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E A R O N E T A G E
ENGLAND:
CONTAINING
A Genealogical and Historical Account
OF ALL THE
ENGLISH BARONETS
NOW EXISTING:
With their Descents, Marriages, and
Memorable Actions both in War and Peace.
COLLECTED FROM
Authentic Manuscripts, Records, Old Wills, Our beft Historians, and other Authorities.
Illuftrated with their
COATS of A R M S,
Engraven on Copper-Plates.
A L S Ot A
L I ST of A v l ■ the BARONETS,
Who have been advanced to that Dignity, from the firft
Inst it u t i o n thereof.
. Tf» *Lich If added,
An Account of foch Nova-Scotia Baronets as are of English Families^
A N t> A
DICTIONARY of HERALDRY,
Explaining fueh Terms as are commonly ufed in English
Armory.
By E. K I M B E R and R. JOHNSO N.
VOLUME the FIRS T.
L O N D O N:
Printed for G. Woodfall, J. Fuller, E. Johnson, Hawes, Clarke and Collins, W.Johnston, S.Crowder, J. Wilkie, T, Lonsma.n, B. Law, T. Lowndes, T. Caslon, Robinson am Robe&ts, W. Nicoll, R, Baldwin, Z. Stuakt, ant W. Davis,
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PRE FACE.
MR. WOTTON (that indefatigable La- bourer in the golden Mines of Antiquity, whofe Avenues were rendered almoft inacceffible by the deftnudlive Hand of Time, and the cruel Ravages of barbarous Nations) has cleared the Paths, which lead to the Perfection of this intricate Science. Neither the great Diffi- culties attending Genealogical Enquiries, (in which fo maay Centuries were to be traced, and the Thread to guide him generally (o flender, and, fometimes broken,) nor the Impoffibility of per- fuading forrle Families to give the leaf!; Afiiftance, were able to deter him from this verv difficult Purfuit. In Spite of all Obftacles, in the Year 1 74 1, he publifhed his laft Account cf the Englifh Baronets, of which this is prefented to the Public as a New Edition, and Continuation
to the prefent Time.
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The Reception that Work met with* which is to be found only in the Libraries of the Curious, was a fufficient Motive for this Republication* The Neceffity of a New Edition will appear the more evident, when we obferve, that, of the & Four Hundred and Sixty-eight Baronets, whofe | Families are mentioned by Mr. Wotton, near ^Gne Hundred and Forty of thofe Titles are now either extinct, or lie dormant in higher Promo- tions ; and, of the Three Hundred and Forty Baronets, inferted in this Work, and who en- joyed the Title at the Time of Mr. Wotton's Publication, not an Hundred of them are now living. We may add, fince that Period, Seventy- four new Baronets have been created. All thefe Confiderations contribute to make Mr. Wotton's Edition, rather a valuable Work of Antiquity, than the modern State of the Baronets. aj.
Mr. Wotton's Notes, moft of which were only Authorities for what he advanced, though abfo- lutely neceflary in his Edition, are become of no Ccniequence to this, as the Facts they tended to corroborate are now generally allowed. Hifto- rical Paffages of no great Moment, and the men- tion of Eftates, which have been long loft to the prefent Families, where they did not feeov. necef- lary to illuftrate the Pedigree, are here, for the
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We have purfued the Defign of Mr, Wotton, in publifhing the Account of every Baronet, to fhew the Antiquity of each, as far as it can be traced, with their Marriages and IiTues, to the prefent Time, together with fuch hiftorical Me- moirs, that have any Connection with, or may ferve to illuftrate or elucidate the fame, n
We apprehend, that the Baronets hereafter mentioned, are all that are in being, of the Englifh Creation, ftrict Enquiry having been made in every County, to get the beft Informa- tion relating to thofe that are extinct; and fuch of them as appear to be doubtful, though gene- rally believed to have failed, are inferted by themfelves at the End of the Work, not being
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willing, upon mere Prefumption, to deprive any Family of , its Honours.
The Accounts of thofe Baronets, who are Peers of Great Britain or Ireland, are not introduced here; becaufe their Creations are abforbed in higher Titles, and their Genealogies publiflied in the modern Peerages. One Inftance having hap-
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pened this Year, 1770, of a Baronet's Title fur- viving the Peerage, we have carefully given due Precedence to that Pedigree, as the Reader will perceive in the Account of Sir George Booth, (Vol. I. Page 18.) who fucceeded to the Title of Baronet on the Death of Lord Delamer. We have given Place to the Pedigree of Sir James Harrington, of Ridlington, in Rutlandshire, though, perhaps, improperly, as that Title is faid long fince to have expired in an Ad: of At- tainder ; but, by others, fuppofed to be an illegal A61, and that the Right to the Title is ftill good. Not being able to fettle the Pedigree of Sir Charles Hudfon till the Work was nearly finiilied, we were obliged to defer it for Infertion in the. Appendix, where the Reader will alfo find one or two' more5 and fuch Alterations and Additions as came to Hand after the Accounts of the different Families were printed: All which /hall be care- fully introduced, in their proper Places, in a fu-^ ture Edition.
It has been obferved by fome, in Oppofition to Publications of this Nature, that heroic Virtue and Integrity redound more to the Honour of Mankind, than the longeft Train of Anceftors poffibly can. However, furely it mull be granted, that a Retrofpect of the magnanimous Deeds of ilhiftrious Anceftors is molt likely to animate the
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youthful Bofom with an Emulation to equal, if not excel, their Predecefibrs.
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Application has been made to every Baronet, whole Place of Refidence could be known, not only by Letters, but by perfonal Application, and. frequent Advertifements ; and w^e acknowledge, with all due Refpeci and Gratitude, that many of the Baronets themfelves, or their Relations, have very obligingly furnifhed us with the Con- tinuation of their refpecTive Pedigrees ; feme of them have even gone fo far, as to enable us, where Mr. Wotton was faulty, to give their Fa- mily Accounts corrected from the firft mention of their Exiftence. Some few we met v/ith, Avhb were fuch Strangers to the Glory of their Anceftors, and the future Honour of their Fami- lies, as not to be prevailed on, by repeated Solli- citations, to fpare a Moment in furnifhing one fingle Material to grace their Families.
It is with the greateft Pleafure, that I ac- knowledge myfelf obliged with the kind Affift- ance of fome fkilful Gentlemen, particularly that learned and curious Genealogift, George Booth Tyndale, of Brifiol, Efq; Barrifter at Lav/, by whom I was favoured, at no fmall Labour and pxpence to himfelf, with many valuable Mate- rials, and fome entire Pedigrees.
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While I am thus acknowledging the Favours I have received frorj} the living, let me not forget the Tribute due to the Memory of my Friend* Mr. Kimber, r who fell a Vidtim, in the Meridian of his Life, to his indefatigable Toils in the Re- public of Letters. To him I owe the prefent Plan of this Work : He was the Architect, I only the Builder. Happy fhall I think myfelf, if I (hall appear properly to have executed the De- fign which he formed.
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1. B^CON, of Redgrave, Suffolk, • — iiw s'':ii
2. Hoghton, of Hoghton-Tower, Lancajhirt, — 12-
3. 2?*0*£, of Dunham- Maffey, Chejhire, — 1 8
jP*V* Appendix, Vol III. Page 412.
*3» Peyton, of Ifelbam, Cambridge/hire, — (4°>
4. Cft/tol, of Clifton, Nottinghamjhire, — 24
5. Gerard, of Bryn, Lancajhire, — * — 3 1
^ifafe Appendix, Page 417.
6. Sfo/ty, 0/ Michelgrove, Suffex, — — 3S
Vide Appendix, Page 41 7.
7. Barrington, of Barrington-Hall, EJfex, — 39
8. Mufgrave, of Hartley -Caftle, Wejlmoreland, — 44
Vide Appendix, Page 419.
9. C0/>f, 0/ Hanwell, Oxfcrdjhire, — — 5^
10. Grejley, of Drakelow, Derby [hire, — 55
11. Molineux, of Teverfal, Nottingham/hire, — 59
12. Savile, ofThornhill, Torkjhire, — — 65
Vide Appendix, Page 420.
13. Wodeboufe, of Kimberley, Norfolk, — 72
14. Harrington, of Ridiington, Rutland/hire, — 79
15. Mor daunt, of Majfuigham, Norfolk, — 8 1
16. IVorJley, of Apulder combe, Hampjhire, — — 84
17. Fleetwood, of Calwicbe, Staffordjhire, — 87
18. Twifden, of Evft-Peckham, Kent, — — 9^
19. Hales, of Woodchurch, Kent, — — 94
Vide Appendix, Page 42 1 .
20. JVyvill, of Conjlable-Burton, Yorkjhire, — — 98 2f. Temple, of Stowe, Buckingham/hire, -— — 1 03
22. Gojhvick, of Willingion, Becfordjhire, — — 104
23. JVray, of Glentworth, Lincolnjhire, — — ic6
Vide Appendix, Page 423.
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24. Aylejfe, of Br axtcd- Magna, Effex, *>0~ — 1 1^0
25. Pejr.all, of Ecclejha/l, Stafford] hire, — — 113
Vide Appendix, Page 423.
26. Englefeld, .of IVotton-BajJet, JViltjhire, — • — 123
27. Plolte, cf A/Ion, near Birmingham, — s — ^ 1^9
Vide Appendix, Page 423.
28. Egerton, of Egerton, Chefoire, — — 133
29. Clarke, of Salford, Warwickjhire, — — 140
Vide Appendix, Page 423.
30. Boynton, of Bar?nfton, Yorkjhire, — • — 1 43
31. Biitdet, of Bramcotc, Warwickjhire, — * 147
Vide Appendix, Page 423.
32. Mackwortb, of Normanton, Rutlandfnire, — 153
Vide Appendix, Page 423.
33. Hi ekes, of Beverjlon, Gloucejlerftoire, — — 157
Vide Appendix, Page 424.
34. Dryden, cf Canons- Ajhby, Noribainptonfiire, — 161
Vide Appendix, Page 425.
35. Mill, of Camois-Court, Sujfex, — * — 167
Vide Appendix, Page 425.
36. Foulis, of higleby, Yorkjhire, — — 170
37. Berney, of Par kh all, in Pee dh am, Norfolk, — 173
38. Pakinglon, of Ai If my, Buckinghamfhire, — >. 177
39. Bifiopp, of Par bam, Suffix, — — 191
40. Vincent, of Stoke D' Abernon, Surry, — - — 193
41. Tic h borne, of Tichborne, Hampfinre, — — *97
42. Palmer, of Wingham, Kent, — — — 205
43. Rivers, of Chaff ord, Kent, — — 2 1 1
44. Hewet, of Headly-Hall, Yorkfoire, — 213
Vide Appendix, Page 425.
45* ftrnegan, or Jcrningharn, of Crjfey, Norfolk, — " 215
46. Philipps, of Pitlon-Caflk, Pembroke fair e^ 219
47. Stepney, cf Prendergajl, Pembrokefiire, «**■ — 223
48. Wake, of Chvedon, Somerfetflrire, — —
49. Hotbam, cf Scarborough, Yorkfiire, •— —
Vide Appendix, Page 42 c.
50. Manfel, of A/Iuddifo?,ibe, Carina, the:- f hire, — 234
51. Prideaux, of Netherton, Dev:njbire, — -— 238
■ Vide 'Appendix, Pare a? 7.
52. Heflrige, of Nofeley, Lei cell erfhire, • — 1 — 243
53. Burton, of Stockerjlon, Leictjicrfirc, ■— - 246
54. Drake, of Bv.chland, Devon/hire, — — 247
55. Skipivith, of Prejhvould, LeicrjlerfAre, — 249
56. Playiers, of SotteAey, Suffolk 3 — - — 251
• Vide Appendix , Page 437.
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57. Harpur, of Calke, Derbyfhire, — — 255
Vide Appendix, Page 438.
58. Se alright, of ' Besford, IVorceflerflnre, — — 261
59. Dering, of Surenden- Dering, Kent, — — - 263
Vide Appendix, Page 438.
60. Styles, of fraieringburyi Kent, — — 267
Vide Appendix, Page 439.
61. Moore, of Fawley, Berkfoire, — — 27 O
62. I/bam, of Lamport, Northampton/hire, — 272
63. Bagot, of Blithfield, Staffer djhire, — — « 282
Vide Appendix, Page 440.
64. Mannock, of Gifford's-Hall, Suffolk, — 287
65. Littleton, of Pillaton-Hall, Stafford/hire, — 289
66. Goring, of Highden, Suffex, \ — — 296
67. Stonhoufe, of Radley, Berk/hire, — 29 $
68. Wrey, of Trebitch, Cornwall, — • — 300
69. Trelaiuney, of Trelawney, Cornwall, — 303
70. Conyers, of Horden, Durham, — — 312
71. AJlon, of Aflon, Chefiire, — — 315
Vide Appendix, Page 440.
72. Pryce, of New-Town, Montgomery/hire, — 323
73. JVifeman, of Canf eld- Hall, Effex, — 327
74. Pile, of Compton, Berkjhire, — — 329.
Vide Appendix, Page 440.
75. Pole, of Shute, Devonjhire, — — 331 -76. Vavafor, of Haflewocd, Yorkjhire, — — 335
77. JVolfeley, of JVolfeley, Staffordjhire, — 339
78. Ruffell, of Chippenham, Cambridgefhire, — > 342
79. Everard, of Much-lValthain, Effex, — 346
80. Lmnley, of Bardfield, Effex, — — 348
81. Dal/Ion, of Dal/ion, Cumberland, — 349
82. Every, of Egginton, Derbyfhire, — — 351
83. Langley, of Higham-Gobion, Bedfordfoire, — - 353
84. Cave, of Sia-rford, Northamptonffire, — 355
85. Boteler, of Teflon, Kent, — — 366
86. Hatton, of Long- Stanton, Cambridgejhire, — 367
87. Abdy, of Felix -Hdll, Effex, — — ~ 372 83. Bampfylde, of Folfhnore, Devonjhire, — 374
89. Cotton, of Landwade, Cambridgefnre, — — 382
90. Burgoyne, of Svtion, Bcdfordfnire, -— — 386 9r. Northcote, of Haym, Devonjhire, — 388
92. Strickland, of Boy nt on, Torkfbire, — — 39 r
93. Bo ghton, of Lawford, Warwickfhire, — 393
94. Chichejler, of Raleigh, DcVo>j'.jire, — — 396 1 95. Knatcbbidl, of Merfuam-Hatch, Kent, — — ^99
.96.- Cajlleion, of St. Edmundfbury, Suffolk, — 403
97. Owen,
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97. 0 wit fiy of Orielton, Pembroke/hire^ — -*- a0I*
98. Hey man, of Somer field, Kent, ~ *a >q«
99. Goodricke, of Ribjlan, Torkjhire, _ 40Q 100. Lawley, of Spoonbill, Shropjhire, — aja, ID 1. Davie, of Creedy, Devon/hire, — — ^ft
F/afc Appendix, Page 44 1 .
102. Pettus, of Rackheath, Norfolk, i— 420
£7<& Appendix, Page 441.
103. Andreivs, of Denton, Northamptonshire, — » 422
104. Half or d, of WiJIovj, Le^ejlerjhire^ — 42?
105. Kaye, of Woodejham, alias Woodjome, Torkjhire, 425
106. Trollope, of Cafewick, Lincoln/hire, .&- ^28
107. St. ^uintin, of Harpbam, Torkjhire, -- 401
Vide Appendix, Page 441,
108. Kemp, of Gifftng, Norfolk, — . — 43 7
109. Ingleby, of Ripley, Torkjhire, — — 440
1 10. Willi amf on, of Eajl-Markham, Nottihgbamjhire, 443
111. Lowther, of Whitehaven, Cumberland^ — 44 c
112. Aljlon, of Odell, Bedfordjhire, — - 457
113. Corbett, of Leighton, Montgojneryjhire^ — 460
114. Markham, of Sedgebroke, Nottingham/hire, — 467
Vide Appendix, Page 44 1.
115. Thorold, of Marfl on, Lincolnjhire, — 470
116. Wrottefley, of VVrottejley, Staffordjlnrci — 475
Vide Appendix, Page 443.
117. ^Throckmorton, of Ccughton, Warwickjhire9 — 47 8
118. Halton, of Samford, Effex, —• — 487
119. Blount, of Sodvigton, Worceflerjhire, **- 488
120. Chamber layne, of Wickham, Oxfordjhire, — - 492 12 i. Hunloke, of Winger worth, Derbyjhire, — 496
122. D' An vers, of Ciilworth, North amptonfoire, -— 499
123. Haggerjhn, of Haggerjlon-Cajlle, Northumberland, , 502
124. O'Neill, of Dublin, — — 504
125. Hickman, of Gainfiorough, Lincolnjhire, — - 505
126. BathnrjU of Leach lid,:, Gkucejicrjlnre, — 508
127. Acton, of AMmbam, Shropji.ire, - — — 512 l2$.Webb,cfOqftock,Wiltjhire, — -— 516
129. Williams, of Gucrncvii, Brecon, — — .518
130. Acland, of Colu?nb-Jo.bn, Devonjlire, — 519
131. Vyvian, of Trehvjarrm, Cornwall, — 525 132* Edwards, of Shrnvjhtry, - — — 528'
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Created Baronet of England, May 22, 1611.
OF this name there have been many perfons of great account in former ages 5 but that particular family, of which we are now to treat, derive their defccnt from Grimbalbus, who came into England at the time of the Norman conqueft, in company with William Earl War- ren, to whom he was related ; which Grimbaldus had lands in Normandy.; and, after his arrival in England, fettled .at Lether- ingfett, near Holt in Norfolk, where he founded the church, and made his fecond fon, Edmund, parfon of it, His other fens were Radulph and Ranulph.
Roger, the fon of Ranulph, was father of Robert, the firfl of the family we find mentioned by the name of Bacon, vvhofe bro- ther, William Bacon, was of Monks Bradfield in the county of Suffolk, temp. Ric. I. which William is taken notice of among the knights bearing banners, as well Normans as of other pro- vinces, in the reign of King Philip II. of France -, and by a daughter of Thomas, Lord Bardolph, was father of another William, of the fame place, whofefon, Adam, lived in the time of Edw. I. and left two fons,* Wido Bacon of Bradfield afore- laid, who died without iffue, and Robert Bacon of Heffet, alias Hegefett, in the faid county.
The faid Robert, by Alice his wife, daughter of Burgate,
had iffye John Bacon of Reflet and Bradfield, who was father of John Bacon, and he of another John, of the fame places, who married Helena, daughter of-— — Gedding, and by her left a fon of his own name, who married (firit) Helena, daughter of Sir George Tillot, of Rougham in Norfolk, Knt. and (fecondly) Julian, daughter of Bardwell ; from which fecond marri- age proceeded the Bacons of HefTet, who flcurilhed there near we hundred years, and have not been extinct a century. Vox, L B John,
2 BACON of Redgrave.
John, Ton of the faid John Bacon, (by Helena his firfr. wife,) married Margery, daughter and heir of John Thorp, fon of Wil- liam Thorp, (by the daughter and heir of- Quaplod) fon of
Sir William Thorp (by the daughter and heir of Sir Roger Ba- con, a commander in the wars, temp. Edw. II. & Edw. III. fon of Sir Henry Bacon, fon of another Sir Henry, a judge itinerant, temp. Hen. III. lineally defcended from Grimbaldus ;) fince which marriage this branch of the family quarter the arms of Quaplod with their own, viz. Barry of fix, Or and Azure, a Bend, Gules.
The faid John Bacon was father of Edmund Bacon of Drink-
fton, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Crofts, by whom
he had iffue John Bacon, who married Agnes, daughter of Tho- mas Cockfield, and had iffue Robert Bacon of Drinkfton, who lies buried at Heffet, with Ifabella his wife, daughter of John Cage, of Pakenham in Suffolk, by whom he had ifTue three fons and two daughters, viz. i. Thomas Bacon, of Northaw, in
Hertford (hi re, who married the daughter of Brown, but
died without iffue. 2. Sir Nicholas Bacon, hereafter mentioned. 3. James Bacon, Alderman of London, who died in 1573* and lies buried at St. Dunftan's in theEafr, London ; leaving ifTue, I. Sir James Bacon, of Frifton in Suffolk, Knt. who married Elizabeth, daughter of Bacon of Heffet. 2. William ; and one daughter, Anne, married to George Revett of Brandefton in Suffolk. The daughters of the faid Robert Bacon were, Bar- bara, married to Robert Sharp, and Anne to Robert Blackman, both of St. Edmondfbury in Suffolk.
Nicholas Bacon, fecond fon to Robert, was born at Chiflehurfl in Kent, and educated at Corpus-Chrifti College in Cambridge, (to which he was a great benefactor, by endowing it with fix icholarfhips, three whereof he appropriated to fcholars from Bo- tefdale fchool, near his feat at Redgrave, founded by himfelf, and building the chapel and library over it,) after which, removing to Gray's-Inn for the ft udy of the law, he made fuch a proficiency therein, that K. Henry VIII, in the 38th of his reign, made him attorney of the court of wards, having before, in the 36th year of his reign, granted him the manors of Redgrave, Botefdale, and Gillingham, late belonging to the monaftery of St. Edmunds- bury in Suffolk, with the park of Redgrave, and fix acres of land in Wortham, as alio the tythes of Redgrave, to hold in capite by Knight's fervicej and upon the death of that King, (which happened foon after,) he had his patent renewed 1 Edw. VI. and in the fixth of the fame King was conftituted Treafurer of Gray's-Inn, of which fociety he was a member. Being grown ftiil more famous for his knowledge, he had the honour of knighthood conferred upon him by Queen Elizabeth, in the firft
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Vear of her reign, and was made lord keeper of the great feal of England, which office in his time was by act of parliament made equal in authority with that of the chancellor* He promoted the intereft of England to his power j and, to fecure his own, made ufe of the policy of the age, viz. great alliance. He and Cecil married two niters ; Walfingham and Mildmay, two more j Knolles, Effex, and Leicefter, were alfo linked together.
As to greatnefs, Sir Nicholas never affected it, according to his motto, Mediocria firma ; nor was he fo much for a large, as a good eftate. His houfes at Redgrave in Suffolk and Gorham- bury in Hertfordfhire were convenient, but not {lately ; which made Q^ Elizabeth tell him, when {he called at Redgrave, in her progrefs, That it zvas too little fo?' his Lordjhip* To which he anfwered, Ko^ Madam \ but your Highnefs has made me too big for it. However, on that remark he is faid to have added the wings to the houfe now {landing at Redgrave. Camden gives him this character : c Of perfon very corpulent, moft quick wit, fin-
* gular prudence, admirable eloquence, retentive memory, and 4 another pillar to the privy-council.' This corpulency of body grew on him in his old age, to which the Queen alluding ufed to fay, Sir Nicholas'* Soul lodges well.
1 He had the deepeft reach into affairs of any man, that was
* at the Council-table, the knottieft head to pierce into difncul-
* ties, the moll comprehenfive judgment to furround the merit
* of a caufe, the ftrongeft memory to recollect all circumftances
* of a bufinefs to one viewi the greateft patience to debate and 1 confider, and the cleareft reafon to urge any thing that came
* in his way in court or chancery* His dexterity and difpatch
* advanced him to the court of wards ; his deep experience made 4 him lord keeper* Great was this ftatefman's wit, greater the
* fame of it. He was the exacleft man to draw up a law in coun*
* cil, and the moft difcrete to execute it in court. The excel-
* lency of his parts was (et off with the gravity of his perfon ;
* his account of England and all its affairs was punctual j his ufe
* of learned aftifts was continual 5 his correfpondence with his
* fellow ftatefmen exact j his apprehenfion of our laws and go^-
* vernment clear; his model of both, methodical; his faithful-
* nefs to the church, eminent j his induftrious invention for the
* {late, indefatigable 5 he was that moderate man that was ap-
* pointed to prefide at the difputation between the proteflant c and popilh doctors in the firft year of Queen Elizabeth ; in
* a word, he was a father of his country, and of Sir Francis 6 Bacon.'
He died i\ Eliz. 15791 and was interred on the fouth fide of the choir of St. Paul's cathedral, London, where a noble monu- ment was erected to his memory, before the Fire ot London.
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He married two wives, firft:, Jane, daughter of William Fern- ley, of Weft-Creting in Suffoik, Efq; by whom he had iflue three Tons and three daughters. The Tons were, i. Sir Nicholas, of whom hereafter. 2. Nathaniel Bacon, of Stiffkey in Nor- folk, Efq; (who married two wives, firft, Anne, daughter of Sir 1 homas Grefharn of London, Knt. by whom he had three d .ughters, his coheirs ; 1- Anne, who being married to Sir Roger Town&end of Rainham in Norfolk, anceftor to the prefent Lord Vifc.Townfhend, brought the Stiffkey eftate into that family ; 2. Elizabeth, married to Sir Thomas Knyvet, of Amwelthorp in Norfolk ; and 3. Winihid, to Sir Robert Gawdy, of Ckxton in Norfolk, Knts. Sir Nathaniel's fecond wife was Dorothy, daughter of Sir George Hopton of Suffolk, Knt. by whom he had no iffue.) 3. Edward Bacon, of Shiubland-Hall in Suffolk, Efq; in right of his wife Helen, daughter and heir of Thomas Littel, of the fame place, Efq; and of Bray in the county of Berks, (by Elizabeth his wife, daughter and coheir to Sir Robert Litton, of Knebworth in Hertfordfhire, Knt.) from whom is lineally defcended Nicholas Bacon, of Shrubland-Hall, Efq; and from younger fons of the faid Edward, are the Bacons of Ipfwich in Suffolk, andEarlham in Norfolk, defcended. The daughters were, 1. Anne, married to Sir Henry Wodehoufe, of Waxham in Norfolk, Knt. 2, — — -, married firft, to Sir Francis Wind* ham, Knt. one of the juftices of the common-pleas ; fecondly, to Sir Robert Mansfield, Knt. and 3. Elizabeth, married firft, to Sir Robert D'Oyly, of Chiflehampton in Oxfordfhire, Knt. fecondly, to Sir Henry Nevill, Knt. and thirdly, to SirWilliam Periam, Knt. lord chief baron of the exchequer.
Sir Nicholas's fecond wife was Anne, daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke, of Giddy-Hall in EfTex, Knt. by whom he had iffue two fons, 1. Anthony, who was legate at Venice, and chancellor of the duchy of Lancaftcr, and died at Effex-houfe in the Strand, unmarried, before his father ; and 2. Sir Francis Bacon, Knt.
Sir Francis was born at York-Place in the Strand, Jan. 22, 1560, and June 10, 1573, v/as matriculated in the univerfity of Cambridge, and entered into Trinity college, under the care of Dr. Whitp-ift, then m after of the faid college, and afterwards Archbiftiop of Canterbury. After he had paffed through the circle of the liberal arts, his father thought proper to qualify him for the management of public affairs, and fent him over to France with Sir Amyas Paulet, Embaffador to that court, who entrufted him with a eommiffion to the Queen, which he dif- charged with great approbation, and returned to France, with an intention to continue fome years. During his abfence, his father died in 1 5 79, upon which he returned to England, and applied hlffifelf to the ftudy of the common law, which he re-
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folved upon as his profeffion. He was appointed one of the Queen's council extraordinary in the 28th year of his agc^ an honour fcarce ever granted before. He was one of the firii that argued the difficult cafe ofUfes, calied Chitdleigb's Cafe, which is reported by Sir Edward Coke. But the greater! figure which he made in the ten laft years of the Queen's reign, was in the Houfe of Commons ; and then it is thought he applied himfelf to politics ; fo that the Queen and Lord Treafurer Burghley employed his head and hand in affairs of ftate. He made no confiderable advances in his fortune under Queen Elizabeth, but on the acceflion of King James to the crown, he was foon raifed to confiderable honours. July 23, 1603, he was knighted at Whitehall, and the year following he was made one of the King's council learned in the law; and, as his abilities had ap- peared in Council, in Parliament, and in his Profeffion, and efpecially in his Speeches which he made in the Houfe of Com- mons, he was in the year 1607 appointed Sollicitor-general in the room of Sir Henry Hobart. In 161 1 he was made joint Judge with Sir Thomas Vavafor, then knight marfhal of the knight marfhal's court, and Oct. 27, 1613, he fucceeded Sir Henry Hobart as Attorney-general, and June 9, 1616, he was fworn of the King's privy council, a truft rarely conferred, ei- ther before or fince, on a gentleman in that office. March 7, 17 16-7, he was appointed Lord keeper of the great feal, and Jan. 4, 16 18, he was made Lord chancellor of England, and on the nth of July following created lord Verulam, and Jan. 27, 1620- 1, he was advanced to the dignity of Vifcount St. Albans, and appeared with the greateft honour and fplendor at the open- ing of the feffion of Parliament on the 30th of that month. But; he was foon after furprized with a melancholy reverfe of for- tune ; for, about the 12th of March following, a committee was appointed of fome members of the houfe of commons, to infpeel: the abufes of the courts of juftice, whereof Sir Robert Philips was appointed chairman. The nrft thing they fell upon was Bribery and Corruption, of which the L( rd Chancellor Bacon was accufed by Awbery and Egerton, who affirmed, that they had procured money to be given to him, to promote their caufes depending before him. This being corroborated by fome cir- cumftances, a report was made from the committee to the houfe, upon the 15th of that month, yet with all imaginable tendernefs and refpeel: to his Lordfhip, in regard, as the chairman declared, // touched the honour of a great wan, fo endued with all farts both of nature and art, as that he would fay no ?nore of him, being not able to fay enough. Upon this a conference was had with the lords, and afterwards baron Denham and the attorney-s-eneral were lent by the lords, v/rth a copy of the charge againft him, and
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after feveral meflages *, on Monday, April 29, he lent his con- fer flion and fubmiflion to the houfe of lords, in which he con- feiled fome fads, denied cthersx and endeavoured to anfwer or explain the reft in fuch a manner, as to take ofF the malignity of the oifence. But the lords taking this for a full and inge- nuous confeflion, fent feveral of their members, to fee if the chancellor would own it, which he did in thefe words, My lords^ it is my a6l, ?ny hand, my heart ; / befeecb your lordjlnps to be mer- ciful to a broken reed. This anfwer being reported to the houfe, the lords agreed to move the king to fequefter the feal, and on Wednefday, May 2, it was refolved to give fentence -againft him next morning, and accordingly he was fummoned to attend, but he anfwered, that he was fick% and protefied that he did. not feign this for an excufe ; for if he had been tfjill^ he would willingly have come. On May 3, 1621, the Lord Chief Juftice pronounced the following judgment,
That the Lord Vifcount St, Albans., Lord. Chancellor of England* Jljall undergo a fine and ranfom of 40,000 /. and that hcjhall be impri- Joried in the Tower during the king's pleafure*
That he Jhall be incapable of any office, place, or employme?it in the Jlate or commonwealth, and, never Jit, in parliament, or come within the verge of the court.
The Prince of Wales and fome others endeavoured to have mi- tigated the feverity of this fentence ; and many pf the lords, by way of excufe for the rigour of it, told him afterwards, that they knew they left him in good hands, and it might be prefumed, that the king, who, as his lordflup writes, hadfjed tear.supan the news of his being accufed, would be indulgent and beneficent to. him upon his Sentence.
There is a variety of opinions concerning his guilt in the points charged againft him; Mr. Rufhworth fays, his decrees were ge- nerally made with fo much equity, that tho' gifts rendered him fufpecled for injuftice, yet never any decree made by him was re- verfed as unjuft.
After the judgment given againft him, and a fliort imprifon- ment in the Tower, he retired from the engagements of an ac- tive life, to the {hade of a contemplative one, which he had al- ways loved. The iirft, or at leaft the greateft act of kindnets, which the king extended to him, was the remitting the parlia- mentary fine, and granting it to fome of his lordfhip's friends. In a letter to the king, dated July 30, 1624, wherein he ufes the moft pathetic cxpreffions, he implores his majefty to grant him a total remiilion of his fentence, to the end that the blot of ignominy might be removed from him, and from his memory with pojlerity.
* See the whole proceedings againft him In State trials^ fpl. vol. 1. p. 353.
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This requeft very probably was granted him, for we find that he was fummoned to parliament in the firft year of King Charles I. However, it appears from the works, which he compofed and de- figned during his retirement, that his thoughts were (till frce^ vigorous and noble j and, as Dr. Tenifon (afterwards Archbifhop of Canterbury) obferves, it did not appear by any thing during all the time of his eclipfe of fortune, that there was any abject- nefs of fpirit in him; his writings fhew a mind in him, not dif- fracted with anxiety, nordeprefled with fhame ; not flow for want of encouragement, nor broken with difcontent; fuch vigour of conceit, fuch a mafculine ftyle, fuch quicknefs in compofition, appeared in his learned labours. The laft five years of his life he devoted entirely to his ftudies, a thing which he would often fpeak of during the active part of his life, as if he affected to die in the fhade, and not in the light. In this recefs he compofed the greateft part of his Latin and Englifh works.
His lordfhip had happily efcaped the plague, which infefted the fummerof the year 1625, and with fome difficulty, being ot a weak and tender constitution, palled the fevere winter which followed ; but going in the fpring to make fome experiment in natural philofophy^ he was taken fo ill, that he was obliged toftay at the Earl of Arundel's houfe at Highgate about a week, and there expired on Eafter-day, the 9th of April, 1626, in the 66th year of his age, of a gentle fever attended with a great cold, which occafioned fuch a defluxion of rheum, that he was fuffo- cated with it. The Lord Keeper Bacon married Alice, daugh- ter and coheir of Benedict Barnham, Efq; Alderman of London, by whom he had no iflue.
The learned Bayle fays he was one of the greateft genius's of his age, Mr. Voltaire ftiles him the father of experimental phi- lofophy ; and the greateft writers of our nation, as well as thofe of other countries, confpire in giving him the nobleft character imaginable; and the late duke of Buckingham (Sheffield) in par- ticular allures us, That all his works arey for exprcjfion as well as thought^ the glory of our nation 1 andof all latter ages. Dr. Rawley, who was his chaplain, obferves, that he was eminent for the fharpnefs of his wit, his memory, judgment, and elocution, fo that Sir Walter Ralegh once faid before the doctor, that the Earl of Salifbury was an excellent fpeaker, but no good pen-man ; the Earl of Northampton, and the Lord Henry Howard, excel- lent pen-men, but no good fpeakers ; but that Sir Francis Bacon was eminent in both. He read much, and with great judgment, and after a moderate relaxation of his mind from ftudy, returned to it with frefh vigour, and would not fuffer any moment to efcape him without improvement. His converfation was ex- tremely delightful and inftructive. When his office called him,
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as he was one of the King's council, to charge any offenders, he did it with the greateft lenity ; and in civil affairs, as coun- fellor of fcate, he never engaged his mailer in any fevere or pre- cipitate courfes. Neither was he lefs in favour with the fubje6t than with his fovereign ; for he was always acceptable to the houfe of commons when he was a member thereof. He was re- ligious, free from malice, whichy as he faid hirnfelf, he never bred nor fed. No revenger of injuries. Fie never endeavoured to re- move others from their places, or accufed any man to his Prince* In his will he has this remarkable paffage, for my name and me- mory, 1 leave it to mem charitable fpsechesy and to foreign nations r and the next ages.
Sir Nicholas Bacon, el defl fan of the lord keeper, was poffef- fed of a very large eftate upon the death of his father. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth at Norwich, in her progrefs thi- ther, Aug. 22, 1578, and had afterwards the honour to be the firft perfon advanced to the dignity of a baronet, then inftituted by K. James I. in the 9th year of his reign. He married Anner fole daughter and heir of Edmund Butts, of Thornage in Nor- folk, Efq; (Brother to Sir William Butts, Knt.) by Anne his wife, daughter and coheir of Henry Buers, of Barrow in Suffolk, Efq; and by her had iffue nine fons and three daughters. The ions were, 1. Sir Edmund, his fucceffor; 2. Henry, who died; at Jerufalem, without iffue; 3. Sir Robert, of whom hereafter , 4. Bachevell Bacon, of Hockham in Norfolk, Efq; (who mar- ried Mary, daughter of Thomas French in Effex, and left two fons that died young, and three daughters who were coheirs to their brother, viz. Mary, married to Sir Robert Baldock, Knt. one of the judges to the common-pleas ; PhHippa, to Robert Keddington, Efq; and Anne, to Nich. Rook wood, Efq;) 5- Sir Butts Bacon, of Mildenhall in Suffolk, created Baronet July 29, 1627, (who married Dorothy, daughter of Sir Henry War- ner of Mildenhall, Knt. and relicl: of William, fecond fon of Sir Robert Jermyn, Knt.) anceftor to thofe late of Heringfleet* and to Sir Edmund Bacon, of Gillingham, Bart, (of whom we fhall frxak hereafter;) 6. Nicholas Bacon, of Gillingham in Norfolk, Efq; (who married firft, a daughter of Sir James Weftcn, baron of the exchequer, by whom he had only one daughter, married to Sir John Rous, of Henham in Suffolk^ Bart, and 2dly, Margaret, daughter of Euftace Darcy,. of Nor- wich, Efq; by whom he had Sir Nicholas Bacon, of Gilling- ham, Bart, fo created Feb. 7, 1661, which title expired with his fon Sir Richard without iffue.) 7. Sir Nathaniel Bacon, of Cuf- ford in Suffolk, Knight of the Bath, who married Jane, daugh- ter of Hercules Me;.utys, Efq; (widow of Sir William Corn- wallis, Knt.) by whomhe had iffue one fon Nicholas, who died
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without ifTue male, and two danghters, Anne, (married, firft, to Sir Thomas Meautys, Knt. fccondly, to Sir Harbottle Grim- fton, Bart.) and Jane, who died unmarried. Sir Nicholas had two other fons that died young. The three daughters of Sir Ni- cholas the firft Baronet, were, i. Anne, married to Sir Robert Drury, of Hawfted in Suffolk, Knt. 2. Dorothy, married, firft, to Sir Baflingbourn Gawdey, of Hading in Norfolk, Knt. and, fecondly, to Philip Colby, Efq; 3. Jemima, to Sir William Wal- degrave, of Smallbridge, Knt. SirNicholas, andhislady, lived fifty-two years together in wedlock, and dying within a fhort time one of another, (he anno 161 6, he not long after. They both lie buried in Redgrave church, under a moft magnificent al- tar tomb, with both their effigies curioufly carved in full propor- tion out of the fineft white marble.
The inquifition after the death of this Sir Nicholas, dated 7 Nov. 1 Car. I. fays, he died 13 Nov. 22 Jac. I. and Sir Edmund Bacon, Knt. and Baronet, found ion and heir of the faid Sir Nicholas and Anne his wife, and fifty years old*
Sir Edmund, the eldeft, fucceeded his Father in the title and eftate, and married Philippa, one of the daughters and coheirs of the right hon. Edward lord Wotton, Baron of Marley ; but dying without iflue, April 10, 1649, lies buried at Redgrave aforefaid, under a handfome mural monument.
He was fucceeded by Sir Robert, his next furviving brother, called before Robert Bacon, of Riborough in Norfolk, Efq; (an eftate now in the family) where he moflly refided. He married Anne, daughter of Sir John Peyton, of Ifelham in Cambridgfhire, Knight and Baronet, and had ilTue by her, nine fons and three daughters, viz. Edmund, Nathaniel, Henry, Francis, and Drury, who all died young ; Nicholas, who mar- ried Margaret, daughter and coheir of Hobart, of Thwayte
in Norfolk, Efq; but died without iflue. The other fons were, Robert, the eldeft, who married Catharine, daughter to Grave Violet, of Pynkney-houfe, near Tatterford in Norfolk, Efq; and dying in his Father's life-time, Aug. 25, 1652, was buried at Redgrave, leaving iflue one fon, Edmund, fuccefibr to his grand- father, and four daughters ; 1. Jemima, married to Thomas Gardiner, of EfTex, Efq; and after to Sir John Brattel, Knight, AiTay-mafter of the Tower of London ; 2. Philippa, married to Sir George Reeve, of Thwaite, Knight and Baronet ; 3. Frances, to Paul Bockenham, of Great-Thornam, Efq; 4. Anne, to Edmund Yaxlee, of Yaxlee, Efq; all in the county of Suffolk.
Butts Bacon, Efq; another fon of Sir Robert, married Dorothy, daughter and coheir of Sir John Tracey, of Stanhow in Norfolk, Knt. and was Father of Sir Robert, hereafter mentioned.
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Peyton Bacon, Efq; another fon, married Eliz. daughter of Charles Suckling, of Wotton in Norfolk, Efq. Sir Robert's, daughters were, I. Philippa, married to Hamond Claxton, of Levermore ; 2. Anne, to Thomas Hunt, of Sharington y and: 3. Alice, to Richard Gwyn, of Fakenham-Market, Efq.
Sir Edmund, only furviving fon of Robert, aforefaid, fuc- ceeding his grandfather in title and eftate, married Elizabeth* one of the daughters and coheirs of Sir Robert Crane, of Chilton in Suffolk, Knight and Baronet, by whom he had iffue fix fons and ten daughters; all of which, except four daughters, died unmarried before him. The fons were, 1. Robert; 2. Nicho- las ; 3. Edmond ; 4. Edmond ; 5. Philip ; 6. Francis. The daughters were ; 1. Sufan; 2. Elizabeth; 3. Catharine; 4. Jemima; 5. Jane; 6. Sarah, Thofe that married were, 1. Frances, to Walter Norborne, of Calne in the county of Wilts, Efq; (by whom he had iffue only two daughters, Elizabeth,, married to Edward Vifcount Hereford, and Sufan, to Sir Ralph Hare, Bart.) 2. Sufanna, to Charles Morris, of Loddington in Leicefterfhire, Efq; 3. Elizabeth, to William Ettrick, of the Middle-Temple, Efq; and, 4. Philippa, to Sir Edmund Gil- lingham, Bart. Sir Edmund Bacon, of Redgrave aforefaid,. died Sept, 12, 1685, aged fifty-two, and lies buried in the church belonging to that place.
After Sir Edmond's deceafe without iffue male, the title and part of the eftate defcended to,
Sir Robert Bacon, his couiin, fon and heir to Butts Bacon, Efq; who was before feated at Egmore in Norfolk ; and after the death of his coufin, Sir Edmund, was poffeffed of the eftate at Redgrave ; which defcending to him under fome incumbran- ces, he thought convenient to fell that eftate to the lord chief- juftice Holt, and afterwards purchafed at Garboldifham in Norfolk, where he built a handfome feat for the future refidence of his family. He died Jan. 31, 1704, and lies buried in the chancel of All-Saints church in Garboldifham.
He left iffue by Elizabeth his wife, daughter to Daniel Chand- ler, of London, Efq; two fons, Sir Edmund, his fucceffor, and Butts, who died unmarried, 1725-6, (Nathaniel and Robert* his two other fons, having died young before him) and two daughters, Abigail and Jane, who died unmarried.
Sir Edmund Bacon, of Garboldifham in Norfolk, reprefented the borough of Thetford in parliament the 9th of Queen Anne; and the county of Norfolk in three parliaments. He married, in November 17 12, Mary, daughter of Sir Robert Kemp, of Ubbefton in Suffolk, Bart, (and fole heir to her mother, Leti- tia, daughter to Robert King, of Great Thurlow in the county of Suffolk, Efq;) which Lady died Sept. 14, 1727, leaving only
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four daughters, Letitia, married to the prefentSir ArmineWode- houfe, Bart, but died March 30, 1759; Mary; Sarah, mar- ried to Pryfe Campbell, jun. and died May fcO, 1767; and Elizabeth, who died unmarried., May 1738. Sir Edmund died June 1755.
It now remains to trace the family account of Sir Butts Bacon, from the time of his being created a Baronet, which was on the 29th of July, 1,627,, down to the prefent Sir Richard,
Sir Butts Bacon married Dorothy, daughter of Sir Henry Warner, of Parham in Suffolk, Knt. widow of William, fecond fon of Sir Henry Jermyn, Knt. by whom h# had three fons ; Charles and Clement, who both died without iffue, and Sir Henry his fucceffor. He had ajfo two daughters j Anne, mar-? ried to Henry Kitchingman, of Bluntefdon Hall in Suffolk j and Dorothy, to William Peck* of Cove, in the fame county* Efqrs.
He was fucceeded by Sir Henry, his fon., who removed to Her- iMngfleet, in Suffolk, where his father had built a feat. He mar-* ried Barbara, daughter of William Gouch, of Mettingham in Suffolk, E,fq; and had iffue his fucceffor j and Anne, married to Sir Richard Bacon, of Gillingham in Norfolk, Bart, but died without iffue.
Sir Henry Bacon, fucceffor to the title and eftate% was of Her- ringfleet and Gillingham, and executor to his filler's hufband Sir Richard. He married Sarah, daughter of Sir John Caftleton, of Sturfton in Suffolk, Bart, by whom he had S*r Edmund, hi* fucceffor ; Henry and Nicholas, who died unmarried ; and Ri- chard, married to a daughter of Thomas Palgrave, of Norfolk, Efq;
Sir Edmund Bacon, Bart, the eldeft fon, married Philippa, daughter of Sir Edmund Bacon, of Redgrave in Suffolk, and died July io, 1721, leaving iffue, Sir Edmund, the fucceeding Baronet ; Henry, Richard, Devereux, made furveyor- general of his Majefty's dominions in North America, but died in his paf- fage thither, July 1 731, unmarried ; John, Ralph, and Eliza- beth, who died unmarried, Sept. 1738, and Philippa.
Sir Edmund Bacon, the eldeft fon, fucceeded his father in title and eftate. He reprcfented the borough of Thetford in Norfolk, the fixth, feventh, and eighth parliaments of Great Britain. He married Sufan, (now living) daughter of Sir Ifaac Rebow, of Colchefter in Effex, Knt. and died at Bath, Oct. 2, 1738. His iffue was Sir Edmund, his fucceffor, and a fecond fon, born No- vember, 1726, who died in his infancy; and Sufan, married, March 18, 1765, to Francis Schutz, Efq;
Sir Edmund, his fon and heir, fucceeded him ; and, on the death of Sir Edmund Bacon, of Garboldifham, before mention- ed,
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*d, fucceeded to that title likewife ; fo that this family enjoys the title of Baronet, not only by virtue of the patent granted in 1627, to Sir Butts Bacon, of Milden Hall aforefaid, fifch fori of Sir Nicholas Bacon, of Redgrave, Bart, but likewife by that of 161 1 : By which means the prefent Sir Richard ftands firft on the honourable lift of Baronets. The above Sir Edmund had a fon and a daughter, of which the fon died under age. Sir Ed- mund dying in 1750, was fucceeded by his eldtft brother,
Sir Henry, who dying unmarried, the title then defcended to
Sir Richard Bacon, of Colchefter, the prefent Baronet, who has had feveral fons, but all died under age. On the death of Sir Richard, the title will defcend to Caftle Bacon, Efq; (half brother of Sir Richard) of Revenino;ham in Norfolk^
Arms. Quarterly, Firft and fourth, Gules, on a Chief, Ar- gent, two Mullets, Sable, for Bacon. Second and third, Barry of Six, Or and Azure, over all a Bend, Gules, for Quaplod.
Crest. On a Wreath, Argent and Gules, a Boar paffan-t^ Ermine.
Motto. Medkcrla Fir ma.
Seat. Colchefter in Eliex.
2, Hoghton, of Hoghton Tower, Lancashire.
Created Baronet, May 22, i6n.
HIS family, anciently written de Hoclon, and Hoghton,, have been of great eminency in the county of Lancafter, in former ages, and were denominated, from their pofteflions, Hoghton Tower, a ftately and large {lone edifice, built upon an high, but very fteep hill, in the middle of a park in the hundred of Leyland. The firft mentioned, is Adam de Ho&on, who held one carucat of land in Hocton, temp. Hen. II. whofe great grandfon was Sir Adam de Hoghton, written Knight 50 Hen.^ III. He had two fons, Richard, ftiled Filius dom. Ada?, 2 Edw. I. and Adam de Hoghton, ftiled alfo in deeds, Filius dom. Adas, 20 Edw. I. and afterwards Frater magiftri Richardi. Which Richard was (heriff of the county of Lancafter, 29 Edw. I. an office in thofe days of great truft and authority. He had a fon Richard, who dying without iflue, the eftate came to his coufin and heir,, another Richard de Hoghton, fon of Adam de Hoghton. Which Richard was a Knight, and in 16 Edw. II. with Sir Gil- bert de Singilton, Knt. were returned knights of the {hire for the county of Lancafter, in the parliament held at York, and had their wages allowed for attendance, &c. In the fame year
ke
HOGHTON of Hognton Tower, i j
he and Edmund de Nevyle ferved as knights of the (Lire for the afore-mentioned county, as alfo in the I ith of that King's reign, and had their wages allowed. He died 14 Edw. IIL having not a little increafed the eftate, by means of his wife Sibyll,{ daughter and heir to Henry de Lea, who had great pofTcflions. Though thefe Lea's fometimcs fealed with fiveMalcles in Bend fox arms, and differed in the writing their names ; yet were they nevertheless a cadet of the firft. dinafty of the Lancafters, pri- mitively barons of Kendal, in Weftmoreland, and lineal de- fendants from Ivo Taibois earl of Anjou in France, and baron? of Kendal, temp. W. Conq.
The faid Richard, by his wife Sibyll, aforementioned, had ifliie Adam de "Hoghton, and a daughter named Sibyll, the wife of William, fon of Richard de Bold.
Adam, laft mentioned, is ftiled a knight in deeds, 22 Edw. IIL in which year he and John Cockaine ferved in parliament, as knights of the (hire for the county of Lancafter, and had for their expences, 15/. 45. for thirty days. In the 37th of that kmg'fi reign he ferved again as knight for that Ihire j as alfo in the 39th ; and had, with the other knight, 17 /. 4 s. for forty- three days attendance. He died 10 Rich. II. leaving ifTue, by- Ellen his wife, who furvived her hufdand, two fons, Richard and Henry, and as many daughters. A»;nes, the eldeft, was wife to Sir Thomas, fon of Sir Adam Banalter, Knt. and Sibyll, to William^ brother of that Sir Thomas. Sir Henry de Hoghton the youngeft fon, was one of the Knights of the Shire for the county of Lancafter, 9 Henry IV. and was progenitor to thofe of the name of Pendleton, in that county, which, in after times, w*ent oft in two heirs females : Catharine, married to a younger ion of Hoghton of Hoghton, as is hereafter mentioned ; and Mary, firtt married to George Singleton of Stayning, and fe- condly to Livefey Coner.
Richard de Hoghton, elder brother to the laft Henry, was re- turned with Robert de Clifton, as Knights of the Shire for Xancafter, 6 Richard II. as alfo 4 Henry IV. with Sir Nicho- las de Haverington, Knt. In which year the Sheriffs were di- rected to levy 27/. for their coming, attendance, and return- ing, computing fixty-ninc days. He was a Knight, founded 2 chantry in the church of Riblechefter, 7 Henry IV. and died ip Henry V. leaving a daughter, Catharine, married to Hugh Venablcs, baron of Kinderton, and his grandfon Richard, fori of Adam de Hoghton, heir to the eftate. He had alfo another fon, Edward, who is fuppofed to be the anceftor to the Hoo;h- tons in Sufiex, who are faid to be derived from Edward, a third (on of this family. *
Richard,
»4 HOGHTONdf Hoghton Tower.
Richard, grandfon and heir of Sir Richard, died 19 Edward IV. He had five fons, Lawrence, Alexander, William, Tho- mas, who married Anne, daughter of Oliver Culcheth, and Edward ; the two laft died without iflue j Lawrence fucceeded in the eftate, and dying the fame year,
Alexander, his brother, and next heir, is found to be pofiefled of the inheritance, and was aged twenty-fix years, 19 Edward IV. when the office was taken. In the 22d of that King's reign, having valiantly behaved himfelf under the Duke of Gloucefter, in Scotland, he was made Knight Banneret, with feveral others of great note, on St. James's eve* He died 15 Henry VII. leaving a fole daughter and heir, aged eleven years at the time of the inquifition ; and 17 Hen. VII. her mother Elizabeth, daughter of William Troutbeck, had afiignation of dower. The greateft part of the eftate defcended to his next brother and heir,
William Hoghton, Efq; third fon of Richard; which Wil- liam was in the expedition into Scotland, under the Duke of Gloucefter, and received from him the honour of knighthood, at the fame time his brother, Sir Alexander, was made a Ban- neret. He died 17 Hen.VIL leaving iiTue by Mary his wife, daughter of Sir John Southworth of Samlefbury, Knt. Richard his fon and heir, aged thirty years.
This Richard was afterwards knighted, and ferved with Tho- mas Butler as Knights of the Shire for the county of Lancafter» 1 Edward VI. He married four wives, firft Alice, daughter and co-heir of Sir Thomas Afsheton, of Afsheton Under-Line, in Lancafhire, Knt. and coufin and heir of Sir James Harring- ton of Wolphage in Northamptonfhire, Knt. by whom he left ifTue Thomas, his fon and heir, aged forty years at the death of his father, 1 Eliz. Alexander, and Ifabella, married to Hol- den of Duxbury.
His fecond wife was Alice, daughter of Morley, by whom he had Thomas, Rowland, and Richard ; Agnes, wife of Richard Butler of RawclifFe, Alice, and Anne.
His third wife was Elizabeth, daughter of John Grigfon ; and the fourth, Anne, daughter of Roger Browne of Whitney* By the two laft he left no ilTue.
Thomas, the eldeft fon and heir, married Catharine, daughter of Sir Thomas Gerard of Bryne, in Lancafhire, Knt. and died 22 Elizabeth, leaving Jane his daughter, and heir, twenty-fix years old at his death, and at that time wife to James, fon and heir of Robert Bradihaigh of Haigh, in Lancafhire, Efq; who had a great conteft about the eftate, which was at length de- cided for Alexander, fecond brother, and next heir male to
Thomas, father of Jane aforementioned.
Which
HOGHTON of Hoghton Tower. 1 5
Which Alexander Hoghton Efq; married twice, firft to Do- rothy, only daughter of Richard Alsheton of Middleton, in Lan- cafhire, Efq; by Catharine his fecond wife, daughter of Sir Ro- bert Bellingham, Knt. and afterwards to Elizabeth, fifter of Tho- mas and Bartholomew Hefketh, Efqs. and widow of George Warburton, Efq; but he left no ifl'ue by either of them ; where- upon the eftare defcended to Thomas his half brother, viz. eldeft fon to Sir Richard Hoghton lad mentioned, by his fecond wife. Alice, daughter of Morley.
Which Thomas, was fheriffof Lancafhire, 6 Eliz. and was killed in the 49th year of his age, at Lea-Hall, by Lang- ton of Newton, commonly called Baron of Walton and Newton, 21 Nov. 32 Elizabeth, 1589. His wife Anne, daughter of Henry Kighley, of Kighley, in Lancafhire, Efq; (fon and heir of Sir Henry Kightley alias Kighley, Knt.) became afterwards fe- cond wife to Sir Richard Sherburn of Stonyhurft, Knt. She died at Lea, 30 Oct. A. D. 1609, aged Go years ; having iflue by her firft hufband, 1. Sir Richard, Knt. and Bait. 2. William of Grimfargh, who died A. D. 1642, and left pofterity, which late- ly became extinct, and the eftate devolved to the head branch of the family. 3. Thomas, who married Catharine, one of the daughters and co-heirs of John Hoghton of Pendleton, Efq; and left four daughters his co-heirs. 4. Adam of Lea-Moor, who left pofterity. And, 5. Henry, who married Anne, daughter of Lawrence Townley, Efq; alfo two daughters, Mary, fecond wife to Thomas Walmfley of Dunkenhalgh, in Lancafhire, Efq; and Catharine, wife of Thomas Middleton of Leighton, Efq;
Sir Richard Hoghton of Hoghton, eldeft fon of Thomas, wa* under age at his father's death, and in ward to Sir Gilbert Gerard : Hefucceeded to a very great eftate, was knighted by Queen Eliza- beth, and fheriffof Lancafhire the forty-firft year of her reign, and made a Baronet with the firft advanced to that dignity. He ferved in feveral parliaments as Knight of the Shire for the county of Lancafter, and died 12 Nov. A. D. 1630, aged fixty years, fix weeks, and two days. He married Catharine, daughter of Sir Gil- bert Gerard, of Gerard's Bromley, in Staffordfhire, Knt. mafter of the Rolls, who died 17 Nov. 1617, aged forty-eight years and fix months : He had by her five fans and eight daughters ; 1. Gilbert. 2. Thomas. 3. Richard. 4. Ratcliff. And 5. Roger, ftain in Germany. The laft three left no iiTue. Of the daughters, Anne, married firft Sir John Cotton of Landwade, in Cambridgfhire, Knt. and afterwards Sir John Caileton of Brightwell, in Oxford- shire, Knt. and Bart. Catharine, was wife to James Stewart, Lord Galloway; Elizabeth, to Nicholas Girling, Efq; Gili- bert, was married to Sir George Mufcamp of the county of
North una-
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Northumberland, Knt. Frances, Alice, Margaret, and Eleanor, all died unmarried.
Sir Gilbert, his fucceflbr, was thirty-nine years old at the death of his father, and was knighted at Whitehall, July the2ift, 1606. Sir Gilbert ferved feveral years in parliament as Knight of the Shire for the county of Lancafter, and died in April, 1647, having married Margaret, the eldeft of the four daughters and co- heirs of Sir Roger Afton, of Cranford in Middlefex, Knt. gen- tleman of the bed-chamber, and mafter of the great wardrobe to King James I. to which Sir Roger, the faid King, in the 9th year of his reign, granted to his coat-armour, an augmentation out of the two national badges of England and Scotland, viz. the Rofe of England, and the Thiftle of Scotland impaled, in a Canton, Or, in regard of the marriage of the faid Sir Roger, with Mary, daughter of Andrew Stewart, who died in the life- time of his father Andrew Stewart, Lord Avingdale, in Scotland, defcended from the blood royal : Sir Gilbert's defendants there- fore bear the fame in right of his lady, who died Dec. 23, 1657, and bore him fix fons and four daughters. 1. George, the eldeft fon, died young. 2. Richard, fucceeded to the title and eftate. 3. Roger, who was (lain by a cannon-bullet at HefTam-moor, A. D. 1643. 4. Gilbert, major in the regiment of Sir Gilbert Gerard, Knt. governor of Worcefter; married to Lettice, daugh- ter and co-heir of Sir Francis Gamull of Chefter, Knt. died anno 1661. 5. Thomas, died young. And, 6. Henry, captain of under the Earl of Derby, who took to wife Mary, daughter of Peter Egerton of Shaw, in Lancafhire, Efq; and relict of Sir Tho. Stanley of BickerftafF, in Lancafhire, Bart. Of the daughters, Catharine married Thomas Prefton of Holker, in Lancafhire, Efq; Mary, Sir Hugh Calverly of Lee, in Chefhire, Knt. Mar- garet, Alexander Rigby of Middleton, in Lancafhire, Efq; and Anne died young.
Sir Richard Hoghton, Bart, who fucceeded his father in the title and eftate, was elected Knight of the Shire for the county of Lancafter, in the reign of King Charles II. and died Feb. 1677-8, univerfally regretted, as well on account of his many eminent virtues, as his diftinguifhed abilities. He married lady Sarah, daughter to the right hon. Philip Stanhope, earl of Chefterfield, and had ifTue feveral fons and daughters ; of the fons, thofe who arrived to maturity were Sir Charles his fucceflbr, and Benjamin, who died unmarried.
Sir Charles, who fucceeded to the title and eftate, married Ma- ry, eldeft daughter of John SkefHngton, lord vifcount Maffareene, in the kingdom of Ireland, by whom he had ifTue five fons and fix daughters. Of the fons, John the eldeft died at the age of twenty- one. Sir Henry fucceeded to the title and eftate. Philip, who died in
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Baronet, and Mary and Anne, both unmarried ; Skefrmgton, who died Feb. 8, 1768, aged eighty, unmarried ; and James, who died young. Of the daughters, Mary, the eldeft, died at Chefter, in 1 7 10 ; Cordelia, widow of Robert Davie, of York, Efq; died on the very fame evening as her brother Skefnngton, having had two daughters, both dead ; Anna, widow of Samuel Crooke, of Cop- pul, Efq; died in 176c, and has left one fon ; Margaret, married Samuel Watfon, of Hull, Efq; (by whom file has one fon and one daughter ;) Elizabeth, married Thomas Fenton, of Houn- flett, near Leeds, Efq; (and has left eight fons and two daugh- ters ;) Lucy> married Thomas Lutwidge, of Whitehaven, Efq; (and has feven fons and one daughter.)
Sir Charles Hoghton, Bart, was three times elected Knight of the Shire for the county of Lancafter, in the reigns of K. Charles II, K. James II, and K. William III. He died at Hoghton- Tower, 10 June, 1 7 10, and was buried at Walton, among his an- ceftors. He was fucceeded in honour and eftate by his fecond fon,
Sir Henry Hoghton, who married three wives, fifft, (in Oct. 1 7 10,) Mary, eldeft daughter of Sir William Boughton, of Law- ford, in Warwickfhire, Bart, who died at Dover, 1720. After her deceafe, he married Lady Ruftel, relict of Lord James RufTel, fifth fon of William, the late Duke of Bedford ; (he died, Sept. 1736 ; by neither of whom he had any ifTue ; and after her death was married toSufanna, eldeft daughter of Thomas Butterworth, of Manchefter, Efq; but had no iflue. He ferved in Parliament for the borough of Prefton, in Lancaftiire, in 9 Q. Anne ; and alfo again for the fame corporation in 1 Geo. I. and 8 Geo. I. he ferved in Parliament for Eaftlow in Cornwall ; and was after- wards twice elected for Prefton ; and for his fignal fervices in oppofing the rebellion at Prefton, in the year 1715, was chofen in Parliament one of the Commiilioners for the forfeited eftates ; and, after that commiffion determined, his late Majefty appointed him, by patent, Advocate-general or Judge- martial of his land forces. In the year 1740 lie refigned his feat in Parliament, after having reprefented the borough of Prefton near thirty years. From that time he refided at Walton-Kail, and continued to ferve his country, as a Magistrate, with vigilance and activity, almoft to the laft period of a long life, which ended on the 23d of Feb. 1768, being then eighty-nine years of age. Leaving no iiTue, he was fucceeded by
His nephew, Sir Henry Hoghton, the prefent Baronet, who, in the year 1760, married Elizabeth, only daughter and heirefs of Wiillam Afnhurft, of Hedingharn Caftle, in the county of Efiex, Efq. This Lady died, the following year, in childbed, leaving only a daughter, Elizabeth. By this marriage, upon the death of Thomas Afhhurft, Efq; Sir Hear) Hoghton became poiTeft'-d of
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1 3 BOOTH, of Dunham Maffey.
the beautiful feat and eftate of Hedingham Caftle. In the year 1766, Sir Henry married Fanny, one of the daughters of Daniel Booth, of Hutton Hall, in Effex, Efq; by whom he has one fon, Henry-Philip, born June 12,1768. At the laft general election Sir Henry was chofen one of the Members for the borough of Prefton.
Arms. Sable, three Bars, Argent; with the Augmentation of theRofe of England and the Thiftle of Scotland, impaled, in a Canton, Or.
Crest. On a Wreath, a Bull pafTant, Argent. They bore an- ciently, a Bull's Head, Argent, collared with three Bars, Sable.
Supporters. Over the Gates of Hoghton Tower, put up the beginning of the reign of Q^ Elizabeth, Two Bulls, Argent.
Motto. Malgre le Tort,
Seats*. Hoghton Tower, in Lancafhire ; and Caftle Heding- ham, EiTex.
3. Booth, of Dunham Maffey, Chefhire.
Created Baronet, May 22, 161 1.
TH E family of Booth it undoubtedly of great antiquity in the Counties Palatine of Lancafter and Chefter, where their conftant refidence has been with great repute and honourable note, through a fucceffion of many generations ; and from whom, as from one common or principal ftock, all other families of this name, in other parts of the nation, are eiteemed to be, by younger branches, defcended. Various are the traditions touch- ing the original ftem of this family, which, like moil others of long ftanding, is fo ingulfed in the obfcurity of all-devouring time, that no other light than conjecture is now to be had thereof. The moll probable is, that their beginning was at a certain place called the Booths, in the County Palatine of Lan- cafter, where being feated, they were thence fo furnamed, as the manner of thofe ages was, to flile men from the places where they lived.
And here, before I proceed, it may be proper to note the dif- ferent manner in which the name of Booth has, in various ages, been wrote, viz. Booth, (as at this time,) Bothe, Both, Bouth, Bouthe, Boothe, as appears by many ancient deeds and evi- dences belonging t® the family, (fome in the pofleffion of the Right honourable the Countefs Dowager of Stamford, and others in the pofTefiion of George Booth Tyndale, Efq;) and is common in many families of great antiquity.
The firft of this name I meet with, is William, fon of Adam ^e Booths, in the County Palatine of Lancafter, living 1275,
3 Edw.
BOOTH, of Dunham Maffey. (19)
3 Edw. I. He married Sibil, daughter of Sir Ralph de Brere- ton, in the County Palatine of Chefter, Knt. The Breretons were a very ancient family, feated at Brereton, in the aforefaid county, and continued there in a long fucceflion of heirs males, until the fame became extinct by the death of Francis, Lord Brereton, of the kingdom of Ireland, without iflue, in the year 1721.
To this William fucceeded Thomas de Booths, his Ton and heir, who had iflue John de Booths, living in the reign of Ed- ward IJ. (This was Robert, as appears by a copy of an old deed belonging to Barton, entered in a book which George Booth, of Woodford, in Chefhire, had lent him, bv Richard Leigh, of High Leigh, in Chefhire, Efq; May, 1688.) He married Agnes, or Anne, daughter and heir of Sir Gilbert de Barton, near Eccles, in Lancafhire, Knt. Here again, feems to be another miftake ; he married not Agnes, or Anne, but her daughter and heir, called Loretta, (if either,) who was of age, and unmarried, 20 Edw. I. as appears by a copy of a deed in the fame book ; for it was not likely that if he had married Agnes, and me had no iflue male, the eftate would have continued in the name of the Booths. After all, I rather think that Thomas Booth, called Tomalin of the Booths, was the firft of Barton, and by purchafe, as appears by copies of many deeds in that book, the lands bought of John, fon of Gilbert de Barton, 27 Edw. III. and other deeds by his brothers and lifters, all releafmg the firft Gilbert de Barton, whofe daughter and heir was Agnes, who lived 35 Hen. III. and Edw. L
This John (or Robert) de Booths, had iflue Sir Thomas Booth, of Barton, Knt. called Tomalin of the Booth?, living in the reign of Edw. III. This Seal was given by Thomas Booth, of Barton, in Lancafhire, 43 Edw. III. viz. a Chevron engrailed, in a Canton, a Mullet ; and for a Creft, a Fox, and a Catharine- wheel ; and this Label round it, Sigillum Thomtc Bctbe, per antiquam cartam penes Dominum Delamcr^ i6-3o. He married Ellen, daughter of Thomas or Robert de Workefley (now vyrote Worfley,) near Booths, in Lancafhire, (from whom the Worf- leys, of Pilewell, Hants, are defcended,) and had iilue three fons, and four daughters ;
1. John, his fon and heir, of whom hereafter.
2. Henry, who had iflue John. To this Henry his father gave all his lands in Irwell, by the above mentioned deed.
3. Thomas, who had iflue Robert.
The daughters were; I.Alice, married, firft, to William Leigh, of Baguleigh, in Chefhire ; and, fecondly, to Thomas
Duncalf, of Foxwift, in , Efq; 2. Catharine; 3. Margaret;
and, 4. Anne, married to Sir Edward Weever, of Weever, Knt.
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(2o) BOOTH, of Dunham Ma%.
The faid John (Ton and heir of Sir Thomas, or Toma- lin,) called John Booth, of Barton, lived in the reigns of Ri- chard II. and Henry IV. It is faid by Sir Peter Leicefter, in his Antiquities of Chefhire, p. 244. that this John was the firft who gave the Boars Heads for his Arms, which was the Coat of the Lords of Barton, being granted to him and his heirs for ever, by Thomas Barton, of Barton, in Lancafhire, by deed, dated 5 Hen. IV, 1404. But this is conceived to be a miftake ; for this John Booth, being the grandfon and heir of Agnes, or Anne, who was daughter and heir to Sir Gilbert de Barton, and who inherited all the Lordfhip of Barton, as appears by the fame be- ing at this day poffeffed by the heirs general defcended from this Agnes, it is to be prefumed that the family of Barton, of Bar- ton, became extinct in her, and feems not at all probable, that there could be any Barton, of Barton, cotemporary with this John Booth, to make fuch a grant ; neither was there occafion for any fuch grant, the defcendants of The faid Agnes being en- titled, by the Laws of Heraldry, to bear her Coat of Arms, or to quarter it with their Paternal Coat, if any fuch they had prior to their anceftors marrying her ; nor, if fuch grant were, is it probable, that the fame fhould have been deferred till the grand- fon of Agnes, and not rather to have been made to Thomas her fon, and immediate fucceffor. And the family of Booth have anciently, as to this day, quartered next to their Paternal Coat, another, viz. Argent, a Fefs, Gules, by the name of Barton. It is therefore much more probable, that the three Boars Heads, as now borne by them, was always their Paternal Coat.
This John Booth, of Barton, married, firft, Joan, daughter of Sir Henry Trafford, of Trafford, in Lancafhire, Knt. (a fa- mily of the greateft antiquity, having been feated there before the time when William the Conqueror entered England, and have continued there in a lineal defcent to this prefent time,) by whom he had iiTue feven fons, and five daughters ; 1. Sir Thomas j 2. Sir Robert ; (of thefe two more hereafter ;) 3. Wil- liam, who was firft bred in Grey's Inn, London, in the ftudy of the Common Law, till, upon an offer of a Chancellor's place, in St. Paul's, he took Orders, was afterwards confecrated Bifhop of Lichfield and Coventry, and fix years afterwards tranflated to the ArchbifhoDrick of York. He had feveral other valuable Preferments in the Church ; he died Sept. 12, 1464, and was buried in St. John Baptift's chapel at Southwell, purfuant to his own directions. 4. Richard, who fettled at Strickland, (or Shrubland-hall,) near Ipfwich, in Suffolk, and was buried at Sallow, or Sawley, in Derbyfhire, where there is a memorial of him, and Phelippe his wife, daughter of Thomas Pey, Efq; 5. Roger, who died Auguft 18, 1467, and was buried at
Sallow,
BOOTH, of Dunham Mafley. (21)
Sallow, or Sawley, aforefaid. His wife was Catharine, daughter and heir of Ralph Hatton, of Mollington, near Chefter, Efq; She died in 1466, and was buried with her hufband, leaving iiTue, firft, Robert Booth, of Sallow, or Sawley, aforefaid, who died Feb. 22, 1478, and was buried there; (by Margaretta,
daughter of , who furvived him, he had feveral children ;
Charles, John, Roger, Catharine, Ifabel, Dowfe, Jane, Agnes, and Eme. Charles, the eldeft fon, was Billiop of Hereford, and had many other valuable preferments in the church ; he died May 5, 1535, and was buried in Hereford cathedral. John, the fecond fon, had iffue another John, who was collated, Jan. 29, 1522, to the Archdeaconry of Hereford ; he was alfo a Pre- bendary in that cathedral, and died in 1542 3) and a fon Tho- mas, who was collated Prebendary of Hereford, in Warham di- vifion, Sept. 1533. The other children of Roger Booth, by Catharine his wife, were John, who fucceeded, XD6\. 28, 1495, to the Prebend of Rical, in York cathedral, on the reflgnation of Tanfield ; he was Prebendary of Southwell, and Treafurer of Lichfield ; he was alio Archdeacon of Durham, proved by a deed of 14 March, 15 Edw. IV. in the pofTeftion of George Booth Tyndale : He died in July, 1496, and was buried at Sal- low, or Sawley, aforefaid. Ralph, who was admitted Arch- deacon of York, Feb. 24, 1477 > (ne was Mafter of the Hofpi- tal of St. Giles de Kepier, proved by the fame deed.) And alfo one daughter, Ifabel, married to Ralph Nevil, third Earl of Weftmorland, and buried at Branfpath. The fixth fon of John Booth, of Barton, was John, who was Prebendary of Norton Epifcopi, in Lincoln cathedral ; he is faid by fome to have been Bifhop of Exeter ; but that is a miftake, as appears by Weever, in his Funeral Monuments, 4445, and by Sir P. Leicefter, 244. 7. Ralph. The daughters of the aforefaid John Bothe, of Bar- ton, were, firft, Margery, who married Sir John Byron, of Clayton, in Lancafhire, Knt. 2. Joan, married firft to Tho- mas Sherborne, of Stanhurft, in Lancafhire, Efq; fecondly, to Sir Thomas Sudworth, or Southworth, Knt. 3. Catharine, married to Thomas Ratcliffe, of Wimmorley, in Chefhire, Efq; 4. Alice, married to Sir Robert Clifton, of Clifton, in Not- tinghamfhire, Knt. {lie died Sept. 9, 1470, and was buried at Clifton. 5. Lucy, married to Sir Edward Weever, Knt. if this be not miftaken for Anne, her father's fifter, afore- mentioned. The fecond wife of John Bothe, of Barton, aforefaid, was Maud, daughter of Sir John Savage, of Clifton, in Cheihire, Knt. by whom he had one fon, Laurence, who was firft M after of Pem- broke Hall, Cambridge, and was Chancellor of that Univerfity; he was Dean of St. Paul's, Bifhop of Durham, ar.d ^rterwards Archbiftiop of York; he was Keeper of the Privy leal' in 35
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(22) BOOTH, of Dunham Maffey.
Hen. VII. was alfo firft Chancellor to Margaret, Queen to Hen, VI ; and anno 13 Edw. IV, Sept. 20, Lord High Chancellor of England. He founded a Chantry for two Priefts in the church of Southwell, and bought the manor of Batterfea, near London, which he annexed to the Archbifhoprick of York ; he had feve- ral other valuable preferments in the church ; he died at South- well, May 19, 1480, and was buried in St. John Bapfift's cha- pel there, (near his half brother, William,) where his tomb is yet to be feen, being a plain altar monument, which had his effigies engraven on a piece of brafs, and an infcription under its long fince defaced.
We now return to Thomas Bothe, eldeft fon of John Bothe, of Barton, who was knighted 14 Hen. VI. He married a daugh- ter of Sir George Carrington, Knt. and relict of— Weever,
by whom he had iflue four fons ; 1. Thomas, who married3 I Hen. VL Anne, daughter of Sir John Afhton, of Afhton un- der Line, in Lancafhire, Knight of the Bath, the 7th Hen. VI. by whom he had iiTue Robert Bothe, of Barton, who married a daughter of bir John Savage, Knt. 32 Hen. VI. and had iiTue ; but all failed about the time of Hen. VII; fo Barton came to Sir John Bothe, the feeond fon of Thomas Bothe, as by Barton evidences ; which Sir John Bothe was flain at Floden Field, Sept. 9, 1533, 5 Hen. VIII. He married Ellen, or Hebrefe3 daughter of Sir Nicholas Byron, of Newfled, in Nottingham- fhire, Knight of the Bath, and had iflue one fon, John, who married, temp. Hen. VII, Anne, daughter of Richard Afhton, of Middleton, in Lancafhire, Efq; Their fon John married Anne, daughter of Sir Richard Brereton, Knt. 32 Hen. V1IL They had iflue one fon, John, who died without leaving any male iflue, whereby his three daughters became his coheirs ; I. Margaret, married to Edmund Trafford, of Trafford, in Lan- cafhire, Knt. by whom he had iflue three fons and one daugh- ter ; 2. Anne, married to George Leigh, of High Leigh, in Chefhire, Efq; and had iflue one fon, George; 3. Dorothy, married to John Molyneux, Efq; feeond fon of Sir Richard Molyneux, of Sefton, in Lancafhire, Knt. by whom me had a daughter. An Alice Bothe, daughter of Sir John Bothe, of Barton, Knt. married, temp. Hen. VIII, Alexander Ratcliffe,
of Odfall, in , Efq; The other two fons of Thomas
Bothe, eldefl fon of John Bothe, of Barton, were Henry and Nicholas."
The male line of the Bothes5 of Barton, expiring, the line of Robert Both?, feeond fon of the afore-named John Bothe, of Barton, became the head branch of the family, and has fo con- tinued in lineal defcent, to the Rev. Sir George Booth, the pre- fect Baronet. v '
■ Which
BOOTH, of Dunham Mafley. (23)
Which Robert Bothe was the firft of the family who fettled at Dunham Maffey, in Chefhire, and died Sept. 16, 1450, and lies buried in the chancel of the parifh church of Wilmeflow, in Chefhire. He married Dulcis, or Dowfe, daughter and co- heir of Sir William VenabJLes, of Bollen, near Wilmeflow, a-
forefaid, Knt. which Sir William was the fon of Vena-
bles, by Joan, his wife, daughter and heir of Hamond Fitton, who was grandfon of John Fitton, of Bollen, by Cicelie, his wife, eldeft daughter and coheir of Sir Hamon de Maflle, the fixth and laft Baron of Dunham Maflie, in the parifh of Bow- don, in the County Palatine of Chefler, being one of the eight Barons inftituted by Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chefler, to whom William, called the Conqueror, in the fourth year of his reign, granted the whole county and Earldom of Chefler, The fa- mily of Maffie had been fettled at Dunham Maffie before the en- trance of that Prince into England, and appears by the famous Survey, called Doomfday book, to have been then pofTefled of a vaft eftate, as in other parts of Chefhire, fo of the greatefr. part of the parifh of Bowdon, which is of large extent.
This Sir Robert Boihe, and William his fon, had a grant of the ofHce of Sheriff of Chefhire for both their lives, and to the furvivor of them, by patent, bearing date at Chefter, Mar. 8, 21 Hen. VI. with all fees belonging to the faid office, and to occupy it by themfelves, or deputies. Dulcis, or Dowfe, his wife, died Sept. 23, 1453, an(* ^es huried with her huf- band. They had likewiie a numerous iffue, viz. nine fons, and five daughters; 1. Sir William, of whom hereafter;
2. Ralph, who married Margaret, daughter and heir of Tho- mas Sibeil, of Sandwich, in Kent, by whom he had i/Iue three daughters, his coheirs ; (Jane, married to Robert Lei- cester, of Toft, in Chefhire, Efq; 2. Margaret, married to William Mere, of Mere, in Chefhire, Efq; 34 Hen. VI, and,
3. Dowfe, married to Comer, or Gomer, of London :)
3. Geffrey; 4. Hamond, LL. D. 5. John, LL. D. Warden of Manchefter college, was confecrated Biihop of Exeter, 22 Feb. 6 Edw. IV, 1466; he died 1 April, 1478, and was bu- ried in St. Clements Danes church, London ; he had, before he was confecrated Biihop, feveral other valuable preferments in the church ; 6. Robert, Dean of York, died Jan. 25, 1487, buried in that cathedral ; 7. Edmund, Archdeacon of Stow, in the diocefe of Lincoln ; (Br, Willis, vol. ii. p. 128.) S.Pe- ter ; 9. Philip, who married the daughter of Sir William Hampton, of Willington, Knt. and had iffue one fon, An- drew, who married the daughter and heir of William Litton, Efq; The daughters were; 1. Lucy, married to William (Sir Peter Leicefter has it John) Chnuntrell, of the Batch, near
[C 4] Chefter,
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Chefter, Efq; 2. Ellen, married to Robert Leigh, of Adling* ton, in Chefhire, Efq; 3. Alice, married to Robert Heiketh, of RufFord, in Lancashire, Efq; from whom the prefent Sir Thomas Hefketh, Bart, is defcended ; 4. Joan, married, 31 Hen. VI. to Hamond Maffie, of Rixton, in Lancaihire, Eiq; and, 5. Margaret, or Margery, married to James Scarebrick, Efq;
Sir William Bothe, of Dunham Maffey, Knr. the elded fon of Sir Robert, married Maud, daughter of John Dutton, of Dutton, in Cheihire, Efq; 2 Hen. VI, 1442. By this Lady, (who furviving Sir William, married, fecondly, Sir William Brercton, Knt.) he had iffue five fons, and nine daughters j I. George, of whom hereafter; 2. Richard; 3. Laurence, but a pedigree at Dunham Maifey calls him Ralph ; 4. John j and, 5. William. The daughters were ; 1. Dowfe, who mar^ ried (1 Edw. IV, 1461) Thomas Leigh, of the Wefthall, at High Leigh, in Cheihire, Efq; whofe defcendants are itill liv^- ing there ; 2. Anne, married to John Leigh, of Booths, in Cheihire, Efq; whofe defcendants in the male line conti- nued there till very lately ; ihe married, fecondly, Jeffery Sha-r kerly, of Shakerly, in Lancafhire, Efq; 3. Ellen, married to Sir John Leigh, of Baguleigh, in Cheihire, Knt. (6 Edw. IV, 1466,) whofe iiiue male continued there till very lately; 4. Margery, married to John Hyde, of Haighcon, in Lanca- fhire, Efq; «;, Alice, married to John Afhley, of Afhley, in Cheihire, Efq; 6. Elizabeth, married to Thomas Fitton, of Pownall, in Cheihire, Efq; 7. Joan, married to William Holt, in Lancafhire, Efq; 8. Ifabeila ; and, 9. Catharine.
To this Sir William Bothe, K. Henry the fixth, in conside- ration of his good fervices, granted an annuity of ten pounds, to be received yearly during his life, at the Exchequer, at Chefter, by patent, bearing date 27 Mar. 24 Hen. VI. This Sir William Bothe built or enlarged the chapel on the fouth fide of the chancel of the parifh church of Bowdon, in Che- ihire, which has ever fince been the burial place of this family. (Collins and Jacob, in their Peerages, fay he died 16 Edw. IV, 1476 ; Weever dates the period of that event, April 6, 1478 j but it is no wonder, that authors ihould differ in fo remote a date.)
George Bothe, Efq; eldeft fon and heir of the faid Sir Wil- liam, married Catharine, daughter and heir of Robert Mount- fort, of Befcote, in the county of Stafford, and of Monks- path, in the couity of Warwick, Efq; defcended from Char- lemaine, Emperor of the Romans, and from David, King of Scots ; and by his great-grandmother heir to the ancient and great family of Clinton, of Colefhill, in the faid county of
Warwick,
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Warwick. This Catharine brought to her hufband an ample eftate of manors and lands in the feveral counties of Salop, Stafford, Warwick, Leicefter, Hereford, Wilts, Somerfet, Devon, ?.:;d Cornwall, He had iflue by her three fons, and two daughters ; the fons were, I. Sir William, of whom here- after ; 2. Laurence, who had a fon named Charles ; he was of Alrringham, near Twamlow, in Chefhire, (the ancient feat of the Booths, fays England's Gazetteer, edit. 1751 ;) and, 3. Roger. The daughters were ; 1. Alice, or Anne, married to William Maine, of Denfleld, in Chefhire, Efq; a family ftill in being; 2. Ellen, married to Thomas Vaudrey, Efq; and afterwards to — Trafford, of Bridge TrafFord, in Che- fhire, Efq; This George Bothe died 1 Rich, III, 1483, and was fucceeded by his eldeft fon and heir,
Sir William Bothe, of Dunham MafTey, Knt. who married two wives; full, Margaret, daughter and coheir of Sir Tho- mas Afhton, of Afhton under Line, in Lancafhire, Knt. and of his wife Anne, daughter of Ralph, Lord Greyftock and Wemm, by whom a large inheritance in Lancafhire and Che- fhire came to the family of Bothe, and is now enjoyed by the Countefs Dowager of Stamford. By her he had iilue George, his fon and heir, of whom hereafter ; and John, who married Margery, daughter of Sir Piers Dutton, of Dutton, in Che- fhire, Knt. temp.. Hen. VIII, and had iiTue William, and Ro- bert, who was Steward to the Earl of Shrewfhury.
This Margaret, wife of Sir William Bothe, dying before 1504, 19 Hen. VII, Sir William m^iried, fecondly, Ellen, daughter and coheir of Sir John Montgomery, of Kewley, in S t afford fh ire, Knt. and by her had iflue five fons and three daughters ; the fons were, 1. William, who married a daugh- ter of Smith, of Lancafhire, Efq; 2. Hamnet, who mar- ried a daughter of Humphry Newton, Efq; 3. Edward, who married Mary, daughter and coheir of Roger Kiuitsford, of Twamlo/, in Cheshire, Efq; from wiiom the Booths now of that place are defcended ; 4. Henry, who married a daughter
of Bowdon, of Bowdon, in Chefhire, Efq; an ancient
family, but now extinct ; 5. Andrew. The daughters were, I. Jane, married to Hugh, fon and heir of Sir Piers Dutton, of Di tton and Hatton, in Chefhire, Knt. 12 Hen. VIII, 1520, and, fecondly, to Thomas Holford, of Holford, in Chefhire ; 2 Dorothy, married, (10 Hen. VIII, 15 18,) to Edward, fon and heir of Laurence Warren, ofpointon, in Chefhire, a fa- mily defcended from the ancient Earl of Warren and Surry, and (till exiftmg there, with an ample eftate, in Sir George Warren, Knight of the Bath ; 3. Anne, carried to Sir Wil- liam Brereton, of Brereton, in Chefnire, Knt.
This
(26) BOOTH, of Dunham Mafley.
This Sir William Bothe was feized of divers manors in Cheihire, Yorkshire, Lancamire, Shropfhire, Leicefterihire, Herefordfhire, Wiltshire, Somerfetfhire, and Cornwall, and died Nov. 19, 1519, 11H. VIII, and was buried at Bowdon.
George Bothe, Efq; fbn and heir of the faid Sir William, married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Butler, of Beaufey, near Warrington, in Lancamire, Knt. whole progenitors had been fummoned to Parliament among the Peers of England, h% the reigns of K. Edw. I, and II. By her he had ifTue four fons and feven daughters ; 1. George, his fon and heir; 2, John, afterwards knighted, as appears by a pedigree at Dunham ; (he married Elizabeth, daughter of John Dutton, of Cheihire, Efq; by whom he had four fons, William, Robert, M. A, Edmund, and Henry ;) 3. Robert3 who was Rector of Thornton in the Moors, in Cheihire, Rot. 1 Edw. VI. 4. Roger, Rot. Ceil, ib. The daughters were, 1. Ellen, married to John Carrington, of Carrington, in Cheihire, Efq; 29 Hen. VIII, 1537 ; 2. Anne, married to William Maine, of Popington, or Pudington, in Cheihire, Efq; whofe ifTue male continued there till very lately ;
3. Margaret, married to Sir William Davenport, of Bromhall, in Cheihire, Knt. whofe family are ft ill owners of that eftate ;
4. Elizabeth, married to Sir Richard Dutton^ (Sutton, accord- ing to Sir Peter Leicefter,) of Sutton, near Macclesfield, in Lancafhire, 1566 ; 5. Dorothy, married to Robert Tatton, of Wilthenihaw, in Cheihire, Efq; whofe defcendants are {till there ; 6. Alice, married to Peter Daniel, of Over Tabley, in Cheihire, Efq; 4 Edw. VI, 1550, a family but lately extinct ; 7. Cecilie, who died unmarried. This George Bothe died 22 Hen. VIII, 1531, aged forty years.
George Bothe, the eldeft fon and heir o^ the laff. mentioned George, being but fixteen years of age, married to his firft wife (or was to marry her) as appears by an ancient deed, dated 12 June, 1531, 23 Hen. VIII, Margaret, daughter of Rowland Bulkeley, of Beaumorris, in the Ifle of Anglefey, Efq; anceftor to the now Lord Vifcount Bulkeley, of the kingdom of Ireland, but by her (if the marriage did take effect) had no iiiue ; and {he dying, he married, fecondly, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Edmund TrafFord, ofTrafford, in Lancafhire, Knt. which marriage was agreed by deed, dated May 20, 27 Hen. VIII* not quite four years after the deed for his former marriage ; (the married, fecondly, James Done, of Utkington, Efq; who dyins;, me married, thirdly, Thomas Fitton, of Gawfworth ;) by her he had iiiue one fon, William ; and three daughters ; Elizabeth, who married William Chauntrell, of the Bache, near Chefter, Efq; 1566 ; 2. Mary, married to Randle Davenport, of Henbury, in Cheihire, Efq; which family continued there
for
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£br many generations ; and, 3. Anne, married to Went-
worth, of Yorkfhire, Efq; To this George Bothe, being then in the 22d year of his age, CX Jane Seymour commanded a Let- ter to be written, acquainting him with the birth of a Ton (af- terwards K. Edw. VI.) bearing date at Hampton-court the very day of her' delivery,' Oct. '12, 29 Hen. VIII ; which (hows the error ofthofe Hiftorians who reprefent this Queen to have been ripped up for delivery of the child, and thereby dying. To this George Bothe alfo K. Hen. VIII. wrote a Letter concerning forces to be raifed to war againft the Scots, bearing date at Weftminfter, Feb. 10, in the 34th year of his reign. The origi- nals of both thefe Letters are in the cuftody of Mary, Countefs Dowager of Stafford. This George Bothe, Efq; died 35 Hen. VIII, 1544.J aged twenty-eight. ' Elizabeth his wife furviving him, as aforefaid, died June 22, 1582, and was interred in Trentham church, in Staffordihire.
William Bothe, orBouthe2 fon and heir of the laft mentioned George, being but three years old when his father died, was in ward to the King ; he was Sheriff of Chefhire, 1571, temp. Eliz. and was knighted in 1578 ; he married Elizabeth, daugh- ter of Sir John Warburton, of Alley, in Chefhire, Knt. a fa- mily {till continuing; {he died Dec. 1628, and was buried in the Abbey church, Bath, the 27th of the fame month. By this Lady Sir William had ieven fons and fix daughters. The fons were, 1. William, who died without iffue before his father, in March 1572, and was buried at Bowdon, the 31ft following; 2. George, of whom hereafter; 3. Edmund, who was bred to the Law, and died without iiTue, proved by a deed, April, 1592 ; 4. John, who died July, 1644, and was buried at Bowdon, Aug. 1. following; he married a daughter of — — Freftwich, of Holme, near Manchefter, in Lancaihire, Efq; and had three fons, William, George, and Robert ; and one daughter, Mary, buried at Bowdon, Aug. 1, 1642 ; 5. Robert, who was an Of- ficer in the army, baptized Dec. 11, 1570, and buried in the Abbey-church at Bath, Jan. 15, 1628 ; 6. Peter, baptized 21 April, 1576, and died Sept. 7, following; 7. Richard, bap- tized June 15, 1578 ; he married a daughter and heir of
Maffie, ofCogfhull, in Chefnire, Efq; died March 28, 1628, and was buried at Welmeflow ; from him the Booths of Bar- row, in Chefhire, are defcended. The daughters were, 1. E- leanor, baptized at Bowdon, Feb. 27, 1573; 2. Sufan, who married, firft, Sir Edward Warren, of Poynton, in Chefhire, Knt. and, 2dly, John Fitton, of the city of Chefter, Efq; fhe was baptized at Bowdon, May 21,1577; 3. Alice, married to
1'awton, Efq; 4. Dorothy, married to Ralph Bunington,
of Barrowcote, in Derbyfhire, Efq; 5. Elizabeth, married to
William
{28) B O O T H, of Dunham Mafley.
William Bafner, of Eaton, in Denbighshire, Efq; and after- wards to Waifh, Efq; of the kingdom of Ireland ; 6. Ma- ry, who lived and died at Du::hamTown. (Sir Peter Leicefter makes her eldeft, and the reft backwards, which writer feems to have been followed in this, and feveral other miftakes, by both Collins and Jacob, in their Peerages.) This Sir William Bothe, or Bouth, died Nov. 28, 1579, aged thirty-nine years, and was buried at Bowdon, Dec. 8, following.
Sir George Bouthe, fecond, but eldeft furviving fon of Sir William, was, by reafon of his minority at the death of his fa- ther, in ward to the Crown, and his eftate being of confider- able value, was, by Q. Elizabeth, granted to her favourite, Ro- bert Dudley, Earl of Leicefter, to the great detriment and ex- pence of the faid George Bouthe, in obtaining afterwards livery of his lands ; he was of age Ocl:. 20, 1587 ; he was knighted about the latter end of CK Elizabeth's reign, and created a Ba- ron.t by patent, bearing date May 22, 161 1, 9 James I. being the tenth of thofe who received that Order at the firft inftitu- tion ; but now three of them being extinct, and four of them being now Peers, the prefent Rev. Sir George Booth is the third in point of Precedence. Sir Peter Leicefter fays he had two wives ; 1. Jane, daughter and heir of John Carrington, of Carrington, in Cheftiire, Efq; (before faid to have married his brother, William Bouthe,) a family of long ftanding there, whom he married Feb. 18, 1577, John Carrington, her father, dying in January before ; fhe was baptized at Bowdon, Dec. 10, 1562, aged fifteen years at the time of her marriage, but died without iiTue ; he married, fecondly, 34 Eliz. Catharine, daughter of Sir Edmund Anderfon, Chief Juftice of the Com- mon Pleas, (the marriage fettlement in the polTeflion of G. B, Tynda'le, Efq;) the was buried at Bowdon, Feb. 26, 1638-9 ; they had iftue live fons and feven daughters. The fons were9 1. William, of whom hereafter ; 2. Francis, baptized at Bow- don, Dec. 11, 1603, buried Mar. 1, 1616; 3. Thomas, bap- tized at Bowdon, Dee. 9, 1604; he died 1632, by a fall from his horfe ; 4. Edmund, born Dec. 26, 1608, baptized at Bowdon, Jan. 1, 1609, and buried there, Sept. 5, 1617 ; «;. John, who having been very active for the fervice of his then Majefty, King Charles II, was knighted after the Reftoration, in 1660; he married, firft, Dorothy, daughter of Sir Anthony §t, John, Knt. a younger fon of Oliver, Earl of Bolingbroke, by whom he had ifTue four fons, and fix daughters, of whom prefently ; fhe died in January, 1655, and was buried at Great Bud worth ; he married, 2dly, in 1657, Anne, relict, of Thomas Leigh, of Adlington, in Chefhire, Efq; by whom he had no ifliie ; he died May 9, 1678, and was bured at St. Ofwald's
parifk
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parifh church, being part of the cathedral church of St. Wer- burg, in Chefter. George, his eldeft fori, was born at Dun- ham Mafley, and baptized Nov. 26, 1635 ; he was Prothono- tary of the County Palatine of Chefter, and was a very emi- nent Convevancer. He wrote two books, the one on Real Actions, which is in high eftimation among the Lawyers ; the other was a Tranflation of Diodoius Siculus from the Greek. He married Martha, daughter of Ralph Hawtrey, of Purley, in Surry, and of London, Merchant, fon of Ralph Hawtrey, of Riflep, inMiddlefex, Efq; (he was born in May, 1645, and died May 6, 17 18 j he died Nov. 12, 17 19, and both lie bu- ried at St. Ofwald's ; they had ifiue four ions, and three daugh- ters ; George, the eldeft fon, was. born March 11, 1664, at Chefter, died March 31, 1665, (nutrice fupprcjjus,) and buried at St. Peter's, at Chefter : John, the fecond fon, was born Feb. 20, 1669; he married Elizabeth, daughter of Edward JProgers, of Weftlow, in Suffolk, Efq; by whom he had one daughter, Elizabeth, (who married Edmund Mafkaline, of Wiltihire, Efq; by whom he had iflue three fons, William, Edmond, and Nevil, the Aftronomer Royal ; and one daughter, Margaret, who married Edward, the prefent Lord Clive ;) (he died Ap. 3, 1707, and he Jan. 18, 1722-3, and both lie buried at Trinity church, Chefter. This John had likewifc by a fecond wife, to whom he was married Aug. 14, 171 1, who died Dec. 26, 1718, buried with her hufband, a fon George, drowned, and a daugh- ter Mary, married to Wilding, of Chefter ; George, the,
third fon, was a Captain of foot, and died unmarried at Dub- lin, Ap. 4, 1705, and was buried in the Round Church there. Robert, the fourth fon, married, Dec. 27, 1705, Thomafin, daughter of William Hanmer, of Bettisfield, in Flintfhire, Efq; by whom he had no iflue ; he died Nov. 21, 171 1, and his wife May 14, 1 7 12, and both lie buried at St. Ofwald's. Mary, the eldeft daughter of George Booth, married Breholt, Com- mander of the Roval Yatch between En^and and Ireland : fhe was born Aug. 21, 1667, died in childbed Jan. 26, 1702-3, and was buried at St. Ofwald's ; Catharine, the fecond daughter- born Oct. 28, 1672, married, firft, Edward Hudfon, Efq; fon of Sir Thomas Hudfon, of Bramwith, in Yorkfhire, Knt. he dying Aug. 21, 1695, without iflue by her ; fhe married, fecondiy, James Howard, Efq; a Captain in the Guards, fon of the Hon. Ph. Howard, fon of Thomas, firft Earl of Berkshire; he died June 22, 1722, his wife Feb. 8, 1765, and both lie buried at St. Ofwald's. They had iflue one fon, James, who died young, Apr. 3, 1704, and two daughters ; Catharine, who married Narcifius Charles Proby, Efq; and Martha, who married the Hon. arid Rev.Cha. Hervey, Prebendary of Ely, and uncle to the prefent
Earl
(3o) k O O T H, of Dunham Maffey.
Earl of Briitol. Elizabeth, the third daughter of Georo-g Booth, aforefaid, was born in 1676, and married, July 12, 1699, at Bath, to Thomas Tyndale, of Bathford, in Somerfetfliire, Efq; by whom lhe had iffue two fons, and four daughters. The fons were, 1. John Tyndale, who died unmarried Nov. 13, 1728; 2. George Tyndale, of Bathford, aforefaid, Efq; who married, Nov. 1736, firft, Vere, third daughter of the Hon. and Rev. Robert Boothe ; but of this Lady, and her iffue, more hereafter. The laid George Tyndale furviving her, mar- ried, fecondly, Dec. 31, 1753, Margaretta, fecond daughter of John Bampfylde, of Heftercombe, in Somerfetfhire, Efq; by whom he has iffue two fons, John, and Thomas Bampfylde; and three daughters, Margaretta, Elizabeth, and Charlotta- Maria, all minors. The daughters of the aforefaid Thomas Tyndale, by Elizabeth, his wife, were, firft, Martha Maria, who married Richard Philips, ofBremenda, in Carmarthen- lh ire, Efq; he died Dec. 1759, and was buried at Bathford ; 2. Elizabeth, now living, and unmarried, at Bath ; 3. Mary, who married, firft, Robert Hudfon, of Yorkshire, Efq; and, fecondly, John Peighin, Efq; Captain in his Majefty's Navy ; 4. Arab 11a, who died young. The aforefaid Thomas Tyn- dale died OcX 1747, and Elizabeth his wife Nov. 14, 1768* and both lie buried at Bathford.
The fecond fon of Sir John Bouth, was St. John, who was born at Dunham Maffey, and baptized Jan. 8, 1636 ; he died Dec. 3, 1687, and was buried at White-gate, near Vale Royal,
in Chefhire, and left ilTue by Anne, his wife, daughter of
Owen, of Condor, in Shroplhire, Efq; two fons, and one daughter. John, the elder!, died unmarried, at Condor, afore- faid, 1689 ; Thomas, the fecond fon, died unmarried in Ame- rica, in 1700 ; Catharine, the only daughter, married >
Owen, of Condor, aforefaid, and died October 18, 1 743? a* Chefter, as;ed feventy-feven, and was buried at Condor.
John, the third fon of Sir John, was born at Manchefter, either in 1642, or the year following; he died unmarried in 1689, and was buried in Trinity church, in Chefter.
Thomas, the fourth fon of Sir John, was born at Kenion* in Lancafhire, and fuffered death contrary to the laws of the land, Sept. 27, 16S7, for a pretended murder he was accufed of having committed at Yarmouth. Thus he fell a facrihce to the malice of King James II, on account of his being nearly related to the then Lord Delamer, whom he had endeavoured to take off for a fuppofiiion of high treafon.
The daughters of this Sir John were, 1. Catharine, born at Dunham Maffey, baptized Sept. 17, 1633, and died young; 2. Sufan, born at the fame place5 and baptized Sept. 18, 1634 ;
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fbc died in January, 1634-5, and was buried at Bowdon the 7th of that month ; 3. Elizabeth, born at Redifh, and baptized March 10, 1638, at Groppenhall ; file died Dec. 11, or 12, J734> a^ec* ninety-fix, and was buried at St. Ofwald's, alias St. Werburg's, in Chefter ; 4. Catharine, born at Dunham Town, and baptized June 21, 1640 ; (he died at Kenion, and was buried at Winwick, in Lancafhire ; 5. Frances, born at Manchefter, died young, and was buried at Groppenhall ; 6. Frances, born at Warrington, baptized June 2, 1645, and buried there.
Having now particularly gone through the defcendants of Sir John Bouth, Knt. (fifth fon of Sir George Booth, the firft Baronet,) we (hall now proceed to his fitters, which, as was before obferved, were feven ; 1. Mary, who died unmarried, at London, May 12, 1657, and was buried in St. Sepulchre's church there ; 2. Alice, married to George Vernon, of Haf- lington, in Chefhire, Efq; who was a Judge ; fhe was born at Bowdon, March 8, 1623 ; 3. Frances, who died unmarried at Chefter, and was buried at Bowdon, Sept. 10, 1669 ; her will was dated June 29, 1669, and proved Sept. 13 ; 4. Sufan, mar- ried, 1623, to Sir William Brereton, of Handford, in Chefhire, Bart, and buried at Bowdon, June 6, 1637 ; 5. Catharine, baptized May 22, 1606, died unmarried, at Chefter, Sept. 24, 1684, and buried at St. Ofwald's there ; 6. Cecily, who died young ; and, 7. Elizabeth, married to Richard, fecond Lord Byron, and died Feb. 10, 1687-8, at Bulwell Park, Nctting- hamfhire.
This Sir George Bouthe, the flrft Baronet, was twice High Sheriff of Chefhire, and as often of Lancafhire ; he died Oct. 24, 1652, aged eighty-fix years and four days, and was bu- ried at Bowdon, Nov. 18, following.
William Bouthe, Efq; his eldeft fon. married, about 4 Jac. I. Vere, fecond daughter and' coheir of Sir Thomas Egerton, eldeft fon of Lord Chancellor Egerton, Baron Ellefme, and Vifcount Brackley. By this Lady (who was buried at Bowdon, May 4, 1629) he had iffue five fons, and two daughters. The ions were, 1. Thomas, born June 21, and baptized at Bowdon the 29th, 1620, died Jan. 3, 1632, aged eleven years, and was bu- ried at St. Ofwald's, alias St. Werburg's ; 2. George, of wThom hereafter ; 3. William, born Feb. 14, 1625, baptized at Bow- don 28th, and died young; 4. Nathanael, the grandfather of the prefent Sir George Booth, Bart, of whom hereafter ; 5. Charles, born July 6, and baptized the 26th, 1628, who died young, and was buried at Bowdon, "Jan. 21, 1634-5. The daughters were, Elizabeth, born June 27, 1621, and baptized at Bowdon July 13, who died young ; and Catharine, bora
May
(32) BOOT H, of Dunham Ma%,
May ir, 1624, and baptized the 25th, at Bowdon, who mar- ried Sir John Jackfon, of Hickleton, in Yorkfhire, Knt. and Bart, (he died in 1667.
This William Bouthe was Knight of the Shire forChefhirej in the Parliament 21 James I. and was made Cuitos Rotulo- rum for Chefhire, by Commifiion, dated Nov. 20, 19 James L which office, from that time, except with fome intermimon in the latter end of K. Cha. II, and during the reign of James 11$ continued in this family till 1693, when, on the death of Henry r firft Earl of Warrington, who left his fen, the late Earl, a minor, the fame was difpofed of elfewhere. This Wil- liam Bouthe died before his father, April 26, 1636, and was buried at Bowdon the 3d of May following.
Sir George Bouthe, fecond fon of the above William, was born Dec. 18, 1&22, and fucceeded his grandfather in the title of Baronet. By reafon of his minority, at the death of his fa- ther, he became ward to the Crown. He reprefented the county Palatine of Chefter in the Parliament 16 Charles I. and again in the firft Parliament of K. Charles II, who fent a Commif- fion under his Signet and Sign manual, bearing date July 22* 11 Charles II, a duplicate whereof bore date at Bruflels, Aug* 9, 1659, 11 Car. II, conftituting him Commander in Chief of all forces to be raifed for his Majefty's fervice in Chefhire, Lan- cafhire, and North Wales ; which Commiflions are recited in an Inltrument under that King's Signet and Sign manual, bear- ing date at Whitehall, March 21, 22 Car. Ii, declaring that the faid Sir George Booth, (then Lord Delamer,) acted by his faid Commifiion in all he did, in order to his Majefty's reftora- tion ; and his Majefty grants this, both to declare the fame, and for the remembrance of his early and eminent endeavours for his reftoration, and to remain as a mark of his particular efteem for the merit of his fervice in that important conjuncture. In con- federation of his many important fervices in afiifting the Refto- ration, he was created, by letters patent, bearing date atWeft- minfter, April 20, 1661, 13 Car. II. Baron Delamer, of Dun- ham MafTey, to hold to him and the heirs male of his body. So frugal a method had the Crown, at that time, of rewarding fer- vices ! On July 30, 1660, he was conftituted Cuftos Rotulo- rum for Chefhire, and fo continued till May 30, 1673, when he refigned it to Henry, his fon and heir. After this, he not being ftudious to pleafe the Court, in thofe meafures which were taken in fome parts of that reign, both he and his family were foon afterwards difregarded by the King, and ill ufed by iiis fucceflbr, King James 11, as will be feen.
This George, Lord Delamer, married, about 13 Car. I. firft, Catharine, daughter and heir of Theopbiius Fienes, Earl of
Lincoln,
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Lincoln, who died in childbed, and was buried at Bovvdon, Aug, 5, 1643, leaving an only daughter, Vere, born July 19, 1643, and baptized the 23d, who died unmarried Nov. 14, 17 17, at Canonbury-houfe, iilington, in Middlesex, and was buried in that parifh church the 23d of thac month. She had a right to the Barony of Clinton. He married, 2dly, Elizabeth, eideft daughter of Henry Grey, Earl of Stamford, who died Jan.. 4, 1690, at Oldiield-hal], near Bovvdon, and was buried at Bovvdon ; by whom he had feven fons, and fix daughters. The fons were, I.William, born Ap. 17, 1648, died unmarried at London, Jan. 20, 1661-2, and buried at St. James's, Cicrkenwell, the 22d, where a monument is creeled to his memory; 2. Henry, of whom hereafter ; 3. Charles, who died unmarried, at Paris 5 4. George, who died in 1726 ; he was one of the Commiilion- ers of the Cuftoms temo. W. Ill : he married Lucy, daughter of the hon. Robert Robertes, fon of John, firft Earl of Radnor, bv whom he had an only fon George, who died before him. (Jacob, in his Peerage, fays his name was Charles-Henry, and that he was buried, with his father and mother, in a vault, in St. Paul's church, London.) 5. Robert, S.T. P. born in 1666, who was Rector of Thornton in the Moors, Chefhire, and fuc- ceeded to be Archdeacon of Durham, being collated May 15, 1 69 1, and was inftalled Dean of Briftol, June 20, 1708 ; he mar- ried, firft, Anne, daughter of Sir R.obert Booth, of Salford, in Lancafhire, Knt. Chief Juftice of the Common Pleas in Ireland, and one of the Privy Council, by whom he had one fon, Henry, who died an infant j he married, 2dly, Mary, elded" daughter of Thomas Hales, Efq; eideft fon of Sir Robert Hales, of How- lets, in Kent, Bart, (who died before his father, Sir Robert) by whom he had iiTue five fons and four daughters. He died Aug. 8, 1730, and was interred the 1 ith, in the College churchyard, at Briftol ; his wife died June 4, 1732, and was interred the loth* in the church of St. Bartholomew the Great, in Weft- Smithfield, London ; the fons were, Robert,- who was called to the Bar, and was elected, 1727, a Reprefentative in Parliament for Bodmin, in Cornwall ; he was educated at Weftminfter- School, and was a Student at Chrift-church College j Oxford ; he died unmarried, and was buried, Jan. 28, 1732-3, in the church of St. Martin in the Fields, London 5 2. George, who was educated with his brother at Weftminfter, and was alfo a Student of the fame college at Oxford ; he afterwards took Holy Orders, and was Curate to his uncle, the learned Dr. Stephen Hales, at Farringdon, near Alton, Hants, where he died, un- married, and was buried in the church there, Oct. 20, 1725 ; 3: Edward, who was alfo educated at Weftminfter School, and afterwards bred a Conveyancer, but died in June, 1729, young Vol. I. [D] and
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and unmarried, and was interred in the College church-yard, in Briftol, near his father ; 4. Nathanael, born June 9, 1709, who was alfo educated atWeftminfter, and bred a Spanifh merchant; he married, April 26, 1743, Margaret, daughter of Richard Jones, of Ramlbury Manor, Wilts, Efq; by whom he had iflue two fons, and one daughter ; 1. George, born Mar. 1, 1744-5, educated at Weftminfter ; he died Sept. 3, 1757, and was in- terred in a vault in Hampftead church-yard, Middlefex ; 2. Hen- ry, born Q&. 4, 1747, died Dec. 5, 1748, and was interred with his brother ; Elizabeth, the only daughter, was born Feb. 28, 1743-4, died unmarried Jan. 9, 1765, and was buried with her brothers.
This Nathanael, on Aug. 2, 1758, fucceeded to the Barony of Deiamer, on the death of his firrt coufin, George, Earl of Warrington, and wasChairman of the Committees of the Houfe of Lords from 1765 to his death, which happened Jan. 9, 1770; and dying without iflue the Barony of Deiamer became extin£t ; but the dignity of a Baronet defcended to his fecond coufin, the Rev. George Booth, Rector of Afhton under Line, in Lanca- fhire, of whom in his proper place ; (and his two nieces and nephew, herein after named, became his coheirs at law, and, as fuch, entitled to quarter his arms ; ) he was buried at Hampftead, with his children. 5. William, born 17 10, and died young.
The daughters were, 1. Mary, who died unmarried at Bath, in March 1723, and was buried within the choir of the Abbey church of St. Peter and St. Paul there ; 2. Elizabeth, married, OcT 19, 1724, at the Cathedral at Briftol, to CharltonThruppe, of Hampftead, in Middlefex, Efq; by whom he had iflue two daughters, (Elizabeth, now unmarried ; and Margaret Catha- rine, who married, in Auguft, 1753, Zachary Bayley, now of the city of Weils, in Somerfetlhire, Efq;) fhe .died Feb. 4, 1741-2* and was buried at St. Peter le Poor, near the Royal Exchange, London, the 8th of the fame month ; 3. Vere, who married, Nov. 27, 17365 at Kenfington, in Middlefex, George Tyndale, of Bathford, near Bath, in Somerfetinire, Efq; only furviving fon of Thomas Tyndale, of the fame place, Efq; by Elizabeth, daughter of George Booth, of Woodford, fn Che- shire, Efq; before mentioned, (lineally defcended from the Ba- rons of Tyndale, in South Tyndale, in Northumberland, by whom fhe had iflue one fon, George Booth Tyvdaie, Efq; born Sept. 8, 1743* who was admitted into the hon. Society of the Inner Temple, April 24, 1760, and in Hilary Term, 1768, wis called to the degree of a Barrifter at Law, and is unmar- ried. To this Gentleman the Editor is obliged not only for eycry particular in this Pedigree, but for many valuable mate- **§ in icr ted in various parts of this Work.) Alfo one daugh- ter,
BOOTH, of Dunham Maffey. (35)
ter, Elizabeth Vere, born April 22, 1745, who died Mar. 19, 1748-9, and was interred the 22d following, in the College church-yard at Brifto], with her maternal grandfather. The aforefaid Vere, wife of the faid George Tyndale, died May 31, 1753, and was interred in the chancel of the parifh church of Bathford aforefaid. The fourth and youngeft daughter of Ro- bert Booth was Catharine, who died unmarried Jan. 17, 1748-9, and was buried with her father and brother the 1 8th.
The fixth fon of the firft Lord Delamer was Cecil, who died unmarried May 16, 171 1, and was buried at Wilmeilow, in Chefhire, May 19, following. 7. Nevil, baptized at Dun- ham, Nov. 15, 1667, and died, unmarried, on his return from the Eaft Indies, anno 1685.
The daughters of the firft Lord Delamer were, 1. Eliza- beth, born June 14, 1646, married to Edward, Earl of Con- way, Secretary of State, and died in childbed ; 2. Anne, born Jan. 21, 1649, who died young; 3. Anne, born April 20, 165 1, died Nov. 24, 1667, and buried at Clerlcenwell afore- faid (near her brother) the 29th, where a monument is erected to her memory -, 4. Jane, who died young, and was buried at Bowdon, anno 1663 ; 5. Diana, who married, firft, Sir Ralph Delaval, of Seaton Delaval, in the county of Northumber- land, Bart, a very ancient family (for a curious account of which fee N° 373. Vol. III. of this Work.) Secondly, fhe married Sir Edward Blacket, of Newby, in Yorkfhire, Bart. living anno 1684. 6. Sophia, who died very young, and was buried at Bowdon.
George, the firft Lord Delamer, died Aug. 8, 1684, and was buried at Bowdon.
Henry Booth, fecond Lord Delamer, the fecond fon of the faid George Lord Delamer, who, on the death of William, his elder brother, became heir, and fucceeded to the Peerage on the death of his father, which happened as above men- tioned. He was born Jan. 13, 1651 ; he had, in the life-time of his father, been Cuftos Rotulorum, and alfo Knight of the Shire for the County Palatine of Chefter, in feveral Parlia- ments in the reign of King Charles II, wherein he always a&ed with great zeal for the intereft Of his country, and had been particularly warm for the pafiing the famous Bill of Kx- clufion, for which that great and good man, the Lord Rufiel, the morning of his going to be executed, fent him a very kind mefTage of his refpects for him ; and having thereby incurred the difpleafure of the then Duke of York, he was, before the death of King Charles II. committed clofe prifoner to the Tower of London, but afcer feveral months ftriel: confinemei1.' was releafed j yet foon after Kino; James's acceffion to th
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Throne, he was again committed clofe prifoner there ; and being after fome time admitted to bail, was quickly afterwards taken up again, and committed a third time clofe prifoner to the Tower, on a falfe accufation of High Treafoii, on Thurs- day, January 14, 1685, (having but the day before completed the thirty-fourth year of his age,) he was, in a Court erected in WeCminfter-hall (as ufuaT in cafe of Trial of Peers,) tried for High Treafon before the Lord Chancellor Jefferys, his par- ticular enemy, conftituted Lord High Steward on the occa- sion ; and although the parliament was then actually exifting by prorogation, he was not tried by the '-/hole Houfe of Peers,
but a fe ' r'of twenty- Feven reers, fummoned '> the
Lord High Steward for that pu \ (fee State Trials, Volume
the Second,) j tich Trial his Loraihip made {6 full and clear defence, he was by ah thole lee: J es, who
£S feriat'im<% unanimoufly acquitted. Happy for him that his father was then dead, whereby he was cf right to be tried by his Peers, and not by fuch a Jury of Common- ers as in thofe times the worthy Lord Rufiel, and many more great patriots, had felt the dire effects of! After this he lived retired, at his feat at Dunham MaHey, not lefs beloved by his countrymen for the hardships he had undergone from the Court, until the happy Revolution ; when, on intelligence of the Prince of Orange's defign of coming, he, through the defire of delivering his country from Popery and Arbitrary Power, and perhaps not without fome remembrance of the ill ufage he had received from King James, raifed, in a very few days, -a great force in Chefhire and Lancashire, and there- with marched to join that Prince ; on whofe arrival at Wind- for, in his approach towards Lon on, this Lord Belamer, to- gether with the Marquis of Halifax and the Earl of Shrewf- bury, were, on the 17th of December, 1688, fent by that Prince with a MeiTage to King James, to remove from White- hall ; which MeiTage, they, being introduced into his Ma- jelly's bed-chamber, by the Earl of Middleton, Secretary of State, delivered at one o' clock in the morning to the King, who was then in bed. A remarkable inftnnce of the viciffi- tudes of fortune, cr, rather, the appointments of an all-ruling Providence, that the King, who had been a fpectator of the Lord Delamer's ftanding at the Bar upon Trial for Life, for a pretended High Treafon, fhould, within lefs than three vears, fee that Lord come to his bed fide, to bid him depart his royal Palace ! A warning to all, to ui'e their profperity in fuch manner, as may bell fit them for unforefeen adverfities j remembring, that on this fide the grave, no man can tell what is to befall him ! And d\eh w • 1 [< this Lord made
thereof.
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thereof, whatever temptation it might be to him, to have then (hewn an infuiting refentment, for he comported him- felf with fo much decency and relpecl: towards that then un- happy Prince, and fo fenlible was that King of his civility to him on this occafion, that, after his retirement into France, he faid, that Lord Delamer, whom he had ufed ill, had then treated him with much more regard than the other two Lords, to whom he had been kind, and from whom he might better have expected it.
This Henry, Lord Delamer, was, on the 13th of February, 1688, fworn a Privy Counfellor, and on April 9th, 1689, made Chancellor and Under Treafurer of the Exchequer; alfo on the 12th of the fame month made Lord Lieutenant of the County Palatine of Chefter, and of the city of Chefter and county thereof, and on July 9th Cuftos Rotulorum of the faid county ; which laft offices, together with that of Privy Counfellor, he enjoyed for life ; but as to the others, he continued in them for about a year only. However, it was not thought advifeable to put this Lord out of employment, in a difobiiging manner, and therefore he was, by Letters Patent, I taring date at Weftminfter, April 17, 1689, 2 Wil- liam and Mary, created Earl of Warrington, in the County Palatine of Lancafter, to hold to him, and the heirs male of his body, for his great fervices in raifing and bringing con- fiderable forces to his Majefty, to refcue his Country and Re- ligion from Tyranny and Popery, as the Preamble of the Pa- tent exprefles it. He died January 2, 1693, at London, and was interred at Bowdon, aforefaid, the 14th of the fame month ; as was his Lady, Mary, daughter and fole heir of Sir James Langham, of Cottefbrook, in the county of Nor- thampton, Knt. and Bart, who died March 23d, 1690-91. They had iffue four fons, and two daughters. The fons were,
1. James, who died an infant, at London, and was buried at London.
2. George, the fecond Earl of Warrington, who was born May 2, 1675 ; married, in 1702, Mary, eld eft of the two daughters and coheirs of John Oldbury, of London, Mer- chant, by Mary, his wife, daughter and coheir of Thomas Bohun, or Boone, of Mount Boone, near Dartmouth, in the county of Devon, Efq; defcended from the Bohuns, the an* cient Earls of Hereford ; and by her, who died at Dunham Maffey, April, 174.0, and buried at Bowdon, had iffue an only daughter and heir, Mary, born about the year 170? who married, 1736, to the Right hon. Henry Grey, Earl of
Stamford j
(3 8) B O O T H, of Dunham Matey.
Stamford; by whom {he had iffue, i. George Harry Grev,
the prefent Earl, who married Harriot, daughter of Ben-
tinck, late Duke of Portland, and filler to the prefent Duke, and has iffue ; 2. Booth Grey, Efq; Member of Parliament for the town of Leicefter -, 3. John Grey, of the Inner Temple, London, Efqj Mary, married to the Hon. George Weft, brother to the prefent Earl Delawar ; and Anne, deceafed. His Lordfhlp (the Earl of Warrington) died Auguft 2, 1758, and was buried at Bowdon, when the Larldom of Warring- ton became extinct ; but the Barony of Delamer defcended to his ftrft coufin, Nathanael Booth, of Hampftead, in Middle- fex, Efq; before mentioned.
3. Langham Booth, born June 8, 1684, who was elected Knight of the Shire for the County Palatine of Chefter as early as he was by law capable of that honour, and continu- ing in that ftation, with very little intermiffion, until the time of his death, he acted therein, and as a Juftice of the Peace, in his county, with an unblemifhed reputation, and an uncorrupted integrity. He was Groom of the Bed-chamber to King George II, when Prince of Wales, which Place he held till his death, which happened at Bath, May 12, 1724, and was buried at Bowdon.
4. Henry, bom July 17, 1687, was a Student in the Tem- ple j he died February 2, 1726-7, and was buried in a Vault in the Great Church at Rotterdam.
Elizabeth, the eldeft daughter, married, Feb. 16, 1696, to Thomas Delves, Efq, eldeft fon of Sir Thomas Delves, of Doddington, in Chefhire, Bart, (he died in 1697, and was buried at Wehbenbury, the 13th of the fame month.
Mary, the fecond daughter, married the Hon. RufFel Ro- berts, fon of Lord Roberts, fon of John, firft Earl of Rad- nor. She died Jan. 30, 1741-2, and was buried at St. James's* Weftminfter, Febr. 6, following. They had iffue, Henry, Earl of Radnor, who died without iflue, 1740 ; and Mary Vere, who married, Feb. 20, 1720, Thomas Hunt, of Mol- lington, in Cheihire, (me became fole heir to her brother,) by whom fhe had iffue two fons ; George Hunt, of Llanhy- drock, in Cornwall, Efq; Member for Bodmin \ and Thomas Hunt, of Mollington* in Chefhire, Efq; alio three daughters, Mary, Elizabeth, and Frances.
We now return to Nathanael Booth, grandfather of the prefent Baronet, fourth fon of William, eldeft fon of Sir George Booth, the firft Baronet. This Nathanael was of Mottram Andrew, in Chefhire, and was born April 26, 1627, and buried at Bowdon aforefaid, Nov. 22, 1692. He married
Anne,
BOOTH, of Dunham Maffey. (39)
Anne, third daughter of Robert Ravenfcroft, of Bretton, in Flintshire, Efqj By this Lady, who was buried at Bowdon, he had iflue four fons, and (even, daughters.
The daughters were, i. Frances, and another, who were twins, buried at Mottram ; 2. Elizabeth, born in Aug. 1656, died June 22, 1736, and buried at Harden, in Flintfhire j 3. Catharine, born in September, 1658, died Oct. 12, 1756, and buried at Bowdon ; 4. Anne, born in 1662, died Sept. 7, 1747, and buried at Bowdon ; 5. Vere, born in May, 1663, and baptized the 2d of June following, at Handforth ; 6.Theo- dofia, born in Auguft, 1664, and baptized the 6th of Sept. following, at Mottram ; 7. Mary, born in Feb. 1665, and baptized the 20th following, at Mottram. Thefe three laft were buried at Mottram.
The fons were, George, born in September, 1657, and was loft at fea. 2. Thomas, born in Auguft, 1659, and was killed by a tiger on the Malabar Coaft, in the Eaft Indies. 3. Na- thanael, born in October, 1660 ; he was called to the Bar, and was a Bencher of Grey's Inn, London ; he was Controller of the Fines and Green Wax Money in the Court of Exchequer ; he died without iffue, Oc~L 9, 1745, aged eighty-five, and was buried at Roliwright ; he married Jane, daughter and coheir of Henry Dixon, of Roliwright, in Oxfordfm're, Efq; {he was buried with her hufband, at Roliwright, aforefaid. 4. John, born in February, 1667, and baptized the 5th of the following month, at Mottram ; he died in 1725, and was buried at: Clerkenwell, in Middlefex. By Mary, daughter of Gilbert Pickering, of the city of London, Merchant, (which Lady died in 1742, and was buried at Clerkenwell, aforefaid,) he had iffue one fon, George, and three daughters ; 1. Anne, born in 1715, and died in 1725 ; 2. Catharine, born in 1717, and died in 1723 ; 3. Elizabeth, born in 17 19, and died in 1743 ; fhe died unmarried, as did her other two lifters, and were ail three buried at St. James's, Clerkenwell, with their father and mo- ther.
George Booth, only fon and heir of the above John Booth, Efq; was born March 20, 1724, and entering into Holy Or- ders, was prefented, in 1758, by the prefjnt Countefs Dow- ager of Stamford, his coufin, to the valuable Reclory of Als- ton under Line, and was Chaplain to his coufin, the late Lord Delamer ; on whofe death, which happened January 9, 1770, he fucceeded to the dignity of a Baronet. He married Han- nah, daughter of Henry Turner, of Botwell, in the county of Middlefex, Efq; by whom he ha-j iffue two daughters ; Catharine, born Aug. 23, 17; 7: died a mouth aftei her birth-,
and
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and wSs buried at Hayes, in Middlefex ; as was. the other daughter, Hannah Vere, born July 15, 1748, who died Ocl:. 28, 1765.
Arms. i. Argent, three Boars Heads, erect, and erafed, Sa- ble, Langued, Gules ; for Booth. 2. Argent, a Fefs, en- grailed, Gules ; for Barton. 3. Azure.* two Bars, Argent ; in Chief, two Mullets, of the laft ; for Venables. 4. Bendy often Pieces, Or and Azure 5 for Mountfort. 5. Argent, a Mullet, Sable ; for Afhton. 6. Argent, a Lion rampant, Gules^ between three Pheons Heads, Sable ; for Egerton. Sir George Booth has a right to thirty-feven other Coats.
Crest. On a Wreath of the Colours, a Lion paiTant, Ar- gent.
xMotto. £hiod ero fpero.
Seat. At Afhton under Line, in the County Palatine of Lancafter.
**3. Peyton, of Kelharn, Cambridgeshire.
Created Baronet, May 22, 1611.
THIS family, as Mr. Camden obferves, derive themfelvee * from the U fiords, Earls of Suffolk:, who defcended from William Malet, a Norman Baron, who was Sheriff of York- ftnre in the third of William I.
The fir ft of whom v/e find by the name of Peyton, was Reig- nold de Peyton, fecond fon to Walter, Lord of Sibton, in Suf- folk:, younger brother to Malet, Sheriff" of Yorklhire, and Lord of the honour of Eay, in Suffolk. This Reignold held the Lord- ihips of Peyton-hallj in Ramfhold, and Boxford, in Suffolk, of Hugh de Bigod, and had two fons, William and John.
John had ifiue four ions, John, the elder, Robert, Peter, and John, the younger.
Robert was Lord Juftice of Ireland, in the time of Hen. IIL and Edw, I. and, being Lord of Ufford, aiTumed the furname of his anceftors. Whofe fon, Robert de UfFord, was created Earl of Suffolk, 11 Edw. Ill, 1336, and made Knight of the Garter. He was at the battle of Cagn, and behaved fo well, that the Kino; rewarded him with the honour of Eye, formerly belonging to his family.
Brothers to the Earl, were Thomas de UfFord, Knight of the Garter, and John UfFord, who was brought up at Cambridge, and made doctor or law j promoted firft to the deanry of Lin- ed n,
PEYTON of Ifelham. ig
coin, then to the chancellorfhip of England, and laflly, to the archbifhoprick of Canterbury, which he never enjoyed, being cut off by the plague before he received either his pall or confecration, June 7, anno 1348, and lies obfeurely buried in that cathedral church.
Peter de Peyton, lord of Peyton-Hall, married Helena — — , of whom he had iflue, Robert de Peyton, father to Sir John de Peyton, Knt. of the fame places ; whofe iflue male feemed to fail temp. Edw. III.
The fourth fon was John de Peyton, jun. who fold to John his eldeft brother, all his lands which he had in Boxford, of the fee of the abbey of St. Edmonds and Stoke-Neyland, which their fa- ther, John de Peyton, and William, their uncle, formerly pof- i'efled.
Sir John, the eldeft fon, fucceeded, and was lord of Peyton- Hall in Boxford, who had iflue by his wife, Matilda de Bueriis, three fons and one daughter, Agnes; William; and James de Peyton, who was witnefs to a datelefs charter of his father, and to another of his elder brother, who was
Sir John de Peyton, Knt. fuccefibr to his father; to whom, and Clementia his wife, 27 Hen. III. John, fon of William de Effington, gave two acres of land, Sec. Sir John ferved in the parliament held at Weftminfter, as one of the Knights of the Shire for the county of Suffolk, having reafonable allowance for his expence ; as alfo in another parliament, 29 Edward I. foon after which he died. He had three wives, Agnes, Agnes, and Clementia.
Sir Robert, the eldeft fon, fucceeded, who, in many of his evidences, is ffciled Chevalier and Monfieur : He died 25 Edw. III. and was buried near his father, having had two wives, firft, the Lad y Chriftiana de Apleton, widow of William de Apleton, who died 19 Edward II. leaving no children, and was buried at Stoke- Neyland with great pomp, whofe funeral expences are thus fct down ; fifty quarters of wheat, 4I. ics. one hogfhead of wine, 53 1. 4s. four muttons, 5s. eight barrow-hogs, 24s. ten calves, &c. His fecond wife was Joan de Marney, of the noble family of the Marneys, of Layer-Marney, in Eflex, by whom there was iflue Sir John, the next heir, and William, who lies buried at Wicken.
Sir John fucceeded, and married Margaret, the daughter and coheir of Sir John Gernon, of Lees, in EiTex, Knt. lord of Wicken, in Cambridgeshire, and Bakewell in Derbyshire. Sir John died 17 Richard II. and his wife 2 Henry V.
Their fon and heir, John de Peyton, Efq; inherited, who took to wife Joan, daughter and heir of Sir fiammon Sutton, of Wkkefho, in Suffolk^ Knt. by whom Wjckefho came to this
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family ; who, dying about the 5th of Henry IV. left imae by his faid wife, (afterwards married to Sir Roger Drury, Knt.) Mar- gery, wife of Thomas Daubenyof Sharrington, in Norfolk, Efq; and three fons, John, Thomas, and Robert.
John, the eldeft, was left a minor, being fifteen years old, 8 Henry IV. at which time an agreement was made between the Lady Margaret, his grandmother, Joan his mother of the one part ; and John Burgoyne of Drayton, in Cambridgefhire, of the other; for an intermarriage with Grace, daughter of the faid Burgoyne; which marriage took place; and from thence pro- ceeded two fons, John and Thomas, and a daughter Anne, mar- ried to Jeffry Lockton, Efq. He died in the flower of his age, the 6th of October, 4 Henry V.
His fon John, aged three years and three quarters at his father's death, died in his minority the 29th of Ociober, 11 Henry VI. whereupon Thomas, then aged feventeen years, was the next heir. This Thomas was High-Sheriff of Cambridge and Huntingdon, 21 and 31 Henry VI. and married firft Margaret, daughter and coheir of Sir John Bernard, of Ifelham, Knt. by which match Ifelham defcended to this family ; and he had iffue by her Tho- mas, hereafter mentioned, Margaret, and Grace.
His fecond wife was Margaret, daughter and coheir of Sir Hugh Francis, of Giffords, in the parifh of Wickhambrook, in Suffolk, widow of Thomas Garnifh, of Kenton, in Suffolk, Efq. Of this match proceeded two fons, Chriftopher and Francis. 1. Chriftopher Peyton, Efq; in the 12th of Henry VII. was fherifF of the counties of Cambridge and Huntingdon ; and having mar- ried Elizabeth, daughter of Leonard Hide, of Hide-Hall, in Hertfordfhire, Efq; left no iffue. He died 15 Henry VII. and, with his wife, was buried in Ifelham church.
Francis Peyton, of St. Edmundfbury, Efq; fecond fon, heir to his mother, was alfo of Coggefhall in Effex. He married Eliza- beth, daughter of Reginald Brook, of Afpallitoneham, in Suffolk, Efq; by whom he had Chriffopher, and Edmund, who married, but left no male iffue. Chriftopher Peyton, of St. Edmundfbury, married Jane, daughter of Thomas Mildmay, Efq; and filter to Sir Thomas Mildmay, of Chelmsford in Effex, Knt. and was father of three fons, Thomas, Chriffopher, and Henry, of Lon- don. 1. Thomas Peyton, of St. Edmundfbury, who by Cicely, daughter of John Bourchier, Earl of Bath, (and Eleanor Manors his wife, daughter oi Henry, Earl of Rutland) was father of Sir Henry Peyton, knighted by King James I. who long followed the wars in the Low-Countries, and married Mary, daughter of Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerfet, and widow of Andrew Ro- gers, of Brian'fon, in Dorfetmirc, Efq; elded fon to Sir Richard Rogers, Knt. 2. Chriilopher Peyton, of St. Edmundfbury, who
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was knighted by King James I. and Auditor in Ireland. He married Anne, daughter of William Palmer, of Warwickshire, Efq; and left three daughters his coheireffes, i. Elizabeth, mar- ried to Richard Cooke, Efq; of St. Edmundfbury. 2. Cicely, married to Henry Rookwood, of Ewfham, and, 3. Thomazin, married firfl to Captain Baptiit. Caftillion, of the bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth ; fhe re-married to Robert Bigott, of the De- fart, in Ireland, Efq. 3. Henry Peyton, of London, who mar- ried Mary, daughter of William Pickering, of London, and left pofterity.
Thomas Peyton, the only fon of Thomas, died before his
father, and by his wife Joan, the daughter of Calthorpe,
of Norfolk, he had iilue, Thomas, who died iffuelefs, Robert, John, and Edward ; and four daughters, Elizabeth, married to Edward Langley, of Knowlton, in Kent, Efq; Jane, to John Langley, of Lowleworth, in Cambridgeshire, Efq; Anne, to John Afheby, of Harefield, in Middlefex, Efq; and Dorothy. — Joan furviving her hufband, married, fecondly, William Mauleverer, Efq;
The eldeft fon, Sir Robert, inherited, who was fheriff of Cam- bridge and Huntingdon, 14 Henry VII. and died the 18th of March, 9 Henry VIII.
He left ifTue, by Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Cleer, of Ormfby, in Norfolk, 1. Sir Robert. 2. John, who married Do- rothy, daughter of Sir Robert Tyndall, of Hockwould, in Nor- folk, Knt. of whom defcended the Peytons of Knowlton, and Dodington, Barts. the former of which titles is extinct, and the latter will hereafter be mentioned in its proper place ; and 3. Ed- ward, who died without ifTue. Alfo two daughters, Margaret, married to Francis Jenney, of Knotfhall, in Suffolk, Efq; from whom defcend the Jenneys of that place ; and Elizabeth, wife of Sir William Wigfton, of Wolfton, in Warwickfhire, Knt.
Sir Robert was the next heir, who was fheriff of the two afore- faid counties, 17 and 27 Henry VIII. and accompanied that King to the fiege of Bullen ; and was again fheriff, 1 Q. Mary. He married Frances, daughter and heir of Francis Haffylden, of Lit- tle Chefterford, in EfTex, Efq; and of Steeple-Morden, in Cam- bridgefhire. This Lady founded the famous hofpital at Ifelham, and was buried by her hufband in that church, where their me- mories are ftill preferved on a monument.
They had fix fons and two daughters, 1. Robert. 2. William. 3. Richard, of Little Chefterford, in ElTex, who married Mary, daughter of Leonard Hyde, of Hide-Hall, in Hertfordfhire, Efq; She, after his deceafe, married Sir John Cary, Lord Hunfdon.
The three other fons were Chriftopher, E4ward, and John.
The daughters, Catharine, wife of Williams, of , in
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Oxford/hire, Efq; and Elizabeth, wife of Thomas W*enne, of Hinton, in Hadenham, in the Ifle of Ely, Efq;
Robert the eldeft, Lord of Ifelham, was Knight of the Shire for Cambridge, 4th and 5th of Queen Mary, and high {heriff of the united counties of Cambridge and Huntingdon, 9 Eliz. and received the honour of knighthood from King James I. at Roy- ■flon, Nov. 1608. He married the Lady Elizabeth Rich, daugh- ter of Richard, Baron Rich of Leez, Lord High Chancellor of England ; by whom he had ifiue three fons, Robert, who died in his father's life-time, unmarried ; Sir John, the Baronet, and Ri- chard, who died without iflue : And as many daughters, Mary, wedded flrft to Robert Balam, °f Wolfoken, in Norfolk, Efq; fecondly, to Sir Richard Cox, of Braham, in the ifle of Ely, Knt. Frances, wife of John Hagar, of Bourne-Cattle, Cambridgefhire ;
and Winifrede, wife firft of Ofborne, Efq; Counsellor at
Law, then of Harefleet, of Kent 5 and afterwards of John
Hornbye, in Lincolnfhire, Efq;
Sir John Peyton, of Ifelham, knighted by King James I. fuc- ceeded his father Sir Robert, and was Lord of Peyton-Hall, in Boxford, Wicken, and Wikefho, &c. He was fherifF of the counties of Cambridge and Huntingdon, 35 Eliz. and Knight of the Shire for the firft of thofe Counties, as alfo 1 James I. an4 the next year lheriff again ; and in the ninth of that reign, re- ceived the new order of Baronet at the firft inftitution of it.
By his wife Alice, daughter to Sir Edward Ofborn, who was Lord Mayor of London, 25 Elizabeth, A. D. 1583, and progeni- tor to the Duke of Leeds, he had five fons and fix daughters ; Sir Edward, the next Baronet; John, who died without iflue j Robert, fellow of Queen's College in Cambridge ; Roger-Wil- liam, of Warlingworth, in Suffolk, (who married Tabitha, daugh- ter of Henry Payne, of Walthamftow, in ElTex, and left two fons, John and William,) and Thomas, who was {lain at the Burfe in Holland. The daughters were, Anne, married to Sir Robert Ba- con, of Riborough, in Norfolk, Bart, third fon of Sir Nicholas Bacon, of R.ed^rave, Bart. Alice, wife of Sir John, fon and heir of Sir John Peyton, of Dodington, Knt. Elizabeth, of Sir An- thony Irby, of Bofton, in Lincolnshire, Knt. Mary, of Sir Roger Meers, of Hoghton, in Lincoln(hire, Knt. Frances, and Sufan Peyton, who both died unmarried.
He was fucceeded, both in eftate and honour, by Sir Edward, his eldeft fen, who was knighted at Whitehall, Feb. 4, 1610, and ferved in Parliament from the 1 8th of James I. to the third of Charles I. as one of the Knights of the Shire for the county of Cambridge,, and was Cuftos Rotulorum thereof; which office he vva^ deprived of by the endeavours of the great favourite of James L the Duke of Buckingham. This $ir Edward married three
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wives ; firft, Matilda, daughter of Robert Livefay, of Tooting, in Surry, Efq; by whom he had ifTue, John ; Edward, who was a Clergyman, (and had three fons, Edward, Robert, and Henry ;) and Robert; alfo a daughter, Amy, married to Henry Lawrence, of St. Ives, in Hnntingdonfhire, and of St. Margaret's, in Hert- ford fh ire, Efq;
Sir Edward married to his fecond Lady, Jane, daughter of Sir James Calthorp, of Cockthorp, in Norfolk, Knt. and widow of Sir Henry Thymelthorp, of Norfolk, Knt. by whom he had ifTue one fon, Thomas Peyton, of Rougham, in Norfolk, Efq; who married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Yelverton, of Roug- ham, Bart, by whom he had four fons; i. William Peyton, of Dublin, who died 1686. He married Frances, daughter and co- heir of Sir Herbert Lunsford, Knt. by whom he had no male ifTue. 2. Robert, of Virginia, who left no male ifTue. 3. Charles Peyton, of Grimfton, in Norfolk, Efq; who married Elizabeth, daughter of William Bladwell, of Swanington, in Norfolk, Efq; they both lie buried at Swanington, having had fix fons ; 1. Sir Yelverton, hereafter mentioned ; 2. Bladwell, who married Mary, daughter of William Probart, of Court-Evangwenge, in Radnor- fhire, Gent, by whom he has ifTue one fon, Charles, and two daughters, Mary and Elizabeth. 3. William, of Grimfton, in Norfolk, who married Alice, daughter of William Robotham, of Grimfton, Gent, and died at Leverington, in the Ifle of Ely, with- out ifTue. 4. Charles, who died at fea, without ifTue. 5. Colby, drowned at Lynn, without ifTue. 6. John Peyton, citizen of Lon- don, who died Ocl:. 22, 1741, married, firft, Dorothy, daughter of James Altham, of Marks-hall, in EfTex, Efq; by whom he had one fon, John ; and by his fecond wife Sufan, daughter of Peter Calvert, of Hunfdon, in Hertford fh ire, Efq; (and fifter to Peter Calvert, of Hunfdon, Efq;) he had another fon named Yel- verton.
The fourth fon of Thomas Peyton, of Rougham, Efq; was Yel- verton, who married a daughter of Mr. Roberts, a Merchant in Briftol, niece of Sir John Roberts, of Bromley, in MiddIefex,Bart. Thomas Peyton, Efq; the father of thefe fons, died in 1683.
Sir Edward, married to his third Lady, Dorothy, daughter of Mr. Edward Ball, of Stockwell, in Surry, by whom he had two' fons, 1. Edward Peyton, of Surinam, Merchant, who died 1675. He married Mary, daughter of Mr. Mulfin, an Italian Merchant, and left one daughter his fole heir, named Seignora Angiola, mar- ried to Francis Ceffis, of Peefroneer, in Venice. 2. Jofeph Pey- ton, who, by Mary, daughter and coheir of Marmaduke Vincent, of Great Smeaton, in Yorkfhire, had ifTue Vincent Peyton, only child living, three years old, 1688.
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Sir Edward Peyton* Bart, died at Wicken, in Cambridgefhire,, in 1657, and was fucceeded by his eldeft fen* by the firft mar- riage,
Sir John Peyton, Bart, who had two wives, 1. a daughter of Sir Edward Bellingham, who left no ifTue. But by his fecond. wife, a daughter of ... . Hobart, he had three fons ; Edward, who diec} young ; Sir John Peyton, Bart, who fucceeded him ; and Thomas, who was firft an Enfign, and afterwards Captain in the guards ; who died a batchelor. Sir John had alfo one daughter, Martha, married to George Duncombe, of S.halford, near Guilford, in Surry, Efq; Sir John, died 1666, and was buried in St. Giles's in the Fields, London, and was fucceeded by his only fon,
Sir John Peyton, Bart, who firft married the daughter p,f Mr. Newman, and widow of Mr. Kana Q Hara. His fecond wife
was the daughter of— Lloyd, of Morton-Hall, in Wales, Efq.;
and widow of Richard Barry. His third wife was Mrs. Rebecca Williams, of Liverpool, widow of the Rev. Mr. Daniel Tom- linfon. He died in Ireland, 1721, without iftue ; and was fuc- ceeded bv his coufin,
Sir Yelverton Peyton, eldeft fon of Charles Peyton, of Grimr. Hon in Norfolk, Efq; who was third fon of Thomas Peyton, of Rougham, Efq; only fon of Sir Edward Peyton, Bart, by his. iecond marriage, beforementioned. He married Flora, daughter of Philip Facy, but died without ifTue, and was fucceeded by
Sir John Peyton, the prefent Baronet.
Arms : Sable, a Crofs engrail'd, Or.
Crest: On a Wreath, a Griffin fej ant, Or.
Motto: Patior potior.
4. Clifton of Clifton, Nottinghamshire,
Created Baronet, May 22, 161 1.
OF this family, Gervafe Holies, Efq; a laborious antiquary, obferves, that they took their furname from Clifton, a ville about two miles diftant from Nottingham, which, in its Saxon etymon, fignifies a ville fituate upon a rock or (helving ground, as Sir W. Dugdale rightly obferves, and upon a prominence is this feated (yet in a fertile foil) at the foot of which the Trent runs ; where the Cliftons have a noble feat, from which, afcending by many fteps, we red upon the top, in a fair bowling-green, that yields a moit pleafant profpect, overlooking the Trent, the town pf Nottingham, the vale of Belvoir, and part of the foreft of
Sherwood.
CLIFTON of Clifton. s$
{Sherwood. They derive themfelves from Alvaredus de Clifton, a- Knight, faid to be living in the time of William Peverell, the Conqueror's baftard ; and for proof of this, Alvaredus, and two others of his lineal pofterity, are cited in an authority amongft the collections of Mr. St. Lo, Kniveton, wherein it is faid, Al- varedus was Warden of Nottingham caftle, in the time of Wil- liam Peverell ; and in which office he was fucceeded by his ion and grandfon, Robert and Gervafe.
It is believed, however, that his fon and grandfon were both of them named Gervafe ; for, 20 Henry III. there was a fine le- vied between Gervafe de Clifton, (taken for the fon) and Hugh de Bel, concerning two oxgangs of land in Wilford. Anno 52 Henry III. Gervafe, fon of Gervafe de Clifton, (the grandfon) gives one mark for a writ in the county of Nottingham.
Sir Gervafe, Knt. third of that name, (fon of the laft Gervafe de Clifton) died 17 Edward II. having married Amflicia, daugh- ter of Sir William Sampfon, of Eperfton, Knt. His fon was Ger- vafe, who died before him, 9 Edward II. leaving by Alice, daughter and heir of Robert de Rabacin, Robert his fon, heir to bis grandfather. This Sir Gervafe mufl be accounted a principal advancer of this family. He was conftituted High Sheriff of the counties of Nottingham and Derby, anno 7 Edward I. and con^ tinued for feven years ; and in the 14th of that King, he was ap- pointed High Sheriff of Yorkfhire, and continued for fix years.
The fame Sir Gervafe de Clifton dying, left Robert de Clif- ton, the fon of Gervafe, his eldeft fon, (who died before him) his next heir, and above twenty-fix years of age -3 who did his homage to the King, as heir to his grandfather, and had feifin of his lands accordingly.
Gervafe de Clifton, (the fon of Sir Robert) was High Sheriff of the counties of Nottingham and Derby, anno 19 Edward III. and the next year Efcheator of the fame counties. We meet with no account of the death of this Gervafe, nor is any thing to be found concerning him after the age of fixty-eight. He had a fon, Robert, who poffibly died before his father, as no ac- count of him, after the death of Gervafe, is any where mention- ed. It is fuppofed that Ifabd, (wife of this Robert de Clifton) was the daughter of Neville, of Rolleflon, in Nottingham- shire, and his fjrfl: wife 5 for he married, fecondly, Agnes, daugh- ter of De Grey.
The next is Sir John Clifton, (fon and heir of Robert and Agnes Grey) who, anno 4 Hen. IV. ferved in the parliament held at Weftminfter, with Sir Richard Stanhope, Knights of the Shire for Nottingham, and had their wages allowed for fixty-five days. He was that year flain at the battle of Shrewfbury, fighting on the King's fide againft the Piercies ; having, as Hollinfhed tells us,
received
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received from the King that morning the order of Knighthood, which (if true) muft be the dignity of a Banneret ; for he was a Knight before. He brought a great increafe of eftate into the family, by his wife Catharine, daughter of Sir John de CreiTey, of Hodfack, in the county of Nottingham, Knt, and fifter and coheir of Sir Hugh de CrefTey, who died in the 9th year of the fame King : The other fifter and coheir, Elizabeth, was the wife of Sir John Markham, the elder Judge,
This Sir John Clifton's fon and heir was Sir Gervafe Clifton, as appears from a grave- ftone in Clifton church.
The next is Sir Gervafe Clifton, but whether fon or brother to the laft, is not clear, for the records here are intricate. 23 Hen. VI. Gervafe Clifton was Lieutenant to Humphrey Duke of Gloucef- tcr, Conftable of Dover caflle. In the 30th of Henry VI. he was Treafurer of the town of Calais, which office was given him (in recompence of his good fervice) 24 May, 29th of that King, upon the resignation of Sir Richard Vernon, his predeceflbr in that office, he having delivered up his letters patent to be cancelled. He was twice High Sheriff of Kent 3 and once Treafurer of the King's Houfnold ; for there is a warrant in an uncertain year of that King, directed to the Keeper of the Privy Seal, commanding him to direct his letters to the Chamberlains of the Exchequer, to pay to certain perfons the fum of 460 1. due to them whilft Sir Gervafe Clifton, Knt. flood Treafurer of the Houihold. The chronicles tell us, that Richard Duke of York, in the 18th of Henry VI. made Sir Gervafe Clifton Captain of Pontoife, near Paris, (having been a Commander at feveral places in France,) when the French King befieged and took the town by afTault, hut loft above three thoufand men before it. And that in the lith of Edward IV. 147 1, the Monday after the battle of Tewkf* bury, Sir Gervafe Clifton (who was then taken prifoner) was be- headed in the market-place there, together with Edmund Duke of Corner fet, and others.
This moft active and fignal Gentleman is believed by fome of the family to be their immediate anceftor.
It is plain there was a Sir Gervafe Clifton of Clifton, temp. Henry VI. and that Robert Clifton was his fon and heir, who was High Sheriff of Nottingham and Derby, anno 29 and 38 Henry VI. And after, in the 7th of Edward IV. Robert Clifton, Knt. is mentioned then as late Sheriff of Nottingham and Derby. Alice, wife of the faid Sir Robert, was daughter of John Booth, of Barton, in Lancafhire, Efq; and fifter of William the Arch- bifhop.
Sir Robert Clifton died April 9, 1478, 18 Edward IV. leaving Gervafe Clifton his fon and heir, above forty years of age : He
had
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had another fon, Robert Clifton, who was Archdeacon of the Eaft-Riding, in Yorkfhire.
Gervafe Clifton, his fon and heir, was High Sheriff of Not- tingham and Derby, 11 and 17 Edward IV. 22 Edward IV. that King ordained the faid Gervafe, Sheriff of the counties of Nottingham and Derby, and affigned him 100 1. out of the Ex- chequer, for the better fuftaining of his charge in that office. Anno 1 Richard III. he was made one of the Knights of the Bath at the coronation.
Sir John Beaumont (in, his poem of Bofworth-Field) fays, he was flain there, fighting on Richard's fide, againft the Eari of Richmond, (after King Henry VII.) and that Biron, (being his friend, but of the other party) procured the Conqueror to reftore his lands to his fon. But it is plain he was not flain there, and probably did not ferve there ; or, if he did, it was on the other fide, repenting that he had adhered to the Ufurper ; for not long after the beginning of King Henry Vllth's reign, we find him not only entrufted, but rewarded by him, being in his third year made Sheriff of the counties of Nottingham and Derby ; and the fame year having granted him the cuftody of the manors of Carleton in Lindrike, and Kinfton in Carleton, being then in the King's hands, by reafon of the minority of George, Lord Fitz-Hugh ; and that he married firft, Alice, daughter of Thomas Nevil, of Rollefton, Efq-, relift of Ri- chard Thurland ; fecondly, Agnes, daughter of Sir Robert Con- liable, of Flamborough, in Yorkfhire, Knt. relict of Sir Walter Griffith, Knt. and died in the fixth year of the fame King, in the houfe of the Friars Predicants, in London, and was buried in Clifton church.
The inquifition, after his death, taken at Blithe, the 30th of October, anno 7 Henry VII. fays, that he died the 12th day of May laft paft, (which was in the fixth year of that King) and Robert Clifton, Clerk, was his fon and heir, and above thirty years old at the death of his father.
Of this Robert Clifton we hear no more, but upon tradition, that being pioufly devoted, he became a fecular Prieft, died un- married, and gave his temporal eftate to his younger brother, Gervafe Clifton, afterwards knighted; for he was made Knight of the Bath by King Henry VII. in the tenth year of his reign, at the time he created his fecond fon, Henry, Duke of York. He married firft, Agnes, daughter of Sir Walter Griffith above- mentioned ; fecondly, Joan, daughter of John Bully, widow of Sir Nicholas Byron, Knt. by the laft he had no iffue. In the 17th of Henry VII. he was made Sheriff of the counties of Nottingham and Derby, and died June 5, 23 Henry Vil. It appears by the inquifition taken after his fon's death, in the 9th
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of King Henry VIII. that Robert Clifton was his fon and heir ; and that he had a younger fon, Hugh Clifton, and though not mentioned in the inquifition, he had another fon, Gervafe Clifton, who was of the Cuftomhoufe at the port of London* and was father of Sir Gervafe Clifton, fummoned to parliament as a Baron of the realm, the 6th of James I. by the title of Lord Clifton of Leighton-Bromfwold.
His eldeft fon, Robert, married firft, Alice, daughter of Simon Digby, Efq; Lieutenant of the Tower of London, by whom he had no iflue ; and by his fecond wife he added the greater!: luftre to his family : For he married Agnes, daughter to Henry Lord Clifford, and fifter to Henry, the firit Earl of Cumber- land, who, through the lines of Clifford, Percy, and Mortimer, was lineally defcended from Lionel Plantagenet, Duke of Cla- rence, third fon of that victorious Monarch King Edward III. She was married, after his death, to Robert Melford. This Ro- bert Clifton died a young man, the 3d of September, the 9th of Henry VIII. leaving Gervafe Clifton his fon and Heir, not two years old.
Which Gervafe Clifton was of full of age, and fued out his livery in the 28th year of Henry VIII. He was Juftice of the Peace, and Quorum, the moft part of his long life ; and She- riff of Nottingham and Derby in the laft year of Henry VIII. and again, the firft of the reign of Queen Mary ; and after, of Nottingham alone, in the 13th of Q. Elizabeth. He had like- wife feveral military employments ; for he ferved under King Henry VIII. at the fiege of Bulloigne, and was knighted, fays Hollinfhed in his chronicles, at Mufcleburgh, by the Duke of Somerfet* in the reign of King Edward VI. It is likely he was there, but it is manifeft he was knighted in the days of King Henry VIII, Anno 2 Eliz. A.D. 1560, he ferved at the fiege of Leith in Scotland, under the Lord Grey ; and upon notice of the peace concluded, Sir Gervafe Clifton was fent into the trenches, on the weft fide of Leith, to command the foldiers to forbear hoftility ; and the next day (the 7th of June) he was fent into the town, with Sir Francis Leke, to caufe the peace to be proclaimed, where he was feafted by Monfieur Doyfel,,
the Governor.
He was twice married, firft to Mary> daughter to Sir John Nevile, of Cheet, in Yorkfhire, Knt. by whom, be had five children, viz. Elizabeth, the firft wife of Sir Peter Frechevile, of Stavety, in Derbyfhire, Knt. Frances, Robert,. Gervafe, and: Anthony, which four laft died young, unmarried. The fecond wife of Sir Gervafe, was Winifred, daughter and heir to William Thwaites, of Owlton, in the county of Suffolk, Efq$ reli6tof" Sir George Pierpoint, of Holme, Knt. by whom he had George
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his Ton and heir, who married Winifred, daughter of Sir An- thony Thorold, of Marflon in Lincolnmire, Knt. (by Anne his wife, daughter and coheir of Sir John Conflable, of Kinalton, Knt.) and died in the life-time of his father, Auguft I, 1587, leaving his wife with child of Sir Gervafe Clifton, Bart, being at the time of his death but twenty years and feven months old.
His Lady furviving him, married lirfl: Henry Kervile, of Wi- genhale, in Norfolk, Efq; and fecondly, Sir Edward Gawfell, of Watlington, in Norfolk, Knt.
Sir Gervafe Clifton, his father, died in the fame year 1587, on the 20th of January, and lies buried under a {lately jnonu- ment in Clifton church.
The faid Sir Gervafe, at the time of his death, left his grand- fon and heir but four months and eleven days old. Which Sir Gervafe Clifton, the grandfon, was made Knight of the Bath, at the Coronation of King James I. and afterwards advanced to the dignity of a Baronet. He ferved in eight parliaments, he was Knight of the Shire, temp. Jac. I. and Car. II. and ferved for Retford, temp. Car. I. and was Commiflioner at Oxford and Newark, for King Charles I. and for one thing he was more remarkable, (having in that gone beyond any of our na- tion, as yet heard of) he had fix wives, and married a feventh when he was near feventy years old. His firft Ladv was Pene- lope, daughter to Robert Rich, Earl of Warwick; me died 26 October, 16 13, aged twenty-three : He had by her Sir Ger- vafe, his eldeft fon and fucceffbr. By his fecond Lady Frances, daughter of Francis Clifford, Earl of Cumberland, he had iflue Sir Clifford Clifton, and four daughters ; Margaret, married mil to Sir John South, of Kelflem, in Lincolnmire, Knt. fecondly, to William Whichcote, of Dunflon, in Lincolnmire, Efq; thirdly, to Robert, Lord Hunfdon. Frances was wife, firft, of Richard Temped, of Bracewell, in Yorkfhire, Efq; and fe- condly to Anthony Eyre, of Rampton, in Nottinghamfhire, Efq; Anne, to Sir Francis Rodes, of Barlbrough, in Derbyfliire, Bart, and Lettice, to Clifton Rodes, Efq; brother to Sir Fran- cis ; this Lady died November 22, 1627, aged thirty-three years. The third was Mary, daughter of John Egio'ck, of Egiock, in Worceflermire, Efq; widow of Sir Francis Leke, of Sutton, in Derbyfhire, Knt. by her he had no ilTue ; me died January 19, 1630. His fourth Lady was Ifabel, daughter
of Meek, of Wolverhampton, Efq; relict of John Hodges,
Efq; Alderman of London ; fhe died alio without iflue, and was buried at Clifton, (as were alio his two firft Ladies) July 10, 1637. The fifth was Anne, daughter of Sir Francis South, of KeKterne, in Lincolnmire, Knt. buried at Clifton, (having *io iflue) 1 June, 1639. The fixth was Jane, daughter of
Anthony
3o CLIFTON of Clii
Anthony Eyre, of Rampton, Efq; (by whom he was father of Robert Clifton, who married Sarah, daughter of Nathaniel Parkhurft, of Woodford, in EfTex, Efq; Charles, who died un- married ; Jane, wife of Chriftopher Pack^ of Coates, in Lei- cefterfhire, Efq; Elizabeth and Mary, who died young) fhe died at London, and was buried at Clifton i the 17th of March* 1655. The feventh wife of Sir Gervafe, was Alice, daughter of Henry, Earl of Huntingdon, by whom he had no iffue : She furvived her hufband, but died the fame year, and was buried in St. Giles's church, London, (1666) as was his third Lady.
He was fucceeded in the dignity and eftate, by his eldeft fori by his firft Lady,
Sir Gervafe Clifton, Bart, who married Sarah, daughter of Timothy Pufey, of Selfton, in Nottinghamfhire, Efq; of the ancient family of the Pufeys, in Bucks ; fhe died Jan. 22, 1652 ; and he dying without ilTue, the 14th of January, 1675, was fucceeded by his nephew,
Sir William Clifton, Bart, only furviving fon of Sir Clifford Clifton, Knt. and Frances his wife, daughter of Sir Heneage Finch, Knt. Recorder of London ; which Sir Clifford, was the only fon of Sir Gervafe, by his fecond marriage ; this Sir Wil- liam died unmarried ; leaving two filters, his coheirs ; Catha- rine, married to Sir John Parfons, Bart, (mother of the late Sir William) and Arabella, married to Sir Francis Wheeler, Knt. one of the Admirals under King William, who was un- fortunately caft away near Cadiz. He was fucceeded in title and eftate by his coufin, Sir Gervafe Clifton, Bart, eldeft fori of Robert Clifton, Efq; another fon of Sir Gervafe, by his fixth wife.
Which Sir Gervafe married Anne, daughter of Dudley Bag- nail, of Newry in Ireland, Efq; [which family is now the only remaining branch of thofe two famous brothers, Sir Samuel, and Sir Henry Bagnall, who were fent into Ireland by Queen Eli- zabeth, the firft with the title of Marfhal of that kingdom, and the latter diftinguiihed himfelf very eminently at the taking of Cadiz, where he received eight wounds, and, covered with blood, was then knighted J by whom he had fifteen fons, and one daughter ; ten of the fons died unmarried ; thofe that fur- vived their father, were, 1. Sir Robert, his fucceffor. 2. Wil- liam, who married Mrs. Wharton, by whom he had no iflue. 3. Alfred, firft an officer in the French fervice, afterwards in the Ruflian. 4. Dudley, who embraced a religious life. 5. George, who married Anne, only daughter and heir of Robert Sacheverell, of Barton in Nottinghamfhire, Efq; by whom he had two daughters ; Jane, only daughter of Sir Gervafe, a Nun of the Order of St. Clare, at Graveline. Sir Gervafe
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died, March 17 30-1, and his Lady furviving him, married Wil- liam Blackburr.c, of Ongar, in Eifex, Efq;
Sir Robert Clifton, his eldeft: fon, fucceeded his father in title and eftate, and married the Lady Frances, daughter of the Right Honourable Nanfan Coot, Earl of Bellamont, of the kingdom of Ireland, (by Lady Frances his wife, youngeft daughter of the Right Honourable Henry de NaiTau, Earl of Grantham,) fhe died leaving him only one daughter, Frances- He had the honour, in the year 1725, to be made one of the Knights of the Honourable Order of the Bath ; and was elecled, in feveral parliaments, one of the Reprefentatives for Eaft-Retford, in NottinghamfTiire : He married, fecondly, in June, 1740, , eldeft daughter and co- heir of the late Sir Thomas Lombe, Knt. Alderman of London, by whom he had iflue, and was fucceeded by,
Sir Gervafe, the prefent Baronet, who is married to the daugh- ter and heirefs of the ancient family of the Lloyds, in Pembroke- fhire, and has iiTue two fons, both infants.
Arms. Sable, Seme of Cinquefoils, and a Lion rampant, Argent.
Crest. Out of a Ducal Coronet, a Demi Peacock, per Pale* Argent and Sable, his Wings expanded, counter-changed.
Motto. Tenez le Droit,
Seat. At Clifton, near Nottingham.
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5. Gerard of Bryn, Lancafhire.
Created Baronet, May 22, 161 1.
W
'ALTER FITZOTHER, at the time of the general fur- vey, by William the Conqueror, was Caftellan of Wind- for, Warden of the foreits in Berkfhire, and pofleiTed feveral Lord- fhips in the counties of Middlefex, Hants, and Bucks, that Do*» minus Otherus is faid to have held in the time of Edward the •ConfeiTor.
William, the eldeft fon of that Walter, took the furname of Windfor, from his father's office, and was anceftor to the Lords W"indfor, whofe heir is the prefent Earl of Plymouth ; and from Gerard, brother to that William, the Gerards, and many other families, are lineally defcended.
The faid Gerard is lometimes furnamed de Windfor, and alfo Fitz- Walter, (/. e.) fon of Walter ; the latter Camden ftiles him; mentioning, that the Care ws, as well of England as Ireland, defcended from him. He had by Nefta, his wife, daughter of Rees, fori .pf Theodore the Great, Prince of South Wales, three
ions 1
%i GERARD of Bryn;
fons ; William* Maurice, and David ; the latter was Bifhop of* St. Davids, A. D. 1148, and died 11 76.
Maurice Fitz-Gerald, the fecond fon, was one of the adven- turers With Richard Strongbow, Earl of Pembroke, in the con- queft of Ireland, 11 7O ; as he had been with Robert Fitz-Ste-^ phen, when he landed two years before and took Weifhford ; and here was the firft colony of the JEnglifh, fettled in Ireland* who by their valour opened a way for fubjec"ting that dominion to the Crown of England : The faid Maurice, fettling there, became the anceftor to feveral great and noble families which flourifhed in that kingdom, particularly to the Earls of Kildare, Premier Earls of that realm.
William Fitz-Gerald* eldeft fon of Gerald* died 11 73, and left iflue, 1. Odo, from whom the numerous family of the Ca- rews defcend. 2. Raymond Crafllis, a principal fharer in the conqueft of Ireland, who had a natural fon named Maurice* from whom the Lords Fitz-Maurice, of Kerry, in Ireland, derive them- felves. The other fons of William were, Silvefter, Henry, and William ; the latter is the direct, anceftor to this family of Ge- rard. He was father of that William, who married Emme, eldeft daughter and coheir to Sir Richard Kingfley, of Kingfley, in Chefhire, Knt. and of Joan, his wife, daughter and coheir of Alex, de Stanton ; whole mother, Annabella, was daughter and heir of Randolph Silvefter, 18 Edvv. I. He left iflue two foris, William and John.
William, the eldeft, married Matilda, daughter to Henry de Glafehoufe ; and died at Eton-Hall, 26 Edw. III. He left iflue two fons, William, and Thomas Gerard. From Thomas the Gerards of Crew, in Chefhire, defcended, that ended in an heir- efs, married to Edward Norris, of Speake, in Lancafhire, Efq;
William, the elder brother, married the daughter and heirefs of Peter de Bryn, or Brynhill, in Lancafhire, and was fucceeded by his fon, Sir Peter Gerard de Bryn, who died 4 Rich. II. leav- ing three fons, Thomas, Peter, and John. The laft was married to Helen, only daughter and heirefs of Richard de Ince, from whom the late Earls of Macclesfield, and other great branches, were defcended ; and from a younger fon of the Gerards of Ince, was Sir William Gerard, Knt. defcended ; who was Recorder of Chefter, Mafter of the Requefts, and Lord Chancellor of Ireland, &c temp. Eliz.
Thomas Gerard, of Bryn, the eldeft fon and heir of Sir Peter, before-mentioned, 17 Rich. II. being then a Knight, ferved in parliament for Lancafhire, and left iflue,
Sir Thomas Gerard, Knt. who left iflue a fon of his own name, and another fon, John Gerard. The laft Sir Thomas Gerard, Knt. left iflue Sir Thomas Gerard, Knt. but he dying without iflue,
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Sir Thomas Gerard, of Kingflcy, became his heir, who was greac grand Ton to Peter Gerard, of Kingflcy, before mentioned, who was living temp. Hen. IV. and marrying ifabel, daughter to Thomas Strangeways, Efq; had iffue John, who died 10 Henry VI. father to Peter, who deceafed 4~Henry VII. father to Sir Thomas Gerard, lait named, aged fourteen years, anno 18 Henry VU.
Which Sir Thomas marrying Dowfe, daughter to Sir Tho- mas Afsheton, of Afsheton-Underline, in Lancafhire, Knt. had iffue by her, Peter, who married Margaret, daughter of Sir Wil- liam Stanley, of Hooton, Knt. and heir to her mother Marga- ret, daughter and heir to Sir John Bromley, of Bromley, in Staffordshire, Knt. but died btfore his father, A. D. 1492, € Hen. VII. -The faid Peter left ifiue, Sir Thomas Gerard, and four daughters ; Joan, wife to Richard Done, of Utkington, in Cheshire ; Label, married to Richard Langton, (tiled Baron of Walton and Newton, in Lancafhire ; the third daughter mar- ried William Ratclifr, of Wimberfly; and the fourth, John Southworth, of Samlefbury, Efqrs.
This Sir Thomas, by Margaret his wife, daughter of Sir Ed- mund TrafFord, of TrafFord, in Lancafhire, Knt. widow nrft to
» Longford, fecendly, to Sir John Port, of Etwal, in Der-
byfhire, Knt. had iffue by her, Thomas, his fon and heir, and four daughters, Margaret, wife to Peter Legh, of Lyme, in Chefhire ; Catharine, wife to Thomas Hoghton, of Hoghton
Tower ; Elizabeth, wife of Richard Bokh, of Bold ; and •,
wife to Richard Afsheton, of Middleton, in Lancaihire, Efqrs.
Thomas, fon and heir of the la ft Sir Thomas, was Knight of the Shire~~Tor Lancashire, 8 and 9 Eliz. He married Jane, daughter of Sir Peter Legh, of Lyme, and was High Sheriff, 1548. They left ifTue, Catharine, married to William Tar- bock, Efq; and Sir Thomas Gerard, Knt. who was High She- riff of Lancafhire, 1553, rn<^ I55% : ^c marri£d Elizabeth, cldcft daughter of Sir John Port, of Etwal, in Derbyfhire, Knt. (and Elizabeth his wife, daughter and heir to her mother's in- heritance, being daughter of Sir Thomas Gifford, of Chilling- ton, in Stafford fhire, Knt. and Dorothy his wife, daughter and coheir of Sir John Montgomery, Knt.) which Sir John Port was fon of John Port, Efq; and Jane his wife, daughter of John Fitzherbert, of Etwal, in Derbyfhire, Efq; and relicl: of John Pole, of Radburn, in the fame county, Efq; George, Earl of Huntingdon, married Dorothy, the fecond daughter ; and Sir Thomas Stanhope, (anceftor to the prefent Earl ^f Chefter- field,) Margaret, the third daughter, coheireffes to the faid Sir John Port. Sir Thomas Gerard left iffue three daughters, Mary, wife to John Jennifon, of Walworth, in Durham, Efq; Do-
Vo l, I. D roiby.
34 GERARD of Bryn.
rothy, married to Edmund Peckham, Efq; fon of Sir George ; and Martha, married to Michael Jennifon, Efq; brother to John ; alfo two fons, Sir Thomas Gerard, Knt. and John Ge- rard.
SirThorras Gerard, Knt. the eldeft fon, was created a Ba- ronet at the firft inftitution of that honour, anno 1611, 9 Jac, I. He married three wives ; 1. Cecily, daughter of Sir Walter Maney, of Staplehurft, in Kent, Knt. 2. Mary, daughter of James Hawes, of London, and widow of Sir Robert Lee, of London, Knt. and, 3. Mary, daughter of William Dormer,
Efq j and widow of Browne, Efq; By the two laft he
had no iffue ; but by the firft he had Sir Thomas, his fucceftbr, and a daughter Frances, married to Ralph Standi{h,vof Standifn^ in Lancashire, Efq; but died without iffue.
Sir Thomas, fucceftbr to the title and eftate, married, in his father's life-time, Frances, daughter of Sir Richard Molineux, of Sefton, in Lancafhire, Bart, and had ifTue fix fons ; 1. Sir William. 2. Richard. 3. Gilbert. 4. Peter. 5. Thomas. And 6. John : The four laft died unmarried. Alfo a daughter Frances.
Richard Gerard, the fecond fon of Sir Thomas, was born in October, 1613. This Gentleman, after having acquired im- mortal glory in the field, in feveral very obftinate and doubtful battles, in one of which he was fhot through the thigh, but recovered, at laft died on the 5th of September, 1686, at Ince. * He married two wives ; 1. Frances, daughter of Sir Ralph Hanfly, of Tickhill-caftle, in the county of York, Knt. by whom he had a fon, who died in his infancy. 2. Judith, daugh- ter to Sir Nicholas Steward, of Patefhall, in the county of Northampton,, Knt. by whom he had fix ions ; Thomas, and Richard, hereafter mentioned ; William, Nicholas, John, and Charles, which four laft all died unmarried before him ; and three daughters, Frances died Abbefs of Ghaunt in Flanders ; Anne, a Nun, at Liege, and Julima, died in her infancy.
1. Thomas Gerard, of Ince, and Afpul, his eldeft fon, left five daughters and four fons ; (1. Richard, the eldeft ; 2. Wil- liam, deceafed without iffue; 3. Thomas, and, 4. Carryl.) 2. Richard Gerard, who left iffue one fon, Richard, who was father of three children, William, Mary, and Elizabeth.
Sir William Gerard, Bart, who fucceeded his father in title and eftate, married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Cuthbert Clif- ton, of Lytham, Knt. Sir William had iffue four fons, Sir William, his fucceflbr ; Thomas ; Cuthbert ; and John Gerard, who married the heirefs of Ince, (the three laft died without iffue) and one daughter, Frances, wife to Francis Howard, of Corbv, in "Cumberland, Efq.
Sir
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GERARD of Bryn. 3^
Sir ' William .Gerard , Bart, the eldeft fon, married firft, Anne", daughter of Sir John Prcfton, Bart, by Jane his wife, daughter and coheir of Jhomas Morgan, of Wefton, in Warwickmire, Efq; and eldeft fitter of Sir Thomas Prefton, of the manor in ^umeis, in Lancashire, Bart, (whofe eldeft daughter and co- heir Mary married William, Marquis of PowiT; and Anne, the fecond daughter, was wife to Hugh, Lord Clifford) and by her had iflue Sir William Gerard, Thomas, John, and Fran- cis, which three laft died without [flue; and fix daughters, Mary, Elizabeth, Anne, (who married Charles Waterton, of Walton in the county of York, Efq;) Bridget, Frances, and Winifred, who all died unmarried, except Anne. The fecond M*t0 Slj:y;1,iam Gerard, was Marv, fifhr of Sir Edward Moftyn, of 1 alacre, in Flintfhire, Bart, and widow of James
c!' T°i.n°0lVn Che{hire> E% by her he had no iffue. , j*Y: llliam Gerard> Bart, his eldeft fon and fucceflbr, mar- ried Mary, fecond daughter of John Cansfield, of Cansfield, Efqj and Elizabeth his wife. Sir William had iffue, firft, three daughters, Anne, Mary and Elizabeth, who both died unmar- ried 5 and afterwards, three fons, Sir William, his fuccefTor ; John, and 1 homas, who died an infant.
Sir William Gerard, Bart, who fucceeded his father in tide and eftate, married Elizabeth, fourth daughter of Thomas Clif- ton, of Lytham, in Lane afh ire, Efq; by whom he left iifiie three ions, and one daughter; Sir William, his fucceiTor; Thomas, iuccenor to his brother - Robert, and Marv.
SirWiIham Gerard, the eldeft fon, was the next Baronet, but dying unmarried, he was fucceeded by his brother,
Sir Thomas, the prefent Baronet, who married Mifs Tafho- rough.
Arms. Argent, a Saltire, Gules.
Crest. On a Wreath, a Lion rampant, Ermine, crown'd, Or,
Motto. LnDieu eft mon Efter mice.
Seat. At Bryn, in Lancashire.
6. Shelley, of Michelgrove, SuiTex.
Created Baronet, May 22, j6ii.
'pHIS family is undoubtedly of great antiquity, and came
thoJhV u ^?:3?5*» the Conquerors of which,
though a younger branch, was Judge Shelley, who was fent by K;ng Henry V II. to Cardinal Wolfey, to demand the furren- *te 0* York-Plac£? near Weftminfter, (now Whitehall) be-
Ion gins
36 SHELLEY of MicKelgrove.
longing to the Archbiihoprick of York, into the King's hands*
After iome" altercation between the Judge and the Cardinal, the
was obliged to fubmit ; but charged the Judge to requeft
eftyfl that he would call to his moft gracious remem-
: i here was both a Heaven and a HelL
ally alfo, was Sir Thomas Shelley, one of the firft
gentlemen's /families of diftincl:ion that became a proteftant,
- iz. as were alfo Richard Shelley* and Henry Shelley.
descendant of the fame lineage, was Sir Richard Shelley,
>rd Prior of St. John of Jerufalem : He was Dominus natus; therefore when in Spain, refined to be called Prior d'Inglaterra, and ftiled himfelf Turcopolier for the Englifh nation 5 and had his feat in the noufe of Peers.
This family removed from Huntingdonihire near 500 years ago, and have ever fmce continued at Beckley, and Michelgrove, in SufTex.
The firft mentioned in their pedigree, is John Shelley, who had two fens ; 1. John ; 2. Thomas Shelley, whofe daughter and heir, Alice* married Sir William Brampton, Knt.
John Shelley, the eldeft fon, by Margaret his wife, daughter and heir of John Rolph, had three fons, who were all great men in their time, and all of them received the honour of knighthood. 1. Sir John ; 2. Sir Thomas, who ferved as Knight of the Shire for Bucks, 21 Rich. II. 3. Sir William Shelley, who had two fons ; Richard, the eldeft, died without iftue ; Robert, the fe- cond fon5 8 Henry V. married Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of John Pettit, by whom he left iffue two fons, John, and Thomas; which laft was of Hunfdon. But this line termina- ted in an heir female, Alice, married to Thomas Randall, Efq.
John, the eldeft fon, was a Burgefs in Parliament for the town of Rye in SufTex, 5, 8, and 9 Hen. V. and 1 Hen. VI. He married Beatrix, daughter and heir to Sir John Hawkwood, Knt. by whom he had one fon, John, who married Elizabeth, daugh- ter and heir to John Michelgrove, of Michelgrove, in SufTex, Efq; (by Mary his wife, daughter of William Sydney, of Penf- hurft, in Kent, Efq;) by whom he had three fons ; 1. Richard, of Patcham, in SufTex, who, by Mary, daughter of Sir Richard Urdefwick, Knt. was anceftor to the Shelieys of Patcham. 2. Sir William, v/ho continued the line. 3. Edward, who was of Warminghurft-Park, in SufTex, and father of Henry Shelley, of W^arrninghurft, Efq; who married Anne, daughter and heir to Richard Sackvile, of Buckhurft, Efq; and was anceftor to thofe of that place. He died Jan. 3, 1526.
Sir William Shelley married Alice, eldeft daughter of Sir Henry Belknap, Knt. (and Margaret his wife, daughter of Sir
Richard
SHELLEY of Michelgrove. 37
Richard Knowles, Knt.) fitter and coheir of Sir Edw. Belknap, Knt. by whom he had hTue, five ,fons ; l. John; 2. Sir Richard ; 3. Sir James, who were both Knights of Malta ; 4. Edward, (lain at Mufcleburgh-Field, in Scotland; 5. Tho- mas, of Maple-Durham, who, by Mary, daughter of Sir Roger Copley, Knt. was father of Henry Shelley, of Maple-Durham, Efq; who married Mary, daughter and coheir of Sir John Lut- terell, Knt. and was anceftor to thofe of that place : Sir William had alfo three daughters, of which, Elizabeth, was wife of Sir Roger Copley, Knt. and Catharine, married to Henry Browne, Efq; fon of Sir Matthew Browne, of Beechworth-Caftle, in Surry, Knt.
John Shelley, of Michelgrove, Efq; the eldeft fon, married Mary, daughter of Sir William Fitz-Williams, Knt. and Maud his wife, daughter of Sir Richard Sackvile, of Buckhurir, Knt. (who furviving him, married Sir Robert Guldeford, Knt.) by whom he had two fons, and fix daughters; 1. William, who
married to his firft wife, Jane, daughter and heir of Lingen,
of Sutton, in Herefordfhire, Efq; and, fecondly, Mary, daughter
of Thomas Wriothefley, Earl of Southampton, relict of
Lifter, Efq; fon and heir of Sir Martin Lifter, Knt. but left no iiTue. 2. John, of whom hereafter. He died 15 April, 39 Eliz. Of the daughters, 1. Elizabeth, was married to Sir Thomas GifFord, Knt. 2. Eleanor, to Thomas Norton, Efq; fon and heir to Sir John Norton, of Norwood, in Kent, Knt. 3. Margaret, to Edward Gage, Efq; 4. Mary, to Sir George Cotton, of Warblington, in Southampton, Knt. 5. Bridget, married to Sir Anthony Hungerford, of Downampney, in Wilts, Knt. And, 6. Anne, wife to Sir Richard Shirley, of Wifton, in SufTex, Knt. This John Shelley, Efq; the father of thefe children, died Dec. 16, 4 Edw, VI. 1550.
John Shelley, Efq; fecond fon, heir to his brother, married Eleanor, daughter of Sir Thomas Lovell, of Eaft-Harling, in Norfolk, Knt. (fon of Sir Francis Lovell, of Barton, Knt. and Anne his wife, daughter of George Alhby, of— — , in Middle- sex, Efq;) by whom he had two fons, John, and Henry, who died unmarried ; alfo, one daughter, Elizabeth, married to Sir Thomas Timperleigh, of Suffolk, Knt.
John Shelley, of Michelgrove, Efq; the eldeft fon and heir, was advanced to the degree of a Baronet, at the firft erection of that dignity, 9. James I. He married Jane, daughter of Sir Thomas Rerefby, of Thribergh, in Yorkfhire, Knt. by whom he had two fons ; Sir William,, who was knighted, and John Shelley, Efq; who married Mary, daughter and heir of George Bailey, Efq; and died without iiTue.
D 3 Sir
3,8 SHELLEY of IVJichelgrov
Sir William Shelley, Knt. his elcleil (on, married Chrifliana, daughter of Sir James Vantelet, Knt,' and died 1635, in his la- ther's life-time, leaving only one ion,
Sir Charles Shelley, Bart. fuc cello r to his grandfather, who, by Elizabeth, daughter of Benjamin Weflon, of Walton upon Thames, in Surry, Efq; (and Elizabeth his wife, daughter of William Sheldon, of Honby, in LciceiTcrfhire, Efq; and relict of Chriftopher Viilers, Earl of Angkfea,) the fourth ion of Ri- chard Wefton, Earl of Portland, he had' four fons ; Benjamin, and Charles, who died young; Sir John, his fuccefTor ; and William, who died without iiTue ; alio two daughters, Eliza- beth, and Chriftiana, who both died unmarried. His fecond wife was Marv, daughter of Thomas Gifford, of Dunton-Wal- cot, in Eflex, Efq; and relict of George, Lord Abergavenny, by whom he had no ifiue ; he died about 1681, and was buried at Roan, in France, and his Lady, who furvived him, died 1695. He was fucceeded in dignity and eftate by his eldeft fur- "Viving fon,
Sir John Shelley, Bart, who married to his firft wife Bridget, only daughter of George, Lord Abergavenny, by whom he had only one daughter, Frances, married to Richard, Lord Vifcount Fitzwilliams, of Mount-Merion, in the kingdom of Ireland, by whom fhe had feveral children ; Sir John's fecond wife was Mary, daughter and coheir of Sir John Gage, of Firle, in Suf- fex, Bart, (coheir with the Lady Vifcountefs Fauconberg.) He died, April 25, 1703, leaving ifiue, by his fecond Lady, two fons ; Sir John, his fuccefTor ; and Richard, who married Mrs. Fleetwood., by whom he hath iiTue ; alfo three daughters, Mary, married to the late Sir John Lawfon, of Brough, m Yorkfhire, Bart. Elizabeth, to Edward Sheldon, of Wefl'on, in Warwick- shire, Efq; and Catharine, to Matthews, of Ireland, Efq;
Sir John Shelley, the prefent Baronet, married firft, Catha- rine, daughter of Sir Thomas Scawen, Knt. Alderman of Lon- don, by whom he had iflue two daughters, Catharine, and Mary; this Lady dying Sept. 1726, he married the Hon. Mrs. Margaret Pelham, (by his fecond wife, the Lady Grace Holies, fourth and youngeff. daughter to Gilbert, Earl of Clare,) filler to his Grace, Thomas, the late Duke of Newcaftlc. T ms Lady died Nov. 13, 1768, leaving ifiue one fon, the Right Hon. Joh.i Shelley, Efq; Member in the laft and prefent Parliaments for Newark, in Nottinghamfhire, one of his Majefty's Molt Hon. Privy Council, Treafurer of his Majefty's Houfhold, Keeper of the Records in the Tower, and Clerk of the Pipe in the Exchequer ; and two daughters, 1. Henrietta, who, June 26, 1756, was married to the Right Hon. George Onflow, Efq; Knight of the Shire in the lad and prefent Parliaments for the
county
BARRINGTON, of Barrington-Hall. 39
county of Surry, a Privy Counfellor, a Commiffioner of the Treafury, Colonel of the fecorid battalion of the Surry militia, and High Steward of Kingfton ; and 2. Elizabeth, married to John Cannon, Efq;
Arms. Sable, a Fefs ingrailed, between three Periwincles, (Whelks) Or.
Crest. On a Wreath, Or, and Sable, a Griffin's Head erafed, Argent, beaked and ducally gorged, Or.
Seats. At Beckley, and Michelgrove, in SinTex.
7. Bakrington, of Barrington-Hall, Eflex.
Created Baronet, June 29, 1611.
MR. Camden, in bis Britannia, fays, f Barrington-Hall 1 (heretofore) the feat of that eminent family of the Bar-
* ringtons, who, in the time of King Stephen, were greatly en-
* riched with the eftate of the Lords Montfitchet ; and in the
* memory of our fathers, a match with the daughter and co-
* heir of Henry Pole, Lord Montacute, fon and heir to Mar- c garet, Countefs of Salifbury, rendered them more illuftrious,
* by an alliance with the royal blood.'
The firft we find mentioned in the pedigree, in Chauncy's Hertfordfhire, is, Sir Odynell Barrington, or Barentone, as the name was anciently written, defcended from Barrington, that ferved Queen Emme, wife of King Etheldred, father of Edward the Confeflbr ; he was Baron of Wegon, and incurred the com- mon fate of his country, becoming fubje£fc to the Normans ; •which may be the reafon that none of the name, either as chief Lords, or fub-tenants, in Eflex, are mentioned in Doomfday Book ; yet Selden finds Radulfus de Barentona to be fworn among others in the hundred of Trepeflau, in Cambridgefhire, to take the Conqueror's furvey ; and the town and parifh of Barrington, near Cambridge, is faid to take name from him.
Mr. Le Neve, (late Norroy King at Arms,) fays, the Bar- ringtons are defcended from Barentone, a Saxon, who had the cuftody of the foreft of Hatfield-Regis, temp. Will. I. as may be gathered out of the old writings of the family; and that Euftachius de Barentona, (fon of Barentone the Saxon) was fervant to King Hen. I. and had granted him, by that King, lands, and the cuftody of the foreft, and that he died in the time of King Stephen.
Humphry, his fon and heir, married Grifilde, fifler to Sir Ralph Marcy. Their fon, Humphrey de Barenton^ was under
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40 HARRINGTON, of Barrington-Hall.
aoe at his father's deceafe, and in ward to Kin? Hen. II. He lived in the reigns of -Hen. II. Rich. I. and King John, and was High Sheriff of Effex and Hertford (hi re, 9 Rich. I. (an office in thofe da) s of great authority, \ and, by his wife Amicia, the only daughte; of Sir William, third fon of Sir Jeffery de Mandevile, bar] of Effex, Founder of the Abbey of Walden, he had a fon, Sir Nicholas, who married, i. Mary, daughter of John Bovile ; and aifo, 2. Maud, daughter of Sir Ralph Mortoft, Km. He had no iiTue by the firft ; but by the latter a daugh- ter, Margaret, married to Sir James Urn freville, and feveral foes ; whereof Nicholas, the eldsii, fucceedcJ to the inheri- tance, was knighted, and living temp. Hen. ill. and Edw. I. and by Agnes, his wife, daughter and heir to Sir W hiiam Chet- v/ynd, was father of another Sir Nicholas, John, and Philip ; and four daughters, of which, Margaret, married Sir Martin, Suchemer, Knt.
Sir Nicholas, living temp. Edw. II. and Edw. III. fon and heir of the laft Sir Nicholas, married Alice, daughter and heir of Sir Richard Belhoufe, Knt. From the faid Alice, proceeded four fons, Nicholas, Thomas, Roger, and Sir Philip, who married Marearet, daughter of Sir William Tev, of Eilex> Knt. and was father of Nicholas Banington, of 'Raleigh-park, in Effex, Efq;
Sifter and heir to John, was Thomazine, living temp. Henry VI. who ..fir ft married William Lunsford, Efq; (from Lunsford, of Lunsford, in Suffer;;) fecondly, William Sidney, of Penfhurft, in Kent, Efq-, (from whom the Earls of> Lcicefter defcended ;) and thirdly, the married John Hopton, Efq;
Nicholas Barenton, eldeft fon of the laft Sir Nicholas, and brother to Sir Philip, was living temp. Edw. II. and III. having to his wife Em me, daughter and coheir to Sir Robert Baard, Knt. He had four fons ; Sir John, Humphry, Thomas, and Philip ; and a daughter, Lettice, who died unmarried. The iaid Nicholas was fueceeded by
. John, his eldeft fon ; which John was knighted, and married Margaret, daughter and heir to Sir John Blomvile, Knt. He rhad.twc fons, John, and Edward. John Barenton, the eldeft fon, was alioiiil.d Banington, and the firft that was juftly fa •called.; he was living temp. Hen. IV. and V. and by his wife Alice, one of the daughters and heirs of Thomas Battle, younger •fon of Sir John Battle, of Onger-paik, in EfTex, Knt. by Eli- zabeth his wife, daughter and heir of Sir Richard Ennefield, Knt/ had iiiue 1 nomas, Humphry, and Elizabeth, married to John S ul yard.
Thomas, t°.e eldeft fon, was High Sheriff" of EiTcx and Hert- ford, 30 fTnry VI. He married a fecond time to Anne, the
fecond
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fecond daughter, and one of the heirs of Sir John Holbeach, Knt. and of his wife, the daughter and coheir of Sir John Roch- ford, of Lincolnfhire, Knt. He lies buried with his wife Anne, in Hatfield- church, Broad-oak: She dying the day after him, this diftich was made on them :
He firji deceased ; Jhe fir a fizv hours try 4 To live without bitn, md & not, and dycL
Humphry Barringtcn, fon and heir to the laid Thomas, mar- ried Margaret, daughter of * Bretton, of EfTex, and had iiTue
Nicholas, who took to wife, Anne, daughter of Thomas Darcy, of Tolfhunt-Darcy, in Eflex, and left two fore, Richard, and Sir Nicholas j which Richard was aged twenty years at his father's death, 27 Sept. 21 Henry VII. but died without iffue. The faid Nicholas had a wife, named Elizabeth, that furvived him, (but whether fhe, and not Anne, was the daughter of Thomas Darcy, is uncertain.)
Sir Nicholas, fon to Nicholas aforefaid, died about the year 152 1. Elizabeth, his wife, furvived him, who was daughter of Sir John Brocket, of Brocket-hall, in Hertford (hi re, and after- wards married William Boughton, of Lawford, in Warwick- shire, Efq;
The faid John Barrington fucceeding to the inheritance^was in ward to Thomas Bonham ; and living 25 Henry VIII. he married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Bonham, fifter and heir of Sir Walter Bonham, by Catharine his wife, fifter and heir to the Lord Marney, Knight of the Garter : He had by her a fon, Thomas, whom he left under age. He was High Sheriff of the counties of Hertford and EiTex, 4 Eliz. and had two wives ; 1. Alice, daughter of Henry Parker, Lord Morley, by whom he had only one daughter, Elizabeth ; and 2. Winifrid, younger! daughter and coheir of Henry Pole, Lord Montagu, and relict of Sir Thomas Haftings, Knt. Catharine, the elderl daughter and coheir of the faid Henry, Lord Montagu, v/as married to Francis, Earl of Huntingdon, eldeft brother to Sir Thomas Flattings ; which Henry was Ion to Sir Richard Pole, Knight of the Garter, by Margaret Plantagenet, his wife, Countefs of Salifbury, filler and fole heir to Edward, Earl of Warwick, and daughter to George, Duke of Clarence, younger brother to King Edw. VI. And of this illuftrious marriage defcended two fons ; Sir Francis Barrington, who was created Baronet ; and Henry, a Gentleman-penfioner, who died without iflue. As alio a daughter, Catharine, wife of William, fon and heir to Sir Ralph Bourchier, of Beningborough, in Yorkfhire, Knt.
Francis, his fon and heir, ferved as Knight of the Shire for EfTex, in the Parliament held at Weltminfter, 43 Eliz. and on
the
42 BARRINGTON, of Barnngton-Halj.
the apceffipn of- King James I. to the Englifh Crovyn, yras knighted at Theobalds, 7 May, A.'D. 1603 ; and,, by the Jam Prince, farther advanced to the degree of a Baronet, at the £i;it inftitution of that dignity, A. D. 1.61 1. He married Joan9 daughter to Sir Henry Cromwell., alias WiHrams, of Hinching- brook, in Huntingdonfhire,. Knt. filler of Sir Oliver Crom- well, Knt. and had iffue four fons, and five daughters: 1. Sir Thomas. 2. Robert, of Hatfield-Broadoak, who married Do- rothy, daughter of Sir Thomas Eden, oj£ Sudbury, in Sufblk,
£nt. the widow of Barret, Efq; brother, of Sir Edward ;
by whom he left pofterity, which ended in a daughter, Joan, married to Mr. Gyles, of the Six-clerks Office in Chancery. 3. Francis Barrington, of London, who, by a daughter of Mr- Richard Doucet, had a fon, Francis. And 4. John, a Captain, who died in Germany. The daughters were, Elizabeth., mar- ried firft to Sir James Altham, of Marks-hall, in Effex, &mt, and afterwards to Sir William Malham, of High-Layer, in EfTex* Bart. 2. Mary, to Sir Gilbert Gerard, of Flapiberds,, on Harrow the Hill, Bart. 3. Winifrid, wife of Sir William, Meux, of Kingfton, in the Ifte of Wight, I£nt. 4. Ruth, wife of Sir George Lamplugh, of Cumberland, Knt. And 5. Joan, married to Sir Richard Everard, of Much-Waltham, in Effex, $art. Sir Francis, died 3 July, 4 Char. I. and was fiicceeded by his eldeft fon, Sir Thomas, who received the honour of knighthood in his father's life-time.
Which Sir Thomas Barrington, Knt. and Bart, married firft, Frances, daughter and coheir to John Gobert, of Coyentry, Efq; by whom he had a daughter, Lucy, firft married to WiUiam Cheyney, of Chefham-Boys, in Bucks, Efq; and fecondly, to Sir Toby Tyrrel, of Thornton, in Bucks, Bart, and two fons ; Sir John, who fucceeded him, and Sir Gobert Barrington, of Tofts, in Little Badow, in Effex, Knt. who married firft, Lucy, daugh- ter of Sir Richard Wifeman, of TorrePs-Hall, in Effex, Knt. by whom he had fix fons ; Thomas, Francis, Richard, Robert, John, and Theophilus; the four laft died young; alfo fix daughters. Thomas, the eldeft fon, called Col. Barrington, died without iffue, whereupon the eftate went to his brother, Francis Barrington, of Tofts, Efq; He married the daughter of Mr. Samuel Shute, of London, who was Sheriff of the faid city, 168 1, by whom he had no iflue, and left his eftate to his wife's brother, John Shute, Efq; who, by Act of Parliament, changed his name to Barrington, and was created Lord Barrington, of Newcaftle, in the county of Dublin, and Vifcount Barrington, of Ardglafs, in the county of Down, in Ireland, 7 Geo. I. and died Dec. 1734; being father of the prcfept Lord Vifcount Barrington. Sir Gobert, married to his feco&d Lady, Elizabeth,
relia
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felid: of Hugh Lawton, Efq; by whom he had no ifTue. He died about 1695; and fhe departed this life, 1702-3, aged eighty-four.
Sir Thomas had to his fecond Lady, Judith, daughter to Sir Rowland Lytton, of Knebworth, in Hertfordfriire, Knt. and widow of Sir George Smith, of Annables, in the fame county* Knt. which Judith died, without ifiue, 1657, aged ftxty-fivc years j and Sir Thomas, 1644., and was fucceeded by his eldeft ion,
Sir John Barrington, Knt. and Bart, who married Dorothy, daughter to Sir William Lytton, of Knebworth, in Hertford- shire, Knt. (fhe furvived him, and died Oct. 27, 1703,) bjy whom he had five fons ; 1. Thomas. 2. Francis, who died un- married. 3. John, who married Elizabeth, daughter to Edward Hawkins, of Bifhop-Stratford, Gent, and had ifTue, Sir John, his (on and heir, father of the prefent Baronet. 4. Francis, who died unmarried ; and 5. William, who married Sarah, daughter and heir of Richard Young, of London, Merchant? but died without iflue ; fhe furviving him, afterwards married
Wynne, Efq; Alfo nine daughters, of which Winifrid,
was wife to Richard Wifeman, Efq; fon to Sir Richard Wife- man, of Torell's-hall, in Eflex, Knt. and Lucy, wife to John Walter, of Chepftow, in Monmouthfhire, Efq;
Thomas Barrington, Efq; eldeft fon of Sir John, married the Lady Anne, daughter and coheir to Robert Rich, Earl of Warwick, and had by her three fons ; Sir John, Sir Charles, and Richard, who died unmarried ; and two daughters ; Mary, who died unmarried, Oct. 1727, and Anne, wife to Mr. Charles Shales, Goldfmith to her late Majefty Queen Anne, and King George I. and II. She died Nov. 17, 1729, (and he, Oct. 5, 1734,) leaving two fons, viz. Richard, and John (Shales) Bar- rington, of Hatrield-Broadoak, Efq; The faid Thomas dying in his father's life-ti ie, Jan. 1681, (his relict, afterwards mar- ried Sir Richard Francklyn, of Ryflip, in Middlefex, Bart.) whereupon, the dignity and eftate defcended to his eldeft fon,
John, as heir to his grandfather ; which Sir John, dying unmarried, of the fmall-pox, 1691, was fucceeded by his brother,
c^r Charles Barrington, Bart, who was feveral times elected in Parliament one of the Knights of the Shire for the county of EHjx, and was made by Queen Anne, Vice-Admiral of the iaid county. He died January 29, 17 14- 15. He married firft, Bridget, fole daughter to Sir John Mu 11 foil, of Broxburn, in Kertfordfliire, Bart, (by Judith, his wife, daughter to Sir Thomas Pelham, Bart, great-grandfather to Thomas, late Duke of Ncwcaftle,) and after her deceafe, Anna-Maria, daugh- ter
44 BARRINGTON of Barrington-HalT.
ter to William, Earl Fitz-William, of the kingdom of Ireland,, who was feated at Milton, near Peterborough ; fhe was only filler to John, the late Earl, and died July, 17 17, without ifiue. The title defcended to
Sir John, fon and heir of John Harrington, Efq; third fon of Sir John Barrington, Bart, grandfather to the late Sir Charles.; whidh Sir John Barrington, Bart, married Sufan, daughter to George Draper,, of Hitchin, in Hertfordfhire, Gent, and left Hue three fons ; Sir. John, Charles, and Fitzwilliam, married,,
1. the fole daughter and heir of Captain Thomas Mead,
2. to Mifs Jane Hall, by whom he has five children now living, John, FitzwHliarrfs, Ann, Winifred, and Jane j and two daughters ; Sufan, married to Barrington Flacke, of Linton, m Cambridgeshire, Lfq; and Sarah.
Sir John, dying Auguft, 1717, was fucceeded in dignity and eilate by his eldeft fon,
Sir John Barrington, the prefent Baronet, who was a Member in the feventh Parliament of Great Britain for Newton, in the Ifle of Wight, for which place he was again chofen for the, ninth and every fucceeding Parliament. He married Mary, daughter of Patricius Roberts, Efq; (by Elizabeth, elded daugh- ter of John Weflon, of Ockham, in the county of Surry, Efq;,} by whom he had no iffue. His Lady died June 17, 1752.
Arms. Argent, three Chevroneil-s, Gules, a Label of as many Points, Azure.
Crest. On a Wreath, an Hermit's Buft, with a Cowl* veiled, Paly, Argent and Gules..
Motto. lTW durant ma Vie,
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Seat. At Swaynfton, in the Ifle of Wight, Hampfhire.
8, Musgrave, of Hartley- Caftie, WeftmorelancL
Created Baronet, June 29, 161 1»
THIS family is of great antiquity and reputation, and came- into England with William the Conqueror : Their name implies fome ofEce or command, which they might have upon the marches, or mofies towards Scotland. Camden, in his Bri- tannia, fpeaking of the two villages called Mufgrave, in Weft- morel and, fays, 4 which gave name to the warlike family of the * Mu {graves/
The firft of that name that we find mentioned, is, Sir Adam de Mufgrave, Knt. temp. John, about the year 1204. Thor mas, his fon, who lived before 25 Hen. I'll, left ifTue^ Thomas*
wh.«fe
MUSGRAVE of Hartley-Caftle. 45
who was one of the Executors of Robert de Vipont, that pow- erful Baron, and was Sheriff of Weftmoreland, 44 Henry III. He died 49 Hen. III. leaving Thomas, his fon and heir, who was living 6 Edw. I. and 4 Edw. II.
Thomas de Maigrave, his fon and heir, was returned to fervc in Parliament for the county of Weftmoreland, 14, 15, 17, 18, and 20 Edward ill. Upon the invafion in the North, made by David Bruce, King of Scotland, he joined with the Barons in thofe parts, and was one of the Commanders in the. van of that army, which gave him battle near Durham, utterly routing his forces, and taking the King priibner. He was, for his fignal knowledge in national affairs, fummoned by Writ, amongft the Barons of this kingdom, from 24 to 47 Edw. 111. inclusive. He married three wives ; 1. Margaret, daughter and coheir of William Roos, of Yotton. 2. Mary, daughter of John Vaux, relict of Thomas Holland, Earl of Huntingdon. 3. Ifabel, widow to Robert, fon of Robert, Lord Clifford, and daughter to Thomas, Lord Berkley, by whom he had a daugh- ter, married to Henry Wharton ; and two fons ; Thomas and William. He died, 1384.
Thomas, his fon and heir, was a Knight, and returned to ferve in Parliament, as one of the Knights of the Shire for the county of York, 37 and 43 Edw. III. was Sheriff of Cumber- land, 16 Rich. II. and Knight of the Shire for Weftmoreland, 1 Hen. IV. He died 10 Henry IV". 1409 : When Hartley- Caftle, with Mufgrave, the ancient inheritance, devolved on Sir Richard Mufgrave, Knt. his fon, who left iffue, Thomas
Mufgrave, Efq; who married , daughter of the Lord Dacre,
and died Jan. 3, 1447, 25 Hen. VI. leaving iffue S4ir Richard, who was married to Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Betham, Knt. He died the 9th of Nov. 1464, leaving iffue, Sir Thomas Mufgrave, Knt. who married Joan, daughter and coheir of Sir William de Stapleton, of Edenhall, in Cumberland, Knt. He died 9 Edw. IV. (His brothers were, John, who died unmarried, and Henry, who married Mary, the other daughter and coheir of Sir William de Stapleton, of Edenhall, Knt. His filters* were, Margaret, wife to Thomas Elderton ; Mary, of Thoma- lin Warcop ; Agnes, of Robert Warcop ; Eleanor, wife of Rowland Thornborough ; Elizabeth, of Thomas A Gart ; and Ifabel, of Thomas Middleton.) This Sir Thomas left iffue two daughters ; Margaret, married to John Sandford, and Ifa- bel, to John Crakehthorp, of Newbrig, Efqrs. alfo four fons ; Sir Richard, Sir John, Nicholas, and William ; from whom four branches of the Mufgraves were defcended, viz. thofe of Edenhall; of Mnfgrave-hall, or Fairbank 3 of Haytor. 3 and of Crookdakc,
Sir
ifi MUSGRAVEof Hartley-Caftle.
Sir John Mufgrave, fecond fon,> was knighted at the battle of Kewark upon Trent, by King Henry VII, and was Sheriff of Cumberland, 7 Henry VII. He married twice; 1. Joane, daughter of John Grackenthorp ; and, 2. Margaret, filler to the Lord Dudley, and had pofterity by both wives.
The third fon, Nicholas Mufgrave, was of Hayton-Caftle, who married Margaret, daughter and coheir of William Filiol. And, William Mufgrave, the fourth fon, was of Crookdake, in Cumberland : He married, firft, Felix, daughter and coheir of William Filiol, and fecondly, Margaret, daughter of Thorn- ton, and relict of Middleton, and was progenitor to the Muf- graves of that place.
Sir Richard Mufgrave, eld eft fon and heir to Sir Thomas, took to wife Joane, daughter to Thomas, Lord Clifford, and had iflue three daughters ; Margaret, wife to John Heron, of Chipchafe ; Maryj to John Martindale, Efq; and Jane, who died unmarried. He had alfo as many fons \ Edward, Thomas, and John.
Edward, the eldeft fon, in the life-time of his father, was written of. Caterlane, in Cumberland, and with John Craken,- thorp, 5 Hen. VIII. was Sheriff of Cumberland. 1 1 Hen. VIIL he was again in that poft alone ; as likewife 19 Hen. VIIL be- ing then, or before knighted. He married to his firft wife, Alice, daughter of Thomas Radcliff, Efqj his fecond wife was Joan, daughter and coheir of Sir Chriftopher Ward", of Gryndall, in Yprkihire, Knt. Standard-bearer to King Henry VIIL at the fi'ege 'of Bulloign. He had iflue by the laft wife, Elizabeth, married to John Latimer, Efq; Joan, and Magdalen ; and three fons ; 1. Sir William, Sbenff of Cumberland, 24 and 33 Henry VIIL who married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Curwen, of Workington, in Cumberland Knt. (and Agnes his wife, daughter of Sir Walter Strickland, of Sifay, Knt.) and was father of Sir Richard Mufgrave, Knt. which Sir Richard dying Sept. 10, 1555, 1 Philip and Mary, left ilfue, by Agnes Jb is \yife, daughter to Thomas Lord Wharton, a fon, Thomas, who died 3 March, 7 Eliz. 1565, getat. 13; and only one daugh- ter, Eleanor, married to Sir Robert Bowes, of Afkc, in York- shire, Knt. whereupon the chief heir male remaining was Si- mon, fecond fon of Sir Edward, hit mentioned.
Which Simon was Sheriff of Cumberland, 11 Eliz. and the next year, for his courage and fidelity to the Crown of England, had the honour of Knighthood conferred on him at Carliile, by the Earl of Suffolk. He married Julian, daughter to William Eiieker, of Elleker, in Yorkshire, Efq; (and Agnes his wife, daughter of Sir Robert Afk, of Aughton, in Yorkshire, Knt.) and was father to X- Chriftopher, 2. Thomas^ who married Urfub,
daughter
M U S G R A V E of Hartley-Caftlc. 47
daughter and coheir of Carnaby, Efq; and was anceftor to
the.Mu&r'ives of Bewcaftle. 3. Sir Richard, of Norton-Conyers, in Yorkmirc, wno married Jane, daughter of John Dalfton, of Cumberland, Efq; and 4. John, married to Ifabel, daughter of Thomas Mufgrave, of Hayton-Caftle, in Cumberland, Efq-, and was anceiior to thofe of Caterlane.
Chriftopher Mufgrave, Efq; fucceeded his father, and married Joan, daughter to Sir Henry Curwen, of Workington, in Cum- berland, Knt. (and Mary his wife, daughter of Sir Nicholas Fair- fax, of Giiling, Knt. and Joan his wife, daughter of Sir Guy Palmes, Knt. Serjeant at Law.) He died in the life-time of fys father, and left iffue only one fon,
Sir Richard Mufgrave, who was fucceflbr to his grandfather : He was made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of King James I. and afterwards was advanced to the degree of a Baronet, in the ninth year of that King's reign. He died at Naples, 6 Nov. 13 James I. leaving ifiue, by Frances his wife., daughter to Philip, Lord Wharton,
Sir Philip Mufgrave, Bart, his fon and heir, aged then kven years. He married Julian, youngeft daughter to Sir Richard Hutton, of Goldfbrough, in Yorkiliire, Knt. One of the Judges of the Common -Pleas. He was returned one of the Knights of the Shire for the county of Weftmoreland, in the Parliament which met April 3, 1640, and again for the fame place, in that which met the November following. In April, 1642, difliking the vio- lent proceedings of that Parliament, he withdrew from the Houfe of" Commons, and returned to it no more till after the Reflora<- tion. Sir Philip was a great military genius, and diftinguifhed himfelf in feveral battles in the Civil Wars. In 1648, taking Carlifle from the rebels by fur/prize, he was appointed Governor thereof. He departed this life at his feat at Edenhall, Feb. 7, 1677-8, aged feventy years, in great honour and efteem, for a wife, loyal, and brave man. His Lady died fomc years before him.
He had by this Lady fix fons, Sir Richard, Philip, (who died at Charenton, in France,) Sir Chriftopher, William, Simon, (who was unfortunately drowned,) and Thomas, Dean of Car- lifle, and Prebendary of Durham, who married firft, Mary, daugh- ter of Sir Thomas Harrifon, of Allerthorp, in the county of York, Knt. (by Margaret, daughter qf the Lord Darcy, of Hornby- Caftle, in Yorkfhire, Knt.) by whom he had one daughter, Mar- garet : His fecond wife was Anne, daughter of Sir John Cradock, of Richmond, in the fame county, Knt. by whom he left no iffue. He died March 28, 1686, aged forty-feven. Sir Philip's only daughter, Frances, was married to Edwar<t Hutchinfon, of Wick- ha/n- Abbey, in Yorkfhire, Efq;
Sir
48 MUSGRAVEof Hardey-Caftle.
Sir Richard Mufgrave, Bart, eldeft Ton and heir to Sir Philip, fucceeded him in title and eftate ; he married Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Harrifon, of Allerthorp, in Yorkfnire, I£nt. and left only one daughter, Mary, married to Thomas Davyfon, of Blackfton, in Durham, Efq; whereupon*
Sir Chriftopher Mufgrave, Knt. .brother to Sir Richard, and third fon to Sir Philip, fucceeded in the dignity and eftate-. He. was twice married ; his firft Lady was Mary, daughter and co- heir of Sir Andrew Cogan, of Greenwich, Bart, by whom he had two fens and one daughter, viz. Philip Mufgrave, Efq; hereafter mentioned, Mary, and Chriftopher. This Lady died in child- bed, at Carlifle-Caftle, July? 1664, in the twenty-eighth year of her age. His fecend Lady was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Francklyn, of Willefdon, in Middlefex, Knt. bv whom he had i\x for.s ; John; Richard, who died young 3 Jofeph, who fcrved as a Reprefentative in Parliament for Cockci mouth, 1713, and died unmarried, 1757; Simon, who died in the Eaft Indies ; Thomas, who died unmarried, 1756;