-daughter, Hester, married George ScuUard, Esq. barrister at law.
Third, Frances, baptised at Warnham, June 25th, 1678, died young.
Fourth, Elizabeth;, died young.
Jeffery, the only surviving son and heir, baptised at "Warn- ham, on July 29th, 1677, was a bencher of Gray's-Inn ; and was buried at Seven Oakes in Kent, on November 1st, 1750. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Kerrill, of Hadlow in the county of Kent, Esq. (by his wife, Mary, daughter of Maximilian Dalyson, of Hamptons and Hailing in the county of Kent, Esq. by Frances, daughter and heir of Thomas Stanley, Esq.) and by her, who was buried at Seven-Oak es, on May 1st, 1752, had issue seven sons and four daughters. The sons were.
First, Sackville, baptised at Seven-Oakes, in 1715, died un- married December 12th, 17^3, and was buried the l6th, at Nut- grove in the county of Gloucester.
Second, Jeffery, Jirst Lord Amherst.
Thirds John, born at Seven-Oakes, and died Admiral of the Blue, on February 12th, 1778 i he married Anne, daughter of Thomas Lindzee, of Portsmouth, Esq. but had no issue.
Fourth, Thomas, baptised May 29th, 1725 ; and was buried June 6th following, at Seven-Oakes.
Fifth, Sidney, baptised September 22d, 1728 j and was buried May 2d, 1729, at Seven-Oakes.
Sixth, Charles, baptised September 1 6th, 172Q ; and buried in April following, at Seven-Oakes.
Seventh, William, born at Riverhead, and baptised at Seven- Oakes, February 5th, 1732 ; who was colonel of the thirty-second regiment of foot, lieutenant-general of the army, aid-de-camn to his Majesty, lieutenant-governor of Portsmouth, lieutenant-go- vernor of St. John's in Newfoundland, and adjutant-general of his Majesty's forces : he died at his house in Park-lane, London, May 13th, 1781. He was married at St. George's, Hanover- square, on March 31st, 1766, to Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Paterson, Esq. and by her, who died at Bath, March 7th^ ^776, and was buried at Seven-Oakes, had one son, William Pitt Am- herst, now Lord Amherst ; and two daughters, Elizabeth, born at Bath, February 1774 5 and Harriot, born in (he parish of St. John in the Isle of Wight, October 1775 } died young.
The daughters were.
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First, Elizabeth, baptised at Seven-Oakes, June . ,, 1/14, mar- ried the Rev. John Thomas, Rector of Nutgrove and Welford in the county of Gloucester, and died (his widow) at Newbold in the county of Warwick, April .., 1779' She was celebrated for her poetical talents.
Second, Margaret, baptised February 3d, 17I8, died unmar- ried. May 9th, 1735, and was buried the 14 th of the same month, at Seven-Oakes.
Third, Maiy, baptised at Seven-Oakes, December . . , 172O, and was buried there the 17th of February following.
Jeffery, first Lord Amherst, the second son, became at length possessed of the family estate at Riverhead, and having attached himself early in life to the profession of a soldier, ac- quired the highest military honours and preferments, by his great and meritorious services to his countr}', after a six years glorious war in North America, where he was appointed Governor and Commander in Chief of all the British forces, in 1760. Having resigned this command, he sailed from New -York for England, in November 1763, on board his Majesty's snow of war, the Wcazel, and arriving at his house in Pail-Mall, London, on De- cember 29th, he, the next day, waited upon his Majesty at St. James's, who received him very graciously, and among other marks of his royal approbation of his conduct, appointed him go- vernor of the province of Virginia.
The victorious achievements of the British forces in North America, during Sir Jeifery Amherst's continuance there, cannot be better summed up, than by giving two of the inscriptions ou an obelisk, in the grounds at his seat at Montreal, viz.
LouisBouRG surrendered, and six battalions, prisoners of war,
July the 26th, 175s. Fort du Quesne taken possession of, 24th Nov. 1758. Niagara surrendered 25th July, 1759- Ticonderoga taken possession of, 2dth July, 1759. Crown Point taken possession of, 4th August, 1759. Quebec capitulated, 18th September, 1759.
The otlicr, I'oRT Levi surrendered, 2jtli August, ) 76O. Jsle au Noix abandoned, 28th August, 1760. Montreal surrendered, and with it all Canada, and ten
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French battalions laid down their arms, 8th September, ]760. St, John's, Newfoundland, re-taken, 18th September, 1762.
On November 26th, 1 76O, Sir Jeffery arrived at New York, and was saluted with a general discharge of the cannon round the town 5 and the next day he was waited upon by the Mayor, Al- dermen, and Commonalty, with the principal inhabitants of the town, who had voted him the freedom of their city in a gold box, and presented him with the following address :
The cordial Address of the Mayor, Aldervieii, and Commonalty , of the City of New York, in Common Council convened, to his Excellency General Amherst.
" May it please your Excellency,
*' To the united suffrages of the British world, in favour of your Excellency's distinguished merit, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty, of the city of New York, beg leave to add their most grateful tribute of thanks, for the invaluable services wrought by your superior wisdom and valour, in annexing the extensive country of Canada to his Majesty's dominions in America, An acquisition so inestimable in itself, so pregnant with the most im- portant consequences, cannot fail to shine with a supreme lustre, amidst the most luminous events, and give to its author a rank exalted in the train of British worthies. Minutely to describe the innumerable advantages resulting from so signal a conquest, would be a vain attempt. Let millions yet unborn mark the dis- tinguished blessings as they rise ; and while they reap the happy fruits of your martial virtues, they will not cease to bless the name of Amherst.
" Yet that we ourselves may not seem insensible of our hap- piness, permit us, Sir, to turn our eyes to the wide-extended frontiers of our many fair colonies, over which his sacred Majesty has so long swayed his gracious sceptre. How strangely altered is the amazing scene ! There the savage native, and more savage Canadian, were lately wont to seize the defenceless and inotl'md- ing peasant, doomed, with his tender wife, and helpless children, to the most excruciating deaths, or a more dreadful captivity. Hence an universal horror seized the borderers. To this sue-
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ceeded a general dereliction, and the numerous settlements, aban- doned to the relentless fury of an insatiate foe, were soon reduced to dismal and undistinguished ruin. Husbandry felt the fatal eftects of such a waste of country : and this city, famous for its commerce, beheld, and wept the diminution of its staple. Thus, besides the keenest sympathy for our suffering fellow-subjects, we have acted our own sad parts in the affecting tragedy.
" But Canada is no more. The peasant may return in secu- rity to his fields ; husbandry will soon revive j the face of nature smile with tlie blessings of peace ; and this flourishing city rejoice in the plenty of its markets. This surprizing change, we attribute, with the most humble gratitude, to the paternal care of our most gracious Sovereign, in appointing your Excellency to conduct his victorious armies in America.
" Our restless enemies, possessed of the two great rivers of St. Lawrence and Missisippi, long since formed the horrid scheme of circumventing us with a chain of fortresses. This, with un- wearied industry, they at length achieved ; and by this they sained the dominion of the lakes, and their connecting: streams. The passes thus secured, as well into Canada as our own country, necessarily procured them the assistance of numerous tribes of Indians 3 and, not to say worse, shook the fidelity of the few who had so long valued themselves on our protection. Nothing then seemed wanting but a little patience, till they had introduced a sufficient number of regulars from France. But in this they failed : their sanguine expectations broke down the restraints of policy, and they began to execute the deep-laid purpose before they had strength sufficient to ensure success. And yet, thus ad- vantageously situated, they compelled us in a defensive war, to toil through several campaigns : most of which ended in the loss of some fort or tract of country. So true it is, that the inferiority of their numbers was in a great measure compensated for, by the possession of those important posts, v.hich, had they not been wrested from them by your unexanijjled conduct, seconded by the matchless heroism of the much lamented Wolfe, and the vigorous efforts of his brave successor in command, would, in the hands of so vigilant, designing, nnd indefatigable an enemy, most probably have ended in the reduction of the whole British Noi tii America. This, Sir, is a hasty portraiture of the mighty evils from which, by your triumphs, we have been delivered ; evils to which we shall never, again be exposed, unless our reslles«
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neighbours should, by a restitution, be enabled to renew the ex- ecrable attempt.
'* Yet, what will more effectually perpetuate your name. Sir, with universal applause to the latest posterity, are those innu- merable benefits arising from an exclusive possession of this vast continent. These benefits, the purchase of your labours, will unfold themselves in every revolving year till Great Britain shall become the Imperial Mistress of Nations. Indeed, to view her in her present glorious state, must swell the breast of her every worthy son. Her royal fleets seem already to give law to her neighbours. As often as they spread their canvas, even the in- sulting Gaul beholds with trembling expectation j while to her victorious armies it is the same thing to march and to conquer. But the vast variety of soils and climates in America, capable of producing every necessary and conveniency of life, joined to the fishery on its coast, must infallibly prove to our mother country an inexhaustible source of wealth ; thus enabhng her, as well by the power of her arms, as by with-holding or bestowing the bles- sing both of art and nature, to humble the united arrogance of the most presumptuous opposers, and support the tottering fortunes of dependent states. Such, Sir, will be the wonderful effects of the conquest gained by those armies, which you have commanded with so much honour to yourself and the nation ; a conquest too immensely valuable ever to be ceded to an enemy, whose prin- cipal characteristic is a perfidious abuse of favours.
But, Sir, while so remarkable an event will never fail to furnish the most ample testimonials of your military accomplishments, the ingenuous mind must at the same time receive a peculiar satis- faction from thecontemplationof another part of your uncommon character 5 we mean your humane and generous use of victory. The picture of a Conqueror, drawn from the greatest examples recorded in the faithful pages of history, though it sti-ikes the soul with a mixture of admiration and terror, is seldom expressive of benevolent affections of the heart, even when the conquered are rather objects of commiseration than revenge. Hence it is, that your compassionate treatment of the vanquished Canadians, must rppear most singularly amiable ! To require of a disarmed, yet implacable foe, whose inhumanities have deserved the severest strokes of vindictive justice, nothing more than a quiet submis- sion to tiic gentle dictates ot British rule, is indeed a disinterested A-irtue : and must convince the attentive world, that Britons never
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conquer to enslave. To conclude. Sir, that the God of armies may continue to furnish your head with wisdom, 3'our breast with fortitude, and your arm with strength : that he may cover you as with a shield, and make you terrible to your enemies in the day of battle ; that you may long live to enjoy the gracious smiles of your Royal Master, the grateful acclamations of the British nation, and the peaceful eulogiums of an approving conscience j that your name may be remembered with thankfulness by the latest posterity ; and that your unwearied labours for the public welfare, may meet with their due rewards here, and an unfading crown of glory hereafter, are the earnest wishes and desires of your Excel- lency's most obedient humble servants,
The Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty, of the City of New -York." " Nov. 27, 1760"
To which his Excellency was pleased to return the following
answer.
" Gentlemen,
" I return you most sincere thanks for the Address you have been pleased to make to me.
" It gives me very particular pleasure that the success of his Majesty's arms in the reduction of Canada, has contributed so much to the happiness of the people on this continent; and it is my most hearty wish^ that this city may reap all the advantages it can desire from this conquest, and that it may prosper and flourish to the latest time."
On April llth, 1761, he was created one of the Knights of the most honourable order of the Bath ; on November 7th, 1768, was appointed colonel of the third regiment of foot, as likewise, at the same time, colonel in chief of the sixtieth, or royal Ame- rican regiment of foot, which he retained till his death. In Oc- tober, 1770, was appointed governor of the island of Guernsey, the castle of Cornet, and all other islands, forts, and appurtenances thereunto belonging. On October 22d, 1772:, he was appointed lieutenant-general of his Majesty's ordnance, which he retained till 17825 also, on the 6th of the following month, was sworn of his Majesty's most honourable privy-council, and took his place at the board accordingly, his Majesty being present ; and his Ma- jesty, in consideration of his superior merits, and signal services, was graciously pleased to advance him to the dignity of a peer of
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this realm, by the style and title of Baron Amhekst, of Holmes- dale in the county of Kent, by letters patent, bearing date on May 20th, 17765 and on March 24tb, 1778, his Lordship was pro- moted to the rank of general of the army ; and in April, 1779, appointed colonel of the second troop of horse grenadier guards, which was reformed June 25th, 1/88, and made the second regi- ment of life-guards.
In 1778, he was appointed Commander in Chief of his Ma- jesty's land forces in Great Britain, which high office he retained till March, 1782 ; and was again appointed to it 1783.
On July 30th^ 179^, his Lordship was appointed to the rank of Field-Marshal.
On September 6th, 1788, his Lordship was created Lord Am- herst OF Montreal i?i Kent, with limitation in default of issue male of his own body, to his nephew William Pitt Amherst; and the heirs male of his lody.
His Lordship was twice married, first, to Jane, only surviving daughter of Thomas Da]yson,of Manton in the county of Lincoln, and of Hampton in the county of Kent, Esq. (by his wife Jane, daughter of Captain Richard Etherington), which Thomas Daly- son was only surviving son of Thomas Dalyson, Esq. by Susan, his first wife, daughter of Sir Thomas Style, of Wateringbury, Bart, which last Thomas was eldest surviving son of Maximilian Daly- son, of West Peckham in Kent, Esq. by his wife Frances, daughter and heir of Thomas Stanley, Esq. before-mentioned. She dying on January 7th, 1765, aged forty-one, was buried at Plaxtole in Kent.
His Lordship's second Lady was Elizabeth, daughter of the Hon. Lieutenant-General George Gary (only brother of Lucius- Charles, Viscount Falkland), of Levengrove, by Isabella, daughter of Arthur Ingram, Esq. of Barraby, both in the county of York ; they were married March 26th, 1767, in Clifford-street in the parish of St. James's Westminster, by his Grace the Archbishop of York ; but his Lordship had no issue by either Lady.
His Lordship died August 3d, 1 'jgy, at his seat of Montreal in Kent, aet. eighty-one. " The name of Sir Jeffery Amherst," say his biographers, " was as much dreaded by the enemies ot Great Britain, as it was revered by his countrymen. The honour of the nation whose battles he fought, seemed to be the predo- minant principle throughout his military career. He was a firm disciplinarian, but he was the soldier's friend; a man of strict economy, always sober, and ready at all times to hear and redress
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the complaints of the army in general. No ostentation of heroism marked any of his actions ; bat the whole of his conduct evinced the firm simplicity of a brave mind, animated by the conscious- ness of what was due to himself and his country. As Commander IN Chief, it has been said that he was induced by the sweets of office to retain his situation longer than his strength permitted the active execution of its duties 3 but his Sovereign saw no reason for his resignation, and his country could not be dissatisfied that the post was held by one who had hazarded his life in her de- fence."' His Lordship was succeeded by his nephew,
William Pitt Amherst, second Lord Amherst, oi- Montreal in Kent, born January, 1773.
His Lordship married, July 24th, 1800, Sarah, Countess of Plymouth, relict of Other Hickman, lifth Earl of Plymouth, daughter and coheir of Andrew Archer, last Lord Archer (who died February 28th, 17/8, when the title became extinct), and has issue.
First, a daughter, born July pth, 1801.
Second, a son, born August 2gth, 1802.
Third, William Pitt, who died March 28th, 1804.
Fourth, a son, born November 24th, 1805.
Fifth, a son, born in February, ISO/.
His Lordship was appointed a lord of his Majesty's bed- chamber in June, 1804 ; and is at present his Majesty's Minister to the King of Sicily.
Title. William Pitt Amherst, Lord Amherst of Montreal.
Creation. Lord Amherst of Montreal, by patent September 6th, 1788.
Arms. Gules, three tilting spears erect, or, headed, argent; confirmed to Richard Amherst, Esq, by William Camden in 1607.
Crest. On a wreath, or and gules, a mount, vert; and on it three tilting spears, the middle one erect, the others snhierwise, or, headed, argent, encircled round their middles with a chaplet, vert.
Supporters. On the dexter, a Canadian war Indian, his ex- terior arm embowed, holding a war axe proper ; rings through his nose and ears, and bracelets on his arms and wrists, argent j over his shoulders two buff belts in saltier, one with his powder- horn, the other holding his scalping knife; about his waist a
' Gent, Mag. vol. Ixvii p S0I1802.
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small apron azure, stringed gules, having gaiters on his legs azurC;, stringed gules, seamed or ; the legs fettered and fastened with a chain, to the bracelet on the exterior wrist. On the sinister, a like Canadian holding in his exterior hand a staff argent, thereon an human scalp, proper.
Motto. CoNSTANTIA ET ViRTUTE.
Chief Seat. Montreal, in the hamlet of Riverhead near Seven Oaks, Kent.
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CHICHESTER, LORD FISHERWICK.
{MARQUIS OF DONEGAL IN IRELAND.)
This family seems anciently to have borne the name of Cireri' easier, and was one of the most eminent in the county of Devon for its antiquity, estate, employments, and alliances, having flou- rished for several generations at South-Ponle, not far from Kings- Bridge, where their most ancient habitation was : and a full re- presentation of their dignity is manifested by that learned anti- quary, Sir William Pole, in his MS. survey of Devonshire j who assuies us, that they have a right to quarter the arms of the Ra- Jeighs, the Beaumonts, the Willingtons, and many other noble families.
The first of the name to be met wiih^ is Walleran de Ci~ renccster (thought to be so denominated from Cirencester in Glou- cestershire) said to be descended from a brother of Robert de Cirencester, alias Chichester, Dean of Salisbury, and consecrated in 1128 Bishop of Exeter, who bestowed much money, in re- building and adorning his Cathedral, in which having sat twenty- two years, he w;is buried 1 150, on the south side of the altar, near a gentleman of his own name.
To Walleran succeeded John his son, the f.ilherof
Sir John, whose son
Sir Thomas de CiRENcrsTtR was lord of the manor of St. Mary-Church (an eminent sea-mark on the east side of Torbay),
» Prince's Worthies of Devon, p 13 ji and Fuller. VOL. VIII. N
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by his marriage with Alicia de Rotomago, in the time of Henry III. from the beginning of whose reign in 1216, he sustained many honourable employments throughout the whole course of it.
His son William had issue
Sir John Cirencester, whose son
Richard, leaving the name of Cirencester, alias Chichester, fixed upon the latter, which has continued the surname of the family.
John de Chichester his son, in 34, 45, and 40 years of King Edward III. ^ was member of parliament for the borough of Mel- comb-Regis, in the county of Dorset, as he also was in 1381, 5 Richard 11. and left
Sir John de Chichester his heir, who in 1433 (12 Henry VI.) was returned one of the principal gentry of the county of Devon by the King's commissioners: and marrying Thomasine, daughter and heir to Sir William Raleigh, of Raleigh near Barnstaple, in Devonshire, '' acquired that inheritance ; and was father of
John, of Raleigh, who was sheriff of the county of Devon 3 Edw. IV. and left issue
Richard Chichester, Esq. who 8 and 14 of that reign served the same ofBce 5 and marrying Alice, daughter and heir to John Wotton (or Watton), of Widworthy, that estate accrued thereby to the family ; by her, besides other children, he had
John, his heir; and
Richard, his third son, who marrying Thomasine, daughter and heir to Simon Hall, of Hall in Bishop's Tawton, became .seated there, and his posterity matched into the eminent houses of Gough of Aldercomb, in Cornwall; Ackland of Ackland ; Marwood of Westcott; Basset of Umberleigh ; Strode of Newn- hamj Pollard; Carew; and others.
John Chichester,'^ the eldef son, married first Margaret, daughter and heir to Hugh Beaumont, of Youlston in Devonshire, Esq. with whom he had that seat, and by her had
Edward, his heir.
And by his second wife, Joane, daughter of Robert Brett, of Whitstaunton in Somersetshire, and of Pillond in Devonshire, he had John Chichester, of Widworthy in the east ; and Amias, ^ of
b Ulster's Office. c Ibid, <i Ibid,
e Amias married Joan, daughter of Sir Roger Giffard, of Brightley, by whom (says Rev. Mr. Princej " he had nineteen sons, and four daughters.
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Arlinston, in {hf. north parts of Devonshire, whose pos'erlty flourished at bo:h phues.
Edwakd Cliichester, Esq (by the^^r^/ wife) lived in the rei':'n of Henry VIII. and married Elizabeth, ' eldist daughter of John Bourchier, Lord Fitz-Warinc, and the first Earl of Bath, (by Cecilia his wife, daughter of Gyles, Lord D'Aubeny, and sister and heir to H- iiry, Lord D'Aubeny, who was created Earl of Bridgwater by King Henry \'III. and died April 8th, 1547, with- out issue) by whom he was father of
Sir John Chichester, Knight, t< who received that honour from Queen Elizabetii in 1580, and who, in 1552 and 15/8, was high sheriff of the county of Devon, which in 1553 and 1502 he represented in parliament. '' He married Gertrude, ' daughter of Sir William Courten.iy, of Powderham castle in Devonshire, Knt. ancestor to the Lord Viscount Courtenay, by whom he had five sons and eight daughters, viz.
First, Sir John, uncesLor to the family of Raleigh.
Second, Arthur, whose abilities and services raised him to the Peerage of England.
Third, Edward, ancestor to the Earl of Donegal.
Fourth, Sir John Chichester the younger, who, whilst his brother Arthur was in France, sought glory in Ireland ; where his services were rewarded with the post of serjeant-major of the army, and the honour of knighthood, so that he came to be dis- tinguished from his elder brother of the same name and degree, by the title of Sir John Chichester the younger ; it being no un- usual thing for parents, in former times, to give a favourite name to more of their children than one, living at the same time. He was governor of Carrickfergus, and November 4th, 1597, "^ lost his life on an enterprize against the Mac Donnells, in the follow- ing manner : James Mac Sorley Mac Donnell (after Earl of An- trim) hid a strong detachment of Highland foot in a cave, about four miles distant from Carrickfergus, whilst he advanced with a small body towards that plice ; and braving the garrison, Sir John Chichester made a sally, when Mac Donnell seeniing to
Fourteen of tlie nineteen sons lived to be proper gentlemen, though not above thiee of them had issue: when they went all to church, the first wiuld be in the church-porch bet'orc the last would be out of the house." Edward, the ninth son, was slain in a duel ; and Paul, the eleventh, a worthy captain, was slain in the Portugal action, i/:.89.
r Ul ter's Office. g Ibid,
li Fuller's Worthies. • Ulster's Office. k Ibid.
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fly, till he had brought Sir John to the place where he had formed his ambuscade, turned upon him and his party, who being in- stantly surrounded with the fresh troops was defeated. Sir John was taken prisoner, and beheaded upon a stone at the head of the Glynn, '
Fifth, Sir Thomas Chichester, to whom King James, March 20th, 1607, granted a lease for twenty-one years, of divers lands in the county of Wicklow ; and December 8th, 161O, gave to him and his heirs the lands of Radonnell, containing 1000 acres, iu the county of Donegall.
First, daughter Elizabeth, married to Hugh Fortescue, of Phi Heigh, Esq.
Second, Eleanor, to Sir Arthur Basset, of Umberleigh, Knt, Third, Mary, to Sir Richard Bluet, of Holcomb-Regis, Knt. Fourth, Grace, to Robert Dillon. Fifth, Cecilia, to Thomas Hatch, of AUer, Esq. Sixth, Susanna, to John Fortescue, of Buckland-Philleigh, Esq.
Seventh, Dorothy, to Sir Hugh Pollard, of Klng's-Nimpton, Knight.
Eighth, Urith, in 1591, to John Trevilian, of Nettlecombe in Somersetshire, Esq. ancestor to Sir John Trevilian, Bart, and
Ninth, Bridget, the first wife of Sir Edward Prideaux, of Far- way, and of Netherton in Devonshire. '"
Sir John Chichester, the eldest son, married Anne, daughter of Sir Robert Dennis, of Holcombe, Knight, and being killed, with the judge of assize and others, by an infectious smell from the prisoners, at the Lent assizes in Exeter Castle, 1585, left issue
Sir Robert Chichester, of Raleigh, Knight of the Bath, who married to hh^first wife Frances, younger daughter of John, Lord Harington of Exton, and coheir to her brother John, Lord Har- ington (who died without issue, at Kew in Surrey, August '2'lh, 16 1 3, three days after his father had deceased at Worms in Ger- many, on his return from attending the Princess Elizabeth, King James's daughter, to the Palatinate, after her marriage with Fre- derick, Count Palatine of the Rhine, of which Princess he had
1 In King James's reign, Mac Donncll going one day to view the family monument in St. Xicholas's churcli at Carrickfergus, and seeing Sir John's statue thereon, asked. How the dc'ell be came to get his bead again, for be ivut Hire he had unce taen it frae him.
'" Ulster's Office.
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the tuition) and by htrr he l)ad an only daughter Anne, married to Thomas Lord Bruc", of Kinlosse, by whom she was mother of Robert Earl of Aylesbury, and lies buried in tlie church of J'lxton in llutlandshire, under ;i curious monument of black and white marble, with a memorial, on the one side in Latin, which is Engli.hed on the other, as follows :
Anne, wife to Thomas Lord Brnce, Baron of
Kinlosse, daugliter of Sir Robert Chichester,
Knight of the Bath, of an ancient family
Jn the county of Devon, and of Frances, one of
The two daughters and coheirs of John, Lord
Harrington, Baron of Extoii, sole hr:ir to her
Mother; a lady endowed witli a namral
Disposition to virtue ; a true understanding
Of honour; most noble behaviour ; perpetual
Chearfulness 3 most elegant conversation ; and a
More than ordinary conjugal affection. She was
Married iv years ar)d ix months, and left one only
Child, named Robert Bruce, Weakened by that
Birth, she died in childbed the xx day of March
In the XXII year of her age : Anno Domini mdcxxvii.
Erected and inscribed to the memory of his
Most beloved and most deserving wife, by Thomas
Lord Bruce. "
Sir Robert's second wife was Mary, daughter of Hill,
of Shilston, and dying in ]G26, had issue by her, who re-married with Sir Ralph Sydenham, Knight, " Sir John Chichester born in 1023, P created a Baronet August 4th, l641 ; who married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Sir John Rayney, ofWrotham in Kent, Bart, and dying in 1O67, had issue three sons, Sir John ; Sir Arihur ; and Henry, who married the widow of John Chichester, of Hall, I- sq. Sir John, the second Baronet, married the daughter of Sir Charles Bickerstaff, of Sele in Kent, Knight^ but dying without issue male in 168O, was succeeded by his brother Sir Arthur, the third Baronet, who served in parliament for Barn- staple in Devonshire, from the reign of James II. to his death, in ] 717 ; and having married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Drewe,
n See this monument engraved in Wright's Rutlandshire, p. 159. o Rot. pat. Ao. 100. 3. p. d. R. zx. v Fuller's Worthier.
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of Grange in Devonshire, Esq. left Sir John Chichester, the fourth Baronet, also member of parUa.nent for Barnstaple, who took to wife Anne, daughter of John Leigh, of Newport in the Isle of Wight, Esq. and dying at his seat of Youlston, September 4lh, 1740, left two sons. Sir John {the ffth Baronet, sheriff of the county of Devon for the year 1753 ; he married Frances, the second daughter and one of the four coheirs to Sir George Chud- leigh, of Haldon in the county of Devon, Knt. i and had by her the late Sir John Chichester, sixth Baronet, who died unmarried, October 180S); and William,
Sir Arthur Chichester, frst Irish peer, (second son of Sir John, by Gertrude, daughter of Sir William Courtenay) was born at haleigh, and after spending some part of his youth in the Uni- versity, ' finding that too sedentary a life for his active genius, embraced a military one in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and was constantly engaged wherever his sovereign's service required his presence, by sea and land, in England and in France. He was knighted in \5Q5, for his valour and military skill in ihe wars pf this kingdom ; where his service in the redaction of the Irish to due obedience was so manifest, that he was etFcctually assistant to plough and break up (say Dr. Fuller and Mr. Prince) that bar- barous nation by conquest, and then to sow it with seeds ef civi- lity^ when L, D.
In 1599, he commanded 200 foot at Carrickfergus, aiid in the end of November, I600, being garrisoned at that place, laid all the country waste within twenty miles of it. May 2d, 16OI, the L. D. wrote to the Lords in England (among other things) that Sir Henry Docura at Loughfoile, and Sir Arthur Chichester at Carrickfergus, had made their numbers sure to the stale, and both had done her Majesty excellent service; and in his letter June 14th, acquainted their Lordships, that those gentlemen had determined to assure the passage of Moyry; then to plant a gar- rison at Lecale, and to reinforce Sir Arthur, whereby he might go near to effect what the whole army should have done. June 18, Sir Arthur waitf^d on the L D. at the camp at Blackstaffl and there received his designs for the present service, with a procla-
q Baronetage of Eng. 1771, vol. i p- 3c)S. r At that time he robbed one of the Queen's purveyors, who were but little better than robbers themselves. To avnid a prosecution he tieil into France, where he signalized himself under Kii g Henry IV. who knighied him for his gallant behaviour; and lie was shortly after pardoned by the Queen. Granger's Biografh vol i p.395, bvo.
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mation to be published for establishing the new coin, and re- ceived 200 foot to strengthen his gjrrison ; with which, in July he took Castle Reagh, the only one held by Bryan Mac Art in those parts; and in June, 1002, the L. D. Mountjoy havingdriven Tiroen out of his country, as high as Castlcroe upon the Ranne, and taken in some of his strongest islands, sent Sir Richard Mor- ryson from Dungannon, with 500 foot, to meet Sir Arthur Chi- chester, who was to pass Loughsidney, with his forces from Car- ricktergus, and land within a few miles of Dungannon : where being met, they began, by the Deputy's directions, to raise the fort of Mountjoy, capable of containing above 1000 foot and 100 horse, which were to be victualled from Carrickfcrgus, by the way of the Lough ; and for the present service. Sir Arthur com- manded in chief the forcis left there, with power to draw out them and all otiier garrisons towards Carrickfergus, upon all oc- casions of service. Soon after this, the Deputy having intelli- gence, that Tiroen proposed to send Bryan Mac Art to disturb Killultagh, and so divert as much as possible his own prosecu- tion ; directed Sir Arthur, with Sir Henry Davers (August lOth, l602), to invest the fort of Enislaughlin, the only place of strength lield by the rebels in those parts, wherein the plate and valuable efl'ects of such as had fled into Tyrone were deposited. This fort, seated in a large bog, and only accessible through thick woods, surrendered to the Queen's mercy, as soon as they had made their approaches to the first ditch; and the garrison, August 19, were brought prisoners to the Deputy at Newry, whence Sir Arthur accompanied his Lordship in pursuit of Tiroen into Fermanagh ; but on the news of the Spaniards arriving at Beerhaven, he was sent backj September Sth, with directions to lye at Fort Mountjoy j to destroy all the corn which he could not preserve for the gar- risons, and to be ready to oppose the rebels, should they make any head ; or attend the Deputy, if the Spaniards should land. And that month Sir Henry Davers, serjeant-major of the army^ being induced by the necessity of his private affairs, to discon- tinue his service in Ireland, his post was conferred upon Sir Ar- thur; who, in January following, expelled Bryan Mac Art out of Killultagh ; and by the Deputy, in his letter to Secretary Cecil, October 2d, 1601, was recommended as the fittest man that could be chosen in England or Ireland, to be made sole governor of Ulster, in order to carry oa a sharp winter's war against the rebels, and prevent any important succour to the Spaniards, then
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landed at King^alej bat Tiroen being shortly after defeated in Monster^ this project took no effect.
He equally distinguished himself in the arts of peace; for, being a man of great capncity, judgment, steadiness, and expe- rience, he was wise in taking his party ; resolute in executing his designs ; master ot his own temper ; dextrous and able to inanage all the variety of humours he had to deal with, and to gain even the most pervf rse.
April 21st, 10O3, the King directed him to be admitted a privy-counsellor, and by patent, dated September 10th following, appointed him governor of Ca'rickfergus, with the fee of 135. 4d. a day for life (vUiich he had long held under Queen Elizabeth) but that p.itrnt falling short of the King's intentions, a new one was passed May 9th, l604, investing him with the said govern- ment, and that of all other forts, with the Lough-Neagh, and the commodities thereof; and constituting him colonel and governor of the forces stationed at Carrickfergus, both the Cladeboyes, the Duffraine, KilJultagh, Kilwarling, the litile Ardes, the Ronte, and the Glynnes in Ulster, and of all the inhabitants thereof, to at- tend upon him, and be at his direction ; also admiral and com- mand-r in chief of Loughsidney, otherwise Longh-Neagh, with the fishing thereof, as far as the salraon-l(=ap on the river Banne; governor of the fort of Mountjoy ; and to draw forth the forces of Armagh, Blackwater, Mountnorris, and Charleraount, and em- ploy them as he should see most expedient for the advancement of his Majesty's service.
By patent, dated February 1st, 1 603-4, he was made L, D. OF Irel.4ND; and that year established two new circuits (in order to civilize the Irish) sending the first justices of assize into Conaught, and retrieving the circuit of Munster, which had then been discominued for about 200 years; so that whereas the cir- cuits before encompassed only the Eiig'isli pale, from this time thev carried the influence of jusiice throughout the kingdom, and had so wonderful an effect, that in a short time so many capital offenders were not found in (he thirty-two counties, as in six shires of the western circuit in England,^ But his care to bring this griat work to some degree of perfection rested not here; the niany proclamations for ihe reformaiion of the couiury, uhich he not only published but executed, mightily contributed to that end j
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such were those for abolishing the customs of Tanistry, &c. and all for.ner grudges and displeasures conceived in the Queen's time; for enforcing the statute of 2 Elizabeth, conct-rning rt-li- gionj prohibiting the importation of amis or ainmunition to sell to the Irish ; and others.
He very mucli influ-nced and promoted the plantation of the forfeited estates in Ulster; and when all plans and measures for carrying on that necessary work failed, he supplied their defects ; with which the King was so well satisfied, that he conferred on him very considerable grants of lands ' in that province j and as a
t The King, in his letter to him from Westminster, June 30th, 1609, * writes, " That having approved of a project for the distribution of iiis lands in Ulster, which he was resolved not to alter in any point of substance, for favour or merit of any pa- ticular person ; jet, having consideration of his extraordinary desert, w .s pleased to grant to him, his heirs and assignes, for ever, the entire territory or country of Inishowen, otherwise called O'Dog- hertie's country, with all the hereditaments thereof, po;;sessed either by Sir ]ohn O'Doghertie or his son, the late traitor Caher O'Doghertie deceased fexcept such lands as were to be allotted to the Bishop of Derry, and the se- veral incumbents within the said country, and 1000 acres for the city of Derry J together with the custody of Culmore-castle, within the^aid country, for life." Accordingly, by patent, dated February zzd, 1609, he had a grant thereof, to hold by fealty, and the yearly rent of 86/. i2j. %d. Fngii h, mak- ii.g of Irish money 115/ los. zJ. halfpenny, with a power of Iiolding four several courts leet within the island of Inche, the territories of Tuogh-Cron- cine and Tuogh-Clagh, the manor of Greenecastle, otherwise Newcastle, and the island of Malyne; a Friday market and two fairs, on the last days of .Xu- gust and April at Boncranocha ,• a Monday market and two fairs, on Sep. tember 30th and April 1st, at Greenecastle; a fair October 20th at Dronge, in the island of Malyne ; to divide the territory into precincts, each to con- tain about 20CO acres, with free warren, and mnny other privileges and great advantages. And thij was confiimed anew bv o"her letteis patent, dated July 6th, 1610; also October 24th, i6cg, he was confirmed constable of Cul- more fort, which April gih, i6ii,he surrenrlcred 10 the King Further Ja- nuary iii.th, 1610, he had a grant of the castle of Dungannon, and 1320 acres of escheated lands within that precinct, and other hereditaments of great value in the province of Ulster; his Lonlship holding certain fishi.igs, &c. within the limits contracted or by the King wiih the city of London, volun- tarily surrendered the same to his Majesty, without which the said city could not have had the full benefit of the King's contraci with them, and conse- quently the intended i lantation in these parts liad not so well gone forwards if the said surrende*^ had mt been made ; .\ ho, in consideration thereof, bv privy seal, dated at Westminster, Fcbrua'y Xid, 16: i, and by patent, July ^j, 1615, granted, during his life, and those of Arthur his nei)hew, and Arthur
* Rot. pat. Cane. Ao. 70. 2 p. d R. 3.
186 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND.
lasting mark of his favour (upon the calling of his first parlia- ment in Ireland) did by letters patent, bearing date at West-
Langheme, Esq. the entertainment of 4^-. zd. English by the day as captain, and gj. for nine horsemen, to employ them where he should think fit during his life, and afterwards to be resident in the territory of Inishowen, and to be employed upon all necessary occasions for his Majesty's service there, and not elsewhere, unless it were at every general hosting; * 13 James I. he sur- rendered this patent, andhad it renewed Augustjgth, 1616; + the said patent was surrendered, but it was not so beneficial to him as the King intended, in respect and recompence of the said lands and fishings in the said deed under- neath mentioned ; and therefore his Majesty, as well in consideration thereof, as of the long and many great and faithful servicer done and performed to the crown by him the lace Deputy, to his Majesty's great contentment and satis- faction, directed by letters, dated at Theobald's, July 15th, 1616, and en- rolled, X that heand his assignes, during the lives of himself, his said nephew, and Arthur Langherne, son of John Langherne, Esq. should have the said entertainment for himself and horsemen, without cheaque, with the manage- ment and command of the said hor.^emen, to be paid by the vice treasurer, during the said time, notwithstanding that his Lordship, or his assignee, during all or any part of the time and term aforesaid, should not accomplish the said full number of horses and horsemen, and the patent passed accord- ingly, August 29th, 1616, the pay to commence October ist, i6n. TheKing also by warrant, dated at Salisbury August 8th, 1620, ordered an effectual grant or grants to be made by patent, of all the estates he possessed by virtue of any former grants, in consideration of his manifold, great, and good ser- vices, as well during the time of his government as deputy for many years, as in other his employments j and accordingly two distinct patents were passed, bearing date November zoth, 1621, confirming all his said estates, which were very large ; the former whereof contained (among othersj the manor, fort, town, and lands of Dungannon (where he had built a fort 120 feet square, with four half-bulwarks, encompassed by a ditch twenty feet broad, and counterscarped ; a large church and steeple, twenty houses, after the English maimer, &.-C. which was made a borough-town, and sends members to parlia- ment; the barony or territory of Enishowen ; all islands within the loughs or arms of the sea, called Loughswilly and Louglifoile; the manors, castles, and tuoghs of EUagh, Greenecastle, Doncranagh, &c. the ferry upon Lough- foile, plying between Greenecastle and Tcrmonmagillegan ; four salmons every day during the season out of the salmon fishing of Culmore ; the right of patronage, presentation, and advowson, of the rectories and vicarages of Movill, Culdagh, Clonca, Donaghclantagh, Clanmony, Diserteigny alias Dristerteighny, Fathan alias Fawen, and all of other churches whatsoever in O'Doghertie's country ; with the premises erected into the manors of Dun- gannon, EUagh, Greenecastle, alias Newcastle, Duncranagh, and Malyn. The latter grant contained the castle or mansion-house, town and manor of Belfast; the territories of Tuoghnefall, Tuoghmoylone, Tuoghcinament, Carncmony, Carnetall, and Monk's-Land ; the rectory of Sankill, and all other rectories, &c. within the said territories ; the entire fishing of the river
130. Jac I. I a p, D. R. -37. t 140. la p f. R. 2X.
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minster February 23d, l0l2, " create him Baron Chichester of Belfast, entailing the honour on his issue raale3 and accompanied
Lagan; the rectories of Antrim, Glyn, Moyvliske, Teinplepatrick, Durien, Dundermott, Roisroilike, Doughconnor, Kilrovvte, Uallynemenagh, Dromow. lagh, Dunien, Donoughconiier, and Kiirolgh; the friary of Masserync ; the entire fishing of Loughsidiiey, Loughneagh, or Lough-chichester ; and in the river Banne to the Salmon-Leap, &c. &c. in the counties of Antrim, Downe, Tyrone, and Londonderry, erected into the manors of Belfast, Ballynlinny, Moylynny, and Castle-Chichester. King Charles I. being informed, that the fishing and soil of Loughneagh, otherwise Lough-Chichcster, was so com. modious for upholding the fishing of the Banne (then come into his hands) that the governors of the London Plantation were necessitated to farm the same, at loo/. a year ; and whereas the Viscount Chichester had compounded with the commissioners for the remedy of defective titles (among other things) that he should surrender to the King the soil and fishing of the said Lough ; his Majesty, by letters from Hampton-Court, September 24th, 1638, authourized the L. D. to accept of a surrender thereof, with all rectorial tithes, and advowsons of churches, within the island Magee, and the atlvow- son of Alaherahohill in the county of Antrim : and in consideration thereof, to grant and confirm to him, his son Arthur, and their heirs, by a new patent upon the commission of grace, all their other estates wliatevcr in Ireland; and also the rectoral tithes of the parish and advowson of the vicarage of Shankhill, otherwise Belfast, in lieu of the island Magee ; and in lieu of the fishing of Loughneagh, to grant to them and their heirs a rent charge of 40/. a year English, with liberty to take salmon in the said Lough, for provision of their house or houses ; and all the eel wears and eel fishings in or near Toome. Also, that the Deputy should unite the whole island of Magee into one parish, and dispose of the said tithes for the benefit of that church and the college there, for bettering the means of the vicar, and the founding of lectures, as should seem most fit. Accordingly, to this purpose the letters patent of King Chailes I. dated September 22d, 1640, were passed to Edward Viscount Chichester, and his son Arthur, and the heirs and a^slgnes of the said Arthur, with the creation of several lands into the manor of Joymount; and King Charles II. February ist, 166S, not only confirmed the same, but separated the lands of Ballynefeigh from the manor of Joymount, and an- nexed them to ihat of Belfast, &c. Lodge.
The said Sir Arthur, by assignment from Sir Edmund Fitzgerald, was also possessed of the friary of Franciscans in the town of Carrickfergus, orj the bite of which he erected a castle in ibio. Mon. Hib. p. 4
u The preamble. Cum status et salus regncrum nostrorum atque adeo omnium reium publicarum pcena et praemio contineatur, quorum alterum legibus jiermittere, alterum nobis reservare, atque pro meritis et qualitate per-" sonarum librata et solicita manu ilistribuere et conferre consuevimus, ut non solum beiiignitas nostra, sed etiam judicium et delectus probetur ; perpetuo nobis curae est subditorum nostrorum digniorum et eminentiorum virtutes et meiita noscere et perpendere ; satis enim scimus in honoribus distribuendis adiiibito judicio ne per nii;)iam facilitatem hcnoies vilescant, aut c contra per nimiani parcitatein et an.xietatem hominuni imlustriie hebescant et langues- cant, tarn splendorem regii culminis augeri et diflundi, quam praestantium virorum mente.-. acccndi ad virtutem. Cum igitur inter plurima et summa beneficia, quibus favor divinus nos aflecerit et cumulavcrit, illud libcntur ag-
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the patent with a letter, written by himself from Newmarket, Mcirch 4ih, to this etFect: " As at first you were called by our clecliou witliout seeking for it, to this high place of trust and go- vernment of our kingdom of Ireland, and have so faithfully dis- chargt d the duties thereof, (hat without any desire of yours on that behalf, we have thought fit to continue you in that employ- ment these manyyear-i, beyond the example and custom of former times; so now we are pleased merely of our own grace, without any mediation of friends, without your suite or ambition, to ad- vance you to tlie state of a Baron of that kingdoii), in acknow- ledgement of your many acceptable services performed unto us there; and that you, and all other ministers of state, which serve us wheresoever, may know by the instance of this our favour to you, that we observe and discern their merits, and accordingly do value and reward them," &c. ■''
He continued in the government ten years successively; in the last of which he had occasion for all his great abdiiies, to manage the most stubborn parliament that ever was in Ireland ; which met on Thursday iVTay 18th, lC)J3, and with which he prevaiii-d to attaint tlie Earls ol Tiroc;n and Tyrconnel, Sir Caher O'Di ghertie, and others ; to make an act of recognition of the King'a undoubted lawful right and title to the crown of Ireland ;
noscimus, quod regniim nostrum Hiberniae, insula? post Britanniam, omnium insulauan occidenrali'.im maxima; et amplissimae, et pulcheiiiir.ae cceli et soli felicitate et l'ce:unditate affluentis et insignis; ^ed niiiilominus per rnulta jam saecula perpetuis sedilionum et rebellionum tiuctibus jactatce ; necnon super, stitioni et barbaribus moribus, priKssrtim in provincia Ultonias, addiciae et immersa;; temporibus nostris recreavimus, et tanquam refecimus, subactis rebellibus, atqueaucto et lepurgato cultu tam divino qiiam humano. Cumquc in hac parte elucescant omniiio meiita et servitia dilecti et tidelis nostri Ar- thuri Chichester militis, deputati rcgni nostri Hiberniae prsedicii ; nos igitur prudciitiam, integritatem, fortitudinem, atque etiam felicitatem ejusdem Ar- thur! Chichester militis, nobiscum matura considerantesdeliberatione ; quod- que ipse ex antiqua et clarissima familia ortus sit, quodque magna et bona varix' militiae fama jamdiu floruerit ; quodque per octo annos integros quibus gubernacula regni nostri Hibernia?, sub auspiciis et consiliis nostris tracta- verit, se virum strenuum, et integrum, et caslum praebuerit, ac prascique, quod pvoximam et ultimam rebeliionem prediti et famosi proditoris Cahir O'Dog- hcrtie in provincia Ultonise, dubiis et periculosis temporibus, cum rclliquia; et scintillas veterum malorum reviviscere putarentur, atque statim per omnia conriagratuiae, nisi principiis obviam initium fuisset, magna virtute et pros- pcrimo successu profiigavcrit et extinxevir, ipso Cahir O'Doghertie in acie occiso, de gratia nostra sfcciali, Sec. Rot pat af^. lof. Jac. 1.4,1. p. D- R 27.
X Rot. 10 et II, Jac. I. 4:1. p. D. R. 27.
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another, for the King's general unJ free pardon ; and to give liis Majesty a subsidy; to which he was rated the sum of 200/. In this parliament (designed to make and establish a full and tirni reformation in Ireland) many jealousies were conceived by certain members, and complaints thereupon laid before the King in their names, of sundry practices and abuses, supposed to be commiited in and concerning the said parliament ; whereof the King being desirous to be thoroughly informed, commissioned the Deputy and others, August 27lh, l6l3, strictly to enquire into any ge- neral grievances either in the civil or martial government j that being informed of both, and understanding the grounds of the said complaints, he might apply proper remedies. In execution of their commission and instructions, > they made a strict inquiry, and laid the state of the kingdom before his Majesty ; who there- upon, to satisfy the public, and clear his deputy from any asper- sions, which were cr might be cast upon him, by such as cen- sured his proceedings for the public good, published a proclama- tion February 7th, and having commanded the present appearance in England, of divers members of both houses, directed Sir Arthur to repair thither also, that he and his council might advise at large with him, and receive information from him, touching the state and affairs of Ireland.
On his return in iGli, he was empowered (with others) by special commission, to view the counties of Wexford, Longford, Leitrim, &c. and inquire into the crown's title to the same; the estate, number, and condition of the inhabitants; the chief; ie% claims, customs, and rents, of the then owners ; and the best way to reduce and settle them. This commission was executed that summer, and a general title found for the King, to about 385,000 acres; which, after taking care of the rights of the church, as- signing a maintenance for the cleigy, and making a provision for free schools, were disposed of between the natives and the British undertakers.
July 27th, 1614, he was again made L. D. in which yea?- the harp was first marshalled with the arms of England, and since then hath been impressed on the British coin. He also reduced the mountains and glynnes on the south of Dublin into the county of Wicklow;* brought many of the Irish to con.^orm to the
y The return of this commission is preserved in tlie rolls of his Majesty's high court of Chancery, and is a very valuable and curious piece of history. 7- Fuller ut antea.
ipo TEERAGE OF ENGLAND.
English habit and laws ; and so observant was he over the actions of suspected persons, thatTiroen was heard to complain^ "he could not drink a full carouse of sack, but the state was within few hours advertised thereof."-'' After he had thus continued many years chief governor of the kingdom, King James, by his letter from Newmarket of ISfovember 29th, 1(315, was pleased to disburthen him of that charge, and gave him leave to retire from that public duty, to follow his own private affairs, and repose himself either in his government in the north, or, if more agree- able, to repair to England to kiss his handj " and of this," says the King, " you may rest assured, that you do leave that place with our very good grace and acceptation of your services 3 and as occasion shall be offered, you shall find by some more especial mark of our favour, that we will not be unmindful of your former pains."
Accordingly, his Majesty (loth to leave his abilities unem- ployed) '' constituted him, July 13th, lOlQ, Lord High TreasureT of Ireland, of which office he had the stalf delivered to him in St. Patrick's church, b.y the L. D. St. John, on Friday, August 30th ; and whilst he continued in Ireland resided at Carrickfergus, where in 161s he built a magnificent house, called Joymount. May 2d, 1622, he was sent ambassador to the Palatinate,*^ and thence to treat of a peace with the Emperor ; during his residence at whose court, being besieged in the city of Mainchina, or Malnheira (much indebted to his prudence for seasonably victualling it) by Count Tilly, ** he sent him word, that it was against the law of nations to besiege an ambassador j to which Tilly returning an- swer, he took no notice that he was an ambassador; his Lordship replied to the messenger, " Had my master sent tne with as many hundred men as he hath sent me on fruitless messages, your general should have known, that I had been a soldier as well as an ambassador." He returned to England in October, and De- cember 31st, was sworn of his Majesty's privy-council there ; but departed this life (in as great honour^ as any Englishman of that age) in London, February ipth, 1 624, ''and was interred Octo- ber 2-ith, 1625, in a chapel on the north side of the church of St. Nicholas, at Carrickfergus, under a very stately monument of marble and alabaster^ with the following inscriptions : 3
" Fuller ut antea. '' Ibid. c ibid. d Ibid,
e Ibid. f Ulster's Office.
? A handsome monument is also erected to his memory in tlie cathedral
LORD FISHERWICK. 19)
Sacred to God and eternal memore,
Sir Arthur Chichester, Knt. Baron of Belfiist, Lord
High Treasurer of Ireland, Governor of this towne, and
Of the countries adjoining : Descended of the anncient
And noble house of the Chicheslers in the countie
Of Devon, Sonne of Sir John Chichester of Ralciciie, Knight,
And of his wife Gartrnd Courtney, grandchild of Edward
Chichester, arui of his wife Elisabeth, daughter of John
Bourgchier Earle of Bathe : After the flight
Of the Earls of Tiron and Terconnel,
And other arch traytors their accomplices.
Having suppressed O'Doughertie and other northern rebels.
And settled the plantation of this province, and well and
Happily governed this kingdome in florishing estate.
Under James our King, this space of xi yeres and
More, whilest hee was L Deputie and Governor Generall
Thereof, retyred himself into his private government.
And being mindefull of his mortalitie, represented unto
Him by the untymely death of Arthure his sonne, the
Only hope of his house, who lived not full two months
After his birth ; as also of his noble and valiant brother
Sir John Chichester, Knight, late Serjeant-Major of the
Army in this kingdome, and the precedent Governour of
This towne, hath caused this chappell to be repaired.
And this valt and monument to be made and erected, as
Well in remembrance of them, whose statues are expressed,
And theire bodyes interred, as allsoe a resting place for
The bodie of self, and his most dearc and best beloved
Wife, the noble and vertuous Ladye Lettice, eldest daughter
Of Sir John Parrott, Knight, some tyme the worthye
Deputie of this kingdome : which they hope shall here
Rest in peace until the second coming of theire
Crucifyed Redeemer, whome they most constantly beleive
Then to behold with theire bodily eyes, to their endles
Blessedness, and everlasting comfort.
Gladius mens non salvabit me. Fatum mortis a Domino injunctum est.
church of Exeter; and in a little oratory, adjoining to the church of F.gges- ford, is his bust, curiously cut in marble, represented to the life, yielding a look stern and terrible like a soldier.
192 Peerage of England.
If that desire or chance thee hither lead Upon this marble monument to tread, Let admiration thy best thoughts still feed. While weeping, thou tijis epitaph doest reade ; And let distilling tears thy commaes be. As tribute due unto this elegie.
Epitaph. Within this bedd of death a Viceroy lies. Whose fame shall ever live ; virtue ne'er dies ; For he did virtue and religion nourish. And made this province, rude, with peace to florish. The leudest rebel he by power did tane. And by true justice gayn'd an honor'd name. Then novi-, though he in Heaven with angels be. Let us on earth still love his memory. By him interr'd his noble ladye is, _ Who doth partake with him in heavenly bliss j For while the earlhe unto them was a seate Blessed they were, being both good and great. With them doth rest their one and only sonne, Whose life was short, and soe his glass soone run The heavens, not earthe, was his alotted right. For which he bade the world soe soon good night: Intomb'd by them here also dcth remayn His worthy brother, who was lately elayn. As he in martiall and brave warrelike fight Oppos'd incursions, in his country's right. And in memorial of theire endless praise. This monument is kft to after dayes.
He married Letitia, daughter of Sir John Perrott, '' sometime L. D. of L^eland, (widow of V.-.ughan Blackham, Esq.) and by her, who died 20th (or 2/(1)) November, l620, and was bniied at Carrickfergus January lOih following, had an only son Arthin-, born September 26th, l60Q, who died 30th of the next month ; so that
Sir Edward Chichestpr,^^;-*^ llscount Chichester, his Lord- ship's next brother, succeeded to his large estate 3 and the honour
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being limited only to his issue male, King Charles I. conferred it anew on Sir Edward, and added to it the superior title of Viscount Chichester of Carrickfergus, with the annual creation fee of 13/. G^. 8c?. Irish, payable out of the customs of the port of Dublin, by patent, ' dated at Westminster, April 1st, '^1625. Also Oc- tober J 2th that year, constituted him his brother's successor in the government of Carrickfergus, admiral of Loughneagh, go- vernor of Culmore j and that day he was sworn of his Majesty's
i Tlie Preamble. Coronce regiac proprium officium et pitEiogativam esse certissimvtm est inter benemeritos de republica fidei et virtutum pra^mia rite disponere, nullasque ad id magis idoneas esse rcmunerationes quam honorum et dignitatum insignia et ornamenta, ut qui alios virtutibus et benemeritis praecedunt, amplioribus honoribus decorentur et nobilitcntur, ex quo et ipsi ad m.ajora et graviora nobis et reipublica? servitia prjestanda sese obligates agnoscant, et alii etiam per eorum exempla memorabilia ad eadem virtutum et actionum laudabilium studia incitentur. Hinc fuit quod praepotentissi- mus et augustissimus princeps beata? mcmoricc dominus Jacobus nuper rex Anglise, Scotiae, Francice, et Hibernise, pater noster chaiissimus non ita prideni permagna fidelissima et fclicissima servitia dicto nuper regi et coronse suas summa cum prudentia, industria, et fortitudine, per dilectum et fidelem con- siliarium suum Arthurum Baronem Chichester de Belfast dcfunctum, nuper regni Hlbernise per undecim simul annos deputatum, et postmoduin !)Umnnun ejusdem regni thesaurarium pra;stita, ipsiusque tarn in pacis quam belli tem- poribus animi magnitudinem, consilium et judicium gratiosis intucntesoculis, ipsum Arthurum ad honorem et dignitatem Baronis illius regni crexit et pne- fecit, sibique et haeredibus masculis de corpore sue exeuntibus in pcrpetuum concessit. Posteaque ex propria sua regia observatione certior factus accessio- nem illam honoris in prcefatum consiliarium suum collatam, multum in illo in negociis dicti nuper regis et zeli indefessi et alacritatis admirandx' addidisse, idem nuper rex pater noster charissimus statuit apud se eidem Baroni in am- plis gratiosae ejusdem nuper regis servitiorum suorum acceptationis testimoniis ulteriorem nobilitatis gradum conferre; quam quidcm animi sui regii inten- tionem fato dicti Baronis praeveniente, et Baroniam etiam illam ob defectum haeredum masculorum de corpore suo extinctam relinquente, decrevit idem nuper dominus rex in persona dilecti nobis Edward! Chichester militis, fra- tris dicti nuper Baronis, ejusdem et memoriam et dignitatem restaurare, et pro majore dicti Edwardi incitamento, ut sc fraterna; virtutis, sicuti rcven- tionum et census, l'.a:redem prabeat, ilium cadem dignitatis addition?, quam fratri in mente habuit, honorare, ut omnes vidercnt ct cognosccrent quam innatum sibi animoquefixum inhxrebat, viros cordatos, non vivos tantum sed et mortuos, remunerate. Sciatis quod nos dicti nuper regis patris nostri cha- xissimi gvatiosum hoc propositum benigno aninio recolcntcs, considerantes etiam pi-acdictum Edwarduni Chichester militem, ex eodcm honorato stirpe, imde et fratercjus, oriundum esse; prudcnt'a: etiam, dexteritatis et fidcliia;is ejus in rebus publicis administrandis satis amplum exhibuissc testimoniuni ; et nobis ipsis prcmittentes, quod hoc favoris spccialis argumenmm ip;um Eduardum ad omnia nobis et corona? nostras honorabilia servitia ct ob^cqui* fide ct alacritate praestanda incitabit, de gratia nostra speciali, &c. k Rot. pat. Aft. lOo. Car. I. i p. D R. 22.
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39* PEErx7\.GE OF ENGLyiND.
privy-council. He had also a confirmation of the estate, Sep- tember 22d, ]640, for the fine of 46/ /. 1/5, 6d. ' was made joint commissioner of the treasury October 12thj 1632, with the Lords Grandison and Ormond ; took his seat in parliament July 14th, 1634 ; ™ commanded a regiment in tliat reign 3 and on the break- ing out of the rebellion in l64l, sent an express to Scotland to advertise the King thereof, and of the state of the country, with the danger that was like to ensue ; for the suppression of which, he was empowered by commission to raise forces.
On July 4th, l605, he married to his wife Anne, " daughter and heir to John Coplestone, of Eggesford in the county of Devon, Esq. (who died November lltb, 1606, by his \\ife Dorothy, daughter of Sir George Biston, of Biston-Castle in Cheshire) with whom he had a large estate j and to his second wife Mary^
daughter of Denham, of Wortham in the said county,
Esq. and widow of Olhwill Hill, of Penwarnt in Cornwall, Esq. but by her, who died at Belfast February 2d, 1037, and was buried at Carrickfergus, he had no issue.
He was a very worthy and eminent person, well accomplished both for war and peace, and very serviceable in the wars of Ire- land, for which he was knighted. In the parlour at Eggesford was his eflSgies drawn in full proportion, with these lines under it^, expressing a virtuous and generous mind.
Tempori servire malum :
Mutare tempore pejus:
Pessimum autem malorum,
Temporis quam veritatis
Rationem habere.
He died July 8th, 16 18, and lies buried by his first lady, who died March 6th, 1616, and by her father and mother under a noble monument prepared by himself, but finished by his son, with all their portraitures in marble j having his five children kneeling by, under a stately canopy, finely painted, in the little oratory adjoining Eggesford church :
In Memory
Of Edward, Lord Viscount Chichester,
And dame Anne his wife : And in hum-
1 Rr ",-.Ao.i9 . Car. I i p. D. I'l Loidi Joins, vol.). p. 2« '' Ulster's Office.
LORD FISHERWICK. 195
ble acknowledgement of the good provi- dence of God in advancing their house.
A little under are these verses :
Fam'd Arthur, Ireland's dread in arms; in peace Her tut'lar genius; Belfast's honour won :
Edward and Anne, blest pair! begot increase Of lands and heirs, Viscount was grafted on.
Next Arthur, in God's cause, and King's, stak'd ail;
And had, to's honour, added Donegal.
Then follows an inscription, expressing his employments, marriages, and issue; which to insert would be only repetition. His children were,
Elizabeth, born June 2C)th, J607, and married to Sir William Wrey, of Trebitch in Cornwall, Knight, and Bart, by whom she had Sir Chichester Wrey, born in l£)28, her only son, and three daughters ; and Mary, born December 0th, 1(308, was lirst mar- ried to Thomas Wyse, of Sydenham, and secondly to John Harris, of Radford, Esqrs.
Also three sons,
First, Arthur, created Earl of Donegal.
Second, John Chichester, Esq. the second son, was born Fe- bruary 22d, J 600, resided some time at Dungannon, in the county of Tyrone, an estate settled on him by his father ; for which borough he served in the parliament of I639 ; was lieute- nant-colonel of a regiment in the service of King Charles I. and in 1647, serjeant-major of his Majesty's array." He married
e He died in 1647, as appears by the probate of his will in London, Fe- bruary, 4th, 1647-8, and in Dublin in July, ibi^-j ; but in 'Mogher's collection of MSS. is said to iie diowned in 1658, and to be buried November 17th that year, in St. John's chuich, Dublin, which mu-^t be m error ; and is so con- firmed by his Lady's will ^proved November 8th, 1673), wherein she desires to be buried in St. Panick's church, in her father's tomb, by her brother the Lord Ranelagii, if she died at or near Dublin, very privately, without any gaudy escutcheons, or shew, but in the nighl, with a few torches, without noise or ceremony ; and if she died in the north, to be buried privately by Jier deceased iuis land, Mr. John Chichester, at Belfast. The saitl John made his will November 1st, 1643. and devised his lands.ird cstateof Dungannon, and his other personal estate, which was made ovf *o him by his father on his marriage, to his son Arthur, and made him sole heir; confirmed his wife's jointure of 400/. a year, with the use and protit of her portion, 2900/. in her
1q6 peerage of ENGLz\NB.
Mary, 1' youngest daughter of Roger Jones, the first Viscount Ranelagh, and by her (who re-married with Colonel Christopher Copley, by whom she had two daughters, viz. Frances, married to Mr. Justice Coote j and Margaret, in March, 1 669, to Sir Gregory Byrne, of Timoge, in Queen's county, Bart, and died in July, l6S5 "1) had issue two sons, first. Sir Arthur,''' who succeeded to the Earldom ; second. Captain John Chichester j and three daughters, Elizabeth, Frances, and Mary; whereof the eldest was married = to Sir John Cole, of Newland, in the county of Dublin, Bart. Captain John Chichester, the younger son, Fe- bruary 1st, l678> was made custos rotulorum of the county of Tyrone, and July 1st, 16/9, escheator general of the Province of Ulster^ but being an officer in King William's army, died in 1689, in the camp at Dundalk. He married, in ] 680, Elizabeth, * youngest daughter of William, the first Viscount Charlemount, and by her (who after married Doctor Edward Walkington, Bishop of Downe and Connor, and died in 1694, or \Qg5) had issue, first, John," who was educated by the Earl of Donegal in the University of Dublin, but died a minor ; second. Reverend William Chichester, who died in 1/36, and by Lydia, his wife, had two sons; John, born in April, 1/21, and died childless; and Arthur, who entered into holy orders, and married Mary, only daughter of Henry O'Neil, of Shane's-castle in the county of Antrim, Esq. by whom he had three sons and seven daughters, of whom the only survivors were Catherine, married to Samuel Ball, of Grouse-hall in the county of Donegal), Esq.; Anne, un- married ; and one son, the Reverend William Chichester, who married, first, Mary-Anne, daughter of George Harvey, of Malin- hall, in the said county, Esq. by whom he has one son, Arthur; he married, secondly, Maryanne, daughter of the Reverend Ed- ward Hart, of Kilderry in the said county, and by her had Ed- ward and Mary ") ; x\nne, married to the Reverend Mr. Walk- ington, whom she survived, and was buried in the church of Naas, December 22d, 1/36, set, fifty-seven; Mary, v died un- married; Elizabeth, married, in 1702, to the Reverend Edward
father's hands ; leaves his wife executrix and residuary legatee; and entreats his brother Arthur Chichester, his brother Arthur Jones, and his brother Sir John Clotworthy, to be assistant to her therein. Frerog. Office and
Lodge.
p MSS. pad, penes J. L. q Ibid. r Ibid.
s Ibid. t Ibid. u Ibid.
X Letter from the Rev. William Cnichester. > Ibid.
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Chichester, brother to Arthur, the third Earl of Donegal j and Henrietta, who died an infant.
Third, Edward, the third son of Edward, Viscount Chichester, born September 1st, l(ill, was a Jieutenant-colonel in the armyj and marrying Elizabeth, fifth and youngest daughter and coheir to Sir Edward Fisher, of Fisher's-Prospect in the county of Wex- ford, who died in December, l63I, by his wife Alice, daughter of Thomas Edwards, of Dublin, had issue by her, who was buried in St. Werburgh's, November l/th, 1058, four sons and two daughters, viz, Edward, an officer in the army, who married Agnes, youngest daughter of Dr. William Bulkeley, Archdeacon of Dublin, and died without issue in May, I673 ; Quarter-Master John Chichester, commonly called Black John, who by Theo- dosia, his wife, had Edward, born in June, 1077,'- and baptized November f)th, 16795 Charles, baptized December 8th, l648,
who married March 8th, 1673, Susan, daughter of Wilson,
Esq. and had issue Edward, who dying an infant, was buried at St. Bride's, October 3d, I676; Elizabeth, baptized October 31st, 1677, and buried November 6th following; and Anne, buried there July 1.5 th, l6S2; Arthur, ^ of Prospect and Wexford, who married Margaret, ^ daughter of Nicholas Devereux, of Bally- magar, in that county, Esq. by Jane his wife, eldest daughter of Nicholas Loftus, of Fethard, Esq. and by her, who re-married with the Rev. Dennis Driscoll, "^ of Stonehouse, had four daughters, Elizabeth, Jane, Margaret, and Anne, who all died unmarried 3 ^
daughter Duncea, was married to Brereton ; and Alice,
May 20th, 1670, to James Chillara, Esq.
Arthur, Jirst Earl of Donegal, the eldest son of Edward Viscount Chichester, was born June l6th, 16065 and July l6ch, 1625, was appointed captain of the first troop or company that should become void, which happening in 1627, by the resignation of the Lord Valentia, he succeeded him, August 25th, in the command of his troop of fifty horsemen, and was made governor of Carrickfergus for life, after the decease of his father. In 1639, he represented the county of Antrim in parliament ; in l640, was captain of sixty-three carbines, with the pay of l/. 4^. a day ; and, by the name of Colonel Arthur Chichester, did good service against the rebels.
z St. Peter's Registry. a MSS. ped. penes J. ],.
b Ibid. « Ibid. a Ibid.
198 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND.
He was resident at Carrickfergus when the first tidings of the rebellion were brought thither, on Saturday October 23d, l641, about ten o'clock at night. He immediately, by fires and alarm drums, raised the country, and the next day (leaving only fifty musketeers, under Captain Roger Lyndon, to guard the castle) delivered the rest of the arms, with ammunition, to the country people, whom he formed into companies; and on the 25th, with about 300 horse and foot, marched to Belfast, where he was joined by 150 men from Antrim ; on the 27th, he met the Lord Montgomery at Lisburne, whose forces united were about 1000 horse and foot 3 and November 1st, a commission arriving from the lords justices and council, to him and Sir Arthur Tyringham, to command in chief within the county of Antrim, and to order and dispose of places according to their discretion, they took the best methods in their power for the defence of the country, and suppression of the rebellion.
His Majesty also, being fully satisfied of bis loyalty and affec- tion, and of his good abilities to serve him, coni.tituted him by commission, February l4th, 1643, governor of Belfast and the territory of Jnishowen, forbidding all persons to billet or garrison any soldiers in those places, or make any assessments upon the inhabitants, without his licence and approbation 3 and for the better fortifying of the town of Belfast, his Majesty directed the L. L. to advance 1000/. to him forthwith.
But when, through the defection of the army in the North, he could do the King no further service in those parts, he re- moved to Dublin, where, in December, l644, he was sworn of the privy-council ; and January 2d, following, with the rest of the officers of the Marquis of Ormond's regiment, resolved not to take the covenant, then imposed upon them by the English par- liament, but to preserve their allegiance to his Majesty, and obey the orders of his L. L.
His fidelity to his Prince, affection to his country, and activity against the rebels, were so eminent, that the Marquis of Ormond, in his letter to the King, January ipth, l645, thus represents him to his Majesty: " You have been graciously pleased of late to reward some, that have either served your Majesty actually, or suffered for you eminently in their persons or fortunes, with new creations, or with additions of honour in this kingdom. That Colonel Arthur Chichester hath inissed such a mark of your Ma- jesty's favour, I conceive to have been through his own niodesty.
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and my not representing his personal merit. If he outlives his father, he will be in among the foremost of the Viscounts of this kingdom in place_, and (I am sure) beyond them all, except one, in fortune, tiiough he be for the present deprived of the latter for his faithfulness to your Majesty's crown, the same means whereby his uncle got both it and his honour. He hath served your M;ijesty against the Irish rebellion since the beginning of it ; and when, through an almost general defection of the northern army, he vi'as no longer able to si^rve your jNlajesty there, he came with much hazard to take his share in the safi'erings of your servants here, and with them to attend for that happy time, that (we trust) will put us in a condition to contribute more to your service than our prayers. If your Majesty shall think lit to advance this gen- tleman to an Earldom, I conceive that of Dunnegall, a county in the province of Ulster, wherein he should have a good inheri- tance, is fittest, which I humbly oft'er to your Majesty's considera- tion, as a part of the duty of
" Your Majesty's, c\:c.
" OllMOND."
The King, upon this representation, was pleased by privy-seal, dated at Newcastle January 15th, l646, and by patent at Dublin, March 30th, l6'47,"^ to create him Earl of Dotiegal, with limita- tion of the honour to the issue male of his father, and the annual creation fee of 15/. sterling.
In 1647j he was one of the four hostfiges, sent by the Mar- quis of Ormond to the English parliament, as surety for his per- formance of the articles between them, for the delivery of Dublin, and the other ganisons, to their commissioners. After the re- storation, he was made, March 2d, l660, captain of a troop of horse 5 and I'ith of that month, Custos Piululorum Pads in the counties of Antrim and Donegal j '' and May 22d, 1062, one of
e The Preamble. Cum nos accepimus reale testimonium fidclitatis et boni afFectus dilecti ct fidclis servi iiostri Arthur! Cliichcstcr Armigcri, filii et liacredis apparentis Edwardi Vicecomitis Chichester, ct unius de piivato con- silio nostro ejusdem regni, erga nos servitiunique nostrum ; ct nos scrio per- pendeates magnum detrimentum ct jacturam, quae tarn persona quam fortiina, ratione eorundem sustinuit : nos intuitu pracmissorum, et quia servitium illius> in nos cumulatum sine recompcnsatione transire non possumus, ilium in gra- dum, statum, tituium, stylum, honorcm et dignitatem, Comitis ds Donegal, in dicto regno nostro Hibernias promovendum duximus. Sciatis igitur &c. Rot. A". 19, aOi 21, 2Z, 23, 24, Car. I. D. R. 30.
» Rot. Anno 12, Car II. 2. p. f-
200 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND.
the trustees for satisfaction of the personal arrears of the commis- sioned officers, for service in Ireland before June 5th, l64Q. On June 25th, l6'Ql, g he took his seat in the first parliament after the restoration 3 was governor of Carrickfergus ; and in l668, established a mathematical lecture in the University of Dublin. '^ But dying at Belfast March ISth, 16/4, ' was buried at Carrick- fergus May 20lh, 16/5, according to his request in his will, whereby he bequeathed to the poor of that parish 50/. and to thoseof Belfast 200/.
He married three wives ; to his first Dorcas, daughter of John Hill, of Honiley, in the county of Warwick, Esq, ^ and by her, who died April 10, 16.30, aet. twenty-three, had an only daughter Mary, married, in ]653, to John St. Leger, Esq. and was mother of Arthur, the first Lord Doneraile.
His second wife was Mary, daughter of John Digby, ' the first Earl of Bristol ; and by her, who died November 5lh, l648, he had five sons and two daughters ; Arthur, Arthur, Edward, John, Digby, James born January /th, l644 ; and Beatrix, who all died infants, and a second daughter born dead.
His third wife was Letitia, only surviving daughter of Sir William Hickes, '" of Rooksholt in Essex, Knt. and Bart, and by her, who after married Sir William Franklyn, of Mavorne in Bed- fordshire, Knt. he had issue William, Lord Chichester, the Ladies Anne, Letitia, Mary, (or Margaret) and Arabella, who all died in their infancy, except the
Lady Anne, who became heiress to 2000 /. a year, and in Ja- nuary, 1674, was first married to John Butler, Earl of Gowran, who leaving her a widow without issue, in August, 1676} she married, secondly, Francis Aungier, Earl of Longford, by whom she had likewise no issue, and died November 14lh, 1697. "
g Lords' Journals, vol. i. p 252. h By indenture, dated July 2d, 1668, his Lordship, for the advancement of learning, for the establishment of a mathematical lecture, and the mainte- nance of a lecturer in Trinity College, near Dublin, gave and granted to the said college for ever, the annuity of 30/. to be issuing out of the territory of Magherimore, Sec- the same to be called, the lecture and lecturer of the foun- dation of Arthur Earl of Donegal ; the lecturer to read lectures every term, and privately to instruct all desirous to learn the mathematics, but more especially such as should be brought up in the school of Belfast, erected by him, wlierein he made a provision for poor scholars to be brought up in learning.
i Ulster's Office. l^ Ibid.
1 Ibid. "' Ibid.
n By her will, d.itcd June 9th, 1696, she bequeathed to Arthur, Earl of
LORD FISHERWICK. 301
In the oratory adjoining to Eggesford-church is a sumptuous monument, erected to the memory of his Lordship and his two first Ladies, where he stands in full and just proportion, in pure alabaster, finely polished, between his Ladies lying in effigy, the first on the right hand, and the other on the left, with the fol- lowing lines addressed to each. To the former :
Weep, Reader, weep, and let thine eyes.
With tears embalm the obsequies
Of her blest shrine 3 who was in all
Her full dimensions so angelical
And really good, that virtue might repine
In wanting stuff to make one more divine.
And to the latter:
Lo ! here the mirrour of her sex, whose praise Asks not a Garland, but a grove of bays : Whose unexemplar'd virtue shined far And near, the Western wonder I like some star Of the first magnitude J which though it lies Here in eclipse, is only set to rise.
His Lordship was succeeded by his Jiephciv, Sir AnxHtK Chi-
Donegal, her large rubyiing, engraved with the arms of the family; to Ca- therine his Lady, her jewel, called the pearl bunch of grapes ; to Lady Anne Chichester, her god-daughter, her set of gold counters, containing 48 Lewis- dors, with the gold box belonging to them, whereon the arms are engraved • to her nephew Arthur St. Lcger, Esq. 100/. for mourning, and all the house- hold goods and furniture in the house of Eggesford, county of Devon, with her father's picture in little, set with diamonds; to his wife Elizabeth, her pearl necklace, and 50/. for mourning; to her god-daughter Mary, their daughter, her gold cup and salver, called by the name of Calles, and 50/. • bequeathed divers sums to her relations for mourning ; to Alice, wife of her cousin James Macartney, 50/. and her set of dressing table plate in the black box; lo Mrs. Elizabeth Hills, 40/. and the camlet bed, lined with lemon coloured satin, that was her mother's, and all belon{,ing to it, witli the suit of hangings that belonged to her mother's chamber in Belfast, and her dia- mond ring with her mother's hair ; to the poor and decayed inhabitants of the town and parish of Belfast, 100/. to the poor of the parishes of Eg^-esford Chawleigh, Chcldon, and East-Warlington, county Devon, zol. to be distri- buted among them ; and 50/. more to the poor of Belfast that were of the church of England; to her executors, Henry Clements, of the Stradc, and Edmund Ellis, of Brookhill, Esquires, zol a-piece to buy them rings; with divers legacies to her servants and others. Chancery Decree, March 1st, 1699, No z6.
202 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND.
Chester^ second Earl of Donegal, {eldest son of his Irother John), who in 1661 was member of parliament for Dungannon, and April 6th, 1668, jointly, with his brother John, made Clerk of the Pipe and Chief Ingrosser of the Exchequer, for their respec- tive lives 5 also. May 22d, 16/2, had a reversionary grant to suc- ceed his uncle in the government of Carrickfergus ; and June 16th, 1675,° was made Custos Rotulorum of the county of Do- negal, as he was, by another patent of the same date, of the county of Antrim; May 7th, 1689, he was attainted by King James's parliament as an absentee, but he sat in King William's parliament, October 5th, l6c)2. p
He married Jane, 1 daughter of John Ilchingham, ■" of Dun- brody in the county of Wexford, Esq, and by her (who re-married with Richard Rooth, Esq. by whom she had a daughter) had issue four sons and three daughteis, viz.
First, Arthur, ^ his successor.
Second, John Itchingham,*^
Third, Edward, educated at Christ-church, in the University of Oxford, where he took his degree in arts February l6th, 1698, and October 3d, 1702, was presented to the rectory of Clonenagh, in the diocese of Leighlin, whence he was promoted to livings in the north, and by Elizabeth, daughter of Captain John Chichester, had issue the Rev. Arthur Chichester, " born January 5th, 1716, after his decease; he v/as made rector of Clonmanny, in the
o Rot. Cane. 27^. Car. II. 2. p. f. P Lords Journals, vol i p. 447. q MS. Pedig penes J L.
r Sir Osborne Itchingham, to whom the monastery of Dunbrody was granted by King Henry VIII October 4th, 1545, left a son Edward, who was succeeded by his cousin Charles, the father of John, the father of Os- borne, who married, first, Elenor, daughter of Sir .'\rthur Savage, of Rheban
in the county of Kildare; and secondly Anne, daughter of St. Law-
rence, by whom he had no children ; but dying in July, 1655, left issue the abovesaid John Itchingham, who by Sarah, the eighth daughter of Sir Adam Loltus, of Rathfarnham, Vice-Treasurer of Ireland, had two sons, Osborne and Adam, who both died unmarried, and the said Jane, whose wardship was granted to Robert Boyle, Esq. by privy-seal, dated at Whitehall No- vember 30th, 1660 ; she being then about fifteen years old,* became sole heir to that estate, which by act of parliament, 10 George 1- was settled on the Hon. John Chichester, son of Arthur, late Earl of Donegal, and his heirs for ever.
s MS. Pedig. penes J. L- t Ibid. '
u St. Mary's Registry.
* Rot. Pat. Cane. A". la". Car. II. 2. p. D.
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diocese of Derry, and vicar of TuUiiisk, in the diocess of Dro- more.
Fourth, Charles.
Fifth, Lady Jane," married to Dacre Leonard Barrett, of Clounes in the county of Monaghan, Esq. son and heir to Richard Barrett, of Beliliouse in Essex, Esq. by his wife Anne, daughter and heir to Sir Robert Lofliis, eldest son of Adam, Viscount Elye, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and had issue by him, who died in 1/23, one son Richard, and three daughters, viz. Jane, married to John Ranby, Esq, Serjeant Surgeon to King George IL ; Do- rothy, to Hugh Smith, of Weald-Hall in Essex, Esq. and Hen- rietta, who died unmarried. Richard, the son, married the Lady Anne Lennard, daughter and heir to Thomas Earl of Sussex, Lord Dacre, and dying in 1716, five months after his marriage, left her, who died Lady Dacre, with child of a son, Thomas Lord Dacre, who succeeded his grandfather, and marrying Anne, daughter of Sir John Pratt, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, and sister to Charles, Lord Camden, Lord High Chancellor of England, had one daughter, Anne-Barbara, who died March ]4, 1749, aged ten years, and his Lordship deceased without issue malt? December 13tb, 1785, aged seventy-two.
Sixth, Lady Catherine, y was married to John Taylor, Esq.
Seventh, Lady Mary, ^ to Sir Rober Newcomen, of Kenagh in the county of Longford, Bart, by whom she had Sir Arthur, father of Sir Thomas 3 Catherine 3 Sarah; Elizabeth 3 Mary; and Jane.
Arthur, the third Earl of Donegal, commanded a regiment of foot in the reign of King William, which being disbanded Fe- bruary 8th, l6g7, he had, in consideration ot his faithful services, 8s. a day, by his Majesty's order May lOth.'' June 28th, 1701, he was again promoted to a regiment of foot, raised in Ireland, and in June, 1702, the English and Dutch fleets being sent against Spain, in defence of the rights of the House of Austria, under the command of Prince George of Denmark ; and a reso- lution being formed to land on the Continent, it was immediately put in execution ; when the Earl of Donegal, and Baron Palanck, were the first persons who set foot on shore, with twelve English
X MS. Pedig. y Ibid. z Ibid,
a November 30th, 1699, he had a grant of three fairs, to be held yearly, July 25th, November 3cth, and April 23d, and the day following each, at Mough in Donegal.
204 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND.
grenadiers. On October 1st, 1/03, he attended his duty in the house of Peers.'' In February, 1704, the Prince of Hesse con- ferred on his Lordship the commission of major-general of the Spanish forces j and August l6th and 22d, 1705, he was of the council of war, held on board the Britannia, concerning the siege of Barcelona, for which he gave his voice, and in November was made governor of the strong fortress of Gironne, on the river Ter, fifteen miles distant from the sea, and forty-five from Bar- celona ; but after many glorious services, he lost his life April 10th, 1706, at the fort of Monjuich, was buried at Barcelona) and to perpetuate his memory, the following inscription is placed on the monument at Carrickfergus :
Memoriae Perenni,
Arthuri Comitis de Donegall, Vicecomitis Chichester
De Carrickfergus, Bars, de Belfast j Comitatus Antri-
mensis Locumtenentis, Urbis Carrickfergus Praefecti,
Et Serenissimae Annae Angliae, &c. Reginse Copiarum
In Hispanias missar, Legati,
Qui in Barcelona Urbe Hispanica jacet
sepultusj ille anno 1/04, Calpe eo tempore ab
unitis Hispaniarum et Gallias viribus oppugnata,
in Urbem felicissimum intulit auxilium, qua salutem
obsessis, obsessoribus ruinam et dedecus comparavit :
Anno 1/05, in Cataloniam provectus apud obsidionem
Barcelonae de Re Militari insigniter meritus est : Post Urbem captam Gironnoe et Locorum adjacentium
praefectus constitutus summa Vigilantia et Virtute
bellicas Res administravit, et cum ex adverse Barcelona
a Duce Andegavensi (Rege Catholico Titulari) Re obsessa
et a Rege Carolo III. defensa esset, se cum plurimis
cohortibus in Urbem conjecit, adeoque Rem Austriacam
periclitantem restituit j ibi Propugnaculi Monjuich
praefecturam suscipiens tamdiu Hostium aggressus
sustinuit, donee numero et repetitis conatibus oppressus,
animo vel in Articulo mortis invictus, florentibus Lauris
cumulatus, immature JEvo et proprio Marte non
inultus periit Anno 1706, lOmo. die Aprilis, iEtatis suae 40.
Cui Jure matrimoniali et Honoribus successit
Arthurus Filius ejus natu maximus.
b Lords Journals, vol. ii. p. 8.
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Posuit e sumptibus propriis Uxor sua fidissiraa
Domina Catharina e Gente Forbesiana, filia unica Arthuris Comitis de Granard, Vicecomitis De Granard et Hamlin, et Baronis de Clanihu.
His Lordship ^^ first married the Lady Barbara Boyle, <^ fifth and youngest daughter of Roger, Earl of Orrery, by whom he had a son Charles, baptized June 15th, lOjG, who died young j and she dying l6th (or 20th) November, lt)S2, was buried 24th in St. Patrick's cathedral, Dublin.
He mnrried, secondly, in l685, the Lady Catherine Forbes, ^ only daughter of Arthur, Earl of Granard, a Lady distinguished for her piety, charity, and conjugal virtues, ^ and by her, who died at her seat of Abinger in Surrey, June 15th, 1/43, and was in- terred August 10th, in the vault at Cairickfergus, ' had issue two sons and six daughters, viz.
First, Arthur, Viscount Chichester.
Second, John, born in the year 1/00, was member of parlia- ment for the borough of Belfast, in the reign of King George 1. was again chosen November 14th, 1/45 5 and died at Bath, June 1st, 1746. He married, September 13th, 1/26, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Sir Richard Newdigate, of Arbury in Warwickshire,
b By his will, dated July 30th, 1705, he appointed his Lady executrix and guardian to his children; devised 200/- a year to his younger son John, and the heirs male of his body, and entailed h s estate on his sons Arthur and John, and their issue male successively ; remainder to his brothers in tail- male successively ; remainder to his right heirs for ever. Prerogative Office, c jVIS. Pedig. ut antea. d Articles July 29th, 1685.
e Delineated in the following lines, by the elegant pen of Swift, and pub- lished at Belfast on her interment.
Unerring Heaven, with bounteous hand, Has form'd a model for your land, Whom Love cndow'd with every grace, The glory of the Granard race ; Now destin'd by the powers divine The blessing of another line. Then would you paint a matchless Dame, Whom you'd consign to endless fame? Invoke not Cytherea's aid, Nor borrow from the biue-cy'd maid ; Nor need you on the Graces call ; Take qualities from Donegal-
{ MS. Pedi^.
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and of Harefield in Middlesex, Bart, sister to Sir Edward and Sir Koger Newdigate } s and by her, who died at Abinger February 15th, 1747^ left two sons J first, Arthur, who succeeded his uncle Arthur; second, John, born December 26th, 1740 3 and a daughter.
Lady Catherine, '' baptized November pth, IG87, was mar- ried September pth, 1713> to Clotworthy, Lord Viscount Masse-' Tcene.
^ , T r were unfortunately burnt in the house of
Lady Jane, 1 „ ,^ . , , , r
_ , „ J l^eliast, consumed by the carelessness 01 a
Lady Frances, < ^ , -^ , _ . ,
Y , TT ■ it \ servant, who put on a large nre 01 wood, to
" (, air a room she had washed.
Lady Mary, died unmarried.
Lady Anne, married, July 12th, 17 \G, to James, fourth Earl of Barrymore, to whom she was third wife. She died December, 1753.
Arthur, the fourth Earl of Donegal, was born March 2Sth, 1695, and October 3d, 17 1 6, married the Lady Lucy Bidgeway, elder daughter and coheir to Robert, Earl of Londonderry; but by her, who died July l6th, 1732, at Bromfield in Essex, and was interred at Tor-Mohun in Devonshire, in his family vault, his Lordship had no issue; and deceasing September 30th, 1757, at Marbury-hall, in county of Chester, was succeeded by his nephew,
Arthur, \he fifth Earl, and frst Marquis, and first Lord FiSHERWiCK, who was born June 13th, I739; was a member of his Majesty's most honourable privy-council, and sat first in par- liament on the death of his uncle, October 22d, 1765.' Nov. 11th, 1761, he married, first, I-ady Anne Hamilton, daughter of James Duke of Hamilton (by Elizabeth, daughter and heir to Edward Spencer, of Rendlesham, in the county of Suffolk, Esq.) she deceased in 17^0, and was buried in Green-hill church, Staf- fordshire ; and his Lordship married, secondly, at Bath, in Oc- tober, 1788, Mrs. Moore, who died without issue September ISth^ 1789.
On July 16, 179^> liii" Lordship was advanced to the British Peerage by the title of Baron of Fisherwick. i?i the county of Sta^lJord, and was created Marquis of Donegal in Ireland, June 27th, 1791.
? Englisii Baronet, 1771, vol. ii. p. 419. fc St. Peter's Registry. i Lords Journals, vol iv. p. 341.
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His Lordship married, thirdly, October 12th, 179O, Barbara Godfrey, daughter of the Rev. Dr, Godfrey.
His issue by his first Lady were three sons and four daughters, viz,
George-Augustus, Earl of Belfast, born August 13th, l/Sp, present peer.
Arthur, born May 3d, 1/71, and died September 13th, 1788.
Lord Spencer-Stanley, born April 20th, 177-'^ > married Au- gust 8th, 1795, Lady Harriet Stewart, daughter of John, eighth Earl of Galloway, and has issue a son and a daughter.
Lady Ch.irlolte-Anne, born September 5th, 17O2, deceased.
Lady Henrietta, born January pth, lj65, deceased.
Lady Elizabeth-Juliana, born March 2'Jtli, 1767, died April 23d, 1787.
Lady Amelia, born in May 1768, ^ and deceased April 28tlj, 1770.
His Lordship died January 5th, 1799; and was succeeded by his eldest son,
George Augustus, second Marquis of Donegal, and se- cond Lord Fisherwick.
His Lordship married, August 8th, 1795, Miss May, grand- daughter of Sir James May, of Mayficld, com. Waterford, Bart. and has issue.
First, George Hamilton, Earl of Belfast, born February, K97.
Second, Lord Edward, born July 11th, 1799.
Third, Lord Spencer Augustus, born November 27th, 1S05.
Fourth, Lord Arthur, born September 30th, 1808.
Titles. George Augustus Chichester, Marqr.is and Earl of Donegal, Earl of Belfast, Viscount Chichester of Carrickfergus, and Baron Chichester of Belfast, and Baron of Fisherwick in England.
Creations. Baron Chichester of Belfast, and Viscount Chi- chester of Carrickfergus, both in the county of Antrim, April jst, 1625, 1 Car. L and Earl of the county of Donegal, March 30th, 1647, 23 of that reign; Marquis of Donegal, and Earl of Bel- fast June 27th, 1791 ; and Baron of Fisherwick, in England, July l6tb, 1790.
' k Ulster's Olfioc.
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Arms. Quarterly, the first and fourth checquc, or and gules 3 a chief, vaire ; the second and third azure, frettee, argent.
Crest. On a wreath, a stork, proper, holding in its beak a snake, argent, the head, or.
Supporters. Two wolves, gules, ducally gorged and ch.ained, or.
Motto. Invitum sEauiTUR HONOs; 01; Honor sep.uitur
FUGIENTEM.
Chief Seats. Belfast and Carrickfergus, in the county of An- trim, the former eighty, and the latter eight3--eight miles from Dublin.
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209
GRIiMSTON, LORD VERULAM.
{FISCOUNTGRIMSrON IN IRELAND, AND LORD FORRESTER IN SCOTLAND.;
1. HIS family is denominated from its possessions in the county of York, and descended from Sylvester de Grimstox, nf Grim- ston, vjho attended William, Duke of Normandy, in his expe- dition to England as standard-bearer, and in that station valiantly fought at the battle of Hastings, where the kingdom [)roved the reward of their victory over FLircld, who then possessed the throne : and the year following, on ll^e Conqueror s settling his household, he was appointed his chamberlain, and did homage for Grimston, Hoxton, Tonsted, and other lands, which he held of the Lord Eoos, as of his honour of Roos in Holdernesse^ York- shire.
He was succeeded at Grimston by his son Daniel, who mar- ried the daughter of Sir Adam Sprinuall, and was father of
Sir Thomas Grimston. living in the rei^^n of King Stephen, who by the daughter ot Sir John Eoswell, of Aldersey, Knight, had
John, his successor at Grimston, whose wife was the daughter and heir to Sir John Goodmaghan, and his son by her was
Sir William Grimston, living in iiJl, who by the daughter and heir to Sir John Colholme, of Culho!me, had two sons. Sir Roger 5 and Alexnnder, whose wife was the daughter of John Frowick, of Middlesex.
Sir RoGKR was under sheriff of the cor.nfy of Kent to Hubert de Burgo, Irom 1223 to 1211K ; and marrying the daughter of Fulk Constable, of Fulmark, had t«u sons, Walter; and Sir Gervaise
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Griniitone, who left no issue by his wife, the daughter of Sir John Raskei'ville.
Walter, who succeeded, married the daughter and coheir to Herbert Flinton, of Flinton in Holdernesse, and had issue three sons, viz. first, William j second, John, Dean of Rochester and Abbot of Selby; and, third, Robert, who married the daughter of Ashton.
William Grimston, of Grimston, Esq. the eldest son, married Armatruid, daughter of Sir Rowland (rather John) Rysom, of Rysom in Holdernesse, Knight, and had three sons.
First, Thomas, living in 1420, (10 H( n. V.) who married Dyonisia, daughter of the Lord Sutton, and had a son Thomas, who marrying ihe daughter of William Fitz-William, of Aldwark, had issue two sons and two daughters, Walter, living in \AQQ ; William, who died childless 5 Margaret, married to Robert Forthingham, of Forthingham ; and Anne, to William Vavasour, of Weston in Yorksliire. Walter Grimston, the elder son, married Elizabeth, daughter and heir to Sir John Portington, (who was made serjeant at law to King Henry VI. April l/th, 1440, and four years after was justice of the Common Pleas) and was father of Thomas Grimston, Esq. who by the daughter and
heir of Newark, had six sons and two daughters, viz,
Walter; William; Thomas; Henry; Gervaise ; Josias, who
married the daughter and heir of Ever; Anne, married
to George Brigham ; and Mary to Ellerker, of I,ycett. *
Walter, the eldest son, living in the time of Henry VIIL mar- ried the daughter of John Dakine, of Brandsburton (or Brands- bury) in Holdernesse, and haa Thomas his heir, and a daughter Elizabeth, wife to Marmaduke Constable, of Hattield in Holder- nesse, Thomas, who succeeded at Grimston, had four sons and two daughters by Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas Girlington, of Hachford in Norfolk, viz. Thomas; Francis, who married Susan, daughter of William Windesley, of Brandburton; John; Mar- maduke, who married a daughter of Stirley ; Anne, mar- ried to Robert Wright, of Plow, in the county of Lincoln ; and Magdalen, to John Thwenge, of Overhelmslie, and had Marma- duke Thwenge, aged twenty four, in 1584; William, Anne, and Maiger}'. ^ Thomas, the eldest son, living in 1584, married Do- rothy, daughter of Marmaduke Thwailes, by whom he had si.\, sons and two daughters; Marmaduke; Thomas; John; Thwaites;
a Lodge. u Ibid.
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Walter^ who mnrried Dorothy, daughter and coheir to Marma- duke Thirkcld, of Estrop, Esq. ; Christoj^her, who married Eliz- abetli, daugliter ot" Martin Barney, of Gunston in Norfolk, and had a son Barney; Elinor, married to William Thornton of Newton; and Cicely to Robert Saltmarsh, of Saltmarsh in York- shire, Esqrs. Marmaduke, the eldest son, married Frances, daughter of George Gill, of Hertford, by whom he had Thomas his heir, who left no issue ; but some of the name and family yet subsi'^t in Yorkshire.
Second, Robert, ancestor to the present peer. Third, John, Dean of Windsor in 141S. Robert, the second son, leaving Yorkshire, became seated In the county of Suffolk, in the reign of Henry V. by his marriage with the daughter of Sir Anthony Spilman, by whom he was father of
Edward Grimston, who succeeded him In lands at Rise- hungles and Ipswich in that county, and married, first, Philippa, daughter of John, Lord Tiptoft, sister and coheir to John, Earl of "".Vorcester, and widow of Thomas, Lord Roos, by whom having no issue, he married, secondly, Mary, daughter of William Drury, of Rougham in Suffolk, Esq. and by her had four sons and three daughters, of whom Elizabeth was married to Henry Reepes, and had Elizabeth, married to Thomas Holt, of Suanstead ; Francis, married Catherine, daughter of Thomas Leman, and had John and Thomazine ; and John married Dorothy Sidner, and had a son John.
John, the third son, was ancestor to the Grimstons of Nor- folk and Essex,
Edward, the eldest, marrying Margaret, eldest daughter of Thomas Hervey, Esq. left
Edward his heir, who by Anne, daughter of John Garnish, of Kenton in Suffolk, Esq. was father of
Sir Edward, who in the reign of Queen Elizabeth served in several parliaments for tlie borough of Ipswich; was knighted by her Majesty; called into her privy-council; and continued by her, comptroller of Calais, having been so appointed August llOth, 1552, by King Edward VI.
In the beginning of 1558, that place being taken by the Duke of Guise, Sir Edward, the com.ptroller, was among the principal prisoners. Having, according to the duty of his post, frequently given advice of the ill condition of the garrison, (but
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whether they, to whom he wrote, were corrupted by the French, French, or that the low estate of the treasury occasioned the want of supply), it was resolved he should not return to England to dis- cover the reason^ and therefore was suffered to lie a prisoner in the Bastile, without any care taken of him or his fellow-captives j and the ransom set on him was so high, that having lost a great estate, which he had purchased about Calais, he determined to prejudice his family no further by redeeming his liberty at so high a rate, intending either to remain a prisoner, or make his escape j the latter of which he thus effected.
After about two years confinement, being lodged in the top of the Bastile, bechanced to procure a file, with which cutting out one of the window bars, and having a rope conveyed to him, he changed clothes with his servant, and descended by the rope, which proving a great deal too short, he was obliged to take a long leap, which he did without hurt, and, before the outer gates were shut, made his escape undiscovered. But his beard, which was long, made him apprehend that he should be known by it ; yet by a happy providence, finding in his servant's pocket a pair of scissars, he so disfigured it, as to render such a discovery very difficult, and having learned the art of war in company with the Scots guard de Mauche, he spoke that dialect, and so passed for a Scots pilgrim ; by which means he escaped to England, and offer- ing to take his trial, made his innocence so evident, that the jury were ready to acquit him without leaving the court.
He lived to a great age, deceasing in his ninety-eighth year j and having been twice married, left issue by his first wife '^ a son and successor
Edward Grimston, Esq. who was seated at Bradfield in Essex, and 31 Eliz. served in parliament for the borough of Ei/e^ Suffolk, his father then living. He married Joan, daughter and coheir to Thomas Risby, of Lavenham in Suffolk, Esq. (whose mother was daughter and coheir to John Harbottle, of Crosfield in the same county, Esq.) by which marriage he' considerably en- larged his estate ; and departing this life August 15th, l6lO, left two sons, Harbottle and Henry, who were both knighted, and married two sisters.
Sir Henry, the younger, had issue a son Edward, who lie* buried in Beaconslield church, Bucks, with this memorial :
^ Lodge.
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Here lyeth the Body of
Edward Grinistone, Esq.
Son of Henry Grimstonc
Knt. who died the ]7th of
March 10'5(). *'
Sir Harbottle Grlmston, of Bradfield, the elder son, was advanced to the dignity of a Baronet November 25ih, l6l2 ; and being a gentleman well esteemed in his country, was sheriff of Essex in l6l4, ^ and chosen its representative in three parlia- ments during the reign of Charles I. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Ralph Coppenger, of Stoke in Kent, Esq. and dying about the year lti40, had issue five sons.
First, Edward, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Massam, Esq. and died before his father without issue. Second, Harbottle, who succeeded. Third, Henry. Fourth, Thomas ; and Fifth, William.
Henry, the third son, died young, and was buried in the chancel of Islington church under a fair stone, with this incrip- tion :
Hinc
Sperat Resurrectionem
(Filius Harbotelli Griraeston
Militis et Baronetti
Natu tertius)
Henr:cus Grimeston.
Anagramma,
En Christi Regno sum.
Qui moritur vivit, Christo huic.
Mors semita, Ductor
Angelus, ad Vitam janua
Christus erit.
Hac Iter ad Superos, calcans
Vestigia Lethi,
Intrabam Christi regia
Templa Dei.
. die Mensis Julii, An. Dom. I627.
* Le Neve's Monument. AngX « Fuller's Worthies.
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Sir Hakeottle Grimston, the second Baronet, having hi3 education in the inns of court, was well versed in the laws, and the ancient customs and usage of parliaments 3 and behaved with a steady zeal to the true interest of his country, in the distracted time of the civil war. He well knew and observed the bounds between arbitrary power and legal duty, which disposition caused hira to oppose and refuse the payment of illegal taxes (on which account his father had been imprisoned in the Fleet) and in the parliament, which met April 3d, J 640, being member for Col- chester, for which he served to his death, he was one of the hrst that insisted on the calling those persons to account, who had ad- vised the levying ship-money, and in an excellent speech on that subject, said, " He was persuaded that they, who gave their opi- nions for the legality of it, did it against tiie dictamen of their own conscience." isut as he only intended the reform of such invasions on the liberty and property of the subject ; so did he endeavour, with all his interest, to pacify the minds of those, who ■were set upon extorting extravagant demands from their sove- reign 5 for he rather continued to sit, than concur with the long parliament, till after the treaty with the King in the Isle of Wight, of which he was one of the commissioners ; and, as Lord Clarendon observes, behaved himself so, that his Majesty was well satisfied with him ; and pressing the acceptance of the King's concessions, was, after his return, excluded by force, with others, from sitting in the house of commons. He was, besides, the more obnoxious, for having been instrumental in procuring part of the army to be disbanded, for performing which at the several places of rendezvous he was appointed, May 29th, ] 64/, one of the commissioners. And when the King was brought to his trial, the persons in power had such apprehensions of his duty to his Majesty, and his interest with the army and people, that they put him under confinement, and did not release him till after the King's death, as appears by this warrant,
" You are, on sight hereof, to set at liberty Sir Harbotlle Grimston, he having engaged himself not to act, or do any thing to the disservice of the parliament or army. Given under ray hand the 30th day of January l648,
" Fairfax.'
•* To the Marshal-General, or his Deputy."
When he had signed a protestation, declaring all nets to be
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void, which from the time of his expulsion, had been done in the house of commons, he contented himself wiih waiting the return of the people to their allegiance, and lived retired^ until General Monk paved the way for the King's restoration ; about which time the excluded members returning to the house, ' all who meant well to the King, contrived his tkcliun ior Speaker, to which he was chosen April 25th, lOOo, and the before-mentioned noble author tells us, " that he submitted to it, out of a hi^jie and contidence, that the designs it was laid for would succeed." And so just a sense had the King of his merits, and endea\ours to pro- mote the restoration, that he called him into his privy-counei!. and November 3d, l660, made liira Masteh or the Rolls j which honourable post he very judiciously executed, to the satis-
f The corporation of Cclciiestcr sent him the following letter : "Honourable Sik,
" As we cannot but with thankfulness acknowledge tlie mercy of God to the nation in general, so more particularly to this town, that after the many changes and alterations we have been tossed in that now there is (as we are credibly informed and do believe) a free admission of the members of the late parliament, so long interrupted by force, we cannot but with much earnest- ness fin the behalf of our^elves and the free burgesses of the town) make our humble request, thatyo.i will be pleased to return to that trust, to which you were so freely and unanimously elected in the year ifqo, which we do the rather request out of the former experience, that not only this town but the nation in general hath had of your faithfulness and ability, and the many miseries and calamities we have groaned under since your absence; and as we formerly had the honour of sending so eminent and worthy a member, so we shall hope 'by the blessing of God upon your endeavours) that not only ourjclves but the whole nation in general shall have cause to bless God for your return, and in his due time reap the benefit of your councils and labour in that great assembly. Sir, we shall not farther trouble you at present, than to assure you, we are, as by many former favours bound to be, " Your faithful and humble servants,
'' Thomas Peeke, \rayor, " John Shaw, Recorder. " John Radhams, " John Gaell, " Thomas Reynolds, " John Milbanks, *' Peter Johnson, •' Andrew Fomental, •* Colchester, Feb. 23d, 1659.
«« Sir, " The rest of the Aldermen, viz. Mr. Reynolds at Eastgates, Captain Rayncr, and Mr. Jeremy Daniel, are not in town." Collections.
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faction of all concerned in the law. s He was nnade recorder of the corporation of Harwich for life, being the second who bore that office,*^ and April 24thj l665, obtained a confirmation^ of the franchises and immunities of that town ; being also by patent, dated at Westminster July 27th, l664, made high steward of St. Albans for life, but died in January 1(5S3, in the eighty-second year of his age.
" He was descended," snys Burnet, who lived many years under his protection, " from a long-lived family; for his great grandfather lived till he was ninety-eight ; his grandfather to eighty-six ; and his father to seventy-eight ; and himself to eighty- two. He had to the last a great soundness of health, of memory, and of judgment. He was bred to the study of the law, being a younger brother. Upon his elder brother's death, he threw it up. But filling in love with Judge Crooke's daughter, the father would not bestow her on him, unless he would return to his stu- dies, which he did with great success. That judge was one of those, who delivered his judgment in the Exchequer-chamber, against the ship-money, which he did with a long and learned argument. And Sir Harbottle's father, who served in parliament for Essex, lay long in prison, because he would not pay the loan- money. Ihus both his family and his wife's, were zealous for the interest of their country. In the beginning of the long par- liament, he was a great asserter of the laws : and inveighed se- verely against all that had been concerned in the former illegal oppression, f^is principle was, that allegiance and protection were mutual obligations, and that the one went for the other. He thought the law was the measure of both ; and that when a legal
g He compiled and published tiie reports of law cases of Sir George Crooke, Justice of the Common Pleas. He was well read in tlie ancient fathers of the church, and wrote in Latin, for the use of his son, a small ma- nual, containing the duty of a Christian- He also left in manuscript a journal of the several debates in the treaty with King Charles I. at the Isle of Wight, among which are many weighty arguments concerning the liberty of the sub- ject, and the authority of church government. His views and designs being directed to the good of the public, which he had always at heart, he was the less solicitous in th.e reign of Charles II . to be great at court, though he held a friendship and correspondence with many leading men, especially the Earl of Clarendon, as appears by their letters. He was an honourable tricnd, a kind indulgent father and master, and finished his course like a pious, cha- ritable and good christian, with a full assurance of happiness in another world. h Dale's Hist, of Harwich.
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protection was denied to one that paid a legal allegiance, the sub- ject had a right to defend himself. He was much troubled, when preachers asserted a divine right of regal government. He thought it had no other cftect but to give an ill impression of them, as aspiring men : nobody was convinced by it : it inclined their hearers rather to suspect all they said besides: it looked like the sacrificing their country to their own preferment ; and an encouraging of princes to turn tyrants. Yet, when the long par- liament engaged into the league with Scotland, h' would not swear the covenant; and he discontinued sitting in the house till it was laid aside. Then he came back, and joined with Hollis, and the other presbyterians, in a high opposition to the indepen- dents, and to Cromwell in particular : and he was one of the se- cluded members that were forced out of the house. He followed afterward? the practice of the law, but was always looked at as cne who wished well to the ancient government of England. So he was chosen Speaker of the house that called home the King ; and had so great a merit in the whole affair, that he was soon after, without any application of his own, made Master of the Rolls ; in which post he continued to his death, with a high re- putation, as he well deserved it. For he was a just judge, very slow% and ready to hear every thing that was offered, without pas- sion or partiality. I thought his only fault was, that he was too rich : and yet, he gave yearly sums in charity, discharging many prisoners by paying their debts. He was a very pious and devout man, and spent every day, at least an hour in the morning, and as much at night, in prayer and meditation. And even in winter, when he was obliged to be very early on the bench, he took care to rise so soon, that he had always the command of that time, which he gi>ve to those exercises. He was much sharpened ao^ainst popery ; but had always a tenderness to the dissenters, though he himself continued still in the communion of the church. His second wife, whom 1 knew, was niece to the great Sir Francis Bacon ; and was the last heir of that family. She had all the high notions for the church and the crown, in which she had been bred ; but was the humblest, the devoutest, and best tem- pered person I ever knew of that sort. It was really a pleasure to hear her talk of religion; she did it with so much elevation and force. She was always very plain in her clothes : and went oft to jails to consider the wants of the prisoners, and relieve, or dis- charge them ; and, by the meanness of her dress, she passed but
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for a servant^ trusted with the charities of others. When she ■was travelling in the country, as she drew near a village, she often ordered her coach to stay behind, till she haJ walked about it, giv'ng orders for the instruction of the children, and leaving libe- rally for that end. With two such persons I spent several of my years very happily." '^ He died in January, l6S3. " Nature sunk all at once," says Burnet, " he being then eighty-two. He died, as he had lived, with great piety and resignation to the will of God."
His first wife was Mary, daughter of Sir George Crooke, Knt. who, February 11th, l623, was made justice of the Common- Pleas, by whom he had six sons and two daughters, of which sons five died before him ; and
George, the eldest, dying in the twenty-third year of his age, was interred under a monument in St. Michael's church, St. Albans, leaving no issue by his wife Sarah, younger daughter and coheir to Sir Edward Alston, Knight, M. D. ; who re-married, first, with John, Duke of Somerset, and after with Henry Hare, Lord Coleraine,
The daughters were, Mary, married to Sir Capel Luckyn-, Knt. and Bart ; and Elizabeth, in 1650, to Sir George Grubhani How, of Cold-Berwick in Wiltshire, Bart.
His second wife was Anne, elder daughter and at length heir to Sir Nathaniel Bacon, of Culford-Hall in Suifolk, Knight of the Bath, widow of Sir Thomas Meautys ; by her he had an only daughter Anne, who died young ; and his Lndy having the manors of Gorhambury and Kingsbury near St. Albans settled on her for life, he purchased the reversion thereof from Mr. Hercules Meautys, nephew of Sir Thomas, the heir at law ; the former of ■which. Sir Samuel Grimston, his only surviving son, made the principal place of his residence.
Which Sir Samuel, third Baronet, was born January /th, l643, and having all the advantages of education, was an accom- plished gentleman, and well esteemed in his country j served in six several parliaments for the borough of St. Albans, during the reigns of King Charles IL and King William; but was so ob- noxious to King James IL that he excepted him out of his viani' fcsto in l(5i)2, when he had formed a design of landing in Eng- land. He married, first, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Hencage
k Burnet's Own Time, vol. i-i p. 380.
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Finch, Earl of Nottingliam, Chancellor of England, and by her had an only daughter,
Elizabeth, the first wile to William Savile the second Mar- quis of Hallifax, who by her had an only surviving daughter, Anne, the first wile of Thomas, Lord Bruce, son of Thomas, Plarl of Aylesbury, which Lady died July ISth, l/l/, in the twenty- seventh year of her age.
His second wife was the Lady Anne Tufton, sixth and youngest daughter of John, the second Earl of Thantt, and by her, (who lies buried in the east part of the church-yard of Tew- ing in Hertfordshire, under a tomb enclosed by iion rails_, thu^ inscribed :
Here lieth interred the Body of the Right Honourable Lady Anne Grimston, Wife to Sir Samuel Grimston, Bart, of Gorhambury in Hertfordshire, Daughter to the late Right Honourable Earl of Thanet. She departed this Life Nov. 22, 1/13, in the (iOth Year of her age).
He had a son Edward, horn July 22d, l6~4, and a daughter Mary, born the year after j but they both dying young, the dig- riity of ^'aronet expired with him, who deceased in October 17OO, in the fifty-second year of his age, leaving a great estate, under certain limitations, to iFilUam Luckyn, Esq. second son of Sir JViUiam Liichin, of Messing- Hall in Essex, Knt. and Bart, ivho was son and heir to Sir Capet Luckyn, ly Mary, elder sister of the said Sir Samuel Grimston.
Which family of LucivYN (his Lordship's paternal ancestors) wereof good antiquity in Essex, of which county Robert Luckyn, Esq. was sheriff \6 Jac. L as in 13 of Charles L was Sir William Luckyn, of Little Waltham, Knight, 'who, March 2d, l628, was created a Baronet; and in 1637 was sherilf of the said county. He married Mildred, third daughter of Sir Gamaliel Capel, of Rookwood-Hall in Essex, Knight, by whom he had two daughters, Jane and Elizabeth ; annd two sons, Sir Capel. his heir J and Sir William, also created a Baronet November 13tb, I61JI ; but he leaving by Winifred his wite, third and youngest daughter of Sir Richard Evcrard, of Much-Waltham in Essex,
1 Fullci's Worthies.
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Bart, an only daughter Anne, (married to Sir Henry Palmer, of Wingham in Kent, Bart, who died without issue by her in 1/06) the title became extinct.
Sir Capel Luckyn, the second Baronet, born in l621, was member of parliament for Harwich in 1661, and married (as already observed) Maky, elder daughter of Sir Harhottle Grim- ston: by her, who died March ]8th, 17I8, in the eighty-sixth year of her age, he had a numerous issue, whereof William suc- ceeded to the title and estate; and the surviving daughters were Mildred, married first to Thomas Smyth, of Blackmore in Essex, Esq. ; and secondly, to Mr. Davison Browning, of London, linen draper j and Sarah, first to Richard Saltonstall, of South Oking- don, Esq. ; and secondly to Dacre Barrett, of Bellhouse in Avely, Essex, Esq. to whom she was third wife, and by him, who died in 1723, had a daughter Catharine, married to Sir Philip Hall, of Upton in Essex.
Sir William Luckyn, third Baronet, the second but eldest surviving son, marrying Mary, daughter of William Sherington, Esq. Alderman of London, had issue ten sons and five daughters, viz.
First, Sir Harbottle, his successor, fourth Barotiet, cup- bearer to Queen Anne and King George IL who died February «4th, 1736, unmarried.
Second, William, adopted heir to Sir Samuel Grimston, and advanced to the peerage.
Third, Capel,
Fourth, Henry.
Fifth, Charles, of Merton-collegc, Oxford, rector of Pedmersh and Messing in Essex.
Sixth, Edward.
Seventh, Samuel.
Eighth, George, who died at Messing-hall, February 5th, 1733, set. thirty-seven.
Ninth, Sherington ; and, .
Tenth, James.
Mary, Elizabeth, Sarah, Mildred, and Martha.
Sir William, the second son, Jifth Baronet, and first FiS' count Grimston, being adopted by his uncle Sir Samuel Grimston, heir to his estate, in virtue of the limitation thereof assumed the name of Grimston, In 171O, 1/13, 17l^» and 1727, he was member of parliament for St. Albans, and created a peer of Ire-
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land by prhy-seal, dated at St. James's April 29tb, and by patent " at Dublin May 29th, 17^9, with the creation fee of twenty maicSj and July 13th following, he took his seat in parliament."
His Lordship" married Jane, daughter of James Cooke^ citizen of London, and deceased October 15, 1756, aged seventy- three, having had issue by her, Avho died March 12th, 1/05, in the county of Hertford, nineteen children, whereof
Samuel the eldest son, born December 'i8th, 1/07, mar- ried November 5th, 1 730, Mary, daughter and heir to Henry Lovell, of Coleman-street, London, Esq. Turkey-merchant, who died in 1725, and was youngest son to Sir Salathiel Lovell, Baron of the Excliequer, by whom he had a daughter born April 1st, 1/30", who died an infant ; and deceasing in London, June 14tli, 1737, in the thirtieth year of his age, was interred in St. Nicho- las's church, St. Albans, and bis widow remarried with William, Viscount Barrington.
Second, James, heir apparent.
Third, Harbottle, born December 2d, 17 12, was appointed
m The preamble. Cum nihil in bonum publicum magis cedat, quam virtutem priemiis ornaie, prasseitim generis splendore illustratam, virosquc egregiis gestis de patria bcncmerito<, et illustrissimas Anglias fimilias affini- tate attingentes, honoribus augere : et cum hoc titulo se nobis pisecipue com- inendet dilectus noster Gulielmus Giimston de Gorhambury in agro Hert- fordensi Armiger, non interrupta Linea a Silvestro Grimston de Crimston in agro Eboiacensi ortus, qui Gulielmum Ccnquestorem Expeditione sua in Angliam comitabatur, ejusque vexilHfer fuerat in pioelio insigni apud Hast- ings, ubi paita Victoria, totum Regnum in piincipis illius ditionem redactum est ; a quo Silvestro ad praedictum Gulielniuni Grimston longa progenitorum series extitit invicto in patriam amore, et inconcussa erga Reges sues fide. Insigiies inter hos eminuit Edwardus Grimston Eques auratus a secretis Regni conciliis, et rationum publicaium Cu/eii inspector, qui, urbe Ca//is red- dita, turrem piopugnavir, et non nisi fame victus, liostium se pevmisit fidei : Hujus Edwardi Pronepos Harbottle Grimston Eques Auratus et Baronettus, magnus ille artium liberalium et literarum liunianarum Alascenas et exerr.- plar, in restauratione Caroli secundi in [ atriam et Solium .•\viium magna pars fuit ope et concilio ; Dein Regni Piae.'ccti'S. In celeberrimi hujus vi i no ^;en, familiam et virtutcs successit pixefatus Gulielm\-s Giimston, ProneiJcs h3:-res- que non degener, qui atavorum meritis hoc ad;!idlt propiium, ut in diiliciUi* mis temporibus, cum successio nostra in hsec ret;na jsericlitaretur, st:;enuum se juris nostii bonique publici propugnatorem pras-tarct Sciatis ifitur nos, ia perpetuum regii noitri favoris erga ilium et ejus posteros indicium, creasse, &c. {Rot. Cane. Anno 5 Geo. I. i. p. f.)
n Lordi' Jour, vol ii. p. fif..
" Having a. quarrel with Sarah Duchess of Mai I borough, t!ie spiteful o'd lady endeavcmed to make him ridiculous by rcpiii.ting a juvenile play of liis. See Walfole's Royal and Noble Aulhcrs, bj Park.
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May 1st, 1/36^ gentlemm-usher to the Princess of Wales, whicli he resigned in October 173/, and May lOth, 1/10, succeeded Sir William Wynne as standard bearer to the gentlemen pensioners, of whicii band he was appointed lieutenant in May 1/49; '^ 1750 changed his name to Luchjn by act of parliament, and is long since deceased.
Fourth, George, born August 12lh, 1/14, was made October 13th, I72(), g'=>ntleman usher to the Prince of Wales ; married in April 1744 the daughter of ... . . Clover, of Flertfordshire, Esq. and had two sons of the name of Edward, both deceased.
Fifih, William, born January 3d, 1719-
Jane, born December 20th, 171*5, married in August 1743 to Thomas Gape, of St. Albans, Esq. \ and Fiances, born September 1725.*'
Sir James, the second Viscount, was born October pth, ]71I> married Mary, daughter of John Askell Bucknall, of Oxney in the county of Hertford, Esq. and deceasing of the gout December )5th, 1773, was buried in St. Michael's church St. Albans, having had issue by her, wlio was born April 2Sth, l7I7>'ii''d died in Au- gust 1778> three sons and live daughters, viz.
First, James Bucknall, who succeeded to the title.
Second, William (who has taken the name of Buchiall), born June 23d, 1750, representative in the British parliament for the borough of St. Albans; married, February 7lh, 17^3, to Sophia, daughter and coheir to Richard Hoare, of Baram in Essex, Esq. by whom he has issue.
Third, Flarbottle, born April ]-Jth, 1752.
Jane, born September 10th, 1748, married, October 6th, 1/74, to Thomas Estcourt, Esq.
Mary, born May 28th, 1753, married April 3d, 1777? to Wil- liam Hale, of Walden in Hertfordrshire, Esq,
Susanna Askell, born September 26th, 17-54, married, Fe- bruary 15th, 178I, to John Warde, of Squerries in Kent, Esq,
Frances Cooke, born March 27th, 175/.
Charlotte-Johanna, born September 10th, 175i).«
Sir James Bucknall, the third Viscount Grimston, and first Lord Verulam, was born May gtb, 1747 ; bis Lordship repre- sented tlic county of Hertford in the British parliament. July 28th, 1774, he married Harriot, only daughter of Edward Walter, of Stalbritige in the county of Dorset, Esq. by Harriot, daughter
t Ulitcr's Office. .•• s Ide.n.
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and coheir to George, Lord Forrester, '' and by her Ladyship, who died November ^ih, 1/86, had issue,
h This surname has been assumed from an office, as Stewart, Durward, Constable, ami others were, which iheir beavinj,', viz. three hunting horns, seems to confirm. The princi[)al family appears to be this of For r es i f r, whose ancestor, Sir Adam Forrester, citizen of Ediuburgii in the 6tli of Ro- bert II. acquired the Barony of Corstorphin, from Sir William More, of Abercorn, whence his successors took their designation. Upon the acces- sion of King Robert III. to the throne, anno ijgo, he was constituted lord privy-seal. * In the 2d of the said King, he was ciimmi.;sioned to trear with certain Englisli commissioners for maintaining the peace betwixt the two realms. + Likewise, in 1405, he was a second time one of the commissioners authovized to treat with the English, about composing of certain difiijrences betwixt the two kingdoms. J By Margaret his wife he had issue.
Sir John, his son and heir, who b^ing a man of good parts, was, anno 14;!, named lord privy-seal to Murdach Duke of Albany, governor of Scot- land, ^ and in 1423, he was witli William Bishop of Glasgow, George Earl of March, John Montgomery of Ardrossan, Patrick Dunbar of Beill, and Wil- liam Borthwick of tliat ilk, sent commissioners to luigland to treat with that stale, about the redemption of King James I || Upon that King's return home, anno 14^4, he was constituted master of the household, 5 and lord high chamberlain of Scotland. ** After which, in 1428, he was named a com- missioner with divers others, to treat with the English about a peace. Thus much for his civil actions. His works of piety were these; the founding a chaplainry at the altar of St. Ninian, within the church of St. Giles of Edin- burgh, " pro salubri statu serenissimi Principis Jacobi I. et Joanna; spon.>ae suae ; et pro salute animx quondam Adiis Forrester de Corstorphin, Militis, Patris mei et Margavetas matris mea?," to which he mortified, " sex libras tredecem solidos, et quatuor denarios de tencmento suo in dicto Burgo.'' +t Likewise, he doted a sufficient subsistence for tlnee Chaplainries in the chapel of St. John the Baptist, contiguous to the parish church of Corstor- phin, founded by Sir Adam Forrester his father, J J which in the year 1429, he erected into a collegiate church, and procured the annexation of several lands and tithes thereunto. He married Jean, sister to Henry Sinclair tarl of Orkney ; ^'j and departing this life about 1440, was interred in the church of Corstorphin, imder an arch, with the portiaiture of himself and his wile, as big as the life in free stone, without any monumental inscription but a coat of arms: he had issue.
First, Sir John, his successor.
Second, Henry Forrester, of Oxgang.
* Mr. Rymer's Fsdcra Ai.gli.T. + Ibid, t Ibid.
5j Charta in Rotulis Murdaci Duels Albania:.
II Rymer's Fa:dcra Anglis.
f Cliarta in Rotulis Jacobi I- ad annum 1424.
*» Ibid, anno Pradicto. +f Ibid. JJ Ibid.
U Charta Confirmationis Jacobi I. de impignoratione quam Henricui
Comes Orkadi-e fecit dclecto fratrc .suo Joar.ni Fo.rcster de Corstorphin mili^i.
in 1424,
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s
First, James Walter, born September 26th, 1775. Second, Harriot, born December l-ith, 1776 ; and.
Third, Jean, married to Sir Robert Maxwel, of Carlaverock,* ancestor to the Earl of Nithsdale.
Fourth, Elizabeth, to Sir Alexander Lauder, Knight. + Which Sir John obtained a grant from King James I, of the lands of Blackburn in Linlithgowshire, upon the resignation of Sir Robert Cuningham, of Kilmaures, anno 14:4, wherein he is designed, " filio et heredi apparent! Joannis Forrester de Corstorphin Militis Camerarii Scotis." He was suc- ceeded by
Archibald Forrester, of Corstorphin, who by Margaret his wife,
daughter of Hepburn, of , had J
Alexander, his son and heir, in whose favour he resigned his estate anno 1482, reserving a life-rent to himself. He had to wife Margaret, daughter of Sir Duncan Forrester, of Gairden, masterof the household in the reign of King James IV. § by whom he had
Alexandeh Forrester, of Corstorphin, his son and heir, who married
Janet, daughter to Lauder, of Hatton, |] by whom he had
Sir James, his son, who succeeded him; but he dying without male issue, anno 1587,5 his estate fell to
Henry his brother, who marrying Helen, daughter of Preston,
of Craigmillar in vicecomitatu de Edinburgh, ** by her he had,
George, his son and heir, who was first created Baronet by King Charles I. November 27 th, 1625, and thereafter Lord Forrester, July 2zd, 1633. f f He married Christian, daughter of Sir William Livingston, of Kil- syth, by whom he had several daughters, viz. Helen, married to William Lord Ross. Margaret, to John Shaw, of Sornbeg.
, to Hamilton, of Grange.
Jean, to James BaiUie, of Torwood-head, son of lieutenant-general Wil- liam Bailiie, in whose favour my Lord Forrester resigned the honour, and to the heirs of their body, which failing to his other heirs therein specified, which was ratified by King Charles 1 1, anno 1651, but he having no issue by her, the honour by virtue of the said entail, came to
William Bailiie, alias Forrester, of Torwoodhead, his brother, third Lord Forrester, who married also Lilias, the youngest daughter of George Lord Forrester, by whom he had t WiL ■L\KXA,fourth Lord Forrester, who departed this life, anno 1705, leaving
issue by his wife, daughter of Sir Andrew Birnie, of Saline, one of the
senators of the college of justice,
Geor G E,7?//Z) Lord Forrester, v/ho went into the army, signalized him- self in the government service at Preston, in Lancashire, anno 1715, and was made colonel of the fourth troop of horse-guards-
* Charta in Rotulis dicti Regis. + Ibid. t IL)''l-
S Ibid, II Ibid.
1 Charta in Cancellaria supreniae Dominse NostvK Reginas ad annuia
*' Charta in Rotulis Jacobi VI. i+ Charta in Rcgiitro.
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Third, Charlotte, born January ]6th, 1/78.'
James Walter succeeded to the Scotch Barony of L,ord For- rester, m October, 1808, ou the death of Baroness Forrester, and succeeded his father as l^iscount Griviston and Lokd Verulam, on December 30th, 1S08.
His Lordship married on August 11th, 1807, Lady Charlotte Jenkinson, daughter of Charles, late Earl of Liverpool, and has issue
A son, born February 20lh, ISOt).
Titles. James Walter Grimston, Viscount Grimston, Baron of Dunboyne in Ireland, Baron of Verulam in England, and Lord Forrester in Scotland.
Creations Baronet March 2d, l628, 4 Car. L; Viscount Grimston, and Baron of Dunboyne in the county of Meath, June 3d, 1719, 5 Geo. L; Baron of Verulam, July 9th, 1790 5 and Baron Forrester, l6t)3.
He married Charlotte, daughter and co-heiress of Anthony Row, Esq. of thecounty of Oxford, by whom he had two sons and two daughters.
First, George, his heir.
Second, William.
His daughter Caroline married George Cockburn, of Ormiston, Esq. •omptrolier and one of the commissioners of the navy, who died 1770-
Harriot, married Edward Walter, Esq.
He was succeeded by his elde.-t son,
George, sixth Lo'^ Forrester, who dying without issue, was succeeded by his brother.
Will iA.^i,fe-venth Lord Forrester, who was a captain in the royal navy, but dying unmarried, anno 1748, he was succeeded by his next heir male, and first cousin,
John (son of his uncle John) who became iei-enth Lard Forrester, and died unmarried 1763.
He way succeeded by Caroline, his aunt. Bareness Forrester. She died 1784, and was succeeded by her only child,
An.ve, Baroness Foirester, who died unmarried in October 1808.
The honour then devolved on the Hon. James Wal ter Grimston, grandson of Mrs Harriot Waiter, as above, who thus became Lord Forrester, 3.nd'ii now a.Ho Viscount Grimston, ViuA 2>\ti.oN of Verulam.
Arms. Quarterly, first and fourth argent, three buffalo's horns sable, stringed gules, for the name of Forrester ; second and third azure, nine mullets or, for Baillie.
Crest On a wreath, a talbot's head crazed argent
Supporters. Two talbotsof the last
Motto. Spero.
Chief Seats. Were at Torwood in the shire of Stirling, and Corstorphine, within two miles of Edinburgh.
i Ulster's Office. VOL. VIII. a
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Arms. Quarterly, first and fourth argent, on a fess, sable, three mullets of six points pierced, or, and in the dexter chief an ermine spot, for Grimston, second and third argent, three buflfalo'i horns sable, stringed gules, for Forrester.
Crest. On a wrt-ath, a stag's head couped, proper, attired, or.
Supporters. The dexter a stag, reguardant, proper, attired, as the crest. The sinister a gryphon, reguardant, or.
Motto. Mediocria firma.
CMef Seats. Gorhambury in the county of Hertford, twenty- two miles from London ; and Messing-Hall, otherwise Baynard's- Castle, near Colchester in Essex, forty -four miles from London.
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ARCHIBALD DOUGLAS, LORD DOUGLAS OF DOUGLAS.
His Lordship was adjudged by a final decree of the house of lords, in l/tJy, to be son and heir of Sir John Stewart, of Gran • tully, Bart, by Lady Jane Douglas, sister of the hst Duke of Douglas, and nephew and heir to the said Duke, who died in 1761 3 on which his dukedom became extinctj and his raarqui- sate and other titles devohed on his next heir male, the Duke of Hamilton. (See title Brandon, vol. i. p. 51]).
" If a long train of illustrious ancestors," says Douglas in his peerage, " distinguished by the highest titles, and connected with the most august and noble families, in Europe, can make any name remarkable and great, there is no subject can plfead a higher claim than the Douglas ; but it is the least part of the glory of this family, that it has been honoured M'ith alliances by marriage, into the first rank of nobility in Scotland, England, and France, even with crowned heads, having matched eleven times with the royal house of Scotland, and once with that of England: that besides the honours conferred on them by their own sovereigns, they have been Dukes of Turenne, Counts of Longueville, and Marshals of France. They were more distinguished by their virtue and merit than by their titles and opulency, and the lustre of their actions outshone tlie splendour of their birth. Hence we see them leading the van of our armies in Scotland ; supporting, by their valour, the kingdom and crown of France, tottering on the head of Charles VH. when reduced to the last extremity by the bravery of the English ; raising the siege of Danbrick, for which thej bad the highest honours conferred upon them ; conqueriajg;
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the Saracens in Spain ; with many other acts of military glory, that have made this family renowned through all the corners of Europe, for which we must refer to our historians."
William de Douglas, was created Dominus de Douglas, by King Malcolm Canmore, 1O57.
His son, Sir John, d^ing about 1145, was succeeded by his son.
Sir William, whose son,
Archibald, was a man of va^t estate, and in great favour with King Alexandt-r II , ht- died about 1240. His son.
Sir William, died 12/6. Hi^ son,
Hugh, distinguished hiir.self at the battle of Largis, under King Alexatider III and conquered Haco, King of Nurway, who had invaded Scotland, 1203.
His brother and heir, VVilliam, was called JVilLiam the Hardy: he was the companion of the valorous exploits of Sir William Wallace; was governor of Berwick, 121)5; and would never swear fealty to the English, who took him prisoner, and kept him seven years in captivity, in which situation he died in England, 1303. His son,
James, Lord Douglas, called The Good, was one of the most eminent herc;e>; of his time, and laid the loundation of the future greatness of the house of Douglas. " The Saxon families," says Walter Scott, '" who fled froi\i the exterminating sword of the conqueror, with many of the Normans themselves, whom dis- content and intestine ft-uds had driven into exile, began to rise into eminence on the Scotish borders. They brought with them arts both of peace and war, unknown in Scotland ; and among their descendants we soon number the most powerful border chiefs. Such, during the reign of the last Alexander, were Patrick, Earl of March, and Lord Soulis, renowned m tradition ; and such were also the powerful Comyns, who early acquired the principal way upon the Scotish marches. In the civil wars betwixt Bruce and Baiiol, all those powerful chieftains espoused the unsuccessful party. They were forfeited and exiled 5 and upon their ruins was founded the formidable house of Douglas. The borders, from sea to sea, were now at the devotion of a suc- cession of mighty chiefs, whose exorbitant power threatened to put a new dynasty upon the Scolihh throne. It is not my inten- tion," he adds, '"' to trace the dazzling career of this race of heroes, whose exploits were alike formidable to the English, and
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to their sovereign." * This James^ Lord Douglns, was a constant adheit-nt to King Robert Biuce. In June 13 14, he commanded thf left wing of tlie Scotish army, at the battle of Baniiockburn. He was waidrn of the m.irches towards England. He it was who undertook a jmirney to Jerusalem with King Robert's heart, in confoimity to a vow made by that monarch; in whiv-h service he fell ; for having interred the heart at t!ie Holy Sepulchre, he joined the King of Arragon against the iniidels, and was killed in Spain, August 31-.t, 1331, after having bren thirteen times victo- rious agnnst the Turks and Saracens. For tl)is service he had adJed to his arrnorial bearing, argent, a man's heart, gules, en- signxJ u'ifh an inipjrial crown, proper. He died without legiti- mate issue; but h,s natural son is said to have been progenitor of some considerable families of the name in France.
His brother and heir, Hugh, an inactive man, was succeeded by his nephew,
William, (son oi Archibald, his brother, who lost his life in the service of his country, at the battle of Halidon-hill, 1333.) This William was created Earl of Dougla-i, 134d. In 1356, he was at tiie battle of Poictiers, where he narrowly escaped being taken prisoner by the Black Prince. " Upon the deatn of David II." Pii;kerton says, " he unexpectedly claimed liie crown, as uniting in himself the dubious pretensions of Cumyn, and the solid title of Baliol. Yet the claim was no soone** made than withdrawn Our elder historians assert that the strong interests of the Earls of Dunbar and Murray, and the yet stronger of Sir Robert Erskine, keeper of the castles of Dunbarton, Edinburgh, and Stirling, appearing decided for the Steward, induced Douglas to resign his expectation ; while the historians of the house of Douglas ascribe the desertion of the claim to its own friends." He was, in 1373, appointed custos marchiarum, with power to settle all debates between the Douglases and Percies of Northum- berland : he died 1384.
Genealogists give him three wives, by each of whom he had a son.
First, Margaret, sister and sole heir of Thomas, Eail of Mar, by whom he had
James, son and heir.
Secondly, Margaret, daughter of Patrick, Earl of ^larch, by whom they say he had
» Minstrelsy of Scotch Bord. vol.i, p 6.
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Archibald the Grim, third Earl, but whom Sir David Dal- rymple contends to have been an usurper.
Thirdly, Margaret, daughter and heir of Thomas Stuart, Earl of Angus, by whom he had
George, first Earl of Angus of that name.
James, second Earl of Douglas, was that memorable warrior, who fell in the celebrated battle of Otterburn, on July 31st, 1388. " I die, like my forefathers," said the expiring hero, " ia a field of battle, and not on a bed of sickness. Conceal my death, defend my standard, and avenge my fall ! It is an old prophecy, that a dead man shall gain a field, and I hope it will be accom- plished this night." ^
Archibald the Grim, (his half-brother, according to most authors,) succeeded as third Earl of Douglas ; he died 1400, and was succeeded by his son
Archibald, /bwr/A Earl; he was a man of distinguished valour, and had the command of the Scotch forces sent to the as- sistance of France against the English, for which Charles VII, invested him with the duchy of Turenne, and made him Marshal of France. He fell in the battle of Vernoij, yVugust /th, 1425.
His son, Archibald, wasffth Earl. " There cannot," says Pinkerton, " be a stronger proof of the ignorance of our early writers, concerning the reign of James II. than their assertion that the powerful Earl of Douglas was neglected, while it is known from authentic records, that he held the high office of lieutenant- general of the kingdom, and even summoned a parliament. He died 1439, and was succeeded by his son, a youth, whose years did not exceed fourteen, and were too immature to support the dignities of his father."
This son was William, sixth Earl. ''The power of the house of Douglas," according to Pinkerton, " had arisen to a formidable height, and was, during this reign, to contend with the royal authorities. Galloway, Annandale, and other extensive territories in Scotland, the duchy of Touraine and lordship of Longueville in France, rendered to the chief of that family revenues perhaps equivalent to those of the Scotish monarch. The young Earl, now in his sixteenth year, possessed the impetuous spirit and haughtiness, natural to his age and fortunes. His highest
b See a minute and interesting account of this battle in Pinkerton's very tatuable and recondite History of Scotlanil, Sec also the ballade and note* in Perey'i Rcliqucs, and Scott's Minstrelsy.
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title, that of Touraine, which a weak regency had permitted the house to assume, and which impolicy had not applied to the French King to discontinue, emboldened the Douglas to regard himself as a foreign Prince, independent of the laws of his country. The prudence of age might have induced a concealment of pomp and power, from the fear of envy and d.inger; but, in the arro- gance of youth, William, Earl ot Douglas, displayed a constant train of one thousand horse, and a dazzling magnificence in his household ; nay, he would even create knights, and hold courts in imitation of parliaments. The Chancellor, who by his office was chiefly cliarged to see the due execution ot the laws, was irri- tated at the insults offered to them by the power of Douglas. In- stead of bearing with the young Earl's insolence, in the hopes that a few years would infuse moderation and prudence into his conduct ; instead of secretly raising the King's influence with the court of France, that the foreign titles and possessions might be withdrawn from the family, Crichton resolved to cut off the Earl and his brother j a measure, which might perhaps have admitted .some apology, had they been advanced to maiurer age ; for it seems strictly equitable that an opposer, who is above the proce- dure of justice, may be sacrificed to the laws, without any proce- dure of justice; but which, while we consider the tender age of the offenders, must be pronounced unjust, murderous, and tyran- nical. Nay, when the consequences are seen, this act will appear weak and impolitic, and will incur the bitterest ch:irge of depra- vity, that of inetiectual guilt. By plausible invitations and flatteries, William, Earl of Douglas, his brother DaviJ, and Mal- colm Fleming of Cumbernauld, a faithful adherent to the family, were inveigled into -the castle of Edinburgh, and after an insi- dious entertainment, and a brief and desultory trial, were be- headed. The Earldom of Douglas fell to his uncle, the next heir male,
James, Lord of Alercorn, surnamed The Gross, who became seventh Earl, a prudent and peaceable man, but who unfortu- nately enjoyed his title only two years, and left a turbulent son,
WiLLi.\M, the third of that name, eighth Earl. The unen- tailed estates of Galloway, Wigton, Balvenie, Ormond, and Annan- d.Ue, were inherited by Margaret, sister of the murdered Earl, coiumcnly called the Fair Maid of Galloway, who wedded her cousin, the third Williau), hereby restoring the house of Donglas to all its power. The want of wisdom in th« government, upon
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this occasion, exceeds all beliefj but it is easier to commit a murder, than to perform an action of common prudence, and crime ought never to infer ability. Margaret was appartntly a ward of the crown ; at any rate, the new Earl, William, and the heiress, were within the degrees of consanguinity, and she was forced to apply secretly to the Pope for a dispensation, which not arriving so speedily as he hoped, he married her on Good Friday, in the time of Lent, a day and period esteemed iis unlawiul as'the marriage. The opposition to this connection caught to have been cogent ; the pretexts for annulling it w-ie just ; but tor this un- accountable neglect, the regency, the nation, the King, were afterwards sufficiently to suffer." '^ " By the common course of human affairs, the young King detested the controul ot Livingston and Crichton, and the numerous friends of the h<uise of Douglas were successful in sharpening hi^ re^eiitment against those stern guardians, who had held him in captivity, ^nd in turning his affec- tion to the Earl of Douglis, who>e youth was more congenial with that of the King, and whose power could irresistibly enforce the royal designs." " Douglas procured a parliament to be held, in which Crichton and Livingston were denounced rebels, and their estates forfeited." " Meanwhile the disorders of the country increased, under the mismanagement of Douglas, and caused even the regency of Crichton and Livingston to be regretted." About 1446, " the Earl of Douglas was created lieutenant-general of the kingdom, an office of extreme power, -which had been held by one of his predecessors at the commencemtnt of this reign. He was resolved on the perdition of the family of Livingston, which had only done its duty to the King and kingdom, by op- posing the exorbitant influence of the house of Douglas." In 1448, he obtained a victory over the English, at the battle of Sark. The Scots then entered England, and ravaged the country as far as Newcastle. But " the victories of Douglas had afforded little compensation to Scotland for his tyranny and oppression, which seemed to increase in proportion to the continuance of his power. For him and his followers there was no law. and the country groaned under the most destructive anarchy. But the sis heavy years of his authority were soon to expire ; and different circumstances were already preparing to lessen his influence." " The perdition of the aristocratic and tyrannic house of Douo-las, was to be a .spirited exertion of justice to the monarch and to his
c Pinkerton's History of Scotland, vol. i. p igs-
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people." " It would appear that the office of lieutenant-general of the kingdom, wanted little of being a sole regency. I'his dan- gerous dignity certainly fell soon after the marriage of the King} and Douglas retired from the court, attended with the execrations of the people." " Disgusted at the loss of his power, and wishing to display his pomp in foreign countries, he passed to the jubilee at Rome with a train of six knights, fourteen gentlemen, and eighty attendants. Li his absence, many complaints were made against the insolence of his attendants. Upon his return from Rome, he sent a submissive message to the King ; and, as he could not in equity be reputed guilty of events, which happened during his absence, and for which a sufficient punishment had been taken, he was graciously received." '' Meanwhile, he pro- ceeded in his disorderly and treasonable practices. He attempted, as it is said, to assassinate Crichton, who escaped, and afterwards had nearly surprised Douglas, then lodging in Edinburgh with a small train. '
The Earl " now entered into a grand measure, which threat- ened destruction to the King and kingdom : he confederated with several potent nobles, in a mutual defence against every injury. The monarch dissembled 5 but an incident soon occurred which hastened the execution of his vengeance. '' It was then resolved, in order to avoid the iiorrors of a civil war, that Douglas should be inveigled into court by flattery, and upon pretences that the King forgave his past enormities, and only desired him to reform his future conduct." The [;lan succeeded : the Earl was pre- vailed upon to visit the court, at the castle of Stirling. After supper, the King taking him apart into a secret chamber, where only some of the privy-council and the guard were in attendance, mildly informed him that [)e had heard of the league with Craw- ford and other nobles, and desired him to break such illegal en- gagements. Douglas proudly refused, and had the arrogance to upbraid the King with his procedures against him, which had forced him, as he asserted, to form this confederacy. The sense of repeated insults, and of an outrageous contempt of his autho- rity, conspired \^ ith the present personal affront, to kitidle a flianie of instantaneous fury : and the monarch exclaiming, " If you will not brer.!; this league, by God I shall, drew his dagger, and stabbed Douglas. Sir Patrick Gray then struck the Eurl w;ih a
** See it in Pliikerton, Sec.
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battle-axe, and the wound was instantly mortal." This hap- pened February 13th, 1452.
James, his brother, became ninth Earl.. " He appears," says Walter Scott, " neither to have possessed the abilities, nor the ambition of his ancestors. He drew, indeed, aoainst his Prince, the formidable sword of Douglas, but with a timid, and hesitat- ing hand. Procrastination ruined his cause ; and he was deserted at Abercorn by the knight of Cadyow, chief of the Hamiltons, and by his most active adherents, after they had ineffectually ex- horted him to commit his fate to the issue of a battle. The border chiefs, who longed for independence, shewed little incli- nation to follow the declining fortunes of Douglas. On the con- trary, the most powerful clans engaged, and defeated him at Arkinholme, in Annandale, when, after a short residence in Eng- land, he again endeavoured to gain a footing in his native country. The spoils of Douglas were liberally distributed amongst his con- querors, and royal grants of his forfeited domains effectually in- terested them in excluding his return. An attempt on the east borders," by the Percy and the Douglas both together, " was equally unsuccessful. The Earl, grown old in exile, longed once more to see his native country, and vowed that upon St. Magda- len's day, he would deposit his offering on the high altar at Loch- maben. Accompanied by the banished Earl of Albany^ with his usual ill-fortune he entered Scotland. The borderers assembled to oppose him, and he suffered a final defeat at Barnswork, in Dumfrieshire, The aged Earl was taken in the fight, by a son of Kiikpatrick of Clo;eburn, one of his own vassals, A grant of lands had been offered for his person ; ' Carry me to the King,' said Douglas to Kirkpatrick, ' thou art well entitled to profit by Hiy misfortune, for thou wast true to me, whilst I was true to myself The young man wept bitterly, and ofiered to fly with the Earl into England, But Douglas, weary of exile, refused his proffered liberty, and only requested that Kirkpatrick would not deliver him to the King, till he had secured his own reward, Kirkpatrick did more, he stipulated for the personal safety of his old master. His generous intercession prevailed ; and the last of the Douglases was permitted to die in monastic seclusion, in the abbey of Lindores." "^ " In this retreat," says Pinkerton^
* Minstrelsy, vol i- p 7.
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" Douglas, perhaps, first knew happiness ; and died after four years of penitence and peace," '^ April 15th, 1488.
" After the fall of the house of Douglas," continues Scott, *' no one chieftain appears to have enjoyed the same extensive supremacy over the Scotish borders. The various Barons, who had partaken of the spoil, combined in resisting a succession of uncontrouled domination. The Earl of Angus alone seems to have taken rapid steps in the same course of ambition, which had been pursued by his kinsmen and rivals, the Earls of Douglas."
George Douglas,^/jf^ Earl of Angus, was only son of Wil- liam, first Earl of Douglas, by Margaret, his third wife, daughter and heir of Thomas Stuart, Earl of Angus. He accompanied his cousin, the Earl of Douglas, to the battle of Homildon, where he was taken prisoner, and soon after died, in 1402, leaving his son,
William, second Earl of Angus, who was warden of the middle marches, 1433, and commanded at the battle of Piper- dam, where the Scots obtained a victory over the English led by Percy, 143t). His son,
James, third Earl of Angus, was succeeded by his brother, Grorge, fourth Earl, who, in 1449, was made warden of the cast and middle marches, and had the chief command of the King's forces during the Earl of Douglas's rebellion, which he suppressed in 1455, and upon that Earl's forfeiture, obtauied a grant of the whole lands and lordship of Douglas, by a charter, 1457- " There appears to be some doubt," says Walter Scott, " whetl];.er in this division the Earl of Angus received more than his natural right. If Archibald the Grim intruded into the Earldom of Douglas, without being a son of that family, it follows that the house of Angus, being kept out of their just rights for more than a century, were only restored to them after the battle of Arkinholme. Perhaps this may help to account for the eager interest taken by the Earl of Angus against his kinsman." He took the side of Lancaster, in England, while the Earl of Douglas espoused the York interest. He died 1462, and was succeeded by his son,
Arcuibkld, fftn Earl, then only nine years old, wlio was also warden of the cast and middle marches. He was one of the leaders against his s;vereign, James IIL in l4Sy. As late as the
t' Pinkerton, toI i p. 317, where see many moic interc-tinj pirticulars •f this Earl.
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fatal battle of Floddon, he is said to have been active in dissuad- ing tht- King fiom that unfortunate contest, for which some his- torians have taxed him with cowardice and di?'lovalty, more espe- cially as h^ was absf nt on that day ; but his great age and infir- mities were a sutfi irnt excus;' tor non-aitendance ; and two hundred of his name and followers are said to have fallen on that bloody day, September 9th, 151 3. Oppressed with years and sorrow fur that dreidful issue, for the loss of his country, the fate of bis two sons, and of so many of his family, he retired to a re- ligious house, and died the beginning of the year following, 1514.
His son, GEosciE,^ master of yjngus, having thus fallen at Floddon held, the Earl was succeeded by his grandson,
Archibald, sixth Earl, called .Archibald Bed-the-Cat, who makes a very conspicuous figure in the History of Scotland. He " was at once warden of the east and middle marches, Lord of Lidclisdale, and Jedwond forest, and possessed of the strong castles of Douglas, Hermitage, andTantallon." " James IV. am.on;>rch of a vigorous and energttic character, was well aware of the danger, which his ancestors had experienced from a powerful and overgrown family. Upon the waxing power of Angus, he kept a wary eve ; and, embracing the occasion of a casual slaughter, he compelled that harl and his son to exchange the lordship of Liddisd.ile, and the castle of Hermitage, for the caitle and lord- ship of Both well. By this policy he prevented the house of Angus, mighty as it vvjs, from rising to the height^ whence the elder branch of tieir family had been hurled." In 1514?" to the surprise and regiet of all ranks," say^ Pinkerton, " Margaret (^Tudor, widow of James IV.) hardly recovered from the languor of childbirth, suddenly wedded the Ear/ o/" -^/zo-^s. This preci- pitate step was ruinous to her ambition, as of itself by the royal will, and by the law of the country, it terminated her regency. In the progress of time, however, various incidents contributed to restore her power; and she continued to attract great attention by the splendour of her birth anci former station, by the art of her intrigues, and by the boldness of her talents. The nobility of Scotland were, at this period, little remarkable for natural abili- ties, and fir less for those, which depend on learning ; the clergy had engrossed all that belongs to acquired knowledge, and political sagacity 3 but amongst the Scotish nob\ts, Aniens ww^^^ perhaps^,
T Gar/cT. Douglas, the poet, bishop of DunkJ.d, was a youngor .son.
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the most uninformed, and unfit for his dangi'rnus elevition ; for his royil marriage pro.npt' d hiin to assume .nucli of the vacant government, and the Quf^n's fondness stcondd bis ambition. Experience and matnrer age, displayed him in a diderent light j but at this time, his years and his instruction partook of puc-ri ity. A birth, distinguisi^ed by an ancestry of heroes, opulrnt posses- sions, and potent vassalry, above ail, a person blooming with youth and elegance, transported the woman, while tht^y ruined the Queen ; and bitt-r and speedy was the repentance."
When x\lbany assunied the regency, Angus and his Queen were gradually driven by acts of cruelty and oppression to Eng- land. The next year, 15 id, " A gus and Home finding them- selves neglected by the English King, and deprived, by the con- clusion of a treaty, of any open aid from England, resolved, with- out the Queen's knowledge, to accommodate their affairs with Albany j who now affected great lenity, and assented to admit them to their former honours and possessions. They accordingly returned to Scotland, and resided in a quiet manner on their estates. The Queen, now confined by a long illness, at Mor- peth, never pardoned, and never could pardon this shocking and disgraceful defection of her husband, the inhumanity of which was, if possible, increased by her situation on a bed of sickness 3 and this was the real cause of that lasting enmity, which our his- torians, ignorant of this circumstance, impute to an amour of Angus. Margaret's determination of proceeding to her brother's court, instead of returning to Scotland, was a strong motive to this step; as Angus and Home regarded her resolution as a dere- liction of any claim to the Scotish government, and in mere pru- dence could not be much blamed tor not sacrificing all their for- tunes to a cause confessed to be desperate. The Queen after- wards went to the English court ; where she was received with the distinction, respect, and tenderness, due to lier talents, her station, and her misfortunes : nor was it an usual spectacle to be- hold her, and her sister Mary, the widow of Louis XH. embrac- ing each other after an equal fatality."
In 1518, " the discord between the factions of Angus and Arran coniioued to increase; but the former w.is somewhat weakened by the want of confidence between the Que' n and her husband. She had behaved with the attention, if not with the affection of a wife, since her return ; and had even pawned and sold her jewels and plate, to support his interest, his personal pro- fusion being great. Bat not cor.tentcd with wasting her property.
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he wounded both her love and her pride by vague amours, parti- cularly with a lady of Douglasdale, a daughter of Stuart of Traq- hair, according to some, whom his violent passion had secluded from her friends, and by whom he had a daughter, Jane Douglas, afterwards wedded to Patrick, Lord Ruthven. The Queen, stung with this new disgrace, which revived and increased the latent, but deep, wound inflicted by his former abrupt and cruel dere- liction of her sitk-bed in England, now spoke of a divorce. But Henry, sensible that such a step would be ruinous to his interests in Scotland, endeavoured by threats and persuasions to deter her. A reconciliation was effected; but it was insincere, and after seven years inquietude, a divorce often threatened, was at length to di- vide this unhappy marriage."
In 1521, Angus and his party again fled from Edinburgh and the power of Albany to the borders, in great dismay ; from whence he implored the protection of Henry. But disgusted with his dubious residence on the English frontier, had recourse to the Queen's mediation with Albany, gained perhaps by his promise to consent to a divorce; and the regent pardoned him on condition that he should exile himself to France, from whence he did not return till July, 1524. He soon after, under English influence, went back to Scotland. Henry's ministers thought " he would at least prove a check upon the Queen's conduct, he being so much beloved in Scotland at this period, that his influ- ence, like the ancient power of his house, rather passed the limits of a subject; and he earnestly desired to revisit his native country, which an absence of two years and an half had only more en- deared to his ambition. The power now passed to the Chancellor, and Angus, though Margaret retained her nominal authority for more than twelve months after this period : to Angus she affected kindness, but solely with a view to persuade him to consent to a divorce, the object of her endeavours for seven years. Henry, disapproving his sister's conduct, drove her, by his reproaches, into the interests of France. " Angus, who appears to have re- tained his high honour of husband to the Queen, solely with a view to enjoy her revenues, finding that this usurpation was not to be continued without forfeiting Henry's favour, at length con- sented to the divorce, which was pronounced by the Chancellor at St. Andrews, upon the vain ground of a previous promise of marriage by Angus to another lady, while all the nation knew that solid grounds of separation arose from the adulteries of boih.
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Hardly was the divorce pronounced, before Margaret wedded Henry Stuart, her paramour, (younger son of Lord Evandale), afterwards to be created Lord Mcthven." This was in 1526. ** The precipitate marriage of Margaret ruined her influence; and Arraii had abandoned her desperate cause, to join the Chan- cellor his relation and Angus.
The ancient power of the Douglases seemed now to have re- ▼ived, and, after a slumber of near a century, again to threaten destruction to the Scotish monarchy." " Offices were crowded upon the house of Douglas ; Sir Archibald Douglas of Kilspindy, uncle to Angus, was appointed lord treasurer; and Sir Georg« Douglas, master of the royal household,"
In 1528, " the plot of the King's liberation from the odious power of the Douglases was formed, but proceeded with the secret force of a subterraneous river, till it burst forth with the fury of a cataract." In July, James having ordered preparations for a solemn hunting, escaped to Stirling in the disguise of a groom. Angus and his brothers were now attainted; and his estates given as spoils to his enemies. The Earl and his brother, Sir George, were forced to England, where they resided during the remainder of this reign, the Earl being admitted to the English privy-council, and continuing to be highly favoured by Henry : nor did they revisit Scotland till the second year of Mary's minority, after an exile of fifteen years ; but no longer was a Douglas to be dan- gerous to the Scotish throne."
Henry pensioned the Earl, in 1532, for his services against his country. The next year, " Angus and his brother. Sir George, on the part of England," shone like destructive meteors, and blasted the Scotish territory by their presence, or proximity. In this inroad, they took the old fort called Cawmyl, two miles from Berwick. In 1542, after many small incursions of the borderers on both sides, " Sir Robert Bowes," continues Pin- kerton, " instigated by the odious Angus, and Sir George Douglas, who attended him in the expedition against their country, en- tered Scotland at the head of 3000 cavalry, proposing to ravage the frontiers, and destroy Jedburgh, now emergent from its ruins. But they were met at Haddenrig, by Huntley and Home, and completely defeated. Angus was taken, but escaped the due punishment of his manifold treasons, by using his dagger against the captor."
In 1543, his attainder was repealed, and he was restored to all his honours and estates ; and died at his castle of Tantallon, in
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1556. His only daughter and heir, Margaret, married Matthew, Earl of Lennox, and was mother of Henry, Lord Darnley, hus- band of Queen Mary.
He was succeeded, as seventh Earl, by his nephew, David, (son of his brother. Sir George,) who dying 1588, was succeeded by his son,
Archibald, eight Earl, who was appointed wurden of the marches, in 1573 ; and, afterwards, lord lieutenant of the borders. He died without surviving issuer and, as it seems, in the same year with his fa i her.
He was succeeded by the next heir male. Sir William Douglas, of G/enl:er-vie, (son of Sir Archibald Douglas, of Glen- bervie, son of Sir William Douglas, of Braidwood, or Glenbervie, who was second son of Archibald, fifth Earl, and uncle of Archi- bald, Bell-the-Cat, sixth Earl.
This William became ninth Earl of Angus, and is said to have, embraced the party of Queen Mary, and been a great promoter of the reformation) he died 159I, and was succeeded by his son,
William, tenth Earl, who, in 1592, joined the conspiracy of the popish lords, in favour of Spain ; and ihe next year was seized, and committed to Edinburgh castle, but escaped out of prison, and retired to the mountains. He then fled to France, where he died a religieiise, and was buried in the church of St. Germaines, 1616. His son,
William, became eleventh Earl, and, on the accession of Charles L was appointed commander in chief, and lieutenant of the borders, and was advanced to the tiile of Marquis of Douglas, June l/th, 1633. He distinguished himself on the King's side, in the battle of Philiphaugh, where he was afterwards taken pri- soner, and sufi'ered many hardships under Cromwell.
His son, by his second marriage, was created Duke of Ha- milton, in con-equence of his marrying the heiress of that family. For him see title Brandon, vol. i. p. 511.
My Lord Marquis surviving all our intestine commotions, which were not a few, the detail of which I need not at this time entrr into ; he at last gave way to fate in a good advanced age, in the spring of the year itiuO "
James succeeded his grandfather in tie honour ; he was sworn one of tlie privy-council to King Charles IL about 1670,
h Mr. Simson's Esiay oji the family of Douglas.
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and so continued to two succeeding Kings, for the space of thirty years, even to his death. He mariied, hrst, Barbara, daughter of John, Earl of Mar, by whom he had a son,
James Lord Angus, a very brave youth, who engaging early in the wars, signalized his courage upon every occasion that offered itself, especially at the battle ofStenkirk, where he was unfortunately slain, August 3d, 1692, in his twenty-first year, generally lamented, being a nobleman of great hopes and expec- tations, and would have been an honour and ornament to his country, had not an untimely death too soon deprived his illus- trious family of the great advantages it might have reaped by his enjoyment of a longer life.
His Lordship married to his second wife, Mary, daughter of Robert, Marquis of Lothian, by whom he had Archibald, his son and heir.
And a daughter. Lady Jane, married to John Stewart, Esq. afterwards Sir Jolin Stewart, of Grandtully, Bart, by whom she had two SOUS) first, Archibald, now Lord Douglas; second^ Sholto, who died young.
He departed this mortal life in a most christian manner, and with an entire resignation to the will of the Creator, on February 25th, 1700, at the age of fifty-four, and was interred at Douglas without any funeral solemnity.
Archibald, twelfth Earl of Douglas, created Duke of Douglas, a young nobleman of great hopes, succeeded his father at six years old j and her Majesty Queen Anne was pleased, in the ninth year of his age, to augment his Lordship's honours by creating h\m Duke of Douglas, on April 18th, 1/03. The rea- sons for bestowing" the honour upon him, are thus set forth in the preamble to his patent.
Quod nos in Regio nostro animo revoiventes fidelissimum et dilectissimum nostrum Consanguineum Archibaldum Marchionem de Douglass, ex familia nobili et illustri ortum esse, et a progeni- toribus qui maximae fiduciae munia illis concredita immaculata virtute et singulari fide obierunt, quique ob res ab illis clarissims gestisj Regium diadema tuendo et sustentando summis honoris ct dignitatis titulis per nostros Regies predecessores exornati fuerunt: nos quoque hujus maxime memores et cupidae per ulteriorem ho- noris additionem dictum Archibaldum Marchionem de Douglass ejusque heredibus masculis ipsius corporis, sibi animum addere,
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ut nobiles suos predecessores imitetiir ; Noveritis igitur nos fecisse, constituisse, creasse et inaugurasse Archibaldum Marchionem de Douglass Ducem de Douglass, Marchionem de Angus et Aber- nethy, Vicecomitem de Jedburgh Forrest Dominum Douglass ds Bonckle, Prestoun, et Robertoun.
His Grace married Margaret, daughter of James Douglas, of Mains, Esq. a cadet of the house of Morton ; but died without issue, July 21st, 176I ; having for many years before led a re- tired life.
On September gth, 176I, Archibald Stewart, Esq. only sur- viving son of his sister Lady Jane, was returned heir of line and provision to his uncle Archibald, Duke of Dougla'-:, but the Duke of Hamilton disputed this returuj on the ground of this birth being supposititious ; and the courts of Scotland determined in Hamilton's favour. An appeal was made to the House of Lords f and the judgment of the Scotch courts was reversed in January, 1769. This cause (known so well by the name of the Douglas Cause) made a noise all over Europe, and is one of the most ex- traordinary that ever was litigated.
Mr. Stewart' became thus entitled to the estates and name of
j Nisbet, in his Heraldry, vol. ii. Appendix, p. 152, has given the follow. ing account of the SieivartsofGrandtully.
" The ancestor of the house oi Graiidtully, from undeniable vouchers that are lying before the author of this memorial at the writing of this paper, and which may be depended on, was
Alexander Stewart, third son of Sir John Stewart, of Innermeth and Lorn, brother to Robert, first Lord Lorn, and to Sir James Stewart, called the Black Knight of Lorn, the ancestor of the first race of tlie Stewarts, Earls of Athol. This is clearly vouched from a charter belonging to Sir George Stewart, of GrandtuUy, Bart, and now in my hands, granted by " Joannis de Haia dominus de Tullibothy, dilecto suo Alexandre Stuan filio nobilis viri Joannis Stuart, militis, Domini de Lorn, de omnibus terris .-uis dc Banchory, cum suis pertinentiis, jacen. infra vicecomitatum de Clackmanan, pro patrimonio inter pricdictum Alexandrum et Margaretam sonorem mcam, fideliter contrahendo et completando." The charter proceeds upon the resig- nation of Christian More,domiiia Bruntshiel, in her pure viduity, and bears date at Tillibody the 15th of July of the year 1416.* Thi:> deed is r.itilieil and confirmed by Robert, Duke Albany, Earl of Fife and Moiueith, governor of Scotlanil in the minority of James I . He ratifies, " donatioiicm illam et con-
* Charta penes Dominum Georgium Stuart dc Gairntully, Baronetum. Marked, No- 1, in the inventory of his writs.
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Douglas, and wns created a British Peer by the title of Lord Douglas of Douglas Castle, July pth, 1/90.
sessionem quam quondam consatiguineus noster Joannis de Haia de Tilli- bothy fecit ct concessit Alexandre Senescalli ( Stewart j filii dilecti consan- guinei nostri Joannis Senescalli de Lorn militis.'' The charter has the Dukt Regent's great seal, the seal of his office, appended to it, and bears date at Falkland the 19th of June, 1419.*
This Alexander Stewart, of Banchory, third son to Sir John Stewart, of Lorn, the first of the house of Grandtully by the aforesaid Margaret his wife, daughter of John Hay, of Tillibody, and sister to John Hay, of Tillibody, had a son, f
Thomas Stewart, of Banchory and Grandtully. liis heir and successor, who by his wife, daughter of , had a son Alexander-
This Thomas comes tobedesigned of Grandtully, for there is in the public registers a charter under the great seal, Thomas Stuart de Gairntully, of a part of the lands of Conirie in the year 1452. % This same Thomas Stewart is substitute in an entail of the estate of the Lord Lorn, and is designed his consanguineus : for vouching this, there is a charter under the great seal by King James IL dilecto consanguinco suo Joanni Domini Lorn, of 'the estate and lordship of Lorn, and to tlie heirs male of his body; vvhich failing, to Allan Stewart, his brother; which failing, to William Stewart, his uncle; ■jvhicli failing. Domino Jacobo Stuart militi ; which failing, Thomx Stuart consanguineo suo, who is the same Thomas Stewart of Grandtully, and to the heirs male of their bodies respective, of the whole estate and lordship of Lorn, in the 1452 aforesaid ; and that very same year, :45:, there is, we say, a charter under the great seal in the public records, ^ i homoe Stuart de Gairn- tully, of the half of the lands of Comrie which formerly belonged to Angus Menzies, and were resigned by him. This Thomas Stewart, of Grandtully, son and heir of Alexander Stewart, of Banchory, who was a son of Sir John Stewart, of Lorn, the second line and succession of the house of Grandtully. By Agnes, daughter of Sir William Murray, of Tullebardin, his wife, he had a son,
Alexander Stev/art, of Grandtully, the third in the line and succes- sion of the family. This is vouched and instructed from a deed in the custody of Sir George Stewart, of Grandtully, which I have seen, whereby Alexander Stewart, of Grandtully, is served and retoured heir in special to the deceased Thomas Stewart, of Grandtully, his father, in the lands of Ban- chory, lying within the sheriffdom of Clackmanan, and is of the date the
* Charter in the hands of Sir George Stewart I have seen in the writing this memorial.
+ I have seen a charter, in the custody of the Countess of Errol, by Joannis de Haia de Tilibothy, Joannis de Logy domini ejusdem, in ij68, the father of this John de Hain in 1419
X In the registers of the great seal in the archives.
^ Charter under the great seal in the public archives to Thomas Stewart, of Grandtully.
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His Lordship married, in June 177 1j Lucy, sister to the pre- sent Duke, and only daughter of William, fifth Marquis and
14th of June of the year 146z.ll This Alexander Stewart, of Gvandtully9 married Matilda Stewart, sister to Andrew Lord Evandale, and grandchild to Murdoch Duke of Albany, by James his son. 5 There is in the custody of Sir George Stewart, of GrandtuUy, and lying before me at the drawing up of this memorial, a charter granted by Alexander Earl of Huntley, as superior of the lands of Tillebody, " dilecto consanguineo suo Alexandre Stuart de Gairntully et Matildas Stuart sponsas sua?," of the lands of Banchrys, "in vicecomitatu de Clackmanan :" the charter is dated at Badenoch the i6th July, anno 1469. * By the foresaid Matilda, his wife, he had a son, who was his heir, viz.
Thomas Stewart, of GrandtuUy, who was served and retoured heir in special to the deceased Alexander Stewart, of GrandtuUy, his father, in the lands of Banchrys, pursuant to a precept forth of the Chancery, dated the 20th of January, 1488, still extant in the custody of Sir George Stewart, Bart, which I have seen and perused •
This Thomas Stewart, of GrandtuUy, married Agnes, daughter to Sir William Murray, and sister to another Sir William Murray, of Tullibardin, ancestor to his Grace the present Duke of Athol, t by whom he had only one daughter,
Elizabeth Stewart, his sole heir: she is designed Elizabetha Stuart Domina de Gairntully, when in the year 1532, she gives a charter, with con- sent of Thomas Stewart, of GrandtuUy, her husband, out of the lands of Banchory, to Alexander Shaw, of Sauchie, the original of which I have seen in the custody of Sir John Shaw, of Greenock and Sauchie, Bart,
This Lady, Elizabeth Stewart, of GrandtuUy, by the aforesaid Thomas Stewart, her husband, had a son,
Thomas Stewart, whom she calls filius suus et hteres apparens, whea she dispones him the fee of several parts of her estate, which is confirmed by a charter under the great seal in the public registers ; but he dying without issue, and his mother quickly thereafter, she was succeeded in the point of the succession of the house of GrandtuUy by hercousin-german,
Thomas Stewart, of GrandtuUy. 1 his is instructed incontrovertibly by a precept out of the Chancery, for serving and retouring of Thomas Stewart de Gairntully in the lands of Banchory, " tanquam legitimus et propinquior haeres quondam Elizabethas Stuart, filias et hseredis quondam Thomas Stuart de Gairntull, fili^ patrui sui." This is of the date the 10th of February,
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This Thomas Stewart, of GrandtuUy, so succeeding his cousin-german,
I! Service as heir to Thomas Stewart, of GrandtuUy, his father. 5 Historical deduction of the descendants of Murdoch, Duke of Albany. jXISS. penes me,
* Charter penes D. Georgius Stuart, Bart.
f Ibidem ad annum 1525, which I have seen.
t Charta penes D. G. S. do GairntuUj.
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second Duke of Montrose, b}' whom (who died February I3tli, ^779) he had issue three sons, •
First, Archibald.
Second, Charles.
married Elizabetli Stewart, daughter of John, the second of that line of th« Earls of Atlio', ^ and dying in the year 1575, left issue
Sir Thomas Stewart, of GrandtuUy, his eldest son and heir, who was one of the gentlemen of the bed-chamber to his Majesty King James VI- * He marriel Grisse!, daughter of Sir Laurence Mercer, of Aldie and Moncloar, as appears from several dilfcrent deeds I have seen in the hands of Sir George Stewart, of GrandtuUy ; but he died wi;hout issue, and was succeeded by his brother,
Sir William Stewart, who was from Kn youth bred up at the court of King James, before his accession to the crown of England. He was first de- signed of Banchiy, lands which he acquired from Sir Thomas Stewart, of GrandtuUy, his brotb.er-germain. He had the honour to be attending on the King his master from the palace of Falkland to the town of Perth, on the memorable 5th day of August 1600, when John Earl of Gowrie, and Mr. Alexander Ruthven, his brother, attempted to embrue their hands in the sacred blood of their sovereign. In his Majesty's happy preservation, Sir William Stewart, of Banchory, v/as eminently instrumental, + which his Ma- jesty King Charles I. had the goodness fully to set forth in the narrative and preamble of a charter to him of his estate, under the great seal, in the public records, in the year 1637, which I have se^n.
Sir WiUiam Stewart, of Banchory, went to England with the King, who soon thereafter promoted him to be one of the gentlemen of his Majesty's bed-chamber; and getting into a high degree of confidence and favour, he came cjuickly to acquire the lands and barony of Strathbrand, from whence he took his designation, and is so designed, and gentleman of our sovereign lord's chamber in if 00, in several charters of lands under the great seal in the public archives which 1 have seen. He succeeded his elder brother. Sir Thomas, in the estate of GrandtuUy, and continued in high favour with King James till his death in t'ae year 1625. Sir William Stewart, of GairntuUy, was no less esteemed by his Majesty King Charles, than he had been by his father King James; for he continued him in the bed-chamber, and always treated him with peculiar and distinguishing marks of his royal favour: witness the charter he had from the crown of his estate in 1657, wherein his long and faithful surviccs arc very remarkably taken notice of and set forth.
He married Agnes MoncricfF, daughter of Sir John Moncricf of that ilk, a very ancient family in the shire of Perth, by Joan h.is wife, daughter of Mr.
^ Charta in publicis archivis ad annum 1552, and the Lord Ochiltree's Collcctinns, MSS. penes me.
• Grant to him in the records of the great seal and so designed.
f This is vouclied both from v.rits I have seen in Gaivntully's hands, and nom several ch:irtcri and documents in the public rccordi.
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And, third, William^ born March 2d, 1773, who died Fe- bruary 10th, 178O,
And one daughter, Jane Margaret ; married, November 22d, 1804, Henry James, Lord Montagu, second son of Henry, Duke ofBuccleuch, K, G.
John Spence, of CondiC; lord advocate to Queen Mary and King James VI.* by whom he had four sons, viz.
First, Sir Thomas Stewart, of Grandtully, his eldest son.
Second, Sir William Stewart, of Innernytie, who married •
Crichton, co-heiress of Innernytie, and had issue John Stewart, of Inner- nytie, his son and heir; John Stewart, of Innernytie, who married Mary, daughterof Sir James Mercer, of Aldie, and had one daughter, Anne, married to David Viscount Stormont.
Thiid, James Stewart, of Ludd, whose male issue is failed, but of an heir female of him is come, and descended the Menzieses of Culdare, &c-
Fourth, Mr- Henry Stewart, advocate, the paternal ancestor of Sir George Stewart, of Grandtully, Bart.
Sir Thomas Stewart, of Grandtully, succeeded his father, Sir William, in his great and opulent estate; he married Grissel, daughter of Sir Alexander Menzies, of Weem, (son of Sir James Me.izies, of Weem. and Dame Barbara Stewart, his wife, daughterof John Earl ot Athol; by Dame Margaret Camp- bell, daughter and coheir of Alexander, of Carcko, Bishop of Brechin, brother to Sir James Campbell, of Ardkiulas, by Helen, his wife, daughterof George Clephan, of Carslogie, by whom he had John Stewart, his son and heir, and eight daughters.
First, Jean, married to Colonel Sir James Mercer, of Aldie, and had issue.
Second, Margery, to David Fotheringham, son and heir apparent of Mr. John Fotheringham, of Powrie, and liad issue
Third, Grissel, to Sir John Drunimond, of Logic Almond, second son t» John, second Earl of Perth, and had issue.
Fourth, Anne, to James Seaton, of Touch, and had only one daughter, who was married to James Moir, of Leckie, and had issue.
Fifth, Cecil, was married to Stewart, of Arntillie, but had nc
issue.
Sixth, Margaret, to Campbell, son to Campbell, of
Lawers, and had ijsue.
Seventh, Helen, to James Crichton, of Ruthven, and had i^^nic
Eighth, Elizabeth, to David, the second Lord Newark, and had issue.
John Stewart, of Grandtully, son and heir of Sir Thonuu Stewart, of Grandtully, succeeded his father. He was a fine gentleman and a great en- courager and promoter of learning, and a kind and bountiful patron of Teamed men. He died a bachelor en the 5th of March, 1 7Zo ; upon whose demise,
John Stewart of Innernytie, his heir male, by virtueof the investitures of the estate, would have succeeded to the estate of Grandtully; but he being at- tainted of high treason by an act of the parliament of Great Britain, for his accession to the rebellion in 1715, Grandtully upon that made a settlement of
• PcncB Sir George Stewart.
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His Lordship married, secondly. May 13th, 1/83, Lady Frances Scott, sister to the present Duke of Buccleuch, Knight of the Garter, by whom he has issue
Four sons and two daughters.
His Lordship is lord lieutenant and hereditary sheriff of For- farshire.
Title. Archibald Douglas, Lord Douglas of Douglas.
Creation. By patent July 9th, IJQO.
Arms. Four coats <}uarterly5 6rsr, azure, a lion rampant, crowned with an imperial crown, or : second, or, a lion rampant;, gules, surmounted of a ribbon, sable : third, or, a fesse cheque, azure and argent, surmounted of a bend, sable, charged with live
his estate upon certain heirs of entail ; in virtue of which, there being no heir male existing of ]nnernytie"s body, nor of any other collateral heir male nearer than Sir George Stewart, of Baicaskie, Bart, he accordingly succeeded to the estate of Grandiully on his cousin's death in the year 1720 afore- said.
Sir George Stewart, of Grandtully's ancestor, was Mr. Henry Stewart, advocate, fourth and youngest son of Sir William Stewart, of Grandtully, by Dame Agnes Moncrief, liis lady aforesaid : being a younger brother he was bred to the law, and was an advocate before the court of session. He mar- ried Mary, daughter of John Campbell, of Abernchill, second son of Sir James Campbell, of Lavvers, and uncle to John, first Earl of Loudon, who was lord high chancellor in the reign of King Charles I. and II. by whom he had issue
Sir Thomas Stewart, of Baicaskie, his son and heir.
And a daughter, Margery, who was married to William Bovthwick, of Pilmuir, grandfather to Henry, Lord Borthwick.
Sir Thomas Stewart, of Baicaskie, being also bred to the law, was pro- moted to be one of the senators of the college of justice, and by letters patent, bearing date the id of January, 1683, he was created a Baronet. He married Lady Jane Mackenzie, daughter of George Viscount of Taibct, and after Earl of Cromarty, lord register in the icigns of King James VII. and King Wil- liam, and justice-general and secretary of state in the reign of Queen Anne, by whom he had two sons,
The foresaid Sir George Stewart of Baicaskie, who succeeded by virtue of the said entail to the estate of Grandtully, as is heretofore remarked in the memorial.
And Colonel John Stewart, the second son, who married his first cousin, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir James Mackenzie, of Royston, Bart, one of the senators of the college of justice, and has a son, John Stewart.
Which Sir George Stewart, now of Grandtully, Bart, is married with Dame Agnes Cockburn, daughter of Sir Archibald Cockburn, of Langton, Bart." NiiLet's Hernldry,ut suj>ra.
Colonel John Stewart, the second son here mentioned, who afterwards succeeded to the Baronetage, married, secondly. Lady Jane Douglas, above- mentioned, and was father by her of the present Lord Douclas.
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buckles, or : fourth, argent, three piles, gules, over all in a shield of pretence, argent, a heart, gules, ensigned with an imperial crown, or, on a chief, azure, three mullets of the first : the third and fourth quarters to be transposed.
Crest. On a chapeau azure, a salamander vomiting fire.
Supporters. On the dexter, a savage, wreathed about the loins with laurel, and on the sinister a stag proper, all within a com- partment of stakes impaled.
Motto. Jamais Arrieke.
Chief Seat, Douglas castle, Lanarkshire.
LORD GAGE.
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GAGE, LORD GAGE.
fVIS COUNT GAGE JN IRELAND.;
This noble family is of Norman extraction, and derives its de- scent from^* de Gaga or Gage, who accompanied William Duke of Normandy, in his expedition into England, and after the con- quest thereof was rewarded by him with large grants of lands in the forest of Dean, and county of Gloucester] adjacent to which forest, he fixed his residence, by building a seat at Clerenwell, otherwise Clureweli, in the same parish ; he also built a large house in the town of Cirencester, where he died, and was buried in that abbey ; and his posterity remained in that county, for many generations, in credit and esteem, one whereof in the reign of Edw. III. was member of parliament for Tavistock, and another for Basingstoke in the time of Hen. IV.
The direct ancestor of the present Lord Gage, was John Gage, Esq. mentioned in deeds, Q Hen. IV. whose son
John married Joan, daughter and coheir of John Sudgrove, of Sudgrove in Gloucester, who^ in 141 6, 4 Hen, V. gave to John Gage, Esq. and Joan his wife, as also to John Bovey, and Alice his wife (theother daughter and coheir of the said John Sudgrove), all his lands and tenements in Musarder and Sudgrove in the said parish in com. Gloucester, which Joan surviving her husband, did with John Gage her son, in l6 Hen. VI. '^ settle lands and tenements in Cirencester, Nether Sidington, Musarder, and Brimsfield, in com. Gloucester, on William, Lord Lovell, Sir ^^'■ilIiam Tresh^nn, and others.
K Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, vol. Hi. ]). 2S6.
b Ex Chart, in Stemm. hujus familice-
Chart. 10 Aug. 16 Hen. VI. in Stcinin. predict.
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John Gage (the son) in 32 Hen, VI. purchased the lands, that were John Bovey's in Cirencester, Musarder, Sidington, and Brimsfield j and made a further addition to his estate, by his mar- riage with Eleanor, daughter and heir of Thomas St. Clere, Esq. lord of the manors of Aston-Clinton in com. Bucks, and of Off- spring in Kent, son of Sir Philip St. Clere, of Aldham St. Clere in Kent, by Margaret, daughter of Sir Nicholas de Lovayn, Knt. lord of the manor of Burstow, or Bristow, and Hedge-court, in com. Surrey, 44 Edw. III. '^ sister and heir of Nicholas de Lo- vayn, Lord of Penshurst in Kent, and widow of Richard Cham- berlayn, of Sherburn in com, Oxon, Esq. This John Gage, re- ceived the honour of knighthood, and departed this life on the 30th of September, 20 Edw, IV. leaving two sons, William, and John ancestor to the Gages, of Rushton in com, Northamp.
William Gage, the eldest son, was thirty years old at his father's decease ; he married Agnes, daughter of Thomas Bolney, Esq. and resided at Bristow in Surrey, as appears by his last will and testament^ dated there February 14th, 14QQ, in 12 Hen. VII. which was proved October 24th following, ^ wherein he orders his body to be buried in the church of the Grey Friars in London, next unto the sepulchre of William Chamberlayn, Esq. and be- queaths to the said church, for his sepulture, there to be had, and to the intent that the brethren thereof fetch his body to the earth, and sing a trental for his soul, xl^.
" He, moreover, bequeaths to the church of Bristow in Surrey, for his tythes forgotten, or negligently with-holden in discha-ge of his soul, xx^. ; to the church of St, Ellyn's in London vi^-. v'md.; and the same sum to the ladies of the priory there, to be parted among them ; as also the like legacies to Sir John Dampsell, Sir John Lystre, and Sir Robert Water, prit-sts." He was likewise bountiful to his servants, and a loving husband to his wife ; ior, " he bequeaths her all his goods, &c. after his debts are paid, and costs of burial discharged, and that she should, during her life, enjoy the manors of Heyton, Sinclere, and Torring, with the ap- purtenances in Sussex , as also the manors of Bristow, and Hedge- court in the county of Surrey, and have the custody and rule of John Gage, his son and heir, during his non-age 5 on which ac- count, she should receive the profits and revenues of all his other manors, lands, and tenements, in the counties of Surrey, Bucks,
d riiilipot's Villare Cantianum. c Ex Rcgist. votat. Morn, qu, 10 in Cur. Prerog Cant.
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and Kent, she finding the said John, honestly and competently, with meat, drink and rayment."
Which John Gage distinguished himself in a very extraordi- nary manner, both in a military and civil capacity, and became one of the most famous men of the age he Jived in ; whose great services are thus set forth in an ancient manuscript written by his third son, Robert Gage, of Haling in Surry, viz.
"^ Sir John Gage, Knt. was, after his father's death, in ward to W. Stafford, Duke of Buckingham; and, after his marriage, to my mother, daughter of Sir Richard Guldeford, was preferred by the said Duke to King Henry Vlllth's service j and distin- guishing himself at the seige of Tervon, *" was thereupon made captain of the castle of Calais (usually called Guysnes) ; shortly- after, was sent for home and knighted, and made of the privy- council, vice-chamberlain, and captain of the guards 5 few years after, for services done on the borders of Scotland, at his return was made comptroller of the household, and chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in one day. In a few days after, he was made constable of the Tower of London, and the next, St. George's feast, Knight of the most noble order of the Garter; at the winning of Bullogne (36 Hen. VIIL) he was in joint com- mission with Charles Duke of Suffolk, lord lieutenant of his Ma- jesty's camp, and for sundry services there with Sir Anthony Brown, Knight, master of the horse, was made general-captain of the bands of horsemen. After the death of our sovereign lord. King Edward VL at the coming of Queen Mary, was made her lord chamberlain. Thus having served in all these rooms and offices, truly, faithfully, and painfully, from the first year of the reign of our sovereign lord. Hen. VHI. of famous memory, unto the fifth year of Queen Mary, untouched with any reproach, or unfaithful service, at this time, being seventy-seven years of age, he ended his life in favour with his Prince, at his own house, at Firle in Sussex."
Whilst he was captain of Gui-nes, 5 he performed many valiant deeds in skirmishes, &c. ai-.d in 21 Hen. VIIL had for his services a grant of the wardship, '■ and marriage of William Bayn- ham, son and heir of John Baynham, of Clowcrwall in Glouces; tershire, Esq. and the next year, being vicc-chamberlain of the
i Ex inform Hen Gage fiat. Dom. Gulicl. Gage de Heiigrave Bar.
g Hall's Chron Life of Hen. VI 1 1, fol. 123, 127,
li Bille sigiiate, 6 Mali, 2t Hen. VIH.
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household J he had a grant to him, ' and his heirs and assigns, of the manors of Borebam, Rokeland, Felton, Heldynglee, Friston, and Exset in com. Sussex ; also the manor '^ of Stewton, with the appurtenances in com. Lincoln, in which year he was one of the knights ' deputed by the parliament ; who^ with the two arch- bishops, and the principal nobility and clergy of the realm, signed that memorable letter to Pope Clement VIL desiring his Holi- ness to comply with the King in his divorce, threatening, that if he refused (considering the two universities of England, the uni- versity of Paris, as well as many others in France, and what almost all men of learning, l<nowledge, and integrity, both at home and abroad, have deteraained to be true, and are ready to defend in their discourse and writings) they can make no other construc- tion of it, but that the care of themselves is committed to their own hands, and that they are left to seek their remedy elsewhere. In 29 Hen. VHL he was summoned, am.ong those of the court, to be present at the christening of Prince Edward"' at Hampton Court. In 31 Hen. VIII. he had, for his good services, " a grant of the manor of Aciiston in Sussex ; and the following year, being comptroller of the household, '' was also constituted constable of the Tower of London, with a fee of 100/. per ann. during his life 3 likewise, on the 22d of May, installed one of the knights companions of the most noble order of the garter ; in which year he was also appointed chief steward of all the honours, castles, manors, &c. in com. Sussex, forfeited by the attainder of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, with power to appoint a deputy, and the same day and year had a grant of the stewardship of all the liberties, privileges, and franchises of the Archbishop of Canter- bury, and of all and singular lordships, manors, lands, &c. of the said archbishop, during the minority of Henry, Lord Bergavenny. In 1' 34 Hen. VIII. he was a principal commander in the expe- dition made into Scotland : and the monastery of Combewell, alias Corawell, with the possessions thereunto belonging, in com. Kent, 1 was granted to him for his services j and in the following year the King authorises Sir John Gage, comptroller of bis house- hold, to keep and retain, in his service, from time to time, forty
i Billesignatc, 12 April, 22 Hen. VIII.
'- Ibid, zj Juiiii. 1 Rymer's Facd. torn. xiv. i\ 407.
ra Sfrypc's Memorials, vol ii- p. 5.
n Bille signate, i.j Feb. 31 Hen. VIII.
♦ Pat. 3; Hen VIII. p. 3. i' Hall's Chion. fol. 254 b-
n Privit. Sigil 26 .^pvil, 24 Hen, Vll I.
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persons over and above his usual attendance. ■■ He was then em- ployed as one of the ambassadors for concluding a peace with Scotland;^ which was brought to an end, the 1st day of October 1542, at Newcastle} thereupon he was soon after, in two com- missions with the Lord Audley, Lord Chancellor ; Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, Lord Treasurer j Stephen, Bishop of Winchester; Thomas, Bishop of Westminster 5 and William, Lord St. John j the one, for redeeming and ransoming prisoners between England and Scotland ; the other, for concluding ' a treaty of marriage between his son, Prince Edward and Mary, the Scotch Queen.
He was much in tavour with King Henry VIIL who shewed his esteem of him, in causing his picture to be drawn (among others his warriors and favourites) by the famous Hans Holbein,^' to adorn his court gallery, which yet remains in the possession of the crown. His M?.jesty also left him a legacy of 200/. in his last testament, and therein appointed him, ^ with the Earls of Arundel, Essex, &:c. to be of the council, and aiding and a«sistino- to his executors and his son. Prince Edward, for the good estate and prosperity of the realm.
In the .3 Edw. VL he subscribed the proclamation against the Duke of Somersetj the Protector; and in the same reign, his style among the Knights of the Garter >' was, " Du tres valiant Chr. Mons. John Gage, Conestable de la Tov.tc de Londres, et Chr. de I'ordre de la jarritierre."
In 1 Mary, upon Sir Thomas Wyatt's rebellion, Sir John Gage, Lord Chamberlain, ''' stood at Charing Cross with the guard, ?nd others, to the number of a thousand men, in order to oppose Wyatt's passing that way to the city, and some shot were exchanged between the parties ; yet Wyatt proceeded to Ludcrate ; where, being refused admittance, he endeavoured to return to Westminster, but at Temple Ear was again attacked by some horsemen (who had before engaged him) and taken prisoner. In 1 and 2 Philip and Mary, his style among the Knights of the Garter, was, " Du tres valiant Mess. John Gage Chr. du tres noble ordre de la jarritiere, chamblayne de la maison de la royne lire soveraigne et Constable de la Tours de Londres."
He continued to be lord chamberlain of the household, and
r Privit. Sigil. 22 Mail, 35 Hen. VIII.
& Rymer's Feed, torn- xiv. p. y'i6. t Ibid- p. 792.
n See it engraved in the Holbein Heads by Chambcrlaine.
>■ Rymer's Foe.l, tom.xv. p. 177.
' E. Lib MS. devit. Mil. Cart, in Museo Ashmole nct.^t. iiiS.
2 Stow's Annal'j, p 621.
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constable of the Tower of London, till his death ; and, though in a very advanced age, retained a sound judgment to the last, as his testament shews, which bears date ^ February 20th, 1555, and the probate thereof, June 10 following; wherein, "^ He wills his body to be l>uried in the parish church of West Firle (near unto the place where his wife lieth), with such moderate funeral ex- pences, as are used for personages of his calling and degree ; also, thatxU. be distributed in alms to poor people, that shall come thither, by vid. doles, and xk. to xl. parishes ; for the pay- ment whereof, he orders his executors to sell his collar of gold, of the order of the garter ; but his blue mantle of the order he pre- lents to the college of Windsor.
He further wills; that the profits, and revenues of the par- sonage of Asch am in com. Salop, of the yearly value ofxi/. vs. should be applied (except i v /. per ann. which he gives to the vicar) for the maintenance of a chantry in West Firle for evermore, charging his executors to prepare a convenient and decent place in the church for that end, and find a priest to minister divine service for evermore, and principally for the Queen's Highness; and for her most noble progenitors, heirs, and successors, and then for him the slid Sir John Gage, and Philippa, his wife; his ancestors, and all Christian souls ; which chantry priest and his successors, being obedient and serviceable to his heirs and suc- cessors, should have meat, drink, and lodging, in his mansion- house of West Firle.
" He moreover wills, that the parson of the parish church of Crabhouse in Xorfolk, should have the tythe of a certain field, califd Peterfield, part of the said domains of Crabhouse; the said parson, or Vicar, and their successors, praying for him by name, in ihcir parish church, at high mass time, every Sunday for evermore.
" Hfe bequeaths many legacies to his servants, and appoints Edward Ga^je, his son and heir, and John Carrdl, Esq. executors, giving to the former all his plate, jewels, ready money, goods. Sec. in full trust and confidence, that he maintain and leave the same to John Gage his son, and heir apparent ; or, if he die before hini, to such his heir male as sliall f^njoy his mansion house at Firle, that he may thereby be able with the said stock, furniture of his house, and revenue of his lands, to maintain, and keep hospita- lity ; without which stock and store of household stuft (a sche-
z Ex legist, vocat. Kitchin qu. 9
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dule whereof is annexed) he fears they will be greatly hindered in their living, and not able to furnish his house without danger of decay, the which he charges his said son, Edward Gage, always to provide for, and foresee^ as his trust and hope has always been in him."
This Sir John was buried (according to his desire) at West Firle, April 28th, 1557; ^"d, by (he order of his said son Ed- ward, a goodly tomb of jasper stone and marble, is erected to hi$ memory, and thereon the etfigies in full proportion, of a Knight of the Garter in armour, in his collar of SS's and George ; as also his Lady, in the dress of the times, both lying on their backs, with their hands elevated ; at his feet a ram ; at her's the crest of her family, and against them, on a brass plate in the wall, under their arms, in a garter, is this inscription in Roman capitals :
Hie jacet Johannes Gage preclari Ordinis Garterii miles, quondam constabularius Turris London : Cancellarius Du- catus Lancastrie, Dominus Camerarius Hospicii Kegine Marie, ac unus de private Concilio ejusdem Regine; et Philipa uxor ejus, qui obierunt anno Dni. 1557. Quorum Animabus propitietur Deus.
And round the verge of the tomb is as follows :
Scio quod Redemptor mens vivit, et in novissimo die de terra surrecturus sum, et rursum circundabor pelle mea, et in carne mea videbor Deura Salvatoiem meum.
Quem visurus sum ego ipse, et oculi mei conspecturi sunt, et non alius, reposita est haec spes mea in sinu meo. Job, cap. xix. ver. 25.
This Sir John Gage had, by the said Philippa, his wife, who was daughter to Sir Richard Guldeford, one of the Knights of the Garter, four sons, Edward, James, Robert, and William ; like- wise four daughters, Alice, married to Sir Anthony Browne, Knight of the Garter, (ancestor to the present Viscount Montagu) ; Anne, wife to John Thatcher the elder, of Priestshaw's in Sussex,
Esq. ; , wife of Jennings ; and , married
to V'/iliiam Baynam, in Clowerwall in com. Glouc. Esquires.
Of Edward Gage, the eldest, I shall treat hereafter.
James, the second son, was seated at Bentlcy in Sussex, whose descendants flourished also at Wormsley in com. Hertford.
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Robert Gage, the third son, was seated at Haling in Surrey, and left two sons, Robert, who died in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, for the cause of Mary Queen of Scots 5 and John Gage, ^ of Haling, Esq. father (among others) to the fimous Colonel Sir Henry Gage, Knt. who, during the rebellion in the reign of King Charles I. was governor of Oxford, and twice relieved Basing House, fight- ing his way through the enemy with notable advantage, but in the end was unfortunately killed at CuUum bridge, January 7th, 1644, aged forty-seven years, being shot through the heart with a musket ball : Lord Clarendon gives this character of him ; "■ He was, in truth, a very extraordinary man, of a large and very grace- ful person, of an honourable extraction ; his grandfather (his great grandfather it should be) having been Knight of the Garter: besides his great abilities and experience as a soldier, which were very eminent, he had very great parts of breeding, being a very good scholar in the polite parts of learning ; a great master in the Spanish and Italian tongues, besides the French and the Dutch, which he spoke in great perfection, having scarce been in Eng- land in twenty years before. He was likewise very conversant in courts, having for many years been much esteemed in that of the Archduke and Duchess Albert, and Isabella at Brussels, which was a great and very regular court at that time 3 so that he de- served to be looked upon as a wise and accomplished person. Of this gentleman, the lords of the council had a singular esteem, and consulted frequently with him, whilst they looked to be be- sieged, and thought Oxford to be the more secure, for his being in it. The King sustained a wonderful loss in his death, he being a man of great wisdom and temper, and one, among the very few soldiers, who made himself to be universally loved and esteemed." He was bmied in Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford, being at- tended to the grave '^ by Prince Rupert, the Duke of Richmond, the lord treasurer, the lord chamberlain, secretaries, comptroller, the lords of the privy-council, and most of the nobility and gentry in Oxford, and most of the great commanders, with the vice-chancellor and mayor of Oxford, with their several trains, the heralds at arms, &c. with this inscription over him : ^-^
a Of this blanch was Thomas Gage the author of The Sin-vey of the West Indies, 1648. See Censura Literaria, vol iv. p. 265, Sec.
b Life of Sir Henry Gage, Kniglit, 410. p. 20, where see the liistoiy of the life and actions of this great man at large.
^ Le Neve's Monunienta Anglicana, vol. i. p. 217,
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P. M. S.
Hie situs est Militiun Chiliarcha
Henricus Gage, Eques Auralus, f'iliiis ac
Haeres Johaniiis Gage de Haling, in Agro
Suriensi Armigeri, pronepos Joli'is Gage,
Honoratissimi Ordinis Pcrisct^lidis Equitis,
In Bflgio meruit supra Annus xx in
Omni Praslio et obsidione Bergbae ad
Zomam, Bred;e, ac prascipue S. iVudoraari ; ex
Belgio ad M, Britt. Regem missus attulit armorum
VII. M. Missus cum imperio Bastalii ^dcs
Expugnavit mox Basingianis praesidiariis
Coniineatu interclusis, Strenue, re jam
Desparata, Suppetias tulit. Castrum Bam-
buriense cum Northamptoniae Comite
Liberavit, hinc Equestri dignitate Or-
natus hostes denuo Basinga fugavit.
Jamque Gubernator Oxon. creatus, cum
Ad Culhiimi pontera in hostes jam tertio
Milites audacter duceret, plumbea trajectus
Glande occubuit die xi Jan, 1644.
JEiat. 4J, funis solemni luctu prosecuti principes^
Proceres, Milites, Academici, Gives Oes Dolorem
testati ex desiderio Viri, ingenio lin-
guar. peritia, gloria militari, pietate, fide &
Amore io principem, & patriam eminentissimi.
Hanc memoriae Epitomen, posuit illi pietas moer. lug. qj fratris
Georgii Gage.
On a small stone under the monument : Sterna Caducis
praepone.
The fourth son of Sir John, was William, who died without issue.
Sir Edward Gage, before-mentioned, the eldest son and heir of Sir John, was made one of the Knights of the Bath by Queen Mary, in the life-time of his father. He was a pious, sober, ju- dicious gentleman, as appears by bis last will made at Firle, De- cember l~th, 156Q, when he was in perfect health j and he lived upwards of two years after.
By which testament, " He bequeaths his body to be buried
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in the parish church of Firle, and that two-penny doles be distri- buted to such poor people as would resort to his burial ; also, that his executors cause several sums of money, therein named, to be given to poor householders of many adjoining parishes.
" He further wills, that his executors provide a decent stone to be laid on his good father and mother, with the pictures of them and all their children, with these holy words engraven on brass, ' credo quod rederaplor raeus vivit, et in novissimo die de terra surrecturus sum, et in carne mea videbo Deum salvatorem meum,' Likewise, that they provide a decent gravestone to lie on him and his wife j all his sons to be kneeling behind him, and all his daughters behind her, with the same holy words to be engraven on brass,
" He gives to his beloved wife, Elizabeth, her dwelling in his mansion house at Firle, as long as she remains a widow, and leaves her the charge of bringing up all her children, except his heir apparent." And, forasmuch (as he words it) that God had pleased to send him a gentle and loving wife, which hath long been coupled with him; and meaning to provide as well for the better maintenance of her as for the bringing up and finding maintenance for her children, '' He leaves her several lands, all her jewels, and three chains of gold she has usually worn ; be- queathing likewise to his daughters, Margery, Lucy, and Mar- garet, every of them 500 marks at the day of their marriage, and to his daughter Phillippa, in consideration of her being the eldest, and for other reasons, 500/. and 10/. yearly, for their mainte- nance, till they receive itj also the like annuity of 10/. per ann. to his sons Anthony, Thomas, George, Edward, Richard, John, the younger, and Robert Gage, the payment whereof he orders out of the rents of his manors and lands in Heighten, Firles, Hosiers, Hollandale, Compton, Exsett, Friston, Lamporte, and Egington, or elsewhere in the county of Sussex j as also his manor of Crabhouse in Norfolk, and the lands there ; and in West Dereham, or elsewhere, in the said county, except those appointed to descend to his heir, by course of inheritance ; and excepting all such estates before bequeathed to Elizabeth his wife; which said manors, after his debts, legacies, &c. are paid, he entails on John Gage, his son and heir, and in default of issue male on his other sons, according to their seniority, and for lack of such issue of them, on James Gage, his brother j and, on default, on Robert and William Gage, his brothers; and, in default of issue male of them, to such of his son's daughters, and their issue maje.
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" The residue of all his goods, pl:ite, jewels, ready money, household stuff, &:c. he bequeaths to his eldest son, John Gage," in full trust and confidence, that he will maintain, preserve, and leave the same lo his son and heir, and, if he die, to the next heir male, that God shiU cause to succeed him and inherit his mansion house at Firle, as his good father left it him; and he with the like charge leaves it to such heir male; whereby he may be able, with the said stock and furniture of his house and land, to main- tain and keep hospitality, to serve God, his prince, and common- wealth; without the which stock, he will be greatly hindered in his living, and not like to be able to keep his house without great danger and decay, the which he charges his said son, John Gage, always to provide for and foresee, as his hope and trust is in him, *' He likewise wills and requires, and in God's name charges, his said sons and brothers, and every the heirs of their bodies, to be satisfied and contented with this his last testament, and not with- out great necessities and urgent cause to violate, infringe, or break it."
This Sir Edward Gage*^ died on the 27th of December 1568, and was buried on the 19th of January following, in the family chancel in Firle church, where an altar tomb of marble and stone is erected to his memory, according to his request 3 over which is a brass tablet, fixed in the wall with this inscription.
Hie jacet Edvardus Gage Miles, et Uxor ejus Elizabetha, qui obierunt Anno Domini 156^, '' Quorum animabus Propitietur Deus.
And round the verge,
Scio quod Redemptor meus vivit, &:c.
Elizabeth his wife was daughter of John Parker, of Willingdon in Sussex, Esq. (^by his wife Joan, daughter of Sir Richard Sack- ville, of Buckhurst in Sussex, Knight, ancestor to the present Duke of Dorset, and the Viscount Sackville) ; their issue were nine sons and six daughters, viz.
First, John, the eldest son and heir.
Second, Anthony, born June 25th, 1540, and died January 31st, 1507, without issue,
c Wotton's Baronetage, vot.i, p-^ii. 'i Ibid. vol. v. p. 387.
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Third, Thomas, born January 27th, 1541, of whom hereafter.
Fourth, George.
Fifth, Edward, born April ipth, 1549, who married Margaret, third daughter of John Shelley, of Michel-Grove in Sussex, Esq. and had a daughter, Elizabeth, married to Sir John Stradling, the first Baronet of that family.
Sixth, Richard.
Seventh, John.
Eighth, Robert.
Ninth, Henry, born October l6th, 1555.
Agnes, born January l6th, 1547, who being provided for in her father's lifetime, by marriage, on November 19th, 1566, to Edward Stradling, of St. Donat's Castle, com. Glamorgan, Esq. (but afterwards knighted) is not mentioned in her father's will. ^
Phillippa, married to Edmund Saunder, of Charlewood, in Surrey, Esq. son ' and heir of Sir Thomas Saunder of the same place, Knt.
Mary, born September the 18th, 1550, married to James I'hatcher, Esq.
Margaret, born June 5th, 1552, betrothed, November 17th, 1569, to Anthony Kemp, Esq.
Lucy, who is believed to have died unmarried ; and
Margaret, born June 1559, '^^'^ ^^'^s the wife of Henry Darell, Esq.
John Gage, Esq. the eldest son, was s thirty years old at his father's death, and heir to fifteen manors, with divers messuages, lands, &c. in the couuty of Sussex j the manors of Burstow, and Hedge Court in Surrey; also that of Crabhouse in Norfolk : he married two wives, but leaving no issue by either of them, the estates descended to his nephew John, son and heir of his brother Thomas. He lies buried among his ancestors at Firle, under an altar tomb of alabaster and marble (adjoining to that of his father), on the top whereof are the porliaitures in brass of himself in armour, between his two wives, in the dress of the times, with the before-mentioned verse, from 25th chap. Job, underneath j and over them, against the wall, this inscription in Roman capitals :
e It is probable that she died before her father, as she is omitted in his will; as also, in the Saunder pedigree, Phillippa is called the eldest daughter. t MS. pcdigiee of Saunder, penes meips. g Cole's Esch vol. v. in the British Museum.
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Hie jacet Johanes Gage, Armiger, et dure Uxores ejus, Ellzabetha et Margaretta, qui obierunt Anno Domini Milesimo quingentesimo nonagesimo quinto. Quorum Animabus propitietur Deus.
And in a niche, at the front of the tomb,
Johannes Gage, qui hie jacet, fecit haec monuraenta. Anno Domini, 15Q5.
The said Thomas Gage, his brother, was born January 27lh, 1541, married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Guldeford, Knt. and, deceasing in the year ]5Q0, was buried at Firle, as a grave stone shews, whereon are the tigures, in brass, of a gentle- man in armour, with his wife by him ; as also the effigies of a son and two daughters, infants, kneeling in a praying posture, and underneath them this memorial :
Hie jacet Thomas Gage Armiger, et Uxor Ejus Elizabetha, qui obierunt Anno Domini
Milesimo Quingentesimo Nonagesimo, qui
Habuerunt unum tilium, et duas filiasj
Quorum Animabus propitietur Deus.
His two daughters were j Mary, married to Sir Thomas Por- dage, Knt. ; and Elizabeth, to Cressacre More, of More Hall, otherwise Gobions, in Hertfoidshire, Esq, great grandson of Sir Thomas More, Chancellor of England,
Sir John Gage, the son, ^first Baronet, succeeding to the estates on the death of his uncle as above observed, was advanced to the dignity of a Baronet of England, by letters patent, bearing date March 26th, l622. He married Penelope, widow of Sir George Trenchard, of Wolverton in Dorsetshire, Knt. third daughter and (after the death of her only brother Thomas) coheir to Thomas Darcy, Earl Rivers, by Mary his wife, daughter and coheir of Sir Thomas Kitson. of Hengrave in com. Suffolk, Knt. This Lady, Penelope, was a great beauty, but seventeen years of age, when she was left a widow, and became a very great fortune ; for the lady, her mother, left her the whole inheritance of the Kitsons, and she shared (with her sisters) that of the Darcy's ; and after the death of her second husband. Sir John Gage, who departed this life.
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October 3d, 1633, and was interred with his ancestors ; she was thirdly married to Sir William Hervey, of Ickworth in Suffolk, Knt. '' but had issue only, by John Gage, viz tive daughters; whereof, Frances, was first married to Sir William Treshiim, of Rushton in Northamptonshire, Bart. 3 and, secondly, to Gi orge Gage, Esq. ; Penelope, wife of fienry Merry, of Barton in Derby- shire, Esq. ; Elizabeth, to Sir Thomas Petre, of Cranham in Essex, Knt. ; and Anne, to Henry Petre, fifth son of William, Lord Petre : also four sons ; first. Sir Thomas, his successor.
Second, John, ofStoneham in Suffolk, who died without issue.
Third, Edward, who, being made heir to his mother's inheritance at Hengrave in Suffolk, became seated there, and, having before received the honour of knighthood, was created a Baronet, July 15, 1662, and from him the Baronets of that branch are descended.
Fourth, Henry, who married Henrietta, daughter to Thomas, Lord Jermyn, cf Rushbrook, and sister and coheir to Henry Jermyn, Earl of Dover, by whom he had a daughter, Mary, who became a nun, and one son, John Gage, of Princethorp in Nor- folk, Esq.
Sir Thomas Gage, of Firle, ilw. second Baronet, eldest son and heir of Sir John, died about the year 11)55, and having wedded Mary, eldest daughter and coheir of John Chamberlain of Sher- burn in Oxfordshire, Esq. (who surviving him was re-married to Sir Henry Goring, of Burton in Sussex, Bart, where she was buried in 1604) had issue four sons and three daughters^ viz.
First, Sir Thomas his successor.
Second, Sir John, of whom presently.
Third, Henry, who died without issue.
Fourth, Joseph, of whom more particularly hereafter, as im- mediate ancestor to the present Lord Gage.
Sir Thomas Gage's daughters were, Frances, married to Sir Charles Yate, of Buckland in Berkshire, Bart. ; Mary, to Anthony- Kemp, of Slindon in Sussex, Esq.; and Catherine, to Walter, Lord Aston, of Forfar in Scotland.
li We are told this odd circumstance concerning lier marriages; tliat being at first courted by her three husbands together, who quarrelled about her, she artfully put an end to their dispute by threatening the first agt,ressor, with her everlasting displeasure ; by which means, they, not knowing whom she might choose, laid the quarrel as'dc ; and she told iheni humourously, if they would keej) the peace and have p.itiencc, she would have them ail in their turns, which happened accordingly, though so very unlikely to turn out.
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Sir Thomas Gage, third Baronet, eldest son and successor to his father, died unmarried at llomej in his travels^ November 22, 1660 3 and in the chapel of the English college there, on a white marble gravestone, is this inscription for him :
D. O. M.
Thoma; Gagio Equiti
Baronetto Anglo, Sussexiensi,
Patre, Honoribns, ac Nominibus,
Matre, Nobilitati pari,
Maria Tankervilla
Alias Chamberlana, nato;
Familiae non magis
Generis Claritate,
Quam perpetua Fidei Catholica;
Constantia Principiis
Illustris.
Qui in ipso iEtatis Flore,
Ipsoque in almam Urbem ingressu,
Deo Animam, Corpus Terrae
Inter Gives sues tradidit
XXII Novembris, Anno Domini mdclx,
Johannes Gagius, Eques
Baronettus, carissimo fratri,
Moerens posuit.
He was succeeded in dignity and estate by his next brother. Sir John Gage, fourth Baronet, who married, first, Mary, daughter of Thomas Middleraore, of Edgebaston in the county of Warwick, Esq.; and on her decease, July 28th, lOsG, mamed, secondly, Mary, daughter of Sir William, and sister of Sir Row- land Stanley, of Hooton in Cheshire, Barts. By the former, he had three sons and seven daughters : whereof only two daughters survived, and at length coheirs to their brothers, viz. Mary, mar- ried to Sir John Shelly, of Michel-Grove in Sussex, Bart, j and Bridget, wife of Thomas Beliassis, Viscount Fauconberg, and died November 18th, 1732, being grandmother to the late Earl Fauconberg. Sir John by his last wife had issue one daughter, Mary, wedded to Henry, Lord Teynham, (but she died without issue) ; likewise three sons, successively Barts. Sir John, the father, dying May 27th, 1G99, in the fifty-eighth year of hi» age, was succeeded in dignity and estate, by
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Sir John Gage, fifth Baronet, his eldest son, who survived his father but atiout eight moiiihs, dying in January y5?§, aged eight years, and was succeeded by his next brother.
Sir Thomas Gage, sixth Baronet, who, travelling in France, for his farther accomplishment, died there in October 1713, in the twentieth year of his age, and was buried at Blaye, in the pro- vince of Guyennej whereupon the title, and a great estate, de- volved upon his only surviving brother.
Sir William Gage, seventh Baronet, born in the year \QQ5, who, renouncing tlie errors of the church of Rome, was elected to the last parliament of King George I. as representative for the town of Seaford in Sussex, for which place he served till his death. On the revival of the most honourable order of the Bath, he was created one of the knights companions thereof, on March 27th, 1725, and installed July 17th following; but d)ing' un- married, April 23d, 17-14, the English title of Baronet descended to Thomas, Viscount Gage, of the kingdom of Ireland, to whose sons Sir William left the bulk of his estate.
We must therefore now return to
Joseph Gage, Esq. fourth and youngest son of Sir Thomas Gage the second Baronet, who had his mother's inheritance at Sherburn Castle; and her sister, Elizabeth, dying without issue, he inherited the remainder of what she had not sold, whereby the castle of Sherburn became the family seat, but was sold, with the estate belonging thereto, in 171^^ to Thomas, Earl of Maccles- field. He also acquired a great estate by his marriage with Eliz- abeth, daughter to George Penruddock, of Hampshire, Esq. and at length heir to her brothers (who died childless) ; and she de- ceasing, December 5th, l6C)3, left him two daughters ; Elizabeth^ married to John Weston, of Sutton in Surrey, Esq. ; and Anne, to Richard Arundel Sealing, of J^angherne in Cornwall, Esq. : as also two sons; first, Thomas, created Viscount Gage; and, second, Joseph.
Joseph, the second son, acquired an immense fortune by the Missisippi schemes in France in the year 1719? but, by the fall of that bubble the year following, was reduced to poverty, where- upon he retired into Spain, and being of a very enterprising dis- position gained hituself so much esteem there, that in 1727, he obtained a grant froin that crown for working and draining all
i Coffiii-Platc.
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the gold mines in Old Spain, and fishing for all wreclcs on the coasts of Spain and the Indies j he was also in 1/4'., piesenttd l)y his Catholic Majesty with a silver mine of very great value, to him and his heirs by patent, with the title of Count, or Grandee of the third class; after which, he was constituted general of his Majesty's armies in Sicily; and in March 17'i;J, honoured with the title of a Grandee of Sp:nn of the first class, and com- mander in chief of the army in Lo.nbardy, being also presented by the King of Naples, with the order of St. Gennaro, and a pen- sion of four thousand ducats a year. He married the Lady Lucy Herbert, fourth daughter of William the first Marquis of Powys.
Thomas, Plscount Gage, the e/dest son, was, in consideration of his great merit, advanced to the peerage of Ire/and, " by a prince, the most distinguished of all the princes of Europe for his vast capacity, in distinguishing the real merits of his subjects," being created Viscount Gage of Castle Island, and Baron Gagt of Castlehar, by privy-!-eal, dated at St. James's, June J 3th, and by letters patent, September 14th, 1/20, with the creation fee of twenty marks.
His Lordship, having at very great expense, and with an un- remitted assiduity, detected the fradulent sale of the Derwent- water estate (forfeited to the crown upon thit Earl's attainder for-treason) the house of commons, on March 31st, 1732, ordered their Speaker to give the thanks of that house to his Lordship for that great service, which were conveyed in the following speech :
" My Lord Gage,
" The House have come to an unanimous resolution, that the thanks of the House be given to your Lordship, for the great service you have done the public in detecting the fraudulent sale of cer- tain forfeited estates of James, late Earl of Derwentwater ; and of a forfeited annuity, issuing oat of the same, which were vested in commissiioners and trustees to be sold for the public use. And the manner of your Lordship's making this discovery hath shewn your disinterested regard to the public service, as the effect of it may be greatly to the public benefit.
" The applying the forfeited estates to the use of the public being one of the principal reasons for making it thereby impos- sible they should ever be given back to the unfortunate families they once belonged to, the House of Commons could not, with-
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out uneasiness, think of this pretended sale, which has throws into private hands, no way allied to the estate, so large a share of the profit due to the public, with a very low, and almost the bare appearance only of a consideration for one part, and not so much as even that for another.
" But your Lordship's seasonable detection of this injurious transaction will very likely produce justice and restitution to the public j and for this service your Lordship is now receiving a re- ward, that, I can answer for your Lordship, you esteem the greatest and most honourable you can acquire; and which, my Lord, will not only remain with you, but will derive a lasting honour to those who may come after you.
" An honour, my Lord, the House hath always been most tender of in the way, and for the reason, they confer it upon you ; and, if I may use the expression, is a sort of bounty they have ever been most frugal of granting. Few are the instances of it ; not that public services have not frequently been performed, but that the thanks of the House of Commons are never given for public services, but what are the most eminent, such as that which your Lordship hath lately done the state.
" I am very conscious how imperfectly I have conveyed the sense of the House to your Lordship ; but the having no time to prepare myself for it, must be my excuse, I will only add, that no one could with greater pleasure obey the order of the House on this occasion than I do; which is, to give your Lordship the thanks of the House, for your said service to the public ; and 1 do give your Lordship the thanks of the House accordingly."
In 1721, he was elected to parliament for the borough of Tewksbury in Gloucestershire, which he continually represented till within a few months of his death : he was also verdurer of the forest of Dean in that county ; was admitted a Fellow of the Royal Society, November 25th, 1731, and in 17^7^ appointed steward of the household to Frederic Prince of Wales.
His Lordship had two wives, first, Benedicta-Maria-Teresa, daughter and sole heir of Benedict Hall, of High Meadow^ in com,
Gloucester, Esq. ; secondly, Jane, daughter of Godfrey,
widow of Henry Jermyn Bond, of Bury St. Edmund's in Suffolk, Esq. By the latter, (who survived till October 8th, 1 757) he had no issue ; but by the former, who died July 25th, 17-ly, and was buried at Newland in Gloucestershire, had a darghter, Teresa, married to George Tasburgh, of Bodncy in Norfolk, Esq. and two sons.
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li'irst, William Hall, the second Viscount, and Baron Gage.
Second, Thomas, who was a general in the army, and colonel of the twenty-second regiment of foot, and commandrr in chief ot his Majesty's forces in North America; who died Apiil 2d, i;S8, having married, December 8th, 1/58, at Mount Kemble in North America. Margaret, daughter of Peter Kenih'.e, Esq. pre- sident of the council of New Jersey, by whom he has had six sons and rive daughters; viz. first, Henrv, late Viscount ; second, Willia.n, born at New York, and died young ; tliird, Thornas, who dud an iniant ; fourth John, born at Ncw-Yurk, December 23d, 1707, married. May 20th, i7g:i, Mary, daughter and heir of John Miihaiike, Esq; fifth, Thomas, who died yotnio-; sixth William Hall, born in Park-place, St. James's, Westminster, Oc- tober 2d, 1777; seventh, Maria-Teresa, born at Montreal, April 4th, 1762, married March 2d, 1/92, James, eldest son of Sir Alexander Craufurd, Bart.; eighth, Louisa-Elizabeth, born at New York, December 12:h, 1/65, married, February l-llh, ]7g4, J. H. Blake, Esq. second son of the late Sir Patrick Blake, Bart, j ninth, Harriot, a twin with John, born at New-York, December 23d, 1767; tenth, Charlotte-Mary, born iu Duke-stn et, St. James's, August 19th, 1773 ; and, eleventh, Emily, born in Park- place, St. James's, April 25th, 1776, married, August 27th, I807 Montague, Earl of Abingdon.
His Lordship departed this life, December 2 1st, 1754, and was buried among his ancestors at Firle, being succeeded by his eldest son,
William Hall, second Viscount Gage, and first Bakon Gage of Firle, and of High Meadow; who, in 1 744, was elected to parliament for the Cinque Port of Seaford (in the room of Sir William Gage, Bart, and Knight of the Bath); at the general election, in 1/54, was again chosen for that place, which he continued to represent till his advancement to the dignity of a peer of Great Britain by patent, bearing date October l/lh, 178O, by the title of Baron Gage, of Firle in the county of Sussex.
His Lordship was also paymaster of his Majesty's pensions and bounties, and F. R. S.
On November 1st, 179O, his Lordship was created Bakox Gage of High Meadow, com. Gloucester, wiili a collateral re- mainder to the issue male of his late brother. General Gage.
His Lordship was married, February 3d, 1757, to Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Sampson Gideon, Esq. and sister to the pre-
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sent Lord Eardley; but her Ladyship died, July 1st, 17S3, aged forty-four, ^ without issue.
And his Lordship deceasing October 11th;, 1791^ was suc- ceeded in all the honours except the Barony of Gage of Firle, by his nephew
Henry, third J'^iscount Gage, and second Lord Gage of High Meadow, who was born at Montreal in Canada, March 4th, 1761, and entering into the army, attained before his death the rank of niajor-general.
His Lordship married, January 12th, 1782, Susanna Maria, only daughter and heir of the late Colonel William Skinner, and grand-daughter of the late Sir Peter Warren, K. B. ; and dying January 28th, 1808, aet. forty-seven, was succeeded by his son
John Hall, present and fourth Fiscoufit Gage, and third Lord Gage of High Meadow, born December 14th, 1791-
Titles. Sir John Hail Gage, Baron Gage, of High Meadow, and Baronet, English honours ; also Viscount Gage, of Castle Lsland, and Baron Gage of Castle Bar, in the kingdom of Ireland.
Creations. Baronet, March 26th, l622, 24 Jac. I ; Viscount Gage, of Castle Island in the county of Kerry, and Baron Gage, of Castle Bar in the county of Mayo, 14th Sept. 172O, 7 Geo. I. ; and Baron Gage, of High Meadow in the county of Gloucester, November 1st, 179O, 31 Geo. III.
Arms. Per saltire, azure and argent, a saltire, gules.
Crest. On a wreath, a ram statant, proper, armed and un- guled, or.
Supporters. Two greyhounds, proper, ducally gorged, gules.
Motto. Courage sans peur.
Chief Seats. At High Meadow in the county of Gloucester, and at Firle and Lewes, both in the county of Sussex.
l- Coffin Plate.
LORD GRENVILLE.
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GRENVILLE, LORD GRENVILLE.
NVilliam Wyndham Gkenvili.e, Lord Grenville, is third and youngest brother of the Marquis of Buckingham. He was born October 25, 1759, and educated at Oxford, where he was distinguished for his classical attainments.
Thence he removed to London to study the law; but soon quitted the bar for the senate^ and entered into the political career of his cousin, William Pitt.
His industry and acquirements, added to stioiig natural parts, soon made him of consequence in the house of commons. He was the able coadjutor of the minister 3 firm to his post, and in full possession of all his faculties. If he wanted the brilliant elo- quence of his relation, he possessed more minuteness of know- ledge, and accuracy of detail. The routine of office was almost hereditary in him. He seemed to have imbibed all the ideas and habits of his father, George Grenville, even though he was a child at the death of that persevering statesman.
William W. Grenville was elected Speaker of the House OF CoMMoxs, January 5th, l/SQ, on the death of Charles Wol- fran Cornwall.
He held the high office only till May 8th, following, being then appointed Secretary of State for the Home department, which he quitted for the seals of the Foreii^n department, in May, 1791> which latter he held till the secession of his colleague, Pitt, in February 1801.
He filled this important station, during one of the most ar- duous and gloomy periods of our history, with industry, talent, and skill. It was a function for which his natural and acquired
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powers in many respects were well suited. He was skilled in the detail of the politics of Europe; he had studied deeply the law of nations; he was acquainted with modern languages; he could endure fatigue ; and had not an avocation or a pleasure to inter- rupt his attention. He loved business like his father; it was not merely the result of his ambition, but his amusement ; the flowers of imagination, or the gaieties of society never seduced him astray. Deeply intent on his calling, his whole soul was wrapped up in it. There was nothing to dissipate his ideas ; and he brought his mind to bear on the subject before him with its full force.
On November 25th, 1790, he was created Lokd Grevville.
On the death of Mr. Pitt, to whom he had for some time been in opposition, he was appointed Premier, and had an act of parr liament to enable him to hold the office of auditor of the Exche- quer, with that of first lord of the Trea-ury.
The extraordinary combination of heterogeneous ingredients, which formed this administration, (in which Mr. Fox became Lord Grewvilles secretary of state !) lasted but a little while.
His Lordship married, July 18th, 1/92, Anne, sister and at length sole heir of Thomas Pitt, second Lord Camelford, by whom he has no issue.
His Lordship was elected Chancellor of the University of Ox- ford on the death of the Duke of Portland, ISO9.
Title. William Wyndham Grenville, Lord Grenville of Wotton in Buckinghamshire.
Creation. By patent, November 25th, 179O.
Arjns and Crest. The same as the Marquis of Buckingham, with a mullet for difference.
Supporters. Same as the Marquis of Buckingham, except that the lion is parli per fess embattled, and each supporter has a collar charged with roundles.
Motto. EXEMPLA SUORUM.
Chief Seat. Dropmore, Bucks.
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ARCHIBALD DOUGLAS, LORD DOUGLAS OF LOCHLEVEN.
fEARL OF MORTON IN SCOTLAND.)
The first of this collateral branch of the illustrious family of DoLiglaSj was
Sir James Douglas, of Louden^ Knight, who in the first of King Robert the Bruce, anno 1306, had a grant from that Prince of the lands of Kincavel and Calderclear, and to his heirs. " He left issue two sons.
First, Sir William Douglas, Lord of Lydsdale, who, for his bravery, was called, The Fiowcr of Cldvalry, and died without issue, anno 1353, and.
Second, Sir John Douglas, captain of the castle of Lochleven, under King David H. who in the minority of that King strenu- ously defended that fort against the English, who oftener than once assaulted it, for which service to his country, the historians of that time have not been wanting to transmit such a character of him to posterity, as his merit deserved.
By Agnes Monfode, his wife, '^ he had issue.
First, Sir James Douglas, of Dalkieth, his son and heir.
Second, Sir Henry Douglas, of Lugton and Lochleven, proge- nitor to the present Earl of Morton, and.
Third, Nicholas, of whom the branch of the Douglases of Mains, ^ in the county of Dunbarton,
ii Charta penes Comitcm dc Morton- '• Ibid. c Ibid.
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Sir James succecd-d his father in his paternal estate, and his uncle the Lord Lydsdale, in the baronies of Dalkieth and Aber- dour3 and the rest of his fortune, which was of great extent and value, whereby he came to be placed among the first rank of the greater Barons. He married, first, Agnes Dunbar, daughter to the Earl of March, '' by whom he had.
First, James, his son and heir.
Second, William Douglas, designed of Mordington. '^
Likewise three daughters j Janeta, married to Sir John Ha- milton, of Cadziou ; ' i^gnes, to Sir John Livingston, of Calendar ; s Margaret, to Philip Arbuthnot, of that ilk ; '' next, Giles, daughter of Walter, lord high steward of Scotland, widow both of Sir David Lindsay, of Crawford, and of Sir Hugh Eglington, of that ilk, ' by whom he had no issue.
James, Lord Dalkieth, his son, married the Lady Elizabeth Stewart, daughter of King Robert IIL ^ by whom he had
Jgmes, his successor.
And after her death, Janet, daughter of Yv'illiam Lord Borth- wick, by whom he had
William Douglas, the first of the house of Whitingham. '
Which James married, first, Margaret, daughter of James
Earl of Douglas ; and after that Elizabeth, daughter of
Giffard, of Shireffhall, by whom he had
First, James, thereafter Earl of Morton.
And, second, Henry Douglas, first of Corhead '" and Lang Niddry.
Which James was, by the special favour of King James IL raised to the dignity of Earl of Morton, in parliament ,on the 14th of Ma^ch, 1457." He married the Lady Jane, daughter of Khig James L Dowager Countess of Angus, " by whom he had
John, his successor, who married Janet, daughter of
Crichton^ of Cranston Riddle, By her he had,
First, James, his son and heir.
Second, Richard Douglas, Esq.
d Charta penes Comitem cle Morton.
e Ibid. f Ibid, ad annum, 1388. y Ibid. 1381.
h Ibid 1372. i Ibid.
k Cliavta penes Comitcni de Morton, Robert! teitii dilecto filio sue Jacobo
Douglas, (ilio et lia;redi jacobi de Douglas, Domini de Dalkieth et spon^ac
suie Elizabethan, filiae nostrce carrissimac, ad annum 1402.
1 Ibid. ■" Ibid. i< Ibid.
o Charta in Pub. Arch.
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Elizabeth, married to Robert Lord Keith ; and Agnes, to Alex- ander Lord Livingston.
Which James married Catherine, natural daughter of King James IV. by whom he had three daugliters ;
Margaret, married to James Earl of Arran, thereafter Duke of Chattlerault.
Beatrix, to Robert Lord Maxwell.
Elizabeth, to James Douglas, brother to David Earl of Angus, and son of Sir George Douglas, of Pittendrieh.
This Earl having no male issue of his bcxly, made an entail of his estate and honour to Robert Douglas, of Lochleven, a n)ale relation of his own, which was ratified by a charter under the great seal of King James V. anno 1540, i' But after the death of that King, the Earl having it still in his power to alter that desti- nation any time in his own life, thought fit actually to change the settlement, and to make a new conveyance of his estate and honour to James Douglas, his son-in-law 3 by virtue of which he came to enjoy both on the death of the old Earl, in 1553.
Li 1J5S, this J.vMES, fourth Earl of Morlun, was one of the peers who entered into a bond of association to promote the refor- mation ijf religion, and the year thereafter was sent ambassador to f2ngland to treat with Queen Elizabeth, about the maintaining a firm and lasting peace bctwixl the two crowns, when he esta- blishcvi himself so much in the favour of that Princess, that her friendship was never in any degree diminished toward him till his dying day.
After Queen Mary returned home from Fiance, in ]5(Jl, her Majesty made choice of the Earl as one of her privy-council, and in less than a year thereafter, he was sent ambassador to the Queen of England, in which negociation he behaved himself with great prudence and dexterity, insomuch as upon his return he was pre- ferred to be LordHlgli Chancellor ., and he continued in the otlice till, March 20th, 15G.5, he was deprived, and forced to flee to England, for alleged accession to the munler of David Rizio, the Queen's French secretary: but in a short limc thereafter, by the mediation and interposition of the Earl of Bothwell, he obtained his pardon, which he paid dear for afterward; for that Earl thought by this favour to bring the Earl of Morton over to his interest; but he soon found himself mistaken. For though he had all duty and gratitude to him as a friend, yet the wicked Earl
i Charta penes Comitcni dc Muiton.
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Bothwell did no sooner propose to him the design, and craved his assistance, towards the murder of the Lord Darnley, the Queen's husband, as a piece of service which would be very acceptable to her Majesty ; but he conjured him to lay aside the thoughts of so base and unworthy an enterprize, and which would be attended with so much infamy and danger : and when he could not pre- vail in that point, in testimony he did abhor so detestable a design, he left the court, and retired to the country, when that bloody and barbarous tragedy was to be acted. And I think the Earl of Morton's circumstances at this time cannot but be pitied ; for if he had revealed the Earl of Bothwell's design of taking away the King's life, it had cost him his own ; and his concealing it then, brought him to die upon a scafibld many years thereafter.
After the murder of King Henry, when the nation, both pro- testants and papists, began to be alarmed with the Queen's mar- riage with the Earl of Bothwell, who was thus shrewdly suspected as the murderer of her former husband, and the danger the young Prince was in by such an union, the Earl of Morton was one of the most forward among the nobility, who entered into an associa- tion for the preservation o{ the Prince ; and when the Queen re- signed the government, to the end her son might be invested in the sovereignty, the Earl of Morton took the coronation oath for the infant King, at his inauguration, on July 2pth, 1567.
In this new turn of affairs the Earl of Mortoi/s share was so considerable, that as soon as the Earl of Murray had accepted the regency, the Earl of Morton was declared Chancel/or, upon the removal of the Earl of Huntley, who adhered to the Queen, and made heritable lord high admiral of Scotland, and sheritf-pvincipal of Edinburghshire, 1 He held the chancellor's place till November 24th, 1 5/'2 3 he was by the unanimous choice of the King's party, elected regent, a month after the death of his predecessor in office,, the Earl of Mar.
" I shall not," continues Craufurd, " here enter upon the de- tail of the Earl of Morton's administration during his regency ; that would not consist with the brevity of this work ; and gene- rally his proceedings are complained of on one side, or com- mended on the other, as opinions and party lead men to : I shall only take notice, that the first motion he made to resign the go- vernment, in 1578, was accepted in a general convention of the nobility, wherein it was agreed to, that the young King
Q Cliarta penes Coniitcm de Morton, ad annum 1570.
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should take upon him the administration, when he was not full thirteen years of agej and yet the new court kept fair with the. Earl, for they piocured a parliament to be called, wherein the late regent obtained a remission and exoneration during his regenc}-^, in the most ample manner he himself could devise ; and after that he played his game so well, that: he was in a short time again made president of the council, and was in great credit with his Majesty; ■" but that being what was not at all acceptable to the other party, who had the young King in their hands, and who were willing to be rid of the Earl of Morton at any rate; for that end Sir John Maitland and Sir Robert Melvil, his professed ene- mies, brought about his .ruin, by poshing on captain Janies Stewart, the Lord Ochiltr<'e's son, to accuse him as accessory to the murder of the King's father, which the captain did before the council, where the Earl hiiu'ielf was present, on December 31st, ]5S0; whereupon he was committed prisoner to the castle of Edinburgh, and was thence sent under a strong guard to Dun- barton ; from whence he was, on the 1 st of June thereafter, brought to his trial at Edinburgh, and being found guilty by his peers, of art and part in the murder of the King's father, in .so far as he had concealed and not revealed it when the Earl of Both- well proposed it to him ; he was condemned to be hanged, drawn and quartered, which the King was pleased to mitigate so far, that instead of being hanged, he had the favour to be beheaded, which was Hccordingly executed on him at the Cross of Edinburgh, on June 2d, 1581."'
The following is perhaps a more Impartial account of this great noblemaii.
He makes a memorable figure in the annals of Scotland. He sal out in favour of the reformation, but fluctuated in a state of irresolution, and did not act heartily in the common cause. In 1566, " being intVtrior to no man in that intriguing age, in all the arts of insinuation and address, he wrought upon Darnley's ruling passion, ambition," and instigated him to the murder of Rizio. The Earl was then lord chancellor, and he " undertook to direct an enterprize, carried on in dehance of all the laws of which he was bound to be the guardian." "The Queen, who scarce had the liberty of choice left, was persuaded to admit Morton and Ruthven into her presence, and to grant them promise of pardon, in whatever terms they should deem neces'^.ary for their own is-
r Mclvir* Memoirs.
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CLirity." But " it soon appeared from the Queen's conduct, that nothing more was intended by this promise than to amuse them, and to gain time." No man so remarkable for wisdom, and even for cunning, as the Earl of Morton, ever engaged in a more un- fortunate enterprize. Deserted basely by the King, who now de- nied his knowledge of the conspiracy by public proclamations j and abandoned ungenerously by Murray and his party, he was obliged to fly from his native country, to resign the highest office, and to part from one of the most opulent fortunes in the king- dom." The Earl, however, and all the other conspirators, soon obtained their pardon, and leave to return to Scotland. The next year he had an opportunity of seizing the casket, which is deemed to contain the evidence of Mary's guilt. Tiie regent Murray having been murdered in 1570, " Morton, the most vigilant and able leader on the King's side, solicited Elizabeth to interpose without delay for the safety of a party so devoted to htr interest, and which stood in such need of her assistance." " Morton," continues Robertson, " the ablest, the most ambitious, and the most powerful man of the King's party, held a particular course in the state of factions j and moving only as he was prompted by the court of England, thwarted every measure that tended towards a reconcilement of the factions j and as he served Elizabeth with much fidelity, he derived both power and credit from her avowed protection." In 15/2, on the death of Lennox, no competitor for the regency " appeared against Morton. The Queen of Eng- land powerfully supported his claim ; and, notwithstanding the fears of the people, and the jealousy of the nobles, he was elected regent; the fourth, who in the space of five years had held that dano-erous office." At this time his surrendrr of the t^arl of Nor- thumberland, to whose friendship he had been much indebted, was deemed an ungrateful and mercenary action. He now la- boured to restore peace between the contending parties. He set himself to redress the relics of those evils, which always accom- pany civil war 5 and, by his indnstry and vigour, order and secu- rity were re-established in the kingdom. But he lost the repu- tation due to this important service, by the avarice he discovered in performing it ; and his own exactions became more pernicious to the nation, than all the irregularities which he had committed. He soon rendered him;'.elf odious to the great nobles. A plot was now formed against him : he discovered it, and resigned the I'e- gency, in 15/8. " Deserted by his ov.'u party, and unable to gtruggle with the faction, which governed absolutely at court, he
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retired to one of his seats, and seemed to enjoy the tranquillity, and to be occupied only in the amusements, of a country life. His mind, however, was deeply distinieted with all the uneasy re- flections, which accompany disappointed ambition j and intent ou schemes for recovering his lormer grandeur. Even in this retreat, which the people call the Lions Den, his wealth and abilities rendered him formidable. And the new counsellors were so imprudent as to rouse liim by the precipitancy with which they hastened to strip him of all remains of power." He continued to watch the motions of his enemies, and soon found a proper juncture for setting to work the instruments which he had been }n-e])aring for the resumj^tion of his former autliority. By the in- tercession of Queen Elizabeth, he was reconciled to his adver- saries. The King's new favouriies soon attempted to undermine him; and as James had^been bred up with an aversion for this nobleman, who endeavoured rather to maintain the authority of a tutor, than to act with the obsequiousness of a minister, they found ii iio ditficult matter to accomplish their design, Morton endeavoured to counteract them ; but in vain. Even Queen Eli- zabeth interposed without etfect. He was accused of being acces- sary to the murder of Darnley; and thrown into prison. " The Earl of Angus, who imputed these violent proceedings not to hatred against Morton alone, but to tl)c ancient enmity between the houses of Stewart and Douglas, and who believed that a con- spiracy was now formed for the destruction of the whole name, was ready to take arms in order to rescue his kinsman. But Morton absolutely forbade any sueii allcmpt, and declared that he would rather suffer ten thousand deaths, than bring an impu- tation on his own character, by seeming to decline a trial." iVll those suspected of favouring him were now turned out of office. He was tried and condemned, after a violent, irregular, and op- pressive trial. The Kiirg appointed that lie should suffer death next day, by being beheaded. " During that awful interval, i^Jorton possessed the utmost composure of mind. He supped cheerfully, slept a part of the night in his usual manner, and em- ployed the rest of his time in religious conferences, and in acts of devotion with some ministers of the city. The clergyman who attended him, dealt freely with his conscience, and pressed his crimes home upon him. What he confessed with regard to (he crime for which he suffered, is remarkable, and supplies in sonie measure the imperfection of our records. He acknowledged tl;at on his return frou) En^lanii, after the death ofRizio, Dotluvjll
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had informed him of the conspiracy against the King, which the Queen, as he told him, knew of, and approved ; that he soUcited him to concur in the execution of it, which at that time he ab- solutely declined ; that soon after, Bothwell himself, and Archi- bald Douglas, in his name, renewing their solicitation to the same purpose^ he had required a warrant unJer the Queen's hand, au- thorizing the attempt, and as that had never been produced, he had refused to be any farther concerned in the matter. " But," continued he, " as I neither consented to this treasonable act, nor assisted in the coinmitting of it, so it was impossible for me to reveal or prevent it. To whom could I make the discovery ? The Queen was the author of the enterprize. Darnley was such a changeling, that no secret could safely be communicated to him. Huntley and Bothwell, who bore the chief sway in the kingdom, were themselves the perpetrators of the crime," These circumstances, it must be confessed, go some length towards ex- tenuating Morton's guilt 5 and, though his apology for the favour he had shewn to Archibald Douglas, whom he knew to be one of the conspirators, be far less satisfactory, no uneasy reflections seem to have disquieted his own mind on that account. When his keepers told him that the guards were attending, and all things in readi- ness ; " I praise my God," said he, " I am ready likewise." Arran commanded these guards, and even in these moments, when the most implacable hatred is apt to relent, the malice of his ene- mies could not forbear this insult. On the scaffold his behaviour was calm ; his countenance and voice unaltered ; and, after some time spent in devotion, he suffered death with the intrepidity which became the name of Douglas. His head was placed on the public jail of Edinburgh ; and his body, after lying till sunset on the scaffold, covered with a beggarly cloak, was carried by common porters to the usual burial place of criminals. None of his friends durst accompany it to the grave, or discover their gra- titude and respect by any symptoms of sorrow," ^
Upon the death and forfeiture of the regent, the title of Earl of il'/br<o« was bestowed upon the Lor J Maxiuell; but bis Ma- jesty having recalled and revoked that deed, and being further willing and desirous, that all animosities and grounds of conten- tion among the nobility might be removed, for that end a parlia- ment was called in 158.5, wherein his Majesty passed an act of ebUvion, whereby every body who had been forfeited during the
» Robertson.
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troubles in the King's minority was indemnified, except such as had been accessary to his father's murder : and though the Earl of Morton had been convicted of that crime, and suffered for it, yet his Majesty considering, " Bona, tidelia, gratuita Servitia jSobis facta per quond.im Comitem de Morton, in Gubcrnatione et Administratione Nostri Regni ; nee non alia debita et egregia Officia Nobis in Nostra Minoritate per ipsum praestlta et impensaj considi-rantes etiam quod dictus quondam Comes de Morton, nullatenus conscius fuit Artis et Partis dicti Criminis, neque ejus- dem Facinoris et Coedis Perpetrationi ullatt^nus consensit, sed tan- tiimmodo predictam Caedem praecognovit, et celavit j quam ob causam praefatus Comes de INIorton in Corpore satis superque luit juxta dictam Sententiam Forisfacturae contra eunv latam et pro- mulgatam, unde Legibus et Nostro Honori abunde ex hac Parte satisfactum fuit.' Nos igitur. Sec."
For these and other reasons, his Majesty was pleased by letters under his great seal, in pursuance of the act of parliament to re- habilitate the Earl of Morton, in the most ample manner, thereby enabling his heirs to succeed to his lands and honours 3 by virtue whereof,
ArxCniBALD, £«/•/ 0/' ,^/;o-//^, the Earl's nephew, did succeed as heir of entail to the Earldom oj Morton, and which he accord- ingly enjoyed till his death, which happened in 1588.
The estate and title o^ Earl of Morton, then came to William Douglas, of Lochleven, " as the next heir of entail," This Earl so succeeding, married Agnes, daughter of George Earl of Rothes ; by whom he had
Robert, his sen and heir apparent, who perished going over
t Charta penes Comitem de Morton, data 29 Janiiaiy, 15S<. u Sir Henry Douglas, of Lugton and Lochleven, third son of Sir John Douglas, by Agnes Mafode, married Margory, daughter of Sir Walter Stewart, ofRailston, and had issue Sir Wil li am Douglas, of Lochleven, who by Elizabeth Lindsay, daughter of David Eavl of Crawfurd, was father of Sir Hek'ry Douglas, of Lochleven, 1446, who by Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Lord Erskine, had issue Sir Robert Douglas, of Loclilevcn, who fell at the battle of Floddon, i^ 13, leaving by Elizabeth Boswell, Sir Rob e r t, of Loch- leven, who dying before J 540, had by Margaret Balfour, Thomas Douglas, father, by Elizabeth Boyd, of Sir Robert Douglas, of Lochleven, who was slain at the battle of Pinkie, i-;47, and was father, by Lady Margaret Erskine, daughter of John Earl ofMarr, of Sir William Douglas, of Lochleven, who tlius succeeded to the Earldom of Morton, 1588, in virtue of the last limitation in the entail made by James, third Earl, in 1567.
•< Charta penes Comitem de Morton, ad annum 1509.
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to the low countries in 1583, >' leaving issue by Jane, his wife, daughter of John Lord Glames, '^ a son, William, seventh Earl, who succeeded his grandfather.
The Earl's second son was James, commendator of Melross, the third Sir Archibald Douglas of Kirkness, the fourth Sir George Douglas of Killour j likewise five daughters.
Christian, married to Laurence, master of Oliphant, and there- after to Alexander, first Earl of Hume.
Mary, to Sir Walter Ogilvy, of Findlater, first Lord Desk- ford,
Euphame, to Sir Thomas Lyon, of Aldbar, ^ lord high trea- surer of Scotland, in the reign of King James VI.
Agnes, to Archibald Earl of Argyle.
Elizabeth, to Francis Earl of Errol.
This Earl dying on September 27th, 1606', '^ was succeeded by
William, his grandson and heir, seventh Earl, who being a nobleman of great parts and reputation, was by King Charles I. called to his council, and thereafter preferred to be Lord High Treasurer, anno l630, upon the surrender of the Earl of Mar 5 '^ and he continued treasurer till, 1635, he was removed, and the white staff given to the Earl of Traquair ; in recompence of which he was constituted captain of his Majesty's guard, and installed a Knight of the Garter.
He married Agnes, daughter of George Earl Marischal, and dying October /th, 1048,'' left issue
First, Robert, his successor.
Second, Sir James Douglas, thereafter Earl of Morton.
Third, John, who was killed in the King's service at Carbers- dale, in l650. ^
Fourth, George Douglas, Esq,
Likewise five daughters.
Anne, married to George Earl of Kinoule.
Margaret, to Archibald Marquis of Argyle,
y Hume's Hist, of Douglas. a Charta in Rotulis Jacobi VI.
a Ibid, ad annum 1589- b Hist. Ecclesia? Scoticanas, Authoie Arch. Symson, Pastore Dalkietliensi, MS. in Bibliotheca Academic Glasgucnsis.
c Ciiaita in Rotulis Caroli I. data iz April 163c. * Memoirs of WilliaaiEarl of Morton, tlie Treasurer, penes me. « Memoirs of the family of Morton.
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Mary, to Charles Earl of Dunfermling. Jane, to James Earl of Hume.
Isabel, to Robert, first Earl of Roxburgh ; and again to James Marquis of Montrose.
Winch Robert, eighth Earl, married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Edward Villiers, sister to the Lord Viscount Grandison, and niece to the great Duke of Buckingham, and dying anno l64g, left issue, William, his successor. Second, Robert, died s. p. l66l.
And two daughters ; A.nne, married to William Earl Maris- chal ; and Mary, to Sir Donald Macdonald, of Slate, Bart.
Which William, ninth Earl, married Grisel, daughter of John, tirst Earl of Middleton, ' and had a son Charles Lord Dal- keith ; but dying without surviving issue, lOSI, his estate and honour devolved on
Sir James Douglas,, his uncle, tentli Earl, who dying August 25th, 1686, s left issue by Anne, his wife, daughter and heir of Sir James Hay, of Smithticld, four sons.
First, James, his successor, eleventh Earl, who was one of the lords of the privy-council in the reign of Queen Anne, and one of the commissioners for the late treaty of union, which commenced in 1707. He died a biichclor, December lOth, 1 7 15.
Second, Robekt, the twelfth Earl, a peer of good parts, of great integrity, and well atfected to the crown and protestant in- terest, as his predecessors were : died unmarried ] 730.
Third, George, thirteenth Earl, a member of parliament from the union till he succeeded to the Earldom.
When a younger brother, he betook himself to a military life, and served in the army with great reputation, and was raised to the rank of colonel.
He married, first, Muirhcad. daughter of Muiihead, "
of Linhouse in the county of Midlctuian, by whom he had a son, who died in his infancy.
He married, secondly, Frances, dau;;'iter of William Adderley, of Halstow in Kent, Esq. by whom he had issue. First, Jame-;, his successor. Second, William, who died ycung.
Third, Robert, wjio went into the army young, and was soon promoted to be a captain of f« ot. He was elected M. P. for Ork-
Ciiarta in Rotuli^ '"aroli II. « Mcmoiii of t!ic Ea;ls of Mo; ton.
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ney, 1730, and served as a volunteer in the imperial army, 1735. He was afterwards raised to the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and was killed at the battle of Fontenoy, regretted by ail v/ho knew hxm, in 1/45. He lel't a natural son, James Douglas.
The Earl dying in January, 1738, was succeeded by his eldest son,
James, fourteenth Earl, who was made a Knight of the Thistle 1738 ; elected one of the sixteen peers from 1739 till his death ; and in l/GO, was appointed lord register for Scotland.
His Lordship married^ iirst, Agatha, daughter of Mr. Halli- burton, of Picturj and by her had^ First, Charles, died young. Secoiid, Sholto Charles, the fifteenth Earl. Third, James; fourth, George; fifth, Robert, all died young. Sixths Frances.
Seventh, Mary, who married, in April 1/7-1, Charles Gordon, fourth Earl of Aboyne, and has issue.
He married secondly, July 31st, 1755, Bridget, daughter of Sir John Heathcote, Bart, of Normanton in Rutlandshire, and had issue by her (who died March 3d, 1805.)
Eighth, John, born July 1st, 1756, married the Hon. Frances Lascelles, eldest daughter of Edward, Lord Harewood, and has issue; of which his eldest daughter married, April 21st, 1804, the Hon, Colonel William Stuart, second son of John, late Earl of Galloway, Knight of the Thistle,
Ninth, Bridget, born April 28th, 1758, married, August 4th, 1777, the Hon. William Henry Bouverie, brother of Jacob Pley-- dell. Earl of Radnor, and has issue.
The Earl deceasing October 12th, 1768, was succeeded by his son,
Sholto Charles, the fftcenth Earl, who married Catherine, daughter of John Hamilton, Esq. by whom he had issue one son, George,
And deceasing September 27th, 1 77*^* was succeeded by his only son,
Geokge, the sixteenth £o?7, who was, August 11th, 1791, created a British Peer by the title of Baron Douglas of Loch-
LEVEN.
His Lordship was born 1759.
Titles, George Douglas, Earl of Morton, and Lord Douglas •fLochleven.
LORD DOUGLAS. S8S
Creations. Earl of Morton, March 14lh, 1157, and Lord Douglas of Lochleven.
Arms. Quarterly, first and fourth, argent, a man's heart, gules, crowned with an imperial crown, or} on a chief, azure, three mullets of the first ; second and third, argent, three piles, gules, and in chief, two stars of the first.
Crest. A sanglier proper, sticking in the cleft of an oak tree, with a lock holding the cjefts of the tree together.
Supporters. Two savages wreathed about the head and middle Avith laurel, holding a club downward in the dexter hand.
Motto. Lock Sicker.
Chief Seat. Aberdour, Fifeshire.
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THURLOW, LORD THURLOW.
1 HIS is probably a local name derived from a parish in the county ofSuftblk. •->
The Rev. Thomas Thurlow, rector of Ashfield in Suffolk, left issue by Elizabeth Smith, of Ashfield aforesaid, three sons.
First, Edward, 7?/-^/ peer.
Second, Thomas Thurlow, D. D. late Bishop of Durham, who in 1779 was appointed Dean of Rochester; from which he was promoted to the Bishopric of Lincoln, 1/. . , and thence translated in 1787 to the See of Durham. He died May 27th, 179^ > having married Anne, daughter of William Becr^, of Lym- ington, Elants. By her, who died August 17th, l/gi, he left issue, fit St, Edward, present peer ; second, Thomas, born Sep- tember l(jth, 17873 third, Amelia; fourth, Elizabeth j fifth, Anne, who married, April 12th, 1804, Charles Godfrey, Esq. of the royal artillery.
Third, John Thurlow, alderman and merchant of Norwich, who died March 11th, 1782, having married Josepha, daughter of John Morse. By her, who died December 10th, 17S6, he left issue a son, the Rev. Edward-South Thurlow, prebendary of Norwich, and rector of Houghton le-Spring, com. Durham; and also a daughter.
Edward Thurlow, eldest son, first Lord Thurlow, was born about 1732, and having been educated first at Canterbury school, and afterwards at C.uus college, Cambridge, devoted him-
" The present family does not appear to claim any alliance with Thurloe, the secretary of state in the time of Cromwell, who bore diflerent arms. There is a parish and lurdsliip of Thurlow in tliis county, long the seat of the Soame family.
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self to the profession of the l:i\v, was c:illed to the bar, nttahiod the rank of King's counsel in November^ l/6l ; was appointed So- i,iciTOR Genkral in March, IJ/Oj and Attouney Geneual on June 23d, 1771- He was returned M. P. for Tamworlh in Staffordshire in 1/68, and 1/7-1.
On June 3d, 1778> he was jippoinlcd to succeed Lord Apsley, as LoPxD High Chancellor of Great Britain ; and the same day was raised to the Ptcrage by the title of I,ord Thuulow ov AsHFiELD in Suffolk. lie resigned this high office in April, 1/83, when the seals were put into commission 3 and was re-ap- pointed, when Mr. Pitt wjs nominated prime minister in De- cember following. He again resigned them in June, ]7y'i j and on the I'ith of that month was created Lord Thuulow of Thurlow in SuJJhlk, with a collateral remainder of this honour to the issue male of his late two brothers, the Bishop of Durham, and John Thurlow of Norwich.
When a commoner, his Lordship was an able coadjutor of Lord North in parliament; and sat on the woolsack during the whole time he held the seals with great dignitv. And even after his retirement, till a short period before his death, took an active part^ and had great weight in the house of lords.
His Lordship died at an advanced age, Septeniber 12th, I8O6, without issue male. ''
The following character is given of him in the Biographical Peerage,
" He was a man, of whose talents opinions have been various. His faculties were strong and direct ; and the results of his mind decisive. His nervous manner, and imperious temper, gave an artificial strength to v>hat he delivered. Whatever he conceived right, he had no timidity or hesitation in enforc'ng. A manly tone of sentiment, and a boldness which was admired while it was dreaded, gave him almost irresistible weight when clothed with authority. These qualities, added to a powerful natural sagacity, fitted him to preside over a court of equity with many advantages. He never felt himself fettered by forms and tech- nicalities ; but laid the case bare at otice, and got at its esst-nce. His head was not formed to be diverted by little ditficulties or so-
b There were some doubts wlietlier he was not married in early life to a daughter of Dean Lynch of Canterbury, by wliom he had a son Charles, who died a student at Cambridge. He had ilircc daughters by another lady, of whom the eldest married Colonel Samuel Browne, of the York L. I. V»- lunteersi one of the assistant secretaries to the comniandcr-in-chicf.
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pbistries. On the other-hand, he was frequently too impatient, too dogmatical, and too little open to persuasion, and to all the complicated bearings of an entangled cause. His temper was severe, his feelings morose, and his disregard of the world and even its innocent passions and foibles, too general and unsparing. He made little allowance for a diflerence of habits or pursuits. On the whole, however, he was a man of a superior mindj and in many respects filled his high station with great and deserved re- putation."
He was succeeded in the second peerage by his nephew^ Ed- ward, the prcse?it and second Lord Thurlow.
His Lordship was born June 11th, 1/81, and is eldest son of Thomas Thurlow, late bishop of Durham, who died in 17QI. He is patentee of the bankrupts-office, and clerk of the custodies of idiots and lunatics in possession ; one of the clerks of the Hanaper, and one of the prothonotaries of the court of Chancery in rever- sion. He is unmarried.
Title. Edward Thurlow, Lord Thurlow of Thurlow, in Suf- folk.
Creation. By patent, June 12th, 1/92.
Arms. Argent on a chevron cotised, sable, three port-cuUises, yv^ith chains and rings, argent.
Crest. On a wreath, a raven close, proper, with a port-cullis hung round its neck, argent.
Supporters. Two eagles reguardant sable, a portcullis huug round each of their necks, argent.
Motto. JuSTITI.a£ SOROK FIDES,
Chief Seat.
LORD AUKLAND.
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EDEN, LORD AUKLAND.
Ihe first we find of this /amily, whiclvhas been resident for a considerable time in the bishopric of Durham, is,
John Eden, of Be/sis in Durham, Esq. who had a grant of the arms, which the family now bear, and married Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of William Lambton, of Lambton in Durham, Esq. by whom he had issue
Robert Eden, of IFcsf Aukland, living 15/5, who married Jane, daughter and coheir of John Huton, of Hinwick in Dur- ham, and had issue
John Eden, Esq. who died about l625, leaving issue by Margery daughter of Welbury, of Castle- Eden in Dur- ham, Esq.
CoL. Robert Eden, of IFest Aukland and JFimUcston, who died about Christmas \6Q2, and was buried at St. Helen's Auk- land, having married two wives: first, Anne, daughter and coheir of Matthew Bee, of Northumberland, Esq. ; secondly, Dorothy, daughter of Sir William Wray, of Bemish in Dur- ham.
By his first wife he had.
First, John.
Second, Robert, of Branspeth, who married a daughter of Delaval.
Third, Anne, married to William Swinborne, of Newcastle.
By the second he had.
Fourth, Alexius, who married a daughter of Wray,
and died without issue.
Fifth, Catherine.
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JoHNj the eldest son, died 16/5, and was buried in St. Helens Auckland : he married Catherine, daughter of Sir Thomas Laton, of Laton, in Yorkshire, Knight; she died about 1086; by whom he had.
First, Sir Robert, the first Baronet.
Second, John Eden, a merchant, in Newcastle, who married
Elizabeth, daughter of Hendnoarsh, of Little Bentley, and
left issue, a son and two daughters.
Third, Laton Eden, rector of Hartborne in Northumberland,
who married a daughter of the Rev. Mr. Johnson, of , by
whom he had several sons and daughters.
Fourth, William Eden, who died unmarried.
Sir Robert Eden, the^r.f^ Baronet, represented the county of Durham in parliament for many years, temp. Car, IL Will. IIL and Anne. He m:;rried Margaret, daughter and heir of John Lambton, of the city of Durham, Esq. by whom he had issue eight sons.
First, Sir John, his successor.
Second, Robert, living in 1741, a bachelor.
Third, William, deceased.
Fourth, Thomas, D. D. prebendary of Durham, and rector of Winston, in the bishoprick of Darham, by the donation of the Lord Crew, late bi'^hop of that diocese ; he married Dorothy, daughter to the Lord Viscount Downe, of the kingdom of Ire- land, and relict of Robert Shafto, of Whitv^'orth, Esq. She died without issue, November, 1734.
Fifth, Lambton, who died an infant.
Sixth, George ; seventh, Henry ; and eighth Lambton, who all died unmarried.
And several daughters ; first, Margaret, who died 1727;> un- married ; second, Catherine ; third, Elizabeth, married to Mat- thew Whitfield, of Whitfield in the county of Northumberland, Esq. ; fourth, Anne ; fifth, Hannah, married to James Mickleton, of the city of Durham, Esq. deceased : and Mary, who died un- married. Sir Robert died March, 17'20, and his relict, July 2d, 1 730.
Sir John Eden, second Baronet, his eldest son and successor in dignity and estate, represented the county of Durham in several parliaments, in the reigns of Queen Anne, and King George I. He married the daughter of Mark Shafto, of Whitworth, Esq. by whom he had one son.
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Sir Robert, his successor.
Sir John died at the Bath, May 2d, 1728 : he was succeeded in title and estate by his only son.
Sir Robert Eden, third Baronet, who married. May 8th, 1739, Mary, (who died about 1794) youngest daughter to Wil- liam Davison, late of Bemish in Durham, Esq. by whom he had issue.
First, Sir John, his successor, the present Baronet, born Sep- tember, 1740.
Second, Sir Robert, late governor of Maryland, created a Baronet, September lOth, 1776, who married Caroline, daughter and coheiress of Lord Baltimore, and died in 178O', leaving issue. Sir Frederick-Morton, the late Baronet, who died I8OI), leaving issue.
Third, Catherine, who married, January 23d, i770> the Rev. John Moore, D. D. late Archlishop of Canterbury, by whom she had issue, George, M. A. in holy orders, prebendary of Canter- bury, and rector of Wrotham, Kent; Charles, M. P. for Wood- stock ; Robert, M. A. prebendary of Canterbury, and rector of Latchingdon, Essex 3 and John.
Fourth, William, now Lord Aukland.
Fifth, Thomas, deputy auditor of Greenwich Hospital, died in May, 1805, leaving issue eight children.
Sixth, Dulcibella, married to Matthew Bell, Esq. and has issue, Dulcibella, married her cousin, the Reverend Robert Moore, M.A.
Seventh, Morton, Knight of the Bath, married Lady Eliza- beth Henley, sister to the last Earl of Northington, created an Irish peer in 1799, by the title oi Lord Henley, and has issue.
Eighth, Mary, married to the Reverend Richard Richardson, M. A. chancellor of St. Paul's, and rector of Elwick and Wittop Gilbert, Durham. There v\ere three sons, who all died un- married. ^
He was succeeded by his eldest son,
Sir John Eden, the present andfourth Baronet, who, June 26, 1764, married Catherine, daughter of John Thompson, of Kirby- hall, Yorkshire, Esq. This Lady died without issue, March 12th, 1766, aged twenty-three, and was buried at West -Aukland. Sir John married, secondly, April 9th, 1767, Dorothea, sole daughter of Peter Johnson, Esq. recorder of York, by whom he has a nu- merous family. He long represented the county of Durham in parliament.
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William Eden, third son, and younger brother of the present Baronet, is now Lord Aukland. Having been educated at Eton, where he formed an intimacy with Lord Carlisle, and other men of rank, he went to Christ-church, Oxford, and thence to the Middle Temple, where he was called to the bar, in 1769. But he made little progress in the lucrative parts of this profes- sion ; and seems to have early turned his ambition to politics. Hence he obtained a seat in parliament, and, in 1778^ accom- panied Lord Carlisle's diplomatic mission to America, and after- wards attended as his chief secretary when that peer went lord lieutenant to Ireland, 178O, 1782. He was sworn of the privy- council of that kingdom ; and in 1783, he was also sworn of the privy-council of England.
In December, 1785, he was named envoy extraordinary, and minister plenipotentiary to the court of Versailles, for the purpose of concluding a treaty of commerce between Great Britain and France, which was accomplished, September 20th, 1785 ; on the 15th of January, 1787;, he signed, with the Comte de Vergennes, a farther convention; and, on August 31st following, he con- cluded and signed with the Comte de Montmorin, a convention for preventing all disputes between the subjects of their respective sovereigns in the East Indies.
In October and November in the same year, his Lordship, in concurrence with the Duke of Dorset, negociated and signed the declarations which were exchanged between the courts of London and Versailles, relative to the revolution which then took place in the United Provinces.
In March, 17S8, he went as ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the court of Spain; in November, 1789, he was appointed ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the States-General of the United Provinces ; and, on the 10th of December, 1790, he concluded and signed the convention be- tween the Emperor Leopold, the Kings of Great Britain and Prussia, and the States-General of the United Provinces, relative to the alfairs of the Netherlands.
For these services he was raised to the Irish peerage by the title of Lord Aukland, November ISth, 1/89.
He was farther dignified by a peerage of Great Britain, by the title of Lord Aukland of Aukland, in the county of Durham, May 23d, 1793.
In 1798, 1799, and 1801, he was appointed joint postmaster- general, and has, at various times, filled other high and lucrative
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offices : but is at present in opposition. He is auditor and director of Greenwich Hospital, &c.
His Lordship is a man of literature; a constant debater in parliament ; of manners well adapted for diplomacy; and of great industry, and detailed information. About 17/6, he published Four Letters to Lord Carlisle on Finance, which obtained him some credit ; "^ and is since supposed to have written some poli- tical pamphlets.
His Lordship married, September 26, 1/76, Eleanor, youngest daughter of the Rt. Hon. Sir Gilbert Elliott, ofMinto, Baronet (father of the piesent Lord Minto), and by her has issue :
First, Eleanor Agnes, born in London, June pth, 1777 ; mar- ried, June 1st, 1799) Robert, Earl of Buckinghamshire.
Second, Catherine-Isabella, born in New York, September 20th, 1/78; married, July 22d, I8O6, the Rt. Hon. Nicholas Vansittart, and died IS 10.
Third, Elizabeth-Charlotte, born in London, March 2 1st, 178O; married, March 31st, 1801, Lord Francis Godolphin Os- born, brother to the Duke of Leeds.
Fourth, Caroline, born at the Phoenix-Park, Dublin, July 2gth, 178I ; married, June 17th, I8O6, Arthur Vansittart, Esq. late M. P. for Windsor.
Fifth, William-Frederick-EUiott, born in London, January 19th, 1782, one of the Tellers of the Exchequer, ^ was drowned in the Thames early in 1810. He was M. P. for Wookstock.
Sixth, George, born at Eeckenham in Kent, August 25th, 1784.
Seventh, Henry, born in Paris, April 28th, 1786, and died June 13th, 1794.
Eighth, Mary-Louisa, born at St. Ildefonso in Spain, Sep- tember 14th, 178S ; married, June 26th, I8O6, Andrew Wed- derburn, Esq.
Ninth, George-Charles-William-Frederick, born at the Hague, April 23d, 1791 ; died December 1798,
Tenth, Mary-Dulcibella, born at Beckenham, September Jst, 1793.
Title. William Eden, Lord Aukland of Aukland, and Lord Aukland of Ireland.
a His chief work is, On the principlts of Penal Latv. '' On this vacancy the Rt. Hon. Chailcs Yorke was appoimcd to t'i« Tellership.
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Creations. The English Barony by patent May 23d, 17()3 , the Irish Barony by patent November 18th, l/Sg.
Arms. Gules, a chevron charged vt^ith three escallops betweets three garbs, or ; a mullet for difference.
Crest. An arm embowed in mail, grasping a garb.
Supporters. Two horses, the dexter guardant.
Motto. Si sit Prudentia.
Chief Seat. Eden Farm, Beckenham, Kent.
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I'lTZPATRICK, LORD UPPER OSSORY.
(EARL OF UPPER-OSSORY IN IRELAND.;
Ihe noble family of Fitzpatrick is said to be descended from Hcreraon, son of Milesius, King of Spain, and the first Irish mo- narch of the Milesian racej their descent is deduced by the an- cient heralds of this kingdom in a long train of succession from father to son, little worth the reader's notice; and therefore we shall only observe, that they tell us, in the sixty-seventh descent, lived FiTZKERVAiLL, ancestor to the numerous sept of the Brenans of Idough, in the county of Kilkenny, (which forms a part of the Castlecomer estate, now in possession, in right of his mother, of the Earl of Ormond) and was succeeded by his son Fitzkelli, the father of Doxatus, the father of Donald, whose son Fitz- PHADKUAiG, was father of Fitzscanlan (MorcJ MacgioUa Pha- dniaig, from whom the nameof Macgill Patrick, now softened into Fitzpatrick, is derived.
To him succeeded his son Donald, the father of
Geoffry, who by O'Meaghir's daughter had
A son of his own name, who married the daughter of Richard (More) Tobin, and had
DoNALDUs (Donogh) Prince of the territory of Upper-Ossory in the province of Leinster, who in the year 1027 put out the eyes of his kinsman Teige Macgillo Patrick ; married the daughter of the chief OErenan of Idough, and died in lOSp, leaving
DoxAi.D Macdonukl Macgill Patrick, Princ? of Ossory, who •vas slain in IOS7, and by the daughter of jNIacmurrogh, lord of the province of L; ii-.^ter, left
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Fynin (Fyncene, or Florence) his heir, who by the daughter of O'Kerrol, had
A son of his own name, who married a daughter of Edmund Butler, and had
John, or Shane Macgill Patrick, who by the daughter of O'Molloy, hr.d
Bkyan, ^ Bernard, or Barnaby (Bernardus) Macgill Patrick, or Fil%patrich, chief of Upper-Ossory, living in the reigns of King Henry VII. and Ylil. to the latter of whom, in 1322, he sent an express messenger, to complain of Pierce, Earl of Ormond, L. D. who taking an opportunity to meet the King as he was going to chapel, delivered his embassy in these words : " Sta pedibus, Do- mine Rex, Dominus mens Gillapatricius me misit ad te, et jussit dicere^ quod si non viscastigare Petrum Rufum, ipse faciei Bellum contra te." He married the daughter of O'iVIore, Lord of I-eix, and was father of
Barnard, Barnabas, Barnaby, or Bryan (for so he was indis- criminately named) Macgill Patrick, who, October 8th, 153/, made his submission to the King's commissioners for the settle- ment of the kingdom, after the rebellion of the Fitzgeralds was suppressed, who had entered into indeniuies with him, that he should be Baron of Cowchill, or Castleton, and have the lands in Upper-Ossory granted to him at the yearly acknowledgement of three pounds to the crown, of which he chose to be created Baron, and had that title conferred upon him by patent '> bearing date at Dublin, June Uth, 1541, (33 Hen. VilL) ent-iling tiie honour <= on his issue malej "^ was knipjiSed July 1st, J543, but was after- it Here is a great deficicr.cy of generations to fill up the interval from Donald Prince of Ossory, 10S7.
b The Preamble. Sciatis quod nos grata et laudabilia Obsequia, quae di- iectus et fidelis Sub.'itu.; nostcr Barnaruus Macyylle Patrick AvmiKcr n:;bis impendit, indiesque impendere non de-.istit ; necnon Circumspectioucm et Strenuitatem, ac Fidelitateni ipsius Barnardi intime considcrantes, ex certa Scientia et mere motu nostiis, de Gratia nostra s' tciali prasfatum Baniaraiim ad Stitum, Gradum, Dignitatem et Honorem Baronis de Uppyre-Ossory in Terra nostra Hibernifc e2-c\imus, &c.
<; Rot Pat. de Ao. 32, 330. Ken. VIII. i'. p f. R 11.
(1 The King also, July i.-t, 1543, sent his directions, that a grant should pass to him and his heirs male, of a house and [)arcel of laud near Dubln, not exceeding the value of 10/. a year, in [Mirsuance whereof .December 5thj were assigned him the grange of Balgeeth, othcwise Harold's.grange, otherwise the grange on the marches ; a \vatc;-mill and the water-cou'se there, with the ways and paths leading thereto and theiefiom, to hold by the service of one knight's fee. Having also the grant of a Thursday market and fairs, with the house of the friars at Aghavoe, (of Aghaboe) and the monastery of Agh- jrnacart, in tiic Oueen'5 county.
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wards taken prisoner and confined in the city of Waterford^ until he had made restitution for some preys he had seized in Leix. He married, first, Margaret, eldest daughter of Pierce, Earl of Ormond, widow of Thomas Fitzgerald, second .son of the Earl of Desmond, by whom he had four sons and one daughter, viz. Barnaby (Oge) his heir 3 Fynin, or FJorence, who succeeded his brother; Teige, or Thady, (who in 1546 was sent prisoner to Dublin by his father, and there executed for his crimes) ; Geotfiyj and Grany, married to Edmund, the second \'iscount Mountgarret. His second wife was Elizabeth, third daughter of Br}'an O'Conor, of OfTaley, by his wife Mary, daughter of Gerald, Earl of Kildare ; but by her, who survived him, and July 25th, 1551, had a license to go into England, he is said to leave no issue ; yet we find mention made in Sir Henry Sidney's state papers, of two other sons, Callagh, and Tirlagh.
Sir Barnaby Fitzpatkick, the second Lord, was of full age at bis father's death, and enjoyed a large share of esteem from King Edward VI. to whom he was a frequent companion, and so much endeared, that his Majesty was said to love none almost but him, which is sufficiently evinced by the many kind letters the young King wrote to him in 1551, and which are still extant, whilst he served as a volunteer in France, under King Henry II. against the Emperor. After his return from that kingdom, he behaved with great bravery against Sir Thomas Wyat, who had raised disturbances in England, and in 1558 was knighted by the Duke of Norfolk at the siege of Leith in Scotland, in the begin- ning of Queen Elizabeth's reign; in whose jiarliament, held at Dublin, January 12th, 155f), he v.':is present.
The L. D. Sidney, in his relation of the state of the kinc- dom, sent to the lords of the council from Wateiford, December 16th, 1575, makes this honourable mention of him : " Upper- Osserie is so well governed and defended, by the valor and wise- dome of the Baron that novve is as, savinge for suertie of good order here after in succession, it made no matter, if the countrie were never shired, nor her Majesties writt otherwise curraunt than it is; so humblye he keepeth all his people suiect to obe- dience and good order; and yet united to some shire it shal be, and the Baron hym self verye well agreeinge lo yeeld both fync, rent, and service, as other countries, latelye brought to soch frame iloe and shall doe."'' The L. D. at that time constituted Jiim
ri Sidr.cy's Ldters, vol. i. p 83.
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L. L. of the King's and Queen's counties, with divers Irish countries adjoining, which were much better preserved in peace and quietj than they had been, by his diligence, policy, and careful service : insomuch that the next year the deputy informed the council of England, that the 0-Mores and O'Conors did not exceed the number of 100 fighting men, nor of that company, not above four able to lead to any exploit ; so much of late had they been bereft of their principal men by the great diligence, policy and pains taking of the Lord of Upper Ossory, Mr. Crosbye, Mr. Harpoole, and Owen Macugo, ^
In 15/8, the great rebel Rory Oge O'More, who then stood proclaimed, having burnt the towns of Naas, Leighlin-Bridge, and part of Carlow, sent a well instructed spy, June 29th, to en- trap the Lord Upper-Ossory, his powerful prosecutor, by inform- ing him, as if in great friendship and secrecy, that Rory had been of late in the county of Kilkenn), and taken a great prey of all sorts of household stuff, which might easily be recovered, and he with his company taken, which he also falsely represented to be few in number. His Lordship neither wholly believing nor mis- trusting the intelligence, prepared for the enterprize j but wisely suspecting and providing for the worst, took a strong party of horse and foot, and when he approached the appointed place, sent thirty of his men into the woods to search for Rory, staying with the rest to attend the event. The company no sooner en- tered the wood, than Rory appeared with near an equal number of attendants, the rest lying in ambush ; but as soon as his Lord- ship's Kerne perceived him, they gave him the charge, and one of them thrusting him through the body with his sword, two or three more fell upon him, and gave him such mortal wounds, that he died, June 30th, in the morning ; and thus (says the L. D. in his advice hereof to the council of England) ended the life of this rebel, who by the maintenance of his neighbours, and sr.pply of aids from some of his friendly borderers, had so long continuance, to the charge of the Queen, and disquiet of the state ; concluding, " And in the mean tyme, I humblye beseach your Lordships ef fectuallye to thank my Lord of Upper Osserie, who, of his own chardge, and with his owne forces onelye, without her Majesties pay, hath adventured hym selfe in the service, and so happelye hath atchieved it to his greate estimacion and creditt." ^ Nay, so disinterested was his Lordship in this and all his services to the
• Sidney's Letters, vol. i. p.iGj. '" Ibid p-a64.
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state, that when the L. D. offered him the 1000 marcs^ due by proclimation for Rory's head, he would only accept of lOOl. to be divided among his men, for their present reward and future en- couragement.
In 15/9, he attended the deputy into jVIanster against James Fitzmaurice, who had arrived there with some Spaniards ; in con- sideration of which he enjoyed a pension in England ; received warrants for above 300/. and had a grant of the next presentation and right of patronage to the rectory of Donaghmore in the diocese of Ossory, for any fit person he should nominate: and in 1580, Sir Henry Sidney, in his instructions to his successor Arthur, Lord Grey, how to proceed in his government, thus recommends his Lordship to him: " And nowe, my good Lord and beloved com- panion, I will sease to wright of any matter, and to treate a little of men ; the moste sufficient, mostc faithful kinde that ever I founde there, were the Barron of (Jpper-Ossery, Sir Lucas Dillon, and Sir Nicholas Malbie^ these for princepnle men both for councell and action; and who ever moste diligentlie and faith- fuUie discharged that which I comitted to them, and trulie they be men of greate sufficiencie." s
In 1560, he married Joan, daughter of Sir Rowland Eustace, Viscount Baltinglas, by his wife Joan, daughter of James, Lord Dunboyne, by whom he had an only daughter Margaret, '' the first wife to James, Lord Dunboyne (grandson of the aforesaid James), who died February 18th, l624 ; and making his will in Dublin, September Qth, 1581, ' bequeaths divers lands and goods to his lady for life, remainder to his daughter and her children ; and (among other legacies) to his brother Florence all his wyle slQode, all his armour, shirts of mail, and other furniture of war, saving that which served for both the houses of the Borriedoe and Killenye, which, after his wife's decease or marriage, he Avills to remain for the furniture of those two castles constantly. He leaves to him likewise half his pewter and brass ; all his tylhes in Ossory (except those of Achnvoe, bequeathed to liis wife) all the plate left him by his father; all his horses ,; his robes of par-
s Sidney's Letters, vol. i. p 283- !i See examination of witnesses taken Fcbruaiy i5tli, 1^8;, before Adam, Archbishop of Dublin, and Lord Chancellor; ad perpctuani Rei meinoriani, upon a bill, with certain interrogatories, exhibited by James Butler, Baron of D^mboync, A". 270. Eiiz. D.
> Or a deed (says Mr. Lo.!gc), September (jth, 1521, is" Eliz
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liament j and the whole disposition of such lands as his other brethren possessed, which were but at will, to hold as the same was left himself by his father ; they to enjoy it so long as they served him truly and faithfully. His feoffees, after his wife's death, to stand seized of all the estate in the Queen's county, to the use of his daughter Margaret and her heirs, until such time as his brother Fynin, or any other after him, who should be Lord Baron of Upper-Ossory, should pay to her or them the sum of 200Z. English, and dying September 11th, 1581, (23 Eliz.) at two o'clock in the afternoon, at the house of William Kelly, sur- geon, in Dublin, ^ was succeeded by his brother
Fynin, ox Florence ^ the third Lord, December 11th, 1581, being of full age, as was proved by inquisition 24 Eliz. ; but had a controversy concerning his legitimacy with Teige Macshanc Macgill Patrick, of Ballygihen in the Queen's county, Gent, then a poor blind man, who alledged bastardy against hirn (no uncom- mon thing at that time), of which he was acquitted by a decree, dated May 12th, 1607.' He sat in Sir John Perrot's parliament
k See deposition bill, wherein the said Kelly deposed as above, and that his Lordship died in Mind.
1 I'eige Macshane pretended to be his Lordship's nephew by his younger brother Shane, who had aiso a:K)ther son, Dermot Macshane, who joined with the rebels, and caused the caL-tle of Ballygihen to be barnt. This allegation his Lordship was so far from allowing, that he charged the said Shane and all his sons with bastardy : which Teigc denied, and averred himself to be his heir male lawfully begotten, and born in lawful matrimony by EUene Butler, daughter of the Lord Viscount Mountgarret. In answer to this, Lord Upper Ossory alledged, that the said Shane first married Onory, daughter ot O'Doyne of Iregan, with whom he lived as man and wife a long time, but forsook her and kept the said Ellene Butler, a bastard and supposed daughter to the said Lord Mountgarret, and upon her begot the complainant, his supposed son, in the life-time of the said Onory Doyne his wife. Teige denied this, and averred that Onory was never married in face of holy church to his father Shane, nor was his lawful wife ; but that the said Ellene Butler was his law- ful wife : and charged that Lord Upper Ossory could no way claim the lijnds of Ballygihen, &c. in descent, for that Joan ny Carroull was wife, and married in face of holy church to his pretended father Bryan Macgille Patrick, during v.-hich intermarriage in the life of the said Joan, Florence was born of the body of Margaret Butler, out of all espousals ; and therefore had his father Teige died without heirs (as he did not;, for that the said Teige averred him- self to be his lawful son and heir, he could no way claim the said lands tor that very cause To this his Lordsliip rejoined, that he was born in lau fui matrimony between the said Bryan and IMargaret Butler, daughter of the Earl of Ormond, and that Joan ny Carroull was never married to tiie said Brvan. Upon which, and the examination of witnesses, it appeared.'that the •vl.lef point in controversy was the bastardy imputed tg Teige ; which was so
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in 1.585; was strictly loy;il, and taithful in his allegiance to the crown J and in the year 16OO repaired to the Queen, to remind her Majesty of his dutiful conduct and service; and upon his de- parture made humble suit, that for the better establishment of peace and quiet in the country of Upper-Ossory, and the further- ance of her service, she would vouchsafe to reduce the same into shire-ground, and annex it to the Queen's county; and to grant unto him in fee-farm som.e privileges and church livings, lying within the limits of his seigniory, not exceeding 20/. a year; as namely, the patronage of Aghavoe, the small abbies ofAghavoe and Aghmacart, the parsonages of Attemagh, alias Attanagh, Cowlkirrie, Killenye, and Eirke. Whereupon her Majesty, by privy-seal from Greenwich, July 21st, was pleased to declare, that such was her gracious acceptation of his long approved loyalty and service, especially in tl.ose times of tumults, when others had degenerated from their obedience, that in her princely favour and bounty she was pleased, that the said territory of Upper-Ossoiy should be reduced by patent into shire-ground and annexed to the Queen's county; and further, to grant to him and his heirs the aforesaid premises. "' He married Catherine, daughter of
sufficiently proTed, that the Lord Chancellor and court were satisfied that he was a bastard, and May 12, 1607, adjudged the lands to Lord Upper Ossory. Rot. Pat. 6 Jac I. 2'la. p. D. R 21.
in Accordingly, by patent dated at Westminster, August i6th, 1600, werir granted to him and his son John, the honours, castles, lordships, manors and towns of Cowlchill, Formoyle, Grace-Castle, Water-Castle, Tentoure, Castle- Town, Burrishe, Donnaghmore, Flemingsiown, Sec. in the country of LTpper Ossory ; together with all the advowsons of churches and other hereditaments whatsoever, which before that time did apjiertain to him within the said country, to hold to him and his said son John, and the heirs male of tlieir re- spective bodies ; remainder to his sons GeoflVy, Barnaby, and Edmund, and their heirs male ; remainder to the heirs male of his own body ; remainder to tliose of his father Barnabas, Lord Upper Ossory ; remainder to those of Bar- nabas his grandfather; to hold by the service of an entire knight's fee, a hawk, and 7 /. Irish, annual rent. By this confirmation of the estate, Teige, his Lordship's eldest son, was deprived of his birthriglu; but, after his father's death, insisting on his right, great variances ensued lo the detriment of the fortune; the arbitration of which being at length by their joint petition re- ferred t0 King James I. his Majesty to that purpose wrote the followin;? letter, dated at Salisbury, August 7th, 1618.
" Right Trusty, &c. " Wheare we are informed by the humble petition of our faithful sub- jects Teige, Lord Baron of Upper Ossory, Earnaby f itzpatrick, his son and heir apparent, and John FitZjiatrick, second brother to the said Lord Baron, that the determination of the long contioversics betwc-.n them for tiie baronv
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Patrick O'More, of Leix in the Queen's county, head of that sept (some call her Joan, daughter of Rory O'More), and dying in the reign of James I. had issue five sons and two daughters^ viz.
First, Thady (Teige) his successor.
Second, John, of Castletown, ancestor to Lord Upper Ossory.
Third, GeofFry, of Ballyraghin or Ball)fharagh, who July 31st, 1629, had a grant of that place and other lands, containing one thousand seven hundred and eighteen acres of arable and pasture land, and two thousand one hundred and thirteen of wood and bog, as a native, in the territory of Upper-Ossory, to be holden in capite, and at the rent of 8/. English, which were erected into
of Upper Ossory in the Queen's county hath rested, and by and with their consents, by the order of our L- D. and council there, according to our desire and command to that effect ; and that a certain proportion of the said barony in the meane, and of the rents and services of the pretending freeholders of the rest of the said barony, were allotted to each of them by the said order; and that most part of the said pretending freeholders have conveyed their lands unto our said subject John Fitzpatrick and his heirs, and that tlie rest are ready to do the like ; and therefore have been humble suitors unto us, that we would be graciously pleased to accept from them several surrenders of the several proportions of the said barony to them severally intended by the said order; and thereupon to grant unto them and their heirs, several letters patent of the said several proportions respectively ; which suit being unto us reasonable, and the rather that they have conformed themselves to our pleasure in the difference between them, we are graciously pleased, and do hereby require you to issue commissions to inquire what lands, &c. arc within the said several proportions, and upon return thereof, to accept from the said Lord Baron, Barnaby and John, a surrender of all the manors, castles, &c. within the said barony, and to grant the sa.me to the Lord Raron for term of his life, the remainder to the said Barnaby and his heirs, of all such castles, lands, &c. as shall be found to be the proportion of them respectively, and to make a like grant to John of what shall be found to be his proportion, and to his heirs. And our further pleasure is, that all the premises granted to the Lord Upper Ossory shall be created one entire manor, by the name of the manor of Cowlchill, and those granted to John, into the manor of Castle- town O'Farralen."
Queen Elizabeth also by another patent, dated April mth, 1601, in con- sequence of her said warrant from Greenwich of July list, 1600, in considera- tion of his good, true, faithful, and acceptable services, confirmed to him ana his heirs the site and circuit of the monastery of Aghmacarie, with all its an- purienanc?s; a water-mill, the tythes of grain and hay of the rectory of Agi;- macarte, with the tythes of the town of Cowlchill; the site and civcuit of the Friary of Athbone, otherwise Agliavoe, and the rectories of I'owlkeriv riui Aghmagh, Eirke, Glashaier, Killynny, and St. Kenny of Aghavoe, in the Queen's county ; whicii grant was contirmed by King J a me.-. I, May ijtii, 1611, to be held of the cronn in tec farm, at the rent of i^l. 8j. zd. Iiibii money.
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the manor of Ballyraghin, with power to hold one thousand two hundred and seventy-five acres in demesne, and two fairs at Errila on June 1st, and August 4th, with other privileges. He married Mary, daughter of Fergus Ferrall, of Tenelick in the county of Longford, Esq. widow of Sir John O'Reily, and dying at Baliy- raghin, August 13th, l638, had issue by her (who, June 30th, l6l5, had a pension of 80/. a year granted for life, to be paid out of the crown rents of Ulster) two daughters. Ell ice and Cathe- rine, the younger of whom died unmarried, and the elder was first married to Thomas Butler, of Pollardstown in the county of Limerick, Esq. fifth son of James, the second Lord Dunboyne, who dying April 24th, l637, had issue James ; Margaret j Mary ; Ellen J and EUice : she re-married with William Burke also of Pollardstown, younger son of Theobald the first Lord Brittas, who being hanged at Limerick by Ireton in 1653, had issue by her, Theobald, the third Lord Brittas (successor to his uncle John, who died in l668) ; Richard; and Honora.
Fourth, Barnaby, or Bryan Fitzpatrick, of Water-Castle, who, by virtue of the commission for the plantation of the Queen's county, dated at Dublin, September 4th, 1626, had a grant No- vember 20th, of the whole estate of the family, as a native, upon the plantation of Upper Ossory. "
Fifth, Edmond, of Castle-Fleming, living in 1041, the father of Andreas, or Andrew, of that place, who was engaged in the
n Which was computed to contain 7783 acres of arable and pasture lands , and 39';7 of wood and bog, \vi h the monastery of Aghmacarte, the tythes of Cowlchill, Sec. whict' were erected into the manor of Cowlchill, with the privilege of holding rrourts, a Tuesday and Saturday market, and a fair on May i6tf;, at Snanbally near Cowlchill, and to impark looo acres, with free warren and chact. He had also a grant by the same patent, jointly with Thomas Hovendcn, E^q. of the castle, towns and hnds of Castle-tleming, then in the tenure of his brother Edmond; and the King further granted to him and the said Hovenden the towns and lands of Cooletrym, Brokery, &c. amounting to 777 acres cf arable and pasture, and 665 of wood and bog, which had been lately assigned to them oi the natives' lands, to the use of his said brother Edmorid and his htirs male; remainder to tlie use of the noble Thady, otherwise Teige, then Lord oi Upper Ossory, and his heirs male; re- mainder to the use of me heirs male of Florence, late Baron of Upper Ossory ; remainder to the right heirs of the saiJ Florence; and the premises were erected into the manor of Castle Fleming. Also, to the said Bryan and Tho- mas were granted many other lands in the said county, in trust for Daniel Fitzpat'ick ; John Maccallowe Fi.zpatrick; Bryan J'itzpatrick, of Garran ; Donell Macshane Fitzpatrick, o'' ■ t'lytarsney ; Dermot Fitzpatrick, of Clonyb ; and Deimot Macteige L »i i Akipp.
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rebellion. The daughters were, Catherine, ° married in May^ 15g2, to James Eustace, of Newland in the county of Kildare, Esq. son and heir to John Eustace of that place, who died Ja- nuary 18th, 1607, leaving his said son (by his wife Ellice Barne- wall) then thirty-five years old, and by him, who died October 13th, 1640, had Christopher Eustace, Esq. who married Anne, daughter of Redmond Fitzgerald, of Tiraochoc in the same county, Esq. 5 and Joan, to John Butler, son and heir to James, Lord Dunboyne. p
Thady, or Teige, the fourth Lord of Upper Ossory, was rated 100 marcs to the subsidy, July 8th, l6l5. He received his Majesty's letters, dated at Salisbury, August /th, 16I8, directing his Lordship, his son Bryan, and brother John, to surrender their lands, and pass new patents for the same, which was accordingly performed. He married Joan, daughter of Sir Edmond Butler, ot Tullow in the county of Carlow, second son of James, Earl of Ormond, and grand-daughter of Earl Pierce; and dying in De- cember, 1627. was buried in the Abbey of Aghmacarte, the burial place of the family, having issue by her, who died in )631, and was interred in the cathedral of St. Canice, Kilkenny, four sons and four daughters, viz. Barnaby, his successor ; Dermoid, or Darby (who first married Elan, daughter of Nicholas Shortall, of Claragh in county of Kilkenny, Esq ; and secondly, Ellinor, daughter of Richard Comerford, of Ballybirr in the same county, Esq v/idow of John Kennedy, of Ballynegarry in Tipperary, Esq.) ; Tirlagh, or Turlogh (t'xecutor to his mother's will, dated Sep- tember 16th, l()31, whose wife was Onora, daughter of Oliver Grace, of Courtstovvn in the said county, Esq.) ; John 3 Margaret, married to Thomas Hovenden, of Tankerston In the Queen's county, Esq.); Onora; Joan, married to William Butler, of Lynon in Tipperary, Esq. ; and Catherine, 1 February 6th, 1637, to Callaghan Fitzgerald, of Cloquhoyle in the Queen's county, Gent.
Bryan, or Barnaby, the fifth Lord, a noble young gentleman, took his seat in parliament July 1-lth, l6"34,'' and married INIar- garet, eldest daughter of Walter, Eail of Ormond, but died in the prime of his years, having i'-sue by her { who was living his widow at Water-Cnstle in the time of the rebellion of 1041^ in which re-
" Articles, or deed of fcoflment, dated May },d, 1592.
1> See Caliier, N
M Ulster's Oniee- i- Lords Journals, vol i. p-2.
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belllon she was engaged, sent out all her tenants of Water-Castle, &c. under the command of William Skendy, her bailiff., with some of her younger children, brought the stolen goods into her house and park, and took them to her own use) ' Bryan, or Barnabas, his heir ; Edward ; and Derby.
Bryan, the sixth Lord, took his seat in the house of peers March l6th, idSg, and after the irruption of the rebellion, en- gaged therein with the Irish of Ossory, whom about Easter 1642 he accompanied to the siege of Borras, in 1643 to that of Bally- nakill, with his brother Edward, for which he was indicted of high treason ; but after the restoration, his Lordship claiming his seat in parliament, it was referred. May 20th, l66], to the com- mittee for privileges to consider, whether being indicted of high treason and not outlawed, he should be admitted to sit in the house ? ' On September 20th, the Lord Viscount Massereene reported, that the committee were of opinion, that as he was only indicted and not outlawed, or any ways attainted, he was not de- prived from sitting in parliament : with which report the house concurred. He married Catherine, daughter of Sir Edward Everard, of Fethard in Tipperary, Knight, and had three sons and two daughters, viz. Bryan, his successor; John, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Bryan Cavenagh, of Polymonty in the county of (barlow, and had issue Brvan, Catherine, and Mary ; James, who died in England ; Ellen and Mary, who both died young.
Bryan, the seventh Lord of Upper Ossory, had a pension of 100/. a year from King Charles 11. which, January 1st, 1687, was continued by King James ; in whose army he served as a captain in Cinncarthy's regiment., and for his conduct in that station was outlawed in the county of the city of Dublin, May 11th, 1691 ; but in the act to hinder the reversal of several out- lawries and attainders (passed 6 King William) it was provided, that the same should not extend to confirm the ontlawries of Barnaby, late Baron of Upper Ossory, but that the same might be capable of being reversed in such manner, as if that act had never been made. His first wife was Margaret, daughter of Pierce, the first Viscount of Ikerrin, by whom he had Bryan, who died at Downpatrick, unmarried, of the small pox in 168/; Keran ; Mary; John and Catherine, who died infants. His second wife was Margaret, daughter and heir to James, Lord Dunboyne ; and
s Lodge Collect. t Lords Journals, vol. i p 236.
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his third Dorothy, daughter of WagstafFe ; and departing
this life before the year 1696, a clause in her favour was inserted in the act for vesting the forfeited estates in trustees j and she re- ceived from King William an estate for ninety-nine years, if she should so long live, in Kilballintallin, Killboy, and other lands in the Q-ueen's county 3 " also, upon her petition, leave was given by the house of commons, February 21st, 1701, for a bill to make the said clause more effectual. To the said Barnaby, or Bryan, Lord Upper Ossory, succeeded Barnaby Fitzpatrick, Esq. his nephew, (son of his brother John) who assumed the title, which was disallowed by the house of lords December 2d, 169/, who found from the report of the committee appointed to inspect the journals, tliat the said Barnaby, or Bryan, was outlawed May 1 1th preceding," and died in i6g8 ; which was again ineffectually laid claim to by Lieutenant James Fitzpatrick, who had one son Henry; and the said Henry, in January l/iy-oO, married Jane, daughter of Mr. Richard Farren. And November 15th, 17^1> the Earl of Cavan reported from the committee, appointed to con- sider of the return of the lords, made by the king at arms to the clerk of the house, that they had come to the following resolu- tion, viz. Resolved, that it is the opinion of this committee, that the honours of the late noble lords undernamed are extinct, and ought to be left out of the list of the peers of this kingdom, Sanderson, Viscount Ciastletown ; Fitzpatrick, Bjron of Upper Os- sory ; FoUiott, Baron of Ballyshannon ; Gorges, Baron of Dun- dalk; and Tichbourn, Baron Ferrard. To which the house agreed; and the king at arms was ordered to leave their names out of the lists. J'
We now proceed with John Fitzpatrick, o{ Castletown, Esq. second son of Florence, the third Baron, and ancestor to the pre- sent Earl of Upper Ossory. In the reign of King James L he
married Mabel, daughter of St. John, of the Queen's
county. Esq, by whom he had three sons 3 Florence, his heir j John, ofBardwellj and James, of Grantstown 3 who were both engaged in the rebellion of l64l with their brother Florence, ^ a
H Claims on or before August 10th, 1700 x Lords Journals, vol. i p 675. y Lords Journals, vol. iii. p i6j. 2 In virtue of the commission dated September 7tli, 1636, for remedy of defective titles, he passed patent August loth, 1637, to him and his heirs, of the abbey, town and lands of Aghavoe, Grantstown, Castletown, &c. which were created into the manor of Castletown, with usual privileges; provided, among other articles of agreement, that he nor bis heirs, nor any of them,
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principal commander during that time of confusion. On January 23d, 1 641, with about three hundred men, he took Knockinoy, the house of Lieutenant Henry Gilbert, which he rifled to the value of 300/. at the same time depriving him of all his rents, cattle, corn, sheep, horses, household goods, and other goods and chattels at Cloonin, Carrigin, Knockinatie, and other places, to his loss of 400/. more ; his father, Sir William Gilbert, being served in the same manner, about the same time, to the loss of 500/. in stock and goods, and 400/. a year in rents, of his part of Cloonin and other lands. In l0'42, accompanied with the Lord Upper Ossory, Andreas Fitzpatrick of Castle Fleming, Colonel Bryan Fitzpatrick of Rathdownagh, with about six or seven hundred men, he besieged the castle of Borras, whither all the prolestants of the barony of Upper Ossory had retired in the be- ginning of the rebellion for protection, but was obliged by Sir Charles Coote to raise the siege on Easter-day that year ; to which howcer he returned about Lammas, and so reduced the place, that the besieged for a long time fed upon horses, dogs, cats, bean-leaves, potatoe-tops, and cow-hides, being without bread, drink, or salt ; and about AU-Hallowtide, Colonel Plunket, with about 1000 men, demanded the surrender of the castle in the King's name, saying, that if the warders held the castle to the King's use, he would send in more armed men to assist them ; unto which And'ew Brereton, of Killadowle, Queen's county, Gent, (being left by Sir Charles Coote, chief commander of the place) replied, that if he would shew any authority, under the King, for what he required and offered, that he would obey. Whereupon (for want of such authority, as it seems) he departed. And about the last of November Colonel Preston, with about 1500 men, beleaguering the place and playing upon the court- gate with two field-pieces and a small battering piece, and work- ing under ground, the besieged, in regard there were but twenty warders, the castle large, and not a day's ammunition left, were compelled to surrender upon quarter, having their lives and worst clothes only granted to them : for which, August 12th, 1652, he was excepted from pardon for life and estate by Cromwell's act of parliament for the settling of Ireland,
should asiume or take the name, title or style of Macgille Patrick, or consent to maintain and support the said name, in order to the exaction or payment of any rent, tax, or service; or divide the land, or any parcel thereof accord- ing to the Irish custom of Gavelkind.
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He married Bridget, daughter of Darcy, of Platen in
Meath, Esq. by whom he left
John Fitzpatrick, of Castletown, Esq. who when the king- dom was reduced by the parliament, had an order dated at Clon- mell May 19th, \652, to receive fourteen days pay for 100 horse, and a month's pay for 1000 foot, to commence from the twenty- fourth of that month, to be raised in such manner and upon such persons, as was directed in the articles, concluded with Sir Walter Dongan and others at Kilkenny, for the raising of one month's pay to those that should lay down arms by virtue of the said ar- ticles. Upon the restoration of King Charles II. he preferred a petition to the commissioners of the treasury to be restored to his estate ; upon whose report the King, in regard of his many ser- vices and sufferings, gave directions for the same to be done ; and the commissioners for executing his Majesty's declaration for the settlement of Ireland, did accordingly, before any act of parlia- ment passed for that purpose, by their decree August 1st, 166I, restore to him divers lands in the Queen's county, which decree was allowed and confirmed November 26th, 1662, by the com- missioners for executing the act of settlement j by a provisoe in which act he was restored in blood, and enabled to derive his pedigree from any ancestor, lineal or collateral, and the estate, whereof he or his father Florence was possessed before October 22d, l64l, was confirmed to him: upon due consideration had whereof, and of his loyalty and zeal to the King's service, mani- fested both to his Majesty and his father, not only in Ireland, but also in foreign parts ; the King, out of a desire that the estate, so restored, should be secured to him and his heirs, and discharged from all challenges and demands, which might be made to it by his Majesty, or any other claiming under the crown, was pleased by privy-seal, dated at Bath September l4th, l663, to require the L. L. to have an effectual patent passed of all the premises to him, his heirs and assignes, with all privileges enjoyed thereupon under the King or his father; which was accordingly done Fe- bruary 6th following, at the crown rent of 45 Z. 4*. Id.; after which, the King, as a further mark of his favour, ratified the es- tate to him, with two yearly fairs at Erriel, at the same crown- rent as was paid in the year l64]. But afterwards apprehend- ing, from some general words in the act of explanation (by a clause wherein the estate was again further confirmed to him) that some trouble might be given him in the Exchequer for new quit-rents, he besought the King for a discharge thereof by patent, which
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was granted September 1st, 167O3 and August 3d, 16/3, he had a privy-seal to receive 200/. out of the Exchequer.
On August 6th, 1677, he was compHmented with the degree of doctor of laws by the Duke of Ormond, chancellor of the uni- versity of Oxford; but in 16S9 was involved in King James's general act of attainder, and died in 1693. He married Eliza- beth, fourth daughter of Thomas, Viscount Thurles, sister of James, the first Duke of Ormond, and widow of James Purcell, titular Baron of Loughmoe, and by her, who died December 6lh, 1675, and was buried the 8tb, in St. Patrick's church, Dublin, had two sons ;
First, Edward.
Second, Richard, created Lord Gowran.
And a daughter, Arabella, married to Sir Thomas Wiseman, of East Grinsted in Sussex, Bart, and was mother of Sir Thomas, who died unnidrried May 1st, 1733, and of Sir George his suc- cessor.
Edward Fitzpatrick, Esq. the elder son, at the revolution had the command of a regiment given him, December 31st, 1(588 ; was made colonel of the royal English fusiliers August 1st, log'I, and promoted to the rank of a brigadier-general October 24th, l6y4; but was drowned in his passage from England to Ireland November 10th, i0q6, and died unmarried.
Richard, his brother,^r.$^ Lord Gowran, being bred to the sea service, had the command of a ship of war, in which station he signalized himself by his valour and conduct ; and to him and his brother, in consideration of their faithful services. King William, October J 2th, lliyt), granted the estate of Edmond Morris, for- feited by his being killed at Aghrim, wdiich consisted of the towns and lands of Grantstown, Donoghmore, Rahindornagh, Barna- ballmoragb, Lower Derry, Belady, the north-east of Derry-laghen, Cramrossc, Maherribegg, Ballinrawly-Wood called Clanconragh, Mongamore, and others in the Queen's county; to which his Lordship made large additions by purchase and his marriage. And so acceptable was the report of his services to his country, his fidelity to the crown, in promoting the Protestant succession in his Majesty's illustrious family, his integrity, humanity, and other amiable qualities, that King George I. thought him worthy «f a place among the peers of Ireland, and by privy-seal, dated at St. James's March 8th, 1714, and by patent'' at Dublin April
a The Preamble, ^uandoquidem ea qiiam tenemus Dignitate ob hoc piaecipue delectemur, quod d.e Patria bene-meritos Honoribus insignire nobii
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27th, 1715, created him Baron Gowran of Gowran; by which title he took his seat in parliament November 12th following, '' and two days after was one of the lords appointed to prepare an address, to congratulate his Majesty on his accession to the throne.
In July 171 8, his Lordship married Anne, younger daughter and coheir to Sir John Robinson, of Farming- wood in the county of Northampton, Bart. '^ and died JuneQth, 1727^ leaving issue by her, who deceased November 14th, 1744, "^ two sons ;
First, John, his heir.
Second, Richard, who married Anne, daughter of Mr. Usher, of London ; and by her, who died in London March 28th, 1759, he had a son born in December, 1755, and ihree daughters ; the elder born March 7th, 17^9, the second August ipth, 1751, and the younger September 10th, 1753, who died an infant.
John, the second Lord Gowran, and Jirst Earl of Upper Ossory, born in 1719, was appointed in January, 1745, master of Farming wood forest, part of the forest of Rockingham, for the term of ninety-nine years ; and by privy seal, dated at Kensington Au- gust 26th, and by patent *= October 5th, 1751, was created Earl of Upper Ossory, with limitation of the honour to his issue male; his Lordship was chosen in 1754 representative in the British parliament for the county of Bedford. In July, 1744, he married the Lady Evelyn Leveson Gower, eldest daughter of John, Earl Gower, and deceased September 23d, 1758, leaving issue by her Ladyship (who re-married in February, 1750, with Richard Ver- non, Esq. M. P. for Tavistock, and one of the secretaries to John, Duke of Bedford, L. L. of Ireland, and had two daughters, the
inde facta sit copia ; proinde fidelem et perquam dilectum nostrum Richardum Fitzpatrick, pervetusta paiiter ac generosa stirpe oriundum, ac Majorum famam virtute propria adsequantem, novis Honoribus augere decrevimus ; ut qui Re navali olim se Militem intrepidum, nee minus in periclitantis Reipub- licae procellis omni tempore inconcussum se exhibuerit Civem, arduis in pcs- terum Regni Negotiis inter optimates indesinenter invigilet. Sciatis igitur, &c. Rot. Can. de Ao. 10. I- i^i, p. f.
b Lord's Journals, vol. ii. p. 455. c He was the son of Sir John Robinson, Lord Mayor of London, created & Baronet June zzA, i66o. and lieutenant of the Tower from the restoration to his death. His wife was Mary, daughter of Sir William Dudley, of Clopton in Northamptonshire, Bart, by whom he had Mary, married to James, Earl of Weems, and Anne, to Lord Gowran.
d Rot. Ao. II Geo II, 3 p. D. e Rot. Cane, de A". 250. Geo II iJ-i. p D,
LORD UPPER OSSORY. 309
elder born in August, l/SO, andthe younger October 11th, 1762) two sons and two daughters, viz.
First, John, Lord Gowran.
Second, Richard, born January 24th, 1/48, is a general in the army, and was member in the British parliament for Tavis- tock, 1784, and is now representative for the county of Bedford. In 1/82 he was appointed tirst secretary to the Duke of Port- land, L. L. sworn of the privy-councils in both kingdoms, and in 1/83, appointed secretary at war, which he resigned in that year; but was again appointed to the same office by the Grenville ad ministration in I8O6.
Lady Mary, married April 20th, 1/60', to the Hon. Step Fox (eldest son of Henry, Lord Holland, who died Jul; 1774) and had issue by him, who died December 23d, 1 774, three daughters; Caroline, Mary, and Emily-Elizabeth, all deceased; and a son, Henry Richard, born November 2lst, 17/3, the pre- sent Lord Holland. ^
Lady Louisa, born in 17-55, and married in 1779 to William, Earl of Shelburne, first Marquis of Lansdown.
John, the second and present Earl of Upper Ossory, and first Lord Ossory in England, born in May 1745, succeeded to the honours on the decease of his father. In 1767 he was chosen to parliament for the county of Bedford, and in I770 was ap- pointed L. L. and custos rotulorum of that county; March 2(3th, 1769, he married Anne, daughter of Henry Liddell, Lord Ravens- worth, and by her, who had been divorced from the Duke of Grafton, and died in February, 1S04, had issue two daughters, viz.
First, Lady Anne, born February 10th, 1774.
Second, Lady Gertrude, s
His Lordship was advanced to the British Peerage by the title of Baron Upper Ossory, August 12th, 17y4.
Titles. John Fitzpatrick, Earl of Upper Ossory, and Baron Gowran of Gowran ; and Baron of Upper Ossory in England.
Creations. Baron Gowran of Gowran in the county of Kil- kenny, April 27th, 1715, 1 Geo, I. ; Earl of Upper Ossory in the Queen's county, October 5th, 1751, 25 Geo. IL ; Baron of Upper Ossory in England, August Tith, 1794.
I See vol. vii g Family Information
310 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND.
Arms. Sable, a saltire, argent, and chief, azure, the latter charged with three fleur-de-lis, or.
Crest. On a wreath, a dragon, vert, surmounted of a lion passant, sable.
Supporters. Two lions, sable, with ducal crowns, plain, collars and chains, or.
Motto. FORTIS SUB FORTE FATESCIT.
Chief Seats. Tentore in the Queen's county, sixty miles from Dublin j Farming -wood, Northamptonshire, sixty-two miles from London ; and Ampthill, Bedfordshire, thirty-six miles from London.
LORD MULGRAVE. 3JI
PHIPPS, LORD MULGRAVE.
William Phipps, being brought up to the sea, applied himself BO assiduously to that profession, that he commanded several dif- ferent ships.
He was eminently skilled in the mathematics, and became the inventor of that curious machine the diving bell ; by this ad- mirable contrivance, in the year 168/, he was enabled to recover, from the wreck of a Spanish galleon, an immense treasure, which had lain buried in deep water forty-four years, returned trium- phantly to London, and divided it with the rest of the adven- turers. ^
Being introduced to King James 11. June 28th, of the same year, the honour of knighthood was conferred upon him : and he was appointed to the government of the Massachusets, and therein continued during the remainder of his life.
Dying February 18th, I694, he was interred in the parish church of St. Mary Woolnoth in London, where a neat marble monument, with suitable embellishments, and the representation of tlie above remarkable circumstance in basso relievo, together with the following inscription, was erected to iiis memory :
Near this place is interred the body
Of Sir William Phipps, Knight, who in the year
16S7, by his great industry, discovered among
H See Burke's Eurofean Settlements, vol. ii p. 168, where it is said that he ■was a New-England-Mail, of obscure birth and education, who having raised a sudden fortune by a lucky expedient, was knighted, and afterwards made governor of the Province.
512 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND.
The rocks, near the banks of Bahama, on The north side of Hispaniola, a Spanish plate- Ship, which had been under water 44 Years, out of which he took in gold and Silver to the value of three hundred Thousand pounds sterling, and with a Fidelity equal to bis conduct, brought it All to London, where it was divided Between himself and the rest of the adventurers; for Which great service he was knighted by his Then Majesty King James II and afterwards
By the command of his present Majesty,
And at the request of the principal inhabitants
Of New England, he accepted the Government
Of the Massachusetts, in wliich he continued to
The time of his death ; and discharged his trust
With that zeal for the interest of his country.
And with so little regard to his own private advantage.
That he justly gained the good esteem and affections
Of the greatest and best part of the inhabitants of that
Colony.
He died 18th February, 16Q4;
And his Lady, to perpetuate his memory.
Hath caused this monument to be erected. ^
Sir CoNSTANTiNE Phipps, his son, being bred to the profes- sion of the law, acquired so high a reputation, that he received the honour of knighthood from her Majesty in I710, and at the same time was appointed Lord High Chancellor of Ike- land.
On January 29tli, 1712, he was appointed one of the lords justices ; but on the accession of King George I. a change of mi- nistry succeeding, he resigned those high offices in September, 1714, and retiiing to the Middle Temple, London, continued in a private siation to his death, which happened October ()th, 1723. His widow surviving him till October 30th, I728, by whom he had issue an only son
William Pliipps, who February 2(5th, 1/18, married Lady Catherine Annesley, only d.iughter and heiress to James, Earl of Anglesey (by his wife the Lady Catherine Darnley, a natural
i> Maitland's Survey of London, vol. ii. p. 1145.
LORD MULGRAVE. 313
daughter of King James II. who married to her second husband, John Sheffield/ Duke of Buckingham, by whom she was mother of the last Duke of that family) and dying February 1st, 1/30, left issue by her, who remarried with John Sheldon, of Croydon in Surry, Esq. and survived till January 18th, 1/30, one daughter Catherine ; and a son and successor
CoNSTANTiNE, w ho was Created Jirst Lord Mulgrave, of New-Ross in county of JVexford, pursuant to privy-seal at St. James's August 8th, and patent at Dublin September 3d, l/S/- ^
On February 26th, 174.'1^ he married Lepell, *= eldest daughter of John Lord Lord Hervey, of Ickworth, and son of John Earl of Bristol, '^ born in January, 1722-3, and his Lordship deceasing September 13th, 1775, was buried at Croydon in Surrey, having had issue by her, who died in 1 780, 8 five sons and one daughter, viz.
First, Constantine-John, second peer.
Second, Charles, born December 10th, 1753, made a captain in the royal navy August 1st, 17/6, and died October 20th, 1786-
Third, Henry,'' born February I4ih, 1755, succeeded his brother.
Fourth, Edmund," born April 7th, 1750. formerly in the first regiment of foot-guards 3 now a major-general and colonel of a battalion of the sixtieth regiment of foot.
Fifth, Augustus,*^ born November 15th, 1762; married, Au- gust 14th, 1792, Maria, eldest daughter of the late- Peter Thel- lusson, Esq.
And Henrietta Maria,' born March 26th, 1757, married, Au- gust 19th, 1776, to Charles Dillon Lee, Lord Viscount Dillon, of Costello-Gallen, and died December 1st, 1 782.
CoNSTANTiNE-JoHN, the second Irish peer,' and fikst Lord Mulgrave, of Mulgrave, born May 30th, 1744, was made a captain in the royal navy June 20th, 17^5, in which stntion he made a voyage to discover a north-east passage, of which he gave an account to the world. He was, in JNIr. Piti's administration.
c A natural daughter of this Duke, called Mary Sheffield, was married to Lord Altham, and was mother, as it is contended, to the unfortunate James Annesley, who claimed the titles and e:,tates against the late Earl of An- glesey.
d Rot. Ao. 7 Geo. 111.2- p. d. R 23, 24.
e Ulster's Office. i Idem.
K Ibid. h Ibid. i Ibid.
k Ibid. 1 Ibid.
314 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND.
one of the joint paymasters of the forces, a lord of trade, a conn. missioner of the East India board, a privy counsellor, and member of the British parliament for the borough of Newark, June 20th, 178/, he married Anne-Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Nathaniel Cholmondeley, of Howsham and Whitby in county of York> Esq. (by his second wife) and by her Ladyship, who died in child- birth April 22d, I788, had a daughter, >"
Anne-Elizabeth Cholmondely, who married, August 25, I8O7, major-general John Murray, brother to Sir James Murray Pulteney, Bart.
His Lordship was elevated to the British Peerage on June 6, I790j by the title of Lord Mulgrave, of Mulgrave in York' shire; but dying without issue male, October 10th, I7p2, the British honour became extinct j and he was succeeded in the Irish Barony by his next surviving brother
Henr"^, present and third Lord Mulgrave of Neiv-Ross ; and now by a new patent, second Lord Mulgrave of Mulgrave on August 13th, 1794.
His Lordship being educated to the army, obtained early a commission in the foot-guards ; and has risen in regular course to the rank of lieutenant-general, and is colonel of the thirty-first regiment of foot. His Lordship distinguished himself by his ser- vices at the taking of Toulon in I79-t-
In 1804 his Lordship was appointed chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster J and in 1805, secretary of state for the foreign de- partment j and in ISO7, first lord of the admiralty, which he re- signed in 1810 for the office of master-general of the ordnance.
His Lordship married, October 20th, 1795, Sophia, daughter of William Maling, of West Hennington in Durham, Esq. by whom he has issue.
First, Henry Constantine, born May 15th, 1797-
Second, Augusta-Maria, born September 3d, 1800.
Third, Charles-Beaumont, born December 27th, 1801.
Fourth, a son, born December /th, 1808.
Titles, Henry I'Jiipps, Lord Baron Mulgrave of New-Ross in the county of Wexford, and Lord Mulgrave of Mulgrave in Yorkshire.
Creations. Created September 3d, 176/, 7 Geo. III. Lord
m Almon's Peerage, Ulster's Office, Lodge edk. 17541 vol ii. p. 291, and
Gent. Mag. 17S8, p. 469.
LORD MULGRAVE. 315
Mulgrave of New-Ross in Ireland j and on August 13th, 1794, Jjord Mulgrave of Mulgrave in Yorkshire.
Arms. Sable, a trefoil slipt within an orle of mullets, argent.
Crest. On a wreath, argent and sable, a lion's gamb erased and erect, sable, holding a trefoil by the stalk, argent.
Supporters. Two unicorns ermine, maned, tailed, crined, unguled, and gorged with plain collars, with chains affixed thereto, all Or.
Motto. VlRTUTF- aUIES.
Chief Seat. Mulgrave Hall in the county of York.
316
PEERAGE OF ENGLAND.
LYTTELTON, LORD LYTTELTON.
(■LORD WESTCOTE IN IRELAND.)
The family of L-vttelton have been of long standing in the county of Worcester, and had fair possessions in the vale of Eve- sham, before the ipth of Hen. III. 123'i, particularly at 5oM^/i Lyttelton, from which place it is probable they took their name, agreeably to the custom of that age.
Mr. Selden was possessed of two grants of land belonging to Evesham abbey, dated the /th of Hen. II. 1 160, to which one John de Luttelton was witness,^ This is the most ancient that the name of Luttelton, or Lyttelton (as Judge Lyttelton and his descendants have generally written it from King Henry VI's time to the present) is to be met with : now as the land, which passed by these deeds, lay at Lench, near South Lyttelton, it is not un- likely that this John was ancestor to Lyttelton of Frankley.
In an ancient ledger of Worcester priory, mention is made of one Henry de Clive, the son of Swenus de Luttelton, sans date. ^
Many evidences prove that there were other families of good account, named Lyttelton, in the counties of Dorset, Somerset, Bedford, aiid Bucks, as early as the reign of Hen. III. ^
Thomas de Luttelton, about the lf)th of Hen. III. married Emma, sole daughter and heir of Sir Simon de Fiankley, Knight,
» Vis. Salop c. ;o in the Heralds Office, b Habington's Survey of Worcestershire, MS. fpenes Car- Lyttelton, Carliul Episc ) in Clive Prior.
<^ Vis. Salop, lit supia.
LORD LYTTELTON. 317
which Thomas occurs witness to an instrument between Walter de Cantilupe, bishop of Worcester, and Robert Fitz-Ralph, Knt. touching lands lying in Alve church and Beoley, dated the 33d of Hen. III. '^
He had issue an only daughter, Emma, first the wife of Augerus de Tatlynion, and afterwards of Nicholas Whetam- stedc.
Augerus was seated at Tredington, in Worcestershire, dis- trained the 40th of Hen. III. for not taking upon him the order of knighthood, as he held fifteen libratas terrcehy knight service.^ He was the first in the commission to inquire what lands were forfeited in the county of Worcester, by the attainder of the King's enemies, at the battle of Evesham. ^ I don't find when he died } but his wife, having re-married Nicholas Whetamstede, died, seised of Frankley, anno 129S, having in her lifetime been a benefactress to the neighbouring abbey of Halesowen, s
Thomas de Luttelton, above-mentioned, married a second wife, viz. Asselm, daughter and sole heir to William Fitzwarin, of Upton in Worcestershire, (younger son of Fulc Fitzwarin, Lord Marcher of Wales, temp. Hen. I.) which William was one of the justices itinerant, and judge of the Common Pleas, the 12th of King Hen. III. and sheriff' of Worcestershire the year follow- ing. ^ I find this Luttelton was a considerable benefactor to the convent of Pershore ; many grants of lands lying in Upton-Snods- bury, and Coulesdon, occurring in Pershore ledger, both from him and Asselm, his wife. ' Also to the abbey of Evesham 3 for a licence occurs from King Edward I. to John de Luttelton, im- powering him to grant three virgates of arable, and eight acres of meadow, lying in South Luttelton, to the said abbey, bearing date at Westminster, the 27th day of May, in the eighth year of his reign. Another licence also occurs from the same King to the abbey of Evesham, to enable them to hold lands in Evesham, Lenchwyke, and Twyford, of the yearly value often pounds, de dono Juhan. de Luttelton, dated at York, the 10th year of the said
d Liber Alb. Episc. Wigorn. MS. fol. 67. e MS. Claudius, c. z. in Bibl. Cotton- • Inquis. post Belluni Evesliam, 49 Ken. Ill- No. 3, in Turre. p Survey of the manor and abbey of Halesowen, MS. by Ch Lord Bp of Carlisle.
1" Dugdale's Baronage, vol. i p. 446,449. • Original in the Augment Office, Westm. fol. 29-
313 . PEERAGE OF ENGLAND.
King Edw. I. ^ He left issue by her three sons, viz. Edmund, Thomas, and John.
Edmund, the eldest, resided at Coulesdon, and had lands at Naunton in Worcestershire, ' which continue in a family of Lyt- telton, (descended from a cadet of this house) at this day. He took to wife, Lucia, daughter of John de Bois, or Atwood, a man of considerable note at Wolverley in Worcestershire, and died leaving no issue.
John, the youngest, lived a bachelor; and before he died, was a benefactor to Evesham abbey, to which he gave by deed, dated the 8th of Edw. 11. a house, with three virgates of land, and eight acres of meadow, situate at Lyttelton, in the vale of Evesham. ""
Thomas, the second son, became heir to his brother. He was chosen knight for Worcestershire, the 9th of Edw. II." and in the 34th of Edw. III. was, together with Richard de Lencli, and others, commissioned by the King to collect the tenths and fifteenths throughout the said county."
He married Julian, daughter and heir of Robert de Somery, a younger brother of the Baron of Dudley (who served with him in parliament for Worcestershire, in the 9th of Edw. II.) and had issue by her two sons, Thomas and John.
John, the youngest son, was in the commission of array with Walter Cokesey, Henry Bruin, Henry Hagely, and Thomas Throckmorton, Esqrs. 1 Hen. IV. on a rumour of a foreign in- vasion. P He had to wife, Beatrix, daughter of Humphrey Frevill, or Frecheville, of a noble family in Warwickshire, by whom he had issue an only daughter, the wife of Jeflery Frere; which Jeffery sat in parliament for the city of Worcester, temp. Rich. II. and Hen. IV. i
Thomas, the e/der son, recovered the manor of Frankley, by a writ of right, on fuilure ot issue to his cousin, Thomas de Tatlyn- ton. He was esquire of the body to three successive Kings, viz. Rich. II. Hen. IV. and Hen. V. and was rewarded with several
k MS Hailey, in Brit. Mubaeum, No- 3763, fol. cxxi. and cxxii.
1 Vis- Salo[), ut supra.
m Inq ad quod damaum, 1 Ed II No. 73, in Turre-
" Claus. Rot. No 3, in Turre. " Pat 34 Ed. III. p i, m. 24.
P Pat. I Hen. 4 p. 2. in. 55, et 4 Hen. IV, p. 2. m 9.
<1 From Brown Willis's Mb. Collections.
LORD LYTTELTON. jig
grants of money, timber, &c. from each of them, pro bono et gratuito servitio, as expressed in the grants. ■■ He sealed with the cheveron, between three escallops, as now used by his posterity, but bore a different crest, viz. a grey-hound's head, collared. • About the dose of King Henry the Vth's reign, he served the office of sheriff of Worcestershire, under R. Beauchamp Earl of Warwick, titular and hereditary high sheriff" of Worcestershire : and in the 1st year of Henry the Vlth he departed this life, leav- ing issue by Maud, his wife (who survived him, and married Tho- mas Massey, Esq. and was daughter and sole heir of Richard Quatermain, of Ricote in com. Oxford, by Joan, the daughter and coheir of Robert Grey, of Rotherfield in the same county) an only daughter, named
Elizabeth, who was his sole heir. This Elizabeth married Thomas Westcote, Esq. the King's servant in court, a gentle>» man of Devonshire anciently descended ; but she being fair, and of a noble spirit (to use Lord Coke's own words ^) and having large possessions and inheritances from her ancestors de Luttelton, and from her mother, the daughter and coheir of Quatermain, and other her ancestors, resolved to continue the honour of her name, and therefore provided, by Westcote's assent, before mar- riage, that her issue inheritable should be called by the name of Lutteltoji.
Mr. Prince, in his Devonshire Worthies, tells us, that this gentleman was born at Westcote, in the parish of Marwood, near Barnstaple, and flourished anno 1414 5 that he was of a martial disposition, and addicted himself to feats of arms, which at length brought him to the knowledge of, and endeared him to, those puissant Princes, Kings Henry IV. and V. which, saith our author, is no mean argument of his worth. " One John de Westcote, an ancestor of this Thomas, was a canon residentiary of Exeter, in the reign of King Hen. Ill, and another of the same name and family was rector of St. John Baptist hospital in Exeter, temp. Edw, II. Whether Thomas Westcote, who was abbot of Hert- land in Devon, temp. Edw. I. was of this family, I cannot say ; but I make no doubt, but Henry de Westcote, who in the Book
r Pat. 21 Rich. II. p. I. m. II. ibid, i Hen. «;. p. i. m. lo. s From a seal annexed to an original deed of this Thomas Luttelton among the evidences at Hagley.
t Coke's Proemium to the first Institut. u Worthies of Devon, p. 583, et seq.
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320 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND.
of Tenures is said to hold lands in Westcote, 8 Edw. I. and John de Westcote, who occUrs in the same book as owner of lands in Freiuingtoii hundred, B Edw, II were both ancestors of Thomas, who married Elizabeth Luttelton, ^
On this marriage, Westcote settled at Frankley in Worces- tershire, and served the office of escheator there, the 29th of Hen. VI. 1450. Soon after which he died, leaving issue four sons, and as many daughters.
First, Thomas, ot whom hereafter.
Seconl, Edmund; third, Guy; fourth, Nicholas: which three last retained the name of Westcote, though often solicited by their mother, to call themselves Luttelton. It is said, she once expostulating with them, whether they thought better of themselves than their elder brother.' they answered, "'that he had a fair estate to alter his name^ and if they might share with him, they would do the like. " y
Guy married , the daughter of Granville, of
Gloucestershire (a younger branch of the Granvilles, of Kilk- hampton in Cornwall) from whom descended the Westcotes of Somersetshire, and of Raddon in Devonshire. - ^Nicholas married Agnes, daughter and coheir of Edmund Vernon, of Handsacre in Stdtibrdshire, by Joan, the daughter and sole heir of William Handsacie, of Handsacre, from whom the Westcotes of that county were descended. Edmund died unmarried.
Ot the daughters I find but one married, viz. Anne, the eldest, the wife of Thomas Porter, Esq. of Barston in Warwickshire, where she was buried, A. D. 1506.
It seems probable that some of the children of Guy Westcote, above-nientioned, who settled at Raddon in Devon, assumed the name of Luttelton, and removed into Cornwall ; for, in the 5th of Hen. VII. one of that name, bearing the ancient Lyttelton arms, without difPerence, occurs Lord of Lanhiderick, near Bodmyn j who, by niarrying the heiress of Gerard, of Polstoth, got a large estate in that county, and had at the same time no inconsiderable one in Desonshire. (^n failure of issue, it passed .soon after, by marriiige, to the Trenances of Lastilian, and they were in posses- sion, dicaann. \6l2,.'-
X From an Heraldical MS in the hands of Mr. rarmentier, of Exon. anno i 750
y Vis. Salopi ut supra. '^ Ibid.
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Elizabeth, the widow of Thomas Westcote, survived him many years, and remarried Thomas Hewster, of Lichfield, Esq, who was chosen knight for Worcestershire, the Qth of Hen. VL She died at the age of seventy-nine ; and, I apprehend, was buried at Halesowen.
Thomas, her eldest son, who bore his father's christian name, and his mother's surname, Luttclton, or Lyttelton, as he wrote it, studied at one of the two Universities ; afterwards removed to the Inner Temple, where he read learnedly on the statute De Donis Condi t'iona/ii us. Anno 1454, he was called to the degree of Ser- jeant at law ; and afterwards appointed steward of the Marshalsea of the King's household. The year following, he w^is appointed King's Serjeant, and rode justice of the assize in the northern cir- cuit. Anno )447, 26 Hen. VL he served the otfice of high sheritf of Worcestershire 5 having before been escheator thereof. In 1454, he had a general pardon under the great seal ; •'■ and two years after, was in commission with Humphrey Duke of Bucking- ham, and William Birmingham, Esq. to rai.c forces in the county of Warwick. ''
On the coming of King Edw. IV. to the crown, he sued out another general pardon. He appears to have been in flwour with both Kings, and the latter gave him particular marks of royal favour; for, anno J 464, the fourth year of his reign, he appointed him ove of the judges of the Common Pleas, and granted him out of the customs of London, Bristol, and Hull, 110 marks yearly, ultra consuetum foedum, ut statuvi suum decentius tenere ct ex- ■pensas sustinere valeret; and moreover the sum of 106*. \0\d. for a robe and furrs, and QQs. 6d. for a summer robe, called Unura,'^ In the fifteenth year of this King, the Prince of Wales was created a Knight of the Bath, at which lime several persons of the first distinction, and in the highest favour at court, were advanced to this honour, as the Earl of Lincoln ; Grey, the Queen's son; Bryan, chief justice of the Common Pleas; ancl Lyttelton, that learned father of the law, as Mr. Habingdon, in his history of that reign, expresses it. "^
He wrote his famous Treatise ok Tenures when he was a
* Ex .'\utographo penes Honoratissimum Dom. Geo- Lyttelton, Baroneif> tie Frankley.
b Pat. 36 Hen. VI. p. i. m 7 e Life of Judge L\ttclion, in the General Dictionary, p. 119. <1 Anitis's Order of ijie Bath, p. 32, and Hab. Hist. Ed. IV. p. 136. VOL. viir. Y
322 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND.
judge, after the fourteenth year of King Edw. IV. Lord Coke thinks, not long before his death, because it wanted his last hand ; notwithstanding he makes this great encomium upon it, " that it is the ornament of the common law, and the most perfect and ab- solute work that ever ivas wrote in any human science." To this may be added what Dr. Holland, in his additions to Camden, saith of it, " that the students of the common law are no less beholden to Lyttelton's Tenures, than the civilians are to Justi- nian's Institutes. '-"
About this time, some privileges of great consequence were contested between the city and church of Worcester ; which dis- putes arose to that height, that the King interposed, and appointed Sir Thomas Lyttelton, and Mr. Salvvay, a gentleman of that county, his commissioners, to terminate these differences by award J which affair they performed with that judgment and im- partiality, as gave full satisfaction to both the contending parties, and by that means restored peace and amity to the chief town in their county. ^
Sir Thomas married Joan, widow of Sir Philip Chetwind, of Ingeitre in com. Statford, one of the daughters and coheirs of Sir William Burley, of Bromscroft castle in com. Salop, Knight, (by
his wife, the daughter and heir of Greiidon, of Grendon
in Staffordshire) with whom he had large possessions. N. B. This Sir W. Builey was of the same house with Sir William Burley, warden of the Cinque Ports, constable of Dover castle, Lord Chamberlain and Knight of the Garter, temp. Rich. II. whose brother Richard was also Knight of the Garter, as was Sir John Burley, their father. By her Sir Thomas Lyttelton had three sons, and two daugh.ters.
First, William.
Second, Richard, to whom the Tenures are addressed, who followed his father's profession. He married^ Alice, daughter and sole heir of William Winnesbury, of Pillaton-Hall in com. Staff. Esq. and was lineal ancestor to the present Sir Edward Littleton, of that place, Bart.
Third, Thomas was seated at Spechley, near Worcester, and married Anne, daughter and sole heir of John Botreaux, of Bo*
e Holland's Tiansl of Camb Riitannia, in Worcestershire. i Hab. Survey of Worcestershire, MS in the hands of the late Lord B[J- ofCarlish'.
e Visit, of Staffordshire, MS-
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treaiix castle in Connvall, Esq. from whom were descended the Lord Keeper Lyttelton, Baron of Mounshw, temp. Car. I. ; Sir Thomas Lyttelton, B.irt. Speaker of the House of Commons, temp. Gul. in. and other families of the Lytteltons.
His two daughters^ named Ellen and Alice, both died un- married.
He himself died at Frankley, on August 23d, 1481, aged about sixty, and was interred under an altar tomb, which he erected in his lifetime, on the south side the nave of the cathe- dral at Worcester; upon the flat part whereof was his portrai- ture in bras", and these words issuing from his mouth, Fill Dei miserere viei ; at each end, two .shi( Ids ot brass, one containing the arms of Westcote, the oiher of Lyttelton, and on the tVont, four shields ; the fir^t, Argent, a linn rampant, Sab. armed, Gules, delruised with afcss, countercompone. Or and Azure (impaling) Argent, two Chevcrons, Gules, Barley and Grendon : second. Barley, as before (impaling) Barry, of six. Or and Azure ; on a lend sinister, Gules, three Martlets, Argent, Grey of Rythin : third, Argent, two taliots, passant, Gules (iinpalins;) Barry of six. Argent and Azure, a lend sinister, Gules; on the highest bar an annulet of the third, Breston, and Grey of Wil.'on : fourth. Gules, a fess, azure, between four hands. Or, Qaatt-rmain ; impaling Breston, as befoie. On the flat sione, above the judge's portrai- ture, were three brass shields, viz. Lyttelton impaling" Quater- main ; Westcote impalii^g Lyttelton ; and Lyttelton impaling Burley. All these arms, as well as the figures, were torn off the tomb in the last civil war, and nothing left but the following in- scription on brass round the verge of the monument. Hie jacet Corpus Thome Littelton de Frankley, Militis de Balneo, iff unus Justiciariorum de Communi Banco, qui obiit 23 Augusti, Ann, Dom. M. CCCC, LXXXL AWar the restoration of King Charles II. it was repaired by Mr. Lyttelton the King's solicitor, who had gilt iron rails placed before it (wliich were lately removed when the body of the cathedral was new paved) and the several compartments on the front decorated afresh with arms, but erro- neously^ for the Lyttelton shield was slipported by tlie merman, which was never borne by judge Lyttelton, his eldest son Sir Wil- liam Lyttelton being the tir»t that used it. In 1765, the modern shields were obliterated, and the old ones restored.
As Sir Thomas Lyttelton's will contains many curious parti- culars, it may not be amiss to give it the reader faithfully copied from the ori;jinal remaining in the Preroi;;'.live-office.
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In the name of God, Amen. I, Thomas Lyttelton, Knight, con of king's justice of the common place, make my testament, and notifie my wille, in the manner and forme that foUoweth. First, I bequeth my soul to Almighty God, Fader, Sonne, & HoUye Ghost, three persons & oon God, & our Lorde, maker of haven and erth, & of all the vvorlde ; & to our most blessed Lady & virgin, Saynt Mary, raoder of our Lord, & Jesu Christ, the only begotten Sonne of our saide Lorde God, the fader of heven, and to saint Christopher, the which our saide Lorde did truste to bere on his shoudres, & to all the saints of heven : and my body to be berried in the tombe I lete make for me on the south side of the body of the cathedrall-church of the monastere of our said blessed lady, of Worcester, under nn image of St Christopher, in caas if I die in Worcestershire, Also, I wulle, and specially de- sire, that immediately after my decesse, myn executors tiud three gode preests for to singe iii trentals for my soule, so that everish preest, by himself sing oon trental, and i;hat everish such preest have right sufficiently for his labor j also that myn executors find another gode preest for to sing for my soule, fyve masses, and rowe ; the offyce of which beginneth, HumUlavit seme/ ipsum Dorninus Jesu Christus usque ad morleiii. Also I give one hundred shelings by yere, to the priour &: covent of the said mo- nastere, out of certain messuages Claudes in the cite of Wor- cester & to their successors, to singe at the altar, hallowed for the worship of St. George & St. Christopher, daily, at vii in the morning, for the soules of my fader and moder, and for the soul of William Burley, my fader-in-lawe, & for the soul of Sir Philip Chetwin & for all soules that I am most bounden to pray, & spe- cially for myn own soule after my decesse ; & that everish such monk sing everish Friday, a mass of Requiem; & \'\d. for his troubel, to be paid him by the h:indes of the sexton ; and I wull, that whenever the covent sing the annual Placebo, tS" Dir'ige, ^ Requiem for my soul, and that of my ancestors, that they have \\s. \md. for thyr disport and recreation. I wull, that the i-aid covent have 100/. for performyn this dyvin servyce.
Also I wuUe, that the feotfees to myn use, of and in the halfyndele of the manor of Baxterley, & Bentley, in Warwick- sliire, and in Mosele, in the lordship of Kingsnorton, &: in Stone, bcsyd Keddermyster, in Worcestershire, make a suie estate unto Hiehard Lyttelton, my sonne, cc to the heirs of his bodie, with all cliartours, muniments, & evidences concernyng the same.
Also I wulle, that he have the reversion of the manor of Mol-
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ston, besyde Clybeiy, in the county of Shrewsbury. Also I wull, that my saide sonne^ Richard, have all nr, state, title, & interest, that 1 have in a messuage, in the parish of St. Sepulchres, of London, (>n the north syde of the saide church, which I holde of the abbot ofL°ices:er, for term of yeres. Also I wull, that the feoffees, to in\n use, of & in the manor of Spechley, in Worces- tershire, make a sure estate to my sonne, Thomas Lyttelton, and the heirs of his body, with all chartours, &c. concernyng the same, and all other lands, rents, reversions & services, that 1 have in Spechley, Cuddeley, Bradicot, & White-lady Aston, with the lands & tenements in Weddesbury, in com. Staftbrd.
I wulle, that my wyf have a bason of silver, in the myddes whereof been myn arms, and an ewer of silver, two great salt- salers, and a kever, weying t)3 ounces & ^ ; a standyng plaine gilt peece, with a pUiine gilt kover, weying" 21 ounces & ^ j six bolles of silver, in the myddes of which been enamelled., for her using, six monthes of the yere. A standing peece, with kever, weying IQ ounces & ^. Two peeces of silver, one covering another, y^ which I occupie at London ; a powder boxe of silver ; a pa.^ceborde; two cruetts, and a sakering-bell, all of silver. Also I wull, that William I/yttelton, my sonne and heire, shall have a depc washing-bason of silver, weying 41 ounces, and two saltsalers of silver, with a kever to oon of them, weying 31 ounces & ^, with another peece, all over gilt, in the myddes of which be iii eagles, a kover, weying 33 ounces; also a lowe peece of silver, with a kover, embossed in the likeness of roses, weying 2Q ounces & § : also he shall have a dosein of my best spones. Also I wull, that my sonne, Richard, have two littel gilt saltsalers, with gilt cover to oon, now at London ; also oon littel slandyng peece, with •J. gilt kover, which hath at the foote a crown, and another on the kover, weying 22 ounces : also a standyng gilt nutt, and the best dosein of the second sort of my spones. Also I wull, that Tho- mas Lyttelton, my sonne, have two saltsalers of silver, weying 2/ ounces 3 a standyng jjeece, weying 21 ounces, gilt, & my arms in the myddes of the samej also a boll of silver, embossed with round bosses, outward, weying 1 1 ounces & 3 quarters ; also he shall have a dosein spones, of the third sorte.
Also I bequeth my gode littel mass-book, and gode vestment, with the apparyl to an auler, of the same sorte of vestments which were my moder's, and also a gilt chales, I geve them to the blessed Trinite, to the use & occupation of my chapel of Frankley, in honour of our said most blessed Trinite ; inasmuch as the said
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chapel of the blessed Trinite, and an aulter (hereof, is halovved in the worship of thesaide blessed Trinite, for to have masse songen there on Trinite -Sunday, & other high festivals, & other days, to the pleasure & honour of our saide most blessed Trinite. I wuU, that a bigger cofer, and locke and key be provyded for the safe keping of these vestments & chal-s, within the chapel of Frankley, and the lord of Frankley for the time being, have the keping of the said key by himself, or som true and fiithful person, so that he se that the saide raasse-book, vestment, chales, & apparyl be surely kept, as he wuU answer to the blessed Trinite. Also I wull, that my great antiphoner be evermore had, & surely kept, in worship of God, and St. Leonard, to the use and occupation of, and for the chapel-church of St. Leonard, of Frankley.
Also I wulle, that all my utensils of myn household, except silver plate, as beds, matraces, blanquetts, brushes, tables, all pots & chaldrons, & all such things that longith to my kechyn, after the thyrd part geven to my wyfe, be equally devided between my three sonns.
Whereas, I have made certaigne feoffees of my manour of Tixhale, in StafFordshir, for terme of the lif of my wif, the which manour she had a jointour for terme of her lif, with me, neverthe- later, my wille is, that my said wif, do not hereafter trouble, vexe, ne disturbe my will & ordenance, that I have and will mak, of & in or for certaigne lands & tenements, within the cite of Wor- cester; now my will and ordenance is, that she shal have the saide manour of Tixhale, with the reveniz thereof, during her lif, or els that the profitts thereof shall be taken and disposed in alms deeds, for my soul, by myn executor, or by such other as I wull thereto assigne, during her lif.
I wull, that my three sonns, and Sir Xtopher Goldsmyth, parson of Bromsgrove, Sir Robert Cank, parson of Entield, and Robert Oxclyve, be myn executors; that the three first have 20/. in money apeece, toward their increce and profitt, the latter v marks each, of money, trusting in them that they wull do their diligent labor to se that my will be performed ; the which, as ihey know wele the performyng thereof in godely hast and tym, that shall be to the hasty remedie of my soule : and the long tarying thereof, is to the relnrdntion of the meritts of my soule : wherefor I wull, that everych of my saide sonns, to whom my grete specyal trust is, as kind nature wull, for to performe and execute my will aforesaid.
1 wulle, that my wif have my best plough, and all apparyl
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thereto, and ten of my best plough-oxen, and my best waine ; and that William Lyttelton have my second best waine, two ploughs, & ten oxen. Also I wuUe, &■ specially desire, that all the money, debts, goods & catclls, that be myn at tym of my deth, over the cost & expensys of myn exequies & funeral, & over that that ii bequelhed by me in my lif, be sold & disponed for my soiile, in alms & charitable deeds, that may be most profitable & merit to my soule. Also I wolle, that all my beests & quick catiel, not afore bequethed, after m\ n exequies and funeral, be sold by myn executors & to be disposed as they think most expedient for my soule.
I wull & bequeth to the abbot & covent of Hales-Ovveyn, a boke of myn, called Calholicofi, to theyr own use for ever ; & another boke of myn, wherein is contaigned, the Constitutions Provincial, and, De gestis Romanorum, and other treatis therein, whicli I wull be laid and bounded with an yron chayn, in som convenient parte within the saicie church, at my costs, so that all preests & others, may se & rede it whenne it pleasith them. Also I wull & bequeth to Sir Richard Howson, my preest, -^0^. in money, and the same to my servant Hawkins. Also I bequeth to dame Jane, my wyf, 20 1, in money, in recompense of a silver bason, the which was sometym her husb.md's. Sir Philip Chet- win's; to the said dame Jane, my best habyt, that is to saye, my gown, cloke, & hode. Also to my doughter, Elyn, my second best habyt, in lyke forme. Also to Alice, my second doughter, my third best habyt, in lyke forme. Also I bequeth my gloset- saulter to the priorie of Worcester. Also I bequtth a boke, called Fasciculus morum, to the church at Enfiidd. Also I be- queth a boke, callrd Medulla Gramtnatica, to the church of Kingsnorton. Also I wulle, that my grete English boke, be sold by myn executors, and the money thereof to be disposed for m,y soul.
I bequeth to Thomas liyttelton, my sonne, a little flalte peece of silver, with a kover, all over gilte. Also to Edward Lyttelton, ray godsonne, a little standing goblet of silver, with a kover to the same, ail over gilie. And I wull, and specially desire my moost betrusted lord, my lord bishop ot Worcester, to be over- seer of this my v. ill, to be performed, as my moost special trust is in his gode lordship: in witness wheieof, to this my will, I have sett my scale, theese being witnesses. Sir Richard Howson, priest, Roger Hawkyns, Tiiomas Parkess, and others.
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Written at Frankley, 22 August, the yere of our Lord Jesd Christ, MCCCCLXXXI,
By inquisition taken after his death, in Worcestershire, he was found to die seised of the manors of Frankley, Spechley, Moseley, and Coulesdon, and of divers messuages and lands in Cuddeley, Bradicote, White Lady Aston, Upton Siiodsbury, Crowle, Pinton and Stone, all in the said county. '' By a like inquisition taken at Whitchurch in Shropshire, the jury find that Sir Reginald Grey, of Wilton, and Fulk Springhose, were seised of the manors of Cressage, in that county, and thereof enfeoffed Sir Thomas Lyt- telton. Knight of the Bathj Humphry Sahvay, and Guy West- cote, Esqrs. quod maneriuin valet ultra reprisus, 20l. ' By another inquisition taken at Stafford, the jury find that the manor of Arley was held by Sir Thomas Lyttelton, Humphry Sal way, and Guy Westcote; and that Lyttelton being deceased, the two others were seised thereof by right of survivorship, et valet ultra reprisas, 20/. They find the same with regard to the manor of Tixhale, quod valet ultra reprisas, 40 marcas. They find them also seised jointly of twelve houses, in the city of Litchfield, held of the bishop. ^ N. B. Salway and Westcote were feoffees in trust for Sir Thomas Lyttelton and his heirs; a method not long before invented by the lawyers, for the preventing the forfeiture of es- tates in those times of civil distractions, when attainders were very frequent. Besides these manors and lands which Sir Thomas Lyttelton appears to have had in fee, he held for his life the manor of Sheriff Hales, in com. Stafford, by the grant of Sir Wil- liam Trussel, Knight, pro bono et notabili cousilio, as expressed in the grant, dated the 30th of Hen. VI. He had a grant also of the advowson of the vicarage of Bromsgrove, in com. Wigorn, from the dean and chapter of Worcester. He likewise held for the life of Dame Joan, his wife, half the inanor of Grendon, with the advowson of the church ; the whole manor of Ingestre, with the advowson of the chapel, and divers lands in Rule, Rudge, and Breredon, all in the county of Stafford; also certain lands in Dordon and Warton, in com. Warwick, and lands in Grotwich (forsan Droitwich) and Mitton, in com. Wigorn, all by grant from Rob. Chetwiiid, of Aspath in Warwickshire, '
h Escaetria in Turre, 21 Ed. IV. No 5^. Wigorn-
i Escaetria, 21 Edw, IV. No. 5^, Salop.
k Ibid. Staflbrd. J Vis Salop, ut supra.
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The Society of the Inner Temple (whereof this great lawyer Vas a member) had his arms and quarterings painted in the windows of their refectory, which remained till the civil war, as they have at this time a fine picture of him at full length, painted by Cornelius Jansen, from a portrait (as I conjecture) in Frankley or Halesowen church windows. The shield in the Temple hall consisted of the following coats, viz.
Argent, a cheveron, between three escallops, sable. Lyt- telton.
Argent, a bend cotized, sable, within a bordure, gules, be- zantee. West cote.
Or, two lions passant in pale, azure. Soviery.
Gules, a fess, azure, between four hands, or. Quutermain.
Argent, two talbots passant in pale, gules. Breston.
Barry of six, argent and azure, a bend, gules. Grey.
Gules, a bend, argent, debruised with a fess, or. Fitz Oslorn.
Argent, a cheveron, between three escallops, sable. Lyttelton.
Over all an escutcheon of four coats, viz.
Argent, a lion rampant, siible, armed, gules, debruised with a fess countercompone, or and azure. Burley.
Burley and Grey as before, with argent, two cheveronels, gules. Grendon. '"
This Society paid such respect to his memory, that in the year 1639, when Mr. Thomas Lyttelton, a collateral descendant of the Judge, applied for admission to a chamber within the said house, it was then by the whole company of the bench, with one voice, granted that the said Mr. Lyttelton's admission should be freely, without any fine 3 and that it might be so accepted and expressed as a testimony of that great respect the whole Society doth owe and acknowledge to the name and fmiily of Lyttelton."
Joan, the widow of Sir Thomas, survived him many years, and died on March 22d, 1505, in the eightieth year of her age, leaving a great estate, that came both by her father and mother (who was an heiress) to her eldest son. Sir William. By inqui- sition taken after her death, she is found to have held the manors of Broomcroft, Baldcote, Mcrkton, Mounslowe, Henlegh, Tug- ford, Brocton, Aldon, Thongland, Alfcote, and Alcamstone,
m Dugd. Orig. Juridiciales, p. 187. B From the admission books, at the Inner Temple.
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besides lands and tenements in Wormcote, Abbedon, Winstan- towe, Bromfield, Cokerich, Walton, Rowthal, Halton, Dedylbury, Aston, Bodenhope, and the advowson of Merston chapel, all in the county of Salop, and that Sir Williann Lyttelton is her heir, aged above sixty. '^
Which Sir William resided at Frank/ey, and being of rank and authority in bis country, raised a considerable force there, and carae very opportunely to the aid of King Henry VII. against Lambert Simnel, the Earl of Lincoln, and their adherents, and ■was engaged in the battle of Stoke, near Newark, where after the victory gained on the tlth of June, he was by the King re- warded with the honour of knighthood, p Remarried to his first wife, EUyn, widow of Thomas Fielding, Esq. daughter and heir of William Walsh, of Wanslip in com. Leicester, by his wife the daughter and coheir of Sir Richard Byron, of Clayton in Lanca- shire, by whom he had an only daughter, named
Joan, who became the wife of Sir John Aston, of Heywood in Staffordshire, and carried the manor of Tixhale in that county, given her by her father, and that of Wanlip descended to her from her mother, into the Aston family j and Tixhale was the chief seat of the last lineal Lord Aston.
His second wife was Mary, the daughter of William Whit- tlngton, of Pauntley in corn. Gloucester, by Elizabeth, the daughter of Renefred Arundel, of Lanhern in Cornwall, and sister of John Arundel, bishop of Exeter, who gave this Mary, on her marriage with Lyttelton, the sum of 400 marks for a portion. i By her he had issue
An only son, John, and a daughter, named
Elizabeth, the wife of Thomas Rouse, of Rcuselench in Wor- cestershire.
In 21 Edw. IV. he seals a deed with ih& Merman, viz. a grant of an annuity to his brother Richard, of Pillaton-Hall. He was undoubtedly a benefactor to the priory church of Great Malvern, in Worcestershire ; for there remains at this day a portrait of h'm, finely painted in a window of the body of the church, with a tabard or surcoat of his arms, and iiis name inscribed under it. There was likewise a portrait of the same kind, and of Ellyn, his first wife, in the north window of Over-Areley church in StafKord-
o Kscactrin/m tlic Rolls chapel, 20 Hen. ^'I I. et Vis. Salop, ut supra.
1' MS. Chiudius, C'3, in Bibl. Cotton.
<\ From the original among the evidences at Hagley.
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shire, remaining in the year l62i, with these words inscribed un- derneath, viz.
Orate pro bono statu IFilUelmi Lyttelton, Jrm. ^ Elyn uxoris ejus, quifcnestram fieri fecerunt. ^
He departed this life at Frnnkley, in December 150/, aged sixty-five; and by will btqueaihs his body to tiie monastery of Hales-Owen, to be interred before the image of the Blessed Virgin, nigh the place and grave where his first wif- \;\y buried ; settles on Mary, his wife, the manors of Frankhy and Coulesdon, in com. Wigorn J Ridgaknr, in com- Salop, and Over-Arley, in com. Stafford J leaves her the greatest part of his personal estate; and farther entitles her to dower in his whole estate, over and above the ample settlement here mentiontd : he orders that a priest be provided to pray for his soul daring seven years after his decea-e ; and t!ie souls of his father and mother; and the soul of Willi.un Biirle}', his granafather, and all Christian souls; to say Placeio et Dlrigc the day of his anniversary, with other annual obiit services ; for all which he is to have eight marks per ann, the said divine service to be performed in the chapel of St. Leonard, at Frankley, to which lie bequeaths his velvet gown for a cope and vestment. He settles all his other lands in trust for his son, and appoints him 20/. per ann. towards his exhibition and find- ing, till he comes of age. Gives five hundred marks in portion to his daughter Elizabeth, if she marries with her mothers consent. He farther orders that his yearly obitt be constantly celebrated in the monastery of Halesowen, and his executors to pay 135. 4d. for it. He also wills that John Smith have the keeping of his park at Frankley, during life; and all his servants a year's wages at their departure. Gives Qs. Sd. to the cathedral church at Wor- cester ; and lastly directs his executors to procure a marble stone, with two images and sculptures according, to be laid over him, and Elyn, hi^ first wife, ivhen GoJ shall do his mind with him. '
John, his son and heir, endowed his family (saith Mr. Ha- bingdon, in his MS. Antiq. of Worcestershire) with abundance of noble blood, by having in marriage Elizabeth, the djughter and coheir of Sir Gilbert Talbot, of Grafton in com. Wigorn, by Anne, his wife, the daughter and coheir of Sir William Paston, by Anne, his wife, third sister and coheir to Edmund Beaufort,
r From a MS entitled, Churcli Notes of Stairordshire, circa ann- kqc penes C. Lyttelton, nup. Cariol. Episc. s Froni the Register, entitled, A D.^an, qu 32, in the Prerogative Office.
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Duke of Somerset^ grandson of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lan- caster: in right of whom Lyttelton and his posterity have law- fully quartered the arms of France and England, within a bordure gobone;' and likewise all the arms and quarterings of Talbot and Paston.
By her he had seven sons, and two daughters.'
Firstj John.
Second, Edward, nicknamed Long Edward, who married the Lady Elizabeth Talbot, daughter of Walter Wrottesley, of Wrot- tesley in com. Stafford, and widow to Sir John Talbot, ofAl- brighton in com. Stafford, from whom the Talbots of Salwarp, Worvill, and also the present Earl Talbot, lineally descend.
Third, Gilbert.
Fourth, Anthony, seated at yVbbot Salford, in com. War- wick.
Fifth, Roger, seated at Groveley, in King's Norton parish, Worcestershire ; from whom, by Elizabeth, his wife, the daughter of John Stanley, of West-Bromwick, in com. Stafford, are de- scended the present Lytteltons, of Studley in Warwickshire, and Naunton-Beauchamp in Worcestershire.
Sixth, George, counsellor at law, who died anno 160O, and lieth buried under a splendid monument in Bromsgrove church, com. Wigorn.
Seventh, Thomas.
Of the daughters, Margaret, the eldest, died unmarried; Anne was the wife of Eaniund Newport, of Hanley- Williams in Worcestershire, younger son to Thomas Newport, of High Ercal in Shropshire, ancestor to the late Earls of Bradford.
By deed indented, bearing date May 23d, 23 Hen. VIIL he settles on Elizabeth, his wife, the manors of Frankley and Coules- don, with certain boilliries of salt in Droitwich, all in the county of Worcester; the great manor of Cressage, and certain lands in Halesowen and Rugeacre, in the county of Salop ; but adds; " If my heir be married, and has a mind to keep house for the ex- ercise of husbandry, or other hospitality, ll)en I will that he shall have one of the manors of Fiankley or Cressage, paying my wife the value in rent." "
This John Lyttelton died at Franklej', on May l/th, 1532,,
t Collins's Life of John of Gaunt, Svo. p 87- u Ex Autographo penes lionoiatissimuin Dom. Geo. Lyttelton, Baronem de Frankley.
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aged thirty-two 3 and by liis bst will ordered his body to be in- terred in the church porch of the parish church of Halesowen ; to which church he bequeaths 20s. Sd. to the mother church of Worcester, 3^'. 4d. to the chapel of bVankley, 3/. 6s. 4d. His soul to Almighty God, to our Lady St. Mary, and all the holy com- panye of heven. He leaves to his son John his ryng of gold, with the seal of his arms thereon; also a chales, and all the chapel stuife bequeathed by his grandfather, unto the Trinite of Frank- ley J sixteen kine, a bull, ten oxen, &c. provided his wife have the rule, use, and governyng of the said stufte, till he come to the age of twenty-four. He farther leaves to his wife all such chayns of gold, jewels, rings, and all other apparyl belonging to her body; gives all his strvants 40s. over and above their wages ; ap- points that his executor pay six pounds per ann. to a preste, to .sing dayly for his soul five years after his death; and live pounds per ann. to Edward Street, hys chaplyn, to pray for his soul : gives his daughters 300 marks each for their portion, and SCO marks to be divided among his younger sons, together with the rents and profits of his manor of Sheritls-ISlaunton, alias Newenton-Beau- champ ; and also of his lands in Coulesdon, Pipulton, and Upton Snodsbury. Yeven the 24th of May, 24 Hen. VIII. =^
By inquisitions taken after his death, he was found to die seised ot the same lands ar.d manors as specified in the inquisi- tions after the death of his grandfather. Sir Thomas Lyttelton, afore recited ; together with certain messuages and gardens, within the city of Worcester; and divers lands and tenements in South Lyttelton and Pirtonj and also the wardenship of Elmley castle (all in the county of Worcester) in right of his manor of Naunton. >'
Sir John, his son and heir, was a minor at his father's death. His wardship the King granted to Sir John Packington, of Hampton Lovett, com. Wigorn. Knight, wiio married him to Bridget, his daughter and coheir; by which match Mr. Lyttel- ton greatly increased his fortune, and was the better enabled to rebuild in a magnificent manner his seat at Frankleyj also to purchase a very fair estate at Halesowen, and likewise Hao^ley and Prestwood, for hunting seats.
Anno 1553, Queen Mary granted him for life the office of governor or con.itable of Dudley castle, in com. Stafford, together
*■ Ex Autographo penes honoiatissiinum Doin Dom. Geo. Lyttelton, &c. J Escaetria, in the Rolls Chapel, & Vis Salop, ut supra.
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with that of ranger of the old and new parks there; also custos of the lodges, with a right of paunage, herbage, ar,d warenage, in the whole manor of Dudley, with a salary of SO/, per ann. and farther appointed him high stewaid of the manors of Birming- ham and Berkeswell, in corn. Warwick, with a fee of ]0/. per ann. ^
The same year he was chosen one of the knights for Worces- tershire; and also served tlie oflBce of high sheiifF there, once in that reign, and twice in Queen Elizabeth's.'' Though a papist, yet he enjoyed places of honour and trust under Queen Elizabeth, being one of the council of the marches of Wales, deputy lieute- nant and custos rotulorum of Worcestershire, and in the com- mission of the peace for that county and Stafford. ^
Anno 1550, the said Queen Elizabeth knighted him, with other gentlemen of great distinction, at Kenelworth castle, when she honoured her favourite Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, with a visit there. '^
Anno 1570, a treasonable letter was sent to Sir John Lyttel- ton, and Sir Thomas Russel, the Queen's lieutenants in the county of Worcester, from the Popish rebels, who had fled to Edinburgh, containing a sort of declaration of their intention to subvert the government and Protestant religion ; but how well inclined soever Sir John might be to the restoration of popery, he acted on this occasion like a good subject, and immediately sent the letter to secretary Ctcil,*^
The year preceding the Spanish invasion, I find a list of all the justices of the peace in Worcestershire, together w ith their valua- tions, in the subsidy book, conditions and affections in religion, privately communicated by the bishop of Worcester, to Secretary Cecil : the first person which occurs, is Sir John Lyttelton, " custos rotulorum, and accounted wise," valued 661. I3s. 4d. *
Sir John died at Frankley, on February ].5th, loSQ-QQ, in the sixty-ninth year of his age, and was buried, agreeable to his last will, in the parish church of Halesowen. He had issue by Bridget his wii'e, six sons, and four daughters. First, Gilbert.
2 Ex Chartis Orig penes honoratissimum Dom. Dom. Geo. Lyttelton, Sec.
a Fuller's Cat. of Slicritfs of Worcestershire.
1> Vis. Salop, ut supra. ^ MS. Claudius, C- 3, in Bibl Cotton.
«i Strype's Annalsof the Reformation, vol. i. p 576
e Ibid, vol iii. p. J74, in the Appendix.
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Second, William, who espoused Margaret, sole daughter and heir of William Smyth, of Shirford in com. Warw. Esq. but died before the age of consummation, by a fall from his horse in hunting.
Third, George, settled at Holbeach, in com. Staff, who mar- ried his brother's widow, viz. Margaret, above-mentioned.
Fourth, John j fifth, Robert; sixth, Francis, who all three died unmarried.
The daughters were; Elizabeth, the wife of Francis Wil- loughby, of Wollaton in com. Nottingham, from whom the Lord Middleton is descended ; Margaret, marrifd Saniuel Mar- row, of Berkeswell in com. Warw. Esq.; Ampliilis, wife of Wil- liam Barneby, of Bockleton in Worcestershire, Esq. ; and Frances, died unmarried.
By different inquisitions taken after his decease at Worcester, Stafford, and Salop, he was found to die seised of the manor and advowson, with the rectory impropriate, of Over-Areley; the manor of Clent and of Prestwood, with lands in Sudgeley, King's Swinford, and Kinfare, by the service of keeping the hay of Ash- wood, all in the county of Stafford j of the manor and advowson of Hagley ; the manor and advowson of Old Swinford, and five hamlets thereunto belonging ; tlie manors of Cradeley and War- ley-Wigorn, in the parish of Hales-owen ; the several manors of Woodcote, D)'ers, Timberhangre, with Pinton Fields, all in the parish of Bromsgrove ; the mai)or of Groveley in Co{"ton-Hacket ; lands in Nortlitield, Salwarp, and Elnabridge ; boilliries of salt iu Droitwich, together with the great tithes of Wolverley (held by lease of the church of Worcester) all iu the county of Worcester. He was likewise found to have died seised of the scite of the late dissolved moiiastery of Hales Owen, and of the several manors of Hales-Borough, Romsley, Ludley, and Oldbury ; together with thirteen townships in the said parish of Hales, with the rectory impropriate of Hales, Warley, St. Ktnelm in Kenelinstowe. and advowson of the vicarage of Hales and St. Kenclm's chapel ; also of the manor and advowson, with the rectory impropriate of Higley, all in the county of Salop ; of divers lands and tenements in Llanyhangel, Keveniys, Llandowy, Stradenny, and Maentel, all in the county of Radnor. ^
Gilbert, his son and heir, served in parliament for Worces- tershire, 13 and 14 Eliz. and v.as high shcriti" the:e the 2(jth o(
f Orig. Inquis Rolls, in tlie Ivands of Lord Lyttelton.
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that reign. He resided chiefly at Prestwood, in com. Staff, where his father built a large house, part of which was lately the man- sion of William Foley, Esq. It was bought by Sir John Lyttel- ton, of Sutton, Lord Dudley ; but there was great contention between the two families, before the Lytteltons could get quiet possession of it. s
In the month of October, 1593, Lord Dudley armed one hundred and forty persons, and came by night to Prestwood, and forcibly carried off 34 1 sheep, 14 kine, 1 bull, and 8 fat oxen, which they drove to Dudley, and there kept them. Replevins were immediately taken, but not delivered by the bailiff's, for fear of their being cut to pieces. After Lord Dudley had killed and eaten part of them, 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 Dudley, Sedgley, Kingswinford, and Rowley, to the number of six or seven hundred persons, who brought them back to Dudley castle, where they roasted them all. Upon this violent proceeding, a bill was filed in the Star-chamber against Lord Dudley and his adherents J where, upon full proof of these illegal outrages, a re- ference was proposed and accepted, and articles were signed the 24th of May, loQS, whereby Lord Dudley agreed to pay one thousand marks to Mr. Lyttelton, and all farther suit to cease.''
This Gilbert Lyttelton took to wife Elizabeth, daughter of Humphry Coningsby, of Nyend-Solers in Shropshire, and of Hampton-Court in com. Hereford, Esq. by whom he had three sons, and one daughter.
First, John.
Second, Humphry; third, Gilbert, who both died unmar- ried.
z\.nne, his only daughter, was the wife of Sir Thomas Corn- wall, Baron ofBurfurd; which Anne lived to a very great age, and died the 30th of January, 1 6.56", aged oighly-seven, and was bu.'-ied in Easthim church in Worcestershire.
Mr. Lyttelton departed this lite on the 1st of June, 1599, at his house in the White Friars, London, in the fifty-ninth year of his age, and was inferred in the parish church of Hales-Owen.
By several inquisitions taken after his death, he was found to die seised of all the manors and lands recited in the foregoing in-
S Erdcswick's St.Tifbrdbliire, p 134. ■'j Orit. pap'^''''' '" ^''^ lian(is of I.onl tyttclton
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quisitions ; also of the manors of Shirford, Fletchamstetl,, New- bold, Eysinghill, Kirkley, Kiugscote, and Stretton-Baskerville i with the advowson also of Sti-eiton, and divers lands and tene- ments in Cheping-Dercet, Temple-Grafton, Weston under We- thele;, Ausley, Billingsley, Covvndon Brinklow, Hyde, and A.ttel- borough, all in the county of Warwick; also of the manor of Hinkley, and lands and tenements in Wigston and Loughborough, in the county of Leicester; and certain lands, &c. in Onely and Barby, in the county of Northampton, i
Elizabeth, his widow, survived him near twenty years, and died about the year 16O8.
John, his eldest son and heir, sat in parliament for the county of Worcester, the 27th and 28th of Eliz. his father and grand- father then living ; and again in the 3yth yeiir of the same reign. "^ Being a man much respected for his wit and valour (to use the great Sir Francis Bacon's words, in his account of this gentleman's conduct in Lord Essex's plot') and a Roman Catholic, he was courted by Lord Essex and his friends ; and in some measure drawn In by Sir CharU\s Davers to that conspiracy which cost Essex his head, and Lyttelton his estate, for he was tried and con- demned fur high treason at the King's-Bench bar, on February 20th, iSoO-l. The evidence on which the jury convicted him was veiy slender to amount to high treason ; the utmost that was proved against him, being no more than that he came to Drury- house at the close of a treasonable consultation. He was charged indeed to have designed some mischief and sedition by the great number of horses and quantity of arms he had in hi^s inn, to which he answered : " That his estate was able to maintain o-ood store of horses, and that he always delighted in arms and horses." Being condemned, he said no more, but lifting up his eyes to heaven, " We praise thee, O God, we acknowledge thee to be the Lord." -"
Sir Walter Raleigh was at that time in great favour and power at court, and was remarkably warm in prosecuting Lord Essex, and his unfortunate adherents, with the utmost rigour. A very large sum of money, privately paid him by INIr. Lyttelton and
i Oiig. Inquis Rolls, in Lord Lyttelton's liands. k Vis- Salop, ut supra- I Declaration of the treason and practices of the Earl of Essex, 410. pi intccl in 1601, by Fr- Bacon.
Ill Camden's Annals of Queen Elizabeth, in English, p. 627. VOL, viil. %
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Bainham, so far indeed operated upon him, that he saved their liveSj but not their estates, "
The following most excellent letter, written from the dungeon in Newgate, to Sir Walter, shews the greatness of Lyttelton's spirit, and deserved far better at the hands of Raleigh.
" Sir, " It is not worthye the vertue and honour you professe to per- secute persons fallen into misfortunes. If heretofore you have borne me causelesse displeasure, now of all others is the time leste seasonable to shewe it. Remember, Sir, what it is to be truely noble, and how it agreeth not with generous hartes to de- light to trample upon dejected fortunes. It is nowe in your power to do me good or ill offices; if you do me ill, 'you shall wrong your own reputation ; if you do me good, you shall give me cawse to be thankfull. There is allredy betweene your son and me one tye in blood and nature : I could be contente you did now double the knot with offices of love and friendship. To begge your favour in the state I stand, were too much basenesse ; to refuse it, were arrogancy and indiscretion : but to require you to do me no harm, is but justice, and that one gentleman of right oweth to another. What construction you will make of this, or what is nowe meete to be don, I must refer to your own judgment, and so I ende.
" J. LvTrtLTON." "
He was removed from Newgate to the King's Bench prison, Southwark, shortly after his conviction, where he lived but a few months, being sick (saith Camden) of an irrecoverable disease at the time of his trial ; ■' and dying on the 25th of July, 16OI, aged thirty-nine, was interred in the church vt St, George, in that borough.
Mr. Habingdon (the Worcestershire antiquary) in a letter to his son. Sir Thomas Lyttelton, dated anno l630, has these words: " Sir, if you would lay but a stone over your father, and write 1 hereon but John Lyttelton, Esq. the same will sufficiently blaze his exceeding worth."
In Habingdon's account of the Lyttelton family, in his Survey
n Mailin's Chion in th'i Atlditions by B. R, A. M. also original papers in Lord Lyttelton's custody.
" Ibid. p Annals of Queen Elizabeth.
LORD LYTTELTON. 339
of Worcestershire, he gives the following character of him : "John Lyttelton, a man of that undaunted spirit, as he trampled over all afflictions ; scorning as dust his large revenues; and of that re.Mgnaiion and submission to allniiglity Goi, as he esteemed himself not a man, but a worm, of ail which I being an eye wit- ness, doe hope that this heir of the worthy judge hath so acquitted himself at the tribunal of our etern-il Judge, that his faults and imperfections being washed away by the blood of Christ, he pos- sesseth never-ending felicitye : and I wish these ray poore lines were a tomb of brass to celebrate his memorial.'" '
He left issue by Muriel, his wife, daughter of Sir Thomas Bromley, Knt. lord high chancellor of England (temp. Eliz. R.) by Elizabeth,- the daughter of Sir Adrian Foriescue, Knight^ three sons, and five daughters viz.
First, Thomas.
Second, John, who was captain of horse, and adjutant to the Earl of Southampton, in the Netherlands, where he lost his life in an engagement, anno 10"2.9.
Third, Edward, who died unmarried.
Of the daughters, Elizabeth and Joan died young.
Bridget v>as the wite of Sir John Tracy, of Fairford and Tod- dington, in com. Gloucester, great great grandfather to the last Lords Tracy. She lies buried in Fairford church, and appears by her epitaph, written by her daughter, to have been mistress of the learned language;.
Anne, the fourth daughter, was married to Edward Liltl ton, Esq. afterwards lord keeper, and Baron of Mounslow, in Shrop- shire. She ■■ died the 6th of February, l621, and was biiried in the church of the Inner Temple.
Jane, the fifth, was the wife of Sherington Talbot, of Sal- warp, in com. Wigorn, Esq. fiom whom descended Mr. Ivory Talbot, of Lacock, the Earl of Sussex, and other families of con- sideration.
On Queen Elizabetlfs death, King James I. well weighing how popular a man the Earl of Essex was, and so consequently all those who took part with him were esteemed by the vulgar, unto whom an act of mercy could not but be very grateful, espe-
q MS. (in the possession of Charles Lord Bishop of Carlisle) in his ac- count of the manor of Frankley. Diigd Orig Juritl. p 177.
r Seymour's Survey of London, vol. i. p 79c, and Stow'i Survey, p. 762, edit 1633.
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cially at liis first coming to the crown, granted back, by letters patent, the whole estate unto Muriel, widow of John Lyttelton, and his children ; and, farther, an act of parliament also passed the first year of that reign, for reversing the attainder, and restor- ing the blood of his issue.
Muriel survived him twenty-eight years, in which time she paid, by savings out of her jointure, the sum of gOOOl. and up- wards, debts which her husband and his father had contracted ; and though she exercised a proper frugality, yet was remarkably hospitable and charitable : but the most glorious part of her con- duct, was the breeding up her children in the Protestant religion, their ancestors having from the reformation to that time adhered to the old errors of the church of Rome. After a life thus spent in good works, she exchanged it for a better, dying at Hagley- hall, the 10th day of April, l6"30, where in the churchyard she lies buried under a plain tomb, amongst her poor neighbours ; as she expressly directed by her last will.
Sir Thomas, her eldest son, Jirst Baronet, was chosen Knight for Worcestershire, in the two last parliaments of King James I. and three others of King Charles I. Anno l6l3, he served the ofHce of high sheriff of Staffordshire. Anno l6l8, he was knighted at Whitehall, having a few months before been created a Baronet. Upon the breaking out of the civil v>ar, he adhered to the King's party. The county of Worcester being entirely in his Majesty's interest. Sir Thomas had the chief military command there, the King by letter dated the 25th of June, l6l2, ordering him to re- pair immediately to his house in Worcestershire, where he was appointed colonel of all the militia, and commissioner of array jointly with the Lords Dudley and Coventiy, Sir John Packington and others. ^ The year following", I lind him a member of the Oxford parliament ; and the veiy next }'e.u" he was taken in arms at Bewdley, by the parliament forces, and stieightly confined in the Tower of London. *- During his imprisonment, his estate was put under sequestration ; an order of the lOth of March, 1644-5, passing the house, that Sir Thomas Lyttelton should pay four thousand pounds for his delinquency. " About this time also, his fine seat at FrankJey was burnt to the ground by Prince Rupert, having been g.irrisoned by the Prince for the King ; and he, being obliged to dislodge, look this clFectual method, to prevent the
5 Original in tlic hands of Lord Lyttelton. t VVhitlock."s Memorial, p. S3, u Jouiniiis of tiic House ot" Commons, dc hoc anno.
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enemy making the like use of it. Sir Thomas obtained his liberty after some years close confinement, but enjoyed it a very short time, dying on the 22d of February, 1649-50, at Newcastle house, in Clerkenwell, and was intrrred in Worcester cathedral.
He had issue by Catherine, his wife, daughter and sole heir to Sir Thomas Crompton, of Dritiield in Yorkshire, by Muriel, sister of Henry, Viscount Falkland, lord deputy of Ireland, twelve sons, and four daughters, viz.
First, John ; second, Thomas ; third, Horatio ; fourth, Henry j fifth, another Henry J sixth, Edward; seventh, Charles ; eighth, Constantine; ninth, V/illiam ; tenth, Arthur; eleventh, Ferdi- nando ; twelfth, George.
The daughters wercj Catherine ; Mary; Anne; and another Catherine
John and Thomas, the two eldest, were unfortunately di'owned in the river Cherwel, near Magdalen college, Oxford, where in the chapel, under a very fair monument, their remains were in- terred ; on which is inscribed the following epitaph written by their father :
Johannes & Thomas
Lyttelton
Eximiae spei adolescentuli,
Thom^ Lyttelton, Militis &:
Baronetti, ex lectissima juxta
Atque masstissima Domina Catherina
Conjuge filii natu majores hie
Obdormiscunt : quos innoxie
Obambulantes, in campo minorem
Lubricus pes in undam misit,
Majorem pietas sua. Sic ausum repetere fratrera, & Felici hoc quasi compendio, Totam explicantem indolem, Invicem flagranter complexos, Una mortis horula absorpsit,
Duro & praepropero lato.
Diem suum obierunt, alter xvii
Alter xiii annos nati,
Maii nono, M.D.CXXXV.
Nescis qua hora
Vigila.
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In Cowley's works we have an elegy on these two unfortunate youths,
Henry, Arthur, and Horatio, died young.
The other Henry was heir to his father.
Edward was killed in a duel at Worcester, and buried in the cathedral near his father.
Constantine married a daughter of Sir Thomas Jones, one of the judges of the King's Bench, and died in Jamaica, on December 31st, 1662, leaving no issue.
Charles became heir to his brother Henry, nf icJiom more afterwards.
William was captain of horse, and gentleman usher to the Queen of Bohemia, and died unmarried.
As did Ferdinando, who was groom of the bed-chaober to the Duke of York, and having a regiment of horse in the French King's service, lost his life in an engagement upon the Rhine, temp. Car. II.
George, the youngest, was major in Prince George of Den- mark's regiment, and married Elizabeth, daughter of the famous Sir Thomas Brown, of Norwich. He died at Windsor, without issue, and was buried in St. George's chapel there, and on his grave-stone has this inscription,^ " Here lyeth the body of major George Lyttelton, twelfth son of Sir Thomas Lyttelton, in the county of Worcester, Knight and Baronet, who departed this life May 31st, anno dom. ^717, aged seventy-seven."
The daughters all died unmarried ; two of whom lie buried in Lichfield cathedral, with an inscription on them.
A handsome monument was erected to the memory of Sir Thomas, and his wife, in Worcester cathedral^ with the follow- ing epitaph :
Near this place, under
A black stone lies interred
The body of Sir Thomas Lyttelton
Of Frankley in the county of
Worcester Knt. and Bart, who died
In the year of our Lord 1(550,
Aged iifiy-seaven yeares.
And under the same stone also
The body of Dame Catharine
>^ Pole's History and Antiq of Windsor, p- 384-
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Lyttelton, his wife, dangh cv And sole heir of Sir Thomas Ckompton, in the county of York, Knt. who died in the
Year of our Lord ]666, Aged sixty-scaven yeares.
At the top of the monument is placed a shield, containing the arms of Lyttelton, viz. argent, a chevron betiveen three escallops, sable, with the arms of Ulster in a canton, impaling those of Crompton, viz. gules, a fess betiveen three lions rampant, or. N. B. the fess should have been wavy, and not plain.
Upon a flat grave-stone, under the monument, (which was lately removed, together with all the other grave- stones, in the body and side isles of the cathedral) was this inscription in capital letters :
Let no man slight. His mortalitie Anno l64g.y
These words were appointed to be hereon inscribed by Sir Thomas Lyttelton, of Frankley in the county of Worcester, Knt. and Bart, who died the 22d of February, 1G49, and was buried under this stone, together with Dame Katharine, his wife, who died the 24th of June, I666, full of years and good works.
Sir Thomas got a very good estate with this lady j but the whole was sold by him and his son. Sir Henr^, while they were under imprisonment and sequestration, for adhering to the royal cause. She brought him the manors of Skidby and Ruston, with lands and tenements in Beverley, Ayke, Rippun, Holdenby, Dar- iield. Thorp, and Slatborn, together with the advowson of Slat- born, also the rectorial tithes of Willesdale, alias Guilsdalej a moiety of a mill in Norton and Sutton, all in the county of York; the rectory impropriate of St. Olaves, in York city ; the tithes of
y The dates of the year of his death are different, but cut so on thf stones.
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Barrow, Possenhill, Arlestree, Swynney, Wigwick, Harle)'^ Acton Round, and Paynton, all m the county of Salop ; the manor of Hounslow, in Middlesex ; the rectory impropriate, and advowson of the vicarage of Laxton, in com. Nottingham ; the rectory im- propriate, and advowson of the vicarage of All Saints, in North- ampton ; with divers lands and tenements in Blisworth, com. Northampton 3 lands and tenements in Kirkby-Kendal, in West- morland ; with the rectory impropriate, and advowson of the said vicarage; and the chantry lands fern erly belonging to the said church ; lands and tenements in Litherland, Beckenshaw, and RufFord, in Lancashire; with divers buildings in Hare-court, at the Inner Temple, London, called Cromptojis Buiidings.'^ In his last will, dated December 20th, l644, " Concerning my goods (he says) which by these unhappy wars are of smnll value, I give my jewels, plate, and chattels of all sorts, to my wife, ex- cept ; to my nephew, John Tracy, Esq. my ruby
ring j to Sherington Talbot, Esq. 20/. to my wife bOOl. to the poor of Halesowen, 10/. and of Hagley, five marks, &c." ^
Sir Henry, secotid Baronet, the^fifth, but eldest surviving son, succeeded his father in title and estate. Anno l654, he was seized by warrant from Cromwell, and confined in the Tower, on suspicion of having designs to subvert the government, a large quantity of arms being discovered in a private chamber, at his house at Hagley. ^ He was kept a close prisoner seventeen months ; his estate put under sequestration, and the then ex- pensive office of the sherifFalty of Worcestershire laid upon him (anno \Q55) during his confinement. A very short time before the restoration took place, he was honoured with the following letter from the King, all written in his own hand ; which shews how high a value the King set upon his services :
" Brussels, Jan. 8th, 1660. " To Sir Henry Lyttelton,
" I am well informed how much and how often you have suf- fered for me, and how much I am beholding to all your relations, and you may be very sure I have the sense of it that I ought to have, of which you shall one day have evidence; in the mean time cherish your health, and prepare for better times which wc
z From original papers, in Lord Lyttelton's custody.
a Ex Autographoin Curia Perogativ.
I' Thurloe's State Papers-
LORD LYTTELTON. 3^5
shall enjoy together. Commend me to all yonr friends, and be confident you shall always find me to be
" Your affectionate friend
" Charles R."<=
Anno 1660, he was chosen member of parliament for the city of Litchfield ; and the same year I find him one of the jury for the trial of the regicides.
He was twice married, viz. first to Philadelphia, daughter and coheir of Thomas Cary, E-^q. second son to Robert, Earl of Mon- mouth, by whom he had no issue. This lady died at Tunbridge Weils, in her attpndnnce on the Queen (to whom she was lady of the bedchamber) the 2d of August, 16G3, and was interred in the parisli church of Tunbridge, where an elegant monument was erected to her memory, with the following epitaph, written by Dr. Alestree, provost of Eton :
H. S. I.
Philadelphia Lyttelton
Fortunse corporis, animae dotibus
Quantum capit mortalitas
Illustris.
In Thalamis virgo
In urbe matrona
In aula demum ipsa Christiana
Nullibi honestius forma,
Nee pulchrius virtus habitabat ;
Inter profligatos iniquissimi temporis mores
Candorem, modestiam, pietatem, fidem,
Profiteri ausa est et colere,
Tanto melior quo malis proprior.
Dolendum interim.
Quod quae inter ignes, nives
Et morbos incolumitatem retinuit,
Mediis in aquis, flammas
Et vitae praesidiis, mortem reperit :
Siquidem
Ad Tunbrigienses fontes,
Ardente correpta febre
Immortalitate digna et Deo matura,
c Orighial, in the hands of the Lord Bishop of Carlisle
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Ad ccElestem aulam transiit,
Mensis Aug. die 2°. anno l663.
iEtat. 32.
Serenissimse Catharinae Angliae Reginae
A Privata Camera.
HeNRICI LYTTELTO^f
In agro Wigorn^ Baronetti
Uxor.
ThomjE Gary
RoBERTi Comitis Monumethen. F.
Et
Serenissinio Carolo I'"" a Cubiculo
Filia natu major
Et Ex semisse haeres.
His second wife was the Hon. Elizabeth Newport, daughter of Francis, Viscount Newport (afterwards Earl of Bradford) by whom also he had no issue. She survived him above thirty years, and became wife to Edward Harvey, of Comb in Surry, Esq.
Sir Henry died at Over-Arley in Staffordshire (where he chiefly resided) the 24th of June, i6Q3, aged sixty-nine; and was buried in that church, where is a very handsome monument erected to his memory, ornamented with a shield, containing his own arms and supporters, and eleven quarterings, with the fol- lowing inscription :
In the vault beneath is interred the body of Sir Henry Lyttelton Baronet of Franldey, in the county of Worcester; who died the 24th of June, 1693, aged 6q years. He was first married to Mrs. Philadelphia Gary, one of the daughters and coheirs of Mr. Thomas Gary, son of the Earl of Monmouth ; and after her death to the Hon. Mrs. Elizabeth Newport, of Bradford in Shropshire; to whose memory this monument is erected by his brother and heir. Sir Gharles Ia'ttelton, Knt. and Bart.
In the chancel of this church lies also buried his brother, Gnptain William Lyttelton, and his
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beloved nephew, Henry Lyttelton, eldest son of Sir Chaklks Lyttelton.
Sir Charles, third Baronet, brother and heir to Sir Henr}', took to arms early in his youth ; and, during the civil wars, was in the town of Colchester, when it underwent that severe siege from Cromwfill's forces. After the surrender of the town, he escaped into France; but returned to England in the year" 1659, just before Sir George Booth's rising in Cheshire for the K^ng. How considerable a share he had in that bold and spirited at- tempt, to restore the King and constitution, appears by the fol- lowing passage, in Lord Mordaunt's letter to the King, concern- ing that transaction :
" Calais, Oct. nth, i6<;9. " Charles Lyttelton landed here yesterday, and dcsiies his duty may be humbly presented to your Majesty. I cannot for- bear doing him right to assure your Majesty, no person appeared more considerable (Sir George Booth only excepted) than liej and he had undoubtedly carried Shrewsbury, but that one mis- fortune on another happened, &:c."
That design miscarrying, he was taken prisoner, and confined in the Gatehouse, Westminster; but soon obtaining his liberty, he returned to his royal master, and served him in a private capacity with more success than he had been able to do in a public one j for it appears by other letters, in the Ormond Collection (from whence the above was extracted'') that he was eriployed on many secret and itnportant messages, between the King and his friends in England, at that critical conjuncture, just preceding the restoration. How favourably Sir Edward Hyde thought of him, at that time, though he does not vouchsafe to mention him in his history, appears from the following letter of his to the Marquis of Ormond :
'' Colonel Whitley tells me, that Charles Lyttelton is gone post to the King, with letters to the King from my Lord Mor- daunt. I shall not nfcd to desire you to make very much of Charles Lyttelton, who is a very worthy young man; and, I pray you oblige him to tell you (and call to him from me) the plca-
rt Carte's Collection of Letters, vol. ii. p. 227.
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sant discourse he had with Lord Berkeley, the morning before his departure j and if he be not worth his weight in gold, &c." *
Anno 1 662, he was knighted, and went soon after to Jamaica, with Lord Windsor, as lieutenant-governor; who quicitly leaving that isl?r.d, on account of ill health. Sir Charles Lyttelton re- mained SLiie governor, and built the town of Port Royal, which was almost entirtly destroyed by the great earthquake. In l6g2. On his return to England,, he was appointed colonel of the Duke of York's regiment. Anno l673, he was made governor of Sheerness and liandguard fort ; and had other employments under the crown in the reign of King Charles IL During King James IPs reign, he sat in parliament for the borough of Bcwdley, and had the command of the Princess of Denmark's regiment, and was brigadier-general till the revolution, when he resigned all his employments, on account of the oaths, and retired to his house at West-Sheene, near Richmond, till his brother Sir Henry's death, when he settled at Hagley, for the remainder of his life.
He was twice married : first, to Catherine, daughter of Sir William Fairfax, of Steton in Yorkshire, Knight, (and widow of Mr. Lister) by whom he had one son, born at sea, in their passage from England to Jamaica j who, together with the mother, died not long after in that island, and were both interred in ihe church of Spanish Town. A monument was erected there to her me- mory, on which are inscribed these epitaphs :
M.S.
His jacet Catharina Lyttelton,
Filia D. D. Gul. Fairfax, de Steton in comitatu
Eboracensi, Equitis Aurati. Uxor D. D.
Caroli Lyttelton, Equitis Aurati,
Et in Jamaica Vice-Gubernatoris ;
Obiit Januar. 26.
1662.
Hie situs est Henricus Lyttelton, D. D.
Caroli Lyttelton et Catharine uxoris
Suae in vicina sepultae filiolus semestris
Obiit Feb. ]. A. D. 1 662.
• Carte's Collection of Letters, vol ii. . azy.
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His second wife was Anne, daughter and coheir of Thomas Temple, of Frankton in Warwickshire, by Rebecca, daughter of Sir Nicholas Carevv, of Beddington in Surry, Knt. who brought him five sons, and eight daughters, viz.
Henr}'^ and Charles, who died in their infancy.
Another Henry, who was captain of horse, and died unmar- ried j another Charles, who took to wife Anne, daughter and heir of Thomas Saunders, of Beechwood in Hertfordshire, Esq. (and widow of Sir Thomas Sebright, of Besford in Worcestershire, Bart.) by whom he had no issue. He departed this life August l6th, 1712, and was buried at Over-Arley.
Thomas, xheffth son, became heir to his father.
Of the dc'.ughters, Anne; Elizabeth j Anne Charlotte, died young; Catherine died unmarried. May 24th, 1742; Cary was the wife of Sir Theophilus Biddulph, of Elmhurst in Staffordshire, Bart, and died April 18th, 1741 3 Mary was married to William Plowden, of Plowden in' Shropshire,*^ and died January 15th, 1745-6; Anne married Joseph Amphlett, of dentin Stafford- shire, Esq. and died May 25th of May, 1715 3 and Octavia, the youngest, died unmarried.
Sir Charles s lived to a great age, having the perfect enjoy- ment of his health and senses to his eighty-seventh year. He de- parted this life at his seat at Hagley, on May 2d, 1716. Dame Anne, his widow, survived him two years, dying on August 27th, 17 1 8, and was buried by her husband in the vault at Over- Arley.
Sir Thomas, /oMr^/i Baronet, the fifth but only surviving son, succeeded his father in title and estates. He was tin ice chosen knight of the shire for Worcestershire, and sat in one parliament for the borough of Camelford in Cornwall. Anno 1727^ he was appointed a lord of the admiralty, which he resigned anno 1741 ; and at the same time declined a re-election to parliament on ac- count of ill health and infirmities. He married Christian, maid of honour to Queen Anne, daughter to Sir Richard Temple, of Stow in Bucks, Bart, (by Mary, the daughter and coheir of Henry Knap, of Weston in Oxfordshire, Esq.) and sister the late Lord Viscount Cobham, by whom he had six sons, and as many daughters.
f They had issue a daughter, the wife of Mr. Wright, a banker in Covent Garden. She died in child-bed, March 30th, 1739 g See a portrait of him in Harding's Edition of the Memoirs of Grammont.
350 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND.
First, George, first peer.
Second, Thomas, who was page of honour to the Princes* Royal Anne, and died unmarried on April l6th, 1729.
Third, Charles, formerly of the Middle Temple, and barrister of law; but entering into holy orders, in August, 1742, becanae rector of Alvechurcb, in com, Wigorn. In December, 1/47, ap- pointed one of his late Msjesty's chaplains in ordinary j and in May, 1/48, promoted to the deanery of the cathedral church of Exeter. On the 21st ofMarch, 1/62, he was consecrated Bishop OF Carlisle, (on the translation of bishop Osbaldiston to the see of London,) and died possessed of that see, at his house in Clifford- street, December 22d, 1/63, unmarried, and was buried at Hag- ley. He was eminent for his knowledge of English antiquities.
Fourth, Richard, who died in his infancy.
Fifth, Another Richard, first page of honour to Queen Caro- line j then successively ensign of the guards ; captain of marines ; aid-de-camp to the Earl of Stair at the battle of Deltingen ; de- puty quarter-master-general in South Britain, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and lieutenant-general. On the 11 tli of De- cember, 1756, he was appointed master of the jewel-office, which he resigned in December, 1/62, when he was appointed captain- general and commander-in-chief of the island of Minorca. April 19th, 1766; having resigned the government of Minorca, he was appointed governor of the island of Guernsey, &:c. In the par- liament summoned to meet on the 13th of August, 17-^7) he was elected meuiber for Biackley j and in the nest parliament sat for Poole, in the county of Dorset, On the 27th of December, 1753, he was installed Knight of the Bath, and died October 1st, 177O, •without issue. Fie married Rachacl, daughter of Wriothesley, Second Dnke of Bedford, and widow of Scroop, first Duke of Bridgewater. Her Grace died at her house in Piccadilly, May 22d, \777-
Sixth, William Henry, third Lord Lyttelton.
Of the daughters, Christian, the eldest, was married to Tho- mas Pitt, of Boconnock in Cornwall, Esq, She died at Hagley, June the 5th, 1750, and was there buried. She was mother of the first Lord Camelford.
Mary, Penelope, and Amelia, all died unmarried.
Anne, the wife of the late Francis Ayscough, D. D. clerk of the closet to the late Prince of Wales, and first preceptor to his present Majesty, and the late Duke of York, and afterwards deaiii
LORD LYTTELTON. 551
of Bristol. She *" died at her house in Lisle-street, Leicester- square, on March 30th, 1/76, aged sixty-four. She was mother of Captain Ayscoiigh, and Lady Cockburn.
Hester, the youngest, married, in l/OS, to John Fitzraaurice, Esq. of Springfield, in the county of Limerick, in Ireland.
Sir Thomas died at Hagley, the 14th of September, 1/51, aged sixty-six years, and was interred by the remains of his wife (who died the lOth of April, 1/48, aged fifty-nine years) in the vault at Hagley, to whose memories an elegant monument is erected in the chancel, with the following inscriptions :
To the Memory of Sir Thomas Lyttelton, Bart. Whose sound jud;j;ment, inflexible integrity and universal candour,
Recommended him to the Esteem of all Parties. He was knight of the shire iur the county of Worcester in three
successive Parliaments, And one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty fourteen
Years,
Where he behaved with Lnpartiality, Prudence and Honour:
But his ill Health obliging him to withdraw from Business,
He resigned that employment
And lived retired
In the continual Exercise of all the Virtues
Which can enoble a private Life,
Hospitality, Charity, unbounded Benevolence,
But more especially of that most difficult and truly heroical Virtue,
Fortitude in bearing violent Pain,
With which it pleased God to try him in an extraordinary Manner,
And which instead of diminishing the Vigour of his Mind
Gave it additional Strength.
He felt every public and private Calamity,
More than the Intenseness of his-own Sufferings,
Which he seem'd to forget.
While he was meditating the Belief
Or advancing the Felicity of others.
To the great Author of all Good his Heart overflow'd with
Gratitude,
And his Tongue with Praise,
Even amidst the severest Agonies,
t" Coffin Plate.
352 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND.
Especially for that divine Grace
Which enabled him to support them^
And for that unimpair'd Understanding
Of which he made the noblest use to his last Moments,
Dying as he had lived.
With unaffected Greatness of Mind,
With modest Dignity,
With calm Resignation,
And humble but confident Hopes In the Mercy of God,
Through the Merits of Jesus Christ his Redeemer,
Sept. the 14. Ann. Dom. 1751,
In the 66, Year of his Age.
In the same Vault lies interr'd
The Body of Dame Christian,
The Wife of Sir Thomas Lyttelton, Bart.
Daughter of Sir Richard Temple, Bart,
Of Stow in the County of Bucks,
A Lady of excellent Piety,
And of a most gentle
And sweet Disposition,
By whom he had twelve Children,
Six Sons and six Daughters.
She was born the 11 of June 16S8,
Was married in the Year 17O8,
And died, beloved and mourned
By her Family, by her Neighbours,
And by the Poor, Apr. 10, 1748,
To both his most dear
And most honour'd Parents
Sir George Lyttelton, Bart,
Raised and inscribed this Stone.
George, first Lord Lyttelton, the eldest son and heir to Sir Thomas, sat in several parliaments for the borough of Oke- hampton in Devon, Anno 173/, he was appointed principal se- cretary to the Prince of Wales, father of his present Majesty; and in 17-14, one of the lords commissioners of the Treasury, which resigning in 1^54, he was made cofferer to his Majesty's household, and privy-counsellor. Having resigned the otHee of cofferer, in December, 1755, he was appointed Chaxckllor and Under
LORD LYTTELTON. 3 58
Treasurer of his Majesty's Court of ExcHsauER j and by letters patent, dated the 19th of November, 1/57, 31 Geo. II. was created a Peer of Great Britain, by the style and title of Lord Lyttel- TON, Baron of Franhlcy, in thp county of JForcesttr.
He married Lucy, the daughter of Hugh Fortescue, of Filleigh in com. Devon, Esq. by Lucy, his second wife, the daughter uf Matthew, hoxA Aylmer ; and had one son,
Thomas, the second peer, and two daughters j
Lucy, married on the 10th of May, 17''7, at St. James's church in Westminster, to the Right Hon. Arthur, Viscount Va- lentia, of the kingdom of Ireland, now Earl of Mountnorris.
And Mary, who died an infant.
This Lady died the 19th of January, 1 746-7, and was buried at Over Arley ; but a very elegant monument is erected to her memory in the chancel of the church at Hagley, containing the following inscriptions :
To the
Memory of Lucy Lytteltoij,
Daughter of Hugh Fortescue, of Filleigh
In the County of Devon, Esq.
Father to the present Earl of Clinton :
By Lucy his Wife,
The Daughter of Matthew Lord Aylmer,
Who departed this Life the 19th of Jan. 1746-7,
Aged twenty-nine.
Having employed the short Term assigned to her here
In the uniform Practice of Religion and Virtue.
Made to engage all Hearts and charm all eyes ; Though meek, magnanimous3 though witty, wlsej Polite, as all her Life in Courts had been ; Yet good, as she the World had never seen ; The noble Fire of an exalted Mind With gentlest female Tenderness combined. Her Speech was the melodious Voice of Love, Her Song the warbling of the vernal Grove, Her Eloquence was sweeter than her Song, Soft as her Heart, and as her Reason strong. Her Form each Beauty of her Mind exprestj^ Her Mind was Virtue by the Graces drest.
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354 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND,
M. S.
Luci^ Lyttelton
Ex antiquissimorum Foitescutorum genere ortae ;
Quae annos nata viginti novem,
Formae eximiae, indolis oplimae, ingenii maximi.
Omnibus bonis artibus, literisque humanioribus.
Supra 3Etatem & sexum exculti.
Sine superbia laude florens,
Morte iramatura
Vitam pie, pudice, sancte actam
In tertio puerperio clausit,
Decimo nono die Januarii^ -
Anno Domini 1746-7.
FJeta etiam ab ignotis.
Uxori dilectissimo
Quinquennio felicissimo conjugii nondum absolute
Iramensi amoris ac desiderii hoc qualecunque monumentum
Posuit Georgius Lyttelton,
Adhuc, eheu ! superstes.
At in eodem sepulchro ipse olini sepeliendus,
Et per Jesum Ciiristum Salvatorem suum.
Ad vitae melioris diuturniora guadia
Lacrymis in aeternum abstersis, Se cum ilia resurrecturum confidens.
Lord Lyttelton married to his second wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Rich, Bart, by whom he had no issue. She died September I7th, 179^-
His Lordship, who was also one of the Fellows of the Royal Society, departed this life at Hagley, on August 22d, 1/73. The physician who attended his Lordship in his last illness, has given the following account thereof, in a letter ' dated August 2Sth : " On Sunday evening the symptoms of his Lordship's disorder, whicli for a week past had alarmed us, put on a fatal appearance, and his Lordship believed himself to be a dying man. From this time he suffered by restlessness rather than pain j and though his nerves were apparently much fluttered, his mental faculties never seemed stronger when he was thoroughly awake.
" His Lordship's bilious and hepatic complaints seemed alone «ot equal to the expected mournful event ; his long want of sleep,
f Addressed to Mrs» Montagu.
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whether the consequence of the irritation in the bowels, or which is more probable, ofcausesofa ditKer>jnt kind, accounts for his loss of strength, and for his death ^'ery sufHcienll}'.
"Though his Lordship wished his approaching dissohition not to be linsrering, he waited for it with resignation. lie said, it is a folly, a keeping me in misery novv to attempt to prolong life; yet he was easily persuaded for the satisfaction of others, to do or take any thing thought proper for him. On Saturday he had been remarkably better, and we were not without some hopes of his recover}'.
" On Sunday, about eleven in the forenoon, his Lordship sent for me, and said he felt a great hurry, and wished to have a little conversation with me in order to divert it. He then proceeded to open the fountains of that heart, from whence goodness had so long flowed as from a copious spring. Doctor, said he, you shall be my confessor j when I first set out in the world, I had friends who endeavoured to shake my belief in the Christian religion. I saw difficulties which staggered mej but I kept my mind open to conviction. The evidences and doctrines of Christianity, studied with attention, made me a most firm and persuaded believer of the Christian religion. I have made it the rule of my life, and it is the ground of my future hopes. I have erred and sinned ; but have repented, and never indulged any vicious habit. In politics and public life, I have made public good the rule of my conduct. I never gave counsels which I did not at that time think best. I have seen that I was sometimes in the wrong, but did not err designedly. I have endeavoured in private life to do all the good in my power, and never for a moment could indulge malicious or unjust designs upon any person whatsoever.
" At another time, he said, I must leave my soul in the same state it was in before this illness ; I find this a \ery inconvenient time for solicitude about any thing.
" On the evening when the symptoms of death came on, he said, I shall die; but it will not be your fault. When Lord and Lady Valentia came to see his Lordship, he gave them his solemn benediction, and said, be good, be virtuous, my Lord, you must come to this. Thus he continued giving his dying benedictions to all around him. On Monday morning, a lucid interval gave some small hopes, but these vanished in the evening ; and he con- tinued dying, but with very little uneasiness, till Tuesday morn- ing, August 22d, when between seven and eight o'clock he ex- pired, almost without a groan,"
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His Lordship was buried at Hagley, and the following inscrip- tion is cut on the side of his Lady's monument :
This unadorned stone, was placed here.
By the particular desire and
Express directions of the late Right Honourable
George Lord Lyttelton,
Who died August 22d, 17/3, aged 64.
" I remember,'' says Mrs. Montagu in a letter to Lord Kaims, "■ Sir William Temple says, in one of his Essays, that when he recollects how many excellent men and amiable women of his acquaintance have died before him, he is ashamed to be alive. With much more reason than Sir William Temple, whose merit I dare say was equal at least to that of any of the friends he sur- vived, I feel this very strongly, I have lived in the most intimate connexion with some persons of the highest character in this agej ihey are gone, and I remain : all that adorned me is taken away, and only a cypress wreath remains. I used to boirow some lustre from them, but now I seem respectable (even in my own eyes) only as the mourner of departed merit. I agree with your Lord- ship, that I ought not to lament the death of Lord Lyttelton on his account. His virtue could not have been more perfect in this mortal state, nor his character greater than it is with all those whose praise could be an object to a wise and worthy man. He now receives the full reward of those virtues, which here, though they gave him a tranquil cheerfulness amidst many vexations, and the sufferings of sickness, yet could not bring a perfect calm to the wounds his paternal affection suffered. When I consider how unhappy his former, how blessed his present condition, I am ashamed to lament him. The world has lost the best example, modest merit the most zealous protector, mankind its gentlest friend. My loss is unspeakable j but as the friendship of so ex- cellent a man is the best gift of God, and I am sensible I was never deserving of so great a blessing, I ought rather to offer thanks it was bestowed, than repine it was taken away; and only to beg, that by the remembrance of his precepts and example, I may derive the same helps to doing my duty in all relations of life, and social engagements, as I did from his advice. But virtue never speaks with such persuasion as when she borrows the accents of a friend. Moreover, my time in this world will probably be very short, and if it were long, I could not forget to admire so
LORD LYTTELTON. 357
admirable a pattern of goodness — I ever am, my lord, &.'c. Sec. Elizabeth Montagu."
" On this occasion," says Mrs. Elizabeth Carter, ^ " I trust our excellent friend is rejoicing in his escape from the suffer- ings of a probationary life. It would be absolutely selfish to wish him back to a world where his trials derived their most painful acuteness from the sensibility of his virtue." " You say Lord Lyttelton * became a christian ^ from philosophical en- quiry.' But upon that enquiry he entered with a mind undis- turbed by passion, and unbiassed by prejudice ; and, consequently, with a heart full of virtuous dispositions. Had his head been ever so speculative and philosophical ; with the pride, and malevolence, and dissoluteness of Bolingbroke, or the pert paradoxical vanity of Hume, with all his enquiries he had remained an unbeliever." He was succeeded by his son, Thomas, second Lord Lyt- telton, born January 30th, 1744, " a man of a very different character.
" With great abilities, generally very ill applied ; with a strong sense of religion, which he never sulFered to influence his conduct, bis days were mostly passed in splendid misery ; and in the painful change of the most extravagant gaiety, and the deepest despair. The delight, when he pleased, of the first and most select societies, he chose to pass his time, for the most part, with the most profligate and abandoned ot both sexes. Solitude was to him the most insupportable torment, and to banish reflection, he flew to company whom he despised and ridiculed. His con- duct was a subject of bitter regret both to his father and all his friends."'
His Lordship married at Hales Owen in Staffordshire, on June 26th, 1772, Apphia, second daughter of Broome Witts, late of Cheping Norton in Oxfordshire, Esq. and relict of Joseph Peach, late governor of Calcutta in the East Indies.
His Lordship was chief justice in Eyre of his Majesty's forests north of Trent, and high steward of Bewdley. His Lordship died at his seat at Pitt-place, Epsom, November 27th, 1/79, s. p. wherebv thf English Peerage became extinct.
William Henry, re-created Lord Lyttelton, sixth son of Sir Thomas Lyttelton, was twice chosen member of parliament for
g See Pennington's Memoirs of Mrs. Carter, 8vo. vol. i. p. 430. h How sincere he was in that conviction, may be learnt from all his Works, especially that excellent one " On the conversion of St. Paul'' i Pennington's Memoirs of Mrs Carter, Svo.
358 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND.
Bewdley in Worcestershire, viz. in November^ 174S, on the de- cease of William Bowles, Esq. j and at the next general election in 1754.
In January, 1 JSS, he was appointed governor of South Caro- lina i which resigning in 176O, he was constituted governor of the island of Jamaica ; and returning to England in July, 1766, he was on the 10th of October following, appointed his Majesty's envoy extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the King of Portugal.
On July 213^, 1776, he was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of Ireland, by the title of Baron IFcstcote, of Baltimore iii the county of Longford.
On August 13th, 1794, his Lordship was advanced to the British Peerage by the title of Lord Lyttelton, Baron of Frankley in the county of Worcester.
His Lordship married, in June, 176I, Mary, daughter and coheiress of James Macartney, Esq. of Longford in Ireland, by whom (who died in 17^5) he had
Hester, born in Jamaica, March 17th, 1762, married, August 20th, 1783, to Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Bart, of Stourhead, Wilts, (and has issue Henry-Richard).
And two sons,
First, George-Fulke, born October 27th, 1763.
Second, Charles-Adam, boin December 28th, 1704, bred to the sea, and, being a lieutenant of the Robuste ship of war, was killed near the capes of Virginia, in an engagement, March l6th, 178I.
His Lordship married, secondly, February 13th, 1774, Caro- line, daugliter of John Bristow, Esq. late of Quiddenham in Nor- folk, by whom he had Issue,
Caroline-Anne, born November 10th, 1774, married. May 4th, 1808, the Right Flon. Reginald Pole Carew, of Anthony iu Cornwall.
ildward-Hcnry, born December 4th, 1 775 ; died June 15th, 1778.
VVillirim, born November 10th, 17765 died October 27th,
1777.
John, born September 29th, 1779; died February 10th, I7p0.
Meriel, born November 7th, 178O; died March 13fh, 178I.
William-Henry, born April 3d, 1782, now M. P. for Worces- tershire.
His Lordship dying September 14th, 1803, was succeeded by his eldest lion.
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George-Fulke, fourth Lord Lyttelton-.
His Lordship was born October 27th, 1762.
Titles. George-Fulke Lyttelton, Lord Lyttelton, Baron of Frankley.
Creations. Lord Lyttelton, Baron of Frankley, August IStli^ 1794 ; and Baron Westcote in Ireland, July 21st, 17/6.
Arms. Argent, a cheveron, between three escallops, sable. '
Crest. On a wreath, a Moor's head in profile, coupcd proper, with a wreath about the head, argent and sable. N, B. This was truly the crest of Westcote ; that of Lyttleton, borne by Thomas de Luttelton, grandfather to the judge (temp. Hen. IV.) being a greyhound's head, collared.
Supporters. Two tritons, or mermen, with tridents, all proper.
Motto. Ung Dieu, ung Roy.
Chief Seats. Hagley-Hall, in Worcestershire (Frankiey- House, the more ancient seat of the family, being burnt in the last civil war) .
i In the Vis- of Salop, C. 20, Heralds Office, there is an achievement con- sisting of 84 coats, which this family had a right to quarter, anno 1624, viz. France and England quarterly within a bordure gobone (for Beaufort, Duke of Somerset) as maternally descended from John of Gaunt, son to King Ed- ward III. Also Somery, Beauchamp, Talbot, Berkeley, Fasten, D'Abitot, Lisle, Clare, Holland, Nevil, Grey, and other noble families.
5(50 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND,
ELLIS, LORD MENDIP.
(VISCOUNT CLIFDEN IN IRELAND.)
The first person on whom this peerage was conferred was the maternal uncle of the present peer's father, viz.
The late Right Hon. Welbore Ellis, who was created Baron of Mendip, in the county af Somerset, on August 13th, 1794, with a collateral remainder to the issue male of the body of his sister Anne, wife of Henry Agar, Esq. of Gowran, in Ire- land.
This venerable peer was a younger son of the Rt. Rev. Dr. Welbore Ellis, Bishop of Meath in Ireland, from 1731 to 1733, by Diana, daughter of Sir John Briscoe, by Lady Anne Knollys, daughter of the Earl of Banbury,
He was born in 1 704, and admitted on the foundation of Westminster school, at the age of fourteen, in I728 ; whence he was elected in 1732 to a studentship in Christ church, Oxford. Here he took the degrees of A. B. and A. M.
Soon after quitting the University he came into parliament ; and in 1749, was appointed a Lord of the Admiralty under Mr. Pelham's administration.
In 1755, he resigned his seat at the admirahy; and became a vice-treasurer of Ireland, which be enjoyed till December, 1762.
In 1763, he was appointed Secretary at War, on Mr. George Grenville's appointment to be first lord of the Treasury. He retained this office till the fall of Mr. Grenville's ministry in 176), when he was reinstated a vice-treasurer of Ireland: but this he only retained till October in the following year.
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When Lord North became Premier, in 1770^ Mr, Ellis was again appointed a vice-treasurer of Ireland.
He retained this place till 1777, when he was made Trea- surer OF THE Navy.
In February, 1782, he accepted the office of Secretaky op State for the colonies ; but the fall of the Administration quickly afterwards gave him but a short possession of this office; and he never afterwards filled any political situation.
When Mr. Pitt came into power, in December 1783, Mr. Ellis followed the fortune of his friends; and at this period, after an active political life of forty-four years, he saw himself for the first time in opposition.
He continued steadily to support the measures of this party, till the schism, which took place in 1793 on- the subject of the French Revolution and the late war; when Mr. Ellis, whose prin- ciples and disposition equally led him to disapprove of the French rulers, joined with the Duke of Portland and Mr. Burke in giving countenance to the system of Administration. He was however now too far advanced in years to take an active part in the politics of the day; and on the introduction of the Duke of Portland into the cabinet, he was, with many others of his Grace's friends, created a P<?er of the realm, by patent dated August 13th, 179 1, by the title of Lord Mkndip, as aforesaid.
From this time his Lordship led a life of learned ease and dig- nified retirement, contenting himself with the society of his pri- vate friends, and reaping the fruits of a good education, and a well-spent life. He was of an active and diligent turn of mind; a correct and accurate, though not an eloquent, speaker in parlia- ment; and, notwithstanding his connection with so many admi- nistrations, and his long familiarity of office, of spotless integrity. It was his principle in general to support the measures of govern- ment; but his political opinions were ever consistent, and hii political attachments were firm and unshaken.
His Lordship was aa excellent classical scholar ; and on every subject a well-informed man ; and the library which he left be- hind is said to have been one of the most numerous and valuable private collections in the kingdom. *
His Lordship married, first, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Wil- liam Stanhope, K. B. who died August 1st, l/Ql, without issue. In right of her he enjoyed Pope's villa at Twickenham; which was bought by Sir William after Pope's death, 17-^4.
» From his character in Gent. Mag. vol. Ixxii. p 187 — 188«
362 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND.
He married, secondly, a sister and heir of the late Right Hon, Hans Stanley ; in right of whom he enjoyed, after Mr. Stanley's death, the beautiful seat at Poulton's in the New Forest, Hants. This Lady survived him.
His Lordship died at his house in Brook-street, Hanover- square, February 2d, 1802, set, eighty-nine, without issue; on which the Barony of Mendip descended to his great nephew Henry Welbors Agar, Viscount Clifden of Ireland.
FAMILY OF AGAR.
This family derives its descent from
Charles Agar, of the city of York, Esq, who married Ellis of the family of Blanchevillestown, in the county of Kilkenny j and by her was father of
James Agar, of Gowran in the county of Kilhenny, Esq. who acquired a considerable estate, served in parliament for the borough of St. Canice, Kilkenny, died November 30th, 1/33, aged sixty- three, and was interred at Gowran, where a handsome monument is erected to his memory. On January 10th, 1692, he married Susanna, daughter of John Alexander, Esq. by whom he had
James, and two other sons, who all died young.
He married, secondly, Mary, eldest daughter of Sir Henry Wemys, ^ of Dane's fort. Knight, and had issue by hcr^ who died
b Sir Patrick Wemys, Knt. a native of Scotland, was a captain-lieute- nant to the Earl of Ormond in the army of King Charles I.; and November 22d, 1 641, entered Drogheda with fifty horse for its defence. He married Mary, sister to Oliver Wheebr, of Grenan in the Queen's county, Esq and itying in May 1661, was interred 31st of that month in St. Audven's church, Dublin, with his lady, vvho was interred there on the same day in the pre- ceding year, having had issue, first. Sir James ; second, Thomas, who left no issue; third, Morris, who had a von Francis; fourth, Sir Henry ; and, fifth, Jonas. Sir James Wemys, Knt. Feb. 5, 1661;, married Judith, daughter of Sir William Usher, Knt. clerk of the council, and sister to Christopher Usher, Esq- by which Lady he had only two daughters, Elizabeth, and Judith, He made his will October ist, 1672, proved November 18th following, and thereby appointed his brother Henry, and his nephew Francis, son of his de- ceased brother Morris, executors ; bequeathed to his wife dame Judith zoo/. a year, and after the payment of his debts, 50 /• a year more, in augmentation of her jointure ; to his daughter Elizabeth 2000^ ; and to his daughter Mary iroo/. He devised his estate to his brother Henry and his heirs male ; and his nephew Francis and his heirs male, by equal moieties to be divided be- tween them, and in case of failure of each of their issue male, the other and his issue male to inherit; remainder to his right heirs. Sir Henry Wemys of Dunfert, usually called Dane's-Fort in co. of Kilkenny, Knt. succeeded ac- cording to the will of his brother, married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Si*'
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April iSth, 1771, aged one hundred and six, seven children, three of whom died young, and were buried at Gowran : the survivors were, two sons and two daughters, viz.
First, Henry, his heir.
Second, James, of Ringwood in county of Kilkenny, member of parliament for the borough of Gowran, who, July 6th, 1/41, married Rebecca, only daughter of William, Lord Castle-Durrow, whose son Heniy was created Viscount Ashbrook, and lost his life in I769 in a duel with Henry Flood, Esq. having had issue James, who died in July, 1/5/; Henry Flower, also deceased; George, heir to his father ; and Charles, born May 28th, 1/55, Archdeacon of Eraly ; daughter Mary, baptized July l6th, 1743, married, August 30th, 176O, to Philip Savage, Esq. and is de- ceased; Ellis-Mayo also deceased ; — — George, who succeeded at Ringwood, was born April iSth, 1/54, and represented the borough of Callan in the county of Kilkenny in parliament l/Sp,
George Blundell, Knt, (from whom descended the Viscounts Blundell, a title now extinct^ and had issue two sons and three daughters, viz first, Patricic, his heir; second. Cornet Henry, who died in October 1753, unmarried, daughter Mary, married to James Agar, of Gowran, Esq. as in text ; Sarah (to Rev. Kartstonge Martin, of Kilkenny, by whom she had Elizabeth, who in 1748 married Christopher Robinson, Esq one of the justices of the court of King's Bench, and by him, who died in January 17S7, had a son, Christo- pher, in holy orders); and Elizabeth, married in May 1706, to Arthur Webb, of Webbsborougliin the county of Kilkenny, Esq who died September i8th, 1748. Patrick Wemys, Esq. served many years in parliament for the county of Kilkenny; May 14th, I'joz, married a daughter of Sir William Handcock, Knt. recorder of Dublin, and died in 1747, having issue by her, who died in 1740, three sons and seven daughters, viz Hbnrv, who served in parliament for the borough of Callan, and died suddenly in London, Oc- tober i2th, 1750, unmarried ; Patrick, (heir to his brother, was made a captain of foot in April 1740, served in parliament for the county of Kilkenny ; married, July ist, 1750, to Catherine, daughter of Francis, twenty-first Lord Athenry, and died in 1762 without issue by his Lady, who remarried with -— Cullen, Esq. a captain in the army;) James, who succeeded at Danes-Fort; daughter Elizabeth, died in November 1744, unmarried; Mary, married to George Hartpole, of Shrulein Queen's County, Esq.; Jane, June 30th, 1748, to Benjamin Stratford, Esq. counsellor at Law ; Sarah, in 1744, to George Mansergh, Esq. then an cniign of foot, who died in 1747, and she died in 1748; Hannah, in 1748, to Isaac Drury, of Dublin, Esq. ; Alice; and Harriot who, June 6th, 1752, married James Staunton, of Galway, Esq counsellor at law. Ja.mes Wemys, Esq third son of Patrick and at length his heir, was a lieutenant in the army, served in parliament for the borough of Callan in 1742, married Jane, daughter of Euseby Stratford, of Queen's county, Esq. elder brother to John, created Earl of Aldborough, and deceased in 1765, having issue by her one son and two daughters. (Prerog. Offic- Collections, and Lodge Edit. 1754, l\l. 307, n )
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and was raised to the Irish peerage by the title o^ Lord Callan, June 6th, 179O.
Daughter Ellis, created Countess of Brandon, 1758, and died without issue 1789 ; and
Mary, married in 1742 to James Smylh, Esq. younger son of Edward, lord bishop of Down ; elected to parliament for the town of Antrim; and after collector of the port of Dublin, by whom she had issue Sir Skcffington Smith, Bart. &c.
Henry Agar^ Esq. who succeeded at Gowran, served in par- liament in 1731 for the borough of Gowran 3 May 29th, 1733, married Anne, only daughter of Doctor JVelbore Ellis, Bishop of Meath, and died at Gowran November 18th, 1746, having issue by her, who was born August 26th, 1707j re-married with George Dunbar, Esq. and died April 14th, 1761, a daughter Diana f^nd two sons^ viz.
First, James^ advanced to the peerage.
Second, Charles, who received a liberal education in the Uni- versity of Oxford, entered into holy orders, and was appointed chaplain to Hugh, late Duke of Northumberland, whilst L. L. of Ireland J whence he was promoted to the deanery of Kilmore; consecrated Bishop of Cloy ne March 20th, 1778, and thence tran- slated in 1779 to the Archiepiscopal see of Cashed, and hence tran^ slated to Dublin in 1801. He was also sworn of his Majesty's most honourable privy-council. His Grace wtts created Baron of Somerton June 12th, 1795; Fiscotmt 5o7ne/-/ora December 21st, 1800; and Earl of Nurmanton in February, 1806, and died 1810. He married a daughter of William Benson, Esq. and hath issue, first, Henry Welb ore, second Earl of Nonnanton, born Nov 12th, 177s ; second, George-Charles, born August 1st, 178O, a lieutenant in the third foot-guards ; third, James, bom July 10th, 178I, in holy orders; fourth, Henry- William, born July 5th, 1784, died an infant; fifth, Frances-Anne, married, Dec. 14th, 1798, the late Thomas Ralph, Vibcount Hawarden..
James, ihe first Fiscount Ctifclen, was elected to parliament in 1761 for Kilkenny, and for which county he continued to serve till 1776.
He was appointed a commissioner of the revenue in 1 770, which place he resigned, and by privy-seal at St, James's June 19'h. ^77^> and patent '^^ at Dublin July 27th following, was ad- vanced to the peerage of Ir elan J, and by the title of Baron of
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Clifden in the county of Kilkenny ; he had his introduction to the house of peers Oot;.ber 14th, I 777, '^
In 178O he was created I'lscount ClU'den, with limitations to his issue male, for which honour the privy-seal bears date at St. James's December 1 8th that year, and the patent ^ at Dublin Ja- nuary I2th, 178I : his Lordship sat by this title in the house of lords October 9th, 1/81,' was sworn of ihe privy-councU, and July 19th, 1/84, was appointed joint postmaster-general of Ire- land, with the Right Hon. William Brabazon Ponsonby.
His Lordship married. Much 20, 1700, Lucia, eldest daughter of John Martin, Esq. and widow of the Hon. Henry-Boyle Wal- singham, second son of Henry Earl of Shannon, and had issue by her (who died July 20th, 1802),
First, Henry- Welbore, the second Viscount. Second, John-Ellis, born December 31st, 1/63, in holy orders ; married, March 1 1 th, 1 792, Harriet Flower, second daughter of William Viscount Ashbrook, and died January 3d, I797.
Third, Charles-Bagnall, born August 13th, 1765, barrister at law; married, November 15th, 1804, Miss Hunt, of Lanydrick in Cornwall, and has issue a son born December 18th, 1805 j and another son born in January, 1608.
Fourth, Emily- Anne, born December 5th, 1765. His Lordship dying January 1st, 1789, aet. fifty-five, was suc- ceeded by his eldest son,
Henry- VN'elbore, second Viscount Clifden, and now second Lord Mendif, in which last Barony he succeeded his great uncle, Welbore Lord Mendip, on February 2d, 1802, on whose death he also assumed the name of Ellis.
His Lordship was born January 22d, 1761 ; and married, March 10th, I79<i> Lady Caroline Spencer, eldest daughter of George Duke of Marlborough ; and has issue A daughter born October 26th, 1794; and A son, born July I4lb, 1797-
Titles. Henry Welbore Ellis, Lord Mendip, of Mendip in Somersetshire ; Baron and Viscount Clifden of the county of Kil- kenny.
Creations. Baron Mendip by patent August 13th, 17Q4; Baron of Clifden in the county of Kilkenny July 27th, 17763 and Viscount of the same January 12th, 178I.
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Arms. Or, on a cross sable, five crescents. Crest. See the wood-cut.
Supporters. Two Greyhounds j the dextei seme of crescents j the sinister seme of crosslets cruse]y.
Motto. NON HJEC SINE NUMINE.
Chief Seat. Gowran, Ireland.
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BRIDGEMAN, LORD BRADFORD.
This family are descended from John Bkidgeman, of Deaa Magna in Gloucestershire, Esq. who married Johanna, daughter of William Clarke, of Dean Magna, by whom he had issue,
William Bridgeman, of Dean Magna, Esq. who, by Mary, daughter of Richard Bryan, of Dean Parva, had a numerous issue.
Whereof Edward, a younger son, was seated in Devonshire.
" John, his son, was born," says Prince, in his JFurthies of Devon, " in the city of Exeter, not far from the palace gate there. His father was Edward Bridgeman, some time high- sheriff of that city and county for the year 15/8.
" Having very good natural parts, and being observed to be well disposed towards books and learning, he was carefully kept at school, until he was thought fit to be transplanted thence to the university, which was done accordingly ; and he became a mem- ber of Magdalen-college in Cambridge 3 after that, a fellow, and lastly, the master thereof.
" Having commenced master of arts at Cambridge, he was ad- mitted, ad eundem, at Oxford, July ■^th, 16OO. After this, he proceeded doctor of divinity, which is the highest degree a scholar can receive, or the university bestow.
" Being now of noted learning, a pious life, and courteous de- portment, he was aamitted by King James I. into the number of his domestic chaplains, and became rector of Wigan in Lanca- shire, in 1615.
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" Afterwards he was, by the saine King, preferred to the BisHOPRicK OF Chester, raised by King Henry VIII. out of the ruins of (he abbies and monasteries here in England. He was consecrated at the same time at Lambeth, with Doctor Howson, Bishop of Oxford, and Doctor Searchfield, Bishop of Bristol, viz. on the gth of May, lOlQ. Which see being of no great yearly value, he was made, anno l62], rector of Bangor also, which he held in commendam.
" For many years did this learned and pious divine continue the faithful and watchful bishop of this church. In that memo- rable year, 164 1, when the unchristian rabble were encouraged, by no mean pretenders to Christianity, to bawl down protestant bishops, as they came in their barges to the parliament house at Westminstsr, this reverend prelate was then living; however, whether detained at home by age, or hindered by some other oc- casion, he was not present in the house, to join in the protesta- tion made by his right reverend brethren, against the proceedings of that parliament. Hence he happily escaped that long and tedious imprisonment, unto which most of them, notwithstanding their great years, and their greater piety and learning, who sub- scribed it, were confined for eighteen weeks together.
" Such was this prelate's merit, that there is this honourable character of him transmitted to posterity, that he was as ingenious as brave j and a great patron of those gifts in others, he was the happy owner of in himself. He was thirty years Bishop of Chester ^ and every year maintained, more or less, hopeful young men irj the university, and preferred good proficients out of it : by the same token, some, in those times, turned him out of his livings, whom he had raised into theirs. He was a good benefactor unto Chester, but a better, under God, to England, in his son, the late honourable Sir Orlando Bridgeman, some time lord chief justice of the Common Pleas ; after that, master of the rolls ; then lord keeper of the great seal of England, under King Charles II, who was a sufferer in his Majesty's cause, and a great honour to it. His moderation and equity being such, in dispensing the King's laws, that he seemed to carry a chancery in his breast in the Common Pleas ; endearing, as well as opening the law to the people.
" This learned and holy prelate, Bishop Bridgeman, lived to enjoy the blessings of a good old age ; for after the continuance of about thirty years (as was said before) bishop of the church of
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Chester, he fell asleep in the Lord, at his palace at Chester afore- Eaid, near the year 1649. He licth interred in his own church there.
" This holy prelate was famous in himself, but more fimous in his son. Sir Orlando Bridgeman before -mentioned ; a gentle- man of great piety, as well as honour and integrity ; and was the first Englishman King Charles II. advanced to the degree of a Baronet after his happy restoration."
During the time of the usurpation, the bishop fled to his son's seat at Moreton in Shropshire, his estate being sequestred some years before his death. Mr. Brown Willis, in his Survey of Ca- thedrals, gives this account of him :
" John Bridgeman, S. T. P. rector of Wigan and Bangor in the diocese of Chester, prebendary of Litchfield and Peterborough, became elected Bishop of Chester, March 15, 1618." In Prince's Worthies of Devonshire, is some account of his life_, (which is before related) he being born at Exeter : though that author, and other writers, are all mistaken as to his death, anno 1648 or l64g, , and buried at Chester j whereas he did not die till l6a2, as A, Wood tells us ; or rather, as I have lately been informed, till 1657 or 1658, when, departing this life at his son's house at Moreton, near Oswestre in Shropshire, he was buried at Klnnersley church, near Moreton aforesaid.
The bishop married Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. Helyar, canon of Exeter, and archdeacon of Barnstable, (of the ancient family of the Helyars of Somersetshire) and had issue five sons.
Fitst, Sir Orlando, herettjter vienlioned.
Second, Dove, a prebendnry of the cathedral church of Chester,
who married the daughter of Bennet, of Cheshire, (she
surviving him, afterwards married Dr, John Hacket, bishop of v Litchtield)^and had issue only one son, Charles Bridgeman, archdeacon of Richmond in Yorkshire, who died unmarried, 1678.
Third, Henry Bridgeman, dean of Chester, being so made, 1660 : he was also parson of Bangor in Flintshire, and of Barrow in Cheshire, and made Bishop of the Isle of Man, 1(371. He married two wives, first, Catherine, daughter of Robert Lever, of Lancashire, Gent, by whom he had a daughter, Elizabeth, mar- ried to Thomas Greenhalgh, of Brundlesham in Lancashire, Esq.; his second wife I do not find : he died May^ 10'82.
Fourth, Sir James Bridgcnnan, Knight, who married Anne,
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daughter of Allen, of Cheshire, Gent, by whom he'had
James, who died unmarried 5 Frances, wife of William, Lord Howard, of Escrick; Magdalen, wife of William Wynde, Esq.; and Anne, unmarried, 1682.
Fifth, Richard Bridgeman, a merchant in Amsterdam in Hol- land, who married Catherine, daughter of Mr. Watson, an English merchant there, by whom he had issue a daughter, Elizabeth, married to John Dove, Esq. surveyor of the customs; and one son, William Bridgeman, of Westminster, Esq, some time secre- tary of the admiralty, and one of the clerks of the privy-council, who married Diana, daughter of Mr. Vernatti, an ItaUan gentle- man, and had issue, Orlando Bridgeman, Esq ; and Catherine, wife of Orlando Bridgeman, Esq. fourth son of Sir John, here- after mentioned.
Sir Orlando Bridgeman, Jirst Baronet, eldest son of the Bishop, was, for his great proficiency in the law, made attorney of the court of wards, temp. Car. I. also attorney to the Prince of Wales, (afterwards King Charles IL); and being greatly confided in by the royal martyr, was one of the commissioners deputed by hiui to treat with those of the parliament at Uxbridge ; and as long as the city of Chester held out for the King, he encouraged and sup- ported the loyalists with several sums of money ; and gave several sums to purchase tithes where churches were not, as he thought, sufficiently endowed j and large sums to other charitable uses, and redeeming poor captives from slavery. Upon the restoration of King Charles II. as a farther reward for his merit, he was made lord chief baron of the Exchequer 3 then lord chief justice of the Common Pleas ; and lastly. Lord Keeper oi- the Great Seal of England, and created a Baronet.
Lord Clarendon speaks well of him during the civil wars. '' The city of Chester," says he, " was firm to the King, by the virtue of the inhabitants, and interest of the bishop, and cathedra! men 5 but especially by tlie reputation and dexterity of Mr. O. Bridgeman, son to the bishop, and a lawyer of very good estima- tion; wlio not only informed them of their duty, and encouraged them iu it, but upon his credit and estate, both which were very good, supplied them with whatsoever was necessary for their de- fence; so that they were not put to be honest and expensive together " But this praise is qualifieJ by the following passat;e : " The King conu-sscd he was surprised with the carriage of some persons in the treaty of U.\bridge, from whom he had expected
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anotlier kind of behaviour, in matters of the church ; and named Sir Orlando Bridgeman, upon whom, he said, he had always looked, being the son of a bishop, as so firm, that he could not be shaken; and, therefore, he was the more amazed to hear what condescensions he had been willing to have made, in what con- cerned religion ; and pressed the chancellor to answer some questions he asked him about that transaction ; to the particulars whereof he excused himself from answering, by the protestation they had all taken before the treaty, with his Majesty's approba- tion : though, indeed, himself had been very much surprised with die first discovery of that temper, in that gentleman, which lie had never before suspected : and ever after said, that ' he was a man of excellent parts, and honestly inclined, and would choose much rather to do well than ill ; but if it were not safe for him to be steady in those resolutions, he was so much given to find out expedients to satisfy unreasonable men, that he would at last be drawn to yield to any thing, he should be powerfully pressed to do." " In 1667, " the seals were given to Sir Orlando Bridge- man, lord chief justice of the Common Pleas, then in great es- teem, which he did not maintain long after his advancement. His study and practice lay so entirely in the common law, that he never seemed to apprehend what equity was : nor had he a head made for business, or for such a court. He was a man of great integrity, and very serious impressions of religion on his mind. He had been always on the side of the church : yet he had great tenderness for the nonconformists." In l(5j2 "■ iord keeper Bridgeman had lost all credit at court : so they were seek- ing an occasion to be rid of him, who had, indeed, lost all the re- putation he had formerly acquired, by his being advanced to a post of which he was not cap.ible. He refused t,o put the seal to the declaration for toleration, as judging it contrary to law. So he was dismissed, and the Earl ol Shaftsbury was made lord chancellor."
He married, first, Judith, daughter and heir of John Kynaston, of Morton in Shropshire, Esq. (she died at 0.\ford, in the usur- pation, and was buried in the university church.) By her he left issue only one son.
Sir John, his successor.
He married to bis second wife, Dorothy, daughter of Dr.
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Saunders, provost of Oriel college in Oxford, (relict of George Cradock, of Carswell castle in Staffordshire, Esq.) by whom he had issue, two sons and one daughter.
Second, Sir Orlando Bridgemanj who being possessed of Ridley in Cheshire, by purchase from the Egertons of that place, (a knightly branch of the Egertons, of Egerton) was created a Ba- ronet 25 Car. H. which title is now extinct.
Third, Sir Francis Bridgeman, knighted by King Charles II. November 13th, 16^3^, who married Susanna, daughter and heir of Sir Richard Barker, of London^ Knight, M, D. and died issueless.
Fourth, Charlotte, married to Sir Thomas Myddleton, of Chirk, castle in Denbighshire, Bart, by whom he left issue, only one daughter and heir, Charlotte, married to Edward, Earl of Warwick and Holland j and afterwards to the celebrated Joseph Addison,
Sir Orlando died, June 25th, 1674, aged sixty-six, at Ted- dington in Middlesex, and there lies buried.
Sir John Bridgeman, second Baroiiet, the only son bj": the first venter, succeeded his father. He married Mary, daughter and coheir of George Cradock, of Carswell castle in Staffordshire, Esq. above-mentioned, by whom he had issue, five sons and seven daughters.
First, Orlando, the eldest j and Thomas, the youngest, both, died very young.
Second, Sir John, his successor. Third, George, who died unmarried; and. Fourth, Orlando, who married Catherine, daughter of Wil- liam Bridgeman, of Comb in Suffolk, Esq. and died without issue.
The daughters were, first, Mary, married to Robert Lloyd, of Aston in Shropshire, Esq. ; second, Judith, married to Richard Corbet, of Morton-Corbet in Shropshire, Esq. ; third, Elizabeth, married to Sowdly Eyton, of Eyton, on the Wildmores, in Shrop- shire, Esq. ; fourth, Dorothy, married to Lisle Hacket, of Mox- hull in Warwickshire, Esq. ; fifth, Charlotte; sixth, Bridget; and seventh, Penelope.
He died at Castle-Bromwich, August 24th, 1/10, aet. eighty, ;(nd was buried at Aston in Warwickshire.
Sir John Bridgeman, third Baronet, his second, but eldest surviving son, married Ursula, daughter and sole heir of Roger
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Matthews, of Blodwell in Shropshire, Esq. by whom he had issue, five sons and two daughters.
First, Sir Orlando, his successor.
Second, John, who died in his infancy.
Third, Roger} fourth, John; fifth, George, who died young.
The daughters were Ursula, married to Hugh Williams, Esq. and Judith.
Sir John died July 23d, 174/.
Sir Orlando Bridgeman, fourth Baronet, his eldest son and heir, succeeded him, and married Anne, daughter of Richard A'cifport, Earl of Bradford.
By this Lady, who died August 19th, l^^'i, he had issue.
First, John, who died young.
Second, Sir Henry, his successor.
Third, George, who died at Lisbon in December, 176?) "-Un- married.
Fourth, Mary, who died in her infancy ; and,
Fifth, Diana, married John Sawbridge, Esq. of Ollantigh in Kent, and died without issue, January 21st, 1/04.
He was chosen representative for the town of Shrewsbury, and dying July 25th, 1/64, was succeeded by his el-dest surviving son.
Sir Henr-x Bridgeman, ffth Baronet, fir-st Lord Brad- ford, born September 7th, 1725, who having sat many years in the parliament for Wenlock in -Shropshire, was advanced to the British peerage on August 13th, 1794, by the title of Lord Bradford, of Bradford in Shropshire.
His Lordship married, July 12th, 1755, Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of John Simpson, Esq. and by her (wlio died March 6th, I8O6) had issue,
First, Henry-Simpson, born April 12th, I757> who died July 26th, 1782; member of parliament for Wigan, com. Lan. 1780.
Second, Orlando, born January 24th, 1759, who died an infant.
Third, Orlando, the present Lord.
Fourth, John, born May 13th, 1763, who, in 1785, took the name and arms of Simpson, by act of parliament ; married, first, June 3d, 1784, Henrietta-Frances, only daughter of Sir Thomas Worseley, Bart, by whom (who died August 2d, 1791) he had iisue, first, Henry, born March 24th, 1785, who died June 7th,
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1794; second, Henrietta-Elizabeth Charlotte, who died an in? fant, in July, 17863 third, Henrietta-Anne-Maria-Charlotte, born April ] 788, niece and heir to the late Sir Richard Worsley, Bart, married, August llth, I8O6, the Honourable Charles- Anderson Pelham, eldest son of Lord Yarborough. He married, secondly, November 27th, 1703, Grace, daughter of Samuel Estwicke, Esq. He was elected member of parliament for V/enlock, 1794, 1796, 1802, I8O6, I8O7.
Fifth, George, in holy orders, rector of Wigan in Lancashire^ born August llth, 1765; married, July 28th, 1/92, Lucy-Isa- bella Boyle, daughter of Edmund, seventh Earl of Corke and Orrery (who died September 5th, 1801), by whom he has issue_, first, Elizabeth Isabella, born April ]7th, 17.93; second, Anne- Charlotte, born June 3d, 1794.
Sixth, Charlotte^ born January 28th, 1761 ; married. May 15th, 1784, to Henry-Creswold Lewis, Esq. of Malvern-Hall, in Warwickshire, and died July 6th, 1802.
Seventh, Anne, born November 29th, 1757^ and died De- cember following.
Eighth, Elizabeth-Diana, born June 5th, 1764; married, Fe- bruary 10th, 1794, to George-William Gunning, Esq. only son of Sir Robert Gunning, Bart. Knight of the Bath ; has issue a daughter, born May r2th, 1799j ^^^ a son, born September^ 1800.
John and Orlando, both died infants.
His Lordship died in 1800, and was succeeded by his son, the present and second Peer,
Orlando Bridgeman, second Lord Bradford, and a Baronet: born March 19th, 1762. Married, May 29th, 178S, Lucy-Elizabeth Byng, daughter of George, Viscount Torringlon, by v/hom he has issue,
First, George-Augustus-Frederick-Henry, born October 23dp
1789-
Second, Charles-Orlando.
Third, Lucy-Elizabeth ; and.
Fourth, Orlando-Henry, died inftrnts.
Fifth, Henry-Edmund, born September, 1/97.
Sixth, a daughter, born September 14th, lygg.
His Lordship, while a commoner, sat in parliament for Wigan in Lancashire, 1784, 179O, 1796.
Titles. Orlando Bridgemanj Lord Bradford; and a Baronet.
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Creations. Lord Bradford by patent, August 13th, ITO^; and Baronet 1660.
Arms. Sable, ten plates. A, 3, 2, 1, and on a chief, argent, a lion passant, ermines.
Crest. On a wreath, a lion issuant, argent, holding a garland of laurels between his paws, or.
Supporters. Two leopards reguardant.
Motto. NeC TEMEKE, NEC TIMIDK.
Chief Seat. Weston-Park, Staffordshire.
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PEACHEY, LORD SELSEY.
E.DMUND Peache-v, of Eartham in Sussex, said to be descended from the ancient family of Peche of Kingsthorpe in Leicestershire, and Sheron-Hall in Derbyshire, was father of
Edward Peachey, who died in 1657, having been twice mar- ried, and left by Anne Beechee, his second wife, two daughters^ Anne and Sarah ; and three sons ;
First, Edward, eldest son, died I678, leaving two sons, and two daughters.
Second, William, of whom presently.
Third, John, was twice married, and died May 25th, I693, leaving an only daughter Elizabeth, married to Sir Richard Far- ingdon, Knt.
"William, second son, of New-Grove in the parish of Pet- worth in Sussex, had a confirmation of his armorial bearings crranted by Sir Edward Bysshe in l663, as a branch of the Peches of Leicestershire, and died in October 1(385, having married Mary,
daughter and coheir of Hall, Esq. of New-Grove in Pet^
worth, by whom he had eight sons.
First, Sir Henry, of whom presently . Second, Edward, died unmarried.
Third, William, an officer in the foot-guards, was slain at the battle of Almanza in Spain.
Fourth, Sir John, ofivhom hereafter.
Fifth, Bulstrode, assumed the name of Knight, on his mar- riage, June 8th, 1725, with Elizabeth, relict of William Wood- ward Knight, Esq. of West-Dean in Sussex, who left no issue. He
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was thrice elected M. P. for Midhurst in Sussex, and died in Dean-street, Soho, January 14th, 1735-6. He was buried at Chawton in Hampshire, having left his estates to his brother Jolin.
Sixth, George Peachey.
Seventh, Charles Peachey, died in Persia.
Eighth, James Peachey, of Titleworth in Sussex, Esq. who having been formerly a governor in the service of the East India Company, was afterwards M. P, for Leominster in Herefordshire, and dying F^ebruary 15th, 177^.. was buried at Petworth.
Sir Henry Peach ey,^r.y/ Baronet, eldest son and heir, repre- sented the county of Sussex, in the parliament summoned lo meet July 170s, and was elected member for Midhurst, in the same county, on the death of his brother Bulstrodej he married a
daughter of Garret, Esq. by whom he had a son, who died
young; and a daughter, married to Gavven Harris Nash, of Pet- worth, Esq. (to whom she was first wife.)
Sir Henry was advanced to the dignity of a Baronet, Q Gf orgc II. with remainder, in case of failure of issue male, to Johu Peachey, of the city of London, Esq. broth-T of the said Henry, and the heirs male of his body, lawfully begotten, and in default of such issue, to James Peachey, of Titleworth, in the county of Sussex, Esq. another brother of the said Sir Henry, and the heirs male of his body, lawfully begotten.
Sir Henry dying August 23d, 1737> without issue male, was succeeded, according to the remainder in his patent, by his next surviving brother.
Sir John Peachey, second Baronet, who succeeded his brother^ Sir Henry, as representative in parliament for Midhurst. He
married a daughter of London, Esq. formerly principal
gardener in ordinary to her Majesty Queen Anne, by whom he had two sons.
First, Sir John, his successor.
Second, Sir James, successor to his brother,,/?r5/ peer.
Also three daughters : Mary, married Michael Sures, of Tring-grove, in Hertfordshire, Esq, (who left her a widow, with one son and two daughters, October 31st, 1/40) and Henrietta and Rebecca.
Sir John died, April 12th, 17'I'1, and was succeeded by
Sir John Peachey, third Baronet, his cldesi son, who was chosen to represent the borough of Midhurst, on the death of his father. He married in August 1752, the only daughter oi John
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Meeres Fagg, •'' of Glenley in Sussex, Esq, and died at West^ Dean in Sussex, June 30th, 1/05, without issue, leaving his wife surviving, who resided principally at Tunbridge-Wells j and died within these few years. ^ He was succeeded in title by his brother.
Sir James Peachey,yb?/r/A Baronet, and first Lord Selsey.
He was groom of the bed-chamber to his present Majesty, when Prince of Wales, and was member in several parliaments for Seaford in Sussex.
In 1792, he succeeded the Earl of Cardigan as master of the robes to the King; and on August 13th, 1794, was elevated to the Peerage, by the title of Lord SelseY; of Selsey in Sussex.
His Lordship married, August 19th, 1747, Lady Georgina Caroline Scott, daughter of Henry first Earl of Deloraine, by his second wife Mary, only daughter of Captain Charles Howard, and aunt of John, now Earl of Suffolk, and by her had issue.
First, John, present peer.
Second, Georgiana, married, April 1st, l/'^l, to the present Earl of Warwick and Brooke, and died April 1st, 1772.
His Lordship dying February 1st, 160S, was succeeded by his only son,
John Peachey, second Baron Selsey, of Selsey, in Sussex, and a Baronet, Who was born March l6th, 1749; and married, January 19th, 1784, Hester-Elizabeth, daughter of George Jen- nings, Esq. of Newsells, in Herts, (by Lady Mary, aunt of the late Marquis of Clanricarde), by whom he has three sons and two daughters, viz.
First, James, born September 3d, 1785, late an ensign in the first regiment of foot-guards.
Second, Henry-John, a lieutenant in the royal nav)^, born September 4th, 1787.
Third, John-William, born December 10th, 1788.
Fourth, Caroline-Mary, born May 24th, 179O.
Fifth, Charlotte-Hester, born October 19th, 1792, and died March 3d, 1793.
His Lordship, while a commoner, represented St. Germains in parliament, 177^'} a"^ Shoreham, 1784, 1790-
a Son of Thomas Fagg, of Glenley in Westdean aforesaid, who was third son of Sir John Fagg, first Baronet.
b She left her own property principally to her relation the Rev. Sir John Fagg, Bart, rector of Chartham in Kent.
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Title. John Peachey, Lord Selsey, of Selsey in Sussex ; and a Baronet.
Creations. I>ord Selsey by patent, August 13 th, 1794; and Baronet () Geo. II.
Arms. Azure, a lion, rampant, double queued, ermine ; on a canton, or, a mullet, pierced, Gules.
Crest. On a wreath, a demi-lion, as in the arms, holding in his dexter paw a sword, erect, argent, pomeled and hilted, or.
Supporters. See the wood-cut.
Motto. Ne GlTISaUAM SERVIAT ENSES.
Chief Seat. At Grove-house, near Petworth in Sussex.
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DUNDAS, LORD DUNDAS.
For the earlier part of his Lordship's pedigree^ the reader is re- ferred to the article of Viscount Melville, in vol. vi. of this work.
James Dundas, the eldest son, of James Dundas, by Christian Stewart, was returned heir to his father, in sundry lands, in 1431^ and 1437. He was witness to King James the Second's charter of confirmation, in favour of the priory of the Charter-house, called Domus Virlutis, at Perth, anno MSc). In that King's mi- nority, he was one of the privy-council, with the governor. Sir Alexander Livingston, his father-in-law. He granted a charter of confirmation to the Carmelite Friars, at Queen's-ferry, of sundry acres, in which he obliged them to pray for himself, Euphan, his wife, and their children, &c, dated 1440.
William, Earl of Douglas, having prevailed at court, Sir Alex- ander Livingstone, the King's governor, his family, with his sons- in-law, James Dundas, and Robert Bruce, were prosecuted, con- demned, and imprisoned, and the lands of Dundas ^ were, by par- liament, 1449, given to William, Earl of Douglas, their prose- cutor, by a charter, February 10th, 1449. This Earl Douglas being cut off by the King's own hand, at Stirling, February 13th,
a. Nisbet says, that these lands of Dundas, not being restored to Sir James the heir, but afterwards granted to Archibald Douglas of Libton, Archibald assumed the designation of Dundas of that Ilk ever afterwards ; and Sir James being dispossessed of them, he and his descendants laid aside that des gna- tion, and used only that of Fingask.
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1452, the King granted a pardon, dated August 27tli, 1452, jllexandro Livingstone, de Calleiider, Militi, tsf ([uoiidam Jacobo de Dundas de eodem, ex nostris benevolcntia, favore et gratia spe- dale; and which was, soon after, conlirmed in the amplest manner, in parliament.
James Dundas dying (during his confinement iu Dunbarton castle) in 1451, the Barony of Fingask, the freehold estate of this family, remained in the King's hands from the forfeiture ia 1449, nniil the heir of James succeeded, after his pardon, in 1452.
James Dundas married Euphan, daughter of Sir Alexander Livingston, of Callender, by whom he had.
First, Elizabeth, married to Sir David Gutherie, lord treasurer to King James IIL
Second, Margaret, married to Alexander Cockburn, of Langton.
Also one son, Alexander ^ Dundas, of Fingask,
By indenture, dated June 21st, 1455, Lawrence, Lord Oli- phanl, of Aberdagys with Alexander Dundas, of P'ingask, be- came bound in security to William, Earl of Errol, to keep him unhurt and skaithed, in the payment of 200/. to William of Murray, of Tillibardine, for the marriage rit^^ht of Blair, of Bal- thywick.
In a solemn submission, dated July 24th, 1466, between the abbots of Scone and Cupar, the arbiters are, Doviinus Henricus Douglas, de Lochleven ; Joannes de Moncrief de eodem ; Alexander de Dundas, Baro de Fingask, is'c. their seals are appended, one of which is a lion rampant, and around the legend is, Sigillum Alex- undri de Dundas, Baro de Fingask.
Alexander de Dundas, Baron of Fingask, was, with four of his sons, killed at the fatal battle of Flodden, anno 1513, having mar- ried Isabel, daughter to Lawrence, Lord Oliphant, by whom he left issue, Alexander, his heir, and Adam de Dundas, of Oxmure; and several other sons, some of whom were slain with him at
Flodden : also one daughter, Margaret, married to Law,
of Lawbridge in Galloway.
Alexander, his son, succeeded to the barony of Fingask, and procured a charter of confirmation from King James V. of the lands of Coates, in the lordship of Elcho.
b Nisbet mentions also another son, Duncan Dundas, lion king at armSj and several times anibassador to England.
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By Elizabeth Br':ce, his wife, daughter of Sir David Bruce, of Clackmannan, and sister to the ancestors of tlie Earl of Elgin, he had issue three sons and two daughters.
First, Archibald, his heir.
Second, Robert ; and.
Third, Thomas, of Findhorn,
Margaret, his eldest daughter, married William Kerr, of Ancram ; their son was created Earl of Ancram, and his son Mar- quis of Lothian. She married, after her husband's death, Sir George Douglas, of Mordington, by whom she had Sir George Douglas, who died while ambassador at Denmark j and one daughter, Martha, who was married to Sir James Lockhart, of Lee, by whom there were three sons, and one daughter ; Sir Wil- liam Lockhart, of Lee, ambassador to France, 1650; Sir George Lockhart, of Carnwath, and Sir John Lockhart, of Castle-hill ; and Anne, married to George Lockhart, of Torbreicks, who.-e heir was mother to William, Earl of Aberdeen.
Nicholas Dundas, second daughter of Alexander, married Alexander Colville, lord commendator of Culross, ancestor to the present Lord Colville, of Culross ; their eldest daughter, Grizel, married to Sir John Preston, of Valley-iield ; their second daugh- ter, Jean, married Robert Bruce, of Blair-hall.
Alexander Dundas was killed at the battle of Pinky, Sep- tember 10th, 1547, 3""^ "^3s succeeded by his son
Archibald, at Perth, January lOih, 1548 j William, Lord Ruthven, being then sheriff.
This Archibald was in high esteem with King James the sixth, as a person of singular worth and merit. His Majesty, in a letter to Alexander Blair, of Blathiock, concerning the affairs in Perthshire, recommended him to consult and advise with this Archibald Dundas, of Fingask, as a person in whom he entirely confided; dated September 23d, 157C).
He married Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Colville, of Cliesh, ancestor to Lord Colville, of Ochiltree j by her he had three sons ;
First, William, who, anno 1582, married Margaret, eldest daughter and heir of Sir David Carnegi, of Clouthie, and Eliza- beth Ramsay : by the contract of marriage, the baronies of Fin- gask, Cluthie and Leuchars, are provided to the heirs male, con- form to the old iofeftmcuts ; but there being no issue, he was succeeded by.
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Second, Archibald Dundas, his brother, in the estate of Fin- gask, who was returned heir to his father, Archibald, at Perth, February Sth, 1606, WiUiam, Master of Tu'.libardine, being then sheriff. He got a charter of confirmation of tlie barony of Fin- g^sk, on his own resignation, in favour of his heirs male, dated lOOy, from King James the Vlth.
He married Jean, daughter to Sir David Carnegie, fiither to the Earls of Southesk and Northesk, by his second wife, Euphan, daughter to Sir David Wemyss, by whom he had his son and heir.
Sir John Dundas, and a daughter, Nicholas, married to Fairlie, of Braid, an ancient family in Mid Lothian.
He married, secondly, Giles, daughter to Lawrence Mercer, of Aldie, by whom he had.
Second, Lawrence Dundas, professor of Humanity^ in the uni- versity of Edinburgh,
Tliis Archibald died 1624.
Sir John Dundas succeeded his father in the barony of Fin- gask, anno 1(524. He had the honour of knighthood conferred upon him by King Charles I. at Dunfermline, anno l6'^8. His loyalty to his sovereign, and his near relation by his mother to the great Marquis of Montrose, induced him to expose his life and fortune in the civil wars, having raised and maintained a troop of horse at his own expense, for his Majesty's service, by which he ruined his estate, which had so long been transmitted to him by a scries of woi thy ancestors.
He hrst married Anne, daugh-ter of Sir William Moncrlef, of that ilk, by whom he had no issue.
Secondly, Margaret, daughter of George Dundas, of Dundas, by his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander Hamiiton_, of luner- wick, by whom he had his only son^
John Dundas, who succeeded, anno 1S7O, and maTied Mag- dalen, daughter to Thomas, son of Allardice of that ilk, by Jean, daughter of Sir i\lexander Burnet, of Leys, by whom he had his only son,
Thomas Dundas, who succeeded, anno 1724. He lived long respect!-d and citeeaied by his fellow citizens in Edinburgh; and having purchased a considerable estate in Stirlingshire, he got a charter under the great seal, erecting his la..ds info the barony of F.ngask, anno 1730, and is returned in the Chancery grandson and heir to Sir John Dundas, of Fingask.
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He died, anno 1/62, having married Bethea, daughter t& John Baillie, of Castlecarry in Stirlingshire, by whom he left two sons ; Thomas ; and Sir Laurence.
First, Thomas, the eldest son, member of parliament for Ork- ney and Zetland, married, first, Anne, daughter of the Honour- able James Graham, of Airth, judge of the high court of admiralty for Scotland, and by her had no issue. He married, secondly, in 1744, Lady Janet Maitland, daughter of Charles, sixth Earl of Lauderdale, by Elizabeth, daughter of James, Eurl ofFindlater, chancellor of Scotland, by whom he had issue (which carries on the family of Finga^k), first, Thomas ; and, second, Charles, and four daughters ; viz. Thomas, was a general in the army, and mar- ried Eleanor-Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander, eighth Eurl of Home, and, dying at Guadaloupe, June 3d, 1/94, left issue, one son, Thomas, and six daughters, viz. Clementina ; Janet ; Elea- nor; Primrose; Charlotte; Anne Wheatley ; and Elizabeth Grey. Charles, second son, member of parliament for the county of Berks, married Miss Anne Wheatley, and has issue, Janet. Mar- garet-Bruce, married A. Gibson, Esq.; Berthia, married George Haldane, Esq.; Janet, married R. Deans, Esq.; and Mary, mar- ried James Bruce, of Kinnaird, Esq.
Second, Sir Lawrence Dundas, ofKer<ie,Jirst Baronet, was member of parliament for the city of Edinburgh, 1 768. In 1 756, '^ he attended his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland from London, and had the charge of supplying all the troops in Scotland, during the Duke's command. In I747, he was elected me.mbei of parliament for the towns of Linlithgow, &c.
In 1748, his Royal Highness ordered him to attend in Flanders, and appointed him Cummissary General to the army under his command.
In 1759, he engaged in several large and extensive contracts, with the lords of his Majesty's treasury, for the service of the army in Germany, under the command of Prince Ferdinand, where he so prudently ordered the multiplicity of affairs under his direction, that he acquired the regard and esteem of the army, and a large fortune to his family.
After the war, his Majesty, in consideration of the many ser- vices he had been employed in for twenty years, was pleased, irj
c He was in the woollen trade at Edinburgh, 173S-9. Sc: Gent. Mi^- jSojip. 608.
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November, 17^2, to create him a Baronet of Great Britain, with remainder to his brother Thomas.
He married Margaret, daughter of Alexander Bruce, of Ken- net, by M.iry Balfour, daughter to Robert Lord Burleigh, by whom he had
Thomas Dundas, his son and heir; and dying September 21, 1/81, was succeeded by his only son.
Sir Thomas, second Baronet, now Lord Dunpas, who was elevated to the British Peerage, by the title of Lord Dundas, of Aske in Yorhsliire, August 13th, 1/94.
He is also lord lieutenant and vice-admiral of Orkney and Shetland.
His Lordship married. May 24th, 1764, Lady Charlotte Wentworth, sister of William, Earl Fitzwilliam, and has issue^ viz.
First, Lawrence, married to Miss Hale, daughter of General Hale, and has issue, Thomas and Charlotte, niul a daughter, born July 2d, 1803. He was elected member of parliament for Rich- mond, 1790, 1/9^; and for York, 1802, ] 80().
Second, Charles-Lawrence, late member of parliament for Richmond, 1802, ISOt), I8O7, died in February, 1810, having married Lady Caroline Beauclerk, sister to Aubrey, Duke of St. Albans, and had issue, of whom William, his youngest son, died June 24th, 1S05.
Third, William, born in I777j late in the army, died in 1796,
Fourth, George-Heneage-Lawrence, a captain in the royal navy. Member of parliament for Richmond, 1S02.
Fifth, Thomas-Lawrence, in holy orders, rector of Harpole in Northamptonshire,
Sixth, Robert Lawrence, a major in the army, member of parliament for Malton.
Seventh, Margaret, married to Archibald Spears, Esq. and has issue.
Eighth, Charlotte, married, July 8th, I8O6, Charles-William, Viscount Milton, only son of William, Earl Fitzwilliam.
Ninth, Frances-Laura, married, January 24th, J 805, Robert Chaloner, Esq. of Gisborough in Yorkshire.
Tenth, Mary, married, April 9lh, ISOS, the Rev. William Wharton.
Eleventh, Isabella.
While a commoner, his Lordship represented in parliament the county of Sterling, 1768, 1774, 178O, 1784, I7g0.
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Title. Thomas Dundas, Lord Dundas, and a Baronet.
Creation. Lord Dundas by patent, August 13th, I794j and Baronet, November, 1762.
Arms. Argent, a lion rampant, gules.
Crest. A lion's head, full faced, looking over an oak bush, crowned with an antique ducal crown.
Supporters. Two lions crowned j each charged with a shield on the shoulder, of which the dexter contains the arras of Bruce, and the sinister the arms of
Motto. ESSAYEZ.
Chief Seats, Aske-hall, in Yorkshire ; Kerse, in Sterlingshire ; Clackmannan, and the Orkneys.
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PELHAM, LORD YARBOROUGH.
^iR William Felh \y\ , third sonof Sir JFilliam PeIham,of Laugh-^ Ion iti Sussex, ancestor to the Eakl of Chichrster, (for whom see vol V.) by Alary, his second wife, daughter to JViUiam Lord Sands of the l^ne, was one of the mo-.t I'aiiious men of his time, being from his youth in the service of his country ; and having,. by his courage and conduct, gained the reputation of an experienced martial officer, had tlie command of tlie pioneers in t!ie army under the Duke of Norfolk, sent to the assistance of the Scots, against the French, in March 1300, the second year of Queen Ellizaheth. Also on the forces approacliing Leith, he was one of those appointed ;o confer with the Qupen-regent at Edinburgh,-' and when the town of Leith was invested, having the chief direc- tion of the siege, caused a square fort to be built, called Mouiit- Pelham, with a bulwark at every corner, and twelve battering pieces planted at places convenient, to batter the south side of the town. This siege continued until a peace was concluded, and all the French, except sixteen left in Inch-Keith, were obliged to leave the kingdom. In September, 1562, enibarking with Ambrose Dudley, f^arl of Warwick, geiieral of the army, sent to the assistance of the protestants in France, he was at the taking of Caen, '' in Normandy, and in the year 1563, '^ was wounded in the defence of Newhaven, which endured a long siege, and held out till Queen Elizabeth expressed, with tears, the commisera- tion of the sad state they were reduced to, and by proclamation (wherein she commended the valour of her commanders and
a Stow's Annals, edit, i6i4> p. 641- b Ibid. p. 653. c IbiJ. p. 654..
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soldiers) declared, she would no longer expose her bravest men to the fury of two enemies, the plague and the sword. And there- upon "^ her Majesty gave orders to the Earl of Warwick to capi- tulate on honourable terms, who immediately sent Mr. Pelham to the Mareschal Montmorency, constable of France, to agree upon articles of surrender j and when they were signed, he was one of the four hostages for the performance of them.
After this he was sent into Ireland, and, for his services against the rebels, was knighted, 15/9, by the lord deputy. Sir William Drury ; ^ who deceasing September 30th, the same year. Sir Wil- liam Pelham was by the council, on October 11th following, chosen Justlcier of Ireland, with the authority *^ of lord deputy, until a lord deput)^ was created ; and thereupon he knighted, the same day, s the lord chancellor Gerrard, and young Edward Fitton, son of Sir Edward Fitton, president of Connaught, who had per- formed great services against the rebels.
During the time of his government, he shewed an earnest ap- plication to business, and the affairs of the kingdom. He con- strained the Baron '' of Lixnavv^ to yield ; besieged Carrigfoir in Kerry, (kept by Julio an Italian, with some Spaniards and Irish) which he took by storm, putting the Spaniards ' to the sword, and with them, Julio himself, and hanging the Irish. But the Earl of Desmond, chief of the family of Fitzgerald, and who had been long in rebellion, gave him most trouble ; for being assisted by many of the chief papists, he wrote to the lord justice, " That he, and his brethren, were entered into a league for the defence of the Catholic faith, under the protection of the Pope, and the King of Spain, and advised him to join with them." The lord justice smiled at his presumption, and by his vigilance, conduct, and courage, dispossessed that lord of all his castles ; forcing him, and his follov/ers, to lurk in places of secrecy. He continued lord justice of Ireland, until September 14th, 1580, when '^ he surren- dered the sword to Arthur, Lord Grey, of Wilton, Knight of the Garter, and then embarked for England.
Our historians give this character of him, " That in council he was wary and circumspect, was a strict observer of justice, and
<i Camden's Annals ot" Queen Elizabeth in Hist. F.ng. vol. ii. p. 392.
e Cox's Hist of Ireland, p. 358. i" Camden, ibid p 466.
i Cox, p. 359.
li Borlacc's Account of the Reduction of Ireland, p. 11^.
' Camden, p. 36c - Cox, p. 366.
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by wholesome severities, kept those in au t; tliat had not the will to be quiet, ' sitting in person in the courts of justice, to see the laws duly executed j and he reconciled many differences, between some of the most potent families of the kingdom of Ireland, who had long contended one with another."
The Queen was so well satisfied with his services in Ireland, that she constituted him master of the ordnance, '" and swore him of her privy-council : and in the year 1585, wlien the States De- puties had earnestly besought her Majesty to accept of the govern- ment of the United Pro\ inces, and receive the people thereof, who were most unjustly oppressed, into her protection and perpetual vassalage, and her Majesty thereupon had appointed Robert Dud- ley, Earl of Leicester, general of her forces, Sir William Pelham was likewise" constituted Field-jMarshal.
In 1586, having the command of the English horse, he ^ ranged all over Brabant, taking in several places, and performed many gallant acts, which are particularly related in Stoiv's Annals, from page 733, to 741. At the siege of Dowsborough he narrowly escaped with life, from the rebounding of a buUet, which hit him on the belly, pierced his buff jerkin and doublet, and wounded him. It was likewise owing to his particular conduct and courage, that Daventry was secured.
At length, after many signal services, he died at Flushing, on November 24th, 1587, '' leaving
William, his son and heir, twenty years of age, on April 1st, preceding his death.
I find this character of him among the worthies of that age : 1 " Sir William Pelliara had a strong memory, whereof he built his experience, there being no town, fort, or passage, either in Ire- land or Holland, but he retained by that strong faculty, which was much his nature, more his art Three things were observed in his converse, that his friends were either valiant, ingenious, or wise, being soldiers, scholars and statesmen j and four things he was very intent upon, during his government in Ireland ; the priests, the pulpit, and the press j secondly, the nobility ; thirdly, the ports; fourthly, the foreigners; which he pursued with such activity, that, during his government, the kingdom was in a better condition than it had been for sixty years before."
1 Ibid. p. 360, & seq. :u Jekyl's Liber Baronett- MS.
D Stow, p 711. o Camden, p 511.
." Cole's Esc. lib iii. jj. 231- -i State Worthies, p. 599, 6co.
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His last testament bears '^ date June 27th, 1586, being, as he mentions, commanded by the Queen (o serve in the Low-coun- tries. He wills his body to be buried in such place as shall seem good to his executors. He settles his lands in trust (according to letters patents, dated June 5th, the same year) on Roger Manners, Henry Bromley, Robert Dormer, and Thomas Pelham, Esquires : viz, " The scite of the priory of Newsted, with the rights and members thereof, in common line 3 his manor of Cadney and Hovvseham, called Belloews-manor in the said county; his manor called St. John's manor ; as also his manor called Grace-Dieu manor, in Grcat-Lymber, or Little-Lymber, in the said county; his manors of Awdley, Bkokelsbye, the parsonage of Kilhng- holme, two parts of the scite of the late monaster)' of Newsham, and two parts of the demesne lands there, with divers lands and rents in Halton, Killingholme, Ultebie, Hotofte, Kelebie, Net- tleton, Habroughe, Rothewel!, Croxton, Acrehouse, and Bro- kelsbye, in the said county of Lincoln. He bequeaths to dame Dorothy Pelham, his wife, all his goods and chattels whatsoever, lemaining in his mansion at Eythrop, or elsewhere in com, Bucks, as also her jointure according to covenants, bearing date the 10th day of September, in IS Eliz. amounting to the yearly value of 800 marks, without lett of William Pelham, his son and heir ; to whom he bequeaths all his goods, chattels, household stuff, plate and jewels, remaining at his house at Newsted. He bequeaths to his daughter, Anne Pelham, 2000/. to his son. Pere- grine Pelham, and his heirs, two parts of his manor of Wickham, with the rights, &c. thereto belonging ; and two parts of his lands lying in Acrehouse, Nettleton, Rothcwell, Normanbie, Claxbie, Kelebie, and Croxton in the county of Lincoln, The residue of his goods, plate, jewels, and debts, he bequeaths to his son, Wil- liam Pelham, that he may be the better able to discharge the legacy to his said daughter Anne. He appoints executors, 'his well beloved wife, dame Dorothy Pelham, and his said son, Wil- liam I'elham, and desires his very good Lords, Sir Thomas Brom- ley, Knt. Lord Chancellor of England, and Sir William Cecil, Knt. Lord Burghley, Lord Treasurer of England, to be super- visors, hoping, by their good Lordships aid and furtherance, the same will be the better accomplished and performed ; and in token of his good will, bequeaths one bason and ewer to each of
T Ex Resist vocat. Rutland, Not. 72, qu, 12. in Cur. prasrog. Cant.
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them, of tlie value of 251. apiece, lo be delivered, by his executors, within one year after his decease."
This Dame Dorothy, his second wife, was daughter of An- thony Catesby, of VVhiston in com. Northamp, ' and widow of Sir Robert Dormer, of Ascot, in the county of Bucks, Knt. ; but by his first wife Eleanor, daughter to Henry Nevile, Earl of West- moreland, he had
Sir William, his son and heir before mentioned in his testa- ment, who was knighted, and manied Anne, eldest daughter to Charles, Lord Willoughby of Parham.
Sir William Pelham had issue by Anne Willoughby seven sons, and a daughter, viz.
First, Sir William, ofivhom presentli/.
Second, Charles Pelham, of Manton, who died January 24th, 1671, and was buried at Manton, leaving no issue by his wife Mary, daughter of Sir Edward Tyrwhit, of Stainfield, Bart. She died February 23d, 1657, :i"d was burled at Manton.
Third, Henry Pelham, living 16-12 and 1647.
Fourth, Herbfert.
Fifth, Edmund, living 1642,
Sixth, Roger, living 1642 and 1647.
Seventh, Willoughby Pelham.
Sir William Pelham, oi BrocMesby com, Lincoln, eldest son, died August 1st, ]644. His will was dated July 23d, l642, and proved February l6th, 1647-S. He married Frances daughter of Edward Conway, Viscount Conway, who died before l642; and by whom he bad five sons, and seven daughters : viz.
First, William Pelham, died young.
Second, Edwari^ Pelham, of Brocklesby, Esq, a:t. twenty- four, 1647, who died s. p, having married Diana, daughter of Mildmay Fane, Earl of Westmoreland, which Lady was aet, six- t en, in 1647,
Third, William Pelham, killed at Newark in the civil wars.
Fourth, Charles, of iv horn presently.
Fifth, George, aet. twelve, l642, died unmarried.
Sixth, Anne, married Sir George Wynne, of Nostell com. York, Bart.
Seventh, Frances, wife of Sir Matthew Appleyard, of Bcrst- wick-Garth, com York.
Eighth, Dorothy.
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Ninth, Eleanor, wife of Aluied, Esq.
Tenth, Elizabeth, wife of Sir Edward Wynne, of Nostell, Bart.
Eleventh, Catherine, married, first, Heslop, of North- umberland} and secondly, John Stanhope, of Grimston, com. York, Esq.
Twelfth, Margaret Pelham.
Charles Pelham, of Brocklesby, E'iq. fourth son, was burled at Brocklesby February 17tb, 1691, having had three wives, viz. first, Anne, daughter of Sir Edward Hussey, of Dodington, com. Lincoln, Bart, by whom he had a ton William, and two daughters, Anne and Elizabeth, who all died unmarried.
He married, secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Pelham, of Halland, com. Sussex, who died s. p.
He married, thirdly, Elizabeth, daughter of Michael Wharton, of Beverley, com. York, Esq. and sister and coheir to Sir Michael Wharton, Knt. She was buried at Brocklesby, February 26"th, 1725. By her he had issue three sons and four daughters, viz. First, Charles, of whom presently.
Second, Michael, baptised at Brocklesby March 25th, 1684, buried there May 12th, 1718. Third, Henry, died an infant.
Fourth, Mary, married Francis Anderson, of whom hereafter. Fifth, Frances, baptised at Brocklesby, May 3d, I676, and died in June, I703, having married Samuel Reynolds, Esq. by whom she had issue, first, a daughter, who died an infant ; second, Charles Reynolds, Esq. who married at Broughton, com. Lincoln, on June 28th, 1719, his cousin Charlotte, daughter of Francis An- derson, by Mary Pelham, but died s, p.^ third, Samuel Reynolds, living 1727.
Sixth, Susanna, baptised at Brocklesby, June 20th, 1675. Seventh, Charlotte, baptised April 27th, iQjS, and buried January 10th, 1697, at Brocklesby.
Eighth, Elizabeth, baptised September 1st, 168O, married John Stringer, of Sutton-upon-Lound, com. Notts, Esq. by whom she had a sole daughter and heir Anne, married to John Earl Fitz- william, and dying September I3th, 1726, was grandmother of the present Earl.
Ninth, Eleanor, baptised July 1st, 168I, buried January 18th, 1681.
Tenth, Catherine, baptised December 2Lst, l6S2, buried Fe- bruary 1st, 1683.
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Eleventh, Margaret, baptized May 20th, l685, dated at Manby, February 24th, 1732.
Charles Pelham, of Brocklesby, Esq. eldest and only sur- viving son, married, iirst, Mary, daughter of Sir William Gore, of Horkstow coin. Lincoln, Knt. and by her had several children, who all died intants. He married, secondly, Mary, daughter of Robert Vyner, of Gotby com. Lincoln, Est], but died without sur- viving issue February Uth, 17t)3, aet. eighty-four, and was buried at Brocklesby. He left his estate to his great nephew Chailes Anderson, £>q. who in compliance with his will, assumed the name of Pelham, and is now Lord Yarborougli.
Mary Pelham, his sister, as above-mentioned (who was bap- tised at Brocklesby April 21st, Id//), married at Broughton com. Lincoln, on May IJth, 17O8, Francis Anderson, of Manby in the parish of Broughton com. Lincoln, Esq. descended from the An- dersons of Eyworth and Stratton in Bedfordshire.
ANDERSON FAMILY.
This family is descended from Thomas Anderson who came out of Scotland, lived in Northumberland, and afterwards came into Lincolnshire. He had two .sons.
First, Thomas Anderson, of Broughton and Casthrop com. Lincoln, who, by Helena, daughter of George Dallison, of Lax- son, had issue, first, Roger, father of Robert, who was unmarried 1634, and William J second, Robert, of Casthrop, living l634, who by Elizabeth, daughter of Augustine Earl of Stragglethorp, com. Lincoln, had Frances, daughter and heir, aged twelve in 10'34; third, Edmond, ofThornholme com. Lincoln, living 1634,
who by Frances, daughter of Disney, of Thomby com.
Lincoln, had Francis, aged thirteen in l634, and William, aged eight in l634j fourth. Sir William Anderson, Knt. living in Dublin 1634.
Second, Sir Edmund Anderson, Knt. Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, which high station he filled with honour for twenty-three years; his Reports being still of celebrity among lawyers. He first studied at Lincoln College, Oxford, and then at the Inner Temple, where by his industry he acquired creat knowledge of his profession. In ly Eliz. he was appointed a Serjeant at law; and in 1582, was C hit f Justice in the room of Sir James Dyer deceased. In 1583 he was knighted, and wa.
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then esteemed a zealous promoter of the established discipline of the church of England, He died August 1st, l605, aet. seventy- five, and was buried at Eyworth in Bedfordshire, having married Magdalen, daughter of Christopher Smith, Esq. : she died Ja- nuary pth, 1 622, and was buried at Eyworth. By her he had, besides two daughters, who died young, two sons and four daughters, viz.
First, Edmond Anderson, Esq. died s. p. having married Eli- zabeth, daughter of Thomas Inkpen, Esq.
Second, Sir Francis, of ivhom presently.
Third, William Anderson, of Broughton com, Lincoln, Esq. who had no issue by his second wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Darnell, of Stichford com. Lincoln, Knight 3 but by his first wife, Joan, daughter of Thomas Essex, of Lamborne com. Berks, Esq. had Sir Edmond Anderson, his heir, aged twenty- six years in 1 634, who was created a. Baronet Decembtr llth, 1668; and by Mary, daughter and heir of Thomas Wood, of Airfield com. York, left issue male, from whom descended Sir Wil- liam Anderson, sixth Baronet, who died at Richmond in April, 17/2.
Margaret, eldest surviving daughter, married Sir Thomas Monson, of Burton com. Lincoln, Bart. She died August 3d, ]630, and was buried at South Carlton, com. Lincoln,
Catherine, second daughter, married Sir George Booth, of Dunham-Massie, com. Chester, Knt,
Griselda, third daughter, married Sir John Sheffield, Knight, second son, and at length heir apparent, to Edmund Lord Shef- field, K. G. which Sir John was drowned in his father's lifetime, but left issue by the said Griselda, from whom were descended the Dukes of Buckinghamsliire,
Elizabeth, fourth daughter, married Sir Hatton Fermor, of Easton-Neston com. Northampton, Knight.
Sir Francis Anderson, oi Eyworth and Stratton com. Bedford, Knight, second son and at length heir, married, first, Judith, third daughter of Sir Stephen Soame, Knight, Lord Mayor of London, 15C)S, and had issue by her two sons; viz.
First, F^DMOND Anderson, Esq. of Eyworth and Stratton, who died April 4th, l638, having married Alice, daughter and sole heir of Sir John Constable, of Dromanly com. York, Knight, by wliom he had Dorothy, his sole daughter and heir, married to Sir John Cotton, of Connington com, Huntingdon, Bart,
Second, Stephen, of whom presently.
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Sir Francis married, secondly, Audrey, eldest daughter of Sir John Boteler, of Hatfield-Woodhall, com. Hertford, Bart, after- wards created Lord Boteler, of Bramfield, who surviving him re- married Francis Leigh, Earl of Chichester, by whom she had two daughters, Elizabeth and Mary. By Sir Francis Anderson she had issue
Sir John Anderson, of St. Ives, com. Huntingdon, created a BaroJict January 3d, I(j28, who died without issue.
Also a dcmghter Mary, wbo died young.
Sir Francis died December 22d, lt)lQ, and was buried at Ey worth,
Stephen Anderson, of Broughton and Eyworth, Esq. before mentioned, his second son, married Catherine, daughter of Sir Edwin Sandys, of Ombersley com. Worcester, Knight. She was buried at Ey worth, March 8th, \65Q. By her he had issue live sons and seven daughters ; \ iz.
First, Sir Stephen Anderson, Bart, of iv horn presently .
Second, Edward, died an infant.
I'hird, Francis, of whom hereafter as ancestor to Lord Yar- horough.
Fourth, Edmond,
Fifth, Edwin.
Sixth, Catherine, died an infant.
Seventh, Penelope, married Sir Willia.m Glyn, of Bisseter com. Oxford, Bart.
Eighth, JNIary, died young ; ninth, Catherine j tenth, Eliza- beth ; eleventh, Frances, all died unmarried.
Twelfth, Judith, married John Lister, of Bawtry com, York, Esq.
Sir Stephen Anderson, eldest son, oi Ey worth, was created a Baronet July 13th, l6(34, and died January gth, 1707, having had two wives : lirst, IMary, daughter of Sir John Glynn, Knight, Ser- jeant at law. She died February 25th, 1667, and was buried at Eyworth, leaving an only daughter, Anne, married to Sir Wil- lougliby Hickman, of Gainsborough com. Lincoln. Sir Stephen married, secondly, Judith, daughter of Sir John Lawrence, Knt. Lord Mayor of London ld(i5, by Dame Abigail, his first wife. She was buried in the family vault in the parish churci) of St. Helen's, London. By her he had issue three daughters and a son ; viz. Abigail, who died unmarried 1/33 3 Penelope, who died un- married J "20 ; Catherine, who died unmarried, and was buried at Eyworth, April I'^h, l/OSj and Sir Stei-uex Anderson, of
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Eyworth and Broughton aforesaid, second Baronet, who died Oc- tober 21st, 1741, and was buried at Eyworth, having married Anne, only daughter of Sir Martin Lumley, of Bardfield com. Essex, Bart, by Elizabeth his wife, daughter and heir of Sir Jona- than Dawes, Knight, alderman of London. She died October 27th, 1719, and was buried at Eyworth. By her he had issue, first. Sir Stephen, of whom presently; second, Edmond, of Mag- dalen college, Cambridge, died unmarried in I776j and was buried at Eyworth 5 third, Henry, died young ; fourth, Jonathan, died unmarried, and was buried at Eyworth, April llth, 1735 ; fifth, Henry Anderson, of the Middle Temple, barrister at law, un- married 1742, was buried at Eyworth, April 5th, 176I ; sixth, Anne, married the Rev. Anthony Ellys, D. D. rector of St. Olave in the Old Jewry, London, and prebendary of the cathedral of Gloucester, living 1742 ; seventh, Elizabeth, died unmarried and was buried at Eyworth, June llth, 172O; eighth, Judith, died un- married, Jan. 22d^ 1740 ; ninth, Mary, married Justinian Isham, Esq. son and heir of John Isham, Esq. second son of Sir Justinian Isham, of Lamport com. Northampton, Bart, j tenth, Frances, married Edward Radcliffe, of London, Turkey nierchant, grand- son of Sir Ralph Radclitfe, of Hitchin com. Herts, Knight; eleventh, Catherine, died aged two days, October 26th, I719. Sir Stephen Anderson, third and last Baronet, died in February 1773, and was buried at Eyworth, having married Elizabeth, only daughter of Miles Barne, of London, merchant^ descended from an ancient and knightly family of that name in Middlesex and Kent. She was buried at Eyworth, April 21st, J 769. By her he had an only son, Stephen Anderson, who died young.
Francis Anderson, third son of Stephen Anderson and Cathe- rine Sandys, and younger brother of the first Baronet, was settled at Manly com. Lincoln, and dying xApril 15, 1706, aet. sixty-three, was buried at Broughton. His will was dated February 27th, 1705, and proved June 20th, 1706. He married, in January, 1674, Elizabeth, youngest daughter and coheir of John Lodington, of Fonaby in the parish of Bund com Line. Esq. She died June 2d, 1694, and was buried at Broughton. By her he had issue four sons; viz.
First, Francis Anderson, ofivliom presently.
Second, Stephen Anderson, born at Manby in the parish of Broughton, July 20th, 1677, living 1705.
Third, John, born May 30lh, l683, living 1705.
Fourth, Edmond, born March JSlh, \6S\, living 1705.
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Francis Anderson, of Manby, Esq, eldest son, died Sep- tember 'iyth, J JAJ, set. seventy-two, and was buried at Broughton, having married at Broughton on May l/th, 1/08, Mary, eldest daughter of Charles Pelham, of Brocklesby, Esq. and Elizabeth Wharton : which Mary was born at Brocklesby, April 2 1st, 16/7; and dying February iOth, 1/3^, was buried at Broughton, having had issue two sons and two daughters, viz.
First, Francis, of ivhoin presently .
Second, Charles Anderson, baptised at Broughton, December 12th, 1712, died January 28th, 178O, and was buried there.
Third, Eliza-Maria, born May 3d, 171O, married at Broughton com. Lincoln, November 27th, 1729, Thomas Whichcot, of Harpswell, Esq. and dying 1732, was buried at Harpswell, leaving two daughters 3 Frances-Maria, baptised at Brough- ton August 26th, 1730, married Dr. Fountain, Dean of York, whose daughter ^ by her was the first wife of William Tatton (after- wards Egerton), Esq. of Withenshaw, and Tatton in Cheshire, and left a son William, who died member of parliament for Bever- ley, 1799. without issue ; Catherine Whichcot, the other daugh- ter, was baptised at Broughton, September 5th, 1/31.
Fourth, Charlotte Anderson, the other daughter, baptised at Broughton June 2Sth, 17W> married her cousin, Charles Rey- nolds, of the Inner Temple, Esq. but died s. p.
Francis Anderson, of Manby, Esq. eldest son and heir, was baptised at Broughton July 29th, 17ll,and died October 23d, 1 758, set. forty-seven, and was buried there. His wife was Eleanor, daughter of Thomas Carter, ofBasavern near Denbigh, Esq. who on j\Liy 5th, \j6S, remarried Robert Vyner, Esq, of Gotby com. Lincoln, member of parliament for Thirske com. York ; and having had issue by him, was living 1794. By her first husband she had issue.
First, Charles Anderson (Pelham), present peer.
Second, Francis Evelyn Anderson, Esq. a lieutenant-colonel on half-pay of the eighty-fifth foot, born at Broughton April 8th, 1752 ; formerly member of parliament for Beverley. He married Caroline, daughter of General James Johnston, but had no issue in 1795.
Third, Frances-Maria, born May 24tli, 175O; died January 3Jst, 1761, and was buried at Broughton.
t See an epi'aph on her in Mli.\ot:'s Poe»n.
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Fourth, Harriot, born at Broughton June 9th, 1/53, married to Paul Moss.
Charles Anderson, now Lord Yarbokough, eldest son^ took the surname and arms of Pelham in compliance with the will of his great uncle, Charles Pelham, Esq. late of Brockelsby aforesaid, deceased. He was baptised at Broughton, February 20th, 1748-9, and elected member of parliament for Beverley, 17683 and for the county of Lincoln in 177'!, 178O, 1784, 1790,
He was elevated to the peerage August 13th, 179'^j by patent,. by the title of Baron Yarbor oug h, 0/ ya/io^oi/^A in the county of Lincoln, to him and the heirs male of liis body.
His Lordship married at Chelsea in Middlesex, on July 21st, 177^) Sophia, only daughter of George Aufrere, Esq. of Chelsea. And by her, who died January 25th, 17S6, and was buried at Brocklesby, had issue.
First, Charles Anderson Pelham.
Second, George Anderson Pelham, born September 5th, 1780, a lieutenant in the Coldstream regiment of foot -guards.
Third, Sophia, born at Chelsea October 3d, 1775, married November 5th, 1802, Dudley North, of Glemham-Hall, Suffolk, Esq.
Fourth, Caroline, born January I8th, 1777? married, October 11th, 1797' Robert Carey Elvves, Esq. and has issue.
Fifth, Lucy, born February 27th 1778? married, June 1st, 1804, William Tennant, of Aston-hall com. Stafford, Esq, and has issue.
Sixth, Maria-Charlotte, born July 6th, 17SO, married, June 19th, 1802, Thomas Heneagc, Esq.
Seventh, Arabella, born January 20th, 1783,
Eighth, Georgiana-Anne, born at Tunbridge-Wells July 14th, 1784.
Charles Anderson Pelham, eldest son, born at Brocklesby, August 18th, 178I, married, August llth, 1 SO6, the only child of the Honourable John Bridgman Simpson (brother to Lord Bradford), by his first wife, the sister and heir of the late Sir Richard Worsley, Bart, by whom he has a daughter born in July, I8O7. He was elected member of parliament for the county of Lincoln, I8O7.
Title. Charles Anderson Pelham, Lord Yarborough, of Yar- borough in Lincolnshire.
LORD YARBOROUGH. MC)
Creation. By patent August 13th, 1794.
Arms. Quarterly, first and fourth Pelliam, the same as the Earl of Chichester ; second and third Anderson, argent, a chevron between three cross crosslets, sable.
Crest. The crests of Pelham and Anderson^ the latter a talbot.
Supporters. On the dexter, a horse reguardant, seme of bows bent; on the sinister, a talbot reguardant seme of cross cross- lets.
Motto. ViXCIT AMOK PATKI^.
Chief Seat. Brocklesby-Hall, Lincolnshire.
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HOOD, LORD HOOD.
Susannah,, late wife of the present Admiral, Samuel Viscount Hood, was created Baroness Hood of Catlierington in Hamp- shire, with remainder to the issue male of her body by Viscount Hood, on March 27th, 1795; and dying May 25th, I8O6, was succeeded by her only son
Henry, second Lord Hood of Catherington. His Lordship was born August 2jth, 1753; and married, September 10th, 1774, Jaue, only danghter and heiress of Francis Wheeler, Esq. of Whitley in Hampshire, grandson of Admiral Sir Francis Wheeler, Knight, third son of Sir Charles Wheeler, Bart, and has had issue,
First_, Louisa.
Second, Charlotte, both died infants.
Third, Susannah, born in June, 1779; married, April iGth, 1S05, Francis Mason, Esq. of the royal navy.
Fourth, Elizabeth, died young.
Fifth, Francis Wheeler, a captain in the third regiment of foot-guards, born October 4th, 1/8] ; married, October 11th, 1804, Caroline, daughter of Sir Andrew Snape Hamond, Bart, and has issue a son, born November ipth, I8O7.
Sixth, Selina, born November 10th, 1/82.
Seventh, Samuel, presumptive heir to the LIsh Barony of Bridport, born December 7th, 1788, was married at Mary-le- bone church on Tuesday, July 3d, 1810, by the Bishop of Salis- bury, to Lady Charlotte Nelson, only surviving child of the pre- sent William Earl Nel.'^on.
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Title. Henry Hood, Lord Hood of Catherlngton, in Hamp- shire.
Creation. By patent March 27th, 1795.
Arms. See Viscount Hood in vol. v. with a label for dif- ference.
Crest, Suf)f)orters, and Motto. See the same.
Chief Seat. Catherington-House, Hants.
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STUART, LORD STUART OF CASTLE STUART.
(EARL OF MURRAY IN SCOTLAND.]
Trom the time of King James IIL the Earldom of Muinay con- tuiued in the crown, and there remained till the reign of King James V. that that Prince, by letters patent bearing date on the 20th of June, 1501, ^ gave it to
James Stuart his natural son, whom he had by Jane Ken- nedy, the Lord Kennedy's danghtcr, his paramour.
This James, EarL of Murray , married Isabel, daughter to the Earl of Argyle, and dying June 12, 154-1, left only one daughter,, Mary, m.nrried to John Master of Buchan, so the Earldom of Murray went back again lo the crown ; and being in the sove- reign's disposal. Queen Mary, on February 18th, 15^8,'' gave it to George Earl of Huntly : but her Majesty recalling that deed, she was afterwards graciously pleased to bestow the Earldom of Murray upon
James Stuart, Prior of St. Andrew's. This James, next Ear^ of Murray, was the natural son of King James V. by Mar- garet, daughter of John Lord Erskine. Being by the care of his father, as all the rest of his illegitimate sons were, bred to the church ; he was when very young provided to the priory of St. Andrew's, anno 153g, then void by the promotion of Patrick Hep- burn, to the episcopal see of Murray ; but by reason of his non- age, Dr, Alexander Miln, abbot of Cambuskenneth, and presi- dent of the college of justice, was appointed administrator of the
Charta iti Rotulis Jacobi IV.
b Ibid, iu Rotulis Mariu." R.
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benefice,*^ both with respect to the spiritual and temporal dis- charge of the function.
By reason of the ]irior"s youth, I have met with nothing me- morable of him, (till the beginning of the reformation,) he was among the first who embraced the protcstant reformed religioUj though he was tar from giving any countenance to the popular relbrmation; as is manifest from the manvand frequent addresses he and others of the protcstant nobility made to the Queen Re- gent, that she would please to concur by her authority in reform- ing of the church.
But the Queen peremptorily refusing not only to comply with their supplications, but having also violated some articles of paci- fication, she had very solemnly entered into with the protcstant lords, of which the prior of St. Andrew's himself stood guarantee; he thereupon left her, and joined himself with the lords of the congregation, as they were called; whereupon the prior, the Lord James, was summoned before the council; but he did not think fit to answer the charge otherwise, than to return this answer to the messenger, " That her PJajesty had broken the conditions with the lords of the congregation, which, by warrant from her- self, he had made and entered into with them; he would have no more meddling in such dishonest courses, and would do the best to repair things he could." This answer gave occasion to the Queen to signify to the prior, " that she suspected that religion was the least thing he or bis party had in their thoughts; and that she did not doubt, but that under the covert and pretext of religion, he intended to make an attempt upon the crown. The prior in the mean time disowned the charge, and thought himself obliged, for his further vindication, to make a very solemn protesta- tion, that he had no other view or design in what he had done, than the advancement of the true reformed religion, and the preserva- tion of the liberties of his country, which he could not but bewail he saw so signally invaded by her, at least by those who pretended to act by, and derive their authority from her; after which he was so hearty a pronaoter of the reformation, that he became the head of the protestant party.
When Queen Mary became a widow by the death of King Francis IL the prior of St. Andrew's was sent by the protestant nobility, to invite the Queen home ; and soon after her arrival, her Mijesty having named a new privy-council, the Lord James.
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her brother, was appointed one of the number, and not long after he was sent with a commusion of lieutenantcy to the borders, to suppress an insurrection that was threatened in those parts ; and he discharged the trust reposed in him with such courage and fidelity, that upon his return the Queen was graciously pleased to bestow upon her brother the Earldom of Mar, then in the crown ; but the Lord Ershine being found to have right to the Earldom of Mar, that lord was by way of justice restored to that honour, in lieu whereof the Prior of St. Andrew's was nvdde Ear/ of Murraij, February 10th, 1562.''
After this the Earl continued in the greatest favour with the Queen, without any interruption, till in the year 1565 her Ala- jesty declaring her resolution to marry the Lord Darnley, my Lord Murray and many others opposed the match^ upon pre- text of the danger that might arise to religion and to the state by that union, forasmuch as it had not been practised at any time, to impose a king upon the. nation without the advice and consent of parliament; and in order to put a more effectual stop thereto, they made, says Sir James JMelvi!, an essay to take the Lord Darnley in the Queen's company at the Puaid of Baith, and, as they alleged, to have sent him to England : but failing in their en- terprise, they were so closely pursued by the Queen's troops, that they thought it the safest course for them to flee to England., where they met but with a very cold reception from Queen Eliza- beth, though she had very much encouraged them underhand to enter into those measures, to disturb the peace and tranquillity of Scotland, and to sully the glory of Queen Mary's reign.
After the Queens marriage with the Lord Darnley, a parlia- ment was called, before which the Earl of Murray and his asso- ciates were summoned to answer a charge of high treason, which was prepared against them -, and the Earl would have undoubtedly been denounced rebel, and forfeited, had not the murder of David Rizio prevented it, which happened three days before the sitting down of the parliament. At the day appointed the Earl of Murray returned home, and went straight to the parliament house, and took instruments that he was ready to answer the summons of treason J but such was the confusion ofalfairs, tliat no evidence c^me against him, and the Queen believing him innocent of Rizio's murder, was pleased to give him a gracious pardon, restore him to her wonted favour, and to place an unsuspected confidence
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in him ; but (he broils of the country still iiirreasing more and more, especially after the murder of the Lord Daniley, he ob- tained the Queen's leave to travel, whicli he did, tirst into Eng- land, and thence into France, where he remained till the Queen had made a resignation of the government, and the Prince, King James VI. her son, set upon the throne, when he was called home to be Reg E N'T to the young King ; to wJiich office he was chosen by those of the nobility who adhered to the Prince in his absrnce, on August '22d, 150'7. In December after he callrd a parliament, wherein the Pope's authority was abolished, and the tnie pro- lestant religion received a new sanction ; after having settled the government, and seeming secure in It, he was, on January 23d, Ifi/O, unexpectedly, as he was riding through the street of Lin- lithgow, far from apprehending any danger, shot from a window A\ iih a musket, in the lower part of his belly, by James Hamilton, of Bothwel-haugh, in revenge of a private injury the Regent had done him, and in the instant falling from Jiis horse, died the same evening. Few days after his body was removed to Edinburgh, and with great funeral solemnity interred in St. Giles's church, where a monument was erected over his grave, with this inscrip- tion upon it :
Pietas sine Vindice luget :
Jus exarmatum est,
23 Januarii, 1570. t
Jacobo Stewauto,
Moraviae Comiti,
Scotia Proregi,
Viro, yEtatis suae longe optimo, ab Inimicis oinnis
Memorise deterrimls, ex insidiis extinclo, ceu Patri
communi, Patria maerens posuit.
As to the Regenfs character, Mr. Buchanan, his old tutor and faithful friend, draws a very fair and bright one of him ; and some later writers, whose pens perhaps have been directed as much by malice as truth, have endeavoured to give the world a very ill im- pression of him; and I observe, that ge^ierally men pass their judgments upon him according to the party they are of; for these reasons I shall not take his character from any party writer, either of the one or the other side. And therefore shall rather choose to recite that given by Bishop Spotiswood, than add any of my own. " His death," says that reverend author, " was by all men
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greatly lamented, especially by the commons, who loved him ss their father, whilst he lived, and now mourned grievously at his death : the great things he had wrought in his life (having in the space of one year and little more, quieted the state which he found broken and disordered) made his very enemies speak of him with praise and commendation : above all his virtues, which were not a few, he shined in piety toward God^ ordering himself and his family in such sort, as it did more resemble a church than a court J for therein, besides the exercise of devotion, which he never omitted, tliere was no wickedness to be seen, nay not an un- seemly wanton word to be heard, a man truly good, and worthy to be ranked among the best governors that this kingdom hath en- joyed j and therefore to this day is honoured with the title of. The Good Regent."
So far this account is taken from Crauford. I shall now transcribe, from the first volume of Roberlson''s History, the in- teresting account of the-dismal close of his miserable days.
" Hamilton, of Bolhwellhaugh, was the person who murdered the Regent, Jan. 23, 15/0. He had been condemned lo death soon after the battle of Langside, and owed his life to the Regent's cle- mency. But part of his estate had been bestowed upon one of the Regent's favourites, who seized his house and turned out his wife naked, in a cold night, into the open tields, where, before next morning, she became furiously mad. This injury made a deeper impression on Mm, than the benefit he had received, and at that mo- ment he vowed to be revenged upon the Regent. Party rage strength- ened and inflamed his private resentment. H^is kinsm.jn, the Ha- miltons, applauded theenterprize. The maxims ofth.it age justified the most desperate cour^^e he could take to obtain vengeance. He followed the Regent for some time, and watched for an opportu- nity to strike the blow. Pie resolved at last to wait till his enemy should arrive at Linlithgow, through which he was to pass in his way from Stirling to Edinburgh. He took his stand in a wooden gallery, which had a window towards the street ; spread a feather bed on the floor, to hinder the noise of his feet from being heard ; hung up a black cloth behind him, tliat his shadow might not be ob.served from without; and, after all this preparation, calmly expected the Regent's approach, who had lodged during the night in a house not far distant. Some indistinct information of the danger that threatened him, had been conveyed to the Regent, and he paid .so much regard to it, that he resolved to return by the san;e gate through which he had entered, and to fetch a compass
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round the town ; but as the crowd about the gate was great, and he himself unacquainted witli fear, he proceeded directly along the street ; and the throng of the people obliging him to move very slowly, gave the assassin time to take so true an aim, that he shot him, with a single bullet, through the lower part of his belly, and killed the horse of a gentleman who rode on his other side. His followers instantly endeavoured to break into the house whence the blow had com;% but they found the door strongly barricaded ; and before it could be forced open, Hamilton had mounted a fleet horse, which stood ready for him at a back pas- sage, and was got far beyond their reach. The Regent died the same night of his wound.
" There is no person in that age, about whom historians havebeen more dividf-d, or whose character has b"en drawn with such op- posite colours. Personal intrepidity, military skill, sagacity and vigour in the administration of civil aft'.iirs, are virtues, which even his enemies allow him to have possessed, in an eminent degree. His moral qualities are more dubious, and ought neither to be j)raised, nor censured, without great reserve, and many distinctions. In a fierce age he was capable of using- victory with humanity, and of treating the vanquished with moderation. A patron of learning, which, among martial nobler-, was either unknown or despised j zealous for religion, to a degree, which distinguished him, even at a time, when professions of that kind were not uncommon, his confidence in his friends was extreme, and inferior only to his liberality towards them, which knew no bounds. A disinterested passion for the libt-rty of his country, prompted him to oppose the pernicious system, which the Princes of Lorrain had obliged the Queen-mother to pursue. On Mary's return to Scotland, he served her with a zeal and affection, to which he sacrificed the friendship of those, who were most attached to his person. But, on the other hand, his ambititni was immoderate] and events happened, that opened to him vast prospects, which allured his enterprising genius, and led him to actions, inconsistent with the duty of a subject. His treatment of the Queen, to whose bounty he was so much indebted, was unbrotherly and ungrateful. The dependance on Elizabeth, under which he brought Scotland, w:is disgraceful to the nation. He deceived and betrayed Norfolk, with a .baseness unworthy of a man of honour. His elevation to such unexpected dignity, inspired him with new passions, with haughtiness and reserve ; and instead of his natural manner, which was bkmt and open, he affected the arts of dissimulation and re-
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fineraent. Fond, towards the end of his life, of flattery, and im- patient of advice, his creatures, by sooliiing his vanity, led him astray, while his ancient friends stood at a distance, and predicted his approaching fall. But, amidst the turbulence and confusion of that factious period, he dispensed justice with so much impar- tiality, he repressed the licentious borderers with so much courage, and established such uncommon order and tranquillity in the country, that his administration was extremely popular, and he was long and atFectionately remembered among the commons by the name of The good recent."
The Regent married Agnes, daughter of William Earl Maris- chal, by whom he had two daughters,
Margaret, Countess of Murray , the heir of his honour and estate; and,
Mary, married to Francis Earl of Errol.
Which Margaret, Countess of Murray, was married to
James Stuart, Lord Down, who in right of his wife, became third Earl of Murray. ^
« King Robert 11- by Elizabeth More, his wife, had several sons, of whom Robert Stewart, Eail of Fife and Menteath, was their third legitimate son. He was a man of high accomplishments, equally qualified for the cabinet or field, and on this account the King, liis fath.er, being aged and infirm, made this his son, governor of Scotland in his own life time ; and his elder brother King Robert III. after his accession to the crown, being likewise valetudinary, thought fit to continue him in the regency, and dignified him with the title of DuLe of Albany in 1399. Upon the death of King Robert III. his son King James I. being prisoner in England, the Duke of Albany, of right, became governor of the kingdom for his nephew, in wliich office he continued until his decease He commanded the Scottish army in several en- gagements against the English, and always behaved wiih such courage and conduct as generally enabled him to come off victorious, though often inferior in number to the enemy. Having discharged his trust in all the^e high de- j)artments witii wisdom, prudence and integrity ; he died "September 3d, 1419, universally lamented.
By his fi.ist wife Margaret, grandchild and sole heir to Alan, Earl of Men- teith, by which marriage he acquired that honour and a large estate, he had several daughters, and a son,
Murdoch, lecond Duke of Albany, who succeeded to his father's estatesi and also to the government of the kindom. * In 1424, he had the sole merit of restoring King James I. to the crown, who had been detained, from his infancy, during eighteen years, in the court of England, by King Henry. V.t
* Chronicon Scotios, in the Lawyer's Library in Edinburgh, ad ann 1399. Life of Robert, Duke of Albany, Regent, in the lives of the officers of the crown and state, by Geo Crawford, E^q. p. 301, and Douglas, p. 16. + Rymer's Foedera, ad anno 1424.
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This Earl was a person of great parts, magnanimity, and courage, and wanted nothing but age and experience to havejen- dered him a most accomplished nobleman.
and yet by the wicked means of his half uncle, Walter Stewart Earl of Athol, Duke A'lurdoch, with nvo of liis sons, suflcred death ^in 1425, when his es- tates and titles were fort'eiteci to the state) on a false accusation, as was gene- rally thought, of aspiring to the crown, their standing in a degree nearer the succession than Walter, exciting them, as was believed. He married Isabel, daughter and heir to Duncan, Earl of Lennox, and by her had two daughters, the elder married to Archibald Campbell, of Lochow ; and Lady Isabel the younger, married to Sir Walter Buchanan of that ilk. He had also four sons, viz.
First, Robert, who died without issue before his father.
Second, Sir Walter; and, third, Sir Alexander, who shared their father's fate; and,
Fourth, Sir James Stewart, who on the unfortunate reverse of his father's fortune, and the consequent deprivation of his estates and honours, fled to IrelaTid, where he spent the rest of his days, and died in 1449 * By a daugh- ter of the house of Macdonnell, + he had seven sons, viz. first, Andrew ; te- cond, Sir Murdoch, who died without issue; third, Arthur ; fourth, Robert; fifth, Alexander; sixth, Walter, c/wAow hereafter; and, seventh, James Eeg, ancestor to the Stewarts of Baldoran. \
Sir Andrew, the eldest son, (created Lord E-vandale,) hcmf of near affinity to the serene house of Stewart, King James 11. commiserating his condition with that of his brother Walter, was pleased to recall them from Ireland, also to promote Sir .Andrew to be first lord of his bedchamber, and warden of the west marches towards England ; who in 1456 vva^ created a peer, by the title of Lord E-v.tndule ; and his Lordship was nominated first guardian of King James II I. during his long minority, and was appointed to preside over all afiairs, foreign, and domestic. \ He was afterwards sent by King James to the court of Denmark, to demand Margaret, daughter of that King, for his m ister in marriage, which embassy he concluded. |j He was also ap- pointed Lord Chancellor of Scotland, which high office he held till 14SS, when
* So says the pedigree; but Douglas, in the Peerage of Scotland, p, £;oi, says, that on his father's imprisonment he came down from the Higiilands with a considerable party, burnt the town of Dunbarton, killed Sir John Stewart of Dundonald, governor of the castle, with many others, for whicli he was obliged to fly to Ireland, where he died in 145 1 .
+ It has been contended, that these children were illegitimate, because born before their father's marriage: but it is replied, that the subsequent marriage by the laws of Scotland, legitimated them to all intents and pur- poses. Still for their greater security they obtained an act of legitimation from the crown, dated April 17th, 1479.
J Douglas's Peerage of Scotland, p. 501.
\ Maitland's Hist. vol. ii, p 652.
jj Buchanan, lib ii. Maitland, vol ii- p. 665.
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Upon some matters of interest there fell a misunderstanding betwixt him and the Earl of Huntly, which grew into such an
deceasing without issue male, a great estate devolved upon his next heir, the son of his brother Walter.
Which Walter, married Elizabeth Arnot of that ilk, an ancient family in the county of Fife, and by her had Matilda, married to Sir William Ed- monston, of DuTitreath ; Margaret, to Alexander Cunninghame, of Drum- quhastle; Alexander, who succeeded his uncle; and John, ancestor to the Stewarts of Kilbeg *
Alexander, the elder son, succeeded to his uncle's estates : being pos- sessed of an ample landed property, he was entitled to a seat in parHament, virtute tenura, in right of his barony, yet he never received the investiture of a lord of parliament Dominus Parliament!, nor was he ever otherwise designed than Alexander Stewart, Laird of E-vandale, in which quality he died in 1492, When he was succeeded by his eldest son,
Andr ew Stewart, of Evandale, whom King James IV. for the honour of the proximity of blood, in which he stood to the crown, was pleased to raise to the dignity which his great uncle enjoyed, by solemn investiture in parliament, and by the heralds and sound of trumpets without doors, as was the custom of creating Lord Barons in that and the preceding reigns. + This Lord Evandale was high in the esteem of that King, to whom he was first led of the bed-chamber, and lost liis life with his royal master at the battle of Flodden, September 9th, 1513 $
He married Margaret, daughter of Sir John Kennedy, of Blairquhan, and by her had.
First, Andrew, his heir- Second, Henry, (who married the Queen-mother of Scotland, widow of King James I V- and mother of King James V. but left no surviving issue by the Queen: he was created Lord Meth-um in 1538, and was killed at the battle of Pinkie in 1547, having issue by his second wife, Lady Janet Stewart, several daughters, and a son Henry, in whose son Henry the title failed.) \
Third, Sir James, ancestor to the Earl of Moray
Agnes, married to John Boswell, of .Auchinleck ; Anne, to Bartholomew Crawfurd, of Carse; and Barbara, first to James Sinclair, of Sanday, and se- condly, to Roderick Macleod, of Lewes- 1|
Andrew, the elder son, succeeding to the estates and title, became the third Lard Evandale : 5 in the year 1534, during the minority of Queen Mary, and under the regency of James Hamilton, Earl of Arran, whose sister, the
* Douglas, p. 501, ^c%.
+ Register of Parliament in the keeping of ilie Lord Register of Scotland.
X Charter in Pub. Archive. 1516.
^ Douglas, p. 476, 477- II Idem, p 502-
11 " Douglas makes Andrew, the second Lord Evandale, or as he calls him
third Lord, to be the first Lord Ochiltrie, omitting the circumstance of his
father's not sitting in parliament. We are always inclined to Mr. Douglas's
opinion ; in the present instance, however, -wc have adopted a very accurate
pedigree, the communication of Lord Castle-Stuart." Arcbdall's Iriib Veeragf.
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animosity between them, that the King very much apprehended the danger of those divisions, there having been some blood shed.
Lady Margaret, lie had married, lie rcllnquislied the title of FvanJ.jle, and was created Lord Sft-war,' of Oc/j:/rn'e, * but still observing the precedence of Evandale, and accordingly is. in the rolls of parliament, and other records, styled Lord Ochiltr'u- and Failford. + He was one of the first men of quality that zejlously fell in with the reformation of religion. He died in 1548, % 01 1549, and was succeeded by his eldest son,
Andrew, Lord S.'etvart of Ochiltree, commonly called the good Lord Ochlltrie. He and his father had zealously pushed forward the reformation of religion, and voted for it as a peer in the parliament of ii;6o. At a con- vention of tlie estates, previous to the marriage of Queen Mary with the Lord Darnlcy, who was a papist, Lord Ochiltrie alone, openly protested he would never give his consent to a King of the popish religion. \ He ob- tained four charters containing several lands and baronies, under the great seal of Scotland between 1570 and 159^, in all which he was styled Domino Ochil- trie, AnAbY Agnes, his wife, daughtir of John Cunningham, of Caprington, he had issue Isabel, married to Thomas Kennedy, of Eargeny; Margaret, first to John Knox, the reformer, and secondly to Sir Andrew Ker, of Faudenside ; also five sons, viz.
First, Andrew, his heir,
Second, Sir James, of Bothwel-AIuir, after Earl of Arran, who was in great favour with Kin? James VI. and thought to be one of the evil ministers of that time. His enemies, to render him odious to the people, charged him vviih laying claim to the crown, calling himself James the VII. by his descent from Murdock, Duke of Albany. And in the parliament, anno 1585, to clear himself of that aspersion, as was supposed, he renounced any title he might have to the crown that way, by the following protestation, as it stands enrolled in the records of parliament.
" James, Earl of Arran, &c. protests for himself, and in name of his father's house of Okhiltrie, that neather the Duke of Lenox's Grace, nor nac other has right to carrie the crown, or be nearest to the King's Majestie's person at any meetings of parliament, conventions of estates, &c. before the said Earl's father's house, in regard to the nearness and proximity of bluid they stand in to his Highness, since it is well known to sundry here present, who are ready to attest the samyn, that the Lord Okhiltrie the said Karl's
* He exchanged, says Douglas, his lordship of Evandale in Lanerkshire, with Sir James Hamilton of Fynart, for the lordship of Ochiltrie in Airshirc, and got charters under the great seal, of the lands and barony of Ochiltrie, and several others, Andrecc iotniao Evandale inter 1536 et 1540. He then, with consent of the crown, got the title of Evandale exchanged for that of Ochil- tiie, which was confirmed to liini by act of parliament anno 1543. He after- wards got three charters under the great seal {yl/idrea domino Ochiltrie) ot dif- ferent lands and baronies ;>//£■/• 1543 et 1546. (Douglas, p. 52;.) i See Knox's Hist, of the Reformation, lib. iv. p. 343. X Buchan, lib xvii Spotswood, p. i8y- Maitland, vol ii. p 9J2. S Ibid.
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and men killed upon their private contests, so that the country was passionately divided between them 3 his Majesty therefore, in
father, is lawfully come of the royal bluid, as lyneally descending from father to son of the house of Evandale, whaes first progenitor, not long synsyne, was son to Duke Murdake, begotten in lawfull bed, who was son to Duke Robert of Albany, -who was uncle, tutor, and governour, a lang time, to uniquhill (the late) King James the first, his nepot, (nephew). And thereupon the said Earl asked and toke instruments in due and competent form, &c " This Earl after many and various scenes of life was divested of all his offices and honours, and for several years lived a retired life, without any other designa- tion than that of Captain Steivari; and having been the regent Morton's ac- cuser, was in revenge put to death by Sir Jam.es Douglas of Fortherald, in 1596.
Third, Sir William Steward, of Alonkton, who was killed by the Earl of Bothwell, and left no issue. Fourth, Sir Henry ; and.
Fifth, Robert, of Wester-Braco,left no issue. *
Andrew Stewart, the eldest son, and heir apparent to the third Lord Ochiltrie, obtained several cliarters under the great seal, as Andrew Maghtra lie Ochiltrie, of the lands and barony of Ochiltrie, the five merk land of Port- carrick, and several others between the years 1578 and 1584. He married Margaret, eldest daughter of Henry second Lord Methven, and deceased before his father, having had issue two sons and four daughters, viz. Andrew, heir to his grandfather ; Josias, of Bonniton, who died without issue; Anne, married to Sir Henry Ker, of Fernyhirst, after Lord Jedburgh ; Margaret, to John Stewart, of Traquair ; Margery, to Sir Roger Aston, of England, and gentleman of the bed-chamber to King James VI.; Martha, to Nicol Ruther- ford, of Hundely ; Mary, to Sir George Crawfurd, of Lifnwrris ; and Isabel, to Gilbert Kennedy, of Bargeny- +
Andrew, the elder son, succeeding his grandfather in 1592. J became the fourth Lord Ochiltrie, and obtaining several charters under the great seal about 1601, was therein styled Andrece domino Ochiltrie terrarum ecclcsiasticaritm de Ochiltrie, &c \ This nobleman, first lord of the bed-chamber to King James VI of Scotland, and I, of England, was general of the artillery and captain governor of the castle of Edinborough.
He was so expensive in his manner of living, that his own fortune, with the emoluments of his employments, were not sufficient to support him ; therefore with tlie consent of his son Andrew, master of Ochiltrie, and the approbation of the crown, he sold his Lordship of Ochiltrie, to his cousin, Sir James Stewart, of Killeth (son of Sir James, of Bothwell-Muii', created Earl of Arran,) but whose line failed in his great grandson William Stewart, Lord Ochiltrie, who died in 1675, aged sixteen years ||
Whereupon his Majesty, solicitous to preserve the family in some degree of splendour suitable to their rank and descent, in his letters from West- minster, May iSth, 1618, thus writes: " We are never forgetful of any good
Douglas's Peerage of Scotland, p. 521- + Ibid, p 523.
% Charta in pub. Archi. ad ann. 1592. ^ Douglas, p. 523. II Idci;i. p. 524.
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tjrder to settle the whole dispute, upon the hearing all that could be said by either party, and being desirous to accommodate the matter himself, caused them to be summoned before the council^ and both the Earls obeying the charge, it was determined that tlie Earl of Huntly should be ordered home to the country, and my Lord Murray to stay at court for some time. But as soon, snys Sir James JMelvil, as Huntly went home, he triumphed, and took sundry advantages upon the Earl of Murray's lands, giving him just cause of complaint; and Murray, after sundry representations, getting no redress, he retired himself from the court, and became so malcontent, that he took plain part with the Earl of Bolhwell, who had attempted to seize upon tlie King's person at his p.dace of Holyrood House, in order to oblige his Majesty to receive him
services done unto us by our meanest subjects, much less of those which our Trusty and well beloved .^.ndrevv' Stewart, late Lord Ochiltrie, haih performed in many kinds, which as we have hitherto retained in our memory for his good, so we aie now pleased ta give him a real testimony of o.ir gracious ac- ceptance thereof, by creating him a baron of that our realm : these aie there- fore to require you to issue letters patent under the great seal of our kingdouj of Ireland, creating him Lord Steivart, Baron ofCastle-Sreivart in the county of Tyrone, and to the heirs male of his body. He had three sons ; Sir An- drew, his heir; John, wlio succeeded; diuA R.ohci:t, ajwest^r to ihe present Earl of Catlle-Steiviirt hi Ireland.
Sir James Stuart, oi Beath, third son of Andrew, third Lord Evajidjle, was a man of good paits, and in great favour with King James V. who ap- pointed him one of the gentlemen of his bed-chamber, lieutenant of the guards, constable of the castle of Down, steward of Mcnteath, Strathgartney, &c. He was killed at Dunblain by the Laird of Duntreath ; and his two brothers, in 15^7, having married Margaret, daughter of John, fourth Lord Lyndsay, of Byres, by whom he had,
first, James, his heir.
Second, Archibald, of Burray, died s p.
Third, Henry, of Bucklevie.
Fourth, Ehzabeth, married Robert Crichton, of Clur.y, lord advocate, by whom she was mother to the admirable Crichton.
Sir J.1MES, eldest son, obtained a creation of his lands into ths barony 4f Dcwn, 1565. He was in great favour with King James VI. and raised by him to the [ eerage by the title oi Lord Do-um in 15S1. He died in 1590 having married Lady Margaret Campbell, daughter of Archibald, fourth Earl •f Argyle, by whom he had,
First, James.
Second, Henry, Lord St. Colone, who served under Gustavus Adolphus, but died s. p.
Third, Anne, married Sir James Wemys, of that ilk.
Fourth, Jane, married Simon, Lord Fraser, of Lovat.
James, eldest son, second Lord Doivk, married, by King James's special appointment. Lady Eliz.abetb, eldest daughter and cuheitcis oj James Earl 0/ ^'urra^f the Regent as (.'iive^sfiefithred in the text.
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into favour. The Earl of Huntly being advertised, continues my author, that his adversary Murray was an outlaw, with the Earl of Bothwell, he returned to court, to get some advantage of him: but in the mean time the Lord Ochiltree endeavouring to reconcile them with consent of his Majesty, in order thereto drew the Earl of Murray to Dunibirsel, a seat of his own in Fife, to be near hand, that conditions and articles might be added and arranged at the pleasure of their friends. The Earl of Huntly being made privy to Murray's coming to Dunibirsel, obtained instantly a commission to pursue the Earl of Bothwell, and all his partakers j whereupon with an armed force, consisting most of his own vas- sals and retainers, he unexpectedly beset the house of Dunibirsel ; and upon the Earl's refusing to surrender himself to Huntly, the house was set on fire: notwithstanding the Earl made his way through the flames, and also bravely through his more merciless enemies, and had so fir succeeded in his escape, that he was got fairly out of their hands, and had concealed himself among the rocks by the sea ; but the tip of his head-piece which had taken fire before he left the house, discovered him through the darkness of the night, whereupon his enemies set upon, and instantly murdered him with many circumstantances of barbarity, on Fe- bruary /th, 1592,
His death was universally regretted, and the King bore it with extraordinary grief. For little knew, says Sir James Melvi!, his Majesty that Huntly under this general clause of pursuing Both- well and his accomplices, was minded to assail the Earl of INIurray at his own house, and to kill him as he did, to the regret of many.
By the Countess of Murray, his wife, he left two sons.
First, James, the next Earl.
Second, Francis Stewart, Esq. ; also three daughters.
Margaret, married to Charles Howard, Earl of Nottingham, '' of the kingdom of England ; and thereafter to Sir "William Monson, Viscount of Castlemain.
Mary, to Alexander Lord Saltoun.
Grisel, to Sir Robert Innes, of that ilk, and had issue.
Which J AUES, fourth Earl of Moray , niavvied Anne, daughter of George Marquis of Huntly, by the special appointment of King James, to remove the animosity betwixt the families of Huntly and Murray, and to dispose and unite them in a firm union and
I See Memoirs of Peers of King James I.
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friendship. By this Lady he had James, his son and heir ; also one daughter, INIary, married to the Laird of Grant, and depart- ing this life in August, idjS, ^ was succeeded in his estate and honour by
James, his son, Jiflh Earl of Moray , who married Margaret, daughter and coheir of Alexander Earl of Hume, and dying in March, l653,'' kft issue by the foresaid Margaret, his wife. First, James, Lord Down, who died a youth. Second, Alexander, his successor.
Third, Archibald Stewart, of Dunnern, ancestor of the Stewarts of that place : likewise four daughrersj
First, IvLary, married to Archibald Eail of Argyle, Second, Margaret, to Sir Alexander Sutherland, thereafter Lord Dutfus.
Third, Henrietta, to Sir Hugh Campbel, of Calder, Knight. Fourth, Anne, to David Ross,- of Balnagown. Which Alexander, sixth Earl, being a man of reputation for parts and learning, came to be in great favour with King Cliarles IF. toward the end of his reign. He was first made justice ge- neral, and then, October lOlh, l6S0, promoted to be sole Secre- lari/ of State upon the dimission of the Duke of Lauderdale. ' He continued sole secretary till l682, when the Earl of Mid- dlcton, and thereafter the Lord Melfort, were joined in commis- sion with him.
When King Jame^ VIL came to the crown, his Majesty made the Earl again one of his principal secretaries, and appointed him lord high commissioner to the second session of the parliament \6Sd, and as a further mark of his special grace and favour, elected hiiB one of the Knights of the most noble order of the Thistle in 1687.
Tbe Earl continued secretary till the revolution, when King James went over to France ; he was then removed from all em- ployments, and thenceforth lived retiredly, enjoying the felicities of a private life, till he exchanged this mortal life with a state of immortality on November Ist, 170O, having had issue by Emilia, his wife, daughter of Sir William Balfour, of Pitcullo, lieutenant of the Tower of London in the reign of King Charles L first, James ; second, Charles ; third, John, died s. p. 5 fourth, Francis. Ja.mes, Lore/ Doit'w, who married Catherine, daughter of Sir
g Balfour's Annals. Charts in Pub Aixh. ad annum 1653. i Ibid.
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Lionel Talmasli, and of Elizabeth Duchess of Lauderdale, died before his father, leaving two daughters behind him ; Elizabeth, married to Brigadier Alexander Grant, of that ilk; and Emilia,
tirst to Frazer, of Strichen 5 and again to John Earl of
Crawfurd.
Sir Charles Stewart, Bait, the second son, succeeded his father in the honour, and was seventh Earl of Murray. He mar- ried the Lady Anne Campbell, daughter of Archibald Earl of Argyle, widow of Richard Earl of Lauderdale j but died without issue, 1735.
Francis Stewart, ybzfri/i son, succeeded as eighth Earl, and married, first, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Murray, of Drum- cairn, by whom he had no issue that came to any maturity ; se- condly, Jean, daughter of John Lord Balmeriuo, by whom he had.
First, James.
Second, John, re;jresented the boroughs of Crail, Anstruther, 8cc. in parliament, 171I. afid was colonel of a regiment in the service of the States General.
Third, Francis, a colonel in the army, died in Germany ; mar- ried Lady Helen Montgomery, daughter of the Earl of Eglington,
Fourth, Archibald, captain in the navy.
Fifth, Henry, ^ major of a regiment of dragoons.
Sixth, Lady Anne, married John Stewart, of Blairhall, Esq.
Seventh, Lady Emilia, married colonel Sir Peter Halket, of Pit.farren, Bart, who was killed in America, July 9th, 1/55.
His Lordship dying in l/Sp, was succeeded by his eldest son,
James, the nintk Earl, who married Grace, Countess Dowager, and widow of John Gordon, third Earl of Aboyne, daughter of George Lockhart, Esq. by whom he had
Francis, the late Earl.
And a daughter, Eupheme.
He married, secondly, Margaret, daughter of David, Earl of Wemyss, by whom, who died 177\)> i^^ ii'id two sons;
Second, James.
Third, David, wlio died June I'ith, 1/84; and his Lordsliip deceasing on July 5th, 1767, was succeeded by his son,
Francis, the tenth Earl of Murray , and first Lord Stuart OF Castli; SiUAirr.
In 178-i and 1/90, his Lordship vv'as elected one of the sixteen
k One of tliese brothers wa^ father of Mrs Obierne, wifeofDr Obienie; Siow Pjiih'jp of M^.ith.
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peers of Scotland ; and on June 4th, 1 7q6, was created an English peer by the title of Lord Stuakt of Castle Stuart.
His Lordship married, in June 1/63, Jane, eldest daughter of John, Lord Gray; by whom, who died in l/SO, he had issue five sons and four daughters, viz.
First, James, Lord Doune, died June 11th, 177(3.
Second, John, Lord Doune, died July 6th, 1791 .
Third, Francis, the present peer.
Fourth, Archibald, married, March 4th, 1797, Cornelia, daughter of Edmund Pleydell, Esq.
Fifth, Charles.
Sixth, Margaret, who died September, 1 788.
Seventh, Grace, married, July 1 0th, 1789, George Douglas, Esq. of Cavers, and had a son, born October 10th, 1790 ; and a daughter, born October 2d^ I7g3.
Eighth, Jane ; and, ninth, Anne.
His Lordship having been returned in several parliaments as one of the sixteen Peers of Scotland, was elevated to the British Peerage on June 4th, 1796, by the title of Barox Stuakt, of Castle Sluart ; nnd dying Augu.-.t 'iSth, 1810, was succeeded by his eldest surviving son,
Francis, eleventh Earl of Mormj, and second Lord Stuakt of Castle- Stuart
His Lordship married, first, January 26th, 179^, Miss Scott, daughter of Major-General Scoti, and she dying August 3d, 1798, he married, secondly, Margaret-Jane, daughter of Sir Philip Ainslie, of Pilton.
His Lordship has issue by both these marriages.
Titles. Francis Stuart. E:^r] of Moray, Lord Downe, in Scot- land; and Lord Stuart of Castle Stuart, in Great Britain.
Creations. Earl of Moray, Feb 10th, 1562; Lord Downe, 1581, in Great Britain; and Lord Stuart of Castle-Stuart, June
4th, 1796.
Jrms. Quarterly, first and fourth, or, a lion rampant within a double tressure, within a bordure compone, argent and azure; second, or, a fc-s cheeky, argent and azure; and third, or, three escutcheons pendant, within a double tressure, gules.
Crest. On a wreath, a pelican in her nest feeding her young.
Supporters. Two gnyhounds, proper.
Motto. Salus per Christum redemptokem.
Chief Seat. Dunbrisel castle, Fifeshire. ^ ,
vol. viir. 2 E
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STEWART, LORD STEWART OF GARLIES.
{EARL OF GALLOWAY IN SCOTLAND.;
Great disputes have arisen as to the exact station in the pedigree of the royal house of Stewart, which the Earl of Galloway is en- titled to hold by the male line.
These points have been ably elucidated, (and many will think settled) by the late celebrated Andrew Stuart, in his Genealogical History of the Stewcrrts, 179^, 4to. ^
Not only does Lord Galloway claim to be the descendant, but the representative of the Castelmi/khranch ; both which Mr. A. Stuart denies ; but. the particular position of that branch has been mistaken by Crauford, Sympson, Douglas^^ and others. It seems clear that the heir male of the Castelrailk branch, (if any such exists since Andrew Stuart's death) is the male representa- tive of the house of Stewart, as the next (if not only) collateral heir of the house of Darnley.
a •' A Genealogical History of the Stewarts from the earliest period of their authentic History to the present Times. Containing a particular account of the origin and successive generations of the Stuarts of Darnley, Lennox, and Aubigny; and of the Stuarts of Castelmilk ; with Proofs and References; an Appendix of Relative Papers; and a Supplement, containing copies of various Dispensations found in the Vatican at Rome, in the course of a search made by the Author in the year 17S9; particularly copies oftwo vtry interest- ing Dispensations which had long been sought for in vain, relative to Robert the Steward of Scotland (King Robert II.] his much contested marriages with Elizabeth More, and Eupheme Ross To which is prefixed a Genealogical Table relative to the History. By Andrew Stuart, Esq. M. P. London, 1798, 4to."
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Alexander, High Steward oi Scotland, who died 1283, aet. sixty-nine, left issue a daughter, Elizabeth, married to Wil- liam Lord Douglas, surnamed the Hardy j and two sons.
First, James, the High Steward, who died \:'>0Q, father (by Cecilia, daughter of Patrick Earl of Dunbar) of Walter, the High SteivarJ, who in 1315, married Marjory, daughter of King Robert Bruce, and died Acril C)ih, 1326, leaving by her Robert, the Steward, afterwards King of Scotland, to which throne he ascended in 13/1. He died 139O, father of King Robert IIL lather of King James L
Second, Sir John Stewart, of Botikyll, (second son of Alex- ander the High Stevvard) born in 124(3, married Margaret, daughter of bir John Bonkyll, of that ilk, by whom he had several sons, heads of great families of the name of Stewart ; known by their arms oi \htifess cheeky, lend,and buckles ; the figures which Sir John Stewart carried in right of his wife ; viz. Or, afess cheeky azure and argent, charged ic'ith three luckies of the first for Bonkyll.
\n the battle of Falkirk, fought July 22d, 129S, Sir John Stewart, while giving orders to his archers, was thrown from his horse and slain ; and his archers crowding round his body, perished with him. '^
The only daughter of the marriage between Sir John Stewart and the heiress of Bonkyll was Isabel, who married the celebrated Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray, nephew of King Robert Bruce ; and with that Lady he got from Sir John Stewart the lands of Garlics, which wt^re afterwards given by John, the son and heir of Thomas Earl of Moray, to Sir Walter Stewart, of Dalswinton, his uncle, as appears by an original charter in the possession of the Earl of Galloway.
Though authors are in general agreed that there were many sons of the marriage between Sir John Stewart, of Bonkyll, and his wife Margaret, yet they are not agreed as to the precise number (or indeed order) of those sons.
Syinson, in his History of the Stewarts, published in 1712 gives the following account of the sons of Sir John Stewart, of Bonkyll.
" First son. Sir Alexander Stewart, of Bonkyll, father to John Earl of Angus, of the race of Stewart.
^ Sec Dahymp'ic's Annals, p 260; and Hemingford's account, torn i. f. 165.
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" Second son, Sir Alan Stewart, of whom the Lords of Derne- \cy. Earls and Dnkes of Lennox, and their several cadets.
" Third son, Sir Walter Stewart, to whom King Robert Bruce gave a charter of the Barony of Dalswinton, as did Thomas Ranulph Earl of Moray give another of the Barony of Garlies j from whom the Earl of GalloA'ay by an heiress.
" Fourth son. Sir James Stewart, ancestor to Innermeath and Craighall 5 and fr im Innermeath, Lorn, Durisdeu or Rossyth ; from Lorn or LinermeUh, the Earls of Atlioll and Biicl)an ; the Stewarts of Gairntully, Kinnaird, and Alpin, and Innerduning. From the Earl of Buchan is the Earl of Traqnair, &c.
" Fifth son. Sir John Stewart, of whose issue I have disco- veied nothing from charters.
" Sixth and seventh sons. Sir Hugh and Sir Robert, men- tioned by HoUinshed in his Chronicle of Ireland, anno J 31 8, whose existence I am not to detVnd "
Duncan Stewart, in his History of the Stewarts published in 17395 p- I 19. says that Sir John Steward, of Bonkill, brother of James the High Steward, had by his wife Margaret, seven sons and a daughter, viz.
" First, Sir Alexander, of Bonkyl!, of whom xA.ngus. / " Second, Sir Alan, of Dreghorn, of whom Lennox,
" Third, Sir Walter, of Dalswinton, of whom Galloway.
"Fourth, Sir James, of Preston and Warwick-hill, of whom Lorn.
" Fifth, Sir John l^illed with h'.s two brothers Alan and James, at Halidon-hill in 1333, and supposed to be predecessor to Castel- milk. ^
" Sixth, Hugh ; and, seventh, Robert." ^
Sir Alan* Stewart, the second son, was born towards the end of the thirteentli century 3 served in the wars of King Robert Bruce, to whose interests he was much and uniformly attached ; received from King Robert a grant of the lands of Dregern, or Dreghorn, in the shire of Air 5 and from Robert, the Steward of Scotland, a permission to purchase the lands of Cruickisfee, or
c It will piesently appear th.it tl'.e Cnstelmilk brnnch was descended from Sir William, younger son of Sir Alexander, grandson of Sir Alan of Dreghorn-
tl Douglas in liis peerage nearly agrees with this; except by transposing in one place the seniority of Sir James, and Sir John. This Sir John was pro- bably the leai ancestor of the house of Galloway
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Croicksfon, in Renfrewshire, held of the Stewart, being the first possession acquired by the Steivarts of DerneUy in that county.
In tiie expedition to Ireland in 1315^ Sir J Ian Stewart having accompanied Edward Bruce tlie brothi^r of King Robert^ and Tho- mas Randolph Earl of Moray, who was brother-in law of Sir Alan Stewart, had his share in the military exploits of that king- dom. He is particularly mentioned in John Barbour's History of the Irish Expedition, p. 3(X), in the chapter intitlcd " Earl Thomas (Randolp) his Enter prize against the Victuallers J'roju Conyers," in the following lines :
" And when Earl Thomas perceiving Had of tiieir coming and ganging. He got him a great company, Three hundred horsemen wight and hardy j There was Philip de Moubray, And Sir John Stewart also persay. And Sir John Stewart alsoj Sir Robert Boyd and others moe."
Holinshead, having mentioned that " in ]315, Edward Bruce entered the north part of Ireland with 60C0 men ;" says that " on December 5th, 13 '6', Sir Alan Steward, that had been taken pri- soi:er in Ulster by John Logan and Sir John Sandell, was brought to ihe castle of Dublin j" and that " in 1318; Loid John Bir- mingham, general of the field on the part of the English, led forth the King of England's power, being 1324 able men, against Edward Bruce, who being accompanied with the Lord Philip Moubray, Lord Walter de Soules, the Lord Alane Stewarde with his three brethren ; Sir Walter and Sir Plugh, Sir Robert and Sir Amery Laceys and others, was encamped not past two miles from Dundalk with 3000 men then abiding the Englishmen to fight with them if they came forward ; which they did with all convenient speed, being as desirous to give battle as the Scots were to receive it."
Sir Alan was killed at the battle of Halidon-hill, July Ipth, 1333, leaving three sons.
First, Sir John.
Second, Sir Walter.
Third, Sir Alexander, who on the ftilure of his two elder brothers without issue male, afterwards succeeded to all the estates which had belonged to their fither Sir Alan.
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Fourth, Elizabeth, married to Sir John de Hamilton, second son to Sir Walter de Hamilton.
Sir John Stewart, of Darnley, or Cruickiston, eldest son, died before January 15th, 1360, leaving a son, Egbert, who died without issue before 13/1.
Sir ALEX.A.NDER, third son (Sir Walter, the intermediate brother, being dead) succeeded finally at Darneley ; and had a letter of safe conduct granted by King Edward III. of England, August 26th, 1374. e He left issue
Sir Alexander Stewart, of Darnley, who died before 1400, having married Janet, or Johanna, Keith, widow of Ha- milton, and daughter of Sir William Keith, of Galstoun^ by whom he had five sons, and a daughter j viz.
First, Sir John,
Second, William, who engaged with his brother John in the wars of France, and was killed in the same battle with him at the siege of Orleans ; ancestor to the Stuarts o/Castelmilk j and whom Lord Galloway also claims for his ancestor.
Third, Alexander, sometimes designed of Torbane, and some- times of Galstoun.
Fourth, Robert, to whom his father, Sir Alexander, gave the lands of Newton of Westoun in the shire of Lanark ; ancestor to the Stewarts of Barscube, whose male line has failed.
Fifth, James, who is mentioned in a grant of lands as son of Sir Alexander.
Sixth, Janet, married, 13^1, Thomas de Sommervill, of Carn- wath.
Sir John Stewart, of Darneley, eldest son, married Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of Duncan, sixth Earl of Lennox. He went to France in 1420, to the assistance of Charles VII. then Dauphin of France, when succours were sent from Scotland to that op- pressed young Prince. To Sir John Stewart the honour and trust of constable of the Scots army was committed ; and in the cele- brated victory of Bauge in Anjou, Sir John had a principal share. For these services he obtained a grant of the lands *■ of Aubigny, in the province of Berry, March 22d, 1422
Almost all the French historians mention the presence of Sir John Stcart the constable of the French army, and of his brother William Stuart, and the exertions made by them during the siege
e Rymer's Feed. vol. vii. p. 45. f From this period this branch spelt their names Stuart. ■ .
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of Orleans; in which service he and his brother William both lost their lives in the same battle, in February 1428-9.
By the heiress of Lennox, Sir John Stuart had issue^
First, Sir Alan.
Second, Alexander, who died without male issue.
Third, John, who had an only son, Bernard. 8
Sir Alan, eldest son, was treacherously slain at Linlithgow, by Sir Thomas Boyd, of Kilmarnock, in i-i'M). He married Catherine, daughter of Sir William Seton, of Seton, and had two sons.
First, John, Lord Darnley.
Second, Alexander Stuart, of Galston.
John, eldest son, was created a Lo7-d of Parliament about 1401, by the title oi Lord Darnley; and created Earl of Lennox about 1488. He died after July 8th, 1403, having married Mar- garet, daughter of Alexander Lord Montgomery. By her he had issue.
First, Matthew, his successor.
Second, Robert, Lord D'Aubigny.
Third, William, captain of the Scotch gens d'armes in France.
Fourth, John Stuart, of Glanderston.
And it is supposed two more sons, Alexander and Alan.
The daughters were.
First, Elizabeth, married to Archibald Earl of Argyle.
Second, Marion, married to Robert Lord Crichton, of San- quliar, ancestor to the Earls of Dumfries.
Third, , married to Sir Murray, of Tulli-
bardin.
Fourth, Janet, married to Ninian Lord Ross.
Fifth, , married to Sir John Colquhoun, of Luss.
Matthew, eldest son, second Earl of Lennox, was slain at the battle of Flodden-field, September 9th, 1513. He married Eliza- beth Hamilton, daughter of James Earl of Arran, by Lady Mary Stuart, sister of King James IIL By her he had issue.
First, William, Master of Lennox, who married Lady Mar- garet Graham, daughter of William Earl of Montrose, but died without issue.
Second, John, his heir.
? Celebrated by Sir John Beaumont in his Battle of Boiworth.
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Third, Margaret, married to John Lord Fleming j and after to Alexander Douglas, of Mains.
Fourth, Elizabeth, manied to Sir Hugh Campbell, of Lou- doun, ancestor to the Countess of Loudoun.
Fifth, Agnes, wife of William Edmondston, of Duntreath, and had issue.
Which John, third Earl of Lennox, was appointed one of the lords of the regency by King James V. anno 1524; but the Earl of Angus taking upon himself the whole administration, and detain- ing the young King upon the matter a prisoner, this Earl with divers others of the nobility endeavouring his Majesty's enlarge- ment, was slain in the attempt by Sir James Hamilton, at a con- flict near Linlithgow bridge, on September 4th, 152(5. '^ By Anne, his wife, daughter of John Steuart, Earl of Athol, he had.
First, Matthew, the next Earl.
Second, Robert, Bishop of Caithness, thereafter Earl of Lennox.
Third, John, Lord d'Aubigny, who was captain of the Scots gens d' arms, and governor of Avignon, of whom descended the Dukes of Lennox.
Likewise a daughter, Helen, married first to Andrew, Earl of Errol, and thereafter to John, Earl of Sutherland.
Matthew, yoMr/A Earl of Lennox, like other great men of that age, betook himself to arms, and served the crov/n oi France in the wars of Italy, where his gallant behaviour procured him a very great name and reputation. He was always in very high esteem with his own prince. King James V. for his father's, sake, after whose death he was sent over from France, to prevent any detriment to that crown by the minority of the young Queen ; but being a frank and open-hearted person, he fell into the snare laid by Cardinal Beaton, Bishop of St. Andrews, for him, and in a little time lost the French King's favour ; and when it was come to that pass, that he could neither stay at home, nor return to France with safety, he went into England anno 1543, and put himself under the protectiou of Henry Vlli. who generously re- ceived him into his favour, and gave him his neice. Lady Mar- garet Douglas, in marriage, and an estate in England, to the value of seventeen hundred merks sterling per annum, as an equivalent for his own fortune, which was forfeited in Scotland ; and this
l< Memoirs of the affairs o,f Scotland .MS. penes mc Crat/fuiJ.
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agreement the Earl made with that Prince, that he should deliver into his hands the castle of Dumbartoun, with the isle of Bute, and the castle of Rothesay, ' which though the Earl resolutely undertook, yet the success did not answer. He lived at the court of England till 1563, Avhen he was called home by Queen Mary, and his forfeiture repealed by act of parliament, after he had been banished from his country for twenty years.
His son Henry, Lord Darnlcy, soon followed him ; and being a young nobleman of illustrious birth, extremely handsome, and of a temper as well mixed as his outward proportions. Queen Mary at first sight became so enamoured of hia:i, that neither the menaces of Queen Elizabeth, nor any other considerations, could deter her from marrying him, when, to render him the fitter match for her, she raised him to the dignity oi' Duke of AHany. After this, when he had not been above five months in Scotland, and did not exceed his nineteenth year, she married him, and with the consent of most of the peers declared him King, of which happy marriage, upon June Itjth, 1566, to the perpetual advantage of all Britain, her Majesty was delivered of a son. King James VI. first monarch of Great Britain.
But though the Queen's love to the Lord Darnley at first had been very warm, yet it began soon afterwards as much to cool towards him, the unkindness between them being chieflv fomented by one David Rizio an Italian, her secretary for the French tongue, which indignity the King revenged, by entering into the cabal with those who contrived and murdered the poor old man, with circumstances that were not at all allowable; and it is pro- bable, that it was in resentment of Rizio's death, that the Earl of Bothwel and others, oflSciously, as thinking it might gratify the Queen, most inhumanly murdered this lovely Prince, in his own lodgings as he lay abed, on February gth, 156/; though Both- wel, who was the murderer, did maintain the Queen's innocency to his last moments : and I think there was no other ground for believing the Queen to be concerned in that foul action, but her imprudent marrying that profligate person so soon thereafter, who, by common fame, was reputed to be the murderer of her hus- band.
Upon the death of King Henry, the Earl of Lennox, his father, prosecuted the Earl of Bothwel as the regicide ; but that Earl's interest at court so overruled the jury, that he was formally nc-
' Rymei's Foedera Angliae.
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quitted of all suspicion as well as action in the murder, which Lennox was forced to acquiesce in, and from that time forth he lived in retirement till the d^-ath of the Earl of Murray the regent, that he was unanimously chosen Regent to the young King, James VI. his grandson 5 which great trust he executed for thirteen months, till he was murdered by a party of the Queen's friends, on September 4th, 1571. '^ He was interred in the chapel within the castle of Stirling, with this inscription on his tomb :
Lo here a Prince and Potentate,
Whose Life to understand Was good, he Just and Fortunate,
Though from his Native Land His Enemies Thrice did him out-thring, ' '•
He Thrice return'd again ; Was lawful Tutor to the King,
And Regent did remain. . '
While he with Rigor Rebels rackt.
They wrought his fatal End. Lo this Respects the Death, no Might, ■ When God permits the Time :
Yet shall the Vengeance on them light ,
That wrought this cursed crime.
George Buchanan, his very humble servant, who had a great attachment to his Lordship and his family, has left us the follow- ing epitaph on the Regent, in a more polite strain :
Regis avus. Regis Pater, alto e sanguine Regum
Imperio quorum terra Britanna subest, Matthffius : genuit Levinia, Gallia fovit,
Pulso Anglus thalamum, remque decusque dedit. Coepi invicta manu, famam virtute refelli,
Arma armis vici, consilioque dolos. Gratns in ingratos, patriam justeque pieque
Cum regerem, hostili perfidia cecidi. Care nepos, spes una domus, meliore scnectarR
Attingas fato, caetera dignus avo.
To Matthew Earl of Lennox, succeeded k Buckanan's History.
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Charles, his second sou, fifth Earl of Lennox. He took to wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Cavendish, sister to the Earl of Devonshire, by whom he had one daughter.
Lady Arabella Stuart, who was married to William Marquis of Hartford, but had no issue.
He died a young man at Loivdon, anno 15/6, where he was interred with this inscription over his grave :
Hie situs est '
Carolus Comes Lcnnoxiae qui duxit filiam Wil- lielmi Cavendish Militis, ex qua cum Arabellam unicam filiam suscepisset, diem obiit anno aetatis suae 21, et Salutis humanse 1576.
To Charles Earl of Lennox succeeded Robert, bishop of Caithness, his uncle, sixth Earl. This noble person being at first a younger brother, applied himself to learning, and devoting him- self to the service of the church, entered young into orders. He was elected bishop of Caithness, anno 1542}' but taking part with his brother, the Earl of Lennox, against the Earl of Arran, the governor, he was forfeited, and lived mostly in exile, till, in J563, he returned to his native country, and concurred in reforming the church from the errorff Sf popery, though not as a bishop, and turned protestant himself. He did not long retain the title of Earl of Lennox, but voluntarily resigned it in favour of Esme, Lord d' Aubigny, his great nephew ; and in lieu thereof had the style and title of Ear/ of March conferred on him by Kino- James VL his nephew, together with the priory of St. Andrew's, which he enjoyed till death took him away on August 2gth, 1586,™ leaving no other issue than a natural daughter, Margaret, married to Robert Algoe, of Easter Walkingshaw.
When Robert, Earl of Lennox, resigned the Earldom, as before mentioned, his Majest}', King James VI. erected it into a Duchy in favour of
EsME, Lord d' Aubigny, his cousin, son and heir of John Lord d'Aubigny, brother of Matthew Earl of Lennox, who became sevnith Earl, and coming over from France anno 15/9, ^I's Ma- jesty, King James, embraced his Lordship with singular kindness, admitted him into his inwardest councils, and made him Duke of Lennox, and lord high chamberlain of Scotland^ anno 1 5bO. This
1 Rymer's Foedera Angliae. ai Spotiswood's Church History.
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extraordinary favour of his with the King, procured him envy from many who secretly muttered that he being a man most de- voted to the Rosnibh religion, was sent from France to subvert the true religion 5 and that which increased the suspicion the more, was, that he applied himself, and gave countenance to those who were most in the interest of the King's mother; so that William Eiirl <)f Cowrie, and others, employed all their wits to remove him from the King, and thus they went to work.
The Dake having gone from Pertii, where the King then lay, to Edinburgh, to exercise his jurisdiction as chamberlain, Gowrie and others taking the opportunity when he was out of the way, invited the King to Iluthven castle, Gowrie's own house, and there detained him against his will ; all his most faithful servants they removed from him, constrained him to call home the Earl of Ancrus and others from banishment, and to send Lennox back again to France. The Duke being a man of a very mild spirit, did for the public quiet's sake, and at the King's seeming persua- sion (which they had forced him to use with him), return to France, where, he soon after contracting sickness, died at Paris, May '20th, 1583 : and at the point of death openly professed, as he had done before, the protestant religion, confuting thereby the malice of those who had falsely defamed him to be a papist. He married Catherine, daughter of Willildii Seigneur d' Antraguci by whom he had.
First, Lodovick, Duke of Lennox.
Second, Esme, Lord d' Aubigny.
Thiid, Lady Henrietta, married to George, first Marquis of Huntley, of whom his Grace the Duke pf Cordon is descended.
Fourth, Lady Mary, second wife to John Earl of Mar, lord high treasurer of Scotland in the reign of King James VL of which illustrious marriage the lineal heir is David Earl of Buchan
No sooner was the Duke of Lennox dead, but King James called over from France
Lodovick, his son, second Duke, and in grateful remembrance to the memory and merit of his father, gave him both the estate and offices that had belonged to his ancestors, taking care like- wise to have him educated according to his noble birth and for- tune, and by degrees advanced him to honour and preferments, as he grev/ in years. He was both high chamberlain and admiral of Scotland when his Majesty sent him ambassador to France, anno l601 ; in which negotiation he behaved very well, and to his Majesty's satisfaction. Upon the King's accession to the crown
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of England, his Grace accompanied his Majesty into that realm, where he was likewise made a peer, first by the title of Earl of Newcastle, and thereafter raised to the honour of Duke or Richmond, being likewise master of the household, first gentle- man of the bed-chamber, and knight of the most noble order of the Garter. He married, first, Sophia, (laughter of William Earl ofGowrie; next, Jane, daughter of S'r Matthew Campbel, of Lovvdou; and last of all, Frances, djugliter of Thomas, Viscount of Bindon of tiie kingdom of England, and dying v\ithout issue, February 11th, l623, was interred at Westminster, where a stately tomb was trcctcJ to his memory with this epitaph upon it :
Depositum illustri,'.-iiui et excellentissimi Principis Ludovici Stuarli Esmei Leviniae Ducis filii, Joannis Propatrui serenissimi Regis Jacobi Nepotis, Richmondiae et Levinia; Ducis, Novi Cas- telli ad Tinam, et Darnliee Comitis, ike. Magni Scotiae Camerarii et Thalassiarche Haereditarii, sacri Palatii Jacobi Regis Senescalli, Cubiculariorumque Principalium primi, Regi a sanclioribus Con- ciiiis, sanct. Georgiani ordinis equ. Scoticorumque per Gallias Cataphractorum Praeferii, viri cxcelsi ad omnia magna et bona nati, ad meliora defuncli : vixit annos^jp, menses 4, dies 1/.
To Ludovick, Duke of Lennox, succeeded
EsME, Loi'd d' Aiibigiiy, third Dulie of Lennox, and second Duke of Richmond He had been created Earl of March, June l/th, 1(320, and enjoyed the honour but a siiort time, his death happening on February 14th, 1024, leaving Issue by Cathe- rine, his wife, daughter and sole heir of Gervase, Lord Clifton of Leighton Bromswold, in England.
. First, James, his successor in the honour.
Second, George, Lord d'Aulii^ny, who lost his life in the . King's service at the battle of Keinton, October 23d, 1(542, leaving is>ae by Frances, his wife, daughter of Theophilus Earl of Suffolk, Charles, his son, who was honoured by King Charles I. with the title of Earl of Lichfied, upon the demise of Bernard Earl of Lichfield, his uncle j and a daughter Catherine, married to Henry Lord O'Brian, son and heir of Henry Earl of Thomond, of the kingdom of L-eland, by whom he had one daughter, Cathe- rine, married to Edxvard Earl of Clarendon : from whom is de- scended the present Ear] of Darnffi/, who thence inherits tlie
BaHONY or CLIFTON.
I'hird, B'Tjiard, v.-lio had th" command of" the King's troop of •
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guards in the time of the civil war, and was slain fighting bravely at the battle of Chester, l645, whom the Earl of Clarendon cha- racterises thus; " He was," says he, " a very faultless young man, of a most gentle, courteous, and affable nature, and of a spirit and courage invincible ; whose loss," continues he, " all men exceedingly lamented, and the King bore it with extraor- dinary grief."
Fourth, Lord John Stuart, who was general of the horse in the King's service in the time of the civil war, being the third brother of this illustrious family that sacrificed their lives in this quarrel ; for he was killed at the battle of Alresford, little more than twenty-one years of age ; whose courage was so signal that day, that too much, says an historian of that time, could not be expected from it if he had outlived it, and he was so generally beloved, that he could not but be very generally lamented.
Lady Elizabeth, his eldest daughter, was married to Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel.
Lady Anne, to Archibald Lord Angus, son and heir to Wil- liam, first Marquis of Douglas,
Lady Frances, to Jerome Weston, Earl of Portland.
James, fourth Duke of Lennox, and third Duke of Rich- mond, as he was of the noblest extraction, so his Majesty, King Charles L took great care of his education, and sent him to France, Italy, and Spain, where he was created a Grandee of that king- dom ; " and as soon as he returned, though he was scarce twenty- one years of age, made him a privy-counsellor : and as he had many great offices by inheritance, so his Majesty, out of his abun- dant kindness to him, made him master of the household, lord warden of the cinque-ports, and knight of the most noble order of the Garter.
When the war began in l642, he adhered to the King's in- terest with signal fidelity and affection, and made so entire a re- signation of himself to his Majesty, that he abhorred all artifices to shelter himself from the prejudice of those, who, how powerful soever, failed in their duty to the King, and therefore he was pur- sued with all imaginable malice by tliem, as one that would have no quart-r ; and as he had received great bounties from the King, so he sacrificed all he had to his service, as soon as his occasions stood in need of it, and he lived with unspotted fidelity some years after the murder of his master, and was suftered by those that
n Clarendon's History.
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then governed to pay that last duty to him of putting him into his grave, and died without the comfort of seeing the restoration of the crown on March 30lh, \655." By Mary, daughter of George Duke of Buckingham, his wife, he had
EsME, fifth Duke of Lennox, and fourth Duke of Rich- mond, who succeeded him, and died in his minority, anno l66o ; and a daughter, Mary, married to Richard Butler, Earl of Arran, of the kingdom of Ireland.
To Esme, Duke of Lennox, succeeded
Charles Earl of Lichfield, his cousin-german, who thus became fifth Duke of Richmond.
Being sent ambassador extraordinary from King Charles IL to the crown of Denmark, his Grace died at Elseneur in that kingdom, December 21st, 1672,1^ leaving no issue by Frances, his wife, daughter of Walter Stuart, Esq. son of Walter Lord Blantyre, so that the honour of this princely family became ex- tinct, and his great foitune and hereditary offices came to King Charles IL as his nearest heir male, the King's greatgrandfather's father and the Duke's being two brothers.^
CASTELMILK BRANCH.
It has been already mentioned, that Sir John Stewart, of Derneley, son of Sir Alexander Stewart and Dame Janet Keith, lost his life at the siege of Orleans, 1428-9 > and that he was an- cestor of the Earls and Dukes of Lennox, It has been likewise shewn that he had a Irother,
o Dugdale's Baronage of England- p Ibid.
•1 But his Majesty considering with what lustre and glory the house of Lennox had shone in former times, and that while the dignity was in his Ma- jesty's own royal person, it was suppressed in the crown ; therefore, that the honour might be again revived, and his Majesty having bestowed the estate of Lennox upon the Lord Charles Lennox, one of his natural sons, whom he so surnamed by Lovisa de Querovale, Duchess of Portsmouth, was pleased to create him Duke of Lennox, Earl of Darneley, Lord Torboltoun, September 9th, ifiye, and to the heirs male lawfully descending of his body. * Likewise by other letter^ patent passed in England, August gth, 27 of King Charles II. he was created Baron of Settrington, Earl of March, and Duke of Richmond, and on April 20th, 1681, was installed Knight of the Garter.
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Sir William Stewart, who lost his life in the same battle. This William went to France with his brother, and during many years distinguished himself in military exploits. See the circum- stances of the death of these brothers related in a very interest- ing manner in "" Aurelice Urbis AngUcana Obsidio Autore Joanne Lodocie Micquello,'' \5Q0, 1631, as extracted by Andrew Stuart, p. 154, 155;, 156, 157.
Sir William Stewart, of Castelniilke, is mentioned in Rymer's Foedera in \3g3, as one of the sureties given on the part of Scot- land for the preservation of the peace of the western marches be- tween England and Scotland.
Andrew Stuart has endeavoured, in a large mass of satisfac- factory circumstantial evidence, to shew the identity of this last mentioned Sir William Stewart with Sir William Stewart, the brother of Sir John of Derneley, who was slain at Orleans. The detail of his facts and arguments is too long to be inserted here : and therefore whoever is curious about it, must reff;r to the book itself. I her^ assume the fact of the identity, because the proofs are satisfactory to my own mind.
Sir William Stuart, of Caste! milk, let't four sons.
Firt, David Stuart, of Castelmilk and Tunnart, living 1446; who died before ]464, leaving a son Alexander, v/ho was also dead, before that year, without male issue.
Second, Archibald, who succeeded his nephew in the Castel- milk estate. He left a son, William, who was in possession of the Castelmilk estate before 1467, and died before 14/0, leaving a daughter, Elizabeth, who married Robert de Carrutbers.
Third, MattheW; of whom presently.
Fourth, Walter, of Arshurley, who in a charter from the crown in 1439, i'' described son of the deceased Sir William Stuart, of Castelmilk, Knight.
Matthew Stuart, tJdrd son, succeeded his nephew William in the Castelmilk estate. He died 14/4, leaving two sons, Wil- liam and John.
William Stuart, of Castelmilk, continued possessed of that estate till his death in 1495. He left two sons, Alexander, and John ; and a daughter. Morion, who married Alan Stuart, a younger sm of John Earl of Lennox.
Alexander Stuart, of Castelmilk, eldest son, was alive in 1512; and is supposed to have died about 1523, or 1524, He left two sons, Archibald and James.
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Archibald Stuart, of Castelmilk, eldest son, was alive in 1541 ; but died before July, 1543. He had a son and heir,
Archibald Stuarf, the younger, of Castelmilk, who died before his father, having married Margaret Maxwell; and leaving issue.
First, David, ofivhoin presently.
Second, Alexander, of Craigs, tutor of Castelmilk, who left three daughters, his coheiresses.
Third, John, rector of the college of Glasgow from 1545 to 1550, who died without issue.
David Stuart, of Castelmilk, eldest son, appears to have died either in 1550, or early in 155/. He left two sons, Alan, and Archibald.
First, Alan Stuart, eldest son, succeeded his father 3 but died without issue in 1557.
Second, Archibald Stuart, of Castelmilk, who died in l6l2, having married Janet Stuart, daughter of Sir John Stuart, of Minto, and sister of Walter, first Lord Blantyre: she died l6l3. They had issue one son, Archibald, and four daughters ; Mar- garet, married first to John Stuart, of Blackball and Ardgowan ; and secondly, to Matthew Wallace, of Garscadden : Elizabeth, wife of Alexander Cunningham, of Craig-ends ; Johanna, married to John Wallace, of Cairnhill; and Mary, married to Nichol Cornwall, of Bonhard.
Sir Archibald Stuart, of Castelmilk, only son, died July 12th, 1660, having married Anne Semple, daughter of Robert Lord Semple. She died in December, lO'Sl. By her he had.
First, Archibald, of whom presently.
Serond, James Smart, of Torrniice, of whom afterwards, as ancestor to the late Andrew Stuart.
Third, Janet, married to John Hamilton, of Udston, Esq.
Archibald Stuart, ehh-st son, died before his father in May 1643, having married, in 1034, Lady Mary Fleming, daughter of John, Earl of Wigtoun ; by whom he left one son, Archibald ; and one daughter, Anne, married to John Ciawfurd, eldest son of John Crawfurd, of Crawfurdland, Esq
Sir Archibald Stuart, of Castelmilk, only son, succeeded his grandfather, and was created a Baronet of Nova Scotia, February 29th, 1668. He died in 168I, leaving four sons, and two daughters.
First, Sir William.
Second, Archibald, died unmarried.
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Third, Daniel, married the eldest daughter of Sir George Wi-h:irt, Bart, and left two sons; George, who died unmarried j and Sir William, who having succeeded to Sir Geori^e Wishart's Baronetage, died at Paris without issue. Daniel had also two danghters ; of whom Delce, the youngest, died unmarried ; and Mary married John Belsches, Esq. of Invermay, who had by her a daughter, Amilia, who married Dr. William Belsches^ who was father by her of Sir John Belsches, Bart.
Fourth, James Stuart, died unmarried.
Sir William Stuart, second Baronet, (eldest son) died in November, 1715, having married Margaret, daughter and sole heiress of John Crawford, of Miltou, Esq. by whom he had two sons, Archibald and John; and a daughter, Margaret, married to John Belsches, of Invermay, Esq. by whom she had John Belsches, of Inverniay, Esq.
Sir Archibald Stuart, eldest son, third Baronet, died January 5th, 1/63, having married Frances, daughter of James Stirling, of Keir, Esq. by whom he left an only daughter and heir, Anne, married to her cousin. Sir John Stuart, of Castelmilk, Bart.
Sir John Stuart, succeeded his brother -a^ fourth Baronet. He married Helen, daughter of John Orr, Esq. of Barrowfield, and died April 1st, 1/81, leaving three sons, and three daughters.
First, Sir John, his successor.
Second, William Stuart Crawfurd, who died November 24th, 1783, unmarried.
Third, Francis Stuart Crawfurd, who died January llth, 1793. unmarried.
Fourth, Helen, died November, 1787, unmarried.
Fifth, Margaret, married to Colin Rae, Esq. of Little Gowan, and on the death of her brother Francis, succeeded to the estate at Miltoii, and took the name of Crawfurd.
Sixth, Jane, married William Stirling, of Keir, Esq.
Sir John Stuart, eldest son, Jifth Baronet, married his cousin Anne, only daughter of his uncle. Sir Archibald, and died Ja- nuary ISth, 1/97^ without issue: by which the title expired.
We now return to
James Stuart, of Torrance, already mentioned, second so?i of Sir Archibald Stuart, of Castelmilk, who died \QQO, ly his wife, Anne Semple. This James married a daughter of Sir Alexander Cunningham, of Corsehill, Bart, and died in lO'yO, aged seventy- six, leaving one son.
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Alexander Stuart, of Torrance, who married Isabel, eldest daught.-r of -ir Patrick Nisbet, of Dean, B.ut. He died in 1/33, having had issue by her seven sons, and three daughters 5 viz. Agnes, married to Matthew Crawford, merchant in Glasgow j Margaret, married to Alexander Inglis Hamilton, Esq. ; and Christian, married to Sir "William Maxwell, of Calderwood, Bart.
Of the seven sons, only three survived their father; viz.
First, James Stuart, of Torrance, lieutenant-colonel of the third regiment of foot-guards ; and one of the gentlemen ushers of King George I.: died unmarried in 17-18.
Second, Patrick Stuart, of Torrance, captain in the royal regiment of foot; and sometime member of parlianient for the county of Lanark; died unmarried in 176O.
Third, Archibald Stuart, of Torrance, married Elizabeth, daughtgr of Sir Andrew Myreton, of Gorgar, Bart, and died in November 1707> leaving three sons, asiJ tliit^e daughters; viz. Janet, married to Thomas Earl of Dundonald; Isabel, married to Sir Robert Henderson, of Fordel, Bart. ; and Elizabeth, married to William Binning, of Pilmuir, advocate. Tlie sons were.
First, Alexander Stuart, of Torrance, eldest son, married Elizabeth Nisbet, daughter of John Nisbet, of Northtield, Esq. and died March 23d, 179^, without issue.
Second, Andrew Stuart, of Torrance, heir to his brother ; many years represented in parliament the county of Lanark, and afterwards for the borough of Weymouth. He was author of the Genealogical History of the Steivarts, 179S, here abridged; and celebrated for the part he took in the Douglas cause ; and his Letters to Lord Mansfeld. On the death of his cousin, Sir John Stuart, of Castelmilk, 1797> he claimed to be, in right of the above descent, the representative and heir male of the Derneley and Lennox families, after the death of Cardinal York. He mar- ried Margaret Stirling, daughterof Sir William Stirling, of Ardoch, Bart, but died without issue. May lOth, ISOl ; and his widow remarried the late Sir William Pulleney, Bart.
Third, James Stuart, major-general, and colonel of the thirl j-- first regiment of foot, married Lady Margaret Hume, daughter of Hugh, .Earl of Marchmont j died February 2d, 1793^ without issue.
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GALLOWAY BRANCH.
About two years before Mr. Andrew Stuart's Genealogical History was published, the late Earl of Galloway printed and cir- culated a paper, entitled, " A View of the Evidence for proving that the present Earl of Galloway is the lineal heir wale and /aw- ful representative of Sir William Stuart of Jedworth, so fre- quently mentioned in history from 1385 to 1429." In that paper it is contended, that Sir William .Stuart, of Jedworth, and Sir William Stunrt, of Castelmilk, (the younger brother of Sir John Stuart, of Dernc/ey) were the same person; and that Sir William Stuart, of Jedwurth, was the proprietor of the estate of Jedworth in Tiviotdale, and of the estate of Castelmilk in Annandale.
Having assumed this, he states that Sir John Stuart, who married the heiress of Stuart, of Dalsivinton, was his eldest son; and Sir William Stuart, of Castelmilk, from whom the Stuarts of ~ Castelmilk were descended, the second son.
Andrew Stuart contends, that dates are fatal to this identity between Sir William Stuart, of Jedworth, and Sir William Stuart, of Castelmilk, who died at the siege of Orleans 1428-9. For the following reasons he assigns the date of the death of Sir William Stuart, of Jedworth, to have been not later than 1403.
This is built on the assumption, that the following passages in history belong to Sir William Stuart, of Jedworth, as surely they appear to do.
Sir William Stuart, of the Forest, which Mr. Stuart says is the same as, of Jedworth or Jedworth Forest, had been taken pri- soner by Hotspur (Percy) at the battle of Homildon on September l4th, 1402; and was soon thereafter, at his instigation, tried, condemned, and executed, as guilty of high treason against the King of England, on pretence that he was a subject of that mo- narch, having in his early youth belonged to the county of Teviot- dale, while it was subject to the English crown. The particulars of his trial, condemnation, and execution, are minutely related in the Scotichronicon, vol. ii. p. -J34, ■" where it is mentioned that Sir
r •' Captiis ibi fuit valens Allies, et inter sapientes primus, Dominut Willlelmus Stuart de Foresta ; et eoiam Domino Henrico Percy juniore de tra- ditione false adjudicatus, pro eo, quod, cum puer esset, antequam Thevidalia venit ad pacem regis, ipse sicut ceteri de patria, Anglicatus erat et de necessi- tate; de hoc acrius accusatus, sed sagaciter sua pio|)ria peroratione defensus.
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William Stuart, of the Forest, had very ablv pleaded his own cause, and that he had been acquitted by the ilirre first jurit;s ap- pointed to try him ; but that a fourth jury was assembled, which very unjustly condemned him.
The same facts are related by IVinton in hi-^ Chronicle of Scot- land, printed a few years since from tlie old MSB. which had always been held in great estimation.
After mentioning the battle of Homildon, there is the follow- ing passage :
" Schire IFilUam Stewart of Teuidale That day wes tane in that batale. And ane uther gud sqwyere. That be name wes cald Thorn Kere. This Schire Henry de Percy Tha twa demaynit unlauchfuUy : As in jugemente sittand he Gert thir twa accusit be, That thir twa before then Had bene the King of Ynglandis men. And armyt agane hym ware : for-thi Thai ware accusit of tratowry. Sua in coloure of justis. Set it wes nane, he rasit assis. Ane assis first maid thaim qwyte ; Bot this Percy wyth mare dispyte To this assis ekyt then Mare malitious felone men. That durst nocht do, but all as he Wald ; swa behovit it to be. Than accusit he thir twa men Sarare fer, than before then. Be this accusatioune Of dede thai tholit the passioune : And of ther quart eris he gert be set Sum in-til York upon the yet.
tres Anglorum assisas tanquam immunis evasit ; sed et dictus Percy, qui Hotspur dicebatur, inveterata excandesccns malitiae probitati nimirem, et sapi- entice militis invidcns, non passus est ipsum sic libcrtate ilonari ; sed et de as- sentatoribus suis nova assi a electa pra'properc, et perperam condemnatur, et tanquam traditor, tractus et dtmembratus innocens martyr pro justitia passus a pleris4ue etiam Anglis reputatus est."
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In-til Yngland wes a man That oft oisit to speke than Syndry thingis, or thai tell, Bot of quhat spirite, I can-nocht tell : Quhen he hard, as this wes done, Quhare hym likyt, he said rycht sone j ' Men may happyn for to se, ' Or a yere be gane, that he, * That gert yone lym be yondyr set ' Vow apon yon ilke yhet, *■ His av/yn lym to be rj'ght swa, ' Swa may fal the gamyn to ga.' And swa it hapynt that deid done. As yhe sal here eftyr sone."
It seems therefore as if it must be admitted, that Sir William Stuart, of Jedworth, was executed immediately after the battle of Homildon in 1402,
It seems most probable, that Sir William Stuart, of Jedworth, was descended from Sir John Stuart, of Jedworth, a younger son of Sir John Stuart, of Z)Ow^_y//, mentioned in the earlier part of this pedigree.
Sir William was a great and distinguished character in those days, and so eminent both in Scotland and England, that what re- lated to him must easily have been known.
Sir John Stuart, his son and heir, married Marian, the heiress of Sir Walter Stuart, of Dalswinton, ^ descended from Sir Walter Stuart, third son of Sir John Stuart, of Bonkyll.
s Sir Walter Stuart, of Dalswinton, was one of those patriots who joined King Robert Bruce, and performed many gallant actions against the enemies of his country ; for which he obtained a grant of the lands and barony of Dalswinton. He was succeeded by his son,
Sir John Stuart, of Dalswinton, who seems to have been a very consi- derable person, both on the account of his birth, and the many lands he held in divers counties, since we find by the transactions with the English, in the Fcedera published by Mr Rymer, that this John was given one of the hostages for the ransom of King David Bruce in 1557- His son was,
Sir Walter Stuart, Lord of Dalswinton, who made a great figure in the time of Robert II. and III.
He having no male issue of his body, in 1396 married his only daughter * to John Stuart, son and heir of Sir William Stuart, sheriff of Teviotdale, as in the text.
• The original contract is still extant in the lawyers library at Edinburgh,
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They with consent and assent of each other, in 1418 ' give to Sir Jolin S uar". Lord Grytoun, the barony of C.llie, in ^o- mitatn Gallovidise, which is ail I have found memoraule co cein- ing him, * save taat he left a son.
Sir William Stuart, of Dalswinton, who made a cors dr; able figure in the reign of King James II. by whom he was made a knight, anno 1443. " He had issue by Eupheme Grahanie, three sons.
First, Alexander, his successor.
Second, Sir Thomas Stuart, of Minto, Knight, ancestor to the present Lord Blanlyrc. ^
Third, Waiter, of whom came? the Stuarts of Tnnorie.
Which Alexander Stuart, of Garlics, obtained a gnmt of the Barony of Dalswinton, upon the resignation of Sir Wiliiara, his father, January 13th, l-i53, ' and in 1405, he resigns smid'-y Innfls in Teviotdale in favour of Al -xander Scot, of Hov^paslet. He died 1477- Ry Elizabeth Stuart, his witc, he had issu<".
First, John, his eldest son, who died without succe-ision ; •''
Second, Sir Alexander, his successor, who dcpaain ■, this life anno I-I90, '' left issue by Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Archi- bald Douglas, of Cavers.
First, Alexander,
Second, Walter, of Barclay.
And Agnes, who was married to John Lord Maxwel,'"and had issue ; and Janet, who married John Dunbar, of Mochrum.
Which Sir Alexander was knighted in the time of Kino- James IV. being then a powerful Baron. He was hlain at the battle of Flodden, September pth, 1513, leaving issue, by Elizabeth Kennedy, a son, Alexander, to succeed him ; and sixteen daughters.
This Sir Alexander Stuart, of Garlies, was much favoured by King James V. of whose privy-council he was. He was sent
s Genealogy of the family of Garlies by Mr. David Simson, in the cus- tody of Alexander Bailie, Esq
t Dame Marian survived him, and remarried Sir John Forrester, of Cors- torphin, Great Chamberlain of Scotland.
u Charta in Rotulis Jacobi III. X Ibid, in rotulis dicti regis ad annum, 1476. ^ Simson's MS otthe house of Garlics. z Charta in publicis archivis a Chaita Jacobi III Joanni Steuart filio et hasvedi apparenti Alexandri Stcuart de Garlies et Elizabetl-.ye .Shaw sponsie sras zo Ociob. 1477. b Simson's Collections: Douglas says 1501. e Genealogy of the family of Maxwel.
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ambassador to King Henry VIII. of England, and acquitted him- self with honour, fidelity, and reputation.
He married first, Catherine, daughter of Sir James Crichton, of Cranston-riddel, who died s. p. "^
Secondly, Margaret, daughter of Patrick Dunbar, of Clugston, by whom he had two sons.
First, Alexander ; his heir apparent ; and.
Second, John Stuart, parson of Kirkmahoe, ® progenitor of John Stuart, of Phisgill, in vicecomitatu de Wigtoun.
His third wife was Catherine, daughter to William Stuart, of Barclay, by whom he bad, first, Robert, s. p. ; second, Anthony, parson of Penninghame, left issue ; third, William, first of the house of Clarie; and Helen, married to William Gordon, of Murefode, in vicecomitatu de Wigton.
Alexander Stuart, younger of Garlies, was in the interest of King James VI. in the said King's minority, and was slain at the surprize of the town of Stirling by the Earl of Huntley and the Laird of Bucleugh, September 2d, i5'/\/ leaving issue, by Ca- therine, his wife, daughter and coheir of Andrew Lord Herries, of Terregles,
Alexander, who succeeded his grandfather, and obtained the honour of knighthood, at the coronation of Queen Anne, wife of James VI. anno 159O. s He married, first, Christian, daughter of Sir William Douglas, of Drumlanrig, ancestor to the Dukes of Queensbnry. '' Ey her he had.
First, Alexander, the first Earl ; and.
Second, William Stuart, of Mains, ancestor to Sir James Stuart, of Burray, Bart,
Likewise three daughters, first, Helen, married to John Douglas, of Stanhouscj second, Jane, to John Kennedy, of Col- zean ; third, Nicholas, married John Dunbar, of Mochrum.
Sir Alexander married, secondly. Lady Elizabeth Douglas, daughter of David Earl of Angus, Dowager of Robert Lord Max- well, but by her had no issue.
He departing this life in October^ 15g6, ' his estate de- scended to
d Charta in publicis archivis. e Mr. Simson.
f Crawfuid's Memoirs.
e Dr. Patrick Anderson's History of Scotland. MS.
l> Mr. Simson's Genealogy of Gairlies.
i Charta in Cancellaria supremae Dominae nostra Regins.
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Alexander, his son, Jirst Earl of Galloway, who was first knigh:> d by King James VI. then by his Majesty's special favour raised to the dignity of Lord Garlics, by letters patent, September 2d, 1607, '^his descent from the illustrious family of Lennox, being stated as one of the principal reasons for bestowing the honour.
Further, his said Majesty was pleased to create him Earl of Galloway, September pth, 10'23.'
Htr married Grijel, daughter of Sir John Gordon, of Lochenvar, in vicecomitatu de W'igtoun : by whom he had.
First, Alexander, Lord Garlies, who died l638, having mar- ried Margaret, daugliter of VVilliam, Earl of Monteith, by whom he had a son, Alexander, who died young, l642.
Second, Sir James Stuart, Bart, second Earl.
Likewise Anne, mairied to Andrew Agnew, of Lochnaw.
This Earl having been faithful to King Charles I. whose in- terest he never deserted, died very aged, anno 1649 j '" his estate and honour devolving on
Sir James, his eldest surviving son, second Earl, who during the usurpation, was very active in the King's cause, and on that ac- count suffered in the common calamity with other loyalists, Sur- viving the usurpation eleven years, he gave way to fate in June, 1671, " leaving issue by Nicolas, his wife, daughter of Sir Robert Grierson, of Lag, three sons and a daughter, viz.
First, Alexander, his successor.
Second, Robert Stuart, of Reimstoun.
Third, William Stuart, of Castle-Stuart, who married Elizabeth Gordon.
Fourth, Grizel, married to Alexander, Viscount of Kenmure.
Which Alexander, third Earl, married Mary, daughter of James, Earl of Queensbury, by whom he had.
First, Alexander, his successor, /our/A Earl, who died un- married, anno l6g4.
Second, James, fifth Earl of Galloway.
Third, Colonel John Stuart, of Sorbie.
Fourth, Andrew Stuart, Esq. who died in the expedition t» Darien in 1699. . Fifth, William Stuart, Esq.
k Diploma Alexandii Domini Garlies in Rotulis Jacobi VI. ' Ibid.
"» Retour of James Earl of Galloway to .'Alexander Earl of Galloway hi« father, in the Chancery.
n Retour of Alexander Earl of Galloway to Earl James, his father, rc- jistrated in the Chancery Office at Edinburgh,
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Sixth, Robert Stuart, Esq.
Also two daughters ; first, Margaret, married to Sir John Clark, of Pennycuik, junior, one of the Barons of Exchequer, and had issue; second, Henrietta, to William Earl of Glencairn.
Which James, jifth EarL, so succeciing to the estate and honour of Galloway, upon the decease of his brother, was con- stitu!-ed one of the lords of her Majesty's pi ivy-council. Soon after her accession to the throne, his Lordsiiip was appointed one of the committee of jiarliaraent, June 18th, 1/02, for revising the accounts of money laid on by the former sessions of that parlia- ment. And in the .;reat affair of the union of the two kingdoms, his Lordship dissented from the court in several very momentous articles of the treaty, as appears from the minutes of th^- last par- liament. He died 1747, having married (Catherine, daughter of Alexander, Earl of Eglintoun, by whom he had issue lour sons, and four daughters ; viz
First, AlexMuder, his suc^^essor.
Second, James, a majc^r-general, and colonel of the thirty- seventh foot, twice member of parliament for the county, and twice for the borough of Wigton.
Third, William, in the army, member of parliament for Wig- ton j and.
Fourth, George.
Fifth, Lady Margaret, married, first, James, Earl of Southesk; and secondly, John, Lord Sinclair.
Sixth, Lady Euphame, married Alexander Murray, of Brougb- ton, Esq.
Seventh, Lady Catherine.
Eighth, T-ady Anne.
Alexander, the seventh Earl, married Anne Keith, daughter of William, the eighth Earl of Marischal, by whom he had two sons and a daughter.
First, Alexander, died unmarried at Aix la Chapelle.
Second, James, died young, at Dalkeith school.
Third, Mary, married to Kenneth, Lord Fortrose, afterwards Earl of Seaforth.
His Lordship married, secondly, Catherine, daughter of John Cochrane, Earl of Dundonald 3 and by her had four sons and six daughters.
First, John, the eighth Earl.
Second, George, killed at Ticonderoga, in 1758,
Third, William, died young.
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Fourth, Keith, an admiral in the royal navy, married Miss Daygalier. and dying, left Leveson Douglas, in the royal navy ; married, October 19th, 1808, Elizabeth, third daughter of Sir John Dalrymple Hay, of Park-place, Dunluce, Bart, and other issue.
Fourth, Catherine, married to James Murray, ofBroughton, Esq.
Fifth, Susanna, married, in l/Gl, Granville, first Marquis of StatFord, K. G. and had issue, and died in August, 1805,
Sixth, Margaret, married to Charles Gordon, fourth Earl of Aboyne, and deceased, leaving issue.
Seventh, Euphemia.
Eighth, Harriet, married Archibald, ninth and present Duke of Hamilton, and dying November, l/SS, left issue.
Ninth, Charlotte, married William, Hfth Earl of Dunmore, and has issue.
His Lordship deceasing, October 14th, 1/73, was succeeded b}' his son,
John, the eighth Earl, K. T. and first Lord Stfavart of Garlies, and sometime a lord of the bed-chamber to the King.
His Lordship married, first, Charlotte Mary, daughter of Francis, the first Earl of Warwick, by w^hom he had one son, who did not long survive his mother; and
He married, secondly, Anne, daughter of the late Sir James Dashwood, Bart, by whom he had issue, eight sons and eight daughters ; the sons were.
First, Alexander, who died young.
Second, George, the present Earl.
Third, Levison, died young.
Fourth, William, a major-general in the army, and assistant secretary in the war department, married Miss Douglas.
Fifth, Charles-James. •
Sixth, Montgomery-Granvllle-John.
Seventh, Edward-Richard.
Eighth, James.
The daughters were,
Catherine, married to Sir James Graham, of Netherby, Bart, and has issue.
Susan, married to George, Marquis of Blandford, eldest son of the Duke of Marlborough, and has issue.
Harriet, married August 8th, 1/95, to Lord Spencer Chi- chester, brother to the Marquis of Donegal.
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Elizabeth, married, in January, 1798, to W. P. Inge, Esq.
Georgiana,
Charlotte, married, September 12th, 1801, Sir Edward Crof- ton, Bart, eldest son of Baroness Crofton.
Caroline, married, January 10th, 1803, to the Hon. and Rev. George Rushout, brother to Lord Northwick.
Sophia, married, July 2d, I8O6, the Hon. William Bligh, brother to the Earl of Darnley.
The Earl was, June 6th, 1796, created Baron Stewart, of Garlies, in the peerage of England ; and deceasing, November 13th, I8O6, was succeeded by his eldest son,
George, the present and ?iintk Earl, and second Lord Stewart, of Garlies, who being brought up to the navy, was in 1810, promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral.
His Lordship married, April 19th, 1797, Lady Jane Paget, daughter of Henry Earl of Uxbridge, and has issue.
First, , Viscount Garlies, born September 12th, 1800.
Second, Allan, died May 1st, 1808.
Third, A son, born December 23d, I8O7, died May 1st, 1808,
Titles. George Stewart, Earl of Galloway and Lord Garlies in Scotland j and Lord Stewart of Garlies in England.
Creations. Earl of Galloway, September 9th, 1628; Lord Garlies, September 2d, l607; and Lord Stewart of Garlies, in England, June 6th, 1796.
Arms. Or, a fess cheeky, azure and argent, surmounted of a bend, gules, within a double tressure flowered and counterflowered with flowers-de-lis of the last.
Crest. On a wreath, a pelican feeding her young in the nest, proper.
Supporters. On the dexter side, a savage wreathed with laurel about the temples and middle, holding a batoon over his shoulder, all proper; and on the sinister, a lion rampant, gules.
Motto. VlRESClT VULNERE VIRTUS.
Chief Seat. Garlies, Wigtonshire,
LORD SALTERSFORD.
445
STOPFORD, LORD SALTERSFORD.
CEARL OF COURTOWN IN IRELAND.;
■f
This family is said to derive its descent from Nicholas vz Stockport, Baron of Stockport, ^ one of the eight Barons of the county palatine of Chester, created by Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester, ^ who probably settled in that country before the Norman conquest, as the name of the town of Stopford is evidently of Saxon origin. *-' The only part of the original lands of ihe family, which now remains is the estate oi Saltersford,^ near Macclesfield, which estate is at this day in the possession of the Earl of Cour- town, and has belonged to his ancestors from time immemorial. * The first of the family that came into Ireland was James Stopford, Esq. an officer of rank in the parliament army, who served in Irehmd during the rebellion which began in 1641. On the restoration of the royal family, he acquired very considerable estates in the city of Dublin, and counties of Meath, Westmeath, Wexford, Carlow, Kilkenny, and Kerry, partly by purchase, and partly in considenition of his services during the war. He be- came seated at Tarah-hiil in the county of Meath, and married
a Speed's rrijp of that county, and Cainbden, vol. i. p. 478-q. h Butcher's Survey of Stamfoid, p 23. c The heiress of this family married Nicholas de Eton, whose heiress married Warren of Pointon. See Lyson's, p. 779.
ci Lysons, in his CJieshire, p. 353, says, Beatc-hall, described as Lord Courtoun's seat, i^ a dilapidated old mansion in the town of Macclesfield, now occupied as a public-hciisc.
Information of Dean Stopford
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two wives ; by his first, whose name we have not recovered, he had three sons, viz. first, William j second, James ; and third, Joseph.
The elder of whom, William, married Mary, daughter of Colonel Francis Willoughby, and died in the lifetime of his father, leaving an only son, James, successor to his grandfiUher.
James, aforesaid, married, secondly, Mary, daughter of Sir Robert Forth, Knight, (one of the privy-council in the reign of Kino' William III.) '^ and by her had issue one son Robert, and two daughters,- Robert was attainted by King James's parliament, and dying without issue, was buried at St. Audeon's church, Publin ; ^ the daughters were, Amelia, married to Theophilus Butler, created Lord Newtown Butler ; and Dorothy, married to Edward, fourth Earl of Meath, on whose death she lemarried with lieutenant-general Gorges, s
James Stopford, Esq. who succeeded his grandfather, was chosen to parliament for the borough of Wexford, September 21st, 1703, and elected for that county, November 25th, l/lS;'' he was re-elected for the same county on the accession of King George L and continued to fill that station till his decease. He married Frances, daughter and heir to Roger Jones, of Dublin, Esq. and deceased ' July Qth, 1721, having had issue by her (who died May 22d, 1751,'' five sons and four daughters, viz.
e Lodge Collect. f Parish Registry, and Lodge Collect.
g Lodge says, in i Edit. vol. i- p. 190, that these daughters were coheirs, which we presume to be an error, for from this pedigree his grandson seems to have succeeded.
!i Commons Jour.
i King James I- February 17th, 9th of his reign, did grant unto Sir Ed- ward Fisher, Knight, the towns, lands, &c. known by the names of Killder- mott, Ballymaheys, with the hamlets thereof, called Ballintroohan, Glan- vany, Ballynecarig, Ballinemoney, Ballynekilbeg, Killoneen, Shnaghkenagh, Ballygarralt, Cronemullan, Ballnesketnn, Shraleah, Croneroe, Cloneredmond, Dowcarrick, Monehennie, Monennys, Kiltinnill, Ballicamclone, Ballymorris, Tenestrath, Tourimore, Ballyvickenolug, Rathingwocinis, Moneallcstron, Gurtin, Ballinthe, Moncmore.Tenehone, Kilbride, Ta^hmore, alius Pollalishe, Eallylemcham, Muchloe, Tomsillagh, Bally vadotke, Ballyda, Kilnehederny and Binooge, and all other lands, tenements, and hereditaments lying within the mears, bounds, &c. of the said towns, villages, &c. being in the territory called M'Damores county; also the town and lands of Ballinogelan with the appurtenances lying in the territory called Kinsheleh, containing by estimation 1 500 acres; also the river of Owcnbarra, and the fishery thereof, in the said
^ Lodge Collect.
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First, William, who died yoving.
Seiond, James, advanced to tlie peerage.
Tliird. William, a captflin in the first regiment of horse, and died in December 1760, leaving issue, first, William in the army; second, Philip, also in tl)e army, who died in 1775 ; third, Frances, married to John Ashburnham Esq a c;iptain in the army ; and fourth, Catherine, to Fhomas Cosby, of Bailieborough, in the county of Cavan, Esq. by whom she has issue, Arnold, ia holv orders, and other children.
Fourth, Thomas, a master in Chancery.
Fifth, Joseph, a cornet in the second regiment of horse, who, in Julv 1743, married Anne, daughter of Knightly Chetwood, of Woodbrooke in the Queen's County, E-q. " (by his wife Heslher Stopford, half sister to the Risliop of Cloyne) and had issue one son James, baptized iN'oveaiber ] ] th, 1/46, in holy orders, and rector of KiiKary in the diocese of Meath ; and five daughters, viz. AiUK-, married to the Rev. William Stopford, vicar of Dona- moyne, in the diocese of Clogherj Frances, to Michael Kearney,
county of Wexford, with free access to the batiks thereof, on both sides, with net-:, &c. necessary for fishinn; ; also the mountain ofTorchill; as also the advowson, donation, and riglit of patronage of the rectory and vicarage of Kiltinnill, all the said lands, &c. lying in the county of Wexford, to hold to the said Sir Edward Fiahcr, Knigiu, his heirs and assigns for ever ; rendering yearly to his Majesty and his successors 8/ sterling, which said lands were, by the said patent, created into a manor by the name of the Manor of Chi- chester.
Thi> patent was surrendered by Sir Edward Fisher, February ;oth, 14 of King James, upon which the said King, by letters patent January 17th, in 15 of his reign, conveyed to the said Sir Edward Fisher, his iicirs and assigns, the said several land^, £ic. with others, which by this patent were created into the manor of Fisherstown, which patent is entered in the office of the auditor general, and inroiled in the Rolls-oHice of this klr.gdom. This patent, &c. afterwards became vested in Edward Chichester, third son of Edward, Vis- count Chichester, who intermarried with Elizabeth, the fifth and youngest daughter of said Sir Kdward Fisher, the patentee (wlio died in December, 1631;, and with Elizabeth his saivi wife, in Alichaehnas term, 21 Charles II. suffered a recovery tiiereof; upon whose death Edward Chichester, their eldest son, became seized of said manor, lands, and premises, his mother, the said Elizabeth, having by deed, November i ith, lOGy, conveyed the same to him and his heirs for ever. The said Edward Chichester enjoyed the said lands to his death, when they came to his brother John, who, by deeds dated December 28th and zyth, 171 1, in consideration that lie was childless, and the friendship which he had for James Siopford and his family, and other consi- derations in said deed mentioned, did grant the said manor to the said Jam:* Stopford, his htirs and assigns for ever. Arcbdail.
m Ii. formation of Dean Stopford.
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D, D. rector of Rathraelton, in the diocese of Raphoe; Catherine, baptized July 24th, 1748, to the Rev. Henry St. George ; Eliza- beth, baptized December 2g, 1750, to Abel Ram, of the county of Wexford, Esq. then member of the Irish parliament for the borough of Duleek, and by him hath issue, Abel, William, James, Mary, Anne, and Elizabeth ; and Hester, who died unmarried in 1785. "
Eldest daughter Elizabeth, married to Philip Doyne, of Welles in the county of Wexford, Esq by whom she left issue, James, who died unmarried in 176S} and Frances, married to the Rev. Francis Thomson, rector of Drumcree, alias Kilcumney, in the diocese of Meath, and had one son and two daughters.
Second, Anne, to Doctor James Stopford, Lord Bishop of Cloyne. °
Third, Frances, died young ; and
Catherine, married William Ludlow, Esq. counsellor at law. p
James Stopford, Esq. the eldest surviving snn,^r5^ Earl of Courtown, was chosen to pailiament, November 28th, l7-^7>'^ for the borough of Feathard, which he continued to represent till his late Majesty, by privy-seal, dated at Kensington July 28, 1 7^8, and patent ■■ at Dublin Sept. I9 following, was pleased to call him to the house of peers, by the title of Baron of Courtown in the county of IVexford; and his Lordship took the accustomed oaths and his seat October 31st same year. ^ Pursuant to privy-seal at St.
n Information of Dean Stopford. o James Stopford, (after Bishop of Cloyne, but of whose affinity to Lord Courtown's family, we have not been informed) was the intimate friend of Jonathan Swift, the celebrated Dean of St. Patrick's. He received his educa- tion in Trinity College Dublin, and was elected a Fellow of that University, March zjth, 1727. After the promotion of Dr. Robert Howard to the see of Killala, he was instituted to the vicarage of Finglass, thence promoted to the deanery of Kilmacduagh, and in pursuance of letters patent dated February 28th, 1753, was consecrated Bishop of Cloyne He married, December i6th, 1727, Anne, second daughter of James Stopford, Esq. as in text, and deceas- ing in Dublin, August ajd, 1759, '^^^ issue three sons, viz. James, (baptized October 7th, 1731, elected Fellow of the University of Dublin in June, 1753, which he resigned in 1755, for the united rectories of Gariy-Cloync,and Gla- nore in the diocess of Cloyne He married Anne, daughter of William VVray, of Ards in the county of Donegal, Esq. and left issue) ; Joseph, baptized De- cember 4th, 173Z, who married Angel, daughter of the said William Wray, and had issue, James, William, Joseph ; and one daughter, married and William, baptized January i6th, 1730, also in holy orders, and married as i« text. Swift's Letters, and Inform De^n Stopford.
p See Earl Ludlow- q Commons Jour.
r Rot. pat. de Anno 32 Geo. II. xa. p. D R. 43-..44.
i Lords Journals, vol iv. p. 158.
LORD SALTERSFORD. -149
James's March 24th, and patent * April 12th, 1762, his present Majesty was pleased further to advance him to the dignities of Viscount Siopford an J Earl of Courtoivn, and as such he took his seat on the l6th of that month. ' February 24th, 1/26," he mar- ried Elizabeth, only daughter of Doctor Edward Smyth, Lord Bishop of Down and Connor, and sister and heiress to Edward Smyth of the city of Dublin, Esq. ; "^ he deceased January 12th, 1770^ * having had issue by this Lady (who survived him) six sons and six daughters, viz.
First, James, Viscount Stopford. ''^
Second, Edward, baptized Jijne 29th, 1732 ; in March, 1765^ appointed major of the sixty-sixth regiment ; November 2bth, 1782, Major-general j advanced to the staff October 1st, 1/83; and November 1st, 1784, appointed colonel of his Majesty's fifth regiment of foot. June 27ih, 1783, he married Letitia, daughter of William Blacker, Esq. and niece to the Right Hon. Edward Gary ; and by her had issue three sons and a daughter ; viz. Ed- ward; Jamcii; William-Henry; and Jane. '
Third, Thomas,^ in holy orders ; made dean ofKillaloe in 1781, and promoted to the deanery of Ferns, by letters patent, dated November 21st, 1787 j died unmarried. Lord Bishop of Cork and Ross, July 24th, 1805.
Fourth, Joseph,*- baptized November 11 th, 1741 ; appointed lieutenant colonel of the fifteenth regiment of foot, with rank of colonel in the army. He died at Wexford June 29th, 1786, un- married.
Fifth, Philip, '1 baptized February 17th, 1743; appointed, June 20th, 1765, a lieutenant in the royal navy.
Daughter Lady Elizabeth, died young, *
Lady Frances, unmarried. ^
Lady Mary, unmarried. &
Lady Anne, ^ born in 1734, and married May 28th, 1758, ' to Walter Hore, of Harperstown in the county of Wexford, Esq. ^ She died in March, 1808.
s Rot. pat. de anno 2 Geo. III. 2a. p. D. R. 21— 22-
t Lords Journals, vol.iv p 246. u Ulster's Office.
X Arclidall's Collect. y Ulster's Office
z Idem. u Information of Dean Stopford.
li Ulster's Otiice. <■ Idem and information of the Dean.
d Idem. e Dean Stepford t Ulster's Oflicc
g Idem. li Idem and Lodge. i Lodge.
fe Walter Hore> of Harperstown, Esq knifjht of the ihire for Wexfor«
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Lady Catherine, '" unmarried ; and
Lady Charlotte, " baptized March 4th, 1745, married, June I8th, 1774, to Stephen Ram, of Ramsfort in the county of Wex- ford, Esq. formerly member in the Irish parliament for the bo- rough of Gorey, and hath issue.
James the second Earl of Courtown, and first Lord Sal- TERSFORD, was bom May 28th, 1731, ° and took his seat in the house of peers, October Slh, 1771- '' On the institution of the illustrious order of St Patrick in 1783, his Lordship had the honour of being nominated by the sovereign, to be a knight com- panion, and with the other knights, was installed in St. Patrick's cathedral, March I7th same year.
Upon the establishment of the Prince of V/ales's household, 17SO, he was appointed a lord of the bed chamber to his Royal Highness, as he was in 178i, treasurer of the household to his Ma- jesty. His Lordship was a member of the privy-councils in Great Britain and Ireland.
On April lOth, 1 762, his Lordship married Mary, daughter
and the seventeenth in lineal descent, from the first of the name who pos- sessed this estate, died in 1741, leaving William his heir, member of parlia- ment for Taghmon, who was appointed, February 25ih, 1729, advocate-ge- neral and judge-martial; I^ovember 19th, 1730, a commisbioner of appeals ; and April 18th, 1732, a mastei in Chancery. He married, first, Dorothy, fifth daughter of William, Viscount Diincannon, and had two daughters ; viz Mary, married, April nth, 1748, to John Cox, of CooIclifFe in the county of Wexford, Esq ; and Anne, who was baptized April 20th, 1732. He mar- ried secondly, Mary, daughter of John Grogan, of Johnstown in the county of Wexford, Esq. and widow of Andrew Knox Esq of the same county, (who died fort. major of Kingsale in 1737), and deceasing in February, 174^, left by her (who was born about the year 1694, re-married with Charles Tottenham, of Tottenham- Green in tlie said county 01 Wexford, Esq died in 1777, and was interred at Rathaspeck in the same county), an only son, Walter, his heir, to whom he had resigned the offices of advocate-general, and judge- martial. The said Walter succeeded at Harjerstown, married as in the text, and had issue one daughter, Elizabeth, married to James Boyle, of Rosslare in the county of W^exford, Esq. and four sons, viz. William, high sheriff of the said county 1788, married to the daugliier of the late Sir Simon Brad- street, Bart, and niece to Sir Samuel, one of the judges of the court of King's Bench ; Walter, a captain in the army, and married to a daughter of John Conroy, Esq. ; Thomas, in holy orders, and rector of Killtinnill in the diocese of Ferns on the presentation of the Earl of Courtown ; and Ponsonby. Lodge's Collect Rot. Cane. Letter from J. Grogaii, Esq. title Besborough in Lodge's first edition. Prerogative Office. Information of Dean Stopford; and sec title Lord Loftus, in Vol. IX.
ni Ulster's Office. n Idem
o Lodge. 1^ Lords Journal, vol.iv. p 579.
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and coheir to Richard Powys, of Hintlesham-hall in the county of Suffolk, E*q. (by Lady Mary Brudenell, daughter of George Earl of Cardigan, and sister to George, last Duke of Montague, she remarried with Thomas BouUlby, of the bishoprick of Dur- ham, Esq. and died in October 1808''), by whom his Lordship had issue, one daughter, Mary, who died young j and four sons^ viz.
First, James-George, "" present peer.
Second, Edward, born September 28th, 1/66, appointed a colonel in the army, 1808, and a captain in the third regiment of foot-guards.
Third, Robert, born February 5th, 1/68, appointed an Ad- MIRAL, 1810.
Fourth, Richard Bruce, born March 4th, 177'^* in holy orders, chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty, married, November ICjth, 1800, the Hon. Helena Powys, eldest daughter of Thomas, first Lord Li I ford.
Fifth, Mary, died young.
His Lordship having sat in parliament for Marlborough from 1780, was elevated to the British peerage August 13th, 1794, by the title of Lord Saltersford, of Saltersford in Cheshire, and dying in April 1810, was succeeded by his eldest son,
James George, third Earl of Courtown, and second Lord Saltersford, who was formerly an ensign in the foot-guards j and afterwards lieutenant-colonel of Villiers's fencible cavalry, 1/94.
His Lordship was born August 15th, 1/65, married, January 29th, 1791, Lady Elizabeth Scott, eldest daughter of Henry, Duke of Buccleuch, Knight of the Garter, and had
A son, born May 4th, 179-j died an infant.
A son, born February 20th, 17.9^.
A son, born October 2 1st, 1797.
His Lordship was appointed treasurer of the King's house- hold in 1793 ; and latterly comptroller of the same, and while a commoner represented in parliament Great Bed win in 179O; and I8O63 and Selkirk, Icc. in 1796.
Titles. James-George Stopford, Earl of Courtown, Viscount Stopford, and Baron of Courtown j Irish honours. And- Baron Saltersford in Cheshire.
s Collins, vol. ii p. 501. i Ulster's Office.
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Creations. Baron of Courtown in the county of Wexford, September IQih, 1758, 32 Geo. II. j Viscount Stopford, and Earl of Courtown April 12th, 1762, 2 Geo. III. ; Lord Saltersford of Cheshire, August 13th, 1794.
Arms. Azure, crusuly of crosslets, three lozenges Or.
Crest. On a wreath, a cockatrice rising.
Supporters. Two stags, plain collared and chained, each charged on the shoulder with a lozenge.
Motto. Patri^ infelici fidelis.
Chief Seats. Courtown in the county of Wexford, forty-five miles from Dublin; and formerly Bete-hall in the county of Chester, one hundred and fifty-one miles from London, *
s Information of Dean Stopford, but see Lysons, ut supiia.
LORD DAWNEY.
453
DAWNEY, LORD DAWNEY.
CVISCOUNT DOWNE IN IRELAND. J
Sir Paine Dawney, of Dawney-castle in Normandy, from whom this family is descended, came into England with King William the Conqueror.
In former times they wrote their name, D'Anney, and were lords of the manor of Shunock, or Shannock, in the county of Cornwall.
Of this family was John Dawney, living in the reign of Ed- ward I. who married Jane, third and youngest daughter of Peter Le Cave (by his wife, the only child of Sir Thomas Bromflete), and had
Sir Edward D'Annay, the father of
Sir Nicholas, who in the reign of Edw. II. obtained a charter for a weekly Wednesday and Friday market, and a yearly fair on the eve, day and morrow of St. James the Apostle, at his said manor of Shannock.
In 1 Edw. III. he had summons to parliament among the Barons of England, but not after, ■' which was occasioned by his absence in the holy war against the infidels; whence he brought a very rich and curious medal, now in the fimily's possession : but continuing in the Holy Land many years, the estate, consist- ing of fifteen large manors in Cornwall, was conveyed into the family of Courtenay, Earls of Devon, by the marriage of Emme- line (or Emme), daughter and heir to Sir John Dawney, of Madfordfevry in the county of Somerset, to Edward, son and
< Dugdale.
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heir apparent of Hugh, the second Earl of Devon, who dying before his father,, left issue by her two sons, Edward, the third Earl of Devon; and Hugh of Haccombe and Boconnock, Esq. father of Edward Courtenay, whom King Henry VII. for his adherence to the house of Lancaster, advanced to the Earldom of Devonshire October 28th, 1485, first of his reign.
Sir Nicholas Dawney, aforesaid, departed this life 7 Edward III. as appears by inquisition ; and by Elizabeth, his wife, had two sons ;
First, Thomas ; and,
Second, Sir Jolin Dawney, of Madfordferry before-mentioned, made a knight banneret by King Edward III. at the battle of Cressy, on whose death an inquisition was taken 20 Edw. III. and he was found to have left only the said Emme, marrird to Ed- ward Courtenay, Esq.
Thomas Dawney, the elder son, marrying Elizabeth, daughter and heir to John Newton, of Snaith in Yorkshire, Esq. fixed his residence at Estrick in that part of England, where he was living 11 Rich. II. and was the direct ancestor of the Viscount Downe, and also of Roger Dawney, of Norton, Esq. who left only daugh- ters, whereof Joan was married to John Churchill, Esq. by whom she had two daughters, coheirs, Margaret and Agnes, living in the reign of Edward III.
Thomas Dawney, aforesaid, had issue, besides Roger, a
daughter, Margaret, married to Saltmarsh, of Yorkshire;
and a son,
Sir John, who succeeded at Estrick ; married Ellen, daughter of John Barden, and died in 1417 (5 Hen. V,), having issue.
First, Sir John.
Second, William, of Rhodes.
Third, Alice, married to Robert Fleming ; and Agnes, to Peter Weston.
Sir John, the elder son, died in 1424 (2 Hen. VI. ") ; and by Margaret, or Joan, daughter of Sir Alexander Lound, Knight, had, fiist. Sir John, his successor 3 second, Joan, married to Wil- liam Dallison ; and, third, Catherine, to Thomas Awger, Esqrs.
Sir John, who succeeded, married Agnes, daughter of Guy Rocklifte, of Rocklilfe in the county of York, Esq, and deceasing October 20th, 1403, had, first. Sir Guy, his heir; second, Wil- liam ; third, Margaret, married to Ralph, son and heir of Richard Acclam; fourth, Agnes, to John Bechardi and, fifth, Elizabeth, to John Langton, Esqrs.
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Sir Guy (Guydo"^ Dawney, Knight, was seated at Coudck in the couniy of York, where he Jived in il;e reigns of Heurv VII. and VIII. and died August l/lh, 1522. Hiv married Jan- , or Joan, sister --.nd heir to Sir John Dare!!, ai Sczay, who died without issue in 7 Hen. VII. ;ind to 'I'homas [Jareli, wlio died also child- less, and daughter of Sir Geo'-ge Darell/' of Sezay, who died M/.rch 30th, 14CJJ, by his wife Margaret, daughter of Sir Wdliam Plumpton, and had iss'ic, tir^t, Sir John, his successor; second, Anne, married to Robert Howdmby; and, third, a younger daughter to Babthorpe, of Drax, Esqrs.
Sir JoH^f Dawney, of Coivick, was sheriff of Yorkshire 35 Hen VIII. and died Alarch 2d, 1553, having issue by Dorothy, daughter of Richard, Lord Latimer, who died in November, 1532_, two sons and four daughters, viz.
First, Sir Thomas.
Second, Jolm, of Herke, who in 15/2 (14 Eliz.) was sheriff of Y'orkshire, and married Elizabeth, fifth daughtt-r of John Roper, of Eltharn in Kent, Esq. prothonotary of the court of King's Bench, and attorney-general to King Henry VIII. by Jane his wife, daughter of Sir John Fineux, chief justice of the said court, and left a son John, born in 156l, seated at Potter Brunton in Yorkshire, whose only daughter and heir, JNIary, was married to John Legard, of Ganton, Esq and was mother of Sir John Le- gard, created a Baronet in l660.
The four daughters were ; Elizabeth, married to Robert Aske, of Aughton, Esq. by whom she had John, whose wife was Chris- tian, daughter of Sir Thomas Fairfax, of Denton ; Dorothy, to Sir Henry Nevile, of Chute, and had Gervaise Nevile, Esq. living in 1585 ; Joan, to Bryan Palmfs, of Narbourn, Esq. whose son John, living 1584, married Joan, daughter of George Dawney, Esq. and had three .sons, George, John, and Francis} and Anne, to Sir George Coniers, Knight.
Sir Thomas Dawney, of Sexaj/ and Cow'ick, Kiiight, married Edith, eldest daugiiter of George, Lord D'rVrcie of Aston, and dying September 3d, 1566, had, tirst. Sir John lii- lieir j second, Paul; and, third, Frances, married to Sir William Babthorpe. of Osgodby, to whom she was second wife, and had two daughters, Mary and Christian.
b This was the eldest branch of the ancient family of DarcU. Another branch settled at Littlecot in Wiltshire. And a third biancli .-eitlcd, in the reign of Henry IV. dXCaUhill, near Ashford in Kent, where they still remain
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Sir John, who succeeded, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1580, and served the office of sheriff for Yorkshire in 1589. He: married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Marmaduke Tunstall, of Thurlr>nd in Lancashire, Knight, by whom he had four sons and two daughters ; first, Thomas; second, Marmaduke; third, Wil- liam : fourth, D'Arcie ; fifth, Mary, married to Ralph, the third Lord Eure, of Witton, lieutenant of the principality of Wales for King James L and was mother of William, Lord Eure, born in 15/9; ^^^> sixth, Dorothy died unmarried.
Sir Thomas, who succeeded his father at Cowick, was born in 15(53, and honoured with knighthood by King James L in whose eighth year he was sheriff of Yoikshire, and was living in 1619. He married Faith, daughter and heir to Su" Richard Led- giavd of Rysom, and had issue five sons and four daughters: first, John ; second, Tlioma-s, who died childless ; third, George ; fourth, Richard ; fifth, Henry ; sixth, Elizabeth, married to Sir William Acclam, of Horehy ; seventh, Frances, to Sir Henry Vaughan, of Sutton ; eighth, Margaret ; and, ninth, Anne.
John, the eldest son, married P^lizabeth, daughter of Sir Richard Hutton, justice of the King's Bench, and had two sons.
First, Sir Christopher, who by King Charles I. for his loyalty and services, was created a Baronet May J 9th, 1(542, but dying without issue, was succeeded in title and es.ate by his brother.
Sir John Dawney, oi Cowick, first Viscount Downe, who in 1660 represented the county of York in parliament, as he did the borough of Pontefract in 1661, \Q7^> and 1(580, and being ad- vanced to the peerage oflrelandhy patent, '^ dated at Westminster, February 19th, 168O, sat in King James's Irish parliament of l(i89, and died in 1695, leaving issue Henry, his successor ;
And two daughters; the one married to Mr, Rarasden, of Yorkshire, and died at York in June, I7'i7 ; and the other to
Orme, of Charlton near Greenwich, Esq. where she died
December 15th, 173(5, leaving one son, Garton Orme, of Laving- ton in Sussex, Esq. appointed May 1st, 1/36, gentleman usher to
c The preamble Cum nihil magis Majestatem rcgiam illustret, vel ad Virtutcm generosos Hominum animos .stimulet, quam cum Viii Virtutc, Ge- neris nobilitatc, ct Prudenria splcndidi Honorun) titulisdecorentur; nos igitur recolentes eximia meiita dilccti et fidelis nostii Johannis Dawney de Covvicke in comitatu nostro Eboraci Militis, et grata Scrvitia, qux ipscet Antecessores sui nobis aut Patri nostro beata; niemorite summa cum Assiduitate et Inte- 'gvitate praestiterunt, eum in altiorcm Honoris gradum evehi dignum esse censemus. Sciatis modo, &c. Rot. anno ^i Car. II. i». p f.
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the Princess of Wales, and chosen November 23d, 1739, member of parliament for the boioiigh of Arundel.
Sir Henrv, the second discount Doume, in lOSp, was at- tainted by King James's parliament in Ireland ; represented the borough of Pontefracl in l6c)0, and the county of York in the reigns of King William, Queen Anne, and King George I. He died 11' Wa) 17-11, havino married Mildred, daughter of William Godfrc'y, of \ liunick in the county of Lincoln, Esq. and by her, who died at Cowick in September, 17-''5, had six sons and two daughters, viz
Fiiht, John, his heir apparent.
Second, William.
Third, Henry, D. D. educated in the university of Oxford, resided at Charlton in Kent ; was instiiUed June 22d, 1/32, a pre- bc^ndary -in ihe cathedral church of Ca'Uerbury; and May 13th, 1/40, married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Sir Thomas D'Aeth, of Kno^vlton in the saiJ county, Bart, so created July lOlh, 1716, by his wife F^lizabeth, daughter of Sir John Narborough, Knight, admiral and commissioner of the navy in the reigns of Charles 11, and James IL and heir to her brother Sir John, of Knovvlton, Bart, who was shipwrecked with his brother James, and his father- in-law, 8h- Cloudesley Shovel, October 22d, 1707. Doctor Daw- ney died at Piddleton near Dorchester in July, 1754. His widow survived him many years. They had a son, a clergyman.
Fourth, Christopher, who, August 26th, 1749, married the daughter of Mr. Rundall, of Marston, or Hutton, near York, and she difd Jan 3d. 17-9. set. fifty-four, in the Minster-yard,|York.
Fifth, George, made captain of a ship of war January 8th, 174I.
Sixtti, Godfrey.
Mildred, married to Sir William Fowlis, of Ingleby manor in the North-riding of Yorkshire, Bart, and had ihsue William ; Mil- dred ; Anne; Catherine; and Mary.
Dorothy, first to Robert Shafto'-, of Whitworth in the Bishop- rick of Durliam, Esq. ; and secondly, to Rev. Dr. Thomas Eden, fourth son of Sir Robert Eden, of West- Auckland, Bart, rector of Winston, and prebendary in the cathedral of Durham, at which city she died November 20^th, 1734, without issue.
John Dawney, Esq. the eldest son, having his education in Christ-church, Oxford, took the degree of A. M. July pth, 1706, and in 1713, was chosen burgess in parliament for Pontelract and Aldborough, for the former of which he was re-chosen in 1715 : and August lOtb, 1724, marrying Charlotte-Louisa, younger
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daughter of Robert Pleydell;, of Ampney-Crucis in the county of Gloucester, Esq. (by his wife Sarah, daughter of Philip Sheppard, of Hampton in the same county, Esq.) and heir to her brother and sister, who both died unmarried, had issue by her, who died April 8th, 1729, aec, thirty-five ysars, two sons; first, Henry- Ple)rde!] ; and, second, John, successive Viscounts, and departing this lile July 31st, 17-^0, before his father, his elder son,
Henry Pleydell, born April 8th, \T~7 , succeeding his grandfather, was the third Viscount Downe ; he was chost-n in 1749, and 1/51, to parliament for the county of York; and De- cember (Jlh, 1750, Fellow of the Royal Society.
He was first lord of the bed-chamber to his Royal Highness George Prince of Wales; lieutenant -coloiiei of the twenty-tifth regiment, colonel by brevet, and commanded his regiment at the battle of Minden in 1750, his being one ol the four regimerls to whom the success of that day was owing; he also commraided the same regiment at the battle of Campen near Wesel, October 16th, 17OO, when being monally wounded, he died December 9th ensuing, '' and was succeeded in the honour by his brother.
Sir John, the fourth discount, born April 9th, 1728; M.P. for Cirencester 1/55, 1762, married Lora, only daughter and heir to William Burton, of Lufltenhara in the county of Rutland, Esq, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of George Pitt, of Stratfield-sea in the county of Hants, Esq. and deceased December 21st, 178O, leaving by his said Lady five sons and two daughters, viz.
First, John-Christopher, his successor.
Second, William-Henry-Pleydell, died an infant.
Third, William-Henry, born August 20th, 1772.
Fourth, Marmaduke, July 27th 17/7^ i" holy orders.
Fifth, Thomas, May 30th, 1779.
Sixth, Catherine, August 23d, 1768; and Lora, June 17th, 1774,'' died young.
Sir John Christopher, born November 15th, 1764; ^ as- sumed the name of Burton, and succeeding to the honour, became the fifth and present V'ucount, and first Lord Daw ney, being advan! ed by that title to the British peerage, May 28th, 1796".
His Lordship was elected M. P, for Petersfield, 179O.
Title. Sir John Christopher Burton, Viscount Dawney of Downe, Lord Dawney of Cowick in Yorkshire, and Baronet,
il Lodge, and Ulster. « Idem-
•' Viscountess DowaEcr's Letter, July Z4th, 17S5.
LORD DAWNEY. .JSg
Creation. Baronet, May l.Qth, l642, 18 Car. I. ; Viscount Dawne^' of the county of l^ovne, February l()tli, l6S0, 33 Car, II. ; and Lord Dawney of Cowick, in Great Britain^ May 2Sth,
Arms. Argent, on a bend cottised, sable, three annulets of the field.
Crest. On a wreath, a saracen in armour, couped at the thighs, and wreathed about the temples, proper, holding in his right hand a ring, or, stoned azure, and in his left a lion's gamb erased, gold, armed, gules.
Supporters. Two lions, or, collared with the coat, and ducally crowned, argent.
Motto. Timet Pudorem.
Chief Seats. Cowick, near Snaith and Ditchmarsh in the county of York, nine miles from Pontefract, and one hundred and seventy-six from London ; Dawney-lodge and Danby-castle in the same county.
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BRODRICK, LORD BRODRICK.
CVISCOUNT MIDLETON IN IRELAND. J
Sir Thomas Brodrick, sometime oi Richmond in the county
of York, and of Wandesworth in Surry, married Catherine, daughter of Sir Oliver Nicholas, of Aubrey in Wiltshire, and dying in 164 1, in the forty-sixth year of his age, had issue three daugh- ters and five sons.
First, Alan,
Second, Thomas.
Third, St. John, of whom afterwards.
Fourth, Oliver; and fifth, William, who both died unmar- ried.
Alan, the eldest, succeeding his father at Wandesworth, be- came an intimate friend of the famous Earl of Clarendon, when lord chancellor of England; and being a man of great abilities, was knighted in 166O, '' by King Charles II. and by letters patent dated at Westminster August 2d, 166O, appointed to succeed Sir Adam Loflns in the office of surveyor, estimator, and extensor- general of Ireland ^ for life, who by the King's writ dated at Westminster July 2Cth, lOO'O, was superseded and directed to in- meddle no longer in the execution of that office; "^ yet refusing
.-I It appears that lie was knighted between August 2cl, and September 18th, being styled a knight in the privy-seal ofthat date, giving him a licence of absence, the King having present use of his attendance and service in Eng- land. Rolls Oifice, and Lodge.
b Rot. Hib Anno 12 Car. II. 1, p f- M. i. •^ Idem. M a.
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to make a surrender thereof, his Majesty wrote from Whitehall, November 26th, to George, Duke of Albemarle, L. L. to confirm the appointment ; letting him know, that whereas his council, learned in the laws, had declared under their hands, that Sir Adam Loftus, by non-attendance, had forfeited his otiice of surveyor- general of Ireland, and by accepting a patent of the vice-trea- surership of that kingdom, his former patent became void in lawj and whereas his Majesty under the great seal of England, had discharged him from execution of the same, who, contrary to law, presumed to officiate, being never sworn, and had granted the same to Sir Alan Brodrick, who was sworn by the lord chancellor Eustace^ he therefore required him to admit his deputy, John Petty, to the peaceable execuiion of the office, according to the tenor of a warrant under the privy signet dat^d September 18th, which letter was followed by his Majesty's supersedeas.
March 19th, 166O, he was appointed one of the commis- sioners for settling the artairs of Ireland. In the parliament, which met May 9th, 1(361, he was member for Dungarvan 3 in which year (September Qth) he was created A, M. by the Univer- sity of Oxford ; and In consideration that he had suffiired very much in the tiine of his Majesty's absence beyond the sea, and was particularly employed and entrusted by him in the late great and happy work of his restoration, wherein he was instrumental, and still continued indefatigably, to render faithful and acceptable services to the cro^n, " for which," says the King, " he hath not as hitherto received those real marks of our grace and favour, which we intend, and are resolved to confer upon him, for the advantage of him and his posterity }" his Majesty was therefore pleased by privy-seal, dated at Whitehall, February 25th, I660, to grant him the estates of Colonel John Hueson some time of Dublin, and Colouel Daniel Axtell some time of Kilkenny, at- tainted of high treason, ordering him to be put into quiet pos- session thereof, and effectual grants to be made to him of the same. "^
But the King afterwards granting those estates to his brother James, Duke of York, and Sir Alan submitting thereto, his Ma- jesty in recoiripence of his ready compliance, did, January 22d, 1662, order a grant to be passed to him, his heirs and assigns, out of other forfeited lands, of the full moiety in value, worth, and purchase of what the said estates amounted to, which being
•1 Rot. ij Car II. 3p D R. 1.
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10)759 acres, three roods, and twent) perches, English measure^ he passed patent May 20th, 1063, for so much forfeited lands, as amounted to a moiety thereof, and which should or might accrue to the crown, by reason that the same was unduly obtained by bribery, forgery, perjury, subornation of witneses, concealments, false or undue admeasurements, or by any overt act to the King's restoration or government. "^
In 1663, he came into Ireland one of the commissioners for executing the acts of* settlement, being well learned in the laws, and clear in his reputation for virtue and integrity ; and the act of explanation passing into a law December 23d, l665, he was, January 1st ensuing, with Sir Edward Smith, chief justice of the Common Pleas, Sir Edward Bering, Bart. Sir Winstan Churchill, Knight, and Edward Cooke, Esq. appointed the five commissioners for putting it in execution.
He was endowed with a poetical wit, of which several speci- mens are extant ; and departing this life at Wandesworth No- vember 25th, I6SO, was buried there December 3d.
His brother. Sir St. John Brodrick^ came into Ireland durino- the troubles of l64l, and was rewarded fdr his services in sup- pressing them, November 25th, 1053, with the lands of Ballyanin (where he was then seated) GarrydutTe, East and West Ballyvo- dicke. West Ballintobride, and Coolemore, in the barony of Barry- more and county of Cork ; of which being in possession when the acts of settlement passed, they were thereby vested in him and his heirs for ever.
He afterwards became seated at Midleton (a great part of which town, lu'ith the church, he huilt) was honoured with knight- hood, and in the first parliament after the restoration was member for the town of Kingsale.
By privy-seal dated at Whitehall January 21st, lOOO, the King wrote, that being satisfied by an instrument, under the hand of Francis Peasley, bearing date February 1st, 1649, that he then surrendered all his right, title, and interest, of and in the office of provost marshal general of the province of Munster, to a person that was not capable of executing the same by the huvs of Ireland, and consequently the disposal of that office devolved to the King ; his Majesty therefore directed a patent to issue for grant- ing the same to St. John Brodrick, Esq. during his natural life, and in case it should be found that any patent or grant of that
c Rot. 150. 2 p f . R 24-
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office was in force, that the same should be granted to him in re- version. immeduUely after the determination of the said patent.'' Accordingly Fi^bruary 2d f)llc)wing, he had a grant of the said otfice by patent for life, with the standing fee of 4s. 2d. 1 per diem, and a stipend or entertainment for ten horsemen of I2d. sterjhig apiece per diem, with all other foes belonging to the said office, which were lawfully used and e;'joycd bv Sir Thomas Wenman, or Francis Peaslej'. s And upon his humble supplica- tion to have tiie said office conferred upon him for life, the King by privy signet dated at Whitehall May 2d, l(i6"l, directed the same to be done in consideration of his services done to the King and for his interest in Ireland, for which he merited much to be employed by his Majesty in that kingdom. ''
On March l4th, ItioO, ' he was made captain of a foot com- pany, pursuant to privy signet ivom Whitehall February 28th preceding, wherein the King writes, " By orders formerly given by George, Duke of Albemarle, L. L. four companies were to be suspended, which the King had confirmed ; but upon the suit of St, John Brodrick, Esq. to be gratifird with a command in Ireland, his Majesty, for his many loyal services, was pleased to supersede his former resolutions so far as to appoint him to one of the said four companies." *^ And July 30th following, he received a free pardon for all things, acted or spoken agiinst his Majesty, before December 29th preceding. ' He married Alice, daughter of Sir Randal Clayton, of TheKvell in the county of Chester, Knight, and had six sons, and as many daughters, five of whom died young; and Catherine, the survivor, married Doctor William Whitfield, and died in London May 3d, I731. The sons were.
First, Thomas Brodrick, Esq. one of the i)rivy council to
f Rot. Ao 12 Car. II. i p. f. g Ibid 139, 1. p. f.
li Idem. 2. p. D. R. 20. i Idem 3. p. f. R. 20.
k Idem. I He had six giants of lands in virtue of tlie acts of settlement; and by patent, dated January 2d, 1670, pursuant to privy signet dated at Whitehall June loih, the castles, towns, and lands of Castlercdmond, Corrabby, and divers others in the baronies of Barrymore, Fcrmoy, and Orrery, were erected into the manor of Midleion, with power to set apart 800 acres for demesne; to impark 8co more ; with the privileges of courts, waifs, estrays, &c. Castle- rcdmond and Corrabby being made a free borough ami corporation, to extend every way from the midctle of the town 100 acres in the whole ; to be named the borough antl town of ^MdUton; to consist of a sovereign, two bailiffs, and twelve burgesses, to be first named by him ; witii power to send two burgesses to parliament ; to iiave two maces borne before the sovereign ; he and his heirs to appoint a recorder, tovv-n clerk, and other officers. Lodge.
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King WilliaiTij in whose reign he was a member of parliament, and in 1703, was chosen to represent the county of Cork ; in the English parliament he served for the borough of StockbridgCj as he also did in 1713, being appointed comptroller of the salt duties; and May 1st, 17O8, joint comptroller of the accompts of the army, with Sir Philip Meddows, which he resigned in June 1711-
On October 9th, 1714, he was made a member of the privy council to King George I. being chosen to parliament in that year for Stockbridge, as he was in the following year for Guildford ; '" in 1720 was chosen (by ballot) chairman of the committee of secrecy, appointed for the detection of frauds and villainies, " acted in the spring and summer preceding 3 and in 17^2, was elected to parliament for Guildford in Surrey, having served for that borough before, and so continued to his death, which hap- pened October 3d, 1730, in the seventy-seventh year of his age.
** Thomas Brodrick," says Coxa, *' had, from his tirst entrance into life, uniformly promoted the protestant succession : he was a member of the privy-council to King William, and sat in the English parliament for the borough of Stockbridge and afterward for Guildford 5 and in the Irish parliament for the county of Cork. In consideration of his service, he was by the Whig administration made comptroller of the salt duties, and joint comptroller of the army with Sir Philip Meadows, which places he resigned in 1711» when the Tories came into power. On the accession of George I. he was again appointed a member of the privy-council, but was not gratified with any place. As chainnan of the secret com- mittee for the examination of the South Sea affairs, he had ac- quired great popularity, and had stood forth one of the warmest advocates for severe and rigorous measures against the directors ; and those who had in any degree promoted the South Sea scheme. As a Whig, he was strongly attached to the principles of that party; generally supported government, but not uniformly; pos- sessed great weight amongst the country gentlemen inclined to the Whig interest ; and not unfrequently had proposed and carried questions in opposition to the known sentiments of the minister. He was held in high estimation by the King, as the head of a family which had ever shewn an unabated zeal in favour of the
m On April 3d, 1718, he passed patent, for holding two fairs, on June 24th, and March 26th, at Midleton, at the rent of 6*. Sd, " The South Sea business.
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succession ; and had been courted by Sunderland ; and after his death, by Carteret and Roxburgh. He was a man of high spirit, and probity J but his temper was violent, capricious, and over- bearing."
He married Anne, daughter of Alexander Pigott, of Inishannon in the county of Cork, Esq. by Anne, daughter of Sir Edward Boltotij of Brazeel in the county of Dublin, Knight, and left issue Laurence Brodrick, Esq. who January 20th,'' 17.'{5, was appoint- ed joint register of all deeds and conveyances in Ireland, which he resigned to his colleague Arthur Hill, Esq. in September fol- Jowlng.
Second, Alan, created Lord Midlelon.
Third, St, John Brodrick, Esq. serjeant at law, who died at Wandsworth June 12th, 1707, unmarried.
Fourth, Randal, died also unmarried.
Fifth, William, appointed in October 1692, attorney-general of the island of Jamaica, to which office he was again assigned by Queen Anne in March I/IO, and continued in May 1/15, by King George I. who December 23d, 1718, made him his second Serjeant at law, and in 1733, he was living at St, Jago de la Vega.
Sixth, Reverend Doctor Laurence Brodrick, who was chap- lain to the house of commons in England 3 was made prebendary of Westminster July 17th, 1710, and died at Kensington July 19, 1740, leaving an only daughter, who in March, 1741-2, became second wife to Benjamin Bathurst, Esq. brother to Allan Lord Bathurstj and a son, Laurence, of Birchfield near Kilkenny 3 pre- sented July 15!h, l?'!.*), to the rectory and vicarage of Callan in the diocess of Ossory ; and, August l6th ensuing, made treasurer of Lism.ore, and vicar of Tubrid, Derragrath, and Ballybeacon ; who married Jane, daughter of St. John Brodrick, lisq. as here- ?ifter, and had a son born April 23d, 1750.
Alan Brodrick, Esq. the second son, first Viscount Midleton, was attainted with his brother James, by King James's parlia- pient,
Being brought up to the profession of the law, he became so eminent therein, that February IQth, 1690, (immediately after the reduction of Ireland by King William) his Majesty made him his Serjeant at law, at the same time granting him a licence to be of council for the mayors of the city of Cork ; and June 6th^ l6g5,
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appointed him solicitor-general, of Ireland, in which post he was continued by Queen Anne, June 4th, 1702 ; and being returned to her first parliament, which met September 20ih, 1703, member for the city of Cork, he was the day following unanimously chosen Speaker-of the house of commons, and on the 24ih presented to the Duke of Ormond, L. L. for his approbation, p
His conduct, however, being disagreeable to the L. L. by the opposition he gave his Grace in passing some bills, which he in- tended for the benefit of Ireland, and which were thereby frus- trated, he was removed in April, 1704, from his post of her Ma- jesty's solicitor-general, and so continued till the year 1707> when the Queen (June 12th) appointed him her attorney-general, into which he was sworn the 30th of that month. On December 1/, 1709, Sir Richard Pyne, chief justice of the Kings Bench, (ij'ing at Ashley in England, he was appointed his successor January 4th 5 and the writer of Thomas Earl of Wharton's life, then L. L. ob- serves, " that he procured that high post for one of the most worthy patriots of that kingdom, as an instance of the care he took of the security of religion and liberty," By this promotion, being called up to the house of peers, he took his seat on the Woolsack iVIay Igth, 1710^ and received the thanks of the com-
p In his speech to his Grace on this occasion, he said, '* The commons in parliament assembled, have, in obedience to your Grace's command, pio- ceeded to the choice of a Speaker, and their choice hath terminated in me. If steady loyahy to the crown, sincere wishes, and a hearty incHnation, with the utmost diligence to promote tire prosperity of her Majesty and this king- dom, were sufficient to qualify me for the due disciiarge of that great trust, I should not think it modest in me, but its ojjposite vice, to di.able myself. For it is in"the power, as it is the duty, of every man, to be a loyal subject, and a lover of his country; and I hope, I may, without the least imputation of vanity, be permitted (upon this occasion) to aifirm, that I must forget my present sentiments, and be much altered from what I am, when I cease to be •either."
Whereupon the Lord Chancellor thus acquainted the house, and addressed himself to their speaker.
" Mr Solicitor, " The knowledge his Grace my L L. has of you, and the character you have in the world, do fully satisfy his Grace, that you are a person fitly qua- lified for the great trust reposed in you ; and therefore his Grace hath readily approved of the choice, which the commons have made of you to be their Speaker. It is a circumstance of great satisfaction to his Grace, that your election was unanimous, for his Grace cannot look upon this good agreement in the beginning, but as a certain presage of a happy conclusion of this session of parliament."'
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inons for the faithful and eminent services, performed to that house in the chair, during the time of his being speaker. i
The Queen, about this time, making a cliange in her ministry, his Lordship, among others, was removed from his employment, July 4th, 1711, being succeeded by Sir Richard Coxj and the parliament of this kingdom being dissolved by proclatnatlon May 6th, 1713, and a new one ordered to meet, he was chosen npre- sentative of the county of Cork ; and November 25th, the Duke of Shrewsbury opening the session, he was the next day pre- sented to his Excellency by the house of commons, as their speaker. "■
His constant faithful attachment to the established religion and laws of his country, and to the succession of the crown in the illustrious house of Hanover, were so eminent and conspicuous, that no sooner had King George I. ascended the throne, than he preferred him by privy-seal, dated September 30th, and by patent October Jst, 171'i. to the office of Lord High Chancellor of Ireland, into which he was sworn October 14th, and he con- tinued in that great trust to June 25, 1725,' On Oct. 9th, 1714, he was sworn of the privy-council (as he had been to King Wil. liam, and Queen Anne) ; and, by privy-seal, dated at St. James's February 22d, 1714, and by patent ' April 13th, 1/15, was ad-
q To which he replied, " I am extremely sensible of this great honour done me, as 1 always have been ot" the goodness of the house of commons, in supporting me in the discharge of the trust, they were pleased to repose in me, and cannot sufTiciently acknowledge their favour, or exjjress the satisfac- tion I take, that the witnesses of my behaviour during so many sessions of parliament, have unanimously approved it, and given an uncontroulable testimony of my having, in all instances, to the best of my power, done my duty to the crows, the house of commons, and the kingdom in general."
r When the Lord Chancellor thus addressed him :
" Mr. Brodrick,
«« I am ccmmanded by my L. L. to acquaint you, tint his Grace, not doubting your abilities, and expecting that you will endeavour to keep this session quiet and easy, and to give such dispatch to the public business as matters of so great consequence and her Majesty's afiairs necessarily require; does approve the choice the conmions have made of you to be their Speaker." *
s Lodge Collect-
t The preamble. Ouandoquidem nihil habeamus in regia nostra digni- tate magnificentius, quam quod ab ea, quasi some unico, tituli et lionores in
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vanced to the dignity of Baron Brodrkk of Middle ion ; and, No- vember I'iih, (the first day of the first parliament after his Ma- jesty's accession) he took his seat in the house of peers. "
On March 20[h, I716, he wjs constiluted one of tlig L. J. of the l\ingdom, as he was again January 7th, 1717; a third time, November 20th, 1719; a fourth time, March 2gth, 1723; and a fifth time. May 20th, 1/24; having been fiuther advanced in the peerage, by privy seal dated at Hampton- Court, July 31st, and by patent,^ August 15thj 1717, by the title oi Fiscount
subditos nostros deriventur; nihil apud nos sanctius habebitur, quam eos a nobis et repubCca bene merentibus decernere. Koruin in numero, jure Opti- mo, perquam fidelem et prsedikctum conciliarium nostrum Alanum Brodrick recensemusi qnem anaplissimis honoiibus illustrando dudum princeps popu- lusque, tanquam emuli, contendisse videantur Dunn propria egregii Viri Merita intuemur, stemmatis sui claritudincrn, qua.ii supervacaneum silentia praBtcrimus, quaiTivis hac etiam in pa: ic singular] sp'tr.dore ernineat, ab illo scilicet Gulielnii Normanni cornmilitone prognatiis, qui jam turn domus suje gloriam (qucd Insigniuus ^entiiitiis timil'.as vel in eo sseculo piopriis satis constat) a proavis militia inclytis deductam osientarit tantis ortus majorlbus ad famam consequendam novi hondnis labore ac patientia liic noster usus est, non ad earn quam jam agendus est dignitatem raptim transiliit, ac in cursu honorum per officia amplissima gradatim provectus, soliicitatoris ac deindc Attornati (ieneralis Muniis maxima cum Laude pei functus, tandem principis in banco regio Justiciarii sedem occupavit, unde majori Gloria amotus est quam qua alii ad eandem dignitatem evecti sunt, nempe ob fidem in domum iiostram ac rcligionem reformatam, isto munere istis temprvibus spoliari me- ruit, forti'nae optimoriim civiuin particeos illustris, qui vix ullum in republica authoritateni retinueriint, quam armis, virtutibus, consUiis in summo Gloris fastigio collocassent- Noluit interim patria integerrimi juxta ac ornati&^imi viri ope et auxilio carcre, quern inde infe' io: 1 senatus curias pi-aefecit, ubi antea oratoris partes, omni laude cumulatus, adimpleverat, hoc in munere obeundo tantum valuit gravibsimi viri constan ia et auctoritas, ut causa nostra in Bri- tanniarum regno languesccns, prorsus et in extremum discrimen adducta, in Hibe^nia novis viribus indies cresceret ac vigeret. Quum proinrie aequum nobis visum fuerit in Janto viro oinando partem habui:ise ipsum earum legum quas sa3pius vindicavit custodem nomine ac potesiate magni cancellarii con- stituimus, nunc insui'er ut iis nunquam non invigilet, procerum ordinibus ad- scribi volumus. Sciaiis igitur, &c. Rot i Geo. I. i. p. f- u Lords Jour, vol. ii. p, 4^4. X The preamble. Cum aucta in nos et rempublicam merita auctos a nobis 'lonoics pojiuiare videantur ; curnquc a;quum sit ut Alanum Baronem Brodrick de Midlcion. Cancellaiium nostrum Regni nostri Hibernios, talem tantumque vi' Mm, qucm tot egrcgias et raioe virtutes in eo conspicuae, ad pos- tremum nobditatis gradum evexeie, easdem multipiicatoe et magis illustratas in altiorem dignitatis j,radum promovcant ; eum igitur, quem Hibernia semper experta est sibi fidelem in periculosissimis et pcne perditis reipublicae tempo- ribus, qucm perspexit verae tidci, reformatas religionis, et salutis libertatisque communis acrcm et strenuum propugnatorem, quem adeo in deliciis habuit, ut eum (vcl renitente bis PalatioJ propenso exga eum amore, in oratorem public
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Midleton, with the creation fee of twenty marcs, by which title he sat first in parhament the 27th of that month ; y and January /th following, embarking for England with the Duke of Bolton. L. L. was chosen, during ins stay in that kingdom, to serve in parliament for Midhorst in Sussex, for which, in March, 1/23, he was rechosen, ^ which he continued to represent till his death ; find on June 6th, 1/25, he was commissioned with Sir Ralph Gore, Sir John St, Leger, and others ; to examine and inspect all accompts of public money. ^
" He was," says Coxe, " bred up to the law, and rose to such eminence in that profession, that in \QQ5 he was appointed solicitor-general, and being chosen member for the city of Cork, in 1/03, was unanimously elected speaker of the house of com- mon'', attached himself to the Whigs ; and having opposed some bills which were favoured by the Duke of Ormond, lord lieute- nant, he was removed from the office of solicitor-general. In 1707, when the Whig Administration was formed, he was made attorney-general; and, in 1709, chief justice of the Queen's Bench 3 but was removed, in 1711> when the Tories came into power. He was chosen, in 1/13, member for the county of Cork, and again elected speaker by the Whigs, in opposition to the castle interest. During the last years of Queen Anne, he proved his faithful attachment to the religion and constitution, by promoting the succession of the house of Hanover, and was highly instrumental in counteracting the cabals of those who were in- clined to restore the pretender. In reward for these eminent ser-
cum civium equitumque senatus eligeiat ea dicendi facultate poUentem, quae non solum clientium jura sibi Integra conservaret, verumetiam lapsa in integ- rum restitueret, quumque ilium tot proeclaris ingenii dotibus instructum ipsa ejus patria certiisimis testimoniis nostro favori commendaverit, non dubita- vimus eum Baronis honoribus et insignibus jampridem augere, scd easdem virtutes, quas fama in eo imminere prsedicavit, nos ei inesse jamdudum per- speximus. Ideoque sicut oh celebrem de eo et vere dis»ipatam laudem et praj- conium, eum in Conventu Nobilium in ipsis Regni nostri initiis recepimust jam ob easdem virtutes in eo a nobis satis compertas, et ab eo in imperii nostri pacem et incolumitatem, in patriae dignitatem et commodum, in civium om- nium salutem, et coronae nostrae decus etornamentum feliciter directas et ad- ministratds, eundem egregium virum in foro, in senatu, et in curia denique pari laude se gerentem, in magis sublime vicecomitum Subsellium, summo Bonorum omnium consensu, provehere dignati sumus. Sciatis igitur, Sec. Rot. 4 Geo. I. I. p. f.
y Lords Jour. vol. ii- p. 54.5. z On January izth, 1726, he had a licence to hold two fairs, upon April J5th, and October 12th, at KillmacCleeny in the county of Cork
« Lodfe.
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vices, he was at the accession of George I. nominated chancellor of Ireland, in 1715, was created a peer, by the title of Baron Brodrich, and, in l/l?? advanced to the dignity of Viscount Midieton; in the same year he was also chosen member of the British parliament for Midhurst in Sussex, which borough he con- tinued to represent till his death. When the functions of his high office did not render his presence necessary in Ireland, his eloquence and abilities were useful in supporting the measures of government in England. As he considered himself obliged to Sunderland for his promotion to an Irish peerage, he attached himself to the party of that minister. But neither his obligation or interest could induce him to swerve from his duty to his country, or to support an administration in measures which he disapproved ; he resisted all the solicitations, offer?, and menaces of Sunderland, to vote in favour of the Peerage Bill, and he per- sisted in opposition to the request of the lord lieutenant, and the orders of the sovereign ; the minutes of his conversations with Sunderland and others on that occasion, and the rules which he laid down for his conduct, afford evident proofs of his integrity and firmness, and do honour to his memory. His refusal, in this instance, offended Sunderland, and nothing but the dilficulty of finding a proper successor for the office of lord chancellor pre- vented his disgrace. He was treated, however, with so much coldness and disregard, that for three years he expected every mo- inent to be dismissed; a situation of uncertainty which he bore with unexampled patience and dignity. On the death of Sunder- land, he attached himself to Carteret, in opposition to Townshend and Walpole ; he joined to a natural warmth and vehemence of temper, which he himself was the first to acknowledge, an high consciousness of his own talents and influence, which produced an unbending pertinacity of opinion, and a display often ostenta- tious of his own services and importance. He possessed great dignity of sentiment, and a spirit so independent, that he would not permit even his personal esteem for the King to bias his con- duct in the duties of his high station ; he considerrd the salary of office his due for his exertions as chancellor, and thought himself at liberty to act, vote, and speak, in parliament (as a lord), just in the same manner, while he was on the woolsack, as he would have done at one of the benches. The warmth of his temper was increased by the still greater warmth of his brother and son."
He married three wives j to his first, Catherine, second daughter of Heduiond Barry, of Rathcormuck in the county of v^ork, Esq.
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by his first wife Mary, daughter of John Boyle, of Castlelyons, Esq. by whom he had one daughter, who died an infant, and one son,
St. John Brodrick, Esq. who in the reign of Queen Anne, was member of parliament for the borough of Midleton, and the city of Cork 5 and on King George's accessiot), returned for the county, which he repiesented to his death. In 1/21 and 1/22, he was chosen to sit in the English parliament for Becralston in Devonshire, and June 25th, 1724, sworn of his Majesty's privy council in Ireland. In l/Of), he married Anne, sister to Trevor, Viscount Hillsborough, and died in February, 1/27.
" St. John Brodrick," says Coxe, '•' son of Lord Midleton, was not deficient in talents and knowledge ; possessed great skill in debating, which he managed with good effect in the Irish house of commons, where his father's advice and interest rendered him highly respected. He was presumptuous and contidentj sanguine in his hopes, and vehement in his pursuits j affecting great fore- sight, sagacity, and discernment 5 he was highly irritable, readily provoked, but open to flattery, and easy of delusion. He was first chosen a member of the Irish parliament for the borough of Midleton, and afterwards represented, until his death, the city of Cork. He was elected in 1 721, and in the new parliament which assembled in 1/22, for Beer- Alston in Devonshire. Both the brother and son caballed with Lord Carteret, and seem to have conceived a violent antipathy against Walpole, which was height- ened by his opposing the bill for permitting the importation of Irish calicoes. The proud consciousness entertained by Lord Midleton of his abilities and influence in Ireland, was increased by the repeated accounts transmitted from his brother and son, of the King's high sense of the services rendered by the whole fa- mily 5 and by Carteret's repeated declarations, that he alone was capable of overcoming Ireland. His opposition received an ad- ditional impulse from the sanguine representations of his son, that the power of Walpole was declining, and a full conviction that the combination of Cadogan^ Carteret, and Roxburgh, would tri- nroph in the cabinet."
St. John Broderick had issue by his wife above-mentioned^ who died April 25th, 1/52, ^ five daughters ; viz.
Catherine, buried November 2d, 1/13, in the chancel of St. Michan's church, Dublin.
^ Chancery Bill filed January 30th, 1764-
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Anne, married lo James, son of Sir James JefFcreys, of Blarney in the county of Cork, Knight, living in l/l^, and by her, who died in Cork, May 13th, 1/53, had issue James St. John, of BLirney castle (who married the eldest daughter of John Fitz- Gibbon, Esq. and by her was father of Mary-Anne, Countess of Westmeath) ; Alan, who died at Corkc, April 6th, 1758; and Arthur, who died there, December 1st, 176O, unmarried.
Catherine, married, in 1737, to Charles O'Neile, of Shane's castle in the county of Antriuij Esq. eldest son of John, of Eden- dufF-Carrick, alias Shane's castle, and nephew of Charles, who married Lady Mary Powlet, eldest daughter of Charles, second Duke of Bolton, by his second wife, which Lady Mary, on her husband's decease in 1716, re-married with Capel Moore, son of Charles, Earl of Drogheda. John O'Neile aforesaid, died in 1 739, having had the said Cliarles, his heir apparent ; Clotworthy ; daughter Catherine, married to Sir Richard Butler, Viscount Mountgarret, died April 15th, J 739, and was buried at St. Mi- chan'sj Rachel; Elinor; Rose; Anne; and Mary, married to Bobert Borrowes, of Kildare, Esq. Charles, the eldest son, mar- ried as above, served in parliament for Randalstown, and dying suddenly, left issue by his lady, who died July 31st, 1742, and was buried at St. Michan's, two sons and one daughter, viz. John, his heir ; St. John, born at his grandfather's house May 6th, 1741, and married to a daughter of Robert Borrowes, Esq. ; and Anne, to Richard Jackson, Esq second secretary to George, Lord Vis- count Townsend, L. L. John, the eldest son, received a liberal education in the universities of Dublin and Oxford ; he succeeded at Shane's castle, served first in parliament for Randalstown, and ■ was elected to parliament for the county of Antrim, and sworn ©f the privy council in Ireland ; he was created Baron O'Ncil J 793; and a Viscount 1795; killed by the rebels 1798. De- cember ISth, 1777. he married Henrietta Boyle,'' only daughter of Charles, Lord Dungarvan, heir apparent to John, the fifth Earl of Cork and Orrery, and by her had issue Charles, now Earl O'Neil, &c.
Mary, married, September l6th, 1739, to Sir John Freke, of Castle- Freke in the county of Cork, Bart, fourth of that title ;<=
b A i>oetess, the friend of Mrs Charlotte Smith.
e Francis Freke, Esq a person of good repule in Somerset, was father of
Robert Freke, who was a ;ditor of the Treasury in the reigns of King Henry
VIII. and 0."ceii Elizabeth, and died worth upwards of 100,000/. lea^inp
KSiuc Sir Thomas Freke, Knt. (who settled in Dorsetshire and was ancestor
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member of parliament for Baltimore, and chosen for the city of Cork in l/Gl ; her Ladyship died at Castle-Freke, June 20th, IJtIl, and was interred at Midleton, having no issue by Sir John, who married secondly, in lyG^, Lady Elizabeth Gore, second daughter of Sir Arthur, lirst Earl of Arran, by whom he had Sir John, his heir, of Castle Freke, and the lifih Bnronet, who represented the borough of Doofgall in parliament; and January 25th, 1783, married Lady Catherine Charlotte Gore, third daughter of his uncle the late Earl of Arran.
Jane, to Rev. Laurence Brodrick, minister of Callan, &€. as before mentioned, and had a daughter born September 18, J 758-
Li 1695, Lord Midleton married, secondly, Alice, daughter of Sir Peter Courthorpe, of the Little-Island in the county of Cork, (by his second wife, Elizabeth Giffard) and sister to Colonel John Courthorpe, who was killed at the siege of Namure in Flanders, and by her, who was buried at St. Michan's, June 30th, 1703, he had two sons, and one daughter; Courthorpe, baptized March 2oth, 1700, and buried at St. Michan's, December 23d following j Alan, his siucfSior ; and Alice, born May 31st, 1697, niarried, March 3d, 173(3, to Rev. John Cattleman, Fellow of All-Souls college, Oxford, son to Jonathan Castleman, of Coberly in Glou- cestershire, Esq.
On December 1st, 1716, his Lordship married to his third wife Anne, daughter of Sir John Trevor, master of the rolls in England, who died May 20th, 1717j aged ninety; widow of Michael Hill, of Hillsborough, Esq. and departing this life, at Ballyallan in the county of Cork, August 29th, 1728, had no issue by her, who died January 5th, J7'17, and was succeeded by his only surviving son,
to the familie: of Harming, Upway, and Farringdon, in that county); and William, of Sareen in Hampshire, who took to wife the daughter of Arthur Swaine, Esq and with his son .-Arthur removed into Ireland ; which Arthur, heir to hib father, lived near liie city of Cork, and by Dorothy, daughter of Sir Piercy Smith, of Youghall, Knt. had Piercy, his lieir, who succeeded to his fathei's estates in Ireland going to England he married Elizabeth, daugh- ter of Raufe Frtk°, Esq hib kinsman, with whom he had a considerable for- tune,and putch.sing '.he esiateof liliney in Norfolk, left the same to his son, Rauf-. Ficke, Esq. who was created a Baronet of England 12 Queen Anne, and ieit i.;siie thiee sons, viz. Sir Piercy, his successor; Raufe, wlio died at Richmond in Surrey in 1727, unm.irried ; and Sir John, who succeeded to the title. Sir Piercy, the second Baronet, served in parliament for the borough of Baltimore, and dy'intc unmarried in Dublin, in April 1728, was succeeded in tite and estate by his next surviving brother, Sir John, the third Baronet, mentioned in the text. Baronetage of England, edit. 1771, vol. iii. p. :;S — 39,
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Alax, second Viscount Midlelon, baptized January 31st, 1/01, who in September, 1/27, was appointed a commissioner of his Majesty's customs in England, which he held till 1730, being constituted, August 27th that year, joint comptroller of the ac- compts of the army, with Sir Philip Meddowsj was member of parliament for Midhurstj and November 26th, 1733, took his seat in the house of peers. ^ On May 7th, 1729, his Lordship married the Lady Mary Capel, youngest daughter of Algernon, Earl of Essex, and deceasing in England, June 8fh, 17-47^ left issue by her, who, in October, 1727, was appointed a lady of the bed-chamber to the Princess Anne of Great Britain, and died in St. James's-street, London, March 12th, 1762, an only son,
Geouge, third Viscount Midleton, born October 3d, 1730, and named after his Majesty, who stood his godfather in person ; Oc- tober 29th, 1751, he took his seat in the house of peers 3 « and was chosen to the British parliament in 1754, for Ashburton in Devon. On May 1, 1752, his Lordship married Albina, daughter of Thomas Townsend, Esq. brother to Charles, Lord Viscount Townsend, and uncle to George, late Marquis Townsend, of Rayn- hara, so created in 1788, and deceasing September 22d, 17^5, had issue by her, who is since deceased.
First, George, his successor.
Second, Thomas, born December 10th, 17 5Q, died January 13th, 1795.
Third, Henry, a colonel in th-e army, died at Lisbon in 1785,
Fourth, Charles, D. D. archbishop of Cashell, and primate of Munster, married, Dec. 8th, 1786", Mary, daughter of Richard Woodward, bishop of Cloyne, and has issue, Charles ; George ; Mary, married, March 13th, ISO9, James, Viscount Bernard, -eldest son of Francis, Earl of Bandonj Albina 3 Louisa 3 and Frances.
Fifth, William, late a lord of the treasury, and representative m parliament for Whitchurch in Hampshire.
Sixth, John, a brigadier-general in the army.
Seventh, Albinia, died young.
Eighth, Mary.
Ninth, Harriet died an infant.
The Viscount died September 22d, 1 ^QS, and was succeeded by his eldest son,
George, fourth and present Viscount Midleton, and first
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Lord Brodrick, who was born November 1st, 1/54, and while a commoner served in several British parliaments for Whitchurch in Hampshire.
He ma\rw6, first, December 5th, 1/78, Frances, daughter of Thomas, Lord Pelham, and her Ladyship died June 23d, 1783. By her he had
Frances-Anne, married, August 2tth, 1803, Liigo-Freeman- Thomas, of Ratton in Sussex, Esq.
His Lord'^hip married, secondly, June 15th, 1797, Maria, daughter of the late Richard Benyon, of Gideahall in Essex, and of Englefield in Berkshire, Esq. and has issue
First, Maria, born TVLirch 2Sth, 1 799.
Second, Charlotte, born February 1 8th, 1801.
Third, Harriet, born August 10th, 1804.
Fourth, George Alan, born June 10th, I8O6.
Fifth, Emma, born August 13th, I8O7.
His Lordship was elevated to the British peerage by the title of Lord Brodrick May 28th, 1796.
Titles. George Brodrick, Viscount of Midleton and Barou Brodrick of Midleton, and Baron Brodrick of England.
Creations Baron Brodrick, of Midleton in the county of Cork, April 13th, 1/15, 1 Geo. L; and Viscount of the same place, August 15th, \7^7 > a"fJ Baron Brodrick of England Ma/ 28th, 17Q6.
Arms. Argent, on a chief, vert, two spear heads erect, of the field, their points embrued, proper.
Crc-st. A spear, argent, embrued, proper, issuing out of a ducal coronet, or.
Supporters. Two men in complete armour, each holding a spear, as the crest.
Motto. A CUSPIDE CORONA.
Chief Seat. Midleton in the county of Cork, ll5 miles from Dublin ; and Pepper-H.irrow in the county of Surrey, thirty-three miles from London.
47§ PEERAGE OF ENGLAND.
ROUS, LORD ROUS.
The ancestor of this family was
Peter le Rous, of Denjiington, in the county of Suffolk, Esq. who married the daughter and heir of John Hubbard, of Ben- nington, in the said county, Esq. and by her had issue,
William le Rous, of Dennington, Esq. his son and heir, mar- ried to Catherine, daughter and heir to Peter Ic Watre, of Den- nington, aforesaid, Gent, and had issue,
William le Rous, Esq. his son and heir, who married Ade- lyne, daughter aird heir to John Clowting, of Laxfield in the. county of Suffolk, Esq. (and of Elizabeth, his wife, daughter and heir of Sir William Phillips, oi Dennington in the county of Suf- folk, Knight ; and of Juliana, his wife, daughter and one of the heirs of Sir Thomas Erpingham, Knight), which William and Adelyne, had issue
Robert le Rous, Esq. who took to wife Margaret, daughter and heir to Richard Roys, of Northwalsham in the county of Norfolk, Esq. (son and heir to Roger Roys, and of his wife, the daughter and heir of Laurence Spriggy, of Mousely in the county of Norfolk, Esq.) and had issue,
Reginald Rous, of Dennington aforesaid, Esq. his son and heir, who married Elizabeth, sister to John Denston, ofDever- deston in the county of Suffolk, Esq. and by her had issue.
First, Henry, his eldest son.
Second, Thomas.
Third, John,
F«unh^ Edward, ancestor to those oi Badingham, in this
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«ounty, which terminated in Laurence Rous, of Badingham, who died without issue.
Fifth, William ; and,
Sixth, Humphry.
And a daughter, Anne, married to Thomas FaLtolph, of Pet- tawe, in the county of Suffolk, Esq.
Henry Rous, of Bennington, Esq. the eldest son and heir,
married Agnes, daughter of Denton, in the county of
Oxon, Esq. and by her had issue,
First, Sir William Rous, Knight.
Second, Edmund, married , the daughter of ......
Bacon, of Hesset in the county of Sut^'olk, Esq.
Sir William Rous, of Bennington, Knight, son and heir to Henry, married Alice, daughter of Sir John Sulyard, of Wether- den in the county of Suffolk, Knight, and lord chief justice of England, and by her had issue,
First, Sir Anthony Rous, Knight,
Second, Edmond ; and.
Third, George.
Also Alice, married to Thomas Garneys, of Beccles in the county of Suffolk, Esq. ; and Anne, married to Christopher Gold- ingham, of Belstead in the county of Suffolk, Esq.
Sir AxTHONY Rous, of Bennington, Knight, son and heir (o Sir William, purchased Henham-haU, in the county of Suffolk, of Sir Arthur Hopton, 37 Hen. VIH. 1545.'' He married A^nes,
daughter to Thomas Blenner Hasset, of , in the county of
Norfolk, Esq. and by her had issue, first, Thomas Rous, his eldest son ; and second, John Rous, D. B.
Thomas Rous, of Bennington, Esq. married to his first wife,
Catherine, daughter and heir of Gyles Hansard, of , in the
county of Lincoln, Esq. and by her had no issue. He married, secondly, Anne, daughter and coheir to Sir Nicholas Hare, of Brusyard, Knight, master of the Rolls, and by her had issue.
First, Sir 1 homas Rous, his eldest son.
Second, Anthony.
Third, Margaret, who married Henry Hobart, of BlickJino- in the county of Norfolk, Esq. ; and fourth, Lucy.
Sir Thomas Rous married Parnel, daughter of Sir John Good- wyn, of Winchendon, in the county of Bucks, Knight, and had issue,
» At this time the family is noticed by Leland, in his Itinerary, vol. vi. p. 15.
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First, Sir John Rous, his eldest son.
Sixond, Thomas Rousj also Parnel, who married
Duke, of Woilmgham in the county of Suffolk, Esq.; and Anne.
Sir John Rons, of Henham-hall in the county of Suffolk, Knight, married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Christopher Yelverton, of Easton, in the county of Northampton, Knight, lord chief justice of England; and had issue.
First, Christopher Rous, Esq. who married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Fitz, of Woodham-Walter in Essex, Knight, relict of Sir Poynings More, of Loseley in Surrey, Bart, but died without issue.
Second, Sir John.
Third, Michael, married to Judith, the daughter of Sir Arthur Jenny> of Knotishall in Suffolk, Knight.
Fourth, Thomas ; also.
Fifth, Mary, married to Richard Coke, of Thorington, in (he eounty of Suffolk, Esq. ; and sixth, Elizabeth, married to Francis Warner, of Parham in the same county, Esq.
Sir John Rous, of Henham-hall in the county of Suffolk, his eldest surviving son, was advanced to the dignity of a Baronei, 12 Car. II. He served as burgess in parliament, for Dunwich in Suffolk, 1(561.
He married two wives ; first, Anne, daughter of Sir Nicholas Bacon, of Gillingham in the county of Norfolk, Bart. ; by her he had no issue.
His second wife was, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Knyvett, of Ashwell-Thorp in the county of Norfolk, Esq. and by her had issue.
First, Sir John, the succeeding Baronet.
Second, Catherine, who married John Harbord, son of Sir Charles Harbord, of Stanninghall in the county of Norfolk, Knight ; third, Elizabeth, who died young j and fourth, Letitia, married to John Ayde, of Horsted in the county of Norfolk, Esq.
Sir John Rous, of Henham-hall, second Baronet, his only son and successor, was sheriff of the county of Suffolk, 166I. He married, first, Phillippa, daughter of Thomas Bedingiield, of Dar- sham-hall in the county of Suffolk, Esq. sister and coheir of Tho- mas Bedingtield, Esq. and granddaughter of Sir Thomas Beding- field. Knight, one of the judges of the court of Common-Pleas,
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temp. Car. I. and had issue two sons ; first. Sir John, his successor ^ and second, Thomas, who died young.
Also three daughters j Elizabeth, and Phillippa, who died un- married; and Hannah, married to Charles, second son of Sir Wil- liam Hoskins, of 0.x.stead in Surrey, Knight.
Kis second wife was Anne, daughter of Robert Wood, of Kingston upon Thames in Surrey, Esq, and by her had issue.
Second, Sir Robert^ successor lo his irothcr, of whom here- after.
Third, Thomas ; fourth, Harbord, both dead. Fifth, Philip, rector of Denninglon in the county of Suffolk. Sixth, Thomas I and seventh, Roger, who both died young. Also Anne, who died young ; Mary, married Nathaniel Acton, of Hemiston in the county of Suftblk, Esq.; and Anne, married,
first, to William, the second son of Turner, of Old Land
in Kymere, in Sussex, Gent, and secondly, to Mr. Mackey, Gent. but had no issue by either husband.
Sir John died in April, 1730, aged near eighty, and was suc- ceeded in dignity and estate, by his eldest son by the tirst venter.
Sir John Rous, third Baronet, who served in parliamt-nt tor Dunwich in SulFolk, in the first parliament called after the union ; he did not long survive his father, for he died in February follow- ing, unmarried; and was succeeded in dignity and estate by his half-brother, eldest son of Sir John by his second lady.
Sir RoBEKT B.OUS, fourth Baronet, who married Lydia, daugh- ter of John Smith, of Hokon in Suffolk, Gent, by whom he had two sons,
First, John, who died young ; second. Sir John, his successor j
and a daughter, Lydia, who died young. ..■.h
Lady Rous died October 13th, 17^9; «nd Sir Robert, at
Bristol, in June 1/35, and was succeeded in dignity and estate by
his only surviving son
Sir John Vy.o\Ji^,ffth Baronet, who served the office of high sherifl' for Suffolk ; and was elected member of parliament for that county in 1768. He died October 31st, 1771, having mar- ried, in 1749, Judith, daughter and heir of John Bedingfield, of Beeston in Norfolk, Esq. (who surviving him, re-married the Rev, Mr. Lockwood, by whom she had issue.) First, John, the present Lord.
Second, Frances, married, in 1771, to thelate Sir Henry Peyton, of Doddington, in the isle oi Ely, Bart, by whom she has Sir Henry, &c.
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Third, Charlotte, died unmarried, in 177O.
Fourth, Louisa Judith, born in I/Q/j married, in January, 1^9 1 , John Birch, Esq. deputy governor of Chandernagore, in the East Indies, where she died in 1794, leaving issue.
Sir John Rous, sixlh Baronet, and first Lord Rous, was born May 30ih, 17^0; and was elected member of parliament for the county of Suffolk in 1780, 1784, and 179O} and at length on May 28thj 1796, he was elevated to the British peerage by the title of Lord Rous, of Dennington in Suffolk.
His Lordship married, first, in January, 1788, Frances-Juliana- Warter Wilson, sole heiress of Edward-Warter Wilson, Esq. of Bilboa, in the county of Limerick in the kingdom of Ireland, by the Hon, Frances-Anne Evans, sister of George, late Lord Car- berry; by whom, who died in June, 17gO, he had issue
A daughter, Frances- Anne Juliana, bom May 10th, 179O.
His Lordship married, secondly, in February, 1792, Charlotte- Maria Whittaker, sister of Abraham Whittaker, of L)son House, Herefordshire, Esq. and by her he has issue.
Second, Charlotte-Marianne- Harriott, born February 27, I793r
Third, John-Ed ward-Cornwallis, born February 13th, 1794.
Fourth, Henry-John, born January 23d, 1795.
Fifth, William Rufus, born August 1st, 1796.
Sixth, a daughter, born July 18th, 1799.
Seventh, a son, born July 15th, 1800.
Titles. Sir John Rous, Baronet ; Lord Rous, of Dennington in Suffolk.
Creations. Lord Rous by patent May 28th, IJQG ; and a Baronet August l6th, 1660.
Arms. Sable, a fesse dancettee, or, between three crescents argent.
Crest. On a wreath, a bunch of bay leaves, vert.
Supporters. On the dexter side a lion ; on the sinister a sea- horse, his tail wreathed round an anchor.
Motto. Je VIVE EN ESPOIR.
Chief Seat. Henham-hall, Suffolk,
LORD CALTHORPE.
491.
CALTHORPE, LORD CALTHORPE.
His Lordship is descended by the male line from the Stafford- shire family of Gough.
luNERTH, or John Gough, of Wales, Esq. had three sons.
First, Sir Philip, knighted in the French wars under King Henry IV. V. VJ.
Second, Sir Matthew, knighted in the French wars under Talbot, slain in Cade's rebellion, 1450.
Third, Thomas, of London, woolstapler, who died 1437.
Richard Gough, citizen of London, and merchant of the Staple, (son either of Thomas, or of Sir Matthew) died 1495, leaving issue
Thomas Gough, of Wolverhampton, merchant of the Staple, who died 1532, leaving issue
Henry Gough, of Wolverhampton, who died in 156o, leaving issue
John Gough, of Wolverhampton, draper, and merchant of the Staple, 1562, who died \5g6, leaving issue by Elizabeth Blunt, of Ridware, who died l6l5, leaving several children; of whom
Henry Gough, of Wolverhampton, was son and heir. He pur- chased the lordship and seat of OUIfallings in the parish of Bysh- bury com. Stafford, and died in l655, leaving several children by his first wife, Elizabeth Leigh, of Wolverhampton, who died 1 628; of whom
John Gough, of Oldfallings, purchased, in 1656, of John Knight, Esq. the manor and lordship of Beffcoat, and in 1659, ilie manor and grange of Walton, botli in the county of Stailbrd :
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he had two wives, first, Bridget, daugliter of John Astley, of Staf- fordshire, Esq. ; secondly, Margaret^ daughter of Wedg- wood, of the same county, Esq. and died l66'5. By the latter marriage he had two daughters ;
Elizabeth, married to Edward Woodhouse, of Woodhouse ; and Mary, to John Huntbach, of Fetherston. ^
But by his first wife he had four sons and four daughters.
First, Sir Henry, of Perry-Hall, of whom presently.
Second, Dorothy, married to Michael Arnold, of West- minster.
Third, John, who died unmarried.
Fourth, Anne, of Wolverhampton, who died unmarried, 1/31.
Fifth, Bridget, married to John Newbery, of London.
Sixth, Sir Richard, of whom hereafter, as ancestor to Lord Calthorpe.
Seventh, Thomas, who died unmarried.
Eighth, Judith, married to William Dugdnle, of Blythe-Hall in Warwickshire, Esq. son of Sir John Dugdale, Knight, and grandson to the famous Sir William Dugdale, Knight. He died 1715.
Sir Henry Gough, of Perry-Hall, in Staffordshire, eldest son, was knighted by King Charles H. April 7th, I678, and purchased of Sir Edward Coney, Knight, Edward Grey, and Richard Best, Esqrs, the moiety of the manor of Perry- Barr, in the said county of Stafford, to which he removed, and which has since continued the seat of this branch of the family; he died January 24th, 17^4, having been member of parliament for Tamworth. He married Mary, daughter of Sir Edward Littleton, of Pillaton-Hall, in Staf- fordshire, Bart, by whom he had issue.
First, John ; and second, Henry, who died infants. Third, VVxiller, of Oldfallings.
Fourth and fifth, John and Edward, who died young. Sixth, Harry, of whom afterwards, as father to the late cele- brated antiquary.
Seventh, Richard, died in India, captain of a trading ship,
1713.
Eighth, Edward, died young.
Ninth, Matthew, page to the Princess of Denmark, aet. four- teen.
a He died February 9th, 1704, aged sixt)'-five, an eminent antiquary, who collected many valuable MSS. for the History of Staffordshire. See Shaw's Staff, vol. ii. p. 180.
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Tenth, John, cornet of dragoons, drowned at the fosse at Lisle.
Eleventh, Charles, merchant, and Director of the East India Company, died single February lllh, 17/4, aet. eighty-one.
Twelfth, Anne, married John Roberts, governor of St. He- lena; and re-married Francis Holmes, and died 173g.
Thirteenth, Bridget, married John Hunt, of Winson-Grcen, Esq.
Fourteenth, Jane, married William Vernon, of Horsington, com. Lincoln, and died 1/46.
[•'ifteenth, Isabella, married Eldred Lancelot Lee^ Esq. of Coton, Salop, and died I7u7.
Walter Gough, of Oldfallings, eldest surviving son, mar- ried Martha, eldest daughter of Thomas Harwood, of Tern, com. Salop, Esq. and died 1/30, leaving Walter, born 17^2, who died 1773, leaving by Mary Hunt, his first wife, John Gough, of Perry-Hall, Esq. born IJAA, who by Eleanor Martha Mytton, has John, born 1780j Martha, born 1731; and Eleanor, born 1783.
Harry Gough, Y-sq. Jifth son of Sir Harry Gough, of Perry' Hall, by Mary Littleton, born April 2d, 1G8I, was highly distin- guished for his abilities by some excellent judges of their merit. He went, when only eleven years old, with Sir Richard Gough, his uncle, to China ; kept all his accounts, and was called by the Chinese Ami JFhang, or the white-haired boy. In \7'-^7> he commanded the ship Sireatham ; his younger brother, Richard, purser, 1709. He continued to command this ship till 1715j and with equal ability and integrity, he acquired a decent competency, the result of many hardships and voyages in the service of the East India Company, to which his whole life was devoted while he presided among their directors, being elected one of them in 1731, if not sooner. Possessed of great application and great ac- tivity, one of his friends used to say, if he would take the whole East India Company on him, he must answer for it, for nobody would assist him, though they would contradict him. Nor was his duty in parliament less attended to while he represented the borough of Eramber, from J 734 to his death, and refused several offers from the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Robert Walpole, afterwards Earl of Orford, whose confidence he pos- sessed. The long and late debates during the opposition to that minister hurt his health j for he would often go to the house with> a fit of the gout coming on. He purchased, 1/07^ of thje other
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co-litiress, wife of Sir Richard Shelley, the other moiety of the Middlemore estate in Warwickshire, afterwards possessed by his son and heir Richard, together with the property at Entieldj which he purchased 1/23, and from which, in comphment to him, an East India ship took her name 1730.
He died July 13th, 175J, having married Elizabeth Hinde, who died May 'i/th, 1/74, by whom he had three daughters, Anne; Elizabeth, who married John Tilly; and Judith, who married Dr. Uvednle : also one son, Richard.
His only son, Richard Gough, was born October 21st, 1735, in a k;tge house in Winchester-street, London, on the site of the monastery of Austin Friars, founded by Humfry de Eohun, Earl •of Hereford and Essex, 1253, and received the tirst rudiments of
I,atin under the tuition of Barnew'itry, a Courlander, who
taught at tije same time the sons of several eminent merchants in the city. On his death, he was committed to the instruction of the Rev. Roger Pickering, one of the mo^t learned, most impru- dent, and most ill-treated, of the dissenting ministers of his time, having received his education at IVinity College, Cambridge ; but by an injudicious early marriage, be forewent many advantages, and quitting the establishment, did not improve his situation. On his death,' May 18th, 17-35, Mr. Gough finished his Greek studies under Mr. Samuel Dyer, the friend of Johnson and contemporary literary characters. On the death of his father, he w.;s admitted, July 1752, fellow commoner of Bene't College, Cambridge, where his relations, Sir Htnry Gough and his brothrr John, had before studied under Dr. Manson, afterwards bishop of Chichester and Ely. The college tutor, 1752, was Dr. John Barnardiston, after- v/ards master, who marrird a niece to the widow of the cele- brated Dr. Conycrs Middleton, and died 1778, leaving an only daughter, since married to the Rev. Mr. Yates, son of Dr. Yates, rector of Solihull, com. Warwick, where his son was since resident and curate. His private tutor was the Rev. John Cctt, fellow of the house, son to the town clerk of Lynne, and afterwards rector of Broxted, Essex, where he died 1/81, having married a nircc of the late Dr. Ktene, bishop of Chester. Under the private tuition of the three excellent scholars before mentioned, Mr. Gough early imbibed a taste for classical literature and antiquities j and it is not to be wondered that his connection with a college eminent for prodacing a succession 01 Biitish antiquaries inspired him with a strong propensity lo the study of our national anti- quities. Here was first planned the Briiish Tvpp^iaphy, pub-
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lished in l/OS, in one quarto volume, improved in two of the same size 1/80, and since nngmcnted to a tliird, and ready for the press. From Cambridge he made his tirst excursion to Croy- land and Peterborough, and continued these pursuits tvery year to various parts of the kingdom, taking not'N Avhich. on his return, were digested into a form which furni hed materials for the new edition of Camden s Britaiinia, the result of twenty jears excur- sions. In 1767, he was elected fellow of the Society of Antiqua- ries of London ; and, by the partiality of the late worthy presi- dent. Dr. Milles, dean of Exeter, was, on the death of Dr. Gre- gory Sharpe, master of the temple, nominated director of the same society, 177l> which office he held till December 12lh, I797i whpn he quitted the society altogether. He was chosen Fellow of the Royal Society of London 17/5, but quilted that Society 17P5.
He drew up the History of the Society of Antiquaries of Lon- don, prefixed to the fir»t volume 0I tiit-ir Archaologia, 1770; and in the succeeding volume of that collection, whose publication ho superintended, are various articles drawn up, or communicated, by him ; and accounts of several plates in the " I'etusta Monu- menta," of the same society, bear his signature.
He opened a correspondence with Mr, Urban, 1767, undtr the signature of D. H. which he retained, but not without assum- ing some others ; and on the death of his fellow collegian, Mr, Duncombe, I766, he occasionnlly communicated reviews of lite- rary publications to that valuable miscellany, li he criticised with warmth and severity certain innovations in church and state, he wrote his sentiments with sincerity and impartiality, in the fulness of a heart deeply impressed with a sense of the excellence and happiness of the English constitution both in church and state.
Jn IJJ'i, he formed a design of a new edition of Camden's Britannia, which he was sevc-n years translaiing and printing, and which was published in three volumes folio, I'SQ.
Being on a visit at Poole, and hearing of the difficulties under which Mr. Hutchins laboured respecting his History of Dorset, he set on foot a subscription, and was tlie means of bringing into light a most valuable county history, which he supermtended through the press, whence it is^ued in two volumes folio, 177-1. Its author did not live to see it compieted; but iiis daughter having been enabled to proceed to Bombay, and form a happy connexion iviih a gentleman to whom she had been long engaged, Iklajor
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Bellasis, in gi'ateful return to the memor)'' of his father-in-law, at his own expense set on foot a new edition of the History of , Dorset, and Mr. Gough contributed his assistance to this second edition twenty years after the first. Except Thonms's repubiica- tion of Dugdale's Warwickshire, and the paltry rrpublicaiions of Burton's Leicestershire, and Philipot's Kent by Whittingham, and Thoroton's Nottinghamshire by Throsby, not much superior, this is the first instance of a county history attaining a second edition.
Having purchased the collections of Mr, Thomas Martin, he put out an improved " History of Thetford," 1779, quarto, with plates from views taken by Captain Grose, who accompanied him in the snowy season of 1778.
Having also purchased the plates of the medals, coins, and great seals, executed by the celebrated Simon, and first published by Vertue 1753, he gave a new and enlarged edition of them, 1730.
He assisted Mr. Nichols i.i his " Collection of Royal r.nd. Noble Wills," 178O, and wrote the preface.
He superintended the printing of Dr. Nash's " Collections for a History of Worcesterbhire," in two volumes folio, J7bl, a short supplement to which has lately been published by Mr. John White, bookseller. Fleet-street.
In I7S6, he published the first volume of the Sepulchral Monuments of Gkeat Britain, in a splendid folio j in 1796^ the second, and in 1799> the introduction, which completes the work.
In I7.Q!, he published an account of the beautiful Missal pre- sented to Henry VL by the Duchess of Bedford, which Mr. Ed- wards, bookseller in Pall-Mali, purchased at the Duchess of Port- land's sale.
In Mr. Nichols's " Bib/lot hica Topngraphlca," the design of which he both suggested and forwarded, several essays bearing his name, particularly the Memoirs of Edward Rowe Mores, No. I. ; of the Gales, and of the Society of Antiquaries at Spald- ing, No. II. and XX. ; of Sir John Hawkwood, No. IV. and XIX. ; Genealogical view of the family of Cromwell, No, XXXI. He assisted in the copious, well-digested, and accurate " History of Leicestershire," undertaken and conducted with a perseverance which would ball3e common county historians, by the same friend, to whose benevolence, impartiality, and integrity-, he was proud to bear a public tfestimony. While he had to boast of having en- jbyfed the correspondence of some of the first antiquaries of the
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three kingdoms ; and, while he enjoyed that independence which he gloried in possessing as his inheritnnce, he continued to em- ploy it in his favorite pursuit, as one oi' the best means in his power of serving his country.
He died February 20th, 180.:), xt. seventy-four.
" August 13th, 1774, soon afccr the death of his mother," an event by which he came into full possession of the house at En- field, '' with the large estate bequeathed to him by his flither, he added considerably to his other comforts, by marrying Anne, daughter of Thomas Hall, Esq. of Golding, Herts, a lady of dis- tinguished merit, whose family was equally respectable with his own; and who, after a long and happy union, had to lament the loss of hini whose object through life was to increase her hap- piness.
Those only who have had the satisfiction of seeing Mr. Gough in his domestic and familiar circle can properly appreciate his merits. Though highly and dei^ervedly distiuguished as a scholar, the pleasantry and the easy condescension of his convivial hours still more endeared him, not only to his intimates, but even to those with whom the forms and customs of the world rendered it necessary that he should occasionally associate.
There was, however, another class of society to which, if pos- sible, he was still more dear — the poor and the afflicted, to whoai he was at all times a father, a friend, and a protector.
Of his literary labours it may not be necessary here to say more than that he translated " Camden's Britannia" from the ori- ginal, and supplied his additions, with so little interruption of the ordinary intercourse of life, that none of his family were aware that he was at any time engaged in so laborious an undertaking.
To pass over his less-important publications, the " Sepulchral Monuments" would alone have been sufficient to perpetuate his fame, and the credit of the arts in England ; where few works of superior splendour have before or since appeared.
s Elizabeth, daugh'er of Morgan Hynde, Esq. of London. She was married in 17191 and, dying May 27th, 1774, was buried f where the remains of her husband had been dei)o Ited in ly^i) in the rector's vault in St. An- drew's, Holborn- See Gent. Mag. vol, xiiv. p 287, 446.
b To the property at Enfield (where he constantly resided), the late Mr. Cough matle considerable additions by purchase, particularly of a noble ad- ditional garden, and of a field nearly adjoining, adorned with a long row of beautiful chesnut trees, which, he used pleasantly to say, were planted by his father, and were coKval with himself— and which .he afterwards had to pay for as full-grown timber.
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One great object of the latter part of Mr. Gough's life \va%, to prepare his " Sepulchral Monuments' for a new edition. With this constantly in view, he spared neither trouble nor expense in obtaining an ample store of additional drawings by the first artists ; all which, with the beautiful copper-plates already engraved, at an expense of some thousand pounds, form part of his noble gift to the University of Oxford ; who will doubtless have great plea- sure in fulfilling the wishes of their generous benefactor, by pre- senting an improved edition of his " Sepulchral Monuments" to the public.
The bright gem of intellect, even in his last days, had in- tervals of its former splendour 5 and the frequent emanations of benevolence displayed through a long and painful illness, whilst they comforted and delighted those around him, added poignancy to the regret which they experienced for his bitter sufferings ; from which he was mercifully released, without an apparent struggle at the last, on the 20th of February 1800; and was buried on the 28th, in the churchyard of Wormley, Herts, in a vault built for that purpose, on the south side of the chancel, not far from the altar which for several years he had devoutly fre- quented.
The following epitaph, written by himself five or six years before, and contaiiiing matter that m'ght fill a volume, he directed to be inscribed in the church :
*' Hunc prope parietem
Reliquias suas condi voluit
RICAilDUS GOUGH,
antiqua sdrpe ortus :
Ex heroibus qui in bellis Gnlllcis et
civiiibns claruere
gloria m,
ex mercatoribu« Srapulae Calcsioe Indiasque
orien talis divitias,
deduxit :
Patriae amorMH, erga Reges fidem,
Legum Antiquitalumque patriae peritiam,
ex atavis consanguineisquc derivatam,
constanter coluit ;
Ilasce investigandi cupiditatisinnata^
lestimonia habeto
Topographlam Britannicamf
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GuJiehti Camdeni Britarmiam renovatam ,
Monumenta Sepulchralia Magna; Britannice.
Abi, Lector, nee v;)niiatis insimules.
Obiit XX die mensis Febriiarii, A. D.
MDCCCIX.
tctat. LXXIV."
By his last will, Mr. Gough gave to the University of Oxford all his printed books and manuscripts on Saxon and Northern literature, " for the use of the Saxon Professor:" all his " manu- scripts, printed books, and pamphlets, prints and drawings, maps, and copper-plates, relating to British Topography ; with his in- terleaved copies of the " British Topography," " Camden's Bri- tannia," and the "Sepulchral Monuments of Great Britain," with all the drawings relative to the latter work ; and all the copper- plates of the " Monuments" and the "Topography," with four- teen volumes of " Drawings of Sepulchral and other Monuments in France." And all these he wills and desires may " be placed in the Bodleian Librar}', in a building adjoining to the picture gallery, known by the name of The ylnt!(/ uari.es Closet, erected for keeping manuscripts, printed books, and other articles re- lating to Briti„h Topography ; so that altogether they may form one uniform body of Ei.glish Antiquities." ^'
Sir Richard Gough, Knight, youngest brother of Sir Henry Gough, of Perry-Hall, Knight, raised a considerable estate from the small stock of a younger brother's fortune by the India and China trade. He was remarkable for his great industry and ap- plication to business, and exact justice in his dealings; he waj itrckoned to be well skilled in the knowledge of the British trade, and commerce in general; and in that particular branch of it to the East Indies equal to any in his time. He was brought up under that eminent merchant Sir James Houblon ; and had even while a child the assistance and advice of the great Sir Josiah Child. He travelled through most of the trading towns in the Mediteiranean and Levant seas, and drew his observations from men of business in all countries. He afterwards made four several voyages to India and China with unparalleled success and repu- tation, and thus wound up the series of his fortune. He is sup- posed to have discovered and given his name to an island in the southern part of the Atlantic and Indian ocean, whose existence,
c See Gent. Mag vol. Ixxix.
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together with that of Alvnrey, east of the islands of Tristan d' Acunha^ is doubt-^r!, by the late navigators on the embassy to China. Certain it is 'hat his name is preserved in oth?r islands, and a passage near the haibour of Chusan in China, of which we have the following account in his nephew Harry's MS. journal, 1702, his second voyage, on board the Sarah Galley, Captain John Roberts, in the service of the Hon, East India Com; any. " Sa- turday, September 1st, at six in the morning we wnghed, with a fresh gale at N. E. steering for Gough's passage, which we went through, and by ten were up with Bnffaloe's Nose, which island, when it bears S. S. W. about a league, you have the Treetop island, N. N. W. This island will serve well for finding Gough's passage ; for, coming from the Quilan islands, and being up with Buffaloe's Nose, you will see the island ; and coming nearer will see the tree on the top, appearing like a single beacon, which makes it remarkable and gives it name ; so, leaving it on the star- board side about a mile, you come into the passage, which has on the other side three or four islands, which are also called Gough's islands, which being on your larboard side, keep under the land, where is very deep water, and therefore the passage is not the best if little wind." What became of Sir Richard's journals we have not been able to discover. He was knighted by King George I. ; and in 17^7, purchased the lordship of Edgebaston, with the ap- purtenances of the Lord Viscount Faulconbridge and Lady Bridget his wife, who was one of the daughters and coheiresses of John Gage, Esq. and Mary, heiress of Robert Middleraore, Esq. and came to the sole right of Edgebaston by a deed of partition with her sister, who was afterwards married to Sir John Shellev, Bart, and had for her share, among other lands, the manor of Solly- hull com. Warwick, with its appurtenances, which was after- wards purchased by Harry Gough, Esq. son of Sir Harry Gough, Knight, and nephew to Sir Richard Gough, of Edgebaston. Sir Richard rebuilt the house, which had been burnt by the mob in the close of the reign of James II. fearing it might be made a place of refuge and sanctuary for the papists, as it had been made a garrison for the parliament s forces in the civil war, and it was very near being again destroyed by the populace in the riots of 178O. About 1/25, Sir Richard having obtained a royal contri- bution of 600Z towards finishing the church at Birmingham, de- termined to do something in favour of his own parish church at Edgebaston ; and having before put it into very good repair, the greater part at his own expense, there rested little to do on that
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account ; so he resolved to augment the living by obtaining the Queen's bounty, and accordingly gave his bond in due form for the commissioners to secure the payment of 200/. so soon as they should appropriate the like sum, according to the statute. In consideration of which charity and benevolence to the church, the dean and rhapter of Lichticld agreed by consent of the bishop to grant the perpetual advowson of the curacy of Edgebaston to Sir Richard Gough, and his heirs for ever. He is supposed to have obtained 200/. for the rebuilding of St, Philip's church in Birminghun, the vane being a boar"s head. He served for Bramber in two parliaments of George the First, and in the first of George the Second. Sir Richard died February 3d, 1727-B3 and his Lady died December 31st, 1/31.
Sir Richard is commemorated by the following epitaph:
Hanc justa colnrnnam
Situs est Richardus Gough, miles,
Antiqua de stripe, in Agro Statibrdiensi, ortusj
Eximiis et virtutis ac prudenliae laudibus
Clarus et insignis
Post decursa aequora repelilis vicibus
Ad Indias Orientales
Paterna bona, baud adeo magna,
F'elicissime adauxit.
iEquitas, libeitas, et honesta omnia proposita
Propugnatorem ilkmi
Invencre constanlissimum
Natus X'"" die Octob\ MDCLIX,
Mortuus IX''" die Febr" MDCCXXVII,
Superstites habuil uxorem et quatuor liberos.
F'ilius flenricus Gough, Baronettus,
Parentis memoriae pie consulens
Hoc saxurn punendum curavit. "^
He married Anne, daughter and one of the coheirs of Nicholas Crispe, of London, Esq. by whuni he had issue three sons, and four daughters.
First, Anne, married to John Bussiere, of St. James's, West- minster, Esq. and died s. p.
Second, Mary, married to Edward Barker, of London, mer- chant, who died 1 7^4 ; she remarried Crompton.
c Shaw's Staffordshire, vol. ii. p. 190-
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Third, Bridget, who died unmarried, 1720.
Fourth, Richard, who died also unmarried, 1710,
Fifth, Sir Henry, oftchom hereafter.
Sixth, Charlotte, married to Sir William Saunderion, of Greenwich, in Kent, Bart, and died I7SO,
Seventh, John Gough, Esq comptroller of the excise in Scot- land, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Cocks, and died about 1749, s p.
Sir H -nry, his eldest surviving son and successor, born March 9th, 1708, was created a Baronet, 1 Geo. II. April 26ih, 1728, with remainder, on default of issue male, to his brother John.
He Was M. P. for Totness 1/32, and afterwards for Bramber. On his return, 1733, to his country seat near Birmingham, he was met in that neighbourhood by above iive hundred gentlemen on horseback, who expressed their grateful acknowledgements for his services in parliament by his firm attachment to the liberties of his country, and to the interest and prosperity of the fair trader.
The following inscription to his memory in the church of Edgebaston, on a tablet of white marble, under an urn, on the side of which are the arms, was erected by his eldest son.
Sir Henry Gough, Bart,
Son of Sir Richard Gough, Kt.
Died June 8th, 1774> aged 67 years.
On account of the delicacy of his constitution.
After having served in two parliaments,
he quitted the busier scenes of life.
For the repose of domestic retirement.
And resided chiefly at his seat in this parish.
Universally possessing the respect and esteem
So justly due to the affectionate husband.
The tender father, and the honest man,
Barbara, wife of Sir Henry Gough, And only daughter of Reynolds Calthorpe, Esq.
Of Elvetham in the county of Hants,
After fulfilling in the most exempjlary manner.
The duties of wife, mother, and Christian,
exchanged this life for a better,
April 13, 1782, aged 00 years.
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In memory of both liii much revered parents,
Their eldest son Sir Henry Gou;^h Calthorpe, Bart.
Caused this mouumenc to be erected. **
He married, first, Catherine, second daughter of Sir John Harpur, of Calke in Derbyshire, Hart, (by Catherine, his wife, fourth daugliter and coheir of Thomas, Lord Crewe, of Stene in Northamptonshire,) by whom he had no issue ; she died at Edg- baston, June 22d, 17-40.
Sir Henry married to his second Lady, July 2d, l/-!! j Barbara, only daughter of Reynolds Calthorp, of Eivetham in the county of Southampton, Esq. by Barbara, his wife, eldest daughter (and the only one who married) of Henry, Lord Viscount Longueville, (by Barbara, his wile, second daughter, and one of the coheirs of Sir John Talbot, of Laycock, in the county of Wilts, Knt. which Lady was as remarkable for her piety and good sense, as she was for her great agej and died in January, 1/63, in the ninety-fifth year of her age, and fifty-ninth of her widowhood, leaving an example to posterity of the happy effects of a well-spent life, as she perfectly retained all her senses to the last, and felt no pain «r infirmity.)
Bv tliis Lady Sir Henry had issue.
First, Hf-nry, first Lord Calthorpe.
Second, Richara Thoinas, born February 13th, 17^2, of Tri- nity college, Oxford, A. M. November 27th, 1777, rector of the nnited rectories of Blakeney cum Capella de Glanford, and Lang- ham- Farva cum Cokethorp, Norfolk, 178I j rector of Ampton, Suffolk, I7qS.
Third, John Calthorpe, barrister at law, born April ISth, 1754, commissioner of bankrupts, 1783, Src.
Fourth, Barbara, born March 21st, 1745-6, married, January 9th, 1770, Isaac Spooner, of Elmdon com. Warw.
Fifth, Elizabeth, born January 3ist, 175].
Sixth, Charlotte, born December Qth, 1747, married, in July, 1768, Sir John Palmer, of Carlton com. Northampt. Bart, and died August 1783.
He was succeeded by his eldest son,
Sir fliiNRY Goigh, Second Baronet and first Peer, who in 1/83, on the death of his uncle. Sir Flenry Calthorpe, K, B took the name ot Calthorpe, and succeeded to bis estates at Elvc-
J Shaw's Hist, of itafTordshire, vol. ii. p. 190, igi.
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thani in Hampshire, &c. He sat in parliament for Bramber In Sussex, 1774, 178O, 17B4, 1790, and was advanced toihepeerage, June 15th, 179*5, by the title of Lord Calthorpe, of Calthorpe in Suffolk.
His Lordship died March l6th, 1793, set. fifty, and was buried at Edgebaslon, where on a monument of white marble, with the figure of a female, reclining her left elbow on an urn, extending her right to a scroll, is the following inscription :
Sacred to the memory of the
Right Honourable Lord Calthorpe, Baron of Calthorpe,
in the county of Norfolk ;
who was the eldest son of Sir Henry Gough, Bart.
of this place. He married Frances,
second daughter "^^ of General Carpenter,
by whom he had seven sons and four daughters;
was created a peer of Great Britain
on the I5th of June 1796;
and resigned his life to his Almighty Creator
on the 16th of March, 1798,
in the tiftieth year of his age.
His widow, who had the happiness of livinp'
with him under the strongest bonds of affection,
has caused this monument to be erected
in testimony of her everlasting regard and gratitude
to a most atlectionate husband and kind friend."
His Lordship had issue by his said wife,
First, Henry, born January 24th, 3 784; died November 4th, 1790.
Second, Frances-Eltzabeth, born March 25th, 1/85.
Third, Charles, born I786, the second lord.
Fourth, George, the present peer.
Fifth, Charlotte, born June 18th, 1788; died May l6th, 1792.
Sixth, Frederick, born June 14th, 1790.
Seventh, William-Other, born August 27th, 1791.
Eighth, John, born May 5th, I793.
Ninth, Harriet, born November 8th, 1794.
Tenth, Arthur, born November 14th, lygQ.
n The other daughter of General Carpenter married Col. Ramsden.
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Eleventh, Maria-Lucy, born March iSth, l^QS ; died January 17th, 1799.
He was succeeded by his eldest son,
Chakles, second Lord Calthokpe, who dying unmarried of a consumption at Flushing in Cornwall, June 5th, I8O7, was succeeded by his next brother
Georgi;, third and present Lord Calthorpk, born June 21st, 1757.
Titles. ?ir George Calthoi-pe, Bart. Lord Calthorpe, of Cal- thorpe in Sutlblk.
Creations. Lord Calthorpe, of Calthorpe, by patent, June' 15th, 1796.
Arms. Cheeky, or and azure, on a fesse, ermine, for Cal- thorpe ; quartering, e^ules, on a fessi^ argent, between three boars heads couped, or, a lion passant, azure.
^^'*'" \ See the wood-cut.
Supporters. 3
Motto. GUADU mVERSO VIA UNA.
Chief Seals. Ampton, Suffolk 3 Elvctham, Hampshire.^ Edgebaston, Warwickshire.
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PEERAGE OF ENGLAND.
BURRELL, LORD GWYDIR.
The name of this family is differently spelt by different writers. Holland, in a visitation, 1579, calls the same person Bukrill and Eerill. In other visitations the name is written Berrill, Beril, Boral, Borel, Burel, and Bun ell; so that it is difficult to ascertain, with any precision or exactness, which is the right way of spell- ing it.
This family was originally settled in Northumberland ; but Randulphus Burrell, (son and heir of Kadulphus) having married Sermonda, daughter and coheir of Sir Walter Woodland, of Devon, 19 Edw. II. became in her right possessed of a great estate, and settled in that county. He left
John Burell, his son and heir, who was succeeded by
John Burrell, his son and heir, father of
Walter Burrell, who had issue another
Walter Burrell, who was father of
John Burrell de Woodland, all of whom enjoyed the estate in succession.
This John Burrell, last named, appears to have had great possessions, and contributed to the wars with France, anno 1414, as his aid to the King, a ship, twenty men at arms, and forty jirchers. He left several sons.
Walter, the eldest, succeeded him in his estates j and
Gerardus, the youngest, being bred to the church, settled at Cuchfield in Sussex, 1446, being vicar of that church, as also archdeacon and residentiary of Chichester. He died, April 17th, 1508, leaving his estate to his nephew.
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Ralph Barrel!, who settled at Cuckficld. His daughter, Isa- bella, married William Chaloner, ol" Sussex, Esq. At his deatli, he was succeeded by his son
Thomas, wlio married Dorothy, daughter of Weston,
of Ightham in Kent, by whom he had
NiNiAN Burrell, of Cuckfield, Esq. who married Jane, daughter of Henry Smith, of Pepperharrow in Surrey, (by Jane, sister of Sir Walter Covert, of Slaugham in Sussex, Knt.) and died Sep- tember 4th, 1(314, aged seventy-four, leaving his widow, Jane, (who afterwards married Peter Courthope, of Danny, in Hurst Pierpoint in Sussex, Esq.) He also lelt five sons.
First, Waller, ancestor to Lord Gwj/dir ; second, Ninian ; third, Alexander ; fourth, Thomas ; fifth, John,
And six daughters j first, Timothies, married to Francis Wyat, Esq. ; second, Jane, married to Sir Anthony Colepeper, of Bedge- bury in Kent, Knight ; third, Anne, married to Henry Courthope, of Cranbrooke in Kent, Esq.; fourth, Judith, died unmarried; fifth, Dorothy, married to Thomas Hooper, of Stockbury in Kent, Esq.; sixth, Elizabeth, married to George Salter, of London, Esq.
Ninian, the second son ; Alexander, the third son ; and Tho- mas, the fourth son, died unmarried.
John, the Jifth son, married Bridget, daughter of Thomas Short, of Tenterden in Kent, Gent, by whom he had five sons and two daughters, of whom only JSIary survived, and married William Board, of Board-Hill in Sus'iex, Esq.
Walter, eldest son of Ninian, by Jane Small, married Frances, daughter of John Hooper, of Stockbury in Kent, Esq. by whom he had nine sons ;
And three daughters, two of whom died unmarried; and Frances, married Richard Bridger, Esq. of Combe, in Sussex.
Of the sons, Walter, John, Richard, and Ralph, died unmar- ried.
Ninian Burrell, second son, of Holmsted, in the parish of Cuckfield, married Anne, daughter of Sir William Colepeper, of Wakehurst in Sussex, Bart, by whom lie had four sons and three daughters; Walter, Ninian, Thomas, William ; Anne, Jane, and
Mary. Ninian, married Elizabeth, daughter of and died
without issue; Jane, married Ptter, second son of Peter Short, of Tenterden in Kent, The other sons and daughters died un- married.
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ThofTias, third son of Waltrr, sf^ttled at Lindfield in SusseX;, and married Joan, daughter and coheir of Thomas Nevvnham, of Lindheld, E.^q. by whom he had six sons and five daughters ; Waher, Walter, Thomas, Tiniothy, James, John ; Sarah, Frances, Jane, Philadelphia, M;iry, The first Walter died an infant ; the second V^'altf.r married Audrey, daughter of Frances Wyat, of Horsted K<"vn' s in Sussex, E^q. by whom he had Walter Bur- reli, of Weekham in Sussex, Esq. who married Anne, daughter of Tiniothy Burrell, of Lindfield, and died without issue. Tho- mas, third son of Thomas Burrell, died without issue. Tiniothy, fourth son of Thomas Burrell, married Mary, daughter of the Erv Samuel Pad) e, rect(.'r of Wbiston in Sussex, by whom he had, first, the Rev. Timothy Burrell, of Lind^eld, who married Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. F.zekiel Bristed, rector of New- haven, Sussex, by whom he has no issue ; second, Walter Burrell, who died an infant ; Anne, married to Walter Burrell, of Wick- ham ; and Mary, married to Ferdinando Askew, Esq. of Lidiard Milicent in Wilts, bv whom she had one daughter, Mary.
Timothy Burrell, 5t7;t?n/!/i son of Walter Burrell, and Frances Hooper, married, first, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Harry Goring, of Highdean in Sussex, Bart, by whom he had no issue ; secondly, Mary, daughter of Sir Job Charlton, of Ludford in Herefordshire, Bart, who died without issue; thirdly, Elizabeth, daughter of
Chilcot, Esq. by whom he had one daughter, Elizabeth,
married (o Thomas Trevor, Esq. afterwards Lord Trevor, who had one daughter,. Elizabeth, married to Charles Spencer, Duke of Marlborough.
Alexander, the eighth son of Walter Burrell and Frances Hooper, married Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of John Knight, of Doddington in the Isle of Ely, Esq. by whom he had Francis,
died unmarried ; and George Burrtll, married , daughter
of , by whom he had Peter, who died unmarried ; and
two daughters. Alexander, married, secondly, a daugliter of Parker, of Cambridge, by whom he had the Rev. Alex- ander Burrrll, rector of Puttenh:;m, Heiifordshire, who married
Elizab'^tb, daughter of Valavine, by whom he had Peter,
Alexander, Elizabeih, ^en- lope, and Anne.
Peier Burrell married 'Xniie, daughter of Thomas Franklin, of Chalfonl in Bucks, by whom he has three sons and two daugh- ters, rtlexandcr, Penelope, and Anne, died young. Elizabeth^ married William Howeilj of Badwell Ash in Sufiblkj M. D.
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Peter Burn-11, ninth son of Jf alter Burrell and Frances Hooper, settled at Rechenham in Kent, lUS-4, and married Isabella, second daughter of John Merrick, of Slubbers in North OckenJen, Essex, Esq. by wliom he left two sons.
First, Peter.
Second, Merrick, of West Grinsted park in Sussex, governor of the Bank of England, represented first Marlow, and afterwards Grampound, in several parliaments, and was created a Baronet, July 12th, 1700, with remainder, on default of male issue, to his nephew, Peter Burrell, of Bcckingham, and his male issue. He died in April 1/87, and was succeeded in the Baronetage by his great nephew. Sir Peter, now Lord Gwydir.
And three daughters; first, Frances, married to Richard Wyatt, Esq. ofEgham in Surrey ; second, Isabella, married to Thomas Dalyson, of Manton in Lincolnshire; third, Anne, mar- ried to Richard Ackland, Esq. brother to Sir Hugh Ackland, of Devonshire, Bart.
Peter Burrell, eldest son of Peter, was sub-governor of the South Sea Company, and represented Haslemere in several par- liaments, and died in 1756, M. P. for Dover. He married Amy, eldest daughter of Hugh Raymond, Esq. of Saling-Hall in Essex, and Langley in Kent, who survived him for many years, and by whom he had four sons, of whom Raymond, the second, and John, the fourth, oied young; as did Isabella^ the youngest daughter. The other married Tobias Frere, Esq. The sons were.
First, Peter, of 7vhom presently.
Second, Su- William Burrell, LL. D. and Bart, who died January 20th, 1796, at his house at Depeden com. Surrey. He was chancellor to the Bishop of Wor ester, 1764; F. R. and A. SS. 1754; and commissioner of excise 1774. He was ad- milted of St. John's college, Cambridge, where he studied the civil law, and proceeded l/L- B. i75.t, and LL. D. 1760, He married, April 13, 1773, Sophia, ' daughter of Charles Raymond, Esq. of Valentine-house, Es^ex, who was created a Baronet May 3d, 1774, with remainder, in default of male issne, to William Burrel, Esq. of Beckenham, and his heirs male by Sophia his wife, by whom he has left two sons and two daughters. Her fortune was stated, in Gent. Mag. vol. xliii p. 202, at 100,0(X)/. Sir "Wil- liam represented Haslemere, 17/3, In the course of five years he made the most ample coLLECTioxs/or a History of the county of
a Slie published a volume of poems ; and married a second time.
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Sussex, arranged in complete order by rapes and parishes, twelve folio vols, besides another of drawings of churches, houses, kc. Sec. by Lambert and Grimm, three volumes of monumental inscrip- tions, and four volumes of surveys and records. Sec. This work he spared no pains to bring to perfection, though he declined giving it to the public himself (yet no man was so well qualified for the undertaking as himself), but intended to bequeath it to the British Museum. He was seized with a paralytic stroke in August 1/87, which took away his speech for a time; but, though he recovered that, he totally lost the use of his left arm, and in 1791> resigned his seat at the board of Excise in favour ot Robert Nicholas, Esq. reserving, however, to himself a share of the appointment. He purchased a retreat at Depeden, the air of which particularly agreed with his constitution, which was, how- ever, too much atfected to hope for perfect recovery, though he seemed to have recovered enough to appear among his friends. He was father of the present Sir Charles Merrick Eurrell, Bart, &c. M. P. for Lewes, I/QG.
Peter Burrell, Esq. of Beckenham in Kent, his elder brother, a director of the Soulh Sea Company, represented in parliament Launceston in Cornwall, 1/59, 17<>-^> and Totness in 1768. He died November 61 h, 1/75, having married Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of John Lewis, Esq. of Hackney in Middlesex^ by whom he had an only son.
First, Sir Peter, present peer, and four daugliters. Second, Eiiz;ibeth Julia, married Ricbard-Henry-Alesander- Bennet, E»q. of Babraham in Cambridgeshiie, M. P. for Ne\^-port, Cornwall, 1770, and had issue Captain Bennet of the navy.
Third, Frances Julia, married May 25th, 1779^ Hugh, now Duke of Northumberland.
Fourth, Elizabeth, married, first, Douglas, eighth Duke of Hamilton, and on his death, btcame the third wife on August ly, 1800, of Henry, late Marquis ot Exeler.
Fifth, Isabella-Susanna, married June 8th, 1775, Algernon, now Earl of Beverley, by whom she has a large family.
Sir Peter, only son, now Lord Gwydir, was knighted, when he odiciated as Deputy Great Chamberlain, at the trial of Warren tiaslings ; and succeeded to the Bi/rnnetage of his great uncle Sir Merrick in 1 787. He was elected M, P. for Haslemere, J 770'} and for Boston, 1782, 1784, 179O, and was raised to the peerage by the title of Lord Gwydik, of Gwydir in the county of Car- narvon, June idth, 170G.
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His Lordship married, February 23d, 1779, Priscilla-Bnrbara- Elizabeth Lindsay, daughter ^nd colieir ot Pe.egrine, Duke of Ancaster (joint hereditary great chamberlain of England with her sister, Georgiana, Countess of Cholmondelcy), Baroness Wil- LOUGHBY DE Eresby, and has issue.
First, Peter-Robert, born in March l7S2j married, October 20th, 1807, Clcmeiuia, daughter and sole heiress of James Drum- mond. Lord Perth j and his Majesty, November 6th, IS07, was pleased to grant his licence, that the said Peter Robert may use the surname and bear the arms oi Drummond, together with the arms of Burreil.
Second, a daughter, who died May 2d, 1784.
Third, Lindsay Meyrick, late secretary of legation at the court of Dresden 3 married, July 14th, I8O7, the youngest daughter of the late James Daniel, Esq.
Fourth, William ; and,
Fifth, Elizabeth-Priscilla.
Titles. Sir Peter Burreil, Knt. and Bart. Lord Gwydir of Gwydir in the county of Carnarvon j Deputy Great Chamberlain of England.
Creations. Lord Gwydir by patent, June ]6th, 179^; Baro- net, July 12th, 1766.
Arms. Vert, three plain shields, argent, each having a border engrailed, or. ^
Crest. On a wreath, a naked arm erabowed, and holding a branch of laurel, both proper.
Supporters. See title, IFilloughly of Eresby , vol, vi.
Motto. Animus non deficit jEsuus.
Chief Seats. Grimsthorpe-castle, Lincolnshire j Gwydir- castle, Denbighshire; and Beckingham, Kent.
b C. 47. Visit. Sussex, fol. 79, 80, Reg. Howard, fol 44, 4^, in Herald's College.
502 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND.
BASSET, LORD DE DUNSTANVILLE AND BASSET.
Immediately after the Norman Conquest arose into power and distinction, more especially in the midland counties, the great Baronial family of Basset.
Ralph Basset was chief justice of England under King Henry I. and hence sprung the Lords Basset of Drayton ; the Lords Basset oi Hc.ckmdon ; and the Lords Basset of 5a/)co/e and Weldon; with the Bassets of B lore, and many other branches 5 of whom an ac- count mav be found in Dugdale's Baronage 5 or in the Topo- grapher, vol. ii. p. 3 IS, &c.
Thomas Basstt, a very early cadet of this family,^ married Cicely, daughter and heiress oi Alan Lord de DunstawiUc, ma- ternally descended from Reginald Fitzhenry, Earl of Cornwall, natural son of King Henry L by Anne Corbet. ^
Sir William Pole"^ however deduces the descent thus :
Osmond Basset, who held Ipisden and Stoke-Basset, in King Henry I's time, was father of
John Basset, who had issue
William Basset, who by Cicelej-, daughter of Alan de En- glefield, was father of
a Said to be grandson of Ralnh- The arms have but a slight variation from tliose of Hedcndon ; viz. Bany wavy of 6, or an J gules : iixsiead oi Bizpry NEBULEo/6,0/ andgules; wliich latter vvcie those of Hedendon, Szs Dug. dale's Utage of Arms.
b Gent. Ivlsg. vol Ixviii. p 76;. c Description of Devon.
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Sir Alan Basset, who had given him by Sir William Peverel, of Samford in Devonshire, White-Chapple and La Hcyna, in the parish of Byshop'sNymton, in the north part of the county, with Lucia, his sister, in marriage.
Sir William Basset, in the reign of King Henry VIIL was father of
Sir John Basset, of Umberlegh com. Devon, Knt. who mar- ried Joan, daughter of Sir Thomas Beaumont, and sister and heir of Philip Beaumont, of Shlrwell in that county ; who brought into this family two noble seats in that county; Umberlegh and Heanton Court. " Umberlegh lies in the parisli of Adrington, seven miles to the south of Barnstaple, and is so called from the abundance of woods which heretofore were round about it, and did overshadow it. Here this family had its first residence after it became theirs; but it being the more melancholy and less healthful place, they removed hence to Heanton Coukt, which came from Punchardon to Beaumont; and from Beaumont to Basset ; a sweet and pleasant seat, a very handsome pile, well furnished with all variety of entertainments which the earth and sea and air can afford." '^
Sir John had issue by Joan Beaumont, viz.
Sir John Basset, eldest son, of Umberlegh com. Devon, mar- ried, first, Elizabeth, daughter of John Dcnys, by whom he had an only child, Anne, married to James, son of Sir William Court- ney, of Powderham, Knt. Sir John married, secondly, Honora, daughter of Sir Thomas Granville, who suiTived him, and re- married Arthur Plantagenet, Viscount Lisle. By this second wife Sir John Basset, who died January 31st, 132S, had two sons.
First, John, of whom presently.
Second, George, of Tehidy, of whom afterwards, as ancestor to the present peer.
John Basset, eldest son, of Umberlegh com. Devon, mar- ried Frances, daughter and coheir of the above Arthur Planta- genet, Viscount Lisle, bastard son of King Edward IV. who surviving him, remarried Thomas Monke, of Potheridge com. Devon, Esq. and was great grandmother of the famous George IMonke, Duke of Albermarle. By her he had issue Sir Arthur Basset, of Umberlegh, only son and heir, who married Eleanor, daughter of Sir John Chichester, of Raleigh, Knt. and had issue Sir Robert Basset, of Umberlegh, Knt. living 1620, '« who
"i Riidon and Prince.
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being thus by his grandmother descended from the Plantagenets, afffcted to make some pretensions to the crown of" England, but not being able to make them good, was forced to fly into France to save his head. *-' To compound for which, together with his high and generous way of living. Sir Robert greatly exhausted his estate, selling off with White Chappie, the ancient house, no less than thirty manors." ^ He married Elizabeth, second daughter and coheir of Sir William Periam, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by whom he was father of Colonel Arthur Basset, born at Heanton Court, 1597>^'^ti active loyalist, of whom a memoir is given in Prince's Worthies of Devon, (p. 51, edit. 1810). He died January 7th, iQjl, ast. seventy five. His descendant and last heir male, Francis Basset of Heanton-Court, Esq. died about fifteen years ago ; and Mr. Davie, his nephew, and heir by the female line, has taken the name and arms of Basset.
We now return to George Basset, younger son of Sir John Basset and Honora Granville. He had a gift from his nephew Sir Arthur of the manor of Tehidy in Cornwall, to him and his heirs, as appears by a conveyance dated March 26th, 1558, in these words, " to the use atid hehoof of Dame Honor, Viscountess Lisle, mother nf the said George, and grandmethcr to the said Ar- thur, and her assigns for the term of her life natural, and after her decease tJien and from thence first to the use of the said George Basset and Jaccjuet his wife, and to the heirs male of the body of the said George laiifully begotten, and in default to the use and behoof," &:c. It appears from Leland, that the Bassets resided at Tehidy before this :''
" Basset," says he, " hath a right goodly lordship, called Treheddy, by Combe Castelle." And again :
" Carnbray, on an hill, a castelet, or pile of Bassets, a mile west of the Revier toun. There was sometime a park now de- faced." '
This George Basset married Jacquetta, daughter of George Coffin, of Portledge in Devonshire, and dying November 5lh, 1589, was buried at Illagan in Cornwall. He left issue a son and two daughters.
e One Nicholas Hill was concerned in this conspiracy. See Wood's Ath. vol. i. p. 366.
f Prince, g Sandfoid's Genealog. p 449. h Tehidy is said to have been the most ancient seat of the family, even from 1150.
' Itin. vol. iii. f. ;.
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Catherine, married James Carey, of Clovelly in Devon ; and Blanch, married William Newman.
James Basset, oiTehhhj, only son, died February 8th, l603, having married Jane, daughter of Sir Francis Godolphin, of Go- dolphin. Knight, by whom he had five sons and four daughters j of which last, Margery married Henry Trengrove, afs Nansj Joanna, married William Courtnay, of Tremara com. Cornwall; third, Grace; fourtli, Margaret. The sons were.
First, Sir Francis,
Second, Sir Thomas, a major-general under King Charles L and commanded a division of the royal army at the battle of Stratton.
Third, Sir Arthur, a colonel in the service of King Charles I.
Fourth, Nicholas Basset.
Fifth, James Basset.
Sir Fkancis Basset, ofTehidy, eldest son, was also a strenuous royalist, and sheritf of Cornwall during the greater part of the rebellion. Owing to his expenses in support o( the royal cause, and his being obliged to compound for his estate with the parlia- ment, he was necessitated to sell his seat at St. Michael's Mount in Cornwall, and much other property : on which account his de- scendants were much distressed for many years after the rebel- lion, till by marriages and skilful management they again aug- mented their estates.
Sir Francis died September ipth, 1 645, having married Anne, daughter of Sir Jonathan Trelawney, of Trelawney, Knight, who was governor and owner of St. Michael's Mount in Cornwall. By her he was father of
John Basset, of Tehidy, second son and heir male of his brother Francis. He died in November, 1656, and was buried at Illagan, having married Anne, daughter and heiress of Robert Deibridgp, of Barnstaple, by whom he had three sons, and two daughters; Anne, who died unmarried, October, 1715, and was buried at Illagan ; and Elizabeth, who also died unmarried.
The sons were.
First, Francis.
Second, Charles, rector of Illagan, died s. p. 1709.
Third, John, died unmarried, January, 170S.
Francis Basset, of Tehidy, eldest son, married Lucy, daughter and heir of John Hele, Esq. and had issue
Fkancis Basset, his only son and heir, who died December nth, J 721, having married^ first, Elizabeth, daughter and co-
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heiress of Sir Thomas Spencer, of Yarnton in Oxfordshire, Bart, and widow of Sir Samuel Garrard, Bart, by whom he had no issue.
He married, secondly, Mary, daughter and heiress of John Pendarves, rector of Dunsteignton in Devonshire, and at length heiress of her uncle Alexander Pendarves. By her he had two sons.
First, John Pendarves Basset. Second, Francis, father of the present peer. John Pendarves Basset, eldest son, died September 25tl), 1739, and was buried at Illogan, having married Anne, daughter and coheiress of Sir Edmund Prideaux, of Netherton, Bart, by whom he had a posthumous sort
John Pkideaux Basset, who died May 28th, 1/5(5, aged six- teen, and was buried at Illogan.
Francis Basset, the younger son of Francis, was of Turley in Northamptonshire, and succeeded to the family estate at Tehidy on the death of his nephew. He was sometime M P. for Pen- rhyn, and dying November, 1769^ was buried at Illogan, De- cember 2d. He married at Crowan in Cornwall, October 19th, 175(5, Margaret, daughter of Sir John St. Aubyn, of Clowance, Bart, and by her, who died October 19th, 17(58, had issue, \ First, Sir Francis, now Lord de Dunstanville, Second, John Basset, clerk, A.M. rector of Illogan aforesaid, and also of Camborne com. Cornw. ; baptized at Illogan August 4th, 1760 ; married at Upminster com. Essex, October Jth, 179O, Mary, daughter of George Wingfield, of Durham, by whom he has a son, John Basset, baptized at Illogan November 28th, 1791- Third, Margaret, baptized at Illogan, September 29th, 1/58, married at St, Breock, Cornwall, 1776, to John Rogers, of Trease nud Penrose in the said county, Esq. who has issue by her nine daughters and six sons.
Fourth, Anne, baptized atEvenley com. Northton, December 13th, I7(5l, died unmarried, 1779-
Fifth, Cecilia, baptized at Camborne February iSih, 17^3, living unmarried, 1797-
Sixth, Mary, bapiizf^dat Evenly 1/65, living unmarried, 1797- Seventh, Catherine, baptized April 3d, 17G6, living unmar- ried, 1797.
Sir Francis Basset, Bart, eldest son, present PrER, was born at Walcot, com, Oxford, August 9th, and baptized at Charl- bury, September 7th, 1757; was created a Baronet November 24,
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■^779 J returned M. P. for Pcnrbyn, 178O, 1784, 1790 J anJ was raised to the peerage June 171I1, 179^, by the title of Lokd dk DuNSTANViLLE, of TtkUi/ Park in Cornwall, to him and the heirs male of his body ; and was farther created on November 7th, 1797, Loud Basset, ov Stkatton in Cornwall, with re- mainder, in default of his own issue male, to Frances liis only daughter, and her issue male.
His Lordship married, at St. Mary-le-bone in the county of Middlesex, on May !6th, 178O. Frances Susanna, daughter and at length coheir of John Hippesley Coxe, of Stone-Eabton com. Somerset, Esq. by whom he has an only diughter,
Fkances Basset, born at Mary-le-bone April 30lh, and bap- tized May 2Sth, 17.SI.
Titles. Sir Francis Basset, Bnrt. Lord de Dunstanville, of Tchidy in Cornwall ; and Lord Bass.-t, of Stratton in Cornwall.
Creations. Lord de Dunstanville June )7th, 1793, by patent; and Lord B-isset, of Stratton, also by patent, November 7th, 1797'
Anns. B.irry wavy of six, or and gules.
Crest. An unicorn's head.
Suntiorters. Two unicorns collared, and each charged on the shouid^^r with a shied of the arms.
Motto. Pro Ki-gk et popui.o.
Chief Seat, Tehkly, Cornwall.
503 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND.
LASCELLES, LORD HAREWOOD,
1 HE family of Lascelles ^ are of ancient standing and respecta- bility iu Yorkshire.
John de Lascelles, '' of Hhiderske/fe (now called Castle Howard) in the Wapentake of Bulnier in the North Riding of the county of York^ was living, and held diverse lands in that place A. D. 1315, 9 Edw. IL {ut per chart.) By Johanna his wife, he left
John de Lascelles, of Hinderskelfe, his son and heir, called in deeds fiUus Johannis, alias Jachoii- He wasjiving I4g2, iQ Rich. n. {ut per chart.)
William de Lascelles, his son and heir, was living / Hen. VL 1-128, and had
William Lascelles, alias Jackson, of Hinderskelfe, his sou and heir, who was fither of
William Lascelles, alias Jackson, of Gawthorpe in the Wa- pentake of Bulmer aforesaid, who left issue
Robert Lascelles, alias Jackson, of Gawthorpe and Engholme- Grange in the parish of Hovingham com. York. He died 4 and
a There was a Baronial family of this name, and seated in this county. Roger de Lascelles received summons among the Peers, zz Edw. 1 See Dugd. Bar. vol ii p. 6.
fa This John was thought to be a younger son of the house of Sowerby and Brackenbury, who bore the aims without tbebordure. Sir Roger Lascelles, of Sowerby and Brackenbury, was great grandfather of Thomas Lascelles, of Brackenbury, living 1584. See Harl. MSS. 1394, f. 34. ,
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5 Philip and Mnry, having m;irriKd Dorothy, daughter of
Newport, by wiiom he had five daughters, and four sotis.
Of the daughters, first, Jane, married James Butler j second,
Dorothy, m:irried Gritfiu ; third, Elizabfth, married John
Bell; fourth, Margery, married John Knight 5 fifth, Margaret.
The sons were, first, Thomas Lascelles, alias Jackson, of Gaw- thorpe and Engiiolme-Grange, Esq. who had livery of his estate, I Eliz. was living at Gawthorpe, 1584, and died \6 James I. Id 1 8, having married JMargcry, daughter of Sir William St. Quintin, of Harpham, com. York, Knight, by whom he had issue, first, Hkmry, son and heir apparent fet. 23d, 1584 j second, Walter, third, W-lliam ; fourth, John; fifth, Roger; sixth, Ed- ward ; seventh, James j eighth, Robert ; ninth, Dorothy j tenth, Mary.
Second, John Lascflles, alias Jackson, married ,
daughter of Maulevercr, and had issue in 1584 two sons,
Christopher and Thomas.
Third, Robert Lascelles, alias Jack«;on.
Fourth, Francis Lascelles, alias Jackson, who was of Stank- Hall in the parish of Sigston and North Allerton, jure uxnris. He died 4 Char. L l628, seized of Stank, alias Winto:. -Stank, and of the manor or Grange of Thormanby ; having married Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of John Chiirter, of North-Ailer- ton, by whom he had issue three daughters, and five sons.
The daughters were, first, Eleanor, married at North Al- lerton, December 15th, l605, ti) Lawrence Mennil, ot Thornaby and E:)st Layton, Esq ; second, Margaret, married to William Constable, of Drononby com. York, Esq.; third, J.ine, baptised at North-Allerton, April 251 h, 1595, married at Sigston, Sep- tember i;}th, ldl4, to Thomas Saville, of Wtllburne, Esq.
The sons were, first, William, of whom preseJitly ; second, Cuthbert Lascelles, who ir.arried PVances, daughter ot Robert Knowsley, ot North Burton and Wighton, and had issue, first, Robert, baptized at Sigston, March 1 1th, \62g ; second, Eliza- beth, baptized March 17th, l630; third, Anne, baptized May 21st, 1633 ; fourth, Thomas, baptized April 13th, lCi;4.
Third, Phiiip Lascelles; fourth, Francis, baptised at North Allerton, January 21st, 1595; fifth, Thomas, baptized September 21st, 159B.
William Lascelles, alias Jackson, eldest son and heir ap- parent, was living at Stank in 1012, but died in his father's life-
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time, and was buried at Sigston November 10th, 1024, havino' married Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Wadeson, of Yafforth com. York, Esq. by whom he had two daughters and four sons.
The daughters were, first, Helen, baptized at Sigston Sep- tember 11th, l6l5 j second, Elizabeth, baptized March i4th, 1621.
The sons were, first, Francis, of whom presently; second, Robert, baptized at Sigston November 26th, 1617; third, Pere- grine, baptized Apnl 2d, 1619; fourth, Thomas, baptized August 5 th, 1(24.
Francis Lascelles, of Stank and North-AUerton, Esq. eldest son, and heir to his grandfather, was a child of two weeks old, at the visitation i6l2. He was a justice of the peace, and colonel of the army of the parliament ; elected member of parliament for the North Riding of Yorkshire, 1()53, 1654, and 1656. He was buried at Sigston (where he had bf^-en baptized, August 2;id, 1612) in November, 1667. He married Frances, second daughter of Sir William St. Quintin, ofHarpham, Bart bv Mary his wife, eldest daughter and coheir of Robert Lacy, of Folketon, Esq. She was buried at Sigston, September 20th, 1653. By her lie had issue, First, William, baptized at Sigston, September 5th, l634. Second, Mary, baptized February Jtb, l635, married, January 25th, l658, to Richard Shipton, of Lythe com. York.
Third, Henry, baptized May 3d, 163" ; fourth, Francis, bap- tized March igth, 1639.
Fifth, Catherine, baptized June, 164O3 sixth, Elizabeth, bap- tized November 9th, l64l.
Seventh, Lacy, baptized October 9tb, 1653. Eighth, Margaret, buried April 4tb, 1667. Ninth, Lucy, baptized October 9th, 1651, married Cuth- bert Wytham, a merchant in Virginia, second son of Sir William Wytham, of Garforth ; tenth, Helen, baptized July 19th, 1650 j eleventh, Dorothy ; twelfth, Hannah ; thirteenth, Elizabeth ; fourteenth, Dorothy; fifteenth, Catherine.
Sixteenth, Daniel Lascelles, of Stank and North-Allerton, Esq. born November 6th, l655, and baptized at Sigston, was jus- tice of the peace, high sheriff of Yorkshiie 1719> and sometime member of parliament for North-Allerton. He died September 5th, 1734, let. seventy eight, and was buried at North-Allerton.
He had two wives, first, Margaret, daughter of William Mct- calf, of North-Allerton^ Esq. by Anne, dauglitcr of Sir George
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Marwood, of Little Bucksby, Bart. She was burird ot North- AUerton, December 20tli, lO'yO. By hrr he hnd four sous, and four dnughters ; viz.
First, Francis, baptized at Sigston June IS. 10/4, died young.
Second, Anne, baptized December 5'h, Idyo', ditd an iiilaut.
Third, Daniel, died an infant June 11th, 1()77.
Fourth, Geouge Lascelles, eldest surviving son, of Stank, nnd of St. Michael's in Barbadoes, baptized at ISorth-Allerton March 2d, lOSl, His will is dated at Barbadoes, August 30th, 1726; and proved in London, where he died in the liletime of his father, February I'ith, 1/28-9, having married Mary, daughter of Wil- liam Dobdien, wh© died at Barbadoes, 1/22. By her he had two sons, and two daughters ; viz. first, William Lascelles, of Stank, Esq. succeeded his grandfather in his estate; died unmarried about 1750, and was buried at B-rraondsey in Surrey; second, Gkorge Lascelles, of North-Allerton, Esq. born in the island of Barbadoes, 1722, was living unmarried, 179O; third, Elizabeth, eldest daughter, mnnied at Lsleworth com :Middlesex, December 24th, 1741, to Edmund Davis, of Highworth and Ramsbury, com, Wilts, Esq. who took the name o{ Batsoji. He died December 1st, 1770? and was buried nt Highworth ; she died at a great age, s. p. about 1808. Fourth, Susannah, married at St. Paul's Cathe- dral, London, in February, 1748, to James Maxwell, Esq. com- missioner of the Sick and Hurt Office, and sometime phyt-iciaa general to the army in Germany. She died 1768 ; and he died 17/1> and were both buried at St. Andrew, Holborn, leaving an only surviving child, Henr\ Maxwell, now of EwshoL-house in Crundal, Hant^i, and Grosvenor plnce, London, who married, in March, 1730, Deborah, third daughter of the laie P^dward Brydgcs, Esq. of Wootton-court, Kent, by Jemima, (who di'jd December, 1809) daughter and coheir of William Egerton, LL. D. grandson of John, S'^cond Earl of Bridgewater. Ihis lady died in Harley- street, March, 1789, leaving an on!y child, who died an infant about five years after her mo'het.
Fifth, Henry Lascelles, of whom presently.
Sixth, Hant.ab, a twin with Henry, baptized November 20th, 1690, buried July 20th. 1G94.
The other daughters of this marriage were ; seventh, Mary, baptized September 13th, 1(J83, married, August 27th, 1706, to Cuthbert Mitford, of North- Allerton ; she died April 2.jth, 1727, and was buried at North- Allerton ; eighth, Elizabeth, married at Korth- Allerton on September 10th, 1713, to George Ord, of
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Longridge corn. Northumberland, Esq. He died February 25th, 1745, and was buried with his wife at Norham in that county.
Daniel Lascelles^ the father, married, secondly, Mary, daughter of Edward Lascelles, of London, Esq. ; and by her, who was buried at North-Allerton, October 30th, 1/34, set. seventy-two, had a son Francis, baptized at North- Allerton, November 8th, 1705, who died young, and one surviving son,
Edward Lascelles, Esq. of whom hereafter, as father to the present peer.
Henry Lascelles, of Harewood, Stank, and North-Allerfon, fifth son oiihe^first ivife, (Margaret Metcalfe) was born at North- Allerton, December 20th, 1690 ; was sometime collector of the customs at Barbadoes ; a director of the East Lidia Company, and member of parliament for North-AUerton. He died in London, and was buried at North-Ailerton, October l6ih, 1753. He married Jennet, daughter of John Whetstone, of Barbadoes, Esq. She died in London, April 22d, 1 754. By her he had five sons; viz.
First, JLdwin, of whom presently/ .
Second, Daniel Lascelles, of Goldsborough and Plumpfom com. York, Esq. baptized at St. Michael's, Barbadoes, May 20th, 1714 ; sometime member of parliament for North- Allerton ; died s. p. in Pall-Mall, May 26th, 1/84, and was buried at Golds- borough, having married Elizabeth Southwich, from whom he was divorced by act of parliament 1/51.
Third, Henry Lascelles, Esq. born August 10th, 1716, at St. Michael's, sometime a captain in the service of the East India Company. He died s. p. July 14th, 1786, and was buried in South Audley-street chapel, having married Jane, daughter of John Raine, of Scarborough com. York. She died June, 1784.
Fourth, Thomas, died young.
Fifth, George, died young, and was buried at North-Allerton, March 20th, 1723.
Edwin Lascelles, first Peer, eldest son and heir, was of Harewood, Stank, and North-Allerton. He was born at St. Michael's, Barbadoes, February 5th, 171x5 ^^^ ""^^s sometime member of parliament for Scarborough and North-Allerton ; and afterwards for the county of York. He was created Lord Hare- wood, of Flarewood castle in Yorkshire, to him and the heirs male of his body, by patent dated July gth, l/pO.
His Lordship married, first, Elizabeth, sister and sole heir of Sir William Dawes, Bart, and daughter of Sir Darcy Dawes, Bart.
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by Sarah, his wife, eldest daughter and coheir of Richard Roun- dell, of Hutton Wande^ley, com. York, Esq. She died without surviving issue at Bath, August 31st, \76-l; and was buried ia South Audley-street chnpel, iiaving had two children that died young.
His Lordship married, secondly, Jane, daughter of William Coleman, of Garnhey com. Devon, Esq. by Jane Seymour, his wife, sister of Edward, eighth Duke of Somerset, to whom he was married by special licence in Upper Brook-street, March 29th, 1770. She was widow of Sir John Fleming, of Brompton-Park, com. Middlesex, Bart, and survived his Lordship, who died w ith- out issue January 25lh, 1795, when the title becavic extinct.
We now return to Edward Lascelles (son of the second mar- riage of the last Ix)rd Harewood's grandfather with Mary Las- celles). I'his Edward was baptized at North-AUerton, February 25th, 1702. He was collector of the customs at Barbadoes ; and married at St. JNIichael's church in that island, January 1st, 1732, Frances, daughter of Guy Ball, Esq. a member of the council in Barbadoes. He died October :Ust, ]7'175 at Barbadoes, and was buried in St. MichaeFs church there, where he had a tomb de- stroyed by the fall of the church tower in the great hurricane, I78O. His widow remarried Fiancis Holburne, Esq. admiral of the White, rear-admiral of Great Britain, and governor of Green- wich-Hospital, third son of Sir James Holburne, ofMenshire in North Britain, Bart. She died May J 8th, 1761, ast. forty-one, and was buried at Richmond in Surrey. (Her last husband died Jr.ly ijlh, 177'j set. sixty-six,'" and was buried at Richmond.) jNIr. Lascelles had issue by this lady four sons, and two daughters, viz.
Firsts Mary Lascelles, born in Barbadoes, March lyth, 1/35 6; buried in St. JNIichael's church there, February 1 Ith, 17^'*7-
Second, Henry Lascelles, born November 1st, 1737, in Bji- badoes; died May 12Lh, 1755, unmarried, and was buried at Richmond in Surrey,
Third, Daniel, born in Barbadoes December Sth, 17-12, and died in that inland aged about eight years.
Fourth, Edward, now Lord Harewood, of ivhnm f>resetithf.
Fifth, Francis Lancellcs, born in Barbadoes, November 1st, 17-14, appointed ensign in the first regiment of loot-guards, Fe-
c He bad issue by her a son, Sir Francis Holburne, Bart, and two duugh- Tcrs, jean, wife of Ralph Sheldon, of Weston in Warwickshire, Esq ; and Catherine, married to Thomas Cussans, ot Jaimica, Esq.
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bruary 22d, 1761 ; captain in the seventeenth dragoons, De- cember 13th, 1761 3 major in the eighth dragoons, June 15th, 1/64; lieutenant-colonel of ditto. May 31st, 1768; colonel in the army, August 29th, 1/77; lieutenant-colonel of the King's own dragoons. May 8th, 1 780 ; major-general in the army, No- vember 20th, 1782; lieutenant-general, October I2lh, 1793; general, January 1st, 179S; colonel of the eighth dragoons, March 17th, 1789; colonel of the third dragoons, March 20th, 1797; and appointed groom of his Majesty's bed-chamber 1779: died 1799, unmarried.
Sixth, Frances, born in Barbadoes, December 6th, 1738 ; married at St. James's church, Westminster, October 1.5th, 1/(32, to Gedney Clarke, of Barbadoes, Esq. She died December lO'th, 1777j leaving one son, Gedney Clarke, of Barbadoes, 1796.
Edward Lascelles, present Peer, was born at Barbadoes, January 17th, 17 + 2 > was of Stapleton in the parish of Darrington com. Yojk, in 1790; and of Harewood-house, Gouldsborough, Stank, and North -Allerton, in the same county, in 1796. He was elected member of parliament for North- Allerton, 17OI, 1768, and 1790 ; and having succeeded to the large estates of the late lord Harewood at his death, 1795, was elevated to the Peer- age by patent, June 18th, 1796, by the same title of Baron Harewood, of Harewood in Yorkshire, to him and the heirs male of his body.
His Lordship married, May 12th, 1701, at St. George's, Han- over-square, Anne, daughter of William Chaloner, Esq. of Guis- borough in Yorkshire ; and by her has issue.
First, Edward, son and heir apparent, born January 10th. 1/64, in New Bond-street, and there baptized; member of par- liament for North-Allerton, 1 ^gQ.
Second, Henry, late member of parliament for the county of York, and now member of parliament for Westbury, Wilts j born at Stapleton, December 25tb, 1767, and baptized there: married, September 3d, 1794, Henrietta Saunders, daughter of Sir John Sebright, of Beechwood, com. Herts, Bart, (baptized at Hamstead, May 26th, 17/0), by whom he has issue a son, Ed- ward, born at Harewood-house, July 13th, and baptized there August 9th, 1796.
Third, Frances, born in Stanhope-street, May-fair, June 11th, 1762, baptized at St. George's, Hanover-square, married there October 4ih, 1784, to the Hon. John Douglas, uncle to the Earl of Morton, by whotn she has issue.
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Fourth, Mary-Anne, born at Stapleton aforesaid, November 22d, and baptized November 30th, 1/75, at Darrington.
Titles. Edward I>ascelles, Lord Harewood, of Harewood iu Yorkshire,
Creation. Baron Harewood by patent June 18th, \7gO.
Arms. Sable, a cross patonce within a border, or.
Crest. On a wreath, a bear's head couped, ermine; mnzzlcd, gules; gorged with a collar of the last studded and rimmed, or.
Supporters. On the dexter side a bear, ermine j muzzled, gules, gorged with a collar of the second, rimmed, studded, and chain reflexed over the back, or; pendant thereto an escutcheon, sable; charged with a cross patonce of the third : on the sinister a bull, azure ; seme of mullets, or ; armed, hoofed, and gorged with a collar and chain of the second, studded, gules ; pendant thereto an escutcheon of the second, charged \\\i\\ a cross patonce, vert.
Motto. Ik solo deo salus.
Chief Seat. Harewood^ Yorkshire.
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PEERAGE OF ENGLAND.
ROLLE. LORD ROLLC.
That thin family was anciently of Dorsetshire, appears from the will- of Thomas Rolle, bearing date July ipth, 1525, and the probate thereof, the last of January following. '^ He therein be- queaths to the church ofWyuborn Mynster in Dorsetshire, where (as related by him) he was born, for the devotion he hath to the said churchj and St. Cuthbert, t5s. 8d; being likewise a benefactor to other churches. He also bequeathed to Amys Goddard, hiK mother, then the wife of Walter Goddard, 20/. to pray for his soul. The residue of all his goods, chattels, debts, &c. his funeral, kc. fulfilled, he bequeathed to his uncles, William Rolle, parson of Wychampton, and George Rolle, of London, and makes them sole executors.
Which George Rolle was, without doubt, the same person who iirst settled in Devonshire, He was a merchant of great re- pute in the city of London, ^ and on the reformation, was a con- siderable purchaser of abbey lands. He also, in the reign of King Henrv VEIL purchased the seat, manor, and large demesnes of
Stevenstone, in the parish of St. Giles's in Devonshire, of
Moyle, Esq. a descendant from Sir Walter Moyle, Knt. '^ one ot the justices of the Common Pleas, in 32 Hen. VL to whom '^ it, accrued, by the marriage of the coheir of the Stevenstons, lords of the said manor.
Ex P-egist. vocat. Poith. Qu 2, in Cur. Prjcrofr- Cantuar
b Ex Inform, prachon Hen Dom. Rolle.
o Dugdale's ChionicaSeric , p (4.
d Piinje's Danmonii Oiien p K^^i-
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The said George Rolle, writing himself of Stevynston in ihe county of Devon, Esq, made '^ his last will and testament, No- vember llih, 1552, 6 Edw. VI. He therein bequeaths his soul to the Holy Trinity, and all the holy company of saints, and his body to be buried in such place, where he shall depart this miser- able life, in such manner as slnll please Margery his wife, whom he makes his sole executrix. He bequeaths to Jackit RoUe, Besse Rolle, and Mary Rolle, his daughters, ()00 marks each, to be re- ceived and paid by his trusty servants and friends, John Wychalf, GefFery Tuthyll, Richard Slaveley, and John Thore, or any two of them, out of all his manors, lands, &c. in the counties of Devon, Somerset, and Cornwall, accountirrg to his wife once in the year whilst she lives, within one month after the feast of St, Michael. He grants and bequeaths to George, his son, the wardship and mar- riage of Margaret Marrys, daughter and sole heir to Edn^ind Marrys, of the parish of St. Mary Wyke in the county of Corn- wall, in as ample manner as he had of the gift and grant of the said Edmund Marrys, paying yearly to the said Edmund lyl, during his life. The residue of his goods, &:c. he bequeaths to ^Margery his wife, his sole executrix. He bequeaths to his daughter, Mary Rolle, two tenements in Wandsworth, with the appurte- nances ; and if she die unmarried, then to his daughter, Eliza- beth Rolle, and her heirs. He also bequeathed to his daughter Mary, a bason and ewer, graved with her mother's armsj and if she died unmarried, then to his daughter, Elizabeth Rolle. And whereas his late brother-in-law. Sir John Pakington, by the name of John Pakington, of Hamplon-Lovet in the county of Wor- cester, Esq. by writing obligatory, dated February 15th, in 28 Hen. VllI, became bounden to him, the said George Rolle, and to Harry Dacres, merchant of London, and others, now deceased, on condition that the said Sir John Pakington, cause to be made to Edmund Knightley, serjeant at law, the said George Rolle, and others, a sufficient estate of, and in manors, lands, &c, in the shires of Worcester, Hereford, Stafford, Salop, and Middlesex, or any of them, to the clear yearly value of 120/. over and above all charges, &c. whereof the manor of Chadsley Corbet, with the ap- purtenances, in Worcesterbhire, should be parcel] to hold to the said John Pakington, and Anne, for term of the life of the said Anne, and to the heir male of the body of the said Sir John Pak- ington. His will is, that William Sheldon, of the county of
« Ex Regist Tash- Qu. 3, in Cur. Prccrog. Cant.
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Worcester, Esq. and John Prydyaux, Gent, shall be his executors for the said writing, and be governed in all and every suit, for the recovery of the debt contained in the said obligation, by his dear and well-beloved sister-in law, dame Anne Pakington, widow, for whose security the said obligation was made.
The probate bears date February Qth, 1552, which shews that he died the same year he made his will.
He had three wives, ^ by whom he had twenty children, but had only three daughters by his last wife, Margery Vaughan, who are mentioned in his will. Elizabeth Ashton was his first wife, but what issue he had by her I have not seen. By his second wife, Eleanor, second daughter of Henry Dacres, merchant of London, s he had issue two daughters, and six sons.
First, John, hereafter mentioned.
Second, George, ancestor to the present Lord Rolle.
Third, Christopher, who died unmarried.
Fourth, Henry Rolle, who had to wife Mary, daughter and heir of Robeit Yeo, of Heanton in com. Devon, Esq. a descendant from William Yeo, of Heanton Sachevil in com, Devon. '' in the reign of King Edward I. by Anne his wife, daughter and heir of John Esse, of Esse in Westhow in the same county, whose son, Robert Yeo, married Joan, daughter and heir of William Pyne, of Bradwell in Devonshire ; and his son, Robert Yeo, married Isabel, daughter and heir of John Brightley ; and his son, John Yeo, married Alice, daughter and coheir of William Jewe, of Colley, all in the same county ; and William Yeo, his son, had to wife Hellen, daughter of William Granvil, of Stow in com. Cor- nub. 5 and his son Robert had issue William, the father of Robert Yeo, Esq. first mentioned. By which marriage, the said Henry Rolle, in right of his wife, was possessed of a large est.nte, and by her had issue ' nine sons, and seven daughters.
Robert Rolle, Esq. his eldest son^ succeeded his father in his estate at Heanton Sachevill, &c. iG'iO, and had to wife Joan, daughter of Thomas Hele, of Fleet in com. Devon, Esq. by whom he had issue four daughters, and four sons, I shall only take notice of two of them, viz. of HenrVj second son, and
Sir Samuel Rqlle, Knt. aged thirty, in 1620, who was the eldest son. He married Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Wise,
f Ex Script, penei Hen. Doin. Rolle. C i, in OfRc Arm. S Visit, dc Com. Devon, in Cornwall. h Ibitl.
i Viiit. picvd. ,
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of Sideshay in com. Devon, Knight of the Bath, and left issue by her two sons, Robert and Dennis Rolle. Robert Rolle, of Heanton Sachevill in com. Devon. Esq. eldest son, had to wife one of the coheirs of Theophilus Chnton, Eiirl of Lincoln, who died in lOd", and by her had issue Samuel Rolle, his son and heir, who succeeded him in his estate at Heanton, and had a joint right to the Baronies of Clinton aiid S'nj, His"^ fiuher served for the county of Devon, in the two last parliaments of King Charles IL and he was returned for the same county in four parliaments, in the reign of King William IIL He left issue Margaret, his sole daughter and heir, married, on March 27th, 1/24, to Robert Lord Walpole, second Earl of Orford, Baroness Clintofi in her own right. See that title, "vol. vi.
Dennis Rolle, Esq. the youngest son of Sir Samuel Rolle, and brother of Robert Rolle, Esq. was seated at Hudscote in Devon- shire, and had issue Samuel, his son and heir, father of Samuel Rolle, Esq who died in 1747, and left his estate at Hudscote, &C. to Dennis Rolle, Esq. father to the present Lord Rolle.
I now return to Henry Rolle, second son of Robert, and brother to Sir Samuel Rolle. This Henry took to the study of the law in the Inner Temple, and in' 13 Car. L 1637, was elected reader of the Society^ as also in 14 Car. Lj whereof none were chose, but persons of great learning. He was one of the members for Truro in Cornwall, in '" the three first parliaments called by King Charles I.; and in \Q Car. I. " was called to the degree of Serjeant at law. On September 30th, ]64.5, both houses of par- liament agreed, ^ that serjeant Rolle should be a judge of the King's Bench, and he was accordingly sworn p one of the judo^es thereof, October 28th following. Also October 12th, l648, 24 Car. I. ^ he was by the house of commons voted to be lord chief justice of the King's Bench j but the ^ lords refused to agree to it. However, on November 13th following, ^ both houses concurred, that Justice Rolle should bring in his former patent, and receive a new commission, under the great seal, to be Lord Chief Justice OF THE King's Bench ; and the next day he was sworn therein. On January 11th, l648, the day after the meeting of the commis-
k Willis's Not. Parliament, vol. ii. p 254, 255.
1 Dugdale's Oiigines Juridiciales, p 168.
t;» Willis's Not. Pari. vol. ii. p. jz. n Pat. 16 Car. I. p 12,
o Whitlock's Memorials, p 1O8. p Ibid p. 185.
• Ibid, p 337. '^ Ibid. p. 538. ' Ibid p. 3|,v
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sioners for the trial of the King, the secluded members of the house of commons paid a visit to the lord chief justice Rolle, a wise and learned man, as Whitlock observes.' He seemed much to scruple the casting off the lords house, and was much troubled at it. Yet greatly encouraged them to attend the house of commons, notwithstanding the present force on them, which could not dispense with their attendance, and performance of their duty> who had no force on them in particular. After the murder of the King, he, with six other of the judges, " agreed to hold their commissions, provided, that by act of the commons, the fundamental laws be not abolished. And on February 14th, 1()48, was one of the thirty-eight persons that were chosen to be of the council of state; whereof there was of the peers, the Earls of Denbigh, Mulgrave, Pembroke, Salisbury, Lord Grey, Fairfax, Lord Grey of Groby, and Lord I>isle, as Whitlock relates.'' He expressed a dislike of bringing the King on his trial, and was not anyway concerned in it; but entertaining moderate principles, it may well be presumed, that he comphed with the bent of the times, whereby he might have opportunities of serving his country j and it is most certain, he tilled the bench with notable sufficiency, and more integrity, than any of his brethren. April 12th, i64Q, having been specially deputed, ^ with the Lord Fairfax, the ge- neral, Cromwell, lieutenant general, the chief Baron, and some of ihe house of commons, as a committee of parliament, to go to the common council of London, to borrow of them J 20,000/. for Ire- land] he accordingly went, and the next day, report being made of their forwardness in advancing it, they had the thanks of the house. On Feb. ]2, 1649, he was ^ again nominated one of the council of state for the government of the commonwealth ; and in April following, going the western circuit with judge Nicholas, he much settled the people's minds at Exeter, in his chaige to the grand luiy, and the lord chief justice Rolle was very much commended,'^ as Whitlock writes. On February 11th, l650, the commons voted, that the council of state should be altered for the year en- suing, and twenty new members chosen ; which was done by balloting,'' and the lord chief justice Rolle was continued. In August, 10.34,'" he was, with colonel Montagu, (after Earl of Sandwich) and others, appointed commissioners of the Exchequer.
t Whitlock's Memoiials, p 363- u Ibid. p. 372.
V Ibid. p. 376. y Ibid. p. 383. 2 Ibid. p. 425.
»■ Ibid. p. 433- *> Il?id p-463,b. ^ Ibid. p. .jSo.
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But Cromwell making new ordinances in the law, and the lord chiet'justice Rolle refusing to put them in execution, he had ** his quietus about the beginning of June, 10"55. Whitlock, one of the commissioners of the great seal, resigning at the same time. I presume he lived afterwards retired on his estate, in the county of Southampton, which he had purchased: but when he died, I don't find. He left issue, Sir Francis Rolle, of Tytherley in" Hampshire, Knt. who inherited his estate, and was ^' chosen one of the knights for the county of Southampton, (with Charles, Earl of Wiltshire) in the parliament summoned to meet at Oxford, in \6Sl. He married Priscilla, daughter of Sir Thomas Foot, Knt. one of the aldermen of London, by whom he had several daughters, (whereof Priscilla died March 12th, 1745, and was buried at West-Ham in Essex: she was possessed of a personal estate to the value of 20,000/. and left 200/. to the poor of Tuderly, and divers other charities;) and John Rolle, of Tuderly and Shapwick, Esq. who left issue two sons, John, and Samuel, who both died without issue ; and Samuel left his estate to John Rolle, Esq. father to Henry, first Lord Rolle; who left it to his youngest son, Dennis Rolle, Esq. father to the present Lord Rolle.
Having shewn how the male line of Henry Rolle, the fourth son of George Rolle, (first mentioned) terminated, I shall now treat of Robert Rolle, the. fifth son. Which "^ Robert married
Eleanor, daughter of Gabriel, and had issue John Rolle,
Esq. aged thirty-seven years, in 1620. He had to wife Gertrude, daughter of Anthony Acland, of Chittlehampton, Esq. but what issue is remaining from them, does not appear.
Maurice Rolle, sixth son, married Margaret, daughter o{ . . . . Brier, of Harrow on the Flill, in com. Middlesex, and left issue Henry Rolle, of Meth in com. Devon, Esq. living anno l620, and had issue Maurice Rolle, his son and heir.
The said George Rolle, Esq. had also two daughters ; Chris- tian, married to James Courtney, of Upcot in com, Devon, Esq. and Margaret, wife of William Wykes, of Nimet-Florie in com," Somcrs, Esq.
I come now to treat of John Rolle, of Stevenstone, the eldest ton of the said George Rolle, Esq. first mentioned. Which John
<J Tluirloc's State Papers, vol. ill. p. ^i^- c Ex Coll- B. Willis, Arm. f Ex Stemmate.
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■was born on December 12th, 15] 8, e and married Margaret, daughter of John Ford, of Ashburton in Devon, Esq. and by her had eight children, whereof Sir Henry Rolle, Knt. and John Rolle, the sixth son, were the most eminent. He was buried in the parish church of St. Giles, where a tomb is erected to his memory, about two foot and a half high, in the middle whereof is a brass plate, with this inscription.
Hie jacet Johannes Rolle Armiger, quondam Dominus de Stevenstone, qui obiit 13 die Augusti an. dom. 15/0.
His wife survived him, and was also buried there, as appears from a fair stone in the chancel, whereon is inlaid a brass plate, rejiresenting the figure of a woman with six sons, and two daugh- ters, and this epitaph.
Hie Stevenstonii Rolli jacet inclita Mater
Nil habuit vera quae Pietrite prius. Cum quibus et vixit, sex Mascnla Pignora liquit,
Queis desiderium Mortua triste tulit, Pars melior superos adiit Ccetusq. Piorum :
jEgidii Templo hoc, Ossa Sepulta cnbunt. Si quis plura velit, vel noscere plura laborat,
Vicino haec prestat Scripta Tabella LOco.
Round the edge of the tomb is a fillet of brass, an inch broad, but broken and defective; what remains being as follows :
Daughter of John Ford, Esqr
the 30th of June 1592, in the Year of her Majesty's Reign This was done by Robert
Sir Henry Rolle, Knt. was aged seventy-five years, in l620, '' when the visitation of Devonshire was taken by the heralds. He married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Roger Watts, of the county of Somerset, Esq, for his first wife; and for his second, Jane, daughter of John Fortescue, ofFallowpit in com. Devon,
g Vis. de Com. Devon, praed. h Vis. de Com. Devon & Cornv\'. C. i, in Offic Arm.
LORD ROLLE. 523
Esq. and relict of Richard Halsc, of Kcnedeii In tlie same countf, Esq. He was ' shciitl" of Devonshire in 33 and 40 Eliz. and died in [625, having greatly enlarged his estate, and was buried in St. Giles's.
By his first wife, '^ he had Sir Henry Ivolle, Knt. who died before him, anno lOl/j and by Anne his wife, daugiiter and co- heir of Sir Thomas Dennis, ofBickton, and Holconib-Bnrnel, in com. Devon, Knt. by his wife Anne, daughter of William Povvlet, Marquis cf Winchester, had issue Dennis Rolle, Esq. who suc- ceeded both him and his grandfather in their estates.
Which Dennis was sheriff of Devonshire, in the twelfth year of King Charles, l636 ; when his state and parade, at that time, was so great and splendid, (his attendants being mostly gentle- men of birth, in rich and costly liveries^ lined with velvet) that the glory thereof was not forgotten many years after^ as Mr. Prince ' relates. And one who knew him well, hath left this tes- timony of him,"" '■' That he was a gentleman of wonderful great hope, his worthy carriage and behaviour, in his very prime, giving assurance of his extraordinary sufHciency." And the same author adds (being living at the time he wrote), "That his great affinity, with a rare pregnancy of wit, and vivacity of spirit, by nature, and great and noble fortunes by inheritance, may in time add higher titles than I intend to mention," He was born at Bickton on the shortest day, December 11th, l6l4, and died on the llth of June, 1 638, as the inquisition taken after his death. September 18th, 14 Car. I. shews. By" which it appears, that he died pos- sessed of the hundred of Budley, alias E,st-Bud!ey ; the manors of Bickton, alias Buckton, and advowson of the church ; the manors of Kilmiiigton, and Harnford, and of divers other manors and lands in Devonshire; the manor of N.msrake in com. Cornub. and of divers lands, &c. in the counties of Somerset and North- ampton. He was buried in the parish church of Bicton, where a noble monument of white marble is erected to his memory, with the effigies of him and his lady, curiously cut in alabaster, lying at full length under an arch, adorned with several coats of arms of his family, and the heirs they matched with. On a table of black marble is this inscription (written by Dr .Fuller) in letters of gold,
i Fuller's Worthies in Devon, p. 270. k Ibid.
1 Worlhics of Devon, p. 552. m Westcote's Survey of Devon, MS.
" Colcb's Escactr. Jib. v. p. 250, in Bibl. Harleyan.
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The remains of Dennis Rolle, Esq. His earthly part within this tomb doth rest, Who kept a conrt of honour in his breast : Birth, beauty, wit, and wisdom, sate as peers, 'Till death mistook his virtues for his years. Or else heaven envy'd earth so rich a treasure. Wherein too fine the ware, too scant the measure. His mournful wife, her love to shew in part, This tomb built here, a better in her heart. Sweet babe, his hopeful heir (heaven grant this boon) Live but so well ; but oh ! die not so soon.
C Domini l6:;8.
Obiit Anno i tc,- r r, , i iEtatis 24.
■n T -^ r-i- ^ um, unum Rehquit Fili ■{
(. aSj qumquc
He married ° Margaret, daughter of John Lord Paulet, bi whom he left (as the inscription mentions) five daughters, and an only son, John, who was but four months and ten days old, at his father's decease, and died anno 1642. Of his five daughters, four of them were thus disposed of in marriage j Elizabeth, to William, son of Sir George Stroud; of the county of Sussex, Knt. j Florence, to Sir John Rolle, Knight of the Bath, ancestor to the Lord Rolle; Anne, to William Cook, of Highnam near Glou- cester, Esq. ; and Margaret, to Sir John Acland, of Columb-John in Devonshire, Bart, who had issue by her Sir Arthur Acland, Bart, who died in 1672, unmarried, and Margaret, married to John, Lord Arundel, of Trerice. Margaret, the widow of the said Dennis PloIIc, was secondly married to Sir Richard Chol- mondley, of Grosmont in Yorkshire, Knt. by whom he had Lady Put, mother to Sir Thomas Put, of Combe in the county of Devon, the last Baronet of the family, and Lady Doily, mother to Sir John Doily, Bart. She was thirdly married to Colonel Ed- wark Cook, of Highnam in Gloucestershire, and lies buried with her first husband at Bicton. Her only son, John Rolle, dying an infant, the inheritance of the estate of her husband came to
Henry Rolle, of Beam in com. Devon, Esq. son of John, (by his wife Philippa, daughter of Richard FLilse, of Kenedon in com. Devon, Esq.) who was brother to Sir Henry Rolle the elc|er,
" Cole's Escactr. lib. v. p- 250, in Bibl. Hailcyan.
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aforesaid. He dying without issue male, aged forty-one, was buried in the cliurcli of St. Giles's, April 13th, 1647. Where- upon the estate devolved on John Rolle, ot Marrais in com. Cor- nub. Esq. son of Andrew, son of George, who was the second son of George Rolle, Esq. the purchaser of Stevenstone.
Which George Rolle, Esq. was sealed at Marrais, (now wrote INIorris) in com. Cornuh, in right of his wife Margaret, daughter and heir of Edmund Marrais, of Marrais, Esq. by whom he had issue
Andrew Rolle, of Marrais, Esq. who was p forty years of age,
in 1020; after which he married, and left issue John, his son and
heir, who succeeded to the greatest part of the estate of his an-
-cestors, on failure of issue male of Henry Rolle, Esq. who died in
1647, as before-mentioned.
Which Sir John Rolle, K. B. was heartily attached to the in- terest of King Charles 11. during his exile, 'i and made him large remittances. In the parliament that restored the King, he'' was elected for Barnstaple in Devonshire^ and desiring to pay his duty to him, ' he had leave of the house of common-, May 8th, IO6O, to go over into Holland. Returning with his Majesty, he was ^ made one of the Knights of the Bath, at the coronation of Charles II ; and the year after, on the tailing a new parliament, he was chose" one of the knights for Devonshire. This was called the Long Parliament, being continued, by several proro- gations and adjournments, for seventeen years, eight months, and seventeen days. He was a leading member in the house of com- mons; and in the last session of that parliament, begun October 21st, 167s, I find by the journals, he was in the tirst committee appointed for privileges and elections ; also in a second committee, to consider of ways and means for providing remedies, for the better preservation and safety of his Majesty's {)erson, and for re- moving all popish recusants from within ten miles of the city of London, and to draw up an address to his Majesty tliereon. He was also in the committee for examining ir.to the murder of Sir Edmund-Bury Godfrey, and the popish plot ; and of the com- mittee, to inquire whether, contrary to the law for hindering d.-.ngers thai may happen from popish recusants, any persons have
f Vis de Com. Devon. Piaed. 'i E.v. Scii[j penes Hen. Dom. Rolle
r Willis's Not. Pari. vol. ii. p 328. s Journal 1660, p 18.
'■ Anstii'sKs^ay on Knighthood of the Bat.'^!, p S;
u Willis, p 254.
526 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND.
since got into any employnnent, military or civil ; and if any such appear, that an address be made to his Majesty to remove them. Bat towards the close of the session, absenting the house without leave, he with twenty-five more, mostly of the counties of Devon, and Cornwall, were ordered, December l&th, 16/8, to be sent for in custody of the Serjeant at arms. And being on the state of the nation, and the popish plot, they sent the same day a message to the lords, that they resolved to adjourn for Christmas, and Christ- mas-day only, during the Holydays. But on December 29th, following, the King prorogued them, and afterwards dissolved them. The next year he was sheriff of Devonshire, which pre- vented his being chosen again for the county, but he got his kins- man, Samuel Rolle, Esq. elected in his place j and he, with Sir Bourchier Wrey, Bart, his son-in-law, represented the county, as Jong as he lived. On the arrival of the Prince of Orange at Exeter, he sent his second son, Dennis, to attend him, and was well pleased with the accession of King William and Queen Mary to the crown. He married, as afore-mentioned, Florence, daughter and coheir of Dennis Rolle, Esq. by whom he had issue John, Dennis, Amos, Charles, Margaret, and Florence, married to Sir Bourchier Wrey, of Tawstock, Bart, and Knight of the Bath, and knight of the shire for Devon, in the parliaments of the first of Jac. II, and first of William and Mary; and was also go- vernor of Sheerness. (He was father of Sir Bourchier, member in Queen Anne's two last parliaments for Camelfordj and an- cestor of the present Sir Bourchier Wrey, of Tawstock, Bart, member for Barnstaple in the present parliament, descended from Sir Chichester Wrey, Bart, who married Anne, coheir of Edward Bourchier, Earl of Bath, and Lord Fitz-Warren, whence comes a claim to that Barony.)
Sir John Rolle lived to be very aged, and died at Stevenstone, and was buried in his parish church of St. Giles's, May 1st, IJOO, He was possessed of as large a fortune, as any commoner of that time,'' and died seized of the manors of Abbots Bickington, Ash- ley Rolle, Aylesbear, Belston, Bickton, Bradwoodwigier, Barton, in Buckland Brewer, Bnckland Brewer, Branton, Bridgerole, Buckfast, Coliton Raleigh, Dodscot and More, East Pulford, Ger- mans Week, Harpford and Vcuotery, Highley, Holbeton, Kil- mington, Lancras, Landkcy, Langlree, Littleham and Exmouth, Moor Malherbe, Norwood, Odeham, Parkham, Poolapit Tamer,
'' Ex Script Hen. Dom Rolle
I.OUD ROLLE. 527
Pulcras cum Pottlngton, Raddon, Stevenstone, Stowford, Tregen- iiow, Tythecotr, Great Torrington, West Putfurd, Upcot Wood- bury, and Yarnscomb, in com. Devon. And the manors of Crack- ington. East Orchard Marrays, Hilton, Hole, Nauskuke, North Tamerton, Wadfast, Yellow Lee; with the patronages of Abbats Bickington, Bickton, Langtree, Marland, Marham Church, North Tamerton, and part of Little Torrington, in the counties of Devon, and Cornwall 5 and the custody of the high gaol of the county of Devon; and lands, &:c. in several other parishes, in the several counties of Cornwall, Devon, Northampton, and Somerset.
John Rollc, Esq. his eldest son, died before bis father, and was buried at Bicton (where he resided) April 22d, l68g. He married Lady Christian Bruce, daughter of Robert, Earl of Ails- bury, lord chamberlain to King James II. and was buried at Bicton with her husband, April 23d, 172O. She had, for her second husband. Sir Robert Gayer, Knight of the Bath, who had by her two sons, Edward, and James. By her first husband she had three sons, first, Robert ; second, John ; and third, Dennis ; also a daughter, Diana, married to Sir Bourchier Wrey, of Tawstock, Bart.
Robert Rolle, Esq. the eldest son, was chosen for Kellington in Cornwall, in the two last parliaments of King William, and served in the several parliaments, called in the first, fourth, seventh, and ninth years of Queen Anne, for the county of De- von. He died at Exeter in 1710, and was buried at Bicton. In private life, as well as in public, no person excelled him. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Duke, of Otterton in com, Devon, Esq. who was buried by her husband at Bicton, September "IQih, 1716, leaving no issue by him ; whereupon his estate de- volved on his brother John.
Which John Rolle, Esq. was chosen for Saltash in Cornwall, in the first parliament of Queen Anne, and in her fourth parlia- ment for Devonshire, on his brother Robert's decease. In her fifth parliament, he was elected for the city of Exeter; and in the first of King George I. was chosen for Barnstaple; and in the second, again chosen for the city of Exeter : also, in the first of King George II. he was again chosen for the county of Devon. He> was offered the title of an Earl by Queen Anne's last ministry, which he refused. He died May O'th, 1730, and wa.s buried at St. Giles's with his ancestors. He had the esteem,
y 7.x Inform Hen. Donn. ."^o!!?
52S PEERx^GE OF ENGLAND.
veneralion, and love of the whole county, and all his acquaintance, as his brother Robert had : the iirst was esteemed for his conduct and generosity; the last for his generositj'; and both for their integrity. He married Isabella, daughter of Sir William Walter, of Saresden in Oxfordshire, Bart, by the Lady Mary Brace, daughter of Robert, Earl of Ailsbury aforesaid, by whom he had,
Eirst, Henry, Lord Rolle.
Second, John, who changed his name to TTalter, on his suc- ceeding to the estate of his uncle. Sir Robert Walter, Bart, brother to Sir John Walter, clerk of the green cloth to Queen Anne, and member for the city of Oxford ; both sons to Sir William Walter aforesaid, and great grandsons to Sir John Walter, Knt. lord chief baron in the time of Charles IL ; Third, William Rolle, died without issue.
Fourth, Dennis Rolle, succeeded to tlie estates of Samuel Rolle, Esq. at Tuderly in Hampshire, and Shapwick in com. Somers ; as also to those of Samuel Rolle, of Hudscote in De- vonshire, as before related. He was father to the present peer.
Henky, Lord Rolle, the eldest son, was born November 7, 17OB, at Beam, in the parish of Great Torrington in com. Devon. He had both honorary degrees of master, and doctor of the civii law, at the University of Oxford. Li 1/30, he succeeded his father as member for the county of Devon, and was chosen for the same county in the next parliament. In the third, and fourth par- liament of this King, he was chosen for Barnstaple. And in consideration of his great merits, was created a Peer of this realm, by the style and title of Lord Rolle, Baron of Steven- stone, by letters patent, bearing date January Sth, 1747-8, '1\ Geo. II.
Christian, his Lordsliip's sister, was married to Henry Ste\ ens, of Smithcot in com. Devon. Esq.
Isabella, another sister, was married to Robert Duke, of Ol- terton in the same county, Esq. and both were widows.
Two other sisters, Letilia, and Lucilla, died unn^arried.
His Lordship died unmarried, 1750, When the title became- extinct.
Dennis Rolle, his fourth brother and heir, died July 25ih, 1797> having married , by whom he had issue
John Rolle, M. P. in several parliaments for Devonshire, re- created LoKO Rolle, of Stevcnstone, June 20th, 1790'.
His Lordship married Miss Walsand, of Bovcy com. Devon, but has no isiue.
LORD ROLLE. 529
Title. John Rollc, Lord Rolle, Baron of Stevenstone,
Creation. Lord Rolle, Bnron of Stevenstone in Devonshire, June 20th, 1796.
Anns. Or, on a bar dancette, between three delves azure, charged with as many lions rampant of the first, three beesants.
Crest. An arm couped azure, hand or, holding a flint proper.
Supporters. On either side, a leopnrd reguardant gules, spotted or, each crowned with a corotict flory, of the second.
Motto. NeC REGE, NECPOPULO, SED UTROaUE.
Chief Seats. Stevenstone, in the parish of Sr. Giles near Great Torringlon, Bickton, Hadscot, and Bovey-house, all in Devonshiic.
VOL. VIII.
530
PEERAGE OF ENGLAND.
CAMPBELL, LORD CAWDOR.
The Editor regrets his inability to give a satisfactory account of the ancestors of Lord Cawdor, there being, (if he is not misin- formed) no entry made in the Heralds College, and applications to the family for private information having failed.
The Campbells of Gzwrfor in Scotland, acquired their seat and estate in Pembrokeshire by marrying the heiress of the Lorts of Stacpole-court, in that county.
John Campbell, ^ Esq. of Cawdor in Nairnshire, and of Stac- pole-court, represented the county of Pembroke in parliament in 1727, 1734, and 1742; and was made a lord of the admiralty 1736; and of the treasury, 1746. He was also lieutenant-colo- nel of the horse-gUards, and governor of Chester. He had two sods, and two daughters, viz.
First, Pryse Campbell, ofivhom presently.
Second, Lieutenant-colonel Alexander Campbell, died Novem- ber, 1785, member of parliament for Nairnshire, having married Frances, sisier of the present Earl Manvers, daughter of Philip Medows, Esq. by Lady Frances Pierrepont, sister of the late Duke of Kingston, by whom he had a son, major-general Frederick C. Campbell, of the first regiment of foot-guards, member of par- liament for Nairnshire 179G, 1806j and a daughter, wife of her 'cousin, the present admiral Campbell,
Third, a daughter.
a Sir John Campbcllj third son of Archibald, Earl of Argyle, married Morella, daughter and sole heir of John Calder of Calder. But vVhether the present Lord Cawdor is descended from him, I know not.
LORD CAWDOR. 531
Fourth, Anne, married, July 8th, 1752, the late Matthew, Lord Fortescue, by whom she was mother of the present Ear].
Pryse Campbell, Esq. of Cawdor, and Stacpole-court, eldest son, was member of parliament for the counties of Cromertie and Nairn, 17^2, and appointed a lord of the treasury 1/6(5. He had issue.
First, John, now Lord Cawdor.
Second, George, a vice-admiral of the Red, now member of parliament for the town of Carmarthen. He married his cousin, the daughter of lieutenant-colonel Alexander Campbell, already mentioned, buc has no issue.
Third, Sarah, married, September 12th, 1782, Thomas Wode- house, Esq. barrister at law, brother to Lord Wodehouse.
John Campbell, eldest son, now Lord Cawdor, represented the town of Cardigan in parliament 1780j 1/84, 179O, and was raised to the Peerage on the dissolution of that parliament, 1796, by the title of Lord Cawdor, of Castlemartin in the county of Pemlrole, by patent dated June 21st, \7Q6.
His Lordship married, June 27, l/St), Lady Caroline Howard, eldest daughter of Frederick, Earl of Carlisle, K. G. by Caroline Leveson Gower, daughter of Granville, first Marquis of Stafford, and has issue two sons, viz.
First, John.
Second, George.
Title. John Campbell, Lord Cawdor of Castlemartin in Pem- brokeshire.
Creation. Baron, by patent June 21st, \7QQ-
Arms. Quarterly of four, first, or, a stag's head cabossed, sable; second, gironny of eight, or, and gules; third, argent, a ship; fourth, per pale azure and gules, a cross, argent.
Crest. A swan.
Supporters. On the dexter, a lion guardant 3 on the sinister, a stag.
Motto. Be mindful.
Chief Seats. Stacpole-court, Pembrokeshire ; Cawdor-castle, Nairnshire.
632
VEERAGE OF ENGLAND.
WELLESLEY LORD VVELLESLEY.
(MARQUIS JVELLESLEY IN IRELAND J
Tke family of Cow leYj Cooley, or, as it is now written, Col- tEY, derives its origin from the county of Rutland, whence they removed into Ireland in the reign of King Henry VI i I. in whose twenty-second year his Majesty granted to Waltek and Robert Cowley, of Kilkenny, Gent, during their respective lives, the office of clerk of the crown in Chancery.
Robert, in that reign, was made Master of the Rolls j ap- pointed May 7th, 1540, a commissioner for setting the lands of the dissolved abbies 3 ^ and September uOth that year, one of the keepers of the peace within the county of IMeaih, with power to enforce the observation of the statutes of Dublin and Kilkenny. He left a son, Robrrt Collev, Esq. justice of the peace in the King's County, to whom Queen Elizabeth, Feb 3d, 156"2, granted Castletown, otherwise Young-Cowleyston, and other lands in the King's County, to hold to his heirs male in capite, which, on his decease without issue, were granted to Sir Thomas Moore, an- cestor to the Earl of Charleville. ^
The aforesaid Walter Cowley was appointed solicitor-ge- neral of Ireland September 7th, 1537, (29 Hen VIII.) with the fee of 10/. a year, Irish, which he surrendered to John Bathe in 1546", and by privy-seal September 21st, and by patent November
:i Rot. dc anno. lo. Maria?. M- 18. D. >• See Earl of Dioghcda,vol. ix.
LORD WELLESLEY. 533
5th, J54S, was nuiue surveyor-general of the kingdom. He loft two son-;.
Sir H'Miry ; and
Walter, who in 153Q was made customer and collector of the town of Drogheda for life, with the salary of 10/. Irish.
Sir Henry Colley, of Casllc-Carbcry , was a captain in the army of Queen Elizabeth, from whom he received a commission April 2Sth, 1559, to execute matlial law in the territories of OfF.iley, Kenaliegh, and Ferkeall, also throughout the barony and places of Carbery, Fertullagh. and FerrmilanderHiod, as u'ell within liberties as without ; ar.d in May following, was appointed a commissioner of array for the county of Kildare. In the p^r- liamciit, hr-Id at Dublin byThom:!r>, Enrl of Sussex, January 12th, J5.')9, he served for the borough of Thomastown in the county of Kilkenny, with Fr.mcis Co-^by, Ivq.;*^ 2 liliz. he was knishted by Sir Hfinry Sidney, L. D. vvlio called him into the privy-council j and September i/th, 1580, thus recommends him to his succe<^sor. Arthur, Lord Gray. " My good Lord, I had alniost forgotten, by reason of the diversity of other matter, to recommend unto you, among*.t other of my friends. Sir Henry Cowley, a Knight of mine own making ; \\ ho, whilst he was young, and the ability 'and strength cf his body served, was valiant, fortunate, and a good servant ; and having, by my appointment, tb.e charge of the Kir.g's county, kept the country well ordered, and in good obe" dience. Hr is as good a borderrx, as ever I found any thexe, 1 ]<rh him at my coming thence a counsellor, and tried him for his experience and judgment, very sufficient for the room he was called unto. He was a sound and fast friend to me, and so I doubt tiot but your Lordship shall find, when you have occasion to emi ploy hirn." '^ And it appears from Sir Nicholas Malby's account
c On February jl!, 1561, ; Eliz liu had a giant, by the name of Henry C^-V;:e, £^q. cf the manor and castle of Eiiindeiry, otheiwlse Colleystown, Dromcowley, and otlier lunfis in the King's County, to hold to his heirs male, by the twentieth part ot a knight's fee, as of the castle of Philipstown, to answer Hosting-:; and also of the cjstlc of Caibcry, with other lands, in the Qounty of Kildare, for a term of years, of which the Oueen, in her letters to rhe L. D. ansi council, touching the suits of sundry periuns, dated April 20, 1568, ordered him, upon surrender, to have a grant to him and his heir^, which was perfected accordingly March 22;!, 1576 ; having, June 19th before, passed paten for the lands of Ardkill and Colienstown in the county of Kil- dare, and the r,.ctories of Carbery and Ballynorcher, to him and his heirs iiiale.
u .Sidney's I.-ettcrs, vol i y z%\
534 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND.
of the government of Ireland, drawn up and sent to the Queen ici 1579, (wherein he ranks and distinguishes all the men of power, both English and Irish, in the King's County) that Sir Henry- Cowley was a man of power and name ; and (says he) " he is an English gentleman, seneschal of the county, who governed very honestly, but now is sore oppressed by the rebels, the Connors."
In 1581, be made a disposition and settlement of his estate, "^ and died in Oct. 1584 ; and having married Catherine, ^ daughter of Thomas Cusack, ofCussington in the county of Meaih, lord chancellor of Ireland, and had issue by her, (who re-married with William Eustace, of Castlemartin in the county of Kildare, Esq. s and died January ipih, 159/) three sons.
First, Sir George, of Edenderry.
Second, Sir Henry, of Castle-Carbery, ancestor to Marquis Wellesley.
Third, Jerome, alias Gerald, an infant at his father's death,'' who was afterwards of Ardree, and whose daughter, Catherine, was married to William Moore, of Barnmeath, Esq.
Sir George Colley, of Edenderry, the eldest son, pursuant to privy signet, dated at Westminster January 31st, 15/8, was appointed seneschal of the country and barony of Carbeiy, and to a lease in reversion of certain lands, then in the posses- sion of Sir Henry his father, upon his father's surrender, who being seneschal of the barony of Carbery, alias Birmingham's country, had received no fee from the crown ; but in respect of all fees and duties received of the country, 10 Z.Irish, and forty pecks of oats, which office, at his humble suit, the Queen be- stowed upon his son George for life, January 31st, 157S. ' In 1599, he held out his castle of Edenderry for the Queen, against
e On the last day of February 1581, (having suffered common recoveries of his estate) he made a settlement thereof; whereby he reserved Castle- Carbery, Sec. to his wife for life ; and the lands of Clonogh, Ballyhaggan, Ballyvan, and Touregith, in the county of Kildare, to the use of such of the daughters of Sir Adam Loftus, lord chancellor, as should iirerjiiarry with one of his sons- He settled Castle Carbery, and other lands, reserved in jointure to his wife, after her decease, on his second son Henry and his heirs male ; remainder to his third son Gerald ; remainder to his eldest son George, and their respective heirs male; remainder to his own heirs male forever; and Edenderry, with the estate in the King's County, and the aforesaid rectories, on his eldest son George and his heirj male ; remainder to Henry and Gerald, and their heirs male; remainder to his own right heirs.
f MSS Penes., J L. g Decree dated at Droghrda, June 27th, 1604. t» Rot. pat. de anno 210 Ehz f. i Rot dc anno 21 Eliz. f.
LORD WELLESI-EY. 535
iht abettors of Tyrone's rebellion ; and died January 17th, l6l4, having had issue by IVIargaret, "^ seventh daughter of Dr. Adam Loftus, archbishop of Dublin, three sons ; Sir William, his heir ; Adam, who died young; Robert, who died unmarried j and a daughter Margaret, married to George Sankey, of Balenrath in the King's County, Esq.'
Sir William, the eldest son^ in the parliament of ]6\:i, was member, with Gilbert Domvile, Esq. for the town of Kildare, after which he was knighted 3 "' and marrying Elizabeth, sister to Sir John Gifiard, of Castlejordan, Knt. had issue by her, who died March 241 h, 1 629, one daughter Sarah, married to Sir George Blundell, ancestor to the Viscounts Blundell, (which title is ex- tinct), and one son,
George Colley, of Edendcrry, Esq. who, September 8th, l648, married Eleanor, younger daughter of Sir Dudley Loftus, of Killyan, Knight, (grandson of the aforesaid Adam, arch- bishop of Dublin) by his wife Cecilia, daughter of the learned Sir James Ware, auditor-general of Ireland ; but by her (who re-married tirst, with Colonel William Duckenfield, and after with Sir Edward Tyrrell, " of Lynn in Westmeath, Bart, who was
k MSS. Pedig. lit antea. 1 Idem,
m In 1619, by petition to the King, he set forth, that he held, by virtue of letters jjatent of fee-tail, granted to Sir Henry his grandfather, the manor of Edenderry, and divers other lands in the King's County ; and, by virtue of other letters patent, granted to his said grandfather and his heirs male, lie held tlie rectory of Carbery in the county of Kildare, and that of Bally- norcher, extending into Westmeath and the King's County : all which, with other hereditaments, purchased by Sir George Colley his father, he desired to have confirmed unto him by a new patent, and to his heirs male; remainder to his brothers Adam and Robert; remainder to Sir Henry, son and heir of Henry, second son of the first mentioned Sir Henry (his grandfather), and his brother tdmond ; remainder to Garret, third son of the first mentioned Sir Henry, and their respective issue male. Hereupon the King, " tendering the peace and quiet of such, whose ancestors had faithfully served him and his crown, and especially remembering the many acceptable and good services, performed to Queen Elizabeth by the said Sir Henry, who long served her Majesty as a captain and privy-counsellor in Ireland, and by the said Sir George, and lastly, by himself, who personally served in suppressing the re- bellion, during the whole course of it ; and the better to encourage him to do acceptable services for the future,'" was pleased to confirm all the premisses, as aforesaid, by patent, dated July 3d, 1619, creating those in the King's County into the manor of Edenderry, otherwise Cowleystown; of which, June 8th, 1635, he received a further confirmation, in virtue of the commission .for remedy of defective titles.
n MSS. Pedig. ut arfa.
536 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND.
attainted in 1688, for rebellion against King William, and died February 7tb, 169O, leaving an only daughter, Catherine, married to Robert Edgworth, of Longwood in Meath, Esq.) having no surviving issue, the estate was carried by his sister into her hus- band's frimily, where it still remains.
We now proceed with Sir Henry Colley, of Castle- Carbery, ancestor to Marquis Wellesley. In Queen Elizabeth's reign he was constable of the fort of Philipstown ; seneschal of the King's County j and June 25th, I56l, appointed providore of the army." In 15/1, he obliged the Irish to appear before him at Philipstown, and bind themselves by mutual recognizances to pre- serve the public peace, to answer for each other's good behaviour, and to deliver eac!i other up to him, whenever he should call for them. In 15/6, (on St. George's day) lie was knighted in Christ- church ; P and in 1593, he furnished tliree archers on horseback,
o By the following commission :
" Thomas Sussex, " To all Mayors, Shidfs, B.iilives, Constables, Controllers, and all other the Queene's Majesty's Officers, Minysters, and lovinge Subjectes, and to every of them, greeting. Wee lette youe witte, that wee have auctorised and appoynted, and by these presentes doth auctorise and appoynt our well-be- loved Henry Colley, Esquyer, or the bearere hereof in his name, to provyde and take up in all places to and for the furnMure of her Majesty's armie, re- sydent within the realme of Irelande, as well within the liberties as vi-ithoute, within the saide realme ; salte, wyne, wodd, tymber, lyme, brick, and cole, for the furnyture of her saide armie ; and alsoo shipps, boats, lighters, gables, anchors, horsses, cartes, carriages, and all other provysion, for the convei- aunce of the same, as well by sea as by lande. And also bakers, brewers, coopers, millers, maryners, labourers, and all other artificers and ministers, as by hym shall be thought meete and convenient, from tyme to tyme, for the service aforesaide : and also bake-houses, brew-houses, garnells, and sellers, for the stowage of the same, as by him shall be thought good ; he paying for the same at reasonable prices, as hathe bene accustomed. Wherefor we will and commaunde youe, and every of youe. Sec. Yeven at Kilmaynam the 25 of June the yere aforesaid. Willm Fitz Williams, Henry Radclili'. Francis Agarde. John Parker. Jaqucs Wyngefelde." * Also, by co.minission, dated April 15th, 5 Queen Eliz. he was authorized and appointed, (being styled Surveyor of the Queen's Victuals in Ireland] or the bearer thereof in his name, to take up in any place or places, three good /jai/e and sujjicient horse- mylles, with their furniture, and al^o so many cartes and other cmyadges, as should be sufficient for the carriage and conveying thereof to Armagh, there to remain for the furnUure of her Majesty's garrison there, paying for the same, as in like case* had been accustomed. Rot. 50 £liz. 4a. p. f. p Lodge MSS. and Pedig.
* Rot dc anno 3" Eliz lo.i. p. f.
LORD WELLESLEY. 5S7
to the general hosting at the hill of Tarah, for the bnrony of O'Kethy and Oughtt rany, the largest number furnished by any person in that barony; '' commanded in 1599' t^^'enty loot of the army in Ofl^'iley ; :ind in the parliament of l6";3, served for the borough of Monaghan. He married Anne,'' second daughter of the said Adam Loftus, archbi'-hop of Dublin, and by her, who re- married first with George Blount, of Kidderminster in Worces- tt-rshire, Eiq. and after with Edward, Lord Blaney, had issue, lirst, Sir Henrv,^is heir; second, Edmund, of Ardree.
And fiiree daughters ; tirst, JMary, married, first, to Sir Gerald Moore, Viscount Drogheda ; fccondly, to Charles, Viscount Wil- mott, of Athlone; and dying January 3tl, 1(354, was buried by her first Lord in St. Peter's church, Drogheda.
Second, Alicia, to Sir Claud riamilton, of Castle-Toome in the county of Antrim, Knt. by whom she had a son, Robert, who died childless at Roscrea, June 5lh, 1 640, and was there interred ; and three daughters ; Anne, married, first, to Ralph Gee, and se- condly, to J Dongan, Esqrs. j Alicia, to Thomas Norris,
of Dundrum ; and V'aleutina, first, to Colonel Charles Blount, secondly, to Colonel Kniglit, and thirdly, to Robert Oliver, of Clonodfoy in the county of Limerick, Esq.
Third, Jane,' in 10'l(3, became the wife of Robert Smith, of Moyry in the county of Armagh, Esq. to whom she was second wife, and whose only daugliter, Isabella, was married to the Rev. ^Ir. Watson, and had issue.
Sir HiiNRY Colley, who succeeded at Castle-Carbery, ^ mar* ried Anne, daughter and coheir to Christoph-^r Peyton, Esq. au- di tor-gent ral of Ireland, and dying in July, iG37, had issue five sons and three daughters; Dudley, his successor; Peyton and Charles, who died infants ; Christopher and Thomas, who died bachelors J Elizabeth, died unuiarried before herfluher; Mary, (married, first, January 5th, 1 65 I, to Saiikey Siliyard, alderman of Dublin, by whom she had Henry, baptized November ipth, 1052, wlio died April 1st, iG.'^'o ; Margaret, married to Patrick
q Lodge MSS. and Pcdig. r Ibid,
5 Ibid and Chancery lMcadirii,'s. t On February :5th, 1617, were gniiued to him and Ills heirs, the ton a andlnndsof Ball ykiltafjle, alias Ballykiltagh, 260 acres, with other lands in tlie territory of Kinshelaj;h and county of VV'exfortI, under sucli covenants, as the und-Ttakers of that plantatioii v.vre subject to, except that for buildia;; a. castle.
^38 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND.
Nangle j and Letitia, to William Latin : " she married, secondlyj Alexander, brother to Sir Maurice Eustace, chancellor of Ireland, but by him had no issue) ; and Eleanor, first to Norrys, son of Sir John Jephson, Knt, by whom she had a son Norrys, and se-
.condly, to Pitts, ^
Dudley Golley, of Castle-Carbery, Esq. in the first parlia- ment after the restoration was member for Philipstown; received his Majesty's directions from Whitehall, August 6th, I660, in recompence of his many acceptable "services pef formed to King Charles, y to have a release and confirmation of the towns and lands of Ardkill and Collinstown, in the county of Kildare, the inheritance being then in him, of which he had a grant January 3 1st following; February 16Q5, he was captain of the first com- pany of foot that should become void, and was appointed one of the commissioners for executing the acts of settlement. He lies buried in the church of Carbery, under a monument erected t9 his memory, with this inscription :
This monument was erected by Henry CoUey, Esq.
in memory of his father Dudley CoUey, alias Cowley,
Esq. great grandson of Sir Henry Collcy, alias Cowley,
of Castle-Carbery, Knt. who built this chapel, and
burial-place for his family, who are interred
therein, with their wives : Ann Warren, daughter cf
Henry Warren, of Grangebegg, Esq. ; Elizabeth,
Daughter of George Sankey, ofBalenrathin the King'sCouuty, Esq.
and Catherine Cusack, daughter of Sir Thomas
Cusack, Kt. then Lord Justice of Ireland.
Sir Henry Colley, alias Cowley, was knighted by
Queen Elizabeth, in the 2d year of her reign, and
made one of her Majesty's most honourable privy-council.
Henry Colley, now living, son of Dudley Colley,
married Mary Ussher, and had issue by her six sons
and six daughters; whereof two sons, Henry and
Richard, and six daughters are now living.
She was the only daughter of Sir William
Ussher, of Bridgefoot, Kt. by his Lady Ursula
« Lodge and Pedigree.
.1 Ibid, and Chancery Pleadings.
V Rot. de Anno 120 Car. II. x<*. p Ji.
LORD WELLESLEY. 5Ȥ
St. Barb, and lyeth here interred, for whose memory
also this monument was made, the 10 Day
of July, Anno Dom. 1705.
He married to his first wife Anne, daughter of Henry ^Varren, of Grangebegg in the county of Kildare, Esq. (by his wife Eliza- beth, daughter of Sir John Eustace, of Harreston) by whom he had eight sons nnd seven daughters.
And by his second wife Elizabeth, widow of Henry Bollard, of Dublin, Esq. aud daughter of George Sankey, of Balenrath in the King's County, Esq. (by his wife Margaret, daughter of Sir George Colley, of Edenderry), he had three daughters ; Jane, who died young; Alicia, (the first wife to Henry Gorges, of Cole- raine, Esq. and had Jane, who diedyoung>)j and Grace, first married to Anthony Brabazon, of Corrstown in the county of Louth, Esq. by whom she had William Brabazon, Esq. who^^e daughter and heir Susanna, married Francis Duggan, of the Q-ueen's County, Esq. and had issue three d (Ughters, the eldest of whom, Susanna, married David Jebb, of Slane in the county of Meath, Esq. second and only surviving son of John Jebb, D. D. dean of Cashel ; she married, secondly, in February 1/00, Caleb Gay, Esq. son of John Gay, the elder, Esq. who died about the year l6g2; Caleb was collector of Drogheda, and died without issue November 14th, l/OI, and she died July 13th, 1/42.
The children by the first wife ^ were.
First, Henry, his suscessor.
Second, George, of Monasteroris, who married Susanna^ daughter of Charles Wainman, Esq. and had issue Dudley CoHey, of Rahin, Esq. sheriff of the county of Kildare in 1^34, who mar- ried a daughter of Reading, Esq and died without issue
in February 1768, set. sixty-five j Charles j Dorothy, and other children.
Third, John ; fourth, Charles 3 and fifth, William, died youDg.
Sixth, Christopher 3 seventh, Thomas ; and eighty, Dudley, died unmarried.
Anne, Charity, and Sarah, died in their infancy.
Elizabeth, married to Garret Wssley, of Dangan in the counly of Meath, Esq.^ and died September 8th, 1678.
y MS. Pedig. z Ibid, and Ulster,
a The family of Wesley, ancientlycalled De Wrl £SLEy,alias We lse-
540 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND.
Mary, first to William Ashe, of Ashe-field in Meath, Esq. grandson and heir to Richard Ashe, Esq. and by him, who died March 14th, 1081, was molher of Richard, member of parlia- ment for Trim, who died in January, 1/27; 3"<^J Miry: and she married, secondly, James Erabazon, Esq. of Corrstown in the
LEY, was of Saxon extraction, * and after the Norman conquest, became seated in the county of Sussex. The first of the name in Ireland, eniered the kingdoni in 1172, w'th King Henry II. to whom he had the honour of being standard- bearer, and for his milirary services, was rewarded with large grants of land in the counties of Meath and Kildare ; a considerable part of which still remains in the possession of the representative of the family. His posterity were men of great note and distinction in this kingilom ; amongst whom, in 1303, we find Wahan, or William de VVellsley, who, together with Robert de FercevaJ, of the Egmont family, was slain in a battle with the Irish, October Z2d that year; t his son John was the father of William who was summoned to par.!- liament in 1339, as a Baron of the realm, and had a grant by patent from Ed- ward II. of the custody of his castle of Kildare for life; but that King after- wards conferring that office on John Fitz-Thomas (Earl of Kildarel, together with the county of Kildare, to hold to his hqirs male for ever, he was re- moved and lost the fee of 20/. a year annexed theieto-, in recompence whereof King Edward Hi granted him a commission dated at Molyngar, March isr, 1341, to have the custody of the manor of Demor, then in the crown, from August ;st, 1341, with the annual fee of ao marcs. By commission dated at Trym, March loth, 1381, King Richard II. appointed William Wellesley keeper and governor of the castle, lands, and lordship of Carbery, and the lands and lordships of Totemoy and KernegeJagh for one year, with the fee of 200 marcs, and the issues and profits of the premisses belonging in any manner to the crown for that time, without account, to receive 50 marcs quar- terly before-hand, or within three of the first weeks of each quarter, and on failure of such payment, to have liberty to relinquish his commiision, with- out disturbance from the crown; yet so that he duly and faithfully kept the premisses, resisted and chastised all and singular the rebels and inalefactors of those parts, and the marches threreof with all his posse, and obliged them to make restitution for any robberies or atiy other mischiefs they had or should
commit | He married Johan, eldest daughter, and at length heir to — —
of Castlemartin, and by her, who re-married with Richard Fitzgerald, of Bal- lysonan, the lordship of Dangan, Morniagton, Croskyle, Clonebieny, Kil- mcssan, Beiver, &c accrued to this family ; § the i.ssue of this marriage was Gerald, of Dangan, who married Margaret, eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Fitzgerald, of Laccajh in the county of Kildare, Knight, Lord Chancellor of Ireland in 1484, || and by her had Geruid, or Gariet, his heir, s!}^cd Lord of
' Lodge and Information of Rich. Lore'. Mwningroa.
f Camden, vol ii.p. 445, and Yvery, vol. i. p. 3^2
\ Rot. anno 5'>. Ric. II. i , p f. R. 17.
iJ Collectiaj^s. 11 Leijistpr J?cdjf:.
LORD WELLESLEY. 541
County of Louth, who died in 1/18, Icaxlnij issue James, An- thon}', and Mary.
Djiigart, in a special livery of his cstnte, granted November 10th, IS19, * who maj'- jied to his first wife Genet, sixtii daughter of Sir Thomas Cusack, of Lismulien in the county of Meath, Kiit. appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland, October 2d, ]553,f and he married, secondly, Anne, second daughter of Sir Oliver Plunket, Knt. ; t created Baron of Louth, and widow of John Wakely, of Navan in the county of Meatii, Esq. ; § he was succeeded by his son William, styled Lord of Dangan, \Chich Wi ham wr.s fiitlier of Gerald, of the D.uiijan, who died May loth, 161. 3, 11 having h.id a son Wiiiiam, who by Elizabeth, his wife, daughter ot James Cusack, of Portraine in clie coimty ofDablin, Esq ^ had a numerous issue ; the elder of whom. Valerian, was granted in ward to Sir lliomas Ashe, Kiit. ;** lie
m.-.iried Anne, daughter of Cusack, relict of Christopher Nugent, brother
to Pvichard, the first E.nl of V\''estmeath, and by her, who survived him, and made her will, October 'J5th, 1619, ff which was proved May 20th, 1672, had a son Gerald, or G.irret, married as in the text, who had issue by his said wife si.x sons and two daughters, viz. William ; Gerald, or Garret ; Dudley; Valerian; Colley ; Christopher ; Mary, (which five last d.ed infants) ; and Margaret, |f v.'ho became the first wife of Wentworth Harman, of Bawne in the county of Longford, Esq. find died June 15th, 168.\5§ \\i;iiam Wesley, the eldest son, succeeded his father, but leaving no issue male by his wife, a daughter ofA'Iauiice Kt- ating, of Narraghmore in the county of Kiidare, Esq |j || his brother Garret became heir; he served in several parliaments for the county of Meath and borou;h of Trim, and married Catherine, another daughter of the said Maurice Keating, but dying sud- denly at Dangan, September 23d, 172S, without issue by her, who died April 14th, 1745, Ect. seventy-eight, did by his last will, dated March 13th, 1727, devise all his estates to Richard Colley^ Esq. and his heirs male, provided that he and thev re- spectively should assume and take upon them tlie surname, and use of the coat of arms of IVesiey ; which lie did upon the death of the said Garret, and made a solemn declaration thereof to the following eil'eci, " WHiereas Garret Wesley, late of Dangan in the county of Meath, Esq decease d, on March I'^th, 1727, made his will, and died September '23d last, and by his said will, devised all hij real estate to Richard Colley, Esq. of Dublin, for life, remainder to his issue male, with re- mainder over, provided that he and his sons, and the heirs male of his body, assumed and took upon him and them, the surname and coat of arms of Wesley : whereupon the said Richard Colley, alias Wesley, testified and declared, that immediately after the death of the said Garret Wesley, he did assume the surname and coat of arms of Wesley, according to the said proviso of the said will, dated November 15th, 1728."^^
' Collections.
•;- Rot. Anno 1". Maria-, f. & Pedig. Cusack.
^ Ulster's Office, and Pedig. Plunket. § Ibid. Pedig.
11 Ulster's Office. ^ Pedig Cusack.
** Decree in Chancery, Nov. 17. 1621, and April 27th, lC3i''.
ft Pierog. Oflic j} Ulster's Office.
§§ See E. Kingston, in Irish Pe.-r. {{ || CoUeciion^i
*^ Hot. pac. de anr.o 2". Geo. II. 2-. p. D. R. 4.
S42 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND.
Ellen, or Ellenor, married, in April, 1669, to Thomas Moore, of Croghan, Esq. grandfather to Charles, Earl of Charleville. ^
Catherine, to Nicholas Knight, D, D. incumbent of St. Ni- cholas Within, Dublin, who died May 10th, 1731, she deceasing December 23d, 1730; and
Anne^'^ was married to John Pollard, Esq. and had Henry,
who died unmarried, and Mary, wife of Brabazon, Esq.
in the county of Louth.
Henry Colley, Esq. who succeeded at Castle-Carbery, alias Ark-hill, in July, 1074, married Mary, only daughter of Sir Wil- liam Usher, of Dublin, Ktiight, and dying in the year 170O, was buried at Carbery, having issue six sons and six daughters.
Dudley, buried at St. Audoen's May 21st, 16813 William, Blaney, George, all died young.
Henry, his sudcessor.
Richard, Lord Mornington.
Anne, married to William Pole, of Ballyfin in the Queen's county, Esq. ; <* Elizabeth ; Sarah, who died unmarried May 14, 1746; as did Frances, June 19th, 17^^13, and were buried at St. Mary's, Dublin J Mary; and Judith, •=
Henry Colley, Esq. the elder surviving son, w^s ttiember of parliament for Strabane j and in January, l^ip? married the Lady Mary Hamilton, third daughter of James, Earl of Abercorn ; died February 10th, 1723, and left one son, Henry, who deceased, about three years of age, March 1st, after his father's death ; and two daughters, Elizabeth, born December 11th, 1/20 ; and Mary, born July 11th, 1723, was married October 20th, 1747, to Arthur Pomeroy, Esq. created Baron of Harberton. ^
b See Lord Moore in vol. ix. c MSS. Pedig. penes J. L.
d His ancestor, Periam Pole, Esq. was brother to Sir John Pole, created a Baronet September 12th, 1628, and second son of Sir William Pole, of Shute in Devonshire, by his first wife Mary, daughter and coheir to Sir William Periam, chief baron of the Exchequer. He died in October, 1704, and had issue two sons and four daughters; Periam, who died unmarried April '24th, 1748 ; William, heit to his brother; Sarah, who died unmarried; Mary, married, July 6th, 1749, to James Davis, Esq. comptroller of the ordnance; Elizabeth, who died unmarried; and Anne, married to Marcus Smith, Esq. lieutenant-colonel of a regiment of foot in Ireland, and she died in November, 1753. William Pole, •ho succeeded Pe- riam, August 13th, 1748, married Lady Sarah Moore, eldest daughter of Edward, fifth iiarl of Drogheda, and deceasing in 1778, without issue by his Lady, who died that year, he bequeathed his estates to the Honourable William Wesley, younger brother to the present Marquis.
« MSS. Pedig. penes J. L. f See that title in Irish Peer,
LORD WELLESLEY. 343
IliCHARD CoUey, lisq. Jirst Peer, the youngest son, who as- sumed the surname of Wesley, as heir to his iirst cousin before- mentioned, was some time auditor and register of the royal hospital near Dublin; was appointed, Aug. 5th, 1/13, second chamberlain of the court of Exchequer; served the office of sheriff for the county of Meath in 17^4 ; and represented the borough of Trim in parliament, until his INIajesty was pleased to create him a Peer, by privy-seal, dated at Kensington June 25th, and by patent, s at Dublin July gdi, 1746, by the title of Baron of J\Ior?!ington,'^ and as such he took his seat in the house of peers, October 6th, 1747.'
December 23d, 1719, he married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of John Sale, L. L. D. register of the diocess of Dublin, and mem- ber of parliament for the borough of Carysfort; and by her, who died June 17th, 173S, had issue three sons and four daughters, of whom two sons and two daughters died in their infancy; the survivors were,
Garinet, his heir.
Elizabeth, baptized April /th, 172O; married, April gth, 1743, to Chlch&ster Fortescue, of Dromiskine in the county of Louth, Esq. "^ and deceased October 1 0th, 1752.
Frances, baptized August 21st, 1724, married August 5th, 1750, to William-Francis Crosbie, of Ballyheige in the county of Kerry, Esq, and deceased September 7th, 1768. '
His Lordship departed this life January 3 1st, 1758, and was succeeded in the honour by his only son
Garret, ^V^i Earlof Mornington, who was born July 19th, 1735, and took his seat in the house of peers, February 13th. 1758, on the decease of his father; ■" in June, 17-'jP, he was ap- pointed custos rotulorum of the county of Mcath ; and August 18th, 1760, his Majesty, King George IL was pleased by privy- ,eal at St. James's, " and by patent at Dublin, October 2d follow-
c Rot. pat. de anno 20 Geo. II. 3a p. D. h His Lordship having built at his own expense a commodious charter \vorkinf_ school, near the town of I'rim, upon an acre of ground, given by the corporation for ever ; and having endowed the same with eight acres of land, and a subscription of 50/. a year, for the support of forty children, (twenty of each sex) had the school opened with solemnity, November .5tl>, 174S, a day of general thanksgiving in thi? "fingdom.
i Lords Jour. vol. iii. p.657. k See Earl of Clermont.
' See Earl of Glandore in Irish Peer. m Lords Jour, vol, iv. p. 110-
n Rot. pat. de anno 34 Geo. H, D. R. 49.
445 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND.
ing, °to advance hirn to the dignities of Viscount JVellesley of Dangan castle, and Earl of Mornington in the county of Meath, by which titles he took his seat in padiamentj November IQth,
1761.''
February 6'lh, 175(), his Lordship married Anne, eldest daughter of the Right Honourabl'i Arthur Hill, created Viscount Dungannon, and deceasing ]May 22d, 178-^, left issue, by his ladj who survives him, ssix sons and two daughters, viz.
First, Richard, now Marquis Wellesley.
Second, Arthur- Gerald, born May 5th, 1761, died young.
Third, William, born May 20lh, 17<33, formerly representa- tive in parliament for the borough of Trim, and one of the go- vernors of the Queen's County ; now member of parliament for the Queen's County in the imperial parliament, and chief secre- tary of state in L"eland. On acceding to the estates of William Pole, of Ballifin, Esq. who deceased in 1778, he assumed the name and arms of Pole, and May 17'h, J 784, married Catherine- Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the Honourable John Forbes, ad- miral of his Majesty's fieet, a;id uncle to George Earl of Granard, "^ by whom he has a family.
Fourth, Francis Seymour, died young.
Fifth, Arthur, born May 1st, \y6g,noiv Viscount JVellingtnn.
Sixth, Gerald-Valerian, born Deceiriber 7th, 177], in holy orders, chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty, prebendary of West- minster, and chaplain at Hampton-court palace; married, June 2d, 1802, Lady Emily Cadogan, daughter of Charles Earl Cado- gan, and has a son, born September 19th, 1804.
Seventh, Henry, born January 20th, 177^, appointed. May 15th, 1804, a lord of the treasury, and in September, lSO-4, was appointed envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the court of Madrid, member of parliament for Eye, joint secre- tary to the treasury, married, September 20th, 1803, Lady Char- lotte Cadogan, daughter of Charles, Earl Cadogan, by whom he has issue, but is now divorced from her.
Eighth, Anne, born March 13th, 17^8} married, January 4th, 1790, the Honourable Henry Fitzroy, son of Charles first, and uncle to the present, Lord Southampton, who deceasing March H)th, 17t)4, left issue two children; her Ladyship mar- ried, secondly, August 9th, IJQQ, Culling Smith, Esq.
'» Rot. pat. dc .inao 34 Geo. II. D. R. .50. ^ Lords Join-, vol. iv. p. i;iii >\ Sec tl.jt title in vol ix.
LORD WELLESLEY. 545
Ninth, Mary-Elizabeth, born January 1st, 17/2, and died March 3d, 1794.
Richard, second Earl of Momington, first Marquis IVellesleij, and FIRST Lord Wellesley of Wellesley, com. Somerset, was born June 20th, 1700; and was educated at Christ Church, Ox- ford, where he distinguished himself for his classical attainments, and won one of the prizes for the best Latin verses; and after- wards came into the English parliament, first for Saltash, 1784^ and afterwards for Windsor, 1797.
On March 17th, 17S3, he, at the institution of the illustrious order of St. Patrick, was nominated by the sovereign to be an ori- ginal Knight Companion of the Order.
His Lordship was also nominated a member of the privy- council in Ireland.
In 1786, his Lordship was appointed a lord of the treasur}', and so continued to 1797.
In 1797, he went Governor-General to India, where he distinguished himself by the vigour and talent of his measures, par- ticularly his success in the Mysore, the defeat of Tippo Sultan, and the capture of Seringapatam.
Since his return to England, his Lordship has been appointed ambassador to Spain, and Secretary of State for foreign affairs.
His Lordship married, November 19th, 179-1, Hyacinth Ga- brielles, only daughter of Pierre Roland.
On October lOth, 1797, his Lordship was elevated to the British peerage by the title of Lord Wellesley of Wellesley, com. Somerset; and December 20th, 1 799, was created Marquis Wellesley, of Norragh in Ireland.
Titles. Richard Wellesley, Marquis Wellesley, Earl of Morn- ington, Viscount Wellesley, and Baron of Mornington, in Ireland; Baron Wellesley of Great Britain.
Creations. Baron of Mornington, July Qth, 1 746, 20 Geo. II. ; and Viscount Wellesley of Dangan castle, and Earl of Morn- ington, October 6th, I76O, 34 Geo. 11.; Marquis of Wellesley, December 1st, 1 799 ; Baron Wellesley of Great Britain, October
20th, 1797-
Arms. Quarterly, the first and fourth, gules, a cross, argent, between four salt ires of plates, for Wellesley ; second and third, or, a lion rampant, gules, gorged with a ducal coronet, proper, for CoUey. And his Majesty was farther pleased to add to his armo- rial bearing, an escutcheon purpure, charged with an estoile, radi-
voL. viir. 2 N
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ated, wavy, between eight spots of the royal tiger in pairs, saltier^ ways proper, being the standard of the Sultaun : this standard, and the tri-colouied flag, were, by his Majesty's command, added also to the Marqu s's crest and supporters.
Crest. On a wreath, an armed arm in pale, couped below the elbow, the hand, proper^ the wrist encircled with a ducal coronet, or, holding a spear in bend, with the banner of St. George ap- pendant. See the additional crest in the wood-cut.
Supporters. Two lions, gules. See additions in the wood- cut.
Motto. PORRO UNUN EST NECESSARIUM.
Chief Seat. Trim castle, Meaih j and Upton, Somersetshire.
LORD CARRINGTON.
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SMITH, LORD CARRINGTON.
The great great grandfather of Lord Carrington was Thomas Smith, of Crophall-Botelcr in Nottinghamshire, which Thomas Smith, of Crophall-Boteler, was father of Thomas Smith, of Nottingham, and of Gaddesby, * com Leicester, who died in 170O, and had two wives.
First, Mary Hooper, by whom he had an only child, Mary Smith, married to John Eggleton, father of Sir Charlee Eggleton, '' sheriff of London, 1/43.
His second wife was Fortune, daughter of Laurence Cuilen, and sister of Abel Cuilen, of Nottingham, by whom he had three sons : she died in I/] 5.
First, Thomas Smith, who served the office of sheriff for the county of Leicester, 1/18, by the name of Thomas Smith, of Broxtow in the county of Nottingham, and Gaddesby in the county of Leicester, Esq. By Mary Manley, his wife, he left five daugh- ters; first, Mary, married to Thomas Tomson, D, D. j second, Elizabeth, married to Giles Eyie, Esq. ; third, Catherine, married to William Ring;, Esq. ; fourth, Anne, married to Henry Walters, Esq.; fifth, Harriet, died unmarried.
Second, Samuel Smith, married Ely, daughter of Thomas Watson, Esq and had is-.ue seven sons and three daugiiters.
a It is said in Kimber's Baronetage, thnt he was possessed, long before 1698, of his manor of Keyworth in Nottinghamshire, with several lands and tenements, and other valuable estates, in the counties of Nottingham and I^eicester, one of which nppears to be purchased by hU ancestor in 1622.
b Sir Charles Eggleton, by his second wife Sarah Kent, was father of the late Sir Charles Kent, Earf. so created August 8th, 1~S2, who died May, 18I J.
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Third, Abel Smith, of Nottincrham, banker, married Jane, daughter of George Beaumont, of Chapelthorp in Yorkshire, Esq. and had issue three sons ; and one daughter, Jane, married to Francis Wheeler, of Coventry. Of the sons ;
First, Sir Geobge Smith, of East Stoke com, Nottingham, created a Baronet Oct. 31, 1757 ; marrif-d, Aug. 18, 1747.. Mary, daughter and sole heir of William Howe, Esq. by Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of William Pauncefote, of Carswall-hall, com. Gloucester, Esq. (Sarah, another coheir of Pauncefote, married William ^row/p?/, of Abberley com. Worcester, Esq ) which Wil- liam Howe was son of Emanuel Scroope Howe, Esq. by Ruperta, natural daughter of Prince Rupert. Ladv Smith died May 18th, 17(51, and Sir George married, secondly, February 23d, 1708, Ca- therine, daughter of the Rev. Archdeacon Vyse, of Lichfield, by whom he had no issue. He died in September, I769, and was succeeded by his only son Sir George Smith, second Baronet, who first took the name of Bromley, in 1/78, and afterwards that of Pauncefote, in 1803 j and died August 17th, 1808, leav-' ing by his wife, Esther, daughter of Asheton, now Visjount Curzon, an only son and heir. Sir Robert Howe Bromley, third Baronet, a captain in the royal navy.
Second, John Smith, of London, merchant.
Third Abel Smith, of Nottingham, banker, member of par- liament for Aldborough, Yorkshire, 1774; and for Nottingham on the death of Sir Charles Sedley, 1778 ; died 1779- He mar- ried Miss Bird, of Coventry, by whom he had six suns and two daughters.
First, Thomas, deceased.
Second, Abel, died member of parliament for St. Germains, August, 1788.
Third, Robert, now Lord Carrington.
Fourth, Samuel, of Wondhall-park, near Ware, Hertfordshire! a banker in London; member of parliament for Ilchester, l/SO; for Worcester, 1734; for Leicester, I7g0, 1796, 1802, I8O6,, 1807; has issue a son, Abel, member of parliament for Malmes- bury, I8O7.
Fifth, George, a banker in London, and an East India Di- rector; member of parliament for Lestwithiel, 1791 ; for Mid- hurst, 1801, 1802; for Wendover, 180(3, I807.
Sixth, John, of Blenden-hall near Bexley in Kent, a banker, and member of parliament for Nottingham, I8O6, 1807; niar-
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ried, ISII, Miss Leigh,' dcUighier of Egerlon Leigh, Esq. of High-Leigh in Chcshirr, (great grandson of the Rev. Peter Leigh, of PIigh-Leigh, rector of Wh tchureh in Shropsliire, by l:.lizaboth, daughter of the Hon Thorn is E:2;erton, of Tatton-park, Cheshire, by He^th r, daughter of Sir John Bii-by, Knight )
Robert Smith, third ion. now Lord Caerington, was brought up in tlie tainily banking-house, a d wa-^ elected member of parliament for Xoltingham, on the death of his father, 1/79, and re-eleeted 1780, IJbn, 1/90, 179fij in which )ear, on July l6ih, he was creaied a peer of Ireland by the title ol Lord Cnr- rbigton, of Bui en t Lodge in Ireland; and from thence in the fol- lowing year, October 20th, 1797> was advanced to a British peerage by the title of Lord Carrington'^ of Upton, com. Nottingham.
His Lordship married Anne Boldero Bernard, daughter of Henry Boldero Bernard, Esq. of South-Cave in Yorkshire; and has i:>sue,
Robert John, only son and heir, born 1796; and eleven daugh- ters, of whom,
Catherine-Lucy, fourth dauehter, married, November ISth, 1803, Viscount Mah -n, eldest son of Charles, Eari Stanhope.
c Her sister married, June 14th, 1802, the Hin. James Abercrombie. «t Some inconvenience and confusion arises from his Lordship's adoption of this title, as it had been previously enjoyed by another f<imily of the same name, but of a perfectly distinct origin. TI e family of S.nith, ali.is Carington, on whom a British Peerage was conferred, on October '?lst. 19 ChTries I. bore for their arms, argent, a cross, gules, bet-ween Jour pcii-hens, az,uie. He was descended from Sir Michael Carington, standard-bearer to King Richard I. whose great great great grandson, John Caiiiigton, took the name of Smith'in 14'6. His grandson. Sir John Smith, was a Baron of the Exchequer, 'iS Hen. VIII. and left a fourth son, Francis Smith, of Ashby Tolville com. Leicester, who died 1606, jet. eighty-four, leaving George, who died 1607, leaving Sir Francis, who died 1629, leaving, by Anne Markham, four sons, of whom the third, major-general, Sir Jolm Smith, Knight Banneret, was celebrated fur rescuing the roya' standard, and slain at Aires- ford in 1644. (See a curious memoir of him in Nichols's Leicestershire, vol iii. p. 36). Sir Charles Smith, eldest son, created Lord Carington 19 Charles I. was killed in France in February, 1664, 'easing by Elizabt-th, daughter of Sir John Cayrill, of Hastings in Sussex, four sons, of whom Francis, the eldest, be- came second Lord Carington, and died April 7th, 1701, having had one only son, who died an infant. His youngest brother, Ch.\rles, succeeded as third Lord Carington, and died May 17th, 1706, when the title became exti'ut, having married Frances, daughter of Sir Jolm Pate, of Sysonby com. Leicester, Knt. by whom he left an only daughter, who died May 7th, 1754. His aunts were Mary, second wife of Sir Robert Throgniorton, of Great Coughton, Eart. ; Anna, mar- ried to Rowland Eyre, of Hassop com. Derb. Esq.; Alethea, married to Christo- pher Anderson, Esq. father of Sir Francs AnderJon, Bart. &c. See the pedigree at large in Nichols's LiicesttriJbiie,io\. iii. p. 29, under Asbby Folvillt.
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Charlotte^ nnother daughter, married, April 10th, 1809, Alan Hyde, second and present Lord Gardner, and died 1811. Anne, another daughter, died May lOih, 1S08.
Title. Robert Smith, Lord Carrington, of Upton in Not- tinghamshire j also Lord Carrington, of Bulcot Lodge in Leland.
Creations. Lord Carnni;ton. of Upton in Great Britain, Oc- tober 20th, 1/97; and Lord Carrington of Ireland, July l6th,
17 yd.
Arms. Or, a chevron cotised, sable, between three demi- griffins, coupeci, the two in chief respectant, of the second 3 a muUf t f(ir difference.
Crest. On a wreath, an elephant's head, couped, or.
Supporters Two griffins, the dexter seme of fleurs-de-lis j the sinister seme of trefoils.
Motto. TbNAX IN FIDE.
Chief Seats. Wy combe-abbey, and Wendover-house, Bucks j and Bulcot Lodge, Notts.
LORD BAYNINQ.
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TOWNSHEND, LORD BAYNING.
The Honourable William Townshend, third son of Charles^ second Fiscount Townshend, by h\^ first wife Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas, Lord Pelham, (sister to Thomas, Duke of Newcastle) was chosen member of pailiament for Yarmouth \7 ^^, and seived the two succeeding parliainents for ihe sam ■ place. He was aid- de-camp to his Majesty; and 011 December 7th, 1728, appointed groom of the bed-chamber to his Royal Highness Fredrrick Prince of W.:les. He was also usher ot his M;ij st\'s Enchtquer, and member of parliament for Great Yarmouth to the time of his death, January 2j.jth, 1 737-8.
He married, on May 29th, 1/25, Henrietta, only daughter of Lord William Powlet (second son of Charles, Duke of Bolton), by his second wife Anne, daughter and coheir of Randolph Eger- ton, of Beiley com. Stafford, Esq. by his wife Anne, eldest daughter and coheir of Henry Murray, Esq. by his wife Anne Bayning, aunt and heir of Paul, second Viscount Bayniug, who died 1610, and created Viscountess Bayning for her own life. By this Lady, who died iu January, \7^o, he had one son^ and four daughters.
Fir-t, Charles, late Lord Bayning.
Second, Caroline, married, Fel\ruary Sth, 1759, the Honour- able and Reverend Frederick Cornwallis, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury ; and died his widow, s. p, January 5th, I8O9.
Third, Anne ; fourth, Henrietta j fifth, Dorothy.
Charles Townshend, only son, fir'^t Lord Banning, vvas, on September l/th, 1751, appointed secretnry to his Maje»ty's embassy to Spainj and was afterwards, 1777, joint vice- treasurer
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of Ireland; a member of his Majesty's privy-council, and repre- sentative in many parliaments for Yarmouth in Norfolk ; viz. from 1756, till 1784.
In December, 1765, he was appointed a lord of the admiraltyj and in February 1/70, a lord of ihe treasury. In April, 1783, he was appointed treasurer of the navy.
On October 20th, 1797> he was elevated to the peerage bj the title of Lord Bayning, of Foxier/ in Berkshire.
His Lordship married Annabella, daughter ^ of the Reverend Richard Smyth, by Annabella his wife, daughter and heir of Wil- liam Powlet, Esq. by Annabella his wife, daughter of Charles Earl of Tankerville (which William Powlet was son of Lord Wil- liam Powlet), and by her had issue.
First, Caroline ; second, Amelia ; third, Henrietta, who died young.
Fourth, Charles-Frederick, present peer.
Fifth, William, died young.
Sixth, Anne ; seventh, Louisa, who died young.
Eighth, Henry.
His Lordship dying May, 1810, was succeeded by his son and heir,
Charles-Frederick, second and present Lord BayninGj then member of parliament for Truro.
Title. Charles-Frederick Townshend, Lord Bayning of Fo-x- ley in Berks.
Creation. Lord Bayning by patent, October 20th, 1797.
.Ar7ns. Same as Marquis Townshend, quartering, Vere; a mullet for difference.
Crest. The same also as Marquis Townshend, charged with a mullet on the side of the stag.
Supporters. On the dexter side, a stag, like Marcjuis Towns- hend's, with the addition of a collar studded with mullets, and a chain, pendant therefrom' ; on the sinister, a leopard, collared with a ducal coronet and chain 3 on his shoulder, a shield charged wit.h the Bayning arms.
Motto. Stare super ANTiauAS vias.
Chief Seat. Honingham-hall, Norfolk.
a Sister to Powlet Smith Powlet, now of Somboiirnc, Hants, Esq.
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GRENVILLE, LORD GLASTONBURY,
The Right Honourable James Grenville,yoMr^/i son of Rich ah u Grenville, Esq. of Wotton in Bucks, by Hesther Temple, Coun- tess Temi'le (so created October 18th, 1 74g), was born February 12th, 1715, and was for some time one of the lords commissioners of trade and plantations, and deputy pay-master of his Majesty's forces J but laid down these offices in December, 1/55, and re- mained out of place till November following, when he was ap- pointed one of the lords of the treasury. He resigned again in a short time; but on July 2d, 1/^7) was re-instated at the treasury board, and continued there till l/Gl, when he was appointed cofferer of his Majesty's household. On April 23d that year, he was sworn of the privy council, and kept the place of cofferer till next October, when he thought proper to give it up ; but con- tinued to enjoy the office of receiver of the crown and fee-larm rents for the counties of Warwick and Leicester.
He was elected for Old Sarum in 17-i^l ; for Bridporl in 1747 j and in 1751, and 1761, for the town of Buckingham.
He died in September 1783, having married Mary, daughter of James Smith, of Harding in Hertfordshire, Esq and by her, who died December 15th, 1757, had two sons 3 viz.
First, James, now Lord Glastonbury.
Second, Richard, formerly a captain in the Coldstream regi- ment of foot-guards 3 a major-general November 12th, 1782; lieu^tenant-general May 3d, 1/96 ; and general January l-.t, 1801 ; and colonel of the twenty-third regiment of foot April 21st, 1786'. He was elected member of parliament for the town of Bucking- ham, 1774.
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James, eldest son, now Lord Glastonbury, was in 1766, elected member of parliament for Ihiisk in Yorkshire 3 in \7yOf he was elected M. P. for the town of Buckingham ; and again in 1774, 1780, 1784, which he vacated December l/QO, when he was elected for the county ; to which he was again returned in 1796.
On March 27th, 1782, he was appointed a lord of the trea- sury. He was also a lord of trade and plantations 5 and sworn of his Majesty's privy council.
On October 20th, 1797* he was raised to the f eero^e by the title of Lord Glastonbuey, of Butleigh in the county ofSome^rsetj, •with a collateral remainder to his bioiber General Grenvilie.
Title. James Grenvilie, Lord Glastonbury,
Creation. By patent, October 2Uth, 1797.
Arms and Crest. Same as Marquis of Buckingham, with a mullet for difference.
Supporters. The same also, except that they are collared j and the lion parti per pale embattled.
Motto. UnI ^aUUS VIRTUTI.
Chief SeaL Butleigh-court, Somersetshire.
LORD BOLTON.
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POWLETT, LORD BOLTON.
Charles Powlett, fifth Duke of Bolton, elder brother of Henry the last Duke, c'ieJ 1/65, leaving a natural daughter^
Jane Mary Powlett, on whom, {on failure of issue male of the last Duke, which happened on December 25th, l/g4), he en- tailed the major part of his large estates. She married, April 7th, 1778, Thomas Orde, Esq. descended from an ancient family in Noithumberland and Durham, which
Thomas Orde^ "* afterwards created Lord Bolton, was born
a He was eldest son of *he second marriage of John Orde, of East- Orde and Morpeth in N'orthumberland, £sq. who died in 1787, aged about eighty- two, and was buried at Morpeth.
(In ihe visitation of Duiham, 1615, is a pedigree of Gawen Ord, of Fen- wick in Xorhamshire, whose etandson, John Ord, of Fishborne in the Bi- shopric, was livii.g 1615, and had then a son and heir, Bertram, aged eight. The grandfather of Craven Ord, Esq. was John Ord, of Fenwick. in Nor- hamshire in Nortlnimbeiland.)
John Orde, of East Orde and Morpeth, married, first, Anne, daughter of Edward Ward, of Nunnikirk com. Northumberland, Esq. by whom he had,
First, William Orde, of Nunnikirk, Esq. living 1790, who married Anne, daughter of Edward Ward, of Nunnikirk, Esq. by whom he had issue; first, John, aged about ei^ihteen, in 1790, since dead ; second, William, living 1S09; third, Charles, living 1809; fourth, Thomas, died since 1790.
John Orde, married, secondly, Anne, widow of the Reverend William Pye, which lady died 1788, aged about sixty-eight, and was buried at Mor- peth. By her he had issue,
Second, Thomas, afierwards Lord Bolton.
Third, Sir John Orde, Bart, brought up in the navy, and now an ad- miral. In 1 773, he was made a lieutenant ; in 1777, promoted to the rank of
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August 30th, 17485 was educated at Eton,, and afterwards at King's college, Cambridge. He was appointed secretary to the treasury 17S2, and was also receiver general to the Duchy ot Lancaster, and secretary to the Duke of Rutland, when lord lieu- tenant of Ireland, and sworn of the privy-council there. He was elected member of parliament for Ailesbury, 17S0 5 at which time he was receiver general of the Duchy of Lancaster. Li 17S4, and in 1790, he was elected member of parliament for Harwich. In April, 179I, he was appointed governor of the Isle of "Wight, and constable of Carisbrook castle.
In 1795, he took the name and arms of Powlett on suc- ceeding (in right of his \v\fe\ to the estates of the late Duke of Bolton ; and on October 20th, 1797> was elevated to the British peerage by the title of Lokd Bolton, of Bolton castle in York' shire. ^ He was also appointed lord lieutenant of Hampshire.
commander; in 1778, post-captain ; and in 1783, governor of Dominica. On July 27th, 1790, he was created a Baronet \ in 1795. was promoted to a flag; in 1797, was made vice-admiral of the blue; in 1801, vice-admiral of the white; in 1804, vice admiral of the red; November 9th, 1S05, admiral of the blue; and in 1807, was elected member of parliament for Yarmouth in the Isle of Wight. He married, first, at Charlestown, February 8th, 1781, Mar- garet, daughter and heiress of Richard Stevens, Esq. of Leaufort in South Carolina, by whom he had a son, John, who died an infant, October 28th, 1789, and was buried at St. Mary-le-bone; and in the same year he lost his wife. He married, secondly, Jane, eldest daugiiter of John frere, of Nor- folk, Esq. by whom he has a daughter.
Fourth, Edward, died an infant, and was buried at Morpeth.
Fifth, Anne, living unmarried 1790.
Sixth, Mary, married Robeit Lisle, of Acton, com. Northumberland, Esq. living 1790.
b Charles Powlett, Marquis of Winchester, and first Duke of Bolton, married, Mary, one of the natural daughters of Emanuel, last Lord ScROPE OF Bolton, and Earl ot Sunderland, from which marriage were descended the succeeding Dukes, The other daugtuer married into the family of Howe, whence the present P'hcount Hoive inherits the seat at Lan- gar in Nottinghamshire.
Robert de Scrope was living in the time of Hen. II. and v;as father of
Henry de Scrope, whose son and heir
William, obtained in 2 Hen. III. the King's charter for free warren in all his deme:.ne lands at East Boulton, Little Boulton, Fencotes and Yarnc- wicK, com. York. To him sutceetled
Henrv, who in 2 Edw II. was constituted one of the King's justices of his court of Common Pleas; and was made chief justice of the King's Bench, 10 Edw. 11. He died /o Edw. III.
WiLLi.\M, his son and heir, died 19 Edw. III. and was succeeded by his brother
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His Lordship was a man of very powerful talents, great in- dustry in business, extensive political knowledge, and many amiable moral qualities. He had a zeal in the cause of those, whose interests he embraced, which placed him high in the ranks of benevolence. He had the eloquence of a strong, an acute and discriminative understanding, which, though it may not have all the attractions of brilliant flashes of the fancy, or melting appeals
Richard de Scrope, who was constituted treasurer of the King's Ex- chequer, 4^ Edw. III. and afterwards enjoyed various other high state em- ployments. He was the person who had the famous suit in the court mili- tary, before Thomas Duke of Gloucester, his:h constable, with Sir Robert Grosvenor, regarding the bearing of axtire, a bend, or, for his arms ; which was determined in his favour. On this occasion Chaucer, the poet, was a witness. ' See Godinini Life of Chaucer.) He was summoned as a Peer from 44Edw. Ill to 3 Hen. IV.
Roger, Lord Scrote o? Bolton, his son and heir, married Mar- garet, daughter and coheir of Robert, Lord Tiptoft, and dying 5 Hen. IV. left
Richard, his son and heir, who died 8 Hen. V leaving by Margaret his wife, daughter of Ralph Xevile, E.irl of Westmoreland,
Henry, his son and heir, who married Elizabctli, daujliter of John Lord Scrope, of Masham and Upsal, and dying 37 Hen \'I. left issue
John, LordScropf. of Bolt on, his son and heir, who dying July, 1494, left by his wife Joane, daughterof Wiliiam lord f-i zhugi,
Henry, his son and heir, who was en;iaged in the battle of Flodden against the Scots, 1513, and having married Isabel, daughter of Thomas Lord Dacres, left
John, LoRoScRorE of Bolton, his son and heir, who was engaged in the insurrection, called The Pilgrimagt of Grace 28 Hen. VT 11. and having manied Cathciine, eldest of the four daughter^ oi Henry Clifford, Earl of Cumberland, was father of
Henry, Lord Scrope of Bolton, who was constituted governor of the castle of Carlisle, and warden of the west marches towards Scotland, 5 Eliz. in which office he performed many active services to the crown, and was rewarded with the order of ;he Garter. He died 1592, leaving by Mar- garet, daughter of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, a son and heir
Thomas, Iord Scrope of Bolton, who married Philadelphia, daughter of Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon, by whom he was father of
Emanuel las: Lo rd So r ope of E. . l to n, who was m de lord presi. dent of the King's council in the north, 16 James I. and was ceated Earl OF SuNDERL.\ND, luuc i6th, J Charlcs I But dying wiihout legitimate issue, the Earldom became extinct, and the Earony fell into abeyance. But he left natural daughters, between whom he left his large estates; and gave Bolton Castle \.o his daughter Mary, ^^'iie of Charles Powlett, Marquis of Win- chester, and afterwards Duke of Bolton. His g'-andson Harry, fourth Duke of Bolton, died 17^4, leaving his eldest son Charles, fifth Duke, father of Mary- Jane, who married, as above said, the Right Honourable Thomas Orde» created Lord Bolton, 1797.
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to the heart, must always excite the admiration of cultivated minds.
But his health in his latter years much secluded him from ex- ertion in public afnursj and he died July 30th, I8O7, aged about iif y-nine.
Byr his wife Jane Mary Powl^tt, aforesaid, his Lordship had issue.
First, Mary Jane, born May 22d, 17SI, died February, ISO6.
Second, Wiliiam, present peer.
Third, Anne, died in November, 1804.
Fourth, Thomas, born October 16th, 1/87, married, February, 1811, Miss Obrien, of Northamptonshire.
Fifth, Charles, died in August, 1800'.
William, eldest son, second Lord Bolton, was born Oc- tober 31st, 1/82, and married in May, ISIO, Maria, eldest daughter of Guy Carleton, first Lord Dorchester.
Title. William Powlett, Lord Bolton, of Bolton castle in Yorkshire.
Creation. By patent, October 20th, 1/97-
Arms. Sable, three swords in pile, their points in base, pro- per, pomels and hilts, or; on a canton, argent, an escutcheon, sable, charged with a salmon hauriant, proper; which arms were assigned to him on taking the name of Powlett, Januiry 7th, 1795; at the same time, the same coat was assigned to his wife (without the canton) withm a bordure, or.
Crest. A falcon rising, or, the breast and each wing charged with an estoil, gules, and gorged with a ducal coronet, azure, in the beak a salmon, proper; granted at the same time.
Supporters. On the dexter, an antelope, argent, encircled with a ducal coronet; on the sinister, a Cornish chough.
Motto. AlMES LOYAULTE.
Chief Seats. Hackwood -park, Hampshire; Bolton-hall . York- sshire.
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ELUOT-MURRAY-KYNYN MOUND, LORD MINTO.
Gilbert Elliot, of Stobs in the county of Roxburgh, Esq. (from whose eldest son springs the present Sir William Elliot, of Stobs, Bart. ; and aKo the present Lord Heaihfield), had a fourth son,
Gaven Elliot, of Midlem-hill in the county of Roxburgh, who was father of
Sir Gilbert Elliot, a lord of session, (on which occasion he took the title of Minto) created a Baronet of Scotland In 1700. He was at length appointed Lord Justice Clerk He mar- ried Jane Carre, daughter of Sir Andrew Carre, of Cavers in the county of Roxburgh, Knt. by whom he was father of
Sir GiLBf.RT Elliot, second Baronet, who was also bred to the law, and succeeding to the same office of Lord Justice Clerk, took the same designation. He died 1/66, having married Helen Stuart, daughter of Sir Robert Stuart, of AUanbank com. Ber- wick, Bart, by whom he had issue.
First, Eleanor, wife of John Rutherford, of Edgerston, Esq.
Second, Sir Gilbert,
Third, Robert, Avho died an officer of the array.
Fourth, Jane.
Fifth, Andrew, lieutenant-governor of New- York.
Sixth, Marianne.
Seventh, John, an admiral of the navy.
Eighth, Anne, married Charles Congleton, of East-Lothian, Esq.
Ninth, Archibald, in the navy, in which service he died.
Four children died young.
Sir GiLBEKT Elliot, third Baronet, was a man celebrated for
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ins talents, well-known in the political world ; an active member of parliament, and at one time a candidate for the Speaker's chair. *
He was member of parliament for the county of Selkirk, 1754, 1762, and for that of Roxburgh, 17^5, 1/68, 1774. He was made a lord of the admiralty, 1756; treasurer of the chamber, 1/62; keeper of the signet for Scotland, 1767 j treasurer of the navy, 177O; died February, 1777.
He married Agnes Murray Kynynraound, heiress of Mel- gnnd in Forfar and Lochgelly, and Kynynmound in Fifeshire, by whom he had issue,
First, Isabella.
Second, Gilbert, now Lord Minto.
Third, Hugh, late his Majesty's minister at Dresden, who has a son a lieutenant in the first regiment of foot-guards.
Fourth, Alexander.
Fifth, Kynynmound, died in the East Indies in the Company's civil service.
Sixth, Robert, rector of Wheldrake, Yorkshire.
Seventh, David, died an infant.
Eighth, Eleanor, married William Lord Aukland, and has issue.
Sir GiL'BZB.T, fourth Baronet, eldest son, now Lord Minto, was elected member of parliament for Morpeih, July, I776, suc- ceeded his father as member of parliament for the county of Rox- burgh, February, 1/77. to which he was re-elected 1780; was elected member of parliament for Helston, 1790; was appointed Vice-Roy of the kingdom of Corsica, June, 1795 ; and was raised to the Peerage by the title of Lord Minto of the county of Rox- burgh, October 26th, 1797.
In 1 799> his Lordship was sent envoy extraordinary to Vienna ; and in I6O6, was appointed president ofj:he board of controul.
In I8O7 8, his Lordship was appointed Governor-Genesal OF Bengal, in which important command he still continues.
Llis Lordship was born April 23d, 1751, and married, January 3d, 1/77, Anne-Maria Amyand, eldest daughter of Sir George Amyaiul, Bart, and sister to the present Sir George CornwalL Bart, by whom he has issue,
a He was author of the celebrated song,
" My sheep I neglected; I broke my sheep-hook."
See Scott's Lay of the Last Mifistrel, notes, p. 222 See also a poem by him on the death of thu Earl and Countess of Sutherland, ill Censurj Lt'ffran'a.
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First, Gilbert, born November l6th, 1/82, married, September 4th, 1806, Mary, eldest daughter of Patrick Brydone, Esq.
Second, George, born August 1st, 1.784, a captain in the royal navy.
Third, Anne-Maria, born October 26th, 1785.
Fourth, John.
Fifth, Edmund, born March 30th, 1788.
Sixth, Harriet-Mary-Frances, born June 5th, 1790.
Seventh, William, born February 6th, 1792,
Eighth, Catherine, born July 2d, 1797.
Titles. Sir Gilbert Elliot, Bart. Baron of Minto in the county of Roxburgh.
Creations. Lord Minto by patent, October 26th, 1797; also a Baronet of Nova Scotia, 1700.
Arms. First and fourth quarterly, first and fourth, argent, a bugle horn, sable, stringed and horned, gules; on a chief, azure, three stars of the first, for Murray : second and third, azure, a chevron, argent, between three fleurs-de-lis, or, for Kynynmoundj second and third, gules, on a bend engrailed, or, a batton, azure, with a bordure, vaire, for Elliot ; on a chief, argent, a Moor's head, couped in profile, proper, the arms of Corsica.
Crest. A dexter hand, issuing from clouds, throwing a dart, all proper.
Supporters. On the dexter, an Indian sheep; on the sinister, a fawn, both proper.
Motto. SUAVITER ET FORTITER.
Chief Seat. Minto, Roxburghshire,
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WODEHOUSE, LORD WODEHOUSE.
There have been several families of ancient extraction of this surname, that have been denominated, according to the custom of former ages, from their jiosscssions ; the pedigrees of this family deduce them from Bertram, of Wodehouse-Toxver in Yorkshire; but hardly any accounts are to be depended on.
Mr. Wotton, however, is of opinion, that they were surnamed WoDEHOUSE, from a tenement and lands now in Windham, called JFocUhouse, lying in Siljield, Norfolk. That they were gentlemen of good rank in the time of King John, Peacham in- forms us, which appeared to him by many ancient grants and evi- dences of the family, which he had seen, and from which the pedigree was collected 5 but the following account of this an- cient family is the only one which stands supported on sufficient authority.
First, Sir CoNSTANTiNE UE WoDEHousE, who married Isabel,
daughter and heir of Botetort, in the beginning of Hen. I. who
was succeeded by his son and heir,
Second, Sir George de Wodehouse, who flourished in the
lime of Hen. I. whom he accompanied into Normandy, and
was at the burning of Baieox, and taking of Caen castle. He
married Winifrede, daughter and heir of Lacy, by whom lie
had,
Third. Sir Heni^y, his son and heir, who married Beatrix,
daughter of the Lord Say.
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Fourth, Sir Richard, his son and heir, married an Aspall, and lived in King John's time.
Fifth, Sir William Wodehonse, his son and heir, lived at FHtcham in Norfolk. He married Petronilla, daughter and heir of Clervaux, and died about 1267, 52 Hen. III.
Sixth, Francis Wodehonse, Esq. son of Sir William, married the daughter and coheir of Sir John Peeche, and was succeeded by.
Seventh, Sir Beiitram de Wodehonse, his son and heir, who married Muriel, daughter and heir of Hamo, Lord of Felton, by whom he had three sons.
First, Sir William.
Second, Robert de Wodehouse.
Third, John de Wodehouse, who was lord chancellor at the time of his death, in 1339.
Eighth, Sir William de Wodehouse, eldest son and heir, was a man of great valour, and, as such, was retained by the Black Prince, whom he attended into Spain, 40 Edw. IIL In 1374, he was sherift' of London, with Richard Lions j he married the daughter and heir of Humphry Luttreli.
Ninth, Sir Richard de Wodehouse, son of Sir William, was of Rydon in Norfolk, and married Alice, daughter and coheir of Sir John Northwood, of Northwood-Barningham in Norfolk, Knight, and was succeeded by his son,
Tenth, Sir Thomas de Wodehouse, who married Alice, sister and heir of John Estmond, or Emond, of Cranworth, son of Roger Emond, of Cranworth, Esq. who married Maud, daughter and heir of Sir Baldwin Botourt, of Cranworth, Knt.
Eleventh, Sir Edward de Wodehouse, son of Sir Thomas, married a daughter and coheir of Erpingham. I have not met with any account of his sons or daughters, besides.
Twelfth, Sir John Wodehouse, Knight, who was a younger son, and in favour with Hen. IV. by whom he was knighted j he married Margaret, daughter and sole heir of Sir Thomas Fastolf, of Kimherley, Knight. In 1404, he was constable of Piising- Castle, and had four sons; first, John j second, Giles de Wode- house, living l'J36 3 third, Thomas, who died 1451 J and fourth, Jerome de Wodehouse. He married Anne, daughter and coheir of Richard Irming, Esq.
Thirteenth, John- Wodehouse, Esq. eldest son and heir, in his father's lifetime, was gentleman of the privy-chamber to King Henry IV, and in 1400, married Alice, daughter and heir of Fur-
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heaux. On the decesse of Henry IV. his son King Henry V. chose him esquire of his own body ; in 1414, he was admitted one of the chamberlains of the Exchequer for life.
In 1415, he attended the King's person to the battle of Agin- cousT in France, where he won great renown by his valiant prov/ess.
For his gal'ant bthaviour the King granted him an annnity of ten marks a year, out of his manor of Thetford, and made him steward of all the dominion of the duchy of Lancaster in Norfolk, and Cambridgeshire, with a salary of lOZ. per annum; and, as a perpetual augmentation of honour, assigned him the crest of a hand, issuing from the clouds, holding a club, and this motto, Frappe forte, Strike strong; and the savage, or wild man, holding a club, which was the ancient crest of the family, was now omitted, and two of them placed as supporters to the arms, which had a further augmentation of honour added in the shield, viz. on tlis chevron, gutte de sang, as they are borne to this day.
He served no less than four times in parliament for the county of Norfolk, viz. in 1409, ^^ Henry IV. with John Winter, Esq.; in 2 Henry V, with John Inglesthorp, Esq. ; in 1414, wilh Sir Edmund Oldhall, with whom he served again in 1416: he con- tinued in favour with the princes he served, during his whole life, and died at Rydon, in 1430,
Fourteenth, Henky de Wodehouse, Esq. was twenty-four years old at his father's death. King Henry V. was his godfather, by whom he was recommended to Henry VI. At his father's death he lived at Bocking-Ash in Suffolk, and dying the next year without issue, his estate went to his brother John.
Fifteenth, John Wodehouse, Esq, his brother, succeeded him, who, when the commissioners were appointed, 12 Hen. VI. to summon all persons of best note, and tender them an oath for the keeping the peace, and observing the King's laws, for themselves and retainers, was returned as one of the principal gentlemen of Norfolk; and because he would not take the honour of kpight- hood, was fined accordingly. He married Constance, eldest daughter and coheir of Thomas Geddynge, of Icklingham in Suffolk, Esq. relict, first, of Henry Pooley, Esq. and after that, of John Aleyne, Esq. one of the Barons of the Exchequer, by whom he had one son. Sir Edward, and a daughter, Alice, married to William Clippesby, of Clippesby, in Fleg in Norfolk, Esq.
I find him sometimes called, John Wodehouse, of London, Esq. where he also had a house ; he died at Kimberley, in 1465,
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Sixteenth, Sir Edward Wodehoiise, his son and heir, was knighted at Grafion-field, near Tewskbury. I find him alive io 14/3, but cannot say exactly when he died. He married two wives, first, the daughter of Sir John Tirrel, by wliom he had no issue J secondly, Jane, daughter and heir of Edmund Swathyng, of Letton, Esq. by whom he had issue three sons ; first, Sir Tho- mas; second, Jolin j third, Bertram Wodehouse, a priest j also, one daughter, Eleanor, married, first, to Edmund Hastings; se- condly, to John Bozun, of Wjssingset; and thirdly, to
Cressiner, Esqrs.j she died in 1487.
Seventeenth, Sir Thomas Wodehouse, Knight, his son and heir, was created Knight of the Bath, at the marriage of Prince Arthur, eldest son to King Henry VH. with the Infanta of Spain,. and was sent ambassador into France, wlieye he married a lady of Picardy, for his first wife, but by her had no issue : for his second wife, he had Thomazine, daughter of Sir Roger Towneshend, of Raynham in Norfolk, Knight, by whom he had issue three sons and two daughtei-s.
First, Sir Roger.
Second, John, of Beccles, Esq, who married Anne, daughter of William Spelman, Esq. who snrvivetl him, and afterwards
married Desny, and died I55g. Third, Edward Wode-
house, who embraced a religious life. The daughters were, Catherine, married to Sir Thomas Lovell, of Berton-Bendish in Norfolk, Knight3 and Elizabeth, to Thomas Wingfield;, of Eastoa- in Suffolk, Esq.
Sir Thomas died in 148/, and was succeeded by h\s eldest son>
Eighteenth, Sir Roger Wodehouse, Knight, who, by reason of his small stature, was called Little Sir Roger ; he was knighted by Edw. YI. in 15-18, and is often called Knight of the Carpet. He had two wives j first, Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of Sir Robert Ratcliff, Knight; and secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of John Drury, of Besthorpe in Norfolk, Esq. 3 by the first he had four sons and four daughters.
First, Thomas.
Second, Sir William, who was vice-admiral of the English fleet, being knighted for bis valiant acts done in the battle of Musselburgh, and after his return, became a man of much repute in his country ; in 1 and 2 Philip and Mary, he was elected knight of the shire, with Nichola'i Lestrange j and 4 and 5 Philip and Mary, with Sir Henry Bedingfieid j he served also for the county.
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anno 1 Eliz. with Nicholas Lestrange, aforesaid ; and again, in the fifth of that Queen, with Sir Edward Warner, Knt.
Third, peorge ; and fourth, John Wodehouse, buried at Kim- berley, March 18th, 1579.
The daughters were, first. Amy, married to Ralph Shelton, Esq. second son of Sir John ; second, Anne, who first married Sir Thomas Ragland, Knight, and secondly, Christopher Co- ningsby, Esq. who was killed at Musselburgh-field, o;dy son of Sir William Coningsby, ofWalington in Norfolk, Knight, and grandson tn Sir Humphry Coningsby, Knight, lord chief justice;
thirdj Jnne, married, first, to Levens, and secondly, to
W. Mason ; and fourth, Elizabeth, married to William Moor, and was buried at Kimberley, 1563.
By his second lady (who survived him) he had only one daughter, Ursula, married to the eldest son of Sir Thomas Cotton,
of in Kent, Knight.
Sir Roger was buried in Kimberley church, February 10th, 1560.
Nineteenth, Thomas Wodehouse, Esq. eldest son of Sir Roger, in 1 Philip and Mary, was high sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, which office he served again, in 5 Eliz. and in 4 and 5 Philip and Mary, and 1 Eliz. he was burgess in parliament for the borough of Yarmouth in Norfolk. He married Margaret, daughter of Sir John Shelton, of Shelton, Knight, who survived him, and was created Lady JFodehouse, by whom he had five sons and three daughters.
First, Sir Roger, successor to his grandfather. Second, Henry, born January 3d, \5iQ ; he was (as all his ancestors for many generations always were) justice of the peace, and twice member for the county of Norfolk, viz, in 14 and 31 Eliz.
Third, Loy ; fourth, John 3 and fifth, Thomas, who all died without issue.
The daughters were, first, Anne, who married Richard Stocks, (or Stokes,) of Bonham, archdeacon of Norfolk ; second, Elizabeth, married to Thomas Jones, of Lynn, Esq, j and third, Mary, who married Gough, Esq. a gentleman of Ire- land.
Twentieth, Sir Roger Wodehouse, Knight, eldest son of Thomas, .served in parliament for the borough of Aldborough in Sufiblk, 13 Eliz. 1570, and was knighted by that Queen, at Sir
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Edward Clare's house, at Blickliiig in Norfolk, August, 1578. He served forThetford in parliament, 28 Eliz and married Mary, daughter of John Corbet, of Sprowston in Norfolk, Esq. sister to Sir Miles Corbet, Knight, who survived him, and married George Kemp, of Tottenham in Middlesex, Esq. who in his will, dated iduO, calls her Mary, Lady Wodehouse, Sir Roger died in 1588, and was buried at KimberK-y April 4lh. He had two sons j Sir Philip, his successor i Matthew; and a daugliter, Catherine, that died young.
Twenty-first, Sir Ph[lip Wodehouse, Knight, ^r5< Baronet, served Queen Elizabeth both by sea and land, in Spain and Por- tugal, was at the conquest of Caks, in Spain, and for his valouf shewn there, was knighted by Robert, Earl of Ess«x, and Charles, Earl of Nottingham, the Queen's generals : on the accession of James I. to the crown of Englaiid, he went with Thomas his eldest son, to meet that King in his way from Scotland to Lon- don, and at Sir George Fermors house, in Northamptonshire, his Majesty conferred the honour of knighthood on Thomas, his son, then but eighteen years ofagej and on the first creation of Ba- ronets, b'lT Philip was advanced to that tide, anno 161 1.
In 28 Eliz. he was elected burgt ss in parliament for Caslle- Rising, was at the c:imp at Tilbury, was dcputy-lieuienant for the county of Norfolk, and dying at Kimberley, was there buried, October 30th, j623. His wife was Grizell, daughter of William Yelverton, of Rougham in Norfolk, Esq. widow of Hamon Le- strange, of Hunstanton, Esq. to whom he was married, at Kim- berley, December 22d, 15S2; she died August 4th, 10'35. By her he had six sons and two daughters.
First, Sir Thomas,
Second, Roger Wodehouse, Esq. buried at Kimberley, May 22d, 1634.
Third, Philip; fourth, John ; fifth, John; sixth. Miles, who all died young.
The daughters were ; Elizabeth, married to Humphry Guy- ban, of Lynn, Esq. ; and Margaret, that died young.
Twenty-second, Sir 1 homas Wodehouse, Knight, second Ba- ronet, was knighted by King James, as aforesaid, aiid was gentle- man to Prince Henry, was twice member of parliament for Thet- ford, in King Charles ttie First's time, viz in \(i3g, and lO-lO. He married Blanch, daughter of John, Baron of Hunsdon, sister to Henry, Lord Hunsdon, Viscount Rochford, and Earl of Dover, bj whom he had issue two sons.
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Sir Philip, his successor} and John, who died young.
And five daughters; first, Mercy, who died young j second, Mary, married to Sir Humphry Monnoux, of Wotton in Bedford- shire, Bart. ; third, Anne, married to Robert Suclcling, of Wotton in Norfolk, Esq.j fourth, Jane, wife to Sir Hugh Windham, Knight, Serjeant at law; and fifth, Elizabeth, married to Sir Denner Strutt, of Little- Warley in Essex, Bart. She died No- vember 6th, 1051 .
Sir Thomas died in 1058.
Twenty-third, Sir Philip Wodehouse, third Baronet, was one of the burgesses for Thetford, in that parliament that restored King Charles 11. anno l66o. He was baptized at Kimberley, July 24th, l608, and was a man of good learning, ready wit, and exceedingly skilful in music. He married Lucy, daughter of Sir Thomas Cotton, of Connington in Huntingdonshire, Bart, (by Margaret, his first wife, daughter of the Lord William Howard, of Naworth-castle in Cumberland, third son of Thomas, Duke of Norfolk), and died at Kimberley, and was buried there. May 6th, l6Sl. He had issue by his Lady, three sons and two daughters.
First, Sir Thomas.
Second, Edmond, of East-Lexham in Norfolk, who married, first, Mercy, daughter of Sir Philip Parker, of Arwarton in Suf- folk, Knight, relict of William Guybbon, of Thursford, Esq. by whom he had two sons; Pliilip, buried at Kimberley, August 8th, 1703 ; and John, who died without issue, and was buried at Lexhara. Also two daughters; Lucy, married to Lewis Mon- noux, of Sandy in Bedfordshire, Esq. ; and Mercy, that died without issue. The said Edmond married to his second wife, Anne, daughter of John Anguish, of Great-Melton, Esq. by whom he had no issue : he died September 5th, 172/, aged eighty- eight, and was buried at Kimberley.
Third, John Wodehouse, of Feltwell, Esq. who married Anne, daughter of Sir Denner Strutt, of Lit tie- Warley, Bart, relict of William Samwell, of Wotton in Norfolk, Esq. and died in 1718, and his wife in 17^0, by whom he had one daughter, Elizabeth.
The two daughters of Sir Philip were, Blanch, married to Sir Jacob Astley, of Melton-Constable in Norfolk Bart.; and Mar- garet, the wife of Thomas Savage, of Elmley-castlCj in Worces- tershire, Esq,
Twenty-fourth, Sir Thomas Wodehouse was knighted by
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King Charles II. November 2d, ^666, and died of the small pox, at Kimberley, 1671^ vita patris. He married Anne, daughter and coheir of Sir William Armine, of Osgodby in Lincolnshire, Bart, who sun'ived him, and remarried Thomas, Lord Crew, of Stene, (by whom she had four daughters j Jemima, married to Henry de Grey, Duke of Kent ; Armyn, to Thomas Cartwright, of Aynho in Northamptonshire, Esq. ; Catherine, to Sir John Harpur, of Calkein Derbyshire, Bart. ; and Elizibeth, toCharlei Earl of Arran, and Lord Butler, of Weston, brother of Jnmcs^ Duke of Ormond.) After Lord Crew's death, she married, a third time, to Arthur (Herbert) Earl of Torrington.
Sir Thomas, by Anne aforesaid, had only one son, Sir John ; and a daughter, Anne, married to Sir Nicholas Lestrange, of Hunstanton in Norfolk, Bart.
Twenty-iifth, Sir John Wodehouse,/o//?7// Baronet, only son and heir of Sir Thomas, who succeeded his grandfather in title and estate, was born at Kimberley, March 23d, 1669, In 16Q5, he was elected burgess in parliament for the borough of Thetford in Norfolk, of which place he was afterwards recorder. He served again for the borough of Thetford, in i;0], and J 705; and in the 9th of Queen Anne, was elected knight of the shire with Sir Jacob Astley, Bart, for the county of Norfolk.
He married, first, Elizabeth, sister of John, Lord Bingley, by whom he had no issue.
His second Lady was Mary, only daughter of William, Lord Lempster, (by his second wife, Catherine, daughter to John, Lord Paulet, and half-sister to John, Earl Paujet) and half-sister to the late Earl of Pomfret ; she left issue three sons and one daughter.
First, William Wodehouse, Esq. the eldest son, married Frances, daughter of Allan, Lord Bathnrst, and was elected one of the members for the county of Norfolk, but died of the small- pox, at London, 1733, without issue. His widow was re-mai'- ried to James Whitshed, of Ireland, Esq.
Second, Armine Wodehouse, Esq. second son, of whom here- after.
Third, Thomas, the third .son, died unmairied.
Sophia, Sir John's only daughter, married Sir Charles Mor- daunt, of Massingham in Norfolk, and Walton in Warwickshire, Bart, and died April, 1788, leaving issue two sons and a daughter, John^ ^arlesj and Mary.
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Sir John Wodehouse di-d August gth, 17 ^^> and was suc- ceeded by his eldest surviving son.
Twenty-sixth, Sir Armine, Jifth Baronet, was five times, in the ]ate and present r'^ ign, elected knight of the shire for the county of Norfolk ; and in ihe year 1 758, was appointed colonel of the eastern battalion of the militia for the sa-d county He died May 21st, 1777, his death being occasioned by a fish bone slick- ing in his throat.
, He married Lseiitia, eldest daughter and coheir of Sir Ed- mund Bacon, of Garboldisham in Norfolk, Bart. By this Lady, who died in March, 1759, he had issue four sons, viz. . First, Edmund, who died in 1755.
Second, John, the present peer.
Third, Phihp, born in May, J7-I5, in holy orders, A. M. pre- bendary of Norwich, and rector of Ingham in Norfolk; married, Julv 29th, 1775, Apollonia, daughter and coheir of John Nourse, of V/oodeaton in the county of Oxford, Esq. and has issue four sons and four daughters.
Fourth, rho.-nas, born in 1747, a barrister at law, lately de- ceased 5 married, Seijtember 12lh, J 782, Sarah, daughter of Pryce Campbell, of Starkpole Court in the county of Pembroke, Esq. and sister to John, Lord Cawdor; left sons.
Sir John Wodehouse, sixth Baronet, now Lord Wode- house, represented Norfolk in parliaa.eut, and was created a peer October 26th, '.7y7, by the title of Lord Wodehouse, of Ke-'iberley in N irfoik.
He was born in April, 1741, and married, in M.irch, I76p, Soi^hin, (jnly child of Charles Berkeley, of Bruton Abbey in So- mer etsii rr, brother to Lord 'eikeley, of Stratton, whose titles became e;<i:nct in 1773; by whom he has issue.
First, John, married, Aovember 18th, 1796^ Miss Norris, only daugh<er of the 1 >te John Norris, of Wilton Park in Nor- folk, Esq by a daughter of the late Dean lownshend.
Second, Philip, a captain in the rryal navy, born in 1773.
Third, Armine, born in \7^'^-
Fourth, William, born August 4th, 1782, in holy orders, M. A. rector of Carleton-Forc ho, Itteringham, and Mannington, in Norfolk; married, February 11th, 1807, the eldest daughter of Thomas Hussey, of Galtrim iu Ireland, Esq. . Fifth, Sophia, born December 26th, 17^9.
Sixth J Letitia, boru in 177'*' -
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Seventh, Frances, died young 5 and. Eighth, Frances, born June 21st, 1779'
Titles. Sir John Wodehouse, Bart. Lord Wodehouse, of Kern- barley in Norfolk.
Creation. A Baron by patent, October 26th, 1/97 ■
Arms. Sable, a chevron, or, gutte de sang, between three cinquefoils, ermine.
Crest. A dexter hand issuing out of clouds, proper, holding a club, with this motto about it, frappe forte, and under the arms, Agincourt.
Supporters. Two wild men, proper, wreathed about the head and waist with oak-leaves,' vert, each with a club over his shoulder, of the last.
Motto. Agincourt,
Chief Seat. Kemberley, Norfolk.
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PEERAGE OF ENGLAND.
RUSHOUT, LORD NORTH WICK,
This family is said to be originally of English extraction, but long since went into France, and there settled; where we find Thibaut Rouhault, Sisur de Boismmart, from whom this house derives its descent: he lived in the year 1300, and about that time married the Lady Jane de la Val, daughter of Guy Comte de la Val, of Britany, one of the most ancient houses in France^ by whom he had one son, and one daughter, Tristan, and Jane.
Tristan, Sieur de Boismenart, (a person of great merit) mar- ried Peronelle de Thouars, daughter of Louis, Viscount de Thouars, and by her had only one son named John ; Jane was married to Robert Dreux, Baron, and Seigneur D'Esneval, by whom she had issue.
John, Sieur de Boismenart, only son of Tristan, was a valiant knight, served long in the army, and distinguished himself upon several occasions ; he married the Lady Jane de Bellay, daughter of the Prince D'yvetot, and by her had two sons, viz. Joachim and Abel (who was governor of Valognes, and served in the French army with great reputation, and is much applauded by Monstrelet), who died issueless.
Joachim, Sieur de Boismenart, de Gameches, and de Chatillon began to make a considerable figure about the year 1439, being at that time first master of the horse to the Dauphin of France, afterwards King Louis XL and served him in his wars almost throughout the whole course of his reign, and was by him ad- vanced to the dignity of a mareschal of France, great master of the
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horse of France, and assisted in that quality when Louis XT. made his public entry into Paris j he was also governor of Paris, con- stable of Bordeaux, and the government of Berberac, of Mont- quion, of Blau, and of Fronsac He rendered his Prince great service j and is recorded by the French historians in their cata- logues of illustrious persons, as one of the greatest captains of those enterprizing times. He married the Lady 1 ranees de VoUe- veire, daughter of the Marquis de Ruliet, and by her had three sons, viz. Aloph, Thibaut, and John.
Alolph, eldest son to the mareschal Gamaches, married Ga- brille de iVIontrigny, of 'he house of S':ilvert, and by her had issue only one son, named Alolp'i, who married Jaqueline de Soissons, called Moreul ; from whom was lineally descended, after several descents, the late Marquis de Gamaches, who resided at Gamacheg in Picardy.
Thibaut, the second son of the mareschal, was governor of Hesdin, and was highly signalized for his courage : he married Jane de Sauveuse, heir of Sauveuse and Cangny, and by her had only one daughter, married to the Seigneur de la Brosse.
John, the youngest son of the mareschal de Gamaches, went into Flanders, where he settled, and married Jaqueline de Goderie (as appears by the descent taken out of the herald's office at Brux- cUes, where he is called Jean Rushaut), and by her had a plenti- ful issue.
From whom, in a direct male line, after several generations, v/as descended, ^
John RusHOUT, of May lards in Essex, Esq. a merchant in London, who coming to England was naturalized, 10 Charles I. He died October 28th, l653, set. sixty, having had two wives.
First, Anne, daughter of Joas Godschalk, of London, Esq,
Second, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Finet, Knight, relict of John Godschalk, of London, Esq. ; by the last he had no issue.
But by the first he had several sons, who all died s. p. except
James, of whf)m hereafter.
And three daughters ; first, Abigail, married to Sir Abraham Cullen, of Upton in Warwickshire, Bart. ; second, Catherine, married, first, to Sir John Maynard, of Tooting in Surrey, and Iselham in Cambridgeshire, Knight; secondly, to Francis Buller, of Chillingham in Cornwall, Esq.; and third, Anne, married to Sir William Adams, of Sprowslon in Norfolk, Bart.
a AH hitherto stands on the authority of the Baronetages.
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James Rushout, Esq. only surviving son and heir, was the^rst Baronet of this family, advanced to that dignity 13 Car. II. He served in parliament for the corporation of Evesham- upwards of thirty years without interruption^ except in the convention par- liament at the revolution, when he had the honour to be chosen by the county of Worcester.
In May, 1697, he was appointed ambassador extraordinary to the Grand Seignior, but died in the February after, just as he was ready to set out.
Having married Alice, the daughter and heir of Edmund Pitt, * of Harrow on the Hill, in the county of Middlesex, Esq. (relict of Edward Palmer, Esq. second son of Sir Jeffrey Palmer, Bart.) he had five sons and four daughters, viz.
First, William.
Second, Alice, married to Edwin Sandys, ofOmbcrsley in the county of Worcester, Esq.
Third, Catherine, married with Samuel Pytts, of Kyre in the county of Worcester, Esq,
Fourth, Sir James.
Fifth, William.
Sixth, Jane.
Seventh, Elizabeth, married, first. Sir George Thorold, of Harmston in the county of Lincoln, Bai t. ; and secondly George, late Earl of Northampton.
Eighth, Sir John 5 and,
Ninth, George.
And three of the sons and one daughter died in their infancy.
Sir James Rushout, second Baronet, the eldest surviving son, succeeded his father, and married Arabella, daughter of Sir Tho- mas Vernon, of London, Knight, by whom he had issue
One son. Sir James, and two daughters.
Anne, who died young; and Elizabeth, married to Pawlet St. John,'' of Dogmersfeild in Hampshire, Esq. and died without issue.
Sir James died in the year 1/05, and was succeeded by
Sir James Rushout, third Baronet, his only son, who died at about nine years old at Isleworth in Middlesex, September 21st, 1711, whereupon the title and estate went to his uncle.
Sir John Rushout, the fourth Baronet^ who served in the par-
6 She brought a large fortune about Harrow com. Middlesex. « Afici wards created a Bart. Ob. circ.1780.
LORD NORTHWICK. ' 5f9.
liament? called in 171O, 1713, and 1714, for Malm'^biiry in Wilts, and in the second parliament ("or King George I. was elected a re- presentative in parliament for Evesliara in Worcestershire, which corporation he represented till I768.
In the reign of King George II. he was a leading opponent of Sir Robert Walpole ; and particularly distinguished himsrlf against the excise Ijill. On the fall of that minister, he was made one of the lords of the treasury; and soon after Treasuker of the Navy. He lived to a great age, dying February 2d, 1775, ast. ninety-one. Dr. Nash says, " his memory, good-humour, and politeness, were then in their full bloom ; old age, which in ge- neral is not to be wished for, seemed in him rather an ornament than a burden. His mother was a zealous protestant, and by her apprehensions of popery on the accession of James II. is supposed to have hastened his birth."
He married, October, 1729, Lady Anne Compton, fourth daughter of George, Earl of Northampton, and by her, who died 1706, had issue one son, John ;
And two daughters) Elizabeth, married to Richard Myd- delton, of Chirk-Castle in Wales, Esq. 3 and Anne, unmarried.
He was succeeded by his only son.
Sir John Rushout, fifth Baronet, and first Lord North- wick, who represented Evesham in parliament, 1780, 1784, 1790 j and on October 26th, 1797> was raised to the Peerage, by the title of Lord North wick, of Northwick in Worcestershire.
His Lordship married, June 8th, 1766, Rebecca, daughter of Humphrey Bowles, of Wanstead in Essex, Esq. and had issue ;
First, John, the present peer.
Second, George, in holy orders; married, January lOth, 1803, Lady Caroline Stewart, daughter to John, the eighth Earl of Galloway, K. T, and has a daughter, born October 26th, 1803.
Third, Anne.
Fourth, Henrietta, married, February I3tb, 1808, Charles Cockerell, of Sesincot in Gloucestershire, Esq,
Fifth, Elizabeth, bora December 6th, 1774, married, in June 1797j to Sydney Bowles, Esq. and has two daughters.
His Lordship died October 20th, 1800, and was succeeded by his son
JoHX, SECOND and present Lord Northwick, born Fe- bruary l6rh, J 770.
Titlei. John Rushout, Lord Northwick, of Northwick ia Worcestershire, &;c. Baron«t.
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Creations. Baron Northwick, by patent, October 26th, 1797 » and a Baronet July 17th, \66l.
Arms. Sable, two lions passant guardant, within a bordure engrailed, or.
CresL A lion passant guardant, or.
Supporters. Two angels, proper, winged and crined, or, habited, argent, powdered with fleurs-de-lis and mullets, or, bound round the waist with a sash, azure, holding in their hands a palm- branch, vert.
Motto. Pak ternis suppar.
Chief Seats. Northwick-park, Worcestershire; Harrow, Middlesex.
LORD LILFORD.
m
POWYS, LORD LILFORD.
William Powys mnnied Emme a widow, anno 6 Ed- ward II. by whom he had
Thomas Powys, who was father of
KiCHAUD Powys, who had issue
JoHM Powys, of Myvolt com. Montgomery, who had issue, first, Edivard; second, Morrys ; third, James; fourth, Lewis Powys, from whom the family of Powys, of Cockshoult com. Salop, are descended.
James Powys, third son, was father of
First, Humphry Powys.
Second, William Powys, of Ludlowe com, Salop, born 10 Hen. VII. By his first wife Anne , he bad issue,
First, Thomas Powys, of Abington, who by Joane his wife, had issue, first, Thomas j second, John ; third, Catherine, wife to Dr. Hovenden, Warden of All Souls College, Oxf. and secondly to Sir William Jones, Knight, Chief Justice of Ireland, and after- wards one of the Justices of the King's Bench 3 fourth, Jane, wife of John Young, Esq.; fifth, Alicea ; sixth, Margery; seventh, Mary.
Second, Richard Powys.
Third, John Powys.
He married, secondly, Margaret, daughter of Richard Row- bury, by whom he had issue,
Fourth, Isabel, wife of Richard Hall, of Crete.
Fifth, , wife to Richard Bayley.
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Sixth, Thomas, of whom presently.
Seventh, Edward Powys, of Ludlow.
Eio-hth, John Powys, of Brindrinocke, who had issue Thoma:-. Powys, of Brindrinockcj l663.
Ninth, William.
Tenth, Henry Powys.
Thomas Powys, sixih child, of Snitton com. Salop, born 1 Eliz. died November Ipth, 1639, having married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Smith, of Credenhill com. Hereford, Esq. by whom he had issue.
First, Thomas, of whom presently.
Second, Christopher Powys.
Third, Peter Powys, of Hollins com. Salop, who married, first, Elizabeth, daughter of William Cupper ; secondly, Joane, daughter and heir of John Morris, of Rochford. By his first wife he had issue William Powys.
Fourth, James Powys.
Fifth, Winifred, wife to Ambrose Rudge, of Tresell com. Staf- ford 5 sixth, Anne, wife of William Wall, of com. Heref. j
seventh, Mary, wife of John Merston, of Astcoate com. Salop; eighth, Elizabeth, wife of Henry Mitton, of Shipton com. Salop,
Esq.
Thomas Powys, eldest son, was a bencher of Lincoln's-Inn, and aged forty-three in l603. His first wife was Mary, daughter of Sir Adam Littleton, of Stoke-Milburgh com. Salop, Knt. and Bart. His second wife was Mary, daughter of John Cotes, of Woodcote com. Salop, Esq. by whom he had two sons, Robert and Richard.
By his first wife he had issue a daughter, Anne, and four sons,
viz.
First, Sir Littleton Powys, Knight, aged fifteen, l663; a baron of the Exchequer, October 28th, 1695; a judge of the Common Pleas, 1697 ; a judge of the King's Bench, January 2G, I7CX); resigned 1726.
Second, Sir Thomas Powys, of whom presently.
Third, Edward Powys : for whom there is the following Eft- taph in Magdalen parish church in Oxford.
M. S.
Edwardus Powys Filius natu tertius
LORD LILFORD. . 5;g
Thomce Pow ys Armigeri
De Henley, agro
Salopiensi
Qui Frosapice tliit ornamcntum,
Ut illi Prosnpia :
Fselix admodum naturae dotibus,
Quas artium Libmlium studio
Ingeniosc auxit :
Schols; Salopit-nsis olim alumnus
Nuper Coll : Trin : Oxoii : Commensalis,
In cujus gremio suavissiine
Expiravit
. C Salutis 1 IGGS
Anno J \
\ iEtatis 3 ]8
Fourth, John Povvys.
Sir Thomas Powys, Knight^ second son, being brought up to the law, was appointed Solicitok General, April 2Gtli, lO'dGj Attorney General, December 13th, 1087 j -i"d a Judge of the King's Bench, June 4th, 1713, whicii was revoked in favour of Sir John Pratf, October 26th, 1714. He died April 4th, I719, aged seventy, having married, first, Sarah, daughter of Ambrose Holbech, of Mollington in Warwickshire, Esq.} secondly, Eliza- beth, daughter of Sir Philip Medows, Knight. By the former wife he was father of Thomas Powys, his son and heir.
This Sir Thomas Powys purchased, in 1711. the manor and scat of LUford in Northamptonsliire.
The Ibllowing account of his monument and epitaph at Lil- ford, is taken from Bridgcs's History of Northamptonshire, vol. ii. p. 245.
On the north side of the chancel is a very elegant monument of white and grey marble, having at the toj) the arms and crest of Powys, viz. Or, a /ion's paw erased in le7id lelwecn two cross crosskls Jitche, gules; ctest, on a ivrea'.h alike paw holding a sceptre. Below the arms are two cherubims on the wing, carry- ing a winding-sheet, which falls between the pediment of grey marble. The freeze and moulding are of the same marble. This cornice is supported by two composite fluted pillars with white marble capitals. Between the pillars, on a tomb of while mable, is the figure of Sir Thomas Powys in a judge's robe, reposing his body on his rjght arm; and his left hand, which is placed on
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liis left knee, holdin£( a roll. Joining to the pillar, at the head, is a very expressive statue of Religion j and at the feet, the statue of Eloquence; both of white marble. On a white marble tablet, over Sir Tiiomas Powys, is the following inscription, written by Matthew Prior, Esq. the poet.
M. S.
Here lyeth interred
Sir Thomas Powys, Knt.
Second son of Thomas Powys, of Henley
in the county of Salop, Serjeant at Law, and of
Anne, Daughter
of Sir Adam Littleton, of Stoke
Milburgh in the said
County, Bart.
By his first v/ife Sarah, daughter of
Ambrose Holbech,
of Mollingtoii in the county of Warwick, Esq.
he had three sons, Thomas, Edward,
and Ambrose,
and three daughters, Sarah, Anne, and
Jane.
By his second wife Elizabeth, daughter of
Sir Philip Medows, Knt.
He had two sons, both named Philip,
He was appointed Solicitor General anno
1686,
Attorney General 1697, Premier Serjeant at
Law 1702,
One of the Judges of the Queen's Bench 1713.
He dyed the 4th of April 17 19. Aged 70.
As to his profession.
In accusing cautious, in defending vehement)
In all his pleadings
Sedate, clear, strong :
In all his decisions
Unprejudiced and Equitable ;
He studied, practised, and governed the law
In such a manner, that
Nothing equalled his knowledge
Except his eloquence}
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Nothing excelled both
Except his Justice :
And whether he was greater.
As an Advocate or a Judge,
Is the only cause he lt*rt undecided.
As to his life,
He possessed by a natural happiness
All those civil virtues, which form the perfect
Gentleman ; And to those by divine (joodness were added
That fervent zeal, and extensive charity, Wliich distinguished the perfect Christian,
The tree is known by his fruit. He was a loving husband, and an indulgent
father;
A constant friend, and a charitable pation ;
Frequenting tl)e devotioris of the church,
Pleading the caust^ and relieving the necessities
of tli-^ poor.
What by his exanijile he taught throughout
his life.
At his death he recommended to his family,
and his friends :
To fear God, and live uprightly.
Let whosoever read this stone
Be wise, and be instructed.
Thomas Powys, of Li 1 ford, E';q,
Eldest son of Sir Thomas Powy.s, Knight,
Succeeded his father as in estate, so in virtue.
He married Catherine, daughter and coheir
Of Thomas Ravenscroft,
Of Brcadlane in the county ot Flint, Esq.
And by his last will and testament.
His piety ordered
That this monument should be sacred
To the ashes of his father j
His humility forbad
That any other memorial
Should be raised to himself.
He dyed the 3d of March 1/^^, aged 32.
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Before the monument, which is enclosed with iron rails, are two black marbles, on one of which are the arms, mantle, helmet, and crest of Sir Thomas Poivys, and under them in capitals, Sir Thomas Powys, Knight, ob. April 4tb, l/ly. On the other are the arms, mantle, helmet, and crest of Thomas Powys, Esq. ; and on an escuichcon of pretence, a cheveron between three hinds heads erased, and beneath them in capitalt;, Thomas Powys, Esa. ob. March 3d, ]7i-^
Thomas Powys, Esq. of Li/ford, already mentioned, who died March 3d, 1720, was father, by Catherine Ravenscroft, of
Thomas Powys, of Lilfokd, Esq who by Henrietta, daughter of Thomas Spence, Esq. of Saville-row, had issue, first, Thomas; second, Littleton, born June 15th, 1748.
Thomas Powys, eldest son. first Lord Lilford, was born May 4th, 1743, and represented the county of Northampton, 1774, 1780, 1784, 1790, 179s j and having for many years been an active and useful member of the house of cornmons, was on Oc- tober 26th, 1797, raised to the Peerage by the title of Baron Lilford, nf Lilford in Northanaptonshire,
His Lordship married , sister of the present Sir
Horace Mann, Bart, by whom he had issue.
First, Thomas, the present peer.
Second, Lyttleton, in holy orders, married, July 24th, I8O9, Miss Hatsell, of Morden-park, Surrey, and has a son, born Ja- nuary, 1811.
Third, Frederic, in holy orders ; married, October 15fh, I8O7, the Hon. Mary Gould, sister to Henry, late Lord Grey de Ruthyn, and has a son, born July 22d, 1808.
Fourth, Charles, in the royal navy, died of the yellow fever at Jamaica, August 13th, 1804.
Fifth, Henry, a lieutenant in the fifty-second regiment of foot.
Sixth, Helena, married, November 19th, 1800, the Hon. and Rev. Richard Bruce Stopford, joungest son of James, late Earl of Courtown, K. P. and has issue a son, born June 22d, 1808.
Seventh, Lucy- Amelia j eighth, Caroline, twins.
Ninth, Sophia; tenth, Anne; and eleventh, Louisa.
His Lordship died January 26th, 1800, and was succeeded by his son,
Thomas, second and present Lord Lilford, who married, December 5th, 1797, Anna-Maria, eldest daughter and heiress of Robert Vernon Atherton, Esq. of Atherton-ball in Lancashire.-
LORD LILFORD. 583
Title. Thomas Powis, Lord Lilford, of Lilford in Northamp- tonshire.
Creation. By patent, October 2Gth, 1797.
Arms. Or, a lion's gamb erased in bend, between two cross crosslets, fitche, gules.
Crest. A lion's gamb erased, gules, grasping a sceptre, or.
Supporters. On the dexter, an husbandman in his shirt, with cars of wheat round his hat, all proper, with a sickle in his hand, or, and a garb lying at his feet of the last : on the sinister, a soldier habited, vert, turned up butt", holding a sword, point downwards, all proper.
Motto. Pakta tueri.
Chief Seat. Lilford, Northamptonshire.
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PEERAGE OF ENGLAND.
LISTER, LORD RIBBLESDALE.
John Lister^ of Derby, 6 Edw. II. 13 J 2, married Isabel, daugh- ter and heir of John de Bolton, bowbearer of Bollaud, and had issue
Richard Lister, of Derby, who was father of
John Lister, of Barnoldswick and Middop,A Hen. IV. buried at Salley Abbey, which estate of Middop be inherited from his grandmother, Isabel Bolton ; the manor of Midhope, one of the most extensive and valuable farms in Craven, having been parcel of the great possessions of the above Boltons, and having passed into the Lister family by the above marriage in the reign of King Edw II. He was father of
Laurence Lister, who by the daughter of Rich ird Banester, bf Brokden, had issue,
Christopher Lister, of Middop, 16 Edw. IV. who married Joan, daughter of Sir William Calverley, of Caherley, Knight, by Agnes, daughter of Sir John Tempest, Knight, / Edw. IV. and had issue,
First, William, of Middop, of whom presently.
Second, Thomas, ancestor to Lord Rihhlcsdale, ofivhom here- after.
Third, Nicholas Lister, died s. p.
William Lister, of Middop, Esq. eldest son, was buried at Gisburn, 1537, having married Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of Thurstan Banester, of Swindcn, by whom he had issue Chris- topher Lister, 13 Hrnry VIII. 1521, who married Eleanor, daughter and coheir of John Clayton, of Clayton in Lancashire,
LORD RIBCLESDALE. 585
Esq. and had by her the manor of Clayton. He was father of William Lister, who is supposed to have purchased the manor of Thornton in Craven, from John Manners, Esq. By his second wife Bridget, daughter of Bariholomev\' Pigot, of Aston Rowen, com. Oxf. widow of Thomas Banysler, of Broxdene, he had three sons and three daughters 5 Bartholomew; Michael ; and Marlin ; Rosa- mond, \vife oflliomas, son and heir of Sir John Suiithworthj Mary, and Ellen. But by his first wife, Anne, daughter of Roger Mydhope, of Skipton, and heir to her uncle William, he had issue, first, William, ob. s. p. ; second, Laurence; third, Chris- topher; fourth, John, difd s. p in Ireland; fifth, Elizabeth, mar- ried John Breres, of Hammerton ; si.\th, Lsabel, married Henry Bankes, of Bank-Newton, Esq, Laurence Lisler, of Mydhope, Esq. second but eldest surviving son, living 1585, married Everild, dauj^hter of John Sayer, of Riclunondshire, and had two daughters and a son; viz. Anne, wife of Giles Parker, by whom she had Dorothy; Margaret, married to Stephen Haaierton, of Hellcfield- park, Esq.; and Sir William Listtr, Knight, oi Tlwrntun, who died l650, having married Mary, daughter of Sir Henry Bellasys, of Newborough com. York, Bart, by whom she liad, first, Wil- liam, of whom presently ; second, Laurence; third, Christopher,
who by Winifred daughter of Fletcher, and widow of Sir
Richard Dacres, Knight', had issue Annej fourth, Edward- Henry j fifth. Sir Martin; sixth, Matthew, consul at Cyprus in l665; seventh, Micliael ; eighth, Edmund; nin'h, Ursula, mar- ried Sampson Slaveley; tenth, Frances, married John l,ambert, of Calton, Esq. Sir Martin Lister, /z'/'/i son, married Catherine, daughter of ^5ir William Fairfax, of Steeton, Knight. According to A. Wood, he was born at I'hornton in Craven, and bred at Oxford, where he became Fellow of Oriel college; but trdvelling abroad, he became M. D. at Basil, and was incorporated at Ox- ford in 1C)<)5, as the English universities allowed a more universal communication of honours with those on the Continent than is usual at present. His family and country probably recommended him to the illustrious Anne, Countess of Pembroke, whom he ap- pears to have served in the double capicity of agent and physi- cian. By her recommendation probably he became physician in ordinary to Queen Anne of Denmark, and afterwards to King Charles L from whom he received the honour of kniglithood in 1636. Lastly, he attained to the summit of medical honours, in being appointed President of the College of Piiysicians. He died about l6'57, at Burwell in Lincolnshire, aged ninety-two ; an in-
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stance of a constitution, which either needed not the aids of his own faculty, or proved =* their efficacy. ^ William Lister, Esq. of Thornton, his elder brother, died in his father's lifetime, having married Catherine, daughter of Sir Richard Hawks- worth, of Hawksworth, Knight, by whom he had issue, first, William Lister, of Thornton, Esq. aged twenty-eight, Sep- tember 15th, 1606, ob, s, p. ; second, Christopher Lister, of Thornton, Esq. ; third, Anne, wife of Sir John Kaye, of Wood- some, Bart. Christopher Lister, of Thornton, Esq. died in 1667, having married a daughter of Sir Thonias Norcliiie, of Nunnington, Knight, by whom he had Christopher Lister, Esq. who died unmarried, having devised his estates to Thomas, second son of Sir John Kaye, on condition of his assuming the name of Lister, which he did, and dying also unmarried, devised it to his eldest brother. Sir Arthur Kaye, and his issue male ; and failing thereof, to his other brothers in succession, and their respective male issue ; by which means the manor of Thornton devolved suc- cessively upon Sir John Lister Kaye, and his son the next Baronet, by whom it was bequeathed to the late Baronet.
Thomas Lister second son of Christopher Lister, (temp. Edw. IV.) and Joan, daughter of Sir William Calverly, married the
a Whitaker's Craven, p. 98, 99.
b His grand-nephew, (says Whitaker) though perhaps not of equal emi- aence in his profession, yet from his various publications, as well as prox> imity to our own times, is more generally remembered.
Martin Lister was born in, or about the year 1638, and educated under the eye of his uncle, by whom he was placed in St. John's college, Cambridge, and soon after his death took the degree of A. B. The example and instruc- tions of a court physician redeemed him from the disloyalty of his family, and he met with an early reward of his fidelity, being appointed fellow of the college by royal mandate, in the year of the restoration. Having taken his last degree in arts, he devoted himself to the study of physic, and about 1668, travelled into France. On his return from that country, he settled at York, and practised with great success. His excursions in the way of his profession afforded him many opportunities of gratifying his propensity towards the study of natural history and antiquities ; in the former of which he became so eminent as to be elected F. R. S. an honour not conferred at that time but on men who had given some proofs of their proficiency in the science of nature. It was probably a growing indisposition to motion, and a desire of learned and liberal conversation, which induced him to remove to London, where in 1 709, he was appointed physician in ordinary to the Queen. He died in February, 1711-12, having published many works on medicine and natural history ; but his reputation is built on the Synopsis Conchyliorum. He pur- chased Carlton. Hall, where he occasionally resided before his removal to London. Whitaker-, ut supra, p. 99.
LORD RIBBLESDALE. 587
daughter and heir of Roger de Clidero.v, of Cliderow, and had issue
Thomas Lister, Esq. who was buried at Gisburn 1540, having
married Effaaua, daughter and coheir of Westby, of
Westby, by whom he had issue
Thomas Lister, of Westby, Esq. buried at Gisburn, 1573, who married Anne, daughttrand heir of Richard King, of Kings- crosse, near Halifax, buried at Gi-.burnj October tith, J 571, by whom he had issue ; first, Thomas.
Second, John Lister, from whom the Lifters of Manningham are dtiscended. He enjoyed his mother's e-.tatf, which was granted to him g Eliz. by his brother Thon^as.
Third, Anthony Lister, buried at Gisburn, August ICjth, 1588, who married Alicia, daughter of , buried at Gisburn, No- vember 26, 159.(}.
Fourth; Edmund; fifth, William; sixth, Rosamund, mar- ried William Hawksworth, of Hawksworth, Esq. ; seventh, another daughttr.
Thomas Lister, of Westby, Esq. eldest son, was buried at Gisburn, March 31st, 1598, having married Alice, daughter of Sir Richard Houghton, of Houghton-Tower com. Lancaster; by whom he had issue, first, Thomas, son and heir.
Second, Richard Lister, of Lanbeck near Westby, baptized at Gisburne, October 24th, 15/3, having married Hellen, daus^iiter of George Pudsey, of Arnforth, Esq. by whom he had three daughters and one son, Charles Lister, who died Itj-J6'.
Third, Leonard Lister, of Cowgill, baptized at Gisburn, June
6th, 15/5, who married Anne, daughter of Loftus, of
Coverham Abbey com. York, by whom he had, first, George Lister, baptized at Gisburn, April 20th, l608; second, Richard, of Middleham com. York, baptized at Gisburn, August 29th, l6l4; third, William, baptized at Gisburn, September 5th, Ifil/; fourth, Alice, baptized at Gisburn, September 2d, l604; fifth, Elizabeth, baptized at Gisburn, April 1st, iOlO.
Fourth, Cuthbert Lister, baptized at Gisburn, September 15th, 1577, buried there October 4th, 1643, who had issue Thomas Lister, baptized at Gisburn, November 5th, l604.
Fifth, William Lister, baptized at Gisburn, November 9th, J578.
Sixth, George Lister, baptized at Gisburn, May ]6ih, 1580.
Seventh, Laurence, baptized at Gisburn, August 7th, 1582.
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Eighth, Bridget, baptized at Gisburn, November gth, I571.
Ninth, Anne, baptized at Gisburn, 1576.
Thomas Lister, of Westby, Esq. eldest son, died at Bracewell, and wa^ buried at Gisburn, February 8th, iQoy , having married Jane, daughter of John Greenacres, Esq. of Worston com. Lan- caster, who was buried at Gisburn, February 20th, 16O8. By her he bad i&sue.
First, Thomas, son and heir.
Second, Richard Lister, who married Hestlier, daughter of WilHam Hartley, of Sturlham near Westby, and had issue.
Third, John Lister, ob. s. p.
Fourtli, Frances, ob. s. p. ; fifth, Anne, baptized at Gisburn, 1597; sixth, Maiy, baptized at Gisburn, June 5th, 1003 ; seventh, Jane, baptized at Gisburn, September 21st, lOOS.
Thomas Lister, of Westby, Esq. eldest son, was a justice of peace for Yorkshire, 1." James L and was buried nt Gisburn, July 10th, IS19, having married Jane, d:mghter of Thomas Lleber, Esq. of Marton. She afterwards married Richard Ashe, of Aughton, Esq. who was a lawyer of the Temple, and Master of the crown-office during the usurpation. (This Ashe was counsel for the Regicides at the trial of the King.) By her first husband she had issue.
First, Thomas Lister, son and heir.
Second, Josias Lister, baptized at Gisburn, February 2d, If5l8, who died at Marton-Hall, April 1.9th, 1627, and was buried at Marton, May 20th following.
Third, Jane Lister, b.iptized at Marton, January 19th, 1(526.
Thomas Lister, Esq. of Westby, son and heir, baptized at Gisburn, November 5th, 1(305, was buried there November igtb, 1642, having married Catherine, daughter of Sir Richard Fletcher, of Hutton, com. Cumberland, Knight. She re-married Sir John Asheton, of Whalley Abbey com. Lane. Bart, who left considerable estates to her grandson Lister. She was buried at Gisburn, May 20th, 1676; and Sir John Asheton was also buried there June 18th, 1697. She had issue by her first husband,
F'irst, Thomas, son and heir.
Second, John, of whom afterwards.
Third, Jane, baptized at .Gisburn, May, l637, buried there April 15th, l641.
Fourth, Barbara, baptized at Gisburn, May 23d, 1639; i^-t- ried, first, William Nowel, of Merelay com. Lancaster; secondly, John Lambert, Esq. of Calton com. York, son of major-general
LORD rJBBLESDALE. 589
Lambert, by whom s!ie had issue Fr.mces Lambert, mnrricd to Sir John Middletou, B:irt. of Belsny Castle, com. Northumber- land.
Fifth, Mary Lister, baptized at Gisburii, July 2ld, l(J40, buried there 1643.
Thomas Lister, Esq. of Arnoldsbigi^in and Westby, sou and heir, born December, 1035, baptized at Gisburn, was buried there December 1st, 1 660, having been married at that place, No- vember 15th, 1059, to Mary, daughter of Richard Deane, of Ovendenw'ood com. York, who was buried at Gisburn, November 8th, 1660, leaving issue by him a daughter and heir, Catherine, born October 30tb, baptized at Gisburn, Novemb-r 6th, 1660, married, at Kirkby Malhamdale church. December gth, 168O, to Thomas Yorke, Esq. of Richmond, Yorksljire, whose grandson now resides there.
JoHM Lister, of Arnoldsbiggin, Esq. brother and heir male to Thomas, was baptized at Gisburn, February 2d, l64t, and buried there March 3d, I674, having married JvLary, daughter of Williatn Lodge, of Leeds, merchant ; she was buried at Gisburn, June 10, 1676. By her he had issue,
First, Thomas, son and heir.
Second, John, baptized at Gisburn, October 30th, 1666, buried there April 5th, iGqS.
Third, William, baptized there March 3d, 1667.
Fourth, Richard, baptized there March 2d, 1668, buried there March l6th, 16/5.
Fifth, Henry, baptized there February 21st, 1669, buried there November 21st, 1/00.
Sixth, Charles, a merchant in London, baptized there March 21st, 1670, buried there November yih, 1742.
Seventh, Mary, baptized there April 8th, I672; buried there July 1st, 1673.
Thomas Lister, of Arnoldsbiggin, son and heir, was baptized at Gisburn, December 5th, 1665, and buried there in 1706, havino- married Elizabeth, daughter of John Parker, Esq. of Extwislo com. Lane. She was buried at Gisburn, 17O9, having had issue by liim,
Firsr, Thomas, son and heir.
Second, John, a merchant in London, born November 4tb, 1O9O, and baptized at Gisburn, November 13lh.
Third, Richard, born January 30th, 1692, baptized at Gis- burn, July nth, buried there April 11th, 174/.
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Fourth, Henry, born September 13th, baptized at Gisburn, September ]5tb, lO'pa, buried thrre 1724.
Fifth, Charles Lister, a merchant, born Jane 6th, baptized June 10th, 1097, and buried there October 28th, 1745.
Sixth, C'vrisfopher, baptized there September I3th, 1699.
Seventh, Mary, born May 27ih, bnptized there May 30tb, 1695, married, April igih, I716, to Ralph A-^sheton, ot Cuerdale, Esq
Thomas Lister, Esq. son and heir, was of Arnoldsbiggin and Lower Hall, to which he gave the name o( Gislurn Park, (having removed thither after the drath of Sir John Assheton). He was born October 8th, and baptized at Gisburn, October 18th, 168S. He was member of parliament for the borough of Clitheroe in Lancashire for many sessions, from 17 10 till his death He died at Gi'iburn Park, and was buried at Gisburn, May 22d, 1745^ having married Catherine, daughter and coheir of Sir Ralph Assheton, of Whalley Abbey, Bart. She v/as buried at Gisburn/ August 30th, 1728, having had issue by him.
First, Thomas, son and heir.
Second, Nathaniel Lister, of Armitage near Lichfield, Esq. He was born October 8th, and baptized January 21st, J 725. He represented Clitheroe in two parliaments, 1761, and 17t;S, and was an ingenious man of a literary turn. <^ He died at Gisburn Park, December 2Sth, 1793, and was buried at Gisburn, having married Martha, daughter of John Fletcher, of I/ichfield, Esq. by whom he left several chi'dren ; viz. first, John, lately in the first regiment of dragoon guards; second, Thoinas, '^ late of Emanuel college, Cambridge ; third, Mary, wife of 01dert>haw Clerk, Esq. ; fourth, Calhcrine, wife of Nugent Dunbar, Esq.; fifth, Martha ; sixth, Charlotte, wif^ of Augustus Bulstrode, Esq.
Third, Catherine, baptized at Gisburn, December 22d, 1718, buried there May 8th, 1732.
Fourth, Mary, buried at Gisburn, Septernber 3d, 1750.
Fifth, Anne, baptized at Gisburn, May 22d, 1722, burled there February 10th, 1755.
Thomas Lister, Esq. son and heir, of Gisburn Park, was born January l-Qth, I7''i3, and baptized at Gisburn, February 4th. He
c See a poem addressed to him by Miss Seward, on having read liis verses in MS. in her Poems, edited by Walter Scott, vol. ii. p. 333
J Miss Seward mentions that, " His second son has given to the public prints repeated proofs of his fine poetic talents.'* Ibid.
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represented Clitheroe in parliament^ iT'l/j '754, and 1761 ; and dying November 29th, i7^U ^^- thirty-nine, was buried at Gis- burn, December 0th, having married at Downham com. Lan- caster, on SeptemberSd, 1/48, Beatrix, daiighterof Jesop Huhon, Esq. of Hnlton Park com. Lancaster, She was also buried at Gisburn, December, 17/1- By her he had issue.
First, Thomas, now Lord Ribblesdale.
Second, Beatrix, born November 25th, baptized at Gisburn, December 23d, 1749, married, at Giggleswick, November l-4tl), 1778, to John Parker, Esq. of Browsholme, formerly member of parliament fur Clitheroe,
Tliird, Catherine, born August 5th, 1754, baptized at Gis- burn the same day, and buried at Gisburn, September 14th, 1762.
Thomas Lister, son and heir, of Gisburn Park, now Lord Ribblesdale, was born March 11th, 1752, and baptized at Gis- burn the same day 3 and represented Clitheroe in parliament from 1774 till 1796, soon after which his Majesty was pleased to raise him to the Peerage, October 26th, 1797) by the title of Baron Ribblesdale, o/Gisturn Park in the county of York. His Lord- ship is colonel of the Craven Legion of yeomanry.
His Lordship married, in 1789, Rebecca, daughter of Joseph fielding, Esq. of Ireland, by Elizabeth, daughter of Christopher Jackson, Esq. of Nottinghamshire, and by her has issue.
First, Thomas, son and heir apparent, born January 23d, 1790.
Second, Catherine, born December 23d, 1/93,
Third, Rebecca Adelaide, born August 31st, ISOO.
Title. Thomas Lister, Lord Ribblesdale, of Gisburn Park in Yorkshire.
Creation. By patent, October 20'th, 'i'/gj.
Arms, Ermine, on a fess, sable, three mullets, or.
Crest. A bucks head, parti per fess, proper and or, with a crescent on it.
Supporters. See the wood-cut.
Motto. Retinens vestigia faniae.
Chief Seat. Gisburn Park, ^ Yorkshire,
« '* Giiburn Park," says Dr. Wliitaker in his Craven, p. 35, " is beauti- fully s,itiiate(i at the confluence of the Ribble and the Stockbeck ; and the
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house, with much simplicity, has a very elegant and pleasing effect. The noble owner may congratulate himself on the possession of two residences admiiably adapted to the varieties of our climate ; for if an epicure in air and weather, were permitted to make his own choice in Craven, he could scarcely be better accommodated than by the warm and sheltered air of Stockbeck in winter, and the keen and invigorating atmosphere of Malmater in its ])roper season. The rare and subtle element which we respire on all great elevations, when combined with vigorous exercise, is a luxury of the purest kind, with which the inhabitants of level countries have no acquaintance,'' &c.
LORD SEAFORTH.
.'5.93
MACKENZIE, LORD SEAFORTH.
Among the many brave Scotsmen who signalized themselves for the service of their country at the battle of the Largs, in 1263, there was a foreigner, one Colin, or Colinas Fitzgerald, son to the Earl of Kildare, or Desmond, of the kingdom of Ireland, whose courage and valour on that occasion was so singularly re- markable, that King Alexander took him into his special protec- tion, and was afterwards pleased to bestow upon him the lands of Kintail in Rosshire, pro lono et Jideli servitio, tarn in hello cjuam in pace ; and to be held by him in lihram baroniam, as the original charter bears, dated from Kincardine, January 9th, 1266.^
According to Dr. George Mackenzie, who has written a full and elaborate history of this noble family, he married a daughter of Walter, Lord High Steward of Scotland, by whom he had a son,
Kenneth, who succeeded him, and dying at his castle of Island-Donan, was buried in the famous monastery of Icolmkill in 1278.
His son, Kenneth, second Baron »f Kintail, married Morbae
a *• Original charter of the lands of Kintail, by King Alexander 1 1 1, to this Colino Hybernio, is in the hands of the Earl of Seaforth, and was kindly communicated to me by that noble Lord and excellent antiquary the Earl of Cromarty, who wrote an essay on his own name and family of the Mac kenzies, which is in many hands in MS. The most exact copy I have seen of these memoirs, is in the custody of Mr. John Mackenzie, ofDelvin, who very civilly gave me the perusal of it, and allowed me to take notes from it." Crawfurd.
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Macdowal, daughter of Alexander, Lord of Lorn, and dying 1304, left
Kenneth, third Baron of Kintail, his successor, who in the Gaelic (the language then used) was called Kenneth Mackenneth, or the son of Kenneth. This in English came to be called Mac- kenny, or Mackenzie, and from him all the Mackenzies in Scot- land are descended. He was a great loyalist, and a firm friend of King Robert Bruce, and behaved gallantly at the battle of Ban- nochburn in 1314. He died 1328, having married Margaret, daughter of David de Strabolgie, Earl of Athol, by whom he had
Kenneth Mackenzie, _/oMr^A Baron of Kintail, who married Fingala, daughter of Rorie Macleod, of Lewis, by whom he had Murdoch, his son and heir.
He had also a natural son called Murdoch Reach, from whom several of the name of Mackenzie are descended.
This Kenneth, at the instigation of the Earl of Ross, was murdered at Perth in the flower of his age, when he was going to join King David Bruce in his expedition to England, 1346. He was succeeded by his son
Murdoch, ffth Baron of Kintail, who married Isabel, daughter of Murdoch Mac Aula, by whom he got the lands of Loch broom, &c. and by her had a son, Murdoch, his heir.
He had also three other sons. Hector, Duncan, and Alexander, from whom several of the name of Mackenzie arc descended. He died 1375, and was succeeded by his eldest son Murdoch, sixth Baron of Kintail, who married Fenvola,
daughter of Macleod, of Herries, and died I4l6, leaving
a son,
Alexander, seventh Baron of Kintail, his heir and successor in descent, who in the reign of King James IIL was looked on as a wise and prudent man. It was to his conduct and courage tlie reducing of that formidable rebel, John, Earl of Ross, was in a great part owing : for which acceptable service he had a grant from the crown, of the lands of Strachonnan, Stragarvie, and several other of the Earl's lands, by a charter under the great scalj September 7th, 1477. ^ By Agnes, his first wife, daughter of Colin, Earl of Argyle, he had Sir Kenneth, his heir.
And by his second wife, a lady of the Macdougals, he had two younger sons, Duncan and Hector j of the first did the Mac- kenzies of Logie and Hilton descend, and of the other sprang the
Ciawfurd.
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branch of the Mackenzies of Garloch, all in the county of Ross. He died in an advanced age, 1-488, and was succeeded by his eldest son,
Sir Kenneth, eighth Baron of Kin tail, who had the honour of knighthood conferred upon him by King James IV. and being a man of talents and resolution, greatly contributed to the civi- lizing the northern parts of the kingdom. He died about 1506, or 150/, leaving issue by Agnes his wife, daughter of Hugh, Lord Lovaf,
First, John, his heir.
Second, Alexander, of whom came the branch of Davach- mulnack.
Third, Roderick, the root of the Mackenzies of Achilty, and their descendants.
Fourth, Kenneth, of whom issued the families of Buddy, Ord, and InveraJell. ^
Likewise two daughters ; Agnes, married to Roderick Mac- leod, of the Lewis; and Catherine, married to Hector Munro, of Foulis.
John Mackenzie, ninth Baron of Kintail, -was, for his great wisdom and knowledge, taken by King James V. into the number of his privy-cmincd, and niiich favoured and esteemed by him. He narrowly e^^caped at the battle of Flodden, 1513, and though an old man, fought gallantly at the battle of Pinkie, 15-17. He died before 1 554,
He married Elizabeth, daughter of the Laird of Grant, and had
Kenneth, his successor, who married Lady Elizabeth Stewart, daughter of John, second Earl of Athole. By her he had.
First, Colin, liis son and heir; and.
Second, Roderick, who was the ancestor of the Mackenzies of Reidcastle and Kincraig.
Likewise sundry daughters ; Janet, married to Alexander Macdonald, of Glengary, and again to Alexander Chisolm, of Comer;'' Agnes, to Lauchlan Mackintosh, of Dunachtane; *
Margaret, to Sir Walter Innes, of that ilk ; to David
Ross, of Balnagown ; Elizabeth, to Walter Urqubart, of Cro- marty, ^ and had issue.
c Crawfurd.
d Charta in Pub. Arch, ad annum, 2577. ' Ibid.
Ibid.
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And departing this life June 6th, 156S, was succeeded by Colin, his son, who in the reign of Queen Mary, after the troubles broke out, adhered firmly to that unfortunate Princess, was on her behalf at the battle of Langside, for which he was obliged to take a remission from the regent ; but upon King James's accepting the government on himself, he chose this gen- tleman to be of his privy-council, and committed the quelling of several insurrections in the Highlands to him, which he performed with courage, dexterity, and success. He married, first, Barbara, daughter of John Grant, of that ilk, s by whom he had. First, Kenneth, thereafter Lord Kintail.
Second, Sir Roderick Mackenzie, of Tarbat, ancestor to the Earls of Cromarty.
Third, Colin, of whom the branch of Kinnock. ^
Fourth, Alexander, ancestor to the Mackenzies, of Kelroy.
Also three daughters; first, Margaret, married to Simon,
Lord Lovat; second, to Lauchlan Maclean, of Dowart ;
third, , to Sir Donald Macdonald, of Slate, but had no
issue.
His second wife was Mary, daughter of Mackenzie, of
Davachmulanack. By her he had a son.
Fifth, Alexander, of whom the Mackenzies of Applecross, Cowl, and Assint, are descended, '
And departing this life June 14th, 1594,'^ was succeeded by Kenneth, his son, _first Peer, who being a person of great spirit and cournge, and of a fair fortune, his Majesty, King James VL wns pleased to raise him to the honour of the peerage by the title of Lord Mackenzie, of Kintail, on November igih, 1609, and crtvins: way to fate in March, I6II, ' he left issue by Anne, his first wife, daughter of George Ross, of Balnagown, > First, Colin, his successor, first Earl. Second, John, of Lochlyne, died s. p. m. Also two daughters ; Barbara, married to Donald, Lord Rae, and Janet, to Sir Donald Macdonald, of Slate, Bart, and had issue.
Also by Isabel, his second wife, daughter of Gilbert Ogilvie, of Powrie, he had
Third, George, thereafter Earl of Seaforth.
g Earl of Cromarty's Essay on the family of Seaforth.
h Ibid. i Ibid.
V Charta in Cancel. S. D. N. R. 1 Ibid.
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Fourth, Thomas Mackenzie, of Pluscarty. • "•
Fifth, Simon Mackenzie, of Lochslin, the father of Sir George Mackenzie, of Rosehaugh, King's advocate.
And a daughter, Sibilla, married to John Macleod, of that ilk.
Colin, second Lord Mackenzie, being a nobleman of great parts and signal loyalty, was by the special favour of King James VI. honoured with the title of Earl of Seaforth, by letters patent, bearing date December 3d, 1(523. '"
. He married Margaret, daughter of Alexander, Earl ofDun- fermling, by whom he had
Two daughters; Jane, ma-ried, first, to John, Lord Berin- dale, by whom she was mother of George, fifth Earl of Caith- ness j and after to Alexander, Lord Duff us 3 and Anne, to Alex- ander, Earl of Balcarras, and again to Archibald, Earl of Argyle.
And dying without sons, on April 15th, 1633, "
George, his brother of the half blood, succeeded him in his estate and honour as second Earl of Seaforth. This noble Earl, for his firm adherence to King Charles L had his estate seques- trated, and himself excommunicated, and forced to leave the kingdom. After the murder of the King, he repaired to his Ma- jesty King Charles If. while he sojourned in Holland, who re- ceived him graciously, and made him principal secretary of state for Scotland J in which honourable, though not at that time very profitable employment, he died, anno 1651.''
He married Barbara, daughter of Arthur, ninth Lord Forbes, by whom he had.
First, Kenneth, his son and heir.
Second, Mr. Colin Mackenzie; " the father," saysCrawfurd, " of my excellent friend the learned Dr. George Mackenzie, who hath already obliged the world with tuo volumes of a biography of his learned countrymen ; for whose great worth and virtues I
in Charta in Cancel. S D. N. R. ■ Ibid-
o Memoirs of the family of Seaforth, in the dedication to the Lord Sea- forth, by Dr. George Mackenzie, in his first volume of his Biography, •' who,'' says Crawfurd, •' I am hopeful will oblige the nation, by writing at large the memoirs of this noble family, of which he has the honour to de- rive his descent, and which I know the Doctor is so well supplied with ma- terials for, and for that vei^ reason I have been the less particular in my ac- count of this noble family, than perhaps I might have been, presuming thar that more exact work of his wiU in due time be communicated to the world." Crawfurd.
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have that esteem which he has from all the lovers of his country, and very deservedly."
Kenneth, third Earl of Seaforth, his son, was very eminent in his loyally to King Charles II. during the usurpation; for he was so far from being discouraged by the sufferings of his father for the royal family, that he did very firmly adhere to, and support the royal cause as long as there was any to appear in the field for it> and when he was obliged to submit to the powers that then pre- vailed, he was committed to prison, where with great constancy and firmness of mind, he endured a long and tedious imprison- ment, till he was relieved by the restoration of the King.
He married Isabel, daughter of Sir John Mackenzie, of Tar- bat, and departing this life in the month of December, I678, left issue by his wife aforesaid.
First, Kenneth, his successor.
Second, John Mackenzie, of Assint ; and.
Third, Colonel Alexander Mackenzie, grandfather of the pre- sent peer.
Likewise four daughters; Lady Margaret, married to James, Lord Duffus ; Lady Anne; Lady Isabel, to Roderick Macleod, of that ilk, but had no issue ; and again to Sir Duncan Campbell, of Lochenell ; Lady Mary, to Alexander Macdonald, of Glengary, and had issue.
Kenneth, yowr/A Ear/ of Seaforth, was one of the lords of the privy-council to King James VII. by whom he was chosen one of the knights companions of the most noble Order of the Thistle, anno 1687, which that Prince was then pleased to re- vive.
Upon the revolution, when his unfortunate master was forced to retire into France, and thence into Ireland, the Earl soon fol- lowed him thither ; at which time King James created him a Marfjuis. He married the Lady Frances Herbert, daughter of William, Marquis of Powis, of the kingdom of England, by whom he had
William, his successor.
And a daugiii-r, Mary, married to Caryll, Esq.
And dying in January, 1701, was succeeded in his estate and honour by
William, his son, theffth Earl, who being engaged in the rebellion of J 715, forfeited his estate and honours to the crown.
He made his escape to France, where he remained till King George I. granted him a pardon, 17^6, on which he returned to
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Scotland, and spent the remainder of his days in a quiet retire- ment. He died 1/40, having married Mary, only daughter and heiress of Nicholas Kennet, of Coxhow in Northumberland, Esq. by whom he had three sous^
First, Kenneth, Lord Forlrose.
Second, Ronald, who died unmarried.
Third, Nichol ^Lickenzie, Esq.
Fourth, Lady Frances, married to John, representative of the family of Kenmure, and had issue.
Kenneth, Lord Fortrose, eldest son of Earl William, had it not been for his haher's attainder, would have been sixth Earl of Seaforth.
He was elected member of parliament for the boroughs of Fortrose, &:c. in 1741, and for the county of Ross in 1/4/, and 1754.
He married Lady Mary Stewart, daughter of Alexander, Earl ef Galloway ; by whom he had Kenneth, his heir, and six daughters; ^Margaret, Mary, Agnes, Catherine, Frances, and Euphemia.
His Lordship dying I762, was succeeded by his only son,
Kenneth, who was raised to the Irish Peerage, October 2Sth, 1766, by the title of n.sco«7i^ For/roje, and farther advanced to be Enrl of Seaforth, November 22d, 177L He married, October 7th, 17G5, Lady Caroline Stanhope, daughter of William, second Earl of Harrington, who died March 24th, 1767, leaving an only daughter by him.
Lady Caroline, who became his heir.
His Lordship dying 178I, without male issue, his titles became extinct ; and his estates descended to his next collateral heir male, the present peer.
Colonel Alexander Mackenzie, already mentioned, third son of Kenneth, third Earl of Seaforth, by Isabel, daughter of Sir John Mackenzie, of Tarbat, was father of
]Major Mackenzie, who married IVIary, daughter of
Matthew Humberston, Esq. by whom he had issue tour dauchters and two sons ; viz. first, Frances-Cerjet, married to Sir Vicar>' Gibbs, Knight, attorney-general ; second, Maria-Rebecca, mar- ried to Alexander Mackenzie, Esq.j third, Elizabeth j fourth, Helen, married Colonel Alexander Mackenzie.
The sons were,
First, Thomas Frederick Humberston Mackenzie.
Second, Francis Humberston Mackenzie, present peer.
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Colonel Thomas Fredekick Humbksston Mackenzie, eldest 9j^, not long after the breaking out of the American war, raised a Highland regiment, and was sent to Jersey 3 but this being a scene too inactive for his enterprizing g' nius, he obtained leave to raise a regiment for the East Indies, which he performed in a few months, and embarked with his battalion in the spring of 178I. As soon as he arrived in India, he obtained a separate command on the Malabar coast ; where he displayed great mili- tary genius, and executed important services to the company. But on his return, 1782, from Bombay to the southern part of the coast, by sea in a small vessel, he fell in with a squadron of Ma- rhattaships,by whom thelittlevessel wassoon overpowered, though not till after a gallant but rash resistance, in which he received wounds of which he died. " Too much cannot be said in praise of a person who promised to be the ornament of his family ; and a most useful member of the state; and no panegyric is neces- sary, but the transactions in which he had been engaged. These may be considered, as an earnest of greater future exploits, to which his aspiring and enterprizing genius would naturally have carried him, and to which his high rank would have entitled him in more mature life. If we were to look for a character in that war, parallel to that of General Wolfe in the former war, it may be questioned, if we could find any thing more resembling it, than that of Colonel Humberston." p
His only brother, Francis Humberston Mackenzie, now Lord Sea forth, succeeded him in the estates. He was born June 9th, 1754, and having raised a regiment at the beginning of the late war, and in consideration of the ancient titles of his family, was raised to the Peerage October 26th, 1797> by the title of Baron Seaforth, of K'mtail in the county of Ross.
His Lordship was raised to the rank of major-general 1802j and of lieutenant-general 1808.
In 1800, he went out governor to Barbadoes ; and since to Demarara and Berbice.
He is also lord-lieutenant of Rosshirc.
His Lordship married Mary, daughter of the late Rev. Baptist Proby, dean of Lichfield, uncle to the Earl of Carysfort, by whom be has issue.
First, William Frederick.
P See his character in the New Annual Register, vol v p. 49, of Cha- rs cters.
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Second, George Leveson Bouciierett,
Thirds Francis-John, a midshipman, lately in the Mediterra- nean.
Fourth, Mary,
Fifth, Frederica-Elizabeth, married, 1804, Admiral Sir Samuel Hood, K. B. &c.
Sixth, Frances Catherine.
Seventh, Caroline.
Eighth, Charlotte-Elizabeth.
Ninth, Augusta-Anne.
Tille. Francis Humberston Mackenzie, Lord Seaforth, of Kintail in Rosshire.
Creation. By patent, October 26th, 1 797.
Arms. Azure, a deer's head cabossed, or.
Supporters. Two savages with clubs, burning on the top.
Crest. A mountain in a flame.
Motto. LUCEO NON URO,
Chief Seat. Brahan Castle, Rosshire.
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SCOTT, LORD ELDON.
The present illustrious peer owes his elevation to the law, the fountain from whence so many other great families have sprung. The names of Bacon, Hyde, Somers, Yorke, and Murray, are alone sufficient to cover this source with unfading rays of glory. Nor probably will Lord Eld6n be sooner forgotten in the legal annals of his country.
William Scott, a merchant of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in Northumberland, whose widow died July 18th, 1800, aged ninety-two, had three sonsj first, Henry, a merchant at New- castle) second. Sir William ; third, John, the present peer.
Sir William Scott, second son, who presides over the courts of admiralty with such disting.uished talents and integrity, was educated at University College, Oxford, of which he became Fellow; and where he obtained great reputation, and took the degree of LL.D. and was appointed Camden Professor of His- tory, in which Gibbon has borne testimony, that " his lectures would compose, were they given to the public, a most valuable treatise." He has since arrived at the highest eminence in the civil law, in which he has for many years filled the impoitant office of Judge of the High Court or Admiralty, where his decisions have acquired universal applause. He also repre- sents the University of Oxford in parliament. He married Miss Bagenal, of Berkshire : by her, who died September 4th, I8O9, be has a ilaughter, married to Colonel Townshend, of Honington in Warwickshire, and also sons.
Sir John Scott, now Lord Eldon, was born about 1750;
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educated at the University of Oxford, wiiere he early discovered his talents and acquirements j and thence removed to the Middl6 Temple to study the law, where having been called (o the bar, though it was sometime before his merits became known, yet as soon as an opportunity occurred of displaying his lalent--, he made a rapid progress at the Chancery bar, and particularly altracled the notice and countenance of Lord Chancellor Thurlow. iJe was soon rewarded with a silk gown, and brought into jnirlianient for the borough of Wcobley com. Hereford ; and afterwards for Eoroughbridge.
In 1/88, he was appointed Solicitor-General; and in J 793, succeeded Sir Archibald Macdonald as Attorney-Ge- >;eral.
In 1799, he was appointed Chief Justice ()f the Common Pleas 5 and raised to the peerage by the title of Lord Eldon, of ELdoii in the county of Durham, by patent dated July ISlh of that year.
In ISOl, he was appointed Lord High Chancellor, which he resigned in I8O6; and to which he was again appointed in ISO7, on the resignation of Lord Erskine.
It is most ditScult to speak of those who are living without being suspected of flattery or detraction. When this virtuous and acute-minded man descends to the grave, the page of the histo- rian and biographer will speak of him in the glowing colours which he deserves, unchecked by the fear of being censured for adula- tion. Of all who, in the long lapse of ages, have hlled the sacred seat, on which he now sits, none ever had purer hands, none ever had a conscientious desire of equity more ardent and incessant than Lord Eldon. The amazing expanse of his view.s, the inex- pressible niceness of his discrimination, his unrelaxing anxiety to do justice in every individual case, the kindness of his heart, and the ductility of his ideas, all insure that attention to every suitor, which must necessarily obtain the unbounded admiration and at- tachment of the virtuous and the wise. If there are those, to whose interests a more expeditious, more rash, and venturous, and less sparing mode of dispatching the decisions of the court would be more consonant, ii only shews that in this frail world there are men, to whom a nice and sublime virtue is less pleasing, than a coarser or more common-place and unfeeling line of con- duct. Lord Eldon's eloquence is rather adapted to cultivated and thinking minds, than to a popular audience. It generally addresses the understanding rather than the fancy. It frequently wants
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fluency j but occasionally is tinged with a high degree of moral pathos. ^
His Lordship married Elizabeth, daughter of Aubone Surtees, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Esq. by whom he has had issue.
First, John Scott, M. P. for Boroughbridge, married, August 22d, 1804, Miss Ridley, only daughter of Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bart, by whom he had issue John, born in December, 1805. He died December 24th, 1805, and his widow re-married in , 1811, Farrer, Esq. of Eltham in Kent.
Second, Elizabeth.
Third, William Henry.
Fourth, Frances.
Titles. John Scott, Knt, Lord Eldon, Lord High Chancellor of England.
Creation. By patent July 18th, l/pp.
Arms. Argent, three lions heads erased, gules, between the two at top an anchor, sable j on a chief wavy, azure, a portcullis with chain, or ; a mullet for difference.
Crest. A lion's head erased, gules, charged on the neck with a portcullis chained, or, and a mullet, argent.
Supporters. Two lions guardant, proper, gorged with a port- cullis and chained, or, with a shield, argent, charged with a circle of laurel leaves, vert.
Motto. Sed sine labe decus.
Chief Seat. Newby Park, Yorkshire.
a See a high panegyric on him, concordant with the opinions here ex- tracted from the Biographical Peerage, in a speech of Sir Samuel Romilly, in a debate in the House of Commons in the early part of the present year, i8ii.
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FITZGLBBON, LORD FITZGIBBON.
(EARL OF CLARE IN IRELAND. J
John Fitzgibbon, Esq. an eminent lawyer at the Irish bar, died April 11th, 178O, aged seventy-two, having had by the daughter of John Grove, Esq. of Ballihimock, two sons and three daughters.
Arabella, nmrried James St. John Jeffries, Esq. of Blarney- Castle,
Elizabeth, married June 12th, IjQ'i, the Hon. William Beres- ford, archbishop of Tuam,
Eleanor, married Dominick Trant, Esq.
The other son died young.
John Fitzgibbon, only surviving son, first Loud Fitz- gibbon, and Earl of Clare, was born 1749, educated at the uni- versities of Dublin and Oxford, and afterwards entered upon the study of the law, of which profession he became the great orna- ment in his native country.
In 1784, he was appointed Attorney-Gexeral on the ele- vation of Mr. Scott to the Bench, and, on the decease of Lord Chancellor LitFord, l/Sp, he was appointed Lord Chancellor OF Ireland, and was raised, on June l6th, 1789, to the dignity of the peerage by the title o( Baron FitxgiLboji of Lniver Connello. To these dignities were added the titles of Viscount Clare, De- cember 20th, 1793, and Earl of Clare, June lOlh, Ijgd ; and the English Barony o/'Fitzgibuon of Sidbury, com. Devon, Sep- tember 24th, 1709.
In the elevated situation of Chancellor, he uniformly acted with a manly decision and ability, that extorted applause even
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from his political adversaries ; he banished chicanery and unne- cessary delay from his court, and was, on every emergencyj the firm and undaunted supporter of the constitution of the British realms. But these exertions were too much for his strength. He enjoyed his last honours scarcely a year and half.
His Lordship had been for some time in a declining state of health before his death ; but latterly, his disease assumed so alarming an aspect, that his physicians thought proper to recom- mend a more genial climate; and in conformity with this recom- mendation, he had arrived in Dublin from his country scat at Mountshannon in January, 1802, designing to proceed imme- diately to Bath, or if his strength permitted, to the south of France. The immediate cause of his death was the loss of a great quantity of blood while at Mountshannon, which was followed by such extreme weakness, that upon his arrival at Dublin on the 25th, there was reason to fear he could not survive the ensuing day, on Wednesday these alarming appearances increased so much, that upon a consultation of physicians he was given over. Even on being made acquainted with this melancholy truth, the firmness of his Lordship's mind did not forsake him. To prevent any impediment to the public business, he directed the law officers to be called, and from his bed administered to them the necessary oaths. Soon after his Lordship fell into lethargic slumber, and continued motionless until Thursday, January 2Sth, when he ceased to breathe.
On the 31st, hi=i renaains were interred in Sf. Peter's church, Dublin; the gentlemtn of the law to the number of six hundred, and seventy-four of the nobility and gentry, making up the pro- cession. The pall was borne by the Marquis of Ely, the Earl of Shannon, and the Lords KiKvarden and Tyrawley.^
It cannot be denied that his Lordship was a man of superior talents, and great vigour of mind and temper, suited to the trying crisis in which he acted so conspicuous a part on the theatre of public affairs.
His Lordship married, July 1st, l/SG, MissWbaley, daughter of Richard Chapel Whaley, Esq. of Whaley-abbey in Ireland, by whom he had issue,
First, John, present peer.
Second, Richard Hobart Fitzgibbon, born October 2d, l/pS, an ensign in the hrst regiment of foot-guards.
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Third, Isabella, died young. Fourth, Lady Isabella, born January llth, 1/95, John, eldest son, second Lord Fitzgibbon, and second Earl of Clare, was born June 10th, 1/92.
Ttles. John Fitzgibbon, Lord Fitzgibbon, of Sidbury in De- vonshire; also Earl and Viscount Clare, and Lord Fitzgibbon in Ireland.
Creations. Lord Fitzgibbon of Sidbury by patent, September 24th, 1799; also Baron Fitzgibbon of Ireland, June l6th, 1789; Viscount Clare, December 20th, 1/93; and PJarl of Clare, June 10th, 1795.
Arms. Ermine, a saltier, gules, on a cliief, or, three annulets of the second.
Crest. A boar passant, gules, bristled, or, charged on the body with three annulets, or,
Supporiers. On the dexter a lion, gules; on the sinister a griffin, argent.
Motto. Nil admiraui.
Chief Seat. Mount Shannon, near Limerick.
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T. Bensley, Printer, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, London.
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LORD ELIOT.— P. 3.
P. 6. The Honourable William Eliot married, thirdly, March 7th, 1812, Miss Robinson, daughter of General Robinson.
LORD SOMERS.— P. 19.
P. 24. Maria, daughter of Thomas Somers Cocks, banker, married, May 11th, 1811, Admiral William Hargood.
P. 26, 27. His LoBDsnip's issue are.
First, Edward Charles, born July 27th, 1786, late a captain in the sixteenth dragoons, now a major in the army.
Second, John Somers, born March 19th, 1/87, a captain in the second dragoon guards.
Third, James Somers, born January 9th, 179O.
Fourth, Margaret Maria, born August 6th, 1791-
LORD BORINGDON.— P. 28.
P. 32. His Lordship married, secondly, August 23d, I8O9, Miss Talbot, descended .'as I am informed) from the Talbots of Basham in Yorkshire, for whose pedigree see Whitaker's History of Craven, (second edition, just published.)
LORD BERW^ICK.— P. 33.
P. 38. His Lordship married, February 8th, 1812, Miss Dubochet.
LORD DOUGI,AS OF AMBRESBURY.— P. 58.
p. 73. James, Lord Douglas, and Duke of Queenslerry, died December23d, 1810, ?et. eighty-six, and the English Peerage expired with him. " His Grace had been for some days afflicted
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with a severe flux, which all the powers of medicine could not check. He was appointed I;0RD of the Bedchamber to his Llajesty on his coming to the throne; but in consequence of the part he took in the question of the Regency in l^Sg, his name is not to be seen in the Royal Household after that period. He succeeded to the Dukedom of Queensberry in 177S. He was never married. His Grace was more generally known, and for a much longer period, than any of his cotemporaries; and though he did not display those talents which naturally attract the at- tention of mankind, he never ceased from his first appearance in the world to the moment when he left it for ever, to be an ob- ject of comparative notoriety. There was no interregnum in the public course of his existence. His first distinction was that of the Turf: his knowledge of which, both in theory and practice, was considered as equal, if not superior, to the most acknowledged adepts of Neu'market. He rode himself in all his principal matches, and was the rival in that branch of equitation of the most professional jockies. His famous match vviih the Duke of Hamilton, the father of the last nobleman of that title, and that of the machine which bore his own name, were long distinguished articles in the annals of Newmarket, and are not yet forgotten.- JTe blended however his pursuits of the Turf with the more ele- gant attainments of high life, and was long considered as the first iigure in the brilliant circles of fashion. He was the model in dress, equipage, and manners, for all those who aspired to a supe- riority in exterior appearances. After he had quitted the Turf, and had succeeded to the Queensberry titles and estates, his life was distinguished by little else but his enjoyments, in which he continued to indulge himself, while the facuhies of receiving gra- tification from them remained. His constant residence, and tlie scene ot" his pleasure, was London, or its vicinity. Scotland he seldom, if ever, visited. His house at Ambresbury in Wiltshire, the work of Inigo Jones, and the classical mansion of a former period, he let ; and his country pleasures were found in his villa at Richmond, which he had fitted up in a style of superior ele- gance. There he occasionally lived in splendour, till the folly of the inhabitants by a vexatious claim at law drove him away. Latterly he lived altogether in Piccadilly, where his figure was daily visible in his balcony, and had become familiar to every one, who was in the habit of passing through that great metropolitan thoroughtare. The Duke of Queensberry was obviously for many years a subject of continual remark. Anecdotes without
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end were disseminated about him, many of which were false; and most of them exaggerated. But no man contrived to make so much of life as be appeared to have done. When his eye, for he had but one, was grown dim, and his hearing almost gone, he did not lose his spirits, or fail in making eflbrts to ( njoy what little was left him. He had long lived secu7idu7n arloii ; and the prolongation of his life may be attributed to this precautionary practice. The predominant feature of the Duke of Queensberry's character was, to use a common phrase, to do what he liked, without caring who was pleased or displeased at it. His charities at Richmond were indeed considerable, and his occasional contri- butions for national purposes were noble ones ; and that is all we have heard of his public or private benevolence. All therefore that can be said of him is, that he reached an age beyond the com- mon allotment of men j and was one of l he most wealthy subjects of the British empire, " Gent. Mag."
Sir Charles Douglas, of Kelhead, Bart, was declared entitled to the Scotch Marquisate of Queenslerry, by a vote of a Com- mittee of Privileges, July gth, 1812.
His Grace's personal fortune was very large, and distributed among numerous legatees. His landed estates are said to have passed under entails in various portions to the present Marquis; to the Duke of Buccleugh ; and Lord Douglas. His personal property was estimated at nearly a million. Lord Yr.rmoulh has 150,000/. and is residuary legatee. Mr. Douglas 100,000/.; and Lord Douglas 100,000/.
COURT OF CHANCERY, Friday, July i;, 1812.
Thomas and others, Legatees and Annuita72ts of the Duke of Queenslerry, against Montgomery, Bart, aiul others, his Grace's Executors, and others.
Mr. Richards stated to the Lord Chancellor, that the Master had made his separate report of the debts due from the late Duke, and of the legacies given by his will and codicils, which there was a very large fund in court to discharge ; but there were most serious difficulties for the executors to encounter, arising from the claims made by the Marquis of Queen sbeiry. Lord Wemys, and others, in Scotland, in consequence of the Duke having granted various leases for terms far exceeding his legal powers^ and rj-
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ceived fines or grassums for the same. The learned counsel ob- served, that these claims were ascertained in some degree by the Master's report^ which specified them to be upwards of 350,000 /. and as there was property in court greatly beyond that amount, he trusted his Lordship wonld consider the extreme hardship on the creditors, annuitants, and legatees, (many of whom were in great distress), that their claims should be postponed until the suits in Scotland were concluded, which must occupy a long period, and he hoped that an order would be made for the dis- charge of the debts, and payment of a part of the legacies at least, reserving a sum adequate to the amount of the claims specified in the Master's report.
The Lord Chancellbr observed, that he could not make such an order with notice of the claims in Scotland, as their amount appeared enormous, and to his knowledge proceedings were going on in the Court of Session, to vacate the long leases which the Puke had granted, and it was impossible to foresee the conse- quences.
Sir Samuel Romilly, on the part of the executors, expressed their anxiety to promote the wishes of the petitioners, for whom they felt much, and they were most desirous of facilitating the payment of their claims by any measure which could be adopted consistent with their duty.
The Lord Chancellor replied, that he could not venture to do more than refer it to the Master to ascertain from the proceed- ings the full amount of the Scotch demands; after which, the parties must again apply to the court. His Lordship remarked, that he was fully convinced that the executors and all parties had done every thing possible to assist the petitioners ; but he could not at present relieve them by an order for payment of any thing.
Mr, Home appeared for Mr. Fuller, * one of his Grace's cre- ditors, who had obtained a judgment against the executors, and pressed the immediate payment of his debt, and interest from the time of judgment being signed. His Lordship said, he would order the debts to be paid, but certainly would not allow interest on that in question, as the creditor could only go according to the rules of the court ; for had he attempted to prosecute his judgment, the court would have stopped his proceedings.
a Mr. Fuller, his apothecary, who having attended his Grace for many years without remuneration, and having no provision by the will, brought his action, and recovered a verdict for a large sum against his executors.
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The cause is therefore sent back to the Master, and for the I re ent the immense property of his Grace, after payment of the debts, which are under 9OOO/. will remain in court to accumulate until it can be appropriated.
LORD TYRONE.— P. 74.
P, 95. Lieutenant J. Beresford of the eighty-eighth foot, eldest son of Marcus Beresford, by Lady Frances Arabella (Leeson), died in January, 1812, of the wounds received at the storm of Ciudad Rodrigo.
P. 97. Elizabeth Frances, daughter of Lady Araminta Monck. married, July 25th, 1811, William Ogle Wallis Ogle, Esq. of Causey Park, Northumberland.
P. 99. Lady Isabella Anne Beresford, married, April 14th, 1812, at Marybone church, John William Head Brydgcs, Esq. of Wootton Court, Kent.
Add to the issue of the present Bakon and Marquis,
A daughter, born April 26lh, 1811.
LORD CAKLETON.— P. lOl.
P. 103, 101, Hardy, in his Life of Lord Charlemont, speaks thus of \.\i^Jirst Earl of i-.hannon.
" The contest between Primate Stone and Mr. Boyle (the Speaker), was merely for power j but in that contest Stone sought the aid of the crown j and Boyle, who was a Whig, sought iheaid of the people," &c. " In 1753, the particular question, which be- came the trial of strength, was decided in favour of the latter." &c. " Several adherents of Mr. Boyle had been dismissed from their situations, but the I^nglish Cabinet stopped itself in mid career. The members of that Cabinet saw the difficulties with which they were surrounded ; and though perfectly convinced of the obliquity of many who opposed, they dreaded the too great success of many who combated even on their own side. Primate Stone was made use of in supporting what was fat."dly termed the English interest 3 but his intriguing and aspiring temper gave much umbrage, and cause of suspicion to thoe who co-operated with him. Mr. Boyle had given much oifcnce to minibiers, but they felt and acknowledged the supcrioiity of his understanding. He was a Whig, allied to some of the first families of that con- nection ; and though on some occasioris, auv! in a recent trans-
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action (the Dublin election) particularly, he had overstepped the limits of moderation, such flights were not common on his part, and it was with truth believed, that in some instances he yielded to others, and felt his error, though too late. His peculiar sphere was the House of Commons, not as an orator, but director. The management of contested elections he took almost entirely to himself, and with such a high and firm hand, that few country gentlemen would continue a canvass, in their particular counties, without a certainty of Mr. Boyle's support, if petitioned against. He was a warm sincere friend, and undisguised enemy j so that he was for many years relied on by ministers ; for those of the most sound and comprehensive intellect preferred him to Stone, and thought that Ireland would be safer in his hands, and give them less molestation than in those of the Primate."
" Lord Northumberland left Ireland in May, I764j and put the government into the hands of the Primate, as well as those of the Enrl of Shannon, and Mr. Ponsonby, ^ the Speaker. Death soon after closed the eyes of the two great rivals. Stone and Shan- non. They both died, while justices, in December following, and within nine days of each other," &:c, " The sound superior sense of Lord Shannon would perhaps in any situation have taught him general moderation ; but Stone's ambition in truth knew no limits."
The PRESENT Peer has a son and heir. Viscount Boyle, born May 5 th, ISO9,
LORD DORCHESTER.— P. 109. P, 11;. Honourable Mrs. Orde died 1S12.
LORD KENYON.— P. 127.
P, 132. Add to the issue of the present Peer, Sixth, a son, born June 11th, 1810, Seventh, a son, born Decem.ber, 1811.
b •' In 1771," saj's Mr. Hardy, '♦ the triple alliance of aristocracy, un- dertakers, and their newly-confederated powers gave way. To this surrender the principal event which contributed, v>'as Mr. Ponsonby's resignation of the chair of the House of Commons. That Gentleman, allied to the principal Whig families in both kingdoms, possessed not only great influence from such connections, and his high stations, but from personal disposition, which was truly amiable. His manners were exactly such as a parliamentary leader should have Open, affable, and familiar, he had a peculiar dignity of per- son, at once imposing and engaging," vol i. p. 203. This should have been inserted (but tor an inadvertencej under fonsonby oflmokilly, vol, ix.
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LORD nSIlERWICK.— P. 177-
P. 207, Add to the issue of tiie present Peer^ Fifth, a son, born March gth, 1810,
LORD VERULAM.— P. 209.
P. 222. The Hon. William Grimston Bucknall's daugiiter and heir, Sophia, married, November 2d, 180-1, the Honourable Berkeley Paget.
P. 22j. Add to the issue of the present Peer,
A daughter, born April 13th, 18J0.
LORD DOUGLAS OF DOUGLAS.— P. 227.
P. 217. Caroline Lucy, his Lordship's youngest daughter, married, October 27th, ISIO, Captain Scott of the royal navy.
LORD DOUGLAS OF LOCHLEVEN.— P. 271.
P. 282. The issue of the Honourable John Douglas, by Frances Lascelles, are,
First, Frances, wife of the Honourable William Stuart.
Second, Anne, died an infant.
Third, George Sholto, born December 23d, 17SC).
Fourth and fifth, Edwin and George, twins, died infants.
Sixth, Charles, born March 10th, 1798.
Seventh, Harriet, born June Sth, 1792, married, November 2jth, IS09, Viscount Hamilton, eldest son of the Marquis of Abercorn.
Eighth, Charlotte, born July 11th, 1793.
Ninth, Emma.
Tenth, Elizabeth, born October Sth, 179-1.
P. 2S:3. Add the date, August 1 Itb, 1791, to the creation of the English Barony.
LORD THURLOW.— P. 284.
P. 2S6. The PRESENT Peer has given proofs of his literary and poetical talents, by a new edition of Sir Philip Sydney's De- fence of Poetry, to which are prefixed some beautiful original sonnets ; and by a subsequent volume of poems, printed in 1812.
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The first wife of the Reverend Edward South Thurlow, died June 20, 1 808 ; and he married, secondly, Susanna, youngest daughter of the Reverend John Love, Rector of Somerby, com. Suffolk. His eldest son, Edward John Thurlow, Esq. married, July 7th, 1812, Miss Alston, of Clapham Common, Surry.
LORD MULGRAVE.— P. 311.
Since this article was written, I have ^ met with a little octavo volume, entitled " The Life of his Excellency Sir JFilliam Phips, Knt. late Captain General and Governor in Chief of the Province of the Massachuset Bay, New England, containing the memorable changes undergone, and actions performed hy him, written ly one intimately acquainted ivith him. London, printed ly Sam. Bridge in Justin Friers, for Nath. Hiller, at the Prince's Arms in Leaden-hall-street, over against St. Mary Ax, 16Q2."
The author was Nath. Mather. By this it appears, that Sir William was born February 2d, 1050, at a despicable plantation on the river of Kennebech, and almost the furthest village of the eastern sfttleraent of New England. His father was James Phips, a gunsmith, once of Bristol. " His fruitful mother, yet living (1697)^ had no less than twenty-six children, whereof twenty-one were sons ; but equivalent to them all was William, one of the youngest, whom his father dying, left young with his mother, and with her be lived, till he was eighteen years old. His friends earnestly solicited him to settle among them in a plantation of the East; but he had an unaccountab'e impulse upon his mind, per- suading him that he was born to greater matters. To come at those greater matters, his first contrivance was to bind himself to a ship carpenter for four years ; in which time he became a master of the trade, that once in a vessel of more than forty thousand tons repaired the ruins of the earth. He then betook himself an hundred and fifty miles further afield, even to Boston, the chief town of New England ; which being a place of the most business and resort in those parts of the world, he expected there more commodiously to pursue the Spes Majorum et Me- liorum, hopes which had inspired hitn. At Boston, where it was that he now learned first of all to read and write, he fol- lowed his trade for about a year, and by a laudable deport- ment so recommended himself, that he married a young gentle- woman of good repute, who was the widow of one Mr. John
a By the favour of Mr. Cochrane, of Fleet-street.
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Hull, a well-bred merchant, but the daughter of one Captain Roger Spencer, a person of good fashion, who having suffered much damage in his estate by some unkind and unjust actions, which he bore with such patience, that for fear of thereby injur- ing the public, he would not seek satisfaction, posterity might afterwards see the reward of his patience, in what Providence hath now done for one of his own posterity. Within a little while after his marriage, he indented with several persons in Boston, to build them a ship at Sheepscote river, two or three leagues east- ward of Kennebech ; where having launched the ship, he also provided a lading of lumber to bring with him, which would have been to the advantage of all concerned. But just as the ship was hardly finished, the barbarous Indians on that river, broke forth into an open and cruel war upon the English ; and the miserable people, surprized by so sudden a storm of blood, had no refuge from the infidels but the ship now finishing in the harbour. Whereupon he left his intended lading behind him, and instead thereof carried with him his old neighbours and their families free of all charges to Boston. So the first action that he did after he was his own man, was to save his father's house with the rest of the neighbourhood fsom ruin 3 but the disappointment which befell him from the loss of his other lading, plunged his aflairs into greater embarrassments with such as had employed him.
" But he was hitherto no more ihan beginning to make scaf- folds for further and higher actions. He would frequently tell his wife, that he should yet be captain of a King's ship; that he should come to have the command of better men than he was now accounted himself: and that he should be owner of a fair brick house in the green lane of North Boston ; and that it may be, this would not be all that the Providence of God would bring him to. Being thus of the true temper for doing of great things, he betakes himself to the sea, the right scene for such things; and upon the advice of a Spanish wreck about the Bahamas, he took a voyage thither, but with little more success than what just served him a little to furnish him for a voyage to England, whither he went in a vessel not much unlike that which the Dutchmen stamped on llieir first coin with these words about it, Incertum quo Jala Jcrani. Having first informed himself, that there was another Spanish wreck, wherein was losta mighty treasure hitherto undiscovered, he had a strong inipre.'sion upon his mind, that He must be the dis- coverer 5 and he made such representations of his design at White- hall, that, by the year lG83, he became the captain of a King's
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ship, and arrived at New England, commander of the Algier Rose, a frigate of eighteen guns, and ninety-five men."
At length, " he fished out of a very old Spaniard, (or Portu- guese) a little spot where lay the wreck, which he had hitherto been seeking as unprosperously, as the chymists have their aurifick stone, that it was upon a reef of shoals, a few leagues to the northward of Port de la Plata, upon Hispaniola ; a port so called, it seems, from the landing of some of the shipwrecked company, with a boat full of plate, saved out of their sinking frigate. Nevertheless, when he bad Searched very narrowly the spot, whereof the old Spaniard had advised him, he not hitherto exactly lit upon it. Still not despairing, he returned to England, whence he again set sail for the fi,shing ground, which had been so well baited half an hun- dred years before. At length he arrived with a ship and tender at Port dela Plata,
"■ At last they fell upon the room in the wreck, where the bullion had been stored upj and they so prospered in this new fishery, that in a little while they had, without the loss of any man's life, brought up thirty-two tons of silver. Besides that in- credible treasure of plate^ in various forms, thus fetched up from seven or eight fathom under water, there were vast riches of gold, and pearls, and jewels, which they also lit upon 3 and, indeed, all that a Spanish frigate used to be enriched with."
" Captain Phips now coming up to London, in the year 168/, with near three hundred thousand pounds sterling aboard him, did acquit himself with such an exemplary honesty, that, partly by his fulfilling his assurances with his seamen, and partly by his exact and punctual care to have his employers defrauded of nothing that might conscientiously belong to them, he had less than sixteen thousand pounds sterling left to himself."
" The King, in consideration of the service done by him in bringing such a treasure into the nation, conferred upon him the honour of Knighthood.
He returned to New England, with the patent of High She- riff. Thus furnished, he sailed in company with Sir John Nar- borough, and having made a second visit to the wreck, not so advantageous as the former, arrived there in the summer of iCSS ; able, after five years absence, to entertain his lady with some ac- complishment of his predictions, and then built liiraself a fair brick house in the very place predicted.
Resenting the bad administration of this province, he returned to England in 168S ; when King James ufiered him tlie govern-
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ment, which he would not accept ; but^ returning home again, found his country in new troubles from the Indians. The English revolution which followed, was hailed with joy in this remote set- tlement, which now sent a naval force, with about seven hundred men, under the conduct of Sir AVilliam Piiips, against L'Acady and Nova Scotia, which he recovered from the French, in 1690.
In the same year he led an expedition against Canada, which, however, did not succeed. But the scheme of Canada lay at Sir William's heart, and he took another voyage to England. Arriving at Bristol, he hastened to London, and made application for aid to renew his expedition.
In this visit Sir William was nominated Captain-General, and Governor in-Chief over the province of Massachuset's Bay, in New England. Having kissed the king's hand, on January 3d, 1691, he hastened away to his government; and, arriving at New-England, May 14th following, was received with accla- mations.
" New-England had now a Governor that became wonder- fully agreeably to her. He employed his whole strength to guard his people from all disasters, which threatened them either by sea or land ; and it was remarked, that nothing remarkably disastrous befell that people from the time of his arrival to the government, till there arrived an order for his leaving it."
Articles were at length exhibit'^d to the King against his government. " But it was by most men believed, that if he would have connived at some arbitrary oppressions too much used, by some kind of officers on the King's subjects, few perhaps, or none of those articles had ever been formed ; and that he apprehended himself to be provided with a full defence against them all."
In obedience to the King's command, he took his leave of Boston, November 17th, l6Qd. Arriving ai: Whitehall, he found lliat he had all human assurance of returning, in a very few weeks, again Governor of New-England. But about the middle of Fe- bruary, 1694-0, he found himself indisposed with a cold, which obliged him to keep his chamber. Under this indisposition he received the lionour of a visit from a very eminent person at Whhehall, who upon sufficient assurance bade him get well as fast as he could, for in one month's time he should be again dis- patched away to his government of New-England.
" Neve.-'.heless his dibtem])er proved r. m, t of malignant fever, ■whereof many about this time died in the city, and it suddenly put an end at once to his days and thoughts, on the 18th of February,
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to the extreme surprize of his friends, who honourably interred him in the church of St, Mary Wolnoth, and with him how much of New-England's happiness!"
" For his exterior, he was tall beyond the common set of men, and thick as well as tall, and strong as well as thick. He was in all respects exceedingly robust, and able to conquer such difficulties of diet and travel, as would have killed most men j nor did the fat, wherein he grew very much, in his later years, take away the vigour of his motions. He was well-set, and of a comely, though manly countenance, in which might be read the character of a generous mind. His generosity was incompara- ble. He never once deliberately revenged an injury. In fine, he was of so sweet a temper, that they who were most intimately acquainted with him, would commonly pronounce him the best conditioned gentlemau in the world.
" The love, even to kindness, with which he always treated bis lady, was a matter not only of observation, but even of such admiration, that every one said, the age aflbrded not a kinder husband 1 This kindness appeared not only in his making it no less his delight than study to render his whole conversation agree- able to her, but also, and perhaps chiefly, in the satisfaction which it gave him, to have his interests very much at her command. Before he first went abroad upon wjeck designs, he, to make his long absence easy unto her, made her his promise, that what estate the God of Heaven should then bestow upon him, should be entirely at her disposal, in case that she should survive him.
And, when Almighty God accordingly bestowed on him a fair estate, he not only rejoiced in seeing so many charitits done every day by her bountiful hand, but he also {not having any children of his own) adopted a nei-hew of her's to be his HEIR. And reckoning that a verbal intimation unto her of what pious and public uses he would have any part of his estate, after his death, put unto, as well as what supports he would lavi afforded unto his own relations, would be as much attended by her, as it he had otherwise taken tlie most effectual care imagina- ble, he contented himself with bequeathing all he had entirely to her, in his last will and testament. He knew very well that her will, in point of a liberal disposition to honour the Lord with the sub- stance, which the Lord had in so strange a manner enriched them wiihal, would not fail of being equal with his own.
Ey this account it appears that Sir William Phips was not himself the ancestor of Lord Mulgrave, though I had followed
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the Irish Peerage by Archdall, in asserting him to be so. The adopted nepliew of his wife was probably the true ancestor.
1 he PRESENT Peer has had issue.
First, Henry Constantine, born May 15th, 1/97^ died De- cember 4tb, ISOS.
Second, Henrietta Sophia, born May2Sth, 1/99.
Third, Charles Beaumont, born December 27ih, 1801.
Fourth, a son, born December /th, ISOS.
Fifth, a son, born October I8O9.
LORD BRADFORD.— P. 367.
P. 374. The issue of the present Peer are.
First, George Augustus Frederick Henry, born October 23d, 1789.
Second, Charles Orlando, in the navy.
Third, Orlando, appointed an ensign in the first regiment of foot guards, February 14th, 1811.
Fourth, Henry Edmund, born September, 1797-
Fifth, Lucy Klizabeth Georgina, born in 1792; married, Ja- nuary 22d, ISO9, William Wolriche Whitmore, Esq. of Dudmas- ton, Shropshire, lieutenant-colonel of the Shropshire militia.
Sixth, a daughter, born September 14th, 1799.
LORD SELSEY — P. 376.
P. 378, James, eldest son of the present Peer, died No- vember Sth, 1811.
LORD YARBOROUGH.— P. 387. P. 39s. Honourable Caroline Ehves died July 13th, 1812.
LORD HOOD.— P. 400.
P. 400. The Honourable Samuel Hood has a daughter born in November, 1811.
(522 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND.
LORD STEWART OF GARLIES.~P. 4 IS.
P, 444. Lady Sophia, wife of the Honourable William Biigh, died July 25th, iSOg.
LORD SALTERSFORD.— P. 445.
P, 451. The issue of HIS Lordship have been.
First, George Henry, born November 13th, 1 79 1, died young.
Second, Charles, born February 20th, 1703, died young.
Third, James Thomas, Viscoimt Stopford, born March 27thj 1794.
Fourth, Edward, born June 11th, 1/95.
Fifth, Henry Scott, born October 21st, 1/97.
Sixth, Montague, born November llth, 1798.
Seventh, Lady Mary Frances, born April 21st, 1801.
Eighth, Robert, born November 23d, 1802.
Ninth, Lady Elizabeth Anna, born January gth, 1805.
Tenth, Lady Jane, born February 25th, I8O6.
Eleventh, Lady Charlotte, born September 7th, 1 8O7.
Twelfth, a daughter, born September 17th, 1811.
Rear Admiral Robert Stopford married, June 23d, I8O9, Mary, daughter of Robert Fanshaw, Esq. Commissioner of his Majesty's dockyard at Plymouth.
The PRESENT Peer was appointed Captain of the Band of Pensioners, April llth, 1812.
LORD DAWNAY.— P. 453.
P. 458. LoRA, Viscountess Downs, mother of the present Peer, died in Charles-street, Berkeley-square, aged seventy-two, April 24tb, 1812.
William Henry, third son, of Sesay, in Yorkshire, is in holy orders.
Thomas Dawnay, fifth son, of Ashwell, co. Rutland, is also in holy orders.
LORD BRODRICK.— P. 460.
P. 474. The Hon. Major General John Brodrick is Governor and Commander of the forces in Martinique. He married, Sep-
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tember 6th, IBOg, Anne, daughter of Robert Graham of Fintry^ Esq.
LORD ROUS.— P. 4;G,
P. 480. Add to HIS Lordship's issue, A son, bom August -Ith, 1810.
LORD GWYDIR.— P. 496.
P. 501. The Hon. Peter Robert, eldest son, has a daugh- ter, born September 2d, ISOC).
The Hon. Lindsey Merrick Eurrell has a son, William Brown- low Lindsey Peter,
LORD CAWDOR.— P. 530.
P. 531. His LoKDSHiP has another broiher, a captain in ihe navy.
LORD WELLESLEY.— P. 532.
P. 544. William Wcllesley Pole, only son of the Right Hon. William Wellesley Pole, married, March 14lh, 1812, Catherine, eldest daughter and coheir of the late Sir James Tilney Long of Draycot-house, in Wilt.shire, and Wanstead, in Essex, Bart, and has added the names of Tilney Long to his own.
Arthur is eldest son of the Hon. Gerald Valerian Wellesley, who has another son, born January l6th, 1808.
The Right Elon, Sir Henry Wellesley was made a knight of the Bath, 1812.
The presext Peek was appointed Secretary of State for the Foreign Department, in IblO, and resigned it in May, 1812.
LORD MIXTO.— P. 559.
P. 561. The Hon. Edmund Eliott married, October 23d, 1809, Amelia, third daughter of James Henry Casamajor, Esq, one of the Members of the Supreme Council at Madras.
Hon. William Eliott died June 5th, ISll,
624 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND.
LORD WODEHOUSE.— P. 562.
P. 571. The Hon. Lctitia Wodehouse married, November 30th, 1811, Sir Thomas Maynard Hesilrigge, Bart,
LORD LILFORD.— P. 5']T.
P. 582. The Hon. Capta' - Henry Po ys of the eighty-third Foot, died of his wounds at the capture of Badajos, in the Spring of 1812.
LORD FITZGIBBON.— P. 605.
P. 606. The Hon. R. H. Fitzgibbon has retired from the army.
T. Bensley, Printer, Bolt Court, FUet Street, London.
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