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Johnston's _Account of the Family of Bruce Earl +of Aylesbury_, 1691, Harl. MS, 3879. + +THE following imperfect attempt to bring together a few notes +relating to the ancient aristocracy of England, is confined in the +first place to the families _now existing_, and regularly +established either as _knightly_ or _gentle_ houses before the +commencement of the sixteenth century; secondly, no notice is taken +of those families who may have assumed the name and arms of their +ancestors in the _female line_: for the truth is, as it has been +well observed,* "that, unless we take the _male line_ as the general +standard of genealogical rank, we shall find ourselves in a hopeless +state of confusion;" thirdly, illegitimate descent is of course +excluded; and, fourthly, where families have sold their original +estates, they will be noticed in those counties where they are at +present seated; if however they still possess the ancient estate of +their family, though they may _reside_ in another county, they will +be mentioned for the most part under that county from whence they +originally sprung. + +In those cases where the whole landed estate of the family has been +dissipated, although the male line still remains, all notice is +omitted, such families having no longer any claim to be classed in +any county. For, "ancient dignity was territorial rather than +personal, the whole system was rooted in the land, and, even in the +present day, though the land may have changed hands often, it has +carried along with it some of that sentiment of regard attached to +the lordship of it, as surely as its earth has the fresh smell which +it gives when upturned by the husbandman."** + +This list also, it must be remembered, does not profess to give an +account of all those families whose descent may possibly be traced +beyond the year 1500, but merely of those who were in the position +of what we now call _county families_ before that period. The line +of demarcation indeed between the families who rose upon the ruins +of the monastic system, and the more ancient aristocracy of England, +is often very difficult to be traced, depending as it does on +documentary evidence often inaccessible, and obscured by the +fanciful and too favourable deductions of the heralds of the +sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. + +With regard to the sources from whence the following memoranda have +been taken, I have endeavoured as much as possible to rely upon the +best county histories and MS. collections of authority, and +carefully to eschew those modern accounts of family history, which, +by ascribing the most absurd pretensions of ancient lineage to +families who bore no _real_ claim to that distinction, have done +much to bring genealogy itself into contempt among that numerous +class of readers who are but slightly acquainted with the subject. + +I cannot conclude without recording my obligations to several +gentlemen who have in the most liberal manner placed their +genealogical collections at my service, and by so doing rendered +less imperfect these notices of the noble and gentle houses of +England: among that number I wish particularly to mention the names +of the late Mr. Joseph Morris of Shrewsbury and Mr. Joseph Hunter, +one of the Assistant Keepers of the Records, the learned and +accurate historian of South Yorkshire. + E.P.S. + + Lower Eatington, July 1, 1860. + + * Quarterly Review, Jan. 1858, p. 37. + ** Quarterly Review, Jan. 1858, p. 31. + + + + +PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION. + +ANOTHER edition of this little work having been called for, I have +carefully revised and corrected what has been already written; I +have also made some additions, the result of further investigation, +and the information of many friends and correspondents, whose +courtesy and kindness I here beg most gratefully to acknowledge. + +Since the book was published in the year 1859, the male lines of +three families, whose names were originally comprehended in it, have +become extinct, viz.: Cotton of Landwade, in the county of +Cambridge, Hornyold of Blackmore Park, and Hanford of Wollashill, +both in Worcestershire. On the other hand, notices of eight "_new +peers?_" will be found in the present volume, four of which also +occurred in the second edition. I allude to Lovett of Liscombe, in +the county of Buckingham, and Basset of Tehidy, in the county of +Cornwall--very ancient families, whose landed property being until +lately in female hands, could not, in accordance with the rules +which I had laid down, be comprehended in the first edition; I have +also added Huyshe of Sand, in Devonshire, Patten of Bank Hall, +in Lincolnshire, Bertie of Uffington, Anderson of Brocklesby, and +Massingberd of Wrangle, all in Lincolnshire, and, lastly, Upton of +Ashton Court, in the county of Somerset. And here I must again beg +to remind the reader, that the intention of this work is not to give +an account of every family whose pedigree may be continued in the +male line beyond the time which I have mentioned (the beginning of +the sixteenth century), but of those only who were established as +_county families_, "inheriting arms from their ancestors," at that +period. It is no doubt in many cases very difficult to distinguish +accurately the pretensions of many families who may possibly have a +fair claim to this distinction, though, from the reasons to which I +have formerly alluded, it is not easy to establish them. I can only +say that as far as my information extends I have endeavoured fairly +and honestly to draw the correct line, but whether I have succeeded +must be left to the judgment of others. + E. P. S. + + Lower Eatington, January 22, 1866. + + + + +"An ancient estate should always go to males. It is mighty foolish +to let a stranger have it because he marries your daughter and takes +your name. As for an Estate newly acquired by trade, you may give +it, if you will, to the dog _Towser_, and let him keep his _own_ +name."--DR. JOHNSON. + + + + ++Noble and Gentle Men of England+ + + +BEDFORDSHIRE. + + ++Knightly.+ + + +ST.JOHN OF MELCHBOURNE, LORD ST.JOHN OF BLETSHOE 1558-9. + + +[Illustration] THIS great and ancient Family, though not connected +with this county before the reign of Henry VIII., yet, having been +for a considerable time seated at Melchbourne, may with propriety be +included among the Bedfordshire families, and indeed stands alone as +the only one of knightly rank.* Descended in the direct male line +from Hugh de Port mentioned in Domesday, in the twelfth century +William son of Adam de Port took the name of St.John from the +heiress of that great Norman family. Basing in Hampshire, Stanton +St.John in Oxfordshire, Bletshoe in the county of Northampton, +and Lydiard Tregoze in Wiltshire, both derived from the heiress of +Beauchamp in the reign of Henry VI.--have successively been seats of +the St.Johns, who have made themselves sufficiently remarkable both +for their loyalty and disloyalty in the reign of Charles I., not to +mention the ambition and ill-directed abilities of the great Lord +Bolingbroke in that of Anne. + +_Younger Branch_. St.John of Lydiard Tregoze, Viscount Bolingbroke +1712. Baronet 1611. Descended from Oliver, second son of Sir Oliver +St.John and the heiress of Beauchamp. + +See Leland's Itinerary, edition 1769, vol. vi. folio 27, p. 26. +Brydges's Collins, vi. 42 and 741. For an account of Bletshoe, and +the monuments there, see Gent. Mag. 1799, p. 745. For Lydiard +Tregoze, and other monuments of the St.Johns, whose pedigree, by Sir +R. St.George, is painted on folding-doors on the north side of the +chancel, see the Topographer, i. 508. + +ARMS.--_Argent, on a chief gules two mullets pierced or_. William de +St.John in the thirteenth century bore in his arms the addition of a +bend gules, which was continued by his descendants till the reign of +Elizabeth. (Gent. Mag. 1787, 681.) The present coat was borne by Sir +John de St.John in the reign of Edward II.; at the same time other +members of the family varied the field and charges thus: Sir Roger +bore, _Ermine, on a chief gules two mullets or_; Sir Eymis, _Argent, +crusilly sable, on a chief gules two mullets or_; Sir John de +Layneham, _Argent, on a chief gules two mullets or, a border +indented sable_. John, heir of John de St.John, differenced his arms +with a label azure, according to the roll of Carlaverock. The roll +of arms of the reign of Richard II. gives the _mullets of six points +pierced azure_. Edward St.John at this period bore, _Argent, on a +chief dancetté gules two mullets of six points or, pierced vert_. +Rolls of the dates. + +Present Representative, St.Andrew Beauchamp St.John, 14th Baron +St.John. + + * "Hungry Time hath made a glutton's meal on this Catalogue of + Gentry (the List of Gentry of the reign of Henry VI,) and hath + left but a very little morsel for manners remaining." Fuller, + Worthies of Bedfordshire. + + + + ++Gentle.+ + + +POLHILL OF HOWBURY, IN THE PARISH OF RENHOLD. + + +[Illustration] This family is of ancient Kentish extraction, and is +a branch of the Polhills or Polleys of Preston, in Shoreham, in that +county, descended from John Polhill, eldest son of John Polhill and +Alice de Buckland, the heiress of Preston, in the reign of Henry VI. +The Rev. Richard Polwhele, the Historian of Cornwall, was of opinion +that the Polhills of Kent were a branch of the Cornish Polwheles, +which emigrated from the western into the eastern counties at a very +early period; they were certainly seated at Detling in +Hollingbourne, in Kent, at or previous to the reign of Edward III. +In the time of Elizabeth, the Polhills were of Frenches, in the +parish of Burwash, in Sussex. The immediate ancestor of the present +family was Nathaniel Polhill, of Burwash and Howbury, an eminent +merchant, who died in 1782. + +See a very minute account of all the branches of this ancient family +in the Topographer and Genealogist, i. pp. 180 and 577. See also +Hasted's History of Kent, vol. i, p. 365, and vol. iii. p. 4. + +ARMS.--_Or, on a bend gules three cross-crosslets of the first_. It +appears by the Roll of Arms of the reign of Richard II., that Monsr. +Rauff Poley bore a coat nearly similar, viz, _Argent, on a bend +gules three crosses patée or_. + +Present Representative, Frederick Polhill, Esq. + + + + +BERKSHIRE. + + ++Gentle.+ + + +EYSTON OF EAST HENDRED. + + +[Illustration] It has been observed by old Fuller, "The Lands of +Berkshire are very skittish, and are apt to cast their owners;" and +again, "Of names which were in days of yore--few remain here of a +great store." The ancient family of Eyston, and the succeeding one +of Clarke, are indeed the only exceptions at the present day to this +rule. The Eystons have been seated at East Hendred since the reign +of Henry VI.; John Eiston, their ancestor, having at that period +married "Isabel, daughter and heir of John Stow, of Burford, co. +Oxford, whose wife was Maud, daughter and heir of Rawlin Arches, of +East Henreth, whose great-grandmother was Amy, daughter and heir of +Richard Turbervill, of East Henreth, Esq." + +See the Visitation of Berks, 1566. Harl. MS. 1822, 26 b, and Harl. +1532, 19 b. See also Lysons's Berkshire, pp. 186, 292, and Clarke's +Hundred of Wanting, 4to. 1824, p. 130. + +ARMS.--(Confirmed in 1566.) _Sable, three lions rampant or_. + +Present Representative, Charles John Eyston, Esq. + + + + +CLARKE OF ARDINGTON. + +[Illustration] The pedigree begins with John Clarke, of Basledon, in +this county, living there the latter part of the fifteenth century. +The family afterwards removed to Ardington, where they were +established, according to Lysons, in the reign of Henry VII. The +Visitations of 1566 and 1623 record five generations of the Clarkes +before the year 1600. + +See the Visitation of Berks, 1566. Harl. MS. 5822, 22 b, and Harl. +1532. See also Lysons's Berkshire, pp. 180, 186, and Clarke's +Hundred of Wanting, p. 56. + +ARMS.--(Confirmed Oct. 22, 1600.) _Argent, on a fess sable three +plates between three crosses patée of the second_. Sometimes the +fess is placed between six crosses patée. + +Present Representative, William Nelson Clarke, Esq. + + + + +BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. + + ++Knightly.+ + + +CHETWODE OF CHETWODE, BARONET 1700. + + +[Illustration] This very ancient family is lineally descended from +Robert de Thain, who held Chetwode under the Bishop of Baieux in the +time of William the Conqueror, as appears by Domesday Book. + +John de Chetwode having during the reign of Edward III. married the +heiress of Oakeley, of Oakeley in Staffordshire, the family have +mostly resided there, as well as at Ansley Hall in Warwickshire, +derived from the heiress of Ludford in 1821. + +Willis, writing in 1755, says--"This manor of Chetwode, as appears +to me, has been in the possession and inheritance of the Chetwodes +longer than any estate or manor in this county of Buckingham has +continued the property of any other family now there existing." + +See Willis's Buckingham, p. 172; Erdeswicke's Staffordshire, ed. +1844, p. 119; Wotton's Baronetage, iv. p. 82; and Lysons's +Buckinghamshire, p. 172. + +ARMS.--_Quarterly argent and gules, four crosses patée +counterchanged_. + +Present Representative, Sir John Newdigate-Ludford-Chetwode, 5th +Baronet. + + + + +DAYRELL OF LILLINGSTONE DAYRELL. + + +[Illustration] A very ancient and honourable family of Norman +descent, who came over with the Conqueror, and seated themselves at +Lillingstone before the year 1200, Richard son of Elias Dayrell +being seised of a message and half a knight's fee there in King +Richard the First's time, or the beginning of King John's reign. +Before 1306 the Dayrell became possessed of the fee of the manor, +which has ever since continued in the family. + +The Dayrell of Shudy Camps, in the county of Cambridge, are a +younger branch of this family, sprung from Francis, second son of +Paul Dayrell of Lillingstone, sheriff of Buckinghamshire 1579.* + +See Willis's Buckingham, p. 213; Lysons, p. 595. + +ARMS.--_Azure, a lion rampant or, crowned argent_. + +Present Representative, Edmund Francis Dayrell, Esq. + + * The Darells of Calehill, in Kent, purchased in the 4th Henry + IV., and sprung from the Darells of Sesay, in Yorkshire, are + _supposed_ to be a younger branch of this venerable family. The + extinct family of Darell of Littlecote, Wiltshire, for which see + the Topographer, ii. 101, and the Darells of Richmond, Baronet, + 1795, are sprung from the house of Calehill. + + + + +GRENVILLE OF WOTTON UNDER BARNWOOD, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM 1822, +MARQUESS OF BUCKINGHAM 1782, EARL TEMPLE 1749, VISCOUNT AND BARON +COBHAM 1718. + + +[Illustration] There is good reason to believe that this family, +seated at Wotton from the reign of Henry I., is a collateral branch +of the Grenvilles of the West. The manor of Wotton, among many +others, was given by William I. to Walter Giffard, Earl of +Buckingham. Isabel, daughter and coheir of Walter the second Earl, +is said to have brought it in marriage, about the year 1097, to +Richard de Grenville. + +The consequence of this family in modern times is owing to matches +with the heiresses of the great houses of Temple, Nugent, and +Chandos. + +See Brydges's Collins's Peerage, ii. p. 390, and Lysons, p. 673. See +also Moule's Bibliotheca Herald, p. 563, for an account of the MS., +formerly at Stowe, viz. The original Evidences of the Grenville +Family, collected by Richard Grenville, of Wotton, Esq. during the +civil wars of the seventeenth century. + +ARMS.--_Vert, on a cross argent five torteauxes_. + +Present Representative, Richard Plantagenet Campbell +Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 3rd Duke of +Buckingham. + + + + +HARCOURT OF ANKERWYCKE. + + +[Illustration] On the decease of the last Earl Harcourt, in 1830, +the representation in the male line of the illustrious House of +Harcourt devolved on this family, descended from a younger brother +of Simon, first Viscount Harcourt, and the heiress of Lee. Stanton +Harcourt, in the county of Oxford, was possessed by the ancestors of +this great House in 1166, and continued in the family till the +extinction of the elder line in 1830. The pedigree is traced to +Robert de Harcourt, who married Joan, daughter of Robert Beaumont, +Earl of Mellent, and who was grandson of Robert who attended William +the Conqueror in his expedition to England in 1066. + +See Brydges's Collins's Peerage, iv. p. 428; and Nichols's +Leicestershire, iv. pt. 2. p. 519.* + +ARMS.--_Gules, two bars or_. This coat was borne by Sir John de +Harcourt in the reign of Edward II. Thomas Harecourt, the reverse, +in the reign of Richard II. Rolls of the period. + +Present Representative, George Simon Harcourt, Esq. + + + + ++Gentle.+ + + +LOVETT OF LISCOMBE. + + +[Illustration] Vitalis Lovett of Rushton, in the county of +Northampton, who lived in the reign of Henry II., appears to be the +first proved ancestor of this venerable family, said to be of Norman +origin. William Lovett of Rushton, the son of Vitalis, held certain +lands in Henwick, also in Northamptonshire, of Richard Engaine and +his heirs by the service of finding two horsemen to follow the said +Richard to hunt the wolf in any part of England. This service was +remitted to John Lovet, son or grandson of William, in the reign of +Edward I., and in lieu thereof an annual rent-charge of ten +shillings was imposed. Soon after this period, viz: in 1304, (33 +Edw. I.) Liscombe in the parish of Soulbury came into the family, +being in the possession of Robert Lovett and Sarah his wife, +daughter and heir of Sir Roger Turvile, from the second marriage of +their son Thomas, descended the Lovetts of Astwell in +Northamptonshire, since the reign of Elizabeth represented in the +female line by the Shirleys Earls Ferrers. Liscombe has from the +beginning of the fourteenth century remained the inheritance of the +elder branch of the Lovetts, though the direct descent has been +often interrupted. In 1781, Jonathan Lovett, the representative of +the family, was created a baronet by King George III. His Majesty's +remark on this occasion is preserved in Betham's Baronetage. "In the +summer of 1781, the Earl of Chesterfield having been some time +absent from court, was asked by the King where he had been so +long? 'On a visit to Mr. Lovett of Buckinghamshire,' said the +Earl. 'Ah,' said the King, 'is that Lovett of Liscombe? They are of +the genuine old Norman breed, how happens it that they are not +baronets? would they accept the title? Go tell him,' continued the +King, 'is that the title is much at his service; they have ever +stuck to the Crown at a pinch.'" The same work also gives a very +curious, and to an antiquary very tantalizing, account of the +ancient armour and documents once preserved at Liscombe, and +describes their melancholy fate. Sir Jonathan Lovett having died +without surviving male issue in 1812, the title of Baronet became +extinct and the property descended to his daughters; on the decease +of the survivor, Miss Eliza Lovett, in 1861, the ancient seat of +this venerable family reverted by her will to the next male heir, +the present representative of the family, descended from a younger +brother of Sir Jonathan Lovett, baronet. + +See Baker's Northamptonshire, i. p. 732; Lipscombe's +Buckinghamshire, iii. p. 457; Stemmata Shirleiana, pr. pr., 1841, p. +58; Collectanea Topog. et Genealog. vi. p. 300, and Betham's +Baronetage. + +ARMS.--Evidently allusive to the name, and to the service of hunting +the wolf, _Argent, three wolves passant in pale sable, armed and +langued gules_. + +Present Representative, Jonathan Vaughan Lovett, Esq. + + + + +CAMBRIDGESHIRE. + + ++Gentle.+ + + +BENDYSHE OF BARRINGTON. + + +[Illustration] The name is local, from Bendish, in the parish of +Radwinter, in Essex, where Peter Westley was seated at a very early +period. His grandson was called Ralf of Westley, alias Bendishe, and +from him this ancient family, one branch of which was long settled +at Steeple Bumstead, in Essex, is descended. A manor in Barrington +came from the heiress of Bradfield early in the fifteenth century, +and had acquired the name of "The Manor of Bendyshe" so far back as +the year 1493; it has ever since remained the inheritance of this +the eldest line of the Bendyshe family, of whom a younger branch was +of Topfield Hall, in Hadley, co. Suffolk, whose heiress married +Doyley of Overbury, also of Steeple Bumstead before mentioned, +created Baronet in 1611, extinct in 1717; and other branches again +were of Hadley and Turvey in Bedfordshire. + +See Lysons's Cambridgeshire, p. 86, and the Visitation of Essex +1612, Harl. MS. 6095, fol. 16, where is a good pedigree of Bendyshe, +brought down to William Bendyshe, Esq. tenth in descent from Peter +Westley. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a chevron sable between three ram's heads erased +azure_. + +Present Representative, John Bendyshe, Esq. + + + + +CHESHIRE. + + ++Knightly.+ + + +DAVENPORT OF WOODFORD. + + +[Illustration] The Davenports claim precedence among the knightly +families of Cheshire,--that "seed-plot of gentry," "the mother and +the nurse of the gentility of England," and are traced directly to +the Conquest. The elder line, which Leland terms "the best and first +house of the Davenports at Devonport; a great old house covered with +leade on the Ripe of Daven, three miles above Congleton," became +extinct in 1674. The coheiresses married Davies and Davenport of +Woodford. Ormus de Daumporte, living in the time of William I., is +the first recorded ancestor of this family. To his son, Richard de +Dauneporte, Hugh Earl of Chester gave the chief foresterships of the +forests of Leek and Macclesfield about 1166, a feudal office still +held by this house. + +The present family are sprung from Nicholas, third son of Sir John +or Jenkin Davenport, of Wheltrough and Henbury, who was himself a +younger son of Thomas, second son of Sir Thomas Davenport of +Davenport, the 13th of Edward II. Woodford was granted by John +Stafford and Isabella his wife, about the time of Edward III., to +John, third son of Thomas Davenport of Wheltrough, (an elder line +not traced beyond 1677,) while the Davenports of Henbury were +extinct before 1664. Davenport of Calveley, founded by Arthur, sixth +son of Sir John Davenport of Davenport, killed at Shrewsbury in +1403, became extinct in 1771. The coheiresses married Bromley +and Davenport of Woodford. Davenport of Bramhall, founded by the +second son of Thomas Davenport of Wheltrough and the heiress of +Bramhall, in the time of Edward III., survived till 1838. The +Davenports of Davenport House, in the parish of Worfield, in +Shropshire, are the only younger branch now remaining; they spring +from the Davenports of Chorley and the heiress of Bromley of Hallon +or Hawn, in the parish of Worfield. See Blakeway's Sheriffs of +Salop, pp. 85, 143, 228. + +For Davenport of Davenport and Woodford, see Ormerod's Cheshire, +iii. 39, 346, 357; for those of Calveley, ib. ii. 153; Henbury, iii. +352; Bramhall, iii. 401; Chorley, iii. 312. See also Leland's Itin., +vii. fol. 42, and Harl. MSS. 2119, for a good pedigree of the family +drawn from original evidences. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a chevron between three cross-crosslets fitchée +sable_. The crest of this family, _a felon's head, souped proper, +haltered or_, alludes to the power of life and death within the +Forests of Leek and Macclesfield, granted by Hugh Earl of Chester. + +Present Representative, Arthur Henry Davenport, Esq. + + + + +GROSVENOR OF EATON, MARQUESS OF WESTMINSTER 1831, EARL GROSVENOR +1784, BARON GROSVENOR 1761, BARONET 1662. + + +[Illustration] Descended from Gilbert le Grosvenor, nephew of Hugh +Lupus, Earl of Chester; the pedigree of this ancient family is, +thanks to the famous controversy with the Scropes, well ascertained. +The principal line of the Grosvenors was seated at Hulme, in this +county, in the hundred of Northwich, and was extinct in the +22nd year of Henry VI. The Grosvenors of Eaton descend from +Ralph second son of Sir Thomas Grosvenor of Hulme, who married Joan, +sole daughter and heir of John Eaton, of Eton or Eaton, Esq. early +in the fifteenth century. The match of Sir Thomas Grosvenor, Bart. +in 1676, with Mary, sole daughter and heir of Alexander Davies, of +Ebury, in the county of Middlesex, Esq. laid the foundation of the +great wealth and consequent honours of this family. + +Younger branches: the Earl of Wilton 1801; the Baron Ebury 1857. + +See Ormerod, ii. 454, and iii. 87; Brydges's Collins, v. 239; and +the Scrope and Grosvenor Roll _passim_. + +ARMS.--_Azure, a garb or_, used since the sentence of the Court in +the cause of Sir Richard le Scrope and Sir Robert le Grosvenor in +1389, instead of _Azure, a bend or_, and allusive to his descent +from the ancient Earls of Chester. + +Present Representative, Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of +Westminster, K.G. + + + + +EGERTON OF OULTON, BARONET 1617. + + +[Illustration] This is the principal male branch of the great House +of Egerton, formerly Earls and Dukes of Bridgewater and Earl of +Wilton. The pedigree begins with Philip Goch, second son of David de +Malpas, surnamed le Clerk, which David was lord of a moiety of the +Barony of Malpas. The present family is descended from Sir Philip +Egerton, third son of Sir Rowland Egerton, of Egerton and Oulton, +Baronet, who died in 1698. The Baronetcy devolved on Sir John +Egerton, uncle of the present Baronet, on the death of the Earl of +Wilton, and extinction of the elder line, in 1814. Oulton came from +the heiress of Hugh Done, anno 1498. It is thus mentioned in +Leland's Itinerary: "The auncientest of the Egertons dwellith now at +Oldeton, and Egerton buildith ther now." (Itin. vii. fol. 42.) +Younger branch, Egerton-Warburton, of Warburton and Arley, in this +county. + +See Wotton's Baronetage, i. 271; Brydges's Collins, iii. 170, v. +528; Ormerod, ii. 118, 350; and for many curious particulars of the +Bridgewater Egertons, see the Topographer, ii. 136, &c. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a lion rampant gules between three pheons sable_. +The pheons were the ancient arms of Malpas; the lion was added by +Uryan Egerton, about the middle of the fourteenth century; according +to tradition, an augmentation granted as a reward for his services +in the Scotch wars. + +Present Representative, Sir Philip de Malpas Grey-Egerton, 10th +Baronet, M. P. for S. Cheshire. + + + + +CHOLMONDELEY OF CHOLMONDELEY, MARQUESS OF CHOLMONDELEY 1815, EARL OF +CHOLMONDELEY 1706, BARON 1689. + + +[Illustration] Descended with the Egertons from the Barons of +Malpas, and immediately from Robert de Cholmondelegh, second son of +William Belward, lord of a moiety of the Barony of Malpas, and +younger brother of David the ancestor of the Egertons; which Robert +was seated at Cholmondeley in the reign of King John. + +Younger branches. Cholmeley of Whitby, in Yorkshire, Baronet +1641, extinct 1688; descended from Robert, younger son of Hugh +Cholmondeley, temp. Edw. III. See the Memoirs of Sir Hugh Cholmeley, +Knight and Baronet, a curious book privately printed in +1787.--Cholmeley of Brandsby, since the extinction of the Whitby +family the only representative of the Cholmondeleys of +Yorkshire.--Cholmeley of Easton, co. Lincoln, Baronet 1806, +descended from Sir Henry Cholmeley, of Burton Coggles, co. Lincoln, +who died in 1620. + +Cholmondeley of Vale Royal in this county, Baron Delamere 1821, +descended from Thomas, younger son of Sir Hugh Cholmondeley of +Cholmondeley, who died in 1501. + +See Ormerod, ii. 356, and for Cholmondeley of Vale Royal, ii. 78. +Brydges's Collins, iv. 16. + +ARMS.--_Gules, two helmets in chief argent, garnished or, and in +base a garb of the third_. + +Present Representative, George Horatio Cholmondeley, 2nd Marquess of +Cholmondeley. + + + + +TATTON, CALLED EGERTON OF TATTON, BARON EGERTON OF TATTON 1859. + + +[Illustration] Robert Tatton of Kenworthy, in Northenden, who +married the heiress of William de Withenshaw, alias Massey, about +the latter end of the reign of Edward III., is the first _proved_ +ancestor of this family, but there is reason to believe that he was +descended from the much more ancient house of the name who were +seated at Tatton in the twelfth century. Withenshaw, now the seat of +the younger branch of this family, remained from the period above +mentioned the inheritance and residence of the Tattons, until +the decease of Samuel Egerton, Esq. in 1780, when the estate of +Tatton, which is supposed to have given name to the family, devolved +by his will on William Tatton of Withenshaw, Esq., who had married +Hester, sister of Mr. Egerton. Tatton had passed to the Egertons +through the families of Tatton, Massey, Stanley, and Brereton. + +Younger branch, Tatton of Withenshaw, in this county. See Ormerod, +iii. 315, and Gentleman's Magazine 1798, 930. + +ARMS.--_Quarterly argent and gules, four crescents counterchanged_. +The arms are perhaps founded on the coat of Massey. + +Present Representative, William Tatton Egerton, Baron Egerton of +Tatton. + + + + +BUNBURY OF STANNEY, BARONET 1681. + + +[Illustration] A family of great antiquity, descended from Henry de +Boneberi, in the time of Stephen, a younger brother of the House of +St. Pierre in Normandy. William de Boneberi, son of Henry, was Lord +of Boneberi in the reign of Richard I. But the direct ancestor was +David brother of Henry, whose great-grandson Alexander de Bunbury +was living in the fifteenth of Henry III. Stanney, still the +inheritance, but not the residence, of the Bunburys, came from the +heiress of the same name in the seventeenth of Edward III. + +See Ormerod, ii. 216, and Wotton's Baronetage, iii. 687. + +ARMS.--_Argent, on a bend sable three chessrooks of the field_. + +Present Representative, Sir Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th +Baronet. + + + + +LEYCESTER OF TOFT. + + +[Illustration] Descended from Sir Nicholas Leycester, who acquired +the manor of Nether-Tabley in marriage, and died in 1295. The male +line of the eldest branch of this family, established at +Nether-Tabley, became extinct in 1742. The present and younger +branch springs from Ralph, younger brother of John Leycester of +Tabley, who married Joan, daughter and heir of Robert Toft of Toft: +she was a widow in 1390. The antiquary Sir Peter was of the Tabley +line. + +Younger branch, Leycester of Whiteplace, co. Berks. + +See Ormerod, i. 385, 456; iii. 190. + +ARMS.--_Azure, a fess or, fretty gules, between two fleurs-de-lis of +the second_. Another coat was granted by Dethick to Sir Ralph +Leycester of Toft, the second year of Edward VI., viz. _Sable, on a +fess engrailed between three falcons volant argent, beaked and +membered or, a lion's head caboshed azure between two covered cups +gules_. But this very unnecessary and overloaded coat does not +appear to have been used. + +Present Representative, Ralph Oswald Leycester, Esq. + + + + +MASSIE OF CODDINGTON. + + +[Illustration] The pedigree in Ormerod begins with Hugh Massie, who +married Agnes, daughter and heir of Nicholas Bold, of Coddington. +Their son William purchased the manor of Coddington in the +eighteenth of Henry VI. The parentage of Hugh Massie is a matter of +dispute, but he was probably a younger son of Sir John Massie of +Tatton, who died in the eighth of Henry. He is also by others +supposed to have been descended from the Massies of Podington, a +younger branch of the Barons of Dunham Massey. This family is +perhaps the only remnant in the direct male line of the posterity of +any of the Cheshire Barons. General Massie, a younger son of this +house, was a distinguished officer in the Civil Wars, both in the +service of the Commonwealth and in that of Charles II. + +Younger branches: Massey of Pool-Hall, in this county, descended +from the second son of Massie of Coddington, who was born in 1604. +From Edward the third son descended the Massies of Rosthorne, also +in Cheshire, now extinct. For the extinct branches of Broxton and +Podington, see Ormerod, ii. 372 and 308; for Massie of Coddington, +ii. 399; for Massie of Pool-Hall, iii. 188. + +ARMS.--_Quarterly gules and or, in the first and fourth three +fleurs-de-lis argent, a canton of the third_. There was a dispute +about the arms of Massey between the Houses of Tatton and Podington +(for which see "The Scrope and Grosvenor Roll," vol. ii. p. 262), +which was decided in 1378 by the arbitration of Sir Hugh Calveley +and others. The present coat, except that the first and second +quarters were or, and the canton omitted, was awarded to Massey of +Podington. Massey of Tatton bore the same arms with three escallops +argent in lieu of the fleurs-de-lis. The elder line of Dunham bore +_Quarterly or and gules, in the second quarter a lion passant +argent_. + +Present Representative, Richard Massie, Esq. + + + + +WILBRAHAM OF DELAMERE. + + +[Illustration] This family represents the eldest branch of the +Wilbrahams of Cheshire, descended from Richard de Wilburgkam, +sheriff of this county in the forty-third year of Henry III. In the +third of Edward IV. the Wilbrahams were seated at Woodhay, in +Cheshire, by a match with the heiress of Golborne: this, the elder +line, created Baronet in 1620-1, was extinct in 1692. The +present family are descended from the second son of Thomas Wilbraham +of Woodhay, and were seated at Townsend in Nantwich in the reign of +Elizabeth; they removed to Delamere the latter part of the +eighteenth century. + +Younger branches: Wilbraham Baron Skelmersdale 1828; and Wilbraham +of Rode, in this county, both descended from Randle, younger brother +of Roger Wilbraham, of Nantwich, who died in 1754. Wilbraham of +Dorfold, sold in 1754, but existing at Falmouth in 1818, was sprung +from the youngest son of Richard Wilbraham, of Nantwich, who died in +1612. See Ormerod, ii. 65; iii. 31, 184, 199. + +ARMS.--_Argent, three bends wavy azure_. The Dorfold branch bore for +distinction _a canton gules_. Additional coat, granted by Flower, +temp. Eliz.; _Azure, two bars argent, on a canton of the first a +wolf's head erased of the second_. + +Present Representative, George Fortescue Wilbraham, Esq. + + + + +LEGH OF EAST HALL, IN HIGH LEGH. + + +[Illustration] Efward de Lega, who appears from his name to have +been of Saxon origin, and who lived at or near the period of the +Conquest, was the patriarch of this ancient family, of which the +principal male line failed in the time of Edward IV. Thomas Legh, of +Northwood, in the same parish of High-Legh, the ancestor of the +present family, succeeded after a long litigation as the next heir +male in the reign of Henry VIII. See Ormerod, i. 358. + +ARMS.--Allowed 1566. _Argent, a lion rampant gules, armed and +langued azure_. + +Present Representative, George Cornwall Legh, Esq. M.P. for North +Cheshire. + + + + +LEIGH OF WEST HALL, IN HIGH LEGH. + + +[Illustration] Descended from Richard de Lymme, younger son of Hugh +de Lymme, which Richard in the latter part of the thirteenth century +married Agnes, daughter and sole heir of Richard de Legh, +great-grandson of Hamon de Legh, the first mentioned in the +pedigree. Richard de Lymme had issue Thomas de Legh, of West Hall, +living in 1305. + +Younger branches: Leigh (called Trafford), of Oughtrington, in this +county, descended from John second son of Richard Leigh, of West +Hall, who died in 1486; for whom see Ormerod, i. 439. + +Leigh of Leatherlake House in Surrey, descended from Thomas second +son of the Rev. Peter Leigh of West Hall, who died in 1719; and +Leigh of South Carolina, Baronet 1773, descended from Peter third +son of the same Rev. Peter Leigh. See Ormerod, i. 350. + +ARMS.--_Allowed 1563. Or, a lion rampant gules, armed and langued +azure_. For four descents after the match with Agnes de Legh, her +descendants used the coat of Lymme, _Gules, a pale fusillé argent_, +conclusive evidence of the descent of this family from Richard de +Lymme, and not from William de Venables, another husband of Agnes de +Legh. Indeed, in the Visitation of 1566, this coat of Lymme was +allowed to Leigh of West Hall; but in 1584 both the East and West +Hall families claimed the lion rampant gules. In 1663 the arms were +settled as at present. + +Present Representative, Egerton Leigh, Esq. + + + + +ALDERSEY OF ALDERSEY, IN THE PARISH OF CODDINGTON. + + +[Illustration] The pedigree is traced to Hugh de Aldersey, in the +reign of Henry III., soon after which time the family divided into +two branches; the estate and manor of Aldersey being also held in +separate moieties by the representatives of the two families: one +moiety eventually passed by an heir-general to Hatton of Hatton, and +has since been united into one estate, by purchase from Dutton of +Hatton. A younger branch of this family was seated at Chester, of +which was William Aldersey the antiquary, mayor of that city in +1614. + +See Ormerod, ii. 404. + +ARMS.--_Gules, on a bend engrailed argent, between two cinquefoils +or, three leopard's faces vert_. The more ancient coat, given in +King's Vale Royal, appears to have been, _Sable, three chargers or +dishes argent_. + +Present Representative, Thomas Aldersey, Esq. + + + + +BASKERVYLE, (CALLED GLEGG,) OF OLD WITHINGTON. + + +[Illustration] Ormerod traces this family to Sir John Baskervyle, +grantee of a moiety of Old Withington from Robert de Camvyle in +1266, and that estate has ever since remained in the family. In 1758 +John Baskervyle, Esq., the representative of the house of Old +Withington, having married the heiress of Glegg of Gayton, in this +county, assumed that name in lieu of his own. + +See Ormerod, iii. 355; and for Glegg, ib. ii. 285. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a chevron gules between three hurts_. This coat, +_the chevron charged with three fleurs-de-lis or_, was borne by +"Monsire de Baskervile;" see Sir Harris Nicolas's Roll of Arms temp. +E. III. + +Present Representative, John Baskervyle Glegg, Esq. + + + + +BROOKE OF NORTON, BARONET 1662. + + +[Illustration] Adam Lord of Leighton, in the reign of Henry III., is +the first recorded ancestor of this family, who continued at +Leighton, the seat of the principal branch of the Brookes, until the +extinction of the elder male line, in or about the year 1632. +Richard Brooke, younger son of Thomas Brooke of Leighton, purchased +Norton from King Henry VIII. in the year 1545, which has remained +the residence of his heirs male. + +Younger branches: Broke of Nacton in the county of Suffolk, Baronet +1813; descended from Sir Richard Brooke, Knight, Chief Baron of the +Exchequer, in the reign of Henry VIII., youngest son of Thomas +Brooke of Leighton, the ancestor of the Norton family. There was a +former baronetcy in this family, created 1661, extinct 1693. Brooke +of Mere in this county, sprung from Sir Peter Brooke, third son of +Thomas Brooke of Norton, established at Mere by purchase in 1632. + +See Ormerod, i. 360, 500; and iii. 241; Collectanea Topographica et +Genealogica, i. 22; and Wotton's Baronetage, iii. 392. + +ARMS.--_Or, a cross engrailed party per pale gules and sable_. + +Present Representative, Sir Richard Brooke, 7th Baronet. + + + + ++Gentle.+ + + +CLUTTON OF CHORLTON, IN THE PARISH OF MALPAS. + + +[Illustration] Ormerod gives no detailed pedigree, but states that +the Cluttons had been settled at Clutton, in the parish of Farndon, +in this county, as early as the 21st of Edward I, and that the manor +of the same place was held by this family in the time of Henry VI. +In the reign of Henry VIII., Roger, third son of Owen Clutton of +Courthyn, having married an heiress of Aldersey of Chorlton, became +seated there, and was the ancestor of the present family. From +Henry, elder brother of this Roger, were descended the Clutton +Brocks late of Pensax in Worcestershire, who were there established +in the seventeenth century. + +See Ormerod, ii. 366, 410, and a pedigree of this family in Harleian +MS. 2119. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a chevron ermine, cotised sable, between three +annulets gules_. + +Present Representative, Thomas Charlton Clutton, Esq. + + + + +LECHE OF CARDEN. + + +[Illustration] The pedigree commences in the reign of Henry IV. with +John Leche, (said to be a younger brother of the house of Leche of +Chatsworth, in Derbyshire,) who married the heiress of Cawarthyn, or +Carden, and settled there about the year 1475. Some pedigrees, +however, seat the Leches at Carden as early as the twentieth of +Edward III.; and there is also a tradition that the family is +descended from the leche, or chirurgeon, of that monarch himself. It +is remarkable that Nolan has been the family christian name, with +one exception, during thirteen generations. + +Younger branch, extinct in 1694, Leche of Mollington, in this +county. + +See Harl. MS. 2119, 50, quoted by Ormerod, ii. 385. + +ARMS.--_Ermine, on a chief indented gules three crowns or_. + +Present Representative, John Hurleston Leche, Esq. + + + + +BARNSTON OF CHURTON, IN THE PARISH OF FARNDON. + + +[Illustration] The descent of this family is not proved beyond +Robert Barnston, of Churton, in the third year of Richard II. But +Hugh de Barnston was lord of a moiety of Barnston in the +twenty-first of Edward I. The pedigree was confirmed in the +Visitations of 1613 and 1663-4. + +See Ormerod, ii. 408. + +ARMS.--_Azure, a fess indented ermine between six cross-crosslets +fitchée or_. Thomas de Bernaston bore this coat, except that the +crosses were argent. See the Roll of Arms of the Reign of Edward +III. + +Present Representative, Roger Barnston, Esq. + + + + +ANTROBUS OF ANTROBUS, BARONET 1815. + + +[Illustration] This is an instance of an ancient family, which, +having gone down in the world, has recovered itself by means of +commercial pursuits, after centuries of comparative obscurity. +Antrobus was sold by Henry Antrobus in the reign of Henry IV., and +repurchased by Edmund Antrobus in 1808; he having proved himself a +descendant of Henry, youngest son of Henry Antrobus above mentioned. +Antrobus of Eaton Hall, in this county, is again a younger branch of +this family. + +See Ormerod, i. 487; Lysons's Cheshire, p. 532; Debrett's +Baronetage, ed. 1836, p. 383. + +ARMS.--_Lozengy or and azure, on a pale gules three estoiles of the +first_. + +Present Representative, Sir Edmund William Romer Antrobus, 2nd +Baronet. + + + + +LAWTON OF LAWTON. + + +[Illustration] It is not improbable that this family is descended +from Robert, a younger son of Vivian de Davenport, who settled at +Lawton in the 50th of Henry III. and assumed the local name: this +assertion is borne out by the arms, which are evidently founded on +those of Davenport. The pedigree is not however traced beyond Hugh +Lawton, who married Isabella, daughter of John Madoc, in the reign +of Henry VI. The manor of Lawton was purchased by William Lawton, +Esq. from King Henry VIII. It had been formerly held by the +Abbey of Chester, to which the Lawtons appear to have been tenants +from a very early period. Younger branch, Lawton of Lake Marsh, in +the county of Cork. + +See Ormerod, iii. 11, and Lysons's Cheshire, p. 673. + +ARMS.--_Argent, on a fess between three cross-crosslets fitchée +sable a cinquefoil of the first_. + +Present Representative, John Lawton, Esq. + + + + +COTTON OF COMBERMERE, VISCOUNT COMBERMERE 1826, BARONET 1677. + + +[Illustration] There are several places called Cotton, and +antiquaries have doubted from which of them the present family is +called. The house usually assigned is that of Cotton, near Wem, in +Shropshire, where Sir Hugh Cotton was seated in the reign of Edward +I., and whose descendant, Roger Cotton, acquired the estate of +Alkington, in the same county, by marriage of the heiress, in the +reign of Richard II. He was the ancestor of Sir George Cotton, +grantee of Combermere after the Dissolution in 1540, from whom the +present family directly descend. Younger branch, extinct in the male +line, but represented in the female line by R. H. Cotton of Etwall, +co. Derby, Esq. + +MSS. of the late Mr. Joseph Morris of Shrewsbury. See a different +account of this family in Ormerod, iii. 212; Blakeway's Sheriffs of +Shropshire, p. 104; and Wotton's Baronetage, iii. 611. + +ARMS.--_Azure, a chevron between three hawk's lures, or +cotton-hanks, argent_. + +Present Representative, Wellington Henry Cotton, 2nd Viscount +Combermere. + + + + +CORNWALL. + + ++Knightly.+ + + +TRELAWNYY OF TRELAWNY, BARONET 1628. + + +[Illustration] "The most Cornish gentlemen can better vaunt of their +pedigree than their livelyhood," wrote Richard Carew, of Antonie, +Esq. in 1602,--"for that they derive from great antiquitie; and I +make question whether any shire in England, of but equal quantitie, +can muster a like number of faire coat-armours:" and again, + + "By Tre, Pol, and Pen, + You shall know the Cornish men." + +There are two manors called Trelawny in Cornwall, one in the parish +of Alternon, the other in that of Pelynt; the former was the +original seat of the Trelawnys, probably before the Conquest, and +here they remained till the extinction of the cider branch in the +reign of Henry VI. The latter was purchased from Queen Elizabeth by +"Sir Jonathan Trelawny, a knight well spoken, stayed in his cariage, +and of thrifty providence," the head of a younger line of this +family, in the year 1600; and it has ever since remained the seat of +this venerable house. Hamelin, who held Treloen, _i.e._ Trelawny, +under the Earl of Moreton, at the period of the Domesday Survey, is +the first recorded ancestor. + +See Leland's Itin., iii. fol. 20; Carew's Survey of Cornwall, +ed. 1602, p. 63 b; Gilbert's Survey of Cornwall, i. 546; +Lysons's Cornwall, pp. 14 and 257; Wotton's Baronetage, ii. 87. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a chevron sable_. In the reign of Henry V. an +augmentation was added, viz. _three oak-leaves vert_, borne by Sir +John Trelawny with the ancient coat, in consequence of his having +greatly distinguished himself in the French wars with that monarch. + +Present Representative, Sir John Salusbury-Trelawny, 9th Baronet, +late M. P. for Tavistock. + + + + +PRIDEAUX OF PLACE, IN THE PARISH OF PADSTOW. + + +[Illustration] This is the eldest remaining branch of the ancient +family of Prideaux, who trace their descend from Paganus, lord of +Prideaux Castle, in Luxulion, in this county, in the time of William +I.; where the family continued till the latter part of the +fourteenth century, when Prideaux passed by an heiress to the Herles +of West Herle, in Northumberland. The present family, which was +seated at "Place" in the sixteenth century, is sprung from the +Prideauxes of Solden, in Holsworthy, in Devonshire, a branch of +Prideaux of Thuborough in Sutcombe, in the same county, who were +themselves descended from Prideaux of Orcherton in Modbury, also in +Devonshire, where the family was established by marriage with the +heiress of Orcherton in the reign of Henry III. + +Younger branch, Prideaux of Netherton, co. Devon, Baronet 1622, +founded by Edmund Prideaux, an eminent lawyer, second son of Roger +Prideaux of Solden. + +See Carew, 143 b; Gilbert's Survey of Cornwall, i. 542; Lysons, 252, +cxii.; Wotton's Baronetage, i. 515; Westcote's Devonshire Pedigrees, +p. 470; Prince's Worthies of Devon, ed. 1, p. 307. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a chevron sable, a label of three points gules_. +This was the coat of Orcherton. + +Present Representative, Charles Prideaux-Brune, Esq. + + + + +BASSET OF TEHIDY. + + +[Illustration] The immediate ancestor of the Cornish Bassets was +William Basset, who married in 1150 Cecilia, daughter and coheiress +of Alan de Dunstanville, and the daughter of Reginald Fitzhenry, +Earl of Cornwall, natural son of Henry I., who thus acquired the +manor of Tehidy, which has ever since continued the residence of his +descendants of the house of Basset. In the early part of the +sixteenth century, John Basset appears to have been the chief of +this ancient family: he married Frances daughter and coheir of +Arthur Plantagenet, Viscount Lisle, natural son of King Edward IV. +From Arthur, his eldest son, descended the Bassets of Heanton Court +in Devonshire, extinct in the early part of the present century; and +from George, the second son, the house of Tehidy, the elder branch +of which were created Barons de Dunstanville in 1797. Extinct 1855. + +Leland mentions "the right goodly lordship of Tehidy, and the +castelet or pile of Bassets on Carnbray Hill." + +See Gilbert's Survey of Cornwall, i. 486. + +ARMS.--_Or, three bars wavy gules_. + +Present Representative, John Francis Basset, Esq. + + + + +VYVYAN OF TRELOWARREN, IN THE PARISH OF MAWGAN, BARONET 1644. +ORIGINALLY OF TREVIDERN IN THE PARISH OF ST. BURIAN. + + +[Illustration] The first recorded ancestor is Sir Vyel Vyvyan, +Knight, who lived in the thirteenth century, and whose descendant +John, having married an heiress of Ferrers, succeeded to the +lordship of Trelowarren in the reign of Edward IV., which has since +continued the seat and residence of this family. The Baronetcy was +conferred by King Charles I. on Sir Richard Vyvyan, as a reward for +his services in the civil wars of that period. + +See Leland's Itin. iii. fol. 3; Gilbert's Survey, i. 557; Lysons, +pp. xc. and 218; Polwhele's Cornwall, 1803, vol. i. p. 42; Wotton's +Baronetage, ii. 411. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a lion rampant gules, armed sable_. + +Present Representative, Sir Richard Rawlinson Vyvyan, 8th Baronet, +late M.P. for Helstone. + + + + +MOLESWORTH OF PENCARROW, IN THE PARISH OF EGLOSHAYLE, BARONET 1689. + + +[Illustration] This is a younger branch of the Molesworths of +Ireland, Viscount Molesworth of Swords, in the county of Dublin, +1716. They can be traced to the reign of Edward I. as a knightly +family, but never remained very long in any one county: they have +been seated in Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Northamptonshire. +Sir Walter de Molesworth, the first recorded ancestor, is said to +have attended Edward I. in his expedition to the Holy Land. The +family estate is believed to have been greatly impoverished by the +profuse entertainment of Queen Elizabeth at Fotheringay, by Antony, +elder brother of John Molesworth, who settled at Pencarrow in the +reign of the same Queen. + +See Gilbert's Cornwall, i. 571; Lysons, xcii. 82; Wotton's +Baronetage, iv. 25; Archdall's Lodge, v. 127. + +ARMS.--_Vaire, a border gules charged with cross-crosslets or_. + +This coat, except that the crosses were argent, was borne by Sir +Walter de Molesworth of co. Huntingdon, as appears by the Roll of +Arms of the reign of Edward II. Sir Gilbert Lyndesey (?) of the same +county bore the present coat. + +Present Representative, the Rev. Sir Paul William Molesworth, 10th +Baronet. + + + + ++Gentle.+ + + +POLWHELE OF POLWHELE, IN THE PARISH OF ST. CLEMENT. + + +[Illustration] This venerable family, supposed to be of Saxon +origin, traces its descent to one Drogo or Drew, Chamberlain to the +Empress Maude, and Grantee of the Manor of Polwhele in the year +1140. The family are said to have been seated there even before the +Conquest; there appears however no proof that Drogo was the +descendant of Winus de Polhill, the owner of this place in the time +of Edward the Confessor. The Rev. Richard Polwhele, the historian of +this county, was the representative of the family. + +See Polwhele's Cornwall, i. 42; Gilbert's Survey, ii. 239; and +Lysons, pp. cxi. 60. + +ARMS.--_Sable, a saltier engrailed ermine_. + +Present Representative, T. R. Polwhele, Esq. + + + + +TREFUSIS OF TREFUSIS, IN THE PARISH OF MILOR, BARON CLINTON 1299. + + +[Illustration] From time immemorial this ancient family have been +seated at Trefusis, from whence the name is derived. The pedigree is +traced four generations before the year 1292. The ancient Barony of +Clinton devolved upon this family, (through the Bolles,) on the +death of George third Earl of Orford, in 1791. + +See Carew, 150 b; Leland's Itin. iii. 26; Polwhele's Cornwall, i. +42; Gilbert's Cornwall, i. 468. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a chevron between three wharrow spindles sable_, +which Randle Holmes, in his Academy, p. 288, explains, as a "sort of +Spindle used by women at a distaff put under their girdle, so as +they oftentimes spin therewith going." + +Present Representative, Charles Rodolph Trefusis, 18th Baron +Clinton. + + + + +BOSCAWEN OF BOSCAWEN-ROSE, IN THE PARISH OF ST. BURIAN, VISCOUNT +FALMOUTH 1720. + + +[Illustration] Descended from Henry who lived in the reign of King +John, and who took the name of Boscawen from the lordship of +Boscawen-Rose, still the property of the family. In the reign of +Edward III. the Boscawens removed to Tregothnan, their present seat, +in consequence of the marriage of John de Boscawen with Joan, +daughter and heir of John de Tregothnan of that place, in the parish +of St. Michael-Penkevil. + +See Gilbert's Survey, i. 452; Lysons, pp. lxxiv. 50; Brydges's +Collins, vi. 62. + +ARMS.--_Ermine, a rose gules barbed and seeded proper_. The ancient +arms of the family were, according to Lysons, Vert, a bull-dog +argent, with a chief containing the arms now used. + +Present Representative, Evelyn Boscawen, 6th Viscount Falmouth. + + + + +TREMAYNE OF HELLIGAN, IN THE PARISH OF ST. EWE. + + +[Illustration] Tremayne is in the parish of St. Martin, and here the +ancestor of the family, Perys, lived in the reign of Edward III. and +assumed the local name. This estate passed with the heiress of the +elder branch of the family to the Trethurfes, and from them to the +Reskymers, to whom it belonged in Leland's time. A grandson of the +first Tremayne, having married the heiress of Trenchard, of +Collacomb, in Devonshire, removed hither, where his descendants +existed till the extinction of that line in 1808. The founder of the +present family was Richard Tremayne, whose son purchased Helligan in +the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and who is thus noticed by Carew in +his Survey of this county. "At the adjoining St. Ive, dwelleth +master Richard Tremayne, descended from a younger brother of +Colocome House in Devon, who, being learned in the laws, is yet to +learne, or at least to practise, how he may make other profit +thereby, then by hoarding up treasure of gratitude in the mindful +breasts of poor and rich, on whom he gratis bestoweth the fruits of +his pains and knowledge." + +See Leland's Itin. iii. 25, fol. 9; Carew, 104 b; Gilbert's Survey, +ii. 292; Lysons, pp. cxv. 96, 214; Prince's Worthies of Devon, 1st +ed. 569. + +ARMS.--_Gules, three dexter arms conjoined at the shoulders and +flexed in triangle or, fists proper_. + +Present Representative, John Tremayne, Esq. + + + + +KENDALL OF PELYN, IN THE PARISH OF LANLIVERY. + + +[Illustration] A younger branch of an ancient Cornish family of +which the principal line became extinct in the early part of the +seventeenth century. They were formerly seated at Treworgy in Duloe, +and are traced to Richard Kendall of Treworgy, Burgess for +Launceston in the forty-third of Edward III. Pelyn has been for many +generations the seat of this family, descended from Walter, third +son of John Kendall of Treworgy, who married a daughter and coheir +of Robert Holland, an illegitimate son of a Duke of Exeter. It has +been remarked of this family, that they have perhaps sent more +members to the British Senate than any other in the United Kingdom. + +See Carew, 132 c.; Gilbert's Survey, ii. 176; Lysons, pp. cviii. +178. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a chevron between three dolphins naiant embowed +sable_. + +Present Representative, Nicholas Kendall, Esq. M.P. for East +Cornwall. + + + + +WREY OF TREBIGH, IN THE PARISH OF ST. IVE, BARONET. + +[Illustration] An old Devonshire family, descended from Robert le +Wrey, who lived in the second of Stephen (1136-7), and whose son was +seated at Wrey, in the parish of Moreton-Hamstead, in that county. A +match with the heiress of Killigrew removed the Wreys into Cornwall, +and Trebigh became their principal house, until, by the marriage of +Sir Chichester Wrey, the second Baronet, with one of the +co-heiresses of Edward Bourchier, fourth Earl of Bath, they became +possessed of the noble seat of Tawstock, in Devonshire, the present +usual residence of the family. + +See Carew, 117 a; Gilbert's Survey, i. 555; Lysons, lxxxix. 146; +Wotton's Baronetage, ii. 84; Westcote's Devonshire Pedigrees, 567. + +ARMS.--_Sable, a fess between three pole-axes argent, helved gules_. + +Present Representative, Sir Bourchier Palk Wrey, 8th Baronet. + + + + +RASHLEIGH OF MENABILLY. + + +[Illustration] Rashleigh in the parish of Wemworthy, in Devonshire, +gave name this ancient family, the elder line of which became +extinct in the reign of Henry VII. + +John Rashleigh, a merchant of Fowey, was the first who settled in +Cornwall, and was in fact the founder of the present family. He is +thus mentioned by Carew, writing in 1602, "I may not passe in +silence the commendable deserts of Master Rashleigh the elder, +descended from a younger brother of an ancient house in Devon, +for his industrious judgement and adventuring in trade of +merchandize first opened a light and way to the townsmen newe +thriveing, and left his sonne large wealth and possessions, who, +with a dayly bettering his estate, converteth the same to +hospitality, and other actions fitting a gentleman well affected to +his God, Prince, and Country." + +See Carew, p. 136 a; Gilbert's Survey, ii. 244; Lysons, pp. cxiii. +316. + +ARMS.--_Sable, a cross or between, in the first quarter, a Cornish +chough argent, beaked and legged gules, in the second a text T, in +the third and fourth a crescent, all argent_. The Cornish chough and +crescents were added on removing into Cornwall; the elder branch +bore only two text T's in chief with the cross S. + +Present Representative, William Rashleigh, Esq. + + + + +GLANVILLE OF CATCHFRENCH, IN THE PARISH OF ST. GERMAN. + + +[Illustration] Descended from the Glanvilles of Halwell, in the +parish of Whitchurch, in Devonshire, where they were settled about +the year 1400. This branch is derived from a younger son of Serjeant +Glanville, the son of Sir John Glanville, one of the Justices of the +Common Pleas in the reign of Elizabeth. Catchfrench became the seat +of the family in 1728. + +See Prince's Worthies of Devon, pp. 326 and 339; Gilbert's Survey, +ii. 121; Lysons, pp. civ. 116. + +ARMS.--_Azure, three saltiers or_. Present Representative, Francis +Glanville, Esq. + + + + +CUMBERLAND. + + + ++Knightly.+ + + +MUSGRAVE OF EDENHALL, BARONET 1611. + + +[Illustration] Originally seated at Musgrave in Westmerland, and +traced to the time of King John, about the year 1204. After the +marriage of Sir Thomas Musgrave, who died in 1469-70, with the +coheiress of Stapleton of Edenhall, he removed to that manor, where +is preserved the celebrated glass vessel called the Luck of +Edenhall, well known from the Duke of Wharton's ballad: + + "God prosper long from being broke + THE LUCK OF EDENHALL." + +See Lysons, ccix. where it is engraved. + +Younger branches. The Musgraves of Hayton Castle, in this county, +Baronet of Nova Scotia 1638; and the Musgraves of Tourin, in the +county of Waterford, Baronet 1782. + +See Lysons, lxiv. 100; Wotton's Baronetage, i. 74, iv. 354; and St. +George's Visitation of Westmerland, printed 1853, p. 5, &c. + +ARMS.--_Azure, six annulets or_. + +Monsire de Musgrave bore this coat, as appears by the Roll of the +reign of Edward III., and Thomas Musgrave in that of Richard II. +(Rolls of those dates.) + +Present Representative, Sir George Musgrave, 10th Baronet. + + + + +HUDDLESTONE OF HUTTON-JOHN. + +[Illustration] An ancient Northern family, said to be of Saxon +descent, originally of Huddleston in Yorkshire, and afterwards of +Millom Castle in this county, from an heiress of that name, where +the elder line flourished till its extinction in 1745. Andrew, a +younger son of John Huddleston of Millom, who lived in the reign of +Henry VIII., married the heiress of Hutton of Hutton-John, and was +the ancestor of the present family. + +A younger branch of the Huddlestons were fixed in the county of +Cambridge by a match with the illustrious House of Neville. Sir +William Huddleston having married Isabel, fifth daughter of John, +Marquess of Montecute, became possessed, on the partition of the +Neville estates in 1496, of the manor of Sawston, still the +inheritance of this line of the family. + +For Sir John Huddleston, so much trusted by Queen Mary, see Fuller's +Worthies, 1st ed. p. 168. + +John Huddleston, the priest instrumental in saving the life of +Charles II, and the same who attended him on his deathbed, was +second son of Andrew Huddleston, of Hutton-John. This family +afterwards became Protestants, and were active promoters of the +Revolution. + +For a curious account of Sawston and the Huddlestons, see Gent. Mag. +for 1815, pt. 2. pp. 25 and 120; Lysons's Cambridgeshire, p. 248, +and Cumberland, p. lxxiv. and 107; also Banks's Stemmata Anglicana, +"Barones Rejecti," and the Visitation of Cambridgeshire 1619, fol. +1840, p. 19. + +ARMS.--_Gules, fretty argent_. This coat was borne by Sir John de +Hodelestone in the reign of Edward II., Sir Adam the same, with _a +border indented or_, Sir Richard with _a label azure_, Sir Richard, +the nephew, with _a label or_. (Roll of the reign of Edw. II. co. +York.) + +Present Representative, W. Huddleston, Esq. + + + + ++Gentle.+ + + +IRTON OF IRTON. + + +[Illustration] A family of very great antiquity, and resident at +Irton, on the river Irt, from whence the name is derived, as early +as the reign of Henry I. The Manor of Irton has belonged also to the +ancestors of Mr. Irton almost from the time of the Conquest. + +See Lysons, lxxv. 119. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a fess sable, in chief three mullets gules_. + +Present Representative, Samuel Irton, Esq. late M.P. for the Western +Division of Cumberland. + + + + +BRISCOE OF CROFTON, IN THE PARISH OF THURSBY, BARONET 1782. + +[Illustration] Originally of Briscoe near Carlisle, where the family +were seated three generations before the reign of Edward I. Crofton, +which came by an heiress of that name, has been since the year 1390 +the residence of the Briscoe family. + +See Lysons, lxvi. 159. + +ARMS.--_Argent, three greyhounds currant sable_. + +In Clutterbuck's Hertfordshire, i. 158, there is a pedigree of a +younger branch of this family, who were seated at Aldenham, in that +county, previous to 1736. + +Present Representative, Sir Robert Briscoe, 3rd Baronet. + + + + +DYKES OF DOVENBY, IN THE PARISH OF BRIDEKIRK. + + +[Illustration] The name, originally "Del Dykes," is derived from the +two lines of Roman wall in "Burgh," from whence the family at a +remote period originated; Ramerus de Dikes, who lived before the +reign of Henry II., is the first supposed ancestor. The pedigree is +regularly traced three generations before the 50th of Edward III. to +the present time. In the Wars of the Roses the Dykes's, like +most other families in the Northern counties, were Lancastrian; and +in the Civil Wars of the seventeenth century, devoted Royalists, and +sufferers for their allegiance to the Crown. Dovenby, formerly the +seat of the Lamplughs, came by marriage in the present century. The +Manor of Warthole or Wardhill, purchased in the reign of Henry VI., +and still in the family, was the former residence. Waverton, +acquired in the 10th of Edward II., exchanged in 1619, and +Distington, acquired in the 7th of Richard II., and afterwards +alienated, were more ancient possessions. + +See Lysons, lxxii. 36; Hutchinson's Cumberland, ii. 98 and note; +Burn's Cumberland, ii. 49, and i. 157. I am obliged to the present +Representative for additions to this account. + +ARMS.--_Or, three cinquefoils sable_. Monsr. Willm. de Dyks bore, +_Argent, a fess vaire or and gules, between three water bougets +sable_, as appears by the Roll of the reign of Richard II. + +Present Representative, Frecheville-Lawson Ballantine-Dykes, +Esq. + + + + +DERBYSHIRE. + + ++Knightly.+ + + +GRESLEY OF DRAKELOW, BARONET 1611. + + +[Illustration] "In point of _stationary_ antiquity hardly any +families in the kingdom can compare with the Gresleys," wrote the +Topographer in 1789. In this county certainly none can claim +precedence to the house of Drakelow; descended from Nigel, mentioned +in Domesday, called de Stafford, and said to have been a younger son +of Roger de Toni, standard-bearer in Normandy, it was very soon +after the Conquest established in Derbyshire, first at Gresley, and +immediately afterwards at Drakelow, in the same parish. The present +is a younger branch, seated at Nether Seale, in Leicestershire, at +the beginning of the eighteenth century. + +See Leland's Itinerary in Coll. Topog. et Genealog. iii. 339; +Nichols's History of Leicestershire, iii. pt. 2, p. 1009*; the +Topographer, i. 432, 455, 474; Lysons, lxiii.; Wotton's Baronetage, +i. 121; and Erdeswick's Staffordshire, ed 1844, p. 208. + +ARMS.--_Vaire, ermine and gules_. Allusive no doubt to the Ferrers,' +under whom Drakelow was held anno 1200, by the service of a bow, +quiver, and 12 arrows. The same coat was borne by Sir Geffray de +Greseley in the reign of Edward I., and by Sir Peres de Gresle, in +the reign of Edward II. (Rolls.) John de Greseley bore simply, +_Vair, argent and gules_. (Roll Ric. II.) + +Present Representative, Sir Thomas Gresley, 10th Baronet. + + + + +FITZHERBERT OF NORBURY. + + +[Illustration] This ancient Norman house was seated at Norbury, by +the grant of the Prior of Tutbury, in 1125, 25 Henry I. The +principal male line becoming extinct in 1649, the succession went to +a younger branch descended from William, third son of the celebrated +Sir Anthony Fitzherbert the judge, who had seated themselves at +Swinnerton, in Staffordshire, still the residence of this family. + +Younger branch. Fitzherbert of Tissington, Baronet 1783, descended +from Nicholas, younger son of John Fitzherbert of Somersall. See +Topographer for a curious account of the pedigree and monuments, ii. +225, and Lysons, 217; for Fitzherbert of Tissington, Topographer and +Genealogist, i. 362; Gent. Mag. lxvii. p. 645; Topographer, iii. 57; +and Brydges's Collins, ix. 156. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a chief vaire or and gules, over all a bend sable_. +This coat is also complimentary to Ferrers. The Tissington +Fitzherberts have assumed a different coat, viz. _Gules, three lions +rampant or_, from a fanciful notion of their descent from Henry +Fitzherbert, Lord Chamberlain 5th Stephen, ancestor of the Herberts +of Dean. The lions were assumed as early as 1569. See the Visitation +of Derbyshire. + +Present Representative, Basil Fitzherbert, Esq. + + + + +CURZON OF KEDLESTON, BARON SCARSDALE 1761, BARONET 1641. + + +[Illustration] This ancient family was seated at Kedleston as early +as the reign of Henry I. It is said to be of Breton origin, and +descended from Geraline, a great benefactor to the Abbey of +Abingdon, in Berkshire, in which county the Curzons held lands soon +after the Conquest. + +Younger branches. Curzon Earl Howe 1821; Curzon of Parham, Sussex. + +Extinct branches. Curzon of Croxall and Water-Perry, co. Oxford, and +of Letheringset, Norfolk. + +See Lysons, lii.; Brydges's Collins, vii. 294; Wotton's Baronetage, +ii. 243. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a bend sable, charged with three popinjays or, +collared gules_, borne by Monsr. Roger Curson in the reign of +Richard II. Sir John Cursoun bore, _Argent, a bend gules bezantée_, +in that of Edward II. (Rolls.) According to Burton's Collections +quoted by Wotton, the more ancient coat was, _Vair, or and gules, a +border sable charged with popinjays argent_: this was in compliment +to William Earl Ferrers and Derby, who had granted to Stephen Curson +the manor of Fauld, co. Stafford. + +Present Representative, the Rev. Alfred Nathaniel Holden Curzon, 4th +Baron Scarsdale. + + + + +VERNON OF SUDBURY, BARON VERNON 1762. + + +[Illustration] The Vernons were originally of Cheshire, and Barons +of Shipbrooke, but became connected with Derbyshire by the heiress +of Avenell's marriage with Richard Vernon in the 12th century; their +son died s.p.m. leaving a daughter and heiress married to Gilbert le +Francis, whose son Richard took the name of Vernon, seated himself +at Haddon Hall in this county, and was the ancestor of the different +branches of the House of Vernon. The Sudbury Vernons settled there +in the reign of Henry VIII., and, by the extinction of the other +lines, became in the end the chief of the family. Few houses have +been more connected together by intermarriage than the Vernons. + +Younger branches. The Vernon-Harcourts, now of Nuneham Courteney, +co. Oxon; the Vernons of Hilton, Staffordshire; and the +Vernon-Wentworths, of Wentworth Castle, Yorkshire. + +See Lysons, liii.; Brydges's Collins, vii. 396; Topographer, ii. +217, for inscriptions to the Vernons at Sudbury, which came from the +heiress of Montgomery: for Vernon of Houndhill, in the parish of +Henbury, and of Harleston in Clifton Camville, see Shaw's +Staffordshire, i. 87, 399, and the Topographer, ii. 11: and for +Vernon of Tonge, Topographer, iii. 109, and Eyton's Antiquities of +Shropshire, vol. ii. p. 191. + +ARMS.--_Argent, fretty sable_. This coat, with _a quarter gules_, +was borne by Monsr. Richard Vernon in the reign of Richard II. +(Roll.) + +Present Representative, George John Warren, 5th Baron Vernon. + + + + +POLE OF RADBORNE. + + +[Illustration] Originally from Newborough in Staffordshire, but from +the fourteenth century established, through female descent, first at +Hartington, and afterwards at Wakebridge, in this county. Radborne +was inherited from the Chandos's, through the Lawtons, also in the +fourteenth century. It came to the Chandos family from an heiress of +Ferrers or "Fitz-Walkelin." + +See Leland's Itinerary, vol. viii. fol. 70 a, and vol. iv. fol. 6; +the Topographer, i. 280; Topographer and Genealogist, i. 176; and +Lysons, xciv. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a chevron between three crescents gules_. + +Present Representative, Edward Sacheverell Chandos Pole, Esq. + + + + +CAVENDISH OF HARDWICK, DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE 1694, EARL 1618, BARON +1605. + +[Illustration] This family was originally from Cavendish Overhall, +near Clare, in Suffolk, and is descended from Sir John Cavendish, +who in the reign of Edward III. was Chief Justice of the King's +Bench. It was John, a younger son of the Judge, who killed Wat +Tyler, and from him the family are descended. But it was Sir William +Cavendish, younger brother of George Cavendish, who had been +Gentleman Usher to Wolsey, who may be called the real founder +of the Cavendishes, by the great share of abbey lands which he +obtained at the Dissolution of Monasteries, "and afterwards," adds +Brydges, "by the abilities, rapacity, and good fortune of Elizabeth, +his widow," the celebrated Countess of Shrewsbury. The Cavendishes +first settled in Derbyshire by the marriage of this Sir William with +"Bess of Hardwick," in 1544. + +See Topographer, iii. 306; Brydges's Collins, i. 302; Collins's +Noble Families. + +ARMS.--_Sable, three buck's heads cabossed argent, attired or_. +Monsr. Andrew Cavendysh of this family bore, _Sable, three crosses +botonnée fitchée or_, 2 _and_ 1. (Roll Ric. II.) + +Present Representative, William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire, +and 2nd Earl of Burlington. + + + + +HARPUR OF CALKE, BARONET 1626 (CALLED CREWE). + +[Illustration] This family was originally of Chesterton in +Warwickshire, where it is traced as early as the reigns of Henry I. +and II. + +In right of Elianor, daughter and heir to William Grober, descended +from Richard de Rushall, of Rushall, in Staffordshire, the Harpurs +were afterwards seated at that place, but had no connection with +Derbyshire till the reign of Elizabeth. Calke was purchased by Henry +Harpur, Esq. in 1621. + +See Dugdale's Warwickshire, 2nd ed, vol. i. 478; Shaw's History of +Staffordshire, ii. 69; Wotton's Baronetage, ii. 1; Lysons, +lxiii. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a lion rampant within a border engrailed sable_. +This was the coat of Rushall; the arms of Harpur were a plain cross. + +Present Representative, Sir John Harpur Crewe, 9th Baronet. + + + + +BURDETT OF FOREMARK, BARONET 1618. + + +[Illustration] The pedigree begins with Hugo de Burdet, who came +into England with William I., and was lord of the manor of Loseby, +in Leicestershire, in 1066. Arrow, in the county of Warwick, which +came from the heiress of Camvile the 9th of Edward II., was long the +seat of the Burdetts, but they had long before, as Dugdale shows, +been connected by property with that county, William Burdett having +founded the cell of Ancote, near Sekindon, in the fifth of Henry II. +The manor of Arrow, and many other estates of this family, carried +by an heiress to the Conways in the reign of Henry VII., became the +fruitful cause of many lawsuits, which were not finally settled till +the end of the reign of Henry VIII. See Dugdale for the curious +details. Foremark was inherited from the heiress of Francis in 1602. + +See Dugdale's Warwickshire, 2nd edit. ii. 847; Erdeswick's +Staffordshire, ed. 1844, 462; Nichols's Leicestershire, iii. pt. 1. +351; Wotton's Baronetage, i. 327; and Lysons. + +ARMS.--_Azure, two bars or_. Sir William Burdett bore this coat in +the reign of Edward II. Sir Robert the same, _in the upper bar three +martlets gules_. (Roll Edw. II. under Leicestershire.) Sir Richard +the same, with an _orle of martlets gules_. (Roll E. III.) Monsr, +John Burdet the same, _each bar charged with three martlets gules_. +(Roll Richard II.) + +Present Representative, Sir Robert Burdett, 6th Baronet. + + + + +CAVE OF STRETTON, BARONET 1641. + + +[Illustration] A family of great antiquity, which can be traced to +the Conquest; originally of South and North Cave in Yorkshire. In +the fifteenth century they removed into Northamptonshire and +Leicestershire, and were long of Stanford, in the former county. The +elder line of the Caves becoming extinct in 1810, the Baronetcy +devolved on a younger branch, descended in the female line from the +Brownes of Stretton, and from hence their connection with +Derbyshire. + +See Nichols's History of Leicestershire, vol. iv. part i. 350, for a +curious account of this family, and for their monuments in Stanford +Church, (the earliest of which is that for John Cave, who died in +1471;) Pedigree at p. 371; Wotton's Baronetage, ii. 164; Lysons, +xviii. + +ARMS.--_Azure, fretty argent_. This coat was borne by "Monsire de +Cave;" see the Roll of Arms of the reign of Edward III. + +Present Representative, Sir Mylles Cave-Browne-Cave, 11th +Baronet. + + + + +COLVILE OF LULLINGTON. + + +[Illustration] This is an ancient Suffolk and Cambridgeshire family, +and can be traced to the time of Henry I. The Colviles, Barons of +Culross, in Scotland, are descended from a younger brother of the +second progenitor of the family. + +The manor of Newton-Colvile, acquired by the marriage of Sir Roger +Colvile of Carleton Colvile in Suffolk, called "_The Rapacious +Knight_," with the heiress of De Marisco, and held under the Bishop +of Ely, continued in the Colviles from a period extending nearly +from the Conquest to the year 1792, when it was sold, and the +representative of this family, Sir Charles Colvile, settled in +Derbyshire in consequence of his marriage with Miss Bonnel of +Duffield. The head of the family was on the Royalist side in the +reign of Charles I., and one of the intended Knights of the Royal +Oak. + +See Lysons's Cambridgeshire, 242; Blomefield's Norfolk; and Watson's +History of Wisbeach. + +ARMS.--_Azure, a lion rampant or, a label of five points gules_. +This coat, with the lion argent, was borne by Sir Geoffry de +Colville in the reign of Edward II., and without the label by Monsr. +John Colvyle in that of Richard II. (Rolls of Arms of the dates.) +Sir Roger de Colvile bore the present coat with a label of three +points only, in 1240; as appears by his seal to a deed of that date. + +Present Representative, Charles R. Colvile, Esq. M.P. for South +Derbyshire. + + + + ++Gentle.+ + + +COKE OF TRUSLEY. + +[Illustration] This is a younger branch of the old house of the +Cokes of Trusley, a family of considerable antiquity. The elder line +became extinct in 1718. The present family are descended from the +Cokes of Suckley in Worcestershire. The Cokes were originally of +Staffordshire, but settled in Derbyshire in consequence of a match +with one of the coheiresses of Odingsells of Trusley, in the middle +of the fifteenth century. + +There is a younger branch of this family at Lower Moor, in +Herefordshire. The Cokes of Melbourn were also a younger branch, +from whom the Lambs, Viscounts Melbourne, were descended. + +See Lysons, lxxxi. + +ARMS.--_Gules, three crescents and a canton or_. + +Present Representative, Edward Thomas Coke, Esq. + + + + +THORNHILL OF STANTON, IN THE PARISH OF YOULGRAVE. + + +[Illustration] Descended from the Thornhills of Thornhill in the +Peak, where they were seated as early as the seventh of Edward I. +Stanton was inherited from an heiress of Bache in 1697. + +See Lysons, xcvii. + +ARMS, confirmed in 1734.--_Gules, two bars gemelles_ _and a chief +argent, thereon a mascle sable_. This coat, without the mascle, was +borne by M. Bryan de Thornhill in the reign of Edward III. (Roll.) + +Present Representative, William Pole Thornhill, Esq. late M.P. for +North Derbyshire. + + + + +ABNEY OF MEASHAM. + + +[Illustration] This is a younger branch of a family who were seated +at Willersley, by a match with the heiress of Ingwardby at the +beginning of the fifteenth century. Willersley was the property of +the late Sir Charles Abney Hastings by female descent. Measham is a +purchase of about a century. + +See Lysons, cxii. + +ARMS.--_Or, on a chief gules a lion passant argent_. Lysons however +gives, _Argent, on a cross sable five bezants._ + +Present Representative, William Wotton-Abney, Esq. + + + + +DEVONSHIRE. + + + ++Knightly.+ + + +FULFORD OF FULFORD, IN THE PARISH OF DUNSFORD. + + +[Illustration] There is every reason to believe that the ancestors +of this venerable family have resided at Fulford from the time of +the Conquest. Three knights of the house distinguished themselves in +the wars of the Holy Land. William de Fulford, who held Fulford in +the reign of Richard I., is the first ascertained ancestor. Sir +Baldwin Fulford, a leading Lancastrian, was beheaded at Bristol in +1461. + +See Prince's Worthies of Devon, ed. 1701, p. 298, for description of +Fulford; Westcote's Devonshire Pedigrees, p. 612; Lysons, cxlv. 171. + +ARMS.--_Gules, a chevron argent_. + +Present Representative, Baldwin Fulford, Esq. + + + +COURTENAY OF POWDERHAM CASTLE, EARL OF DEVON 1553, RESTORED 1831. + + +[Illustration] This illustrious house is descended from Reginald de +Courtenay, who came over to England with Henry II. A.D. 1151, and, +having married the daughter and heiress of the hereditary sheriff of +Devonshire, became immediately connected with this county. The +Earldom of Devon was first conferred on the Courtenays in 1335, +by reason of their descent from William de Redvers, Earl of Devon, +The Powderham branch springs from Sir Philip, sixth son of Hugh +second Earl of Devon. + +See Brydges's Collins, vi. 214; Lysons, lxxxvii.; Westcote's +Devonshire Pedigrees, 570, &c.; Journal of Arch. Institute, x. 52; +and Sir Harris Nicolas's Earldom of Devon. + +ARMS.--_Or, three torteauxes_. + +This coat, with a bend azure, was borne by Sir Philip de Courtenay +in the reign of Edward II. (Roll.) And the same, with a _label +azure_, by Hugh de Courtenay in 1300. See the Roll of Carlaverock, +and Sir Harris Nicolas's notes, p. 193. This label was, he remarks, +charged by respective branches of the family with mitres, crescents, +lozenges, annulets, fleurs-de-lis, guttees, and plates, and with a +bend over all. See also Willement's Heraldic Notices in Canterbury +Cathedral. + +Present Representative, William Reginald Courtenay, 11th Earl of +Devon. + + + + +EDGCUMBE OF EDGCUMBE, IN THE PARISH OF MILTON ABBOT'S. + +[Illustration] Richard Edgcumbe was Lord of Edgcumbe in 1292, and +was the direct ancestor of this venerable family, the present +representative being twentieth in lineal descent from this first +Richard. + +In the reign of Edward III. William Edgcumbe, second son of the +house of Edgcumbe, having married the heiress of Cotehele, in the +parish of Calstock, removed into Cornwall, and was the ancestor of +the Edgcumbes of Cotehele and Mount Edgcumbe, Earls of Mount +Edgcumbe (1789). + +Another younger branch was of Brompton, or Brampton, in Kent. + +See Prince's Worthies of Devon, ed. 1701, p. 281; Gilbert's Survey +of Cornwall, 4to. 1820, vol. i. p. 444; Carew's Cornwall, 1st ed., +p. 99 b and 114 a; Brydges's Collins, v. 306; and Lysons's Cornwall, +lxxiii. 212, 53. + +ARMS.--_Gules, on a bend ermine cotised or three boar's heads couped +argent_. + +Present Representative, Richard D. Edgcumbe, Esq. + + + + +CHICHESTER OF YOULSTON, IN THE PARISH OF SHERWILL, FORMERLY OF +RALEGH, IN THE PARISH OF PILTON; BARONET 1641. + +[Illustration] This ancient family is said to have taken its name +from Cirencester, in Gloucestershire, the residence of its remote +ancestors. The Chichesters were, however, as early as the reign of +Henry III. of the county of Devon, although Ralegh came to them at a +later period from an heiress of that name; Youlston, the present +seat, from an heiress of Beaumont in the time of Henry VII. John de +Cirencester, living in the 20th of Henry I. is said to have been the +first recorded ancestor. + +Younger branches. Chichester of Hall, in Bishop's-Towton; seated at +Hall, from an heiress of that name in the 15th century, Chichester +of Arlington, since the reign of Henry VII.; and Chichester, Marquis +of Donegal, descended from Edward, 3rd son of Sir John Chichester, +in the reign of Elizabeth, &c. + +See Prince's Worthies of Devon, ed. 1701, pp. 135, 199; Westcote's +Devonshire, 303, and Pedigrees, 604, &c., Wotton's Baronetage, +ii. 226; Brydges's Collins, viii. 177; Shaw's Staffordshire, i. +374; Lysons, cxi. 440; and Archdall's Lodge's Peerage, ii. 314. + +ARMS.--_Cheeky or and gules, a chief vair_. + +Present Representative, Sir Arthur Chichester, 8th Baronet. + + + +FORTESCUE OF CASTLE HILL, EARL FORTESCUE 1789. + + +[Illustration] Like the Chichesters, an ancient and wide-spreading +family, settled at Wymodeston, now called Winston, in the parish of +Modbury, in the year 1209. "This was," writes Sir William Pole, "the +most ancient seat of the Fortescues, in whose possession it +continued from the days of King John to the Reign of Queen +Elizabeth." + +There are many younger branches of this family, both in England and +Ireland, "to rank which in their seniority, and by delineating the +descent to give every man his dew place, surpasseth, I freely +confesse, my ability at the present." (Westcote's MSS. quoted by +The Topographer, i. 178.) The great glory of this house is Sir John +Fortescue, Lord Chief Justice of England in the reign of Henry VI. +and the author of' the work "_Of absolute and limited Monarchy._" + +Among the principal younger branches were the Fortescues of Buckland +Filleigh and Fortescue of Fallopit in this county, both extinct in +the male line, and the Fortescues of the county of Louth in Ireland, +represented by the Barons Clermont. + +See Westcote's Devonshire Pedigrees, 498, 625, &c.; Prince's +Worthies, ed. 1701, 304; Brydges's Collins, v. 335; Lysons, lxxxv. + +ARMS.--_Azure, a bend engrailed argent cotised or_. + +Present Representative, Hugh Fortescue, 3rd Earl Fortescue. + + + + +CARY OF TORR-ABBEY, IN THE PARISH OF TOR-MOHUN. + + +[Illustration] An ancient family, the history of which however is +involved in great obscurity, supposed by some to have come from +Castle Cary, in Somersetshire, by others from Cary, in the parish of +St. Giles's in the Heath, near Launceston. It was certainly of the +latter place in the reign of Edward I. + +Cockington in this county was, previous to the Civil Wars of the +seventeenth century, the principal seat of the family. Torr-Abbey +was purchased by Sir George Cary, Knt. in 1662. + +Younger branches. Cary of Follaton, in this county. In the county of +Donegal and in that of Cork, and in Guernsey, there are families +which claim to be branches of the House of Cary. The present +Viscounts Falkland, and the extinct Barons Hunsdon, descend from the +second marriage of Sir William Cary, of Cockington, in the time of +Henry VII. + +See Prince's Worthies, p. 196; Westcote's Devonshire Families, 507, +&c.; Lysons, cxxxviii. 524; and Clutterbuck's Hertfordshire, i. 129. +For Cary Viscount Falkland, see The Herald and Genealogist, vol. +iii.; and for Cary Baron Hunsdon, the same work, vol. iv. + +ARMS.--_Argent, on a bend sable three roses of the first seeded +proper_, said to have been the arms of a Knight of Arragon, +vanquished by Sir Robert Cary in single combat in the reign of Henry +V. + +Present Representative, Robert Shedden Sulyarde Cary, Esq. + + + + +CAREW OF HACCOMBE, BARONET 1661. + + +[Illustration] About the year 1300, by the marriage of Sir John de +Carru with a coheiress of Mohun, this ancient family first became +connected with the county of Devon. The Carews are descended from +Gerald, son of Walter de Windsor, who lived in the reign of Henry +I., which Walter was son of Otho, in the time of William the +Conqueror. Haccombe was inherited from an heiress of Courtenay, and +was settled on this the second branch of the family in the fifteenth +century. + +The extinct families of Carew of Bickleigh and Carew Earl of Totnes +were descended from Sir Thomas Carew, elder brother of Nicholas, the +first of the Haccombe line. The present Lord Carew, of Ireland, +represents, in fact the elder line of this family, being descended +from a nephew of the Earl of Totnes. Carew of Antony, Baronet +(1641), now extinct, was a younger branch of the house of Haccombe. + +See Leland's Itin., iii. fol. 40; Prince's Worthies of Devon, 148, +176, 204; Westcote's Devonshire, 440; Pedigrees, 528; Wotton's +Baronetage, iii. 323; Lysons, cxiv. For notices of a branch of this +family formerly seated in the county of Cork, see Coll. Topog. and +Genealog. v. 95; see also Nicolas's Roll of Carlaverock, p. 154, and +Maclean's Life of Sir Peter Carew, London, 8vo. 1857. + +ARMS.--_Or, three lions passant sable_. This coat was borne by Sir +Nicholas Carru in 1300. (Roll of Carlaverock.) Sir John de Carru, +the same, _with a label gules_, in the reign of Edward II; and by M. +de Carrew in that of Edward III. (Rolls.) + +Present Representative, Sir Walter Palk Carew, 8th Baronet. + + + + +KELLY OF KELLY. + + +[Illustration] Kelly is a manor in the hundred of Lifton and deanery +of Tavistock, and lies on the borders of Cornwall, about six miles +from Tavistock. The manor and advowson have been in the family of +Kelly at least since the time of Henry II., and here they have +uninterruptedly resided since that very early period. + +See Westcote's Pedigrees, p. 540; Lysons, cl. 296. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a chevron between three billets gules_. + +Present Representative, Arthur Kelly, Esq. + + + + +POLE OF SHUTE, BARONET 1628. + + +[Illustration] This is an ancient Cheshire family, who settled in +the county of Devon in the reign of Richard II., Arthur Pole, their +ancestor, having married the heiress of Pole of Honiton. The +representative of the family, the learned antiquary Sir William +Pole, resided at Chute in the early part of the seventeenth century, +though the fee of that manor, once the inheritance of the noble +family of Bonvile, did not belong to the Poles till it was purchased +by Sir John Pole, Baronet, in 1787. + +See Prince's Worthies of Devon, p. 504; Wotton's Baronetage, ii. +124; Lysons, cix. 442. + +ARMS.--_Azure, semée of fleurs-de-lis or, a lion rampant argent_. + +Present Representative, Sir John George Reeve De-la-Pole Pole, 8th +Baronet. + + + +CLIFFORD OF UGBROOKE, BARON CLIFFORD OF CHUDLEIGH 1672. + + +[Illustration] An illustrious Norman family, traced to the Conquest, +of which the extinct Earls of Cumberland were the chiefs, first +connected with Devonshire by the marriage of Thomas, fourth grandson +of Sir Louis Clifford, who died in 1404, with a daughter of John +Thorpe of King's Teignton. + +Ugbrooke came from an heiress of Courtenay, in the reign of +Elizabeth. The peerage was conferred by Charles II. on the Lord +Treasurer Clifford, one of the celebrated CABAL. + +Sir Thomas Clifford-Constable, Baronet (1815), represents a younger +branch of this family, descended from Thomas, fourth son of the +fourth Lord Clifford. + +See "Cliffordiana," by the Rev. G. Oliver, Exeter, 8vo., and +"Collectanea Cliffordiana," Paris, 1817, 8vo.; Erdeswick's +Staffordshire, edit. 1844, 73; and for the Earls of Cumberland, and +their ancestors the Lords Clifford, see Whitaker's admirable account +in his "Craven," ed. 1812, 240, &c., see also Queen's Coll. Ox. MS. +cv. for "Evidences of the Cliffords;" Brydges's Collins, vii. 117, +and Lysons, xci.; and for the early history of this family, Eyton's +Antiquities of Shropshire, vol. v. p. 146. + +ARMS.--_Checky or and azure, a fess gules_. Borne by Roger de +Clifford in the reign of Henry III., and by Walter de Clifford at +the same period, instead of _a fess, a bend gules_. Sir Robert +de Clifford, in the reigns of Edward II. and III. bore the present +coat. Sir Lewis de Clifford, in the time of Richard II. differenced +his coat by a _border gules_. (Rolls.) See also the Roll of +Carlaverock, p. 195. + +Present Representative, Hugh Charles Clifford, 8th Baron Clifford of +Chudleigh. + + + + +HARINGTON OF DARTINGTON (CALLED CHAMPERNOWNE). + + +[Illustration] This is a younger line of the ancient and noble +family of Harington, formerly of Ridlington, in the county of +Rutland, created Baronet in 1611, and still represented by Sir John +Edward Harington, the tenth Baronet: the name is local, from +Harington in Cumberland, from whence Robert Harington was called in +the reign of Henry III. + +A younger branch of the Haringtons was fixed at Ridlington by +purchase in the first year of Philip and Mary; but had been seated +at Exton in the same county from the reign of Henry VII. Sir James +Harington, third Baronet, was attainted in the 13th of Charles II., +having been named as one of the Judges of his sovereign Charles I. +He sat however only one day, and refused to sign the fatal warrant. +Dartington, the ancient seat of the Champernowne family, was carried +by an heiress, Jane, only daughter of Arthur Champernowne, Esq., the +last heir male of the family, to the Rev. Richard Harington, second +son of Sir James Harington, Baronet, grandfather of the present +representative, and who assumed her name. + +See Wright's History of the County of Rutland, pp. 48, 108; Blore's +Rutlandshire; and Courthope's Debrett's Baronetage, p. 10. +ARMS.--_Sable, fretty argent_. + +Present Representative, Arthur Champernowne, Esq. + + + ++Gentle.+ + + +BASTARD OF KITLEY, IN THE PARISH OF YEALMTON, OR YALMETON. + + +[Illustration] Descended from Robert Bastard, who held several +manors in this county in the reign of William I. For several +generations Efford, in the parish of Egg-Buckland, was the seat of +this family, but in the early part of the seventeenth century the +hereditary estates were sold, and they were of Wolston and Garston, +in West Allington. About the beginning of the eighteenth century +Kitley, the present seat, was inherited from the heiress of +Pollexfen. + +In 1779, William Bastard, Esq., the representative of this family, +was gazetted a Baronet: the honour, which was declined by Mr. +Bastard, was intended as an acknowledgment of his services in +raising men to defend Plymouth in 1779. + +See Lysons, cxxxi, and 577. + +ARMS.--_Or, a chevron azure_. + +Present Representative, Baldwin John Pollexfen Bastard, Esq. + + + + +ACLAND OF ACLAND, BARONET 1644. + + +[Illustration] Acland, which gave name to this ancient family, is +now a farm in the parish of Landkey; it is thus described in +Westcote's Devonshire, (p. 290:) "Then Landkey, or Londkey; and +therein Acland, or rather Aukeland, as taking name from a grove of +oaks, for by such an one the house is seated, and hath given name +and long habitation to the _clarous_ family of the Aclands, which +have many ages here flourished in a worshipful degree." Hugh de +Accalen is the first recorded ancestor; he was living in 1155; from +whom the present Sir Thomas Dyke Acland is twenty-second in lineal +descent. Killerton, in the parish of Broad-Clist, purchased at the +beginning of the seventeenth century, is the present seat of the +family. Columb-John, an ancient Elizabethan mansion in the same +parish, now pulled down, was the earlier residence of the Aclands, +who were remarkable for their royalty during the Civil Wars. + +Younger branch. Acland of Fairfield, Baronet 1818. + +See Gilbert's Survey of Cornwall, i. 559; Prince's Worthies of +Devon, p. 18; Wotton's Baronetage, ii. 407; and Lysons, cxiii. + +ARMS.--_Checky argent and sable, a fess gules_. This coat was borne +by M. John Acland, as appears by the Roll of Arms of the reign of +Richard II. According to Prince, _three oak-leaves on a bend between +two lions rampant_, was also borne at this time by this family. + +Present Representative, Sir Thomas Dyke-Acland, 10th Baronet. + + + + +BAMFYLDE OF POLTIMORE, BARON POLTIMORE 1831, BARONET 1641. + + +[Illustration] John Baumfield, the ancestor of this family, became +possessed of Poltimore in the reign of Edward I.; but the pedigree +can be traced three generations before that period. + +A younger branch was of Hardington in Somersetshire, extinct about +the beginning of the eighteenth century. + +For the story of the heir of the Bamfyldes taken away and recovered, +see Prince's Worthies of Devon, p. 121; see also Westcote's +Devonshire Pedigrees, p. 492; Wotton's Baronetage, ii. 188; and +Lysons, cx. + +ARMS.--_Or, on a bend gules three mullets argent_. + +Present Representative, Augustus Frederick George Warwick Bampfylde, +2nd Baron Poltimore. + + + +NORTHCOTE OF PYNES, BARONET 1641. + + +[Illustration] Descended from Galfridus, who was of Northcote, in +the parish of East-Downe, in the twelfth century. Hayne, in the +parish of Newton St. Cyres, was afterwards acquired by marriage with +the heiress of Drew. Pynes was inherited from the heiress of' +Stafford, originally Stowford, early in the last century. + +See Lysons, pp. cx. 361, 545, and Wotton's Baronetage; ii. 206. + +ARMS.--_Argent, three cross-crosslets botonny in bend sable_. Used +on seals in the reign of Henry VI. The earliest coat, used till the +time of Edward III. was _Or, a chief gules fretty of the first_. +Afterwards, _Argent, a fess between three cross molines sable_. In +1571, Robert Cooke, Clarencieux, is said to have granted, according +to the foolish custom of the day, another coat to Walter Northcote +of Crediton, grandfather or uncle of the 1st Baronet, viz.: _Or, on +a pale argent three bends sable_. Sir William Pole mentions another +coat, _Or, three spread eaglets gules, on a chief sable three +escallops of the first_. But this appears to be a mistake.--From the +information of the present Baronet. + +Present Representative, Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, 8th Baronet, +M.P. for Stamford. + + + + +FURSDON OF FURSDON, IN THE PARISH OF CADBURY. + + +[Illustration] From the days of Henry III. if not from an earlier +period, this ancient family has resided at the place from whence the +name is derived. + +See the Visitation of Devon, 1620, Harl. MS. 1080. fo. 4; Lysons, +cxlv. and 92. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a chevron azure between three fireballs proper_. + +Present Representative, George Fursdon, Esq. + + + + +STRODE OF NEWENHAM, IN THE PARISH OF PLYMPTON ST. MARY. + + +[Illustration] Originally of Strode, in the parish of Ermington, +where Adam de Strode, the first recorded ancestor, was seated in the +reign of Henry III, In that of Henry IV. by the marriage of the +coheiress of Newenham of Newenham, they became possessed of that +place, since the seat of the family. "A right ancient and honourable +family," says Prince; it may also be called an historical one, +William Strode, of this house, being one of the Five Members of the +House of Commons demanded by Charles I. in 1641. + +See Prince's Worthies, p. 563; Westcote's Pedigrees, p. 542; Lysons, +clv. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a chevron between three conies sable_. + +Present Representative, George Strode, Esq. + + + + +WALROND OF DULFORD IN THE PARISH OF BROAD HEMBURY. + + +[Illustration] This is a younger branch of an ancient family seated +at Bradfield, in Uffculm, as early as the reign of Henry III, For +many years the Walronds, living at their venerable mansion of +Bradfield, were a powerful family in Devonshire. The male line of +this the principal branch has become extinct since the time of +Lysons, and the representation devolved on the present family, +descended from Colonel Humphry Walrond, a distinguished +Loyalist during the Civil Wars of the seventeenth century. On the +fall of the Royal Cause he emigrated to Barbadoes, of which island +with the aid of other Royalists he made himself Governor. Philip IV. +of Spain conferred upon him the title of Marques de Vallado, and +other Spanish honours, for, as the still existing patent states, +"services rendered to the Spanish Marine." + +See Lysons, clviii. and 540; Westcote's Devonshire Pedigrees, p. +484. + +ARMS.--_Argent, three bull's heads cabossed sable_. + +Present Representative, Bethell Walrond, Esq. + + + + +BELLEW OF COURT, IN THE PARISH OF STOCKLEIGH-ENGLISH. + + +[Illustration] This is a younger branch of the great Anglo-Irish +family of Bellew of Bar-meath, in the county of Meath, settled in +Devonshire in the reign of Edward IV., in consequence of a marriage +with one of the coheiresses of Fleming of Bratton-Fleming. + +See the Visitations of Devon in 1564 and 1620: Lysons, cxxxiv. and +455. + +ARMS.--_Sable, fretty or, a crescent for difference_. + +Present Representative, John Prestwood Bellew, Esq. + + + + +DREWE OF GRANGE, IN THE PARISH OF BROAD HEMBURY. + + +[Illustration] The name is derived from Drogo or Dru, and is +supposed to be Norman. The first proved ancestor of the family +however is William Drewe, who married an heiress of Prideaux of +Orcheston in this county, and appears to have lived about the +beginning of the fourteenth century. His son was of Sharpham, also +in Devonshire. The present seat was erected by Sir Thomas Drewe in +1610. + +Younger branches of this family were of Drew's Cliffe and High Hayne +in Newton St. Cyres. + +See Lysons, cxliii. and 266; Westcote's Pedigrees, 582-3; and the +Topographer and Genealogist, ii. 209, for the Drews of Ireland, +descended from a second son of the house of Drew's Cliffe, who came +to Ireland, and settled at Meanus, in the county of Kerry, in 1633; +see also Prince's Worthies, 1st ed. p. 249. + +ARMS.--_Ermine, a lion passant gules_. + +Present Representative, Edward Simcoe Drewe, Esq. + + + + +BULLER OF DOWNES, IN THE PARISH OF CREDITON. + +[Illustration] This is the head of the wide-spread family of Buller, +of which there are several branches in the Western counties. The +first recorded ancestor appears to be Ralph Buller, who in the +fourteenth century was seated at Woode, in the hundred of South +Petherton, and county of Somerset, by an heiress of Beauchamp. They +became possessed of Lillesdon, in the same county, and afterwards, +by an heiress of Trethurffe, we find them at Tregarrick, in +Cornwall, but were not till the eighteenth century of Downes, which +came from the coheiress of Gould. + +Younger branches. Buller of Morval and of Lanreath, both in the +county of Cornwall. Buller of Lupton, in this county, Baronet 1790, +Baron Churston 1858. + +See Lysons, cxxxvi.; Carew's Cornwall, ed. 1st, p. 133 b; and +Gilbert's Survey of Cornwall, ii. 38. + +ARMS.--_Sable, on a plain cross argent, quarter pierced, four eagles +of the field_. + +Present Representative, James Wentworth Buller, Esq. + + + + +HUYSHE OF SAND. + + +[Illustration] Originally of Doniford, in Somersetshire, where John +de Hywish is said to have been seated in the early part of the +thirteenth century. Sand, in the parish of Sidbury, came by purchase +to an ancestor of the family in the reign of Elizabeth; and, +although we find it in Lysons's List of the Decayed Mansions of the +County of Devon, it still remains the inheritance of this ancient +family. + +See Lysons, cxlix. v. 144, and Burke's History of the Commoners, 1st +ed. vol. iv. p. 409. + +ARMS.--_Argent, on a bend sable three lutes naiant of the first_. + +Present Representative, the Rev. John Huyshe. + + + + +DORSETSHIRE. + + ++Knightly.+ + + +BINGHAM OF BINGHAM'S MELCOMBE. + + +[Illustration] Sir John de Bingham, Knight, who lived in the reign +of Henry I., is the first recorded ancestor of this ancient family; +he was of Sutton, in the county of Somerset. Melcombe was inherited +from an heiress of Turberville in the time of Henry III., and has +been ever since the residence of the Binghams, of whom the most +remarkable was Sir Richard, a younger son of the head of the family +in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, who greatly distinguished himself +in Ireland. + +Younger branch. The Earls of Lucan in the Peerage of Ireland (1795) +descended from George, fourth son of Robert Bingham and Alice Coker, +and younger brother of Sir Richard. + +See Hutchins's History of Dorset, vol. iv. 202; and Archdall's +Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, vii. 104. + +ARMS.--_Azure, a bend cotised between six crosses patée or_. + +Present Representative, Richard Hippisley Bingham, Esq. + + + + +RUSSELL OF KINGSTON-RUSSELL, DUKE OF BEDFORD 1694, EARL OF BEDFORD +1550. + +[Illustration] Although this family may be said to have made their +fortune in the reign of Henry VII., first by Mr. John Russell's +accidental meeting with Philip Archduke of Austria, and his +consequent introduction to the King, and secondly by the large share +of ecclesiastical plunder acquired by this same John at the +Dissolution of the Monasteries, yet there is no reason to doubt that +the Russells are sprung from a younger branch of an ancient baronial +family, of whom the elder line were known by the name of Gorges, and +were Barons of Parliament in the time of Edward III. + +The Russells were seated at Kingston as early as the reign of Henry +III. + +See Wiffen's House of Russell, and Brydges's Collins, i. 266, &c. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a lion rampant gules, on a chief sable three +escallops of the first_. + +Present Representative, William Russell, 8th Duke of Bedford, +K.G. + + + + +DIGBY OF TILTON, BARON DIGBY OF SHERBORNE 1765, BARON DIGBY OF +GEASHILL IN IRELAND 1620. + + +[Illustration] An ancient Leicestershire family, to be traced nearly +to the Conquest, and supposed to be of Saxon origin. The name is +derived from Digby, in Lincolnshire; but Tilton, in the county of +Leicester, where AElmar, the first recorded ancestor of the Digbys, +held lands in 1086, also gave name to the earlier generations of the +family. These ancient possessions have long ceased to belong to the +Digbys; and by the will of the last Earl Digby, who died in 1856, +the manor of Coleshill, in Warwickshire, granted by Henry VII. to +Simon Digby, and the Castle of Sherborne, in Dorsetshire, have also +been alienated from the male line of the family. + +There have been several branches of the Digbys both in England and +Ireland, besides the extinct Earls of Bristol. During the +seventeenth century the history of the family, as evinced in the +lives of the celebrated Sir Kenelm Digby and the Earl of Bristol, is +very remarkable. + +See Leland's Itin., iv. fo. 19; Dugdale's Warwickshire, 2nd ed., +vol. ii. 1012; and Pedigree of Digby of Tilton, Eye, Kettleby, +Sisonby, North Luffenham, and Welby, in Nichols's Leicestershire, +ii. pt. i. p. *261; for a more extended Pedigree see vol. iii. pt. +i. p. 473, under Tilton; Brydges's Collins, v. 348; Hutchins's +Dorset, iv. 133; and for an account of the famous Digby Pedigree, +compiled by order of Sir Kenelm in 1634, at the expense, it is said, +of £1200, see Pennant's Journey from Chester to London, 8vo. +1811, p. 441; and for portraits of the Digbys at Gothurst, ib. p. +449. + +ARMS.--_Azure, a fleur-de-lis argent_. + +Present Representative, Edward St. Vincent Digby, 9th Baron Digby of +Geashill. + + + + ++Gentle.+ + + +FRAMPTON OF MORETON. + + +[Illustration] John de Frampton, M. P. for Dorset in 1373 and 1380, +is the first recorded ancestor; his son Walter, having married +Margaret heiress of the Manor of Moreton, became possessed of that +estate as early as the year 1365, which has since continued the seat +of the family. + +See Hutchins's History of Dorset, vol. i. 238, where the pedigree is +given from the Heralds' Office, CC. 22, 155, continued from 1623 to +1753 by James Lane, Richmond Herald, and the new edition of +Hutchins, vol. i. p. 398. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a bend pules cotised sable. Said to have been borne +by the first ancestor, John Frampton_. + +Present Representative, Henry James Frampton, Esq. + + + + +BOND OF GRANGE AND LUTTON, IN THE PARISH OF STEPLE, IN THE ISLE OF +PURBECK. + + +[Illustration] Originally of Cornwall, and said to be a family of +great antiquity, but not connected with Dorset till the middle of +the fifteenth century. In 1431 (9th Henry VI.) Robert Bond of +Beauchamp's Hache, in the county of Somerset, was seated at Lutton, +his mother having been the heiress of that name and family. Grange +was purchased by Nathaniel Bond, Esq in 1686. + +There were other branches of this family seated at Blackmanston, +Swanwick, and Wareham. + +See Hutchins's History of Dorset, vol. i. 326, and the new edition, +vol. i. p. 602. + +ARMS.--_Sable, a fess or_. A former coat, recognised in the +Visitation of Dorset in 1623, was, _Argent, on a chevron sable three +besants_. + +Present Representative, The Rev. Nathaniel Bond. + + + + +TREGONWELL OF ANDERSON AND CRANBORNE. + + +[Illustration] The name is derived from Tregonwell, in the parish of +Cranstock and county of Cornwall, and there the remote ancestors of +this family doubtless resided, though the pedigree is not _proved_ +beyond the latter part of the fifteenth century. In the reign of +Henry VIII., Sir John Tregonwell was employed by the king on his +matrimonial affairs, and sent into France, Germany, and Italy. +His services were rewarded by grants of monastic lands, among +others by the mitred Abbey of Milton in this county. Milton was sold +to the Damers in the eighteenth century, and Anderson purchased in +1622. + +See Gilbert's Cornwall, ii. 313; Hutchins's Dorset, iv. 210, and the +new edition, i. p. 161. + +ARMS.--_Argent, on a fess cotised sable, between three Cornish +choughs proper three plates_. + +Present Representative, John Tregonwell, Esq. + + + + +WELD OF LULWORTH CASTLE. + +[Illustration] Founded by William Weld, Sheriff of London in 1352, +who married Anne Wettenhall; his posterity were seated at Eaton in +Cheshire, till the reign of Charles II. The present family are +descended from Sir Humphry, Lord Mayor of London in 1609, who was +fourth son of John Weld of Eaton and Joan Fitzhugh. Lulworth was +purchased in 1641. + +Younger branch, Weld-Blundell of Ince-Blundell, Lancashire. + +See Ormerod's Cheshire, ii. 131; Hutchins's Dorset, i. 226; and the +new edition, i. p. 372; Blakeway's Sheriffs of Salop, p. 120, + +ARMS.--_Azure, a fess nebulée between three crescents ermine_. +Confirmed by Camden in 1606. See Morgan's Sphere of Gentry, book 2, +p. 112. + +Present Representative, Edward Weld, Esq. + + + + +FLOYER OF WEST-STAFFORD. + + +[Illustration] This is a Devonshire family of good antiquity seated +at Floyers-Hayes, in the parish of St. Thomas in that county, soon +after the Norman Conquest. That estate appears to have remained in +the family till the latter part of the seventeenth century. The +Floyers afterwards removed into Dorsetshire, of which county Anthony +Floyer, Esq. was a justice of the peace in 1701. + +See Prince's Worthies of Devonshire, ed. 1701, p. 308; Westcote's +Devonshire Pedigrees, p. 556. + +ARMS.--_Sable, a chevron between three broad arrows argent_. + +Present Representative, John Floyer, Esq. M. P. for Dorset. + + + + +DURHAM. + + + + ++Knightly.+ + + +LUMLEY OF LUMLEY CASTLE, EARL OF SCARBOROUGH 1690, VISCOUNT LUMLEY +OF IRELAND 1628. + + +[Illustration] This very distinguished family is of Anglo-Saxon +descent, and has been seated in this county from the time of the +Conquest; Liulph, who lived before the year 1080, is the first +recorded ancestor. In the female line the Lumleys represent the +Barons Thweng of Kilton, and from hence the arms borne by this +ancient house, who were themselves summoned as Barons from the 8th +of Richard II. to the 1st of Henry IV. The elder line of the family +became extinct on the death of John Lord Lumley in 1609. It was +during the time of this Lord that the following anecdote is told. +"Oh, mon, gang na farther; let me digest the knowledge I ha' gained, +for I did na ken Adam's name was Lumley,"--exclaimed King James I. +when wearied with Bishop James's prolix account of the Lumley +Pedigree, on his Majesty's first visit to Lumley Castle in 1603. For +the curious story of the _lucky leap_ of Richard Lumley, the +immediate ancestor of the present family, see Nichols's +Leicestershire, iii. pt. i. 363; and Surtees's Durham, ii. 162. + +See also Leland's Itin., vi. fol. 62; Brydges's Collins, iii. 693; +the Roll of Carlaverock by Sir H. Nicolas, p.313; and the Surrey +Archaeological collections, vol. iii. pp. 324-348, for a valuable +account of the Lumley monuments in Cheam church, and notes on the +pedigree and arms. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a fess gules between three popinjays proper, +collared of the second_. This coat was borne by Marmaduke de Twenge +in the reign of Henry III. and by M. de Thwenge and Monsieur Rauf +Lumleye in the reign of Edward III. and Richard II. (Rolls.) John le +Fitz Marmaduke bore, _Gules, a fess and three popinjays argent_. +(Roll of Carlaverock, 1300.) Sir Robert de Lumley the same, _but on +the fess three mullets sable_. (Roll of the reign of Edward II) See +the seal of John Lord Lumley, who died in 1421, in Bysshe's Notes on +Upton, p. 58. + +Present Representative, Richard George Lumley, 9th Earl of +Scarborough. + + + + +SALVIN OF CROXDALE. + + +[Illustration] Sir Osbert Silvayne, Knight, of Norton Woodhouse, in +the Forest of Sherwood, living in the 29th of Henry III., is the +first proved ancestor of this family: he is said to have been son of +Ralph Silvayne. Some of the name, which we may supposed to be +derived from this wood or forest, were seated at Norton before the +year 1140. Croxdale was inherited from the heiress of Whalton in +1402. + +Younger branch, Salvin of Sunderland Bridge, in this county. + +See Surtees's Durham iv. 117, and the Scrope and Grosvenor Roll, ii. +p. 340. For the extinct family of Salvin of Newbiggen, see Graves's +Cleveland. + +ARMS.--_Argent, on a chief sable two mullets pierced or_. This coat +was borne by Sir Gerard Salveyn in the reign of Edward II., and also +I suppose by the same Sir Gerard in that of Edward III., but here +the _mullets are voided vert_. Again, in the reign of Richard II, +Monsieur Gerard Salvayn bore his _mullets of six points or, pierced +gules_. + +Present Representative, Gerard Salvin, Esq. + + + + ++Gentle.+ + + +LAMBTON OF LAMBTON CASTLE, EARL OF DURHAM 1833, BARON 1828. + + +[Illustration] According to Surtees, traced to Robert de Lambton, +Lord of Lambton in 1314. 'There was, it is true, a John de Lambton, +living between 1180 and 1200, but the pedigree cannot be _proved_ +beyond this Robert. The Lambtons were among the first families of +the North who embraced the Reformed Religion, and were loyal during +the Civil Wars of the seventeenth century. + +See Surtees's Durham, ii. 174. + +ARMS.--_Sable, a fess between three lambs trippant argent_. + +Present Representative, George Frederick D'Arcy Lambton, 2nd Earl of +Durham. + + + + +ESSEX. + + + ++Knightly.+ + +TYRELL OF BOREHAM, BARONET 1809. + + +[Illustration] "This is," says Morant, "one of the most ancient +knightly families which has subsisted to our own days;" descended +from Walter Tyrell, who held the manor of Langham, in this county, +at the time of Domesday; it is doubtful whether he was the person +who shot William Rufus. Indeed, although the ancient descent of the +Terells or Tyrells is generally admitted, the pedigree appears to +require the attention of an experienced genealogist. There have been +many branches of the Tyrells in this and other counties; the present +is a junior one of the original stock, and Boreham a very recent +possession. + +Elder branches now extinct:-- + + Tyrell of Thornton, co. Buckingham, Baronet 1627 to 1749. + Tyrell of Springfield, Essex, Baronet 1666 to 1766. + +See Morant's History of Essex, i. 208; Wotton's Baronetage, ii. 85, +iii. 610. + +ARMS.--_Argent, two chevrons azure within a border engrailed gules_ + +Present Representative, Sir John Tyssen Tyrell, 2nd Baronet, late +M.P. for Essex. + + + + +WALDEGRAVE OF NAVERSTOKE, EARL WALDEGRAVE 1729; BARONET 1685, +BARONET 1643. + +[Illustration] An ancient family, which has been seated in many +counties, originally of Waldegrave, in Northamptonshire; afterwards +settled in Suffolk; about the latter end of the fifteenth century, +seised of lands in this county; and again we find them in Norfolk +and Somersetshire. Naverstock was granted by Queen Mary in 1553, the +Waldegraves having suffered for their attachment to the old faith at +the time of the Reformation. Leland thus mentions the family; "As +far as I could gather of young Walgreve, of the Courte, the eldest +house of the Walgreves cummith owt of the Town of Northampton or +ther about, and there yet remaineth in Northamptonshire a man of +landes of that name." + +See Leland's Itinerary, iv. fol. 19; Morant's Essex, i. 181; +Brydges's Collins, iv. 232; and the Scrope and Grosvenor Roll, ii. +p. 374, for an interesting memoir of Sir Richard Waldegrave, who +died in 1401, having been chosen Speaker of the House of Commons in +1381. + +Younger branch, Baron Radstock, of Ireland, 1800, descended from the +younger brother of the fourth Earl Waldegrave. + +ARMS.--_Per pale argent and gules_. This coat was borne by M. +Richard Waldeg've, as appears by the Roll of the reign of Richard +II. + +Present Representative, William Frederick Waldegrave, 9th Earl +Waldegrave. + + + + +DISNEY OF THE HYDE, IN THE PARISH OF INGATSTONE. + + +[Illustration] A younger branch of an ancient Knightly Norman house, +settled for many years at Norton D'Isney in Lincolnshire, where the +principal line became extinct in 1722. The present family descend +from the eldest son by the second marriage of Sir Henry Disney of +Norton Disney, who died in 1641. See very elaborate pedigrees of +this family in the College of Arms, Norfolk 1, p. 38, and Norfolk 7, +p. 76; also Hutchins's Dorset, iv. p. 389, for Disney of Swinderby, +co. Lincoln, and of Corscomb, co. Dorset, and for the present +family. + +See also the Topographer and Genealogist, iii. 393; and Leland's +Itinerary, i. p. 28, "Disney, alias De Iseney. He dwelleth at +Diseney, and of his name and line be Gentilmen yn Fraunce." + +ARMS.--_Argent, on a fess gules three fleurs-de-lis or_. In the +reign of Richard II. Monsieur William Dysney bore, _Argent, three +lions passant in pale gules_. (Roll.) + +Present Representative, Edgar Disney, Esq. + + + + ++Gentle+ + + +GENT OF MOYNS. + + +[Illustration] The family of Gent was seated at Wymbish in this +county in 1328. William Gent, living in 1468, married Joan, daughter +and heir of William Moyne of Moyne or Moyns. His widow purchased +that manor in 1494, and it has since continued the seat of this +family, who were greatly advanced by Sir Thomas Gent, the Judge, in +the reign of Queen Elizabeth. + +See Morant's History of Essex, ii. 353. + +ARMS.--_Ermine, a chief indented sable_. Sometimes _a chevron sable_ +is borne on the field. The Judge bore two spread eagles on the +chief, as appears by his seal. + +Present Representative, George Gent, Esq. + + + + +VINCENT OF DEBDEN HALL, BARONET 1620. + + +[Illustration] The family of Vincent descend from Miles Vincent, +owner of lands at Swinford in the county of Leicester, in the tenth +of Edward II. Early in the fifteenth century the family removed to +Bernack, in the county of Northampton, on marriage with the heiress +of Sir John Bernack, of that place. Here they continued to reside, +until David Vincent, Esq. seventh in descent from that marriage, +settled at Long-Ditton, in Surrey, in the reign of Henry VIII. His +son, Sir Thomas Vincent, by marriage with the heiress of Lyfield, +removed to Stoke d'Abernon, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, which +was sold shortly after 1809, when the family removed to the present +seat in this county. + +See Wotton's Baronetage, vol. i. p. 418; and Manning and Bray's +Surrey, vol. ii. p. 723. + +ARMS.--_Azure, three quatrefoils urgent_. + +Present Representative, Sir Francis Vincent, 10th Baronet. + + + + +GLOUCESTERSHIRE. + + ++Knightly.+ + + +BERKELEY OF BERKELEY CASTLE, EARL OF BERKELEY 1679; BARON BERKELEY +1416. + + +[Illustration] Pre-eminent among the Norman aristocracy is the house +of Berkeley, and more especially remarkable from being the only +family in England in the male line retaining as their residence +their ancient Feudal Castle. This great family are descended from +Hardinge, who fought with William at the battle of Hastings; and +whose son, Robert Fitzhardinge, received the lordship and castle of +Berkeley from Henry II., in reward for his fidelity to the Empress +Maude and her son. His son and successor Maurice married Alice, +daughter of Roger de Berkeley, the former and dispossessed owner of +Berkeley. + +Younger branches. The Berkeleys of Cotheridge and Spetchley, both in +Worcestershire, and both descended from Thomas, fourth son of James +fifth Lord Berkeley, and Isabel, daughter of Thomas Mowbray, Duke of +Norfolk. (Nash's Worcestershire, i. 258.) + +For Berkeley of Stoke-Gifford in this county, and of Bruton, co. +Somerset, (Lords Berkeley of Stratton,) both extinct, see Blore's +Rutlandshire, p, 210; for Berkeley of Wymondham, also extinct, see +Nichols's Leicestershire, ii. pt. 1. p. 413; for Berkeley-Portman of +Bryanston, co. Dorset, see Hutchins's Dorset, i. 154. + +For Berkeley Genealogy, see Leland's Itinerary, vi. fo. 49, &c.; for +Charters of the Berkeleys, with their seals copied from the +originals at Berkeley Castle, see MSS. Reg. Coll. Oxon. cxlix., and, +above all, Fosbroke's "Abstracts and Extracts of Smyth's Lives of +the Berkeleys," admirably illustrative of the ancient manners of our +old landed families. + +ARMS.--_Gules, a chevron between ten crosses patée argent_. The +original arms were, _Gules, a chevron argent_, and were so borne by +Moris de Barkele, in the reign of Henry III. The present coat was +used by Sir Moris in the reigns of Edward II. and III. and Richard +II. His son, during his father's life, differenced his arms by _a +label azure_; Sir Thomas de Berkeley used "_rosettes_" instead of +crosses; Sir John de Berkeley, _Gules, a chevron argent between +three crosses patée or_. (Roll of Edw. II. &c.) + +See for the differences in the Berkeley coat, Camden's Remains, ed. +1657, p. 226. + +Present Representative, Thomas Morton Fitz-Hardinge Berkeley, 6th +Earl of Berkeley. + + + + ++Gentle.+ + + +KINGSCOTE OF KINGSCOTE. + + +[Illustration] Ansgerus, or Arthur, owner of lands in Combe, in the +parish of Wotton under Edge, in this county, the gift of the Empress +Maude, is the patriarch of this venerable family. The manor of +Kingscote, which had been given by William I. to Roger de Berkeley, +was inherited from Aldeva, the daughter of Robert Fitz-Hardinge and +the wife of Nigel de Kingscote, soon after the reign of Henry II. + +The Kingscotes shared in the glories of both Poictiers and +Agincourt, and, although a family of such long standing in +this county, appear never to have exceeded the moderate limits of +their present ancestral property. + +See Atkyns's Gloucestershire, 2nd edit. 1768, p. 258; Rudder's +Gloucestershire, p. 512; and Fosbroke's Smyth's Lives of the +Berkeleys, p. 218. + +ARMS.--_Argent, nine escallops sable, on a canton gules a mullet +pierced or_. + +Present Representative, Thomas Henry Kingscote, Esq. + + + + +TRYE OF LECKHAMPTON-COURT. + + +[Illustration] This family is traced to Rawlin Try, in the reign of +Richard II. He married an heiress of Berkeley, by whom he had the +manor of Alkington in Berkeley. His great-grandson was High Sheriff +of Gloucestershire in 1447, and married an heiress of Boteler, from +whence came the manor of Hardwicke, sold to the Yorkes in the last +century. Leckhampton came from the Norwood family in recent times. + +See Atkyns's Gloucestershire, p. 238; and Rudder, p. 471, &c. + + +ARMS.--_Or, a bend azure_. In the Roll of Arms of the Thirteenth +Century, printed by the Society of Antiquaries in 1864 [numbers 69 +and 70], occur the following coats: + + "Signeur de Bilebatia de Try, d'or un bend gobony d'argent et + d'azure. + "Regnald de Try, d'or un bend d'azure un labell gulez." + +Present Representative, Rev. Charles Brandon Trye. + + + + +ESTCOURT OF ESTCOURT, IN SHIPTON-MOYNE. + + +[Illustration] The printed accounts of this ancient family are +somewhat meagre, but original evidences in the possession of the +present Mr. Estcourt prove the long continuance of his ancestors as +lords of the manor of the place from whence the name is derived, and +of which John Estcourt died seised in the fourteenth year of Edward +IV. The estate has remained the inheritance of his descendants from +that period. + +Walter de la Estcourt is the first recorded ancestor. He held lands +in Shipton in 1317, and died about 1325. See Atkyns's +Gloucestershire, 2nd ed. p. 340; Rudder, p. 654 and Lee's History of +the Parish of Tetbury, p. 196. + +ARMS.--_Ermine, on a chief indented gules three estoiles or_, and so +borne by William Estcourt, Warden of New College, Oxford, in 1426, +as appears by his silver seal in the possession of Mr. Estcourt. + +Present Representative, The Right Hon. Thomas H. S. +Sotheron-Estcourt, late M.P. for North Wilts. + + + + +LEIGH OF ADLESTROP, BARON LEIGH OF STONELEIGH 1839. + + +[Illustration] Descended from Agnes, daughter and heir of Richard de +Legh, and her second husband William Venables, the common ancestress +of the Leighs of West-Hall in High-Leigh. (See p. 22.) They had a +son who took the name of Legh, and settled at Booths in Cheshire: +from hence came the Leighs of Adlington, and from them the +Leighs of Lyme, both in Cheshire, and both now extinct. John Leigh, +Escheator of Cheshire in the 12th of Henry VI., was a younger son of +Sir Peter Leigh, of Lyme, and the ancestor of the Leighs of Ridge, +in the same county. Ridge was sold in the fourth of George II., and +the family (still I believe existing) removed into Kent. + +The present family are descended from Sir Thomas Leigh, Knight, Lord +Mayor of London in 1558, who was also the ancestor of the extinct +house of Stoneleigh. Sir Thomas was great-grandson of Sir Peter +Leigh, Knight Banneret, who fell at Agincourt. + +Younger Branches. Leigh of Middleton in Yorkshire, and Egginton in +Derbyshire. See also Townley of Townley. + +Extinct Branches. Leigh of Rushall, in Staffordshire; see Shaw's +Staffordshire, ii. 69; of Brownsover, co. Warwick, Baronet; of +Baguly, co. Chester; of Annesley, co. Notts; of Birch, co. +Lancaster; of Stockwell, co. Surrey; and of Isall, co. Cumberland, +&c. + +So various indeed are the ramifications of the different branches of +this wide-spreading family, that "as many Leighs as fleas" has grown +into a proverb in Cheshire. + +See Ormerod's Cheshire, i. 350; iii. 333, 338, 374. + +ARMS.--_Gules, a cross engrailed, and in the dexter point a fusil +argent_. + +Present Representative, William Henry Leigh, 2nd Baron Leigh. + + + + +HEREFORDSHIRE. + + ++Knightly.+ + + +BODENHAM OF ROTHERWAS. + + +[Illustration] Hugh de Bodenham, Lord of Bodenham, in this county, +grandfather of Roger who lived in the reign of Henry III., is the +ancestor of this family; who were afterwards of Monington and of +Rotherwas, about the middle of the fifteenth century. + +See Blore's Rutlandshire for Bodenham of Ryhall, in that county, now +extinct, (p. 49,) and Duncomb's Herefordshire, i. 91, 104. + +ARMS.--_Azure, a fess between three chess-rooks or_. + +Present Representative, Charles De la Barre Bodenham, Esq. + + + + +SCUDAMORE OF KENTCHURCH. + + +[Illustration] This is the only remaining branch of an ancient +Norman family formerly seated at Upton and Norton near Warminster, +in Wiltshire; Walter de Scudamore being lord of the former manor in +the reign of Stephen. In that of Edward III. Thomas, younger son of +Sir Peter Scudamore, of Upton-Scudamore, having married the heiress +of Ewias, removed into Herefordshire, and was the ancestor of the +family long seated at Holme-Lacy, created Viscounts Scudamore in +1628, and extinct in 1716. From him also descended the house of +Kentchurch, who are said to have been seated there in the reign of +Edward IV. + +See Gibson's Views of the Churches of Door, Holme-Lacy, and Hemsted, +&c. 4to. 1727; and Guillim's Heraldry, ed. 1724, p. 549. + +ARMS.--_Gules, three stirrups, leathered and buckled, or_. Ancient +coat, _Or, a cross patée fitchée gules_. + +Present Representative, John Lucy Scudamore, Esq. + + + + ++Gentle.+ + + +LUTTLEY OF BROCKHAMPTON (CALLED BARNEBY). + + +[Illustration] Luttley is in the parish of Enfield, in the county of +Stafford, and Philip de Luttley was lord thereof in the 20th of +Edward I. He was the ancestor of a family the direct line of which +terminated in an heiress in the reign of Henry VI. But Adam de +Luttley, younger brother of Philip above-named, was grandfather of +Sir William Luttley, Knight, of Munslow Hall, co. Salop, whose +lineal descendant, John Luttley, Esq. was of Bromcroft Castle, in +the same county, 1623. Philip Luttley, Esq. of Lawton Hall, co. +Salop, great-grandson of John last-named, married Penelope, only +daughter of Richard Barneby, Esq. of Brockhampton; and their son, +Bartholomew, succeeding to the Barneby estates, assumed that name; +and was grandfather of the late John Barneby, Esq. M. P. for the +county of Worcester. + +From the MSS. of Mr. Joseph Morris of Shrewsbury. + +ARMS.--_Quarterly or and azure, four lions rampant counterchanged_. + +Present Representative, John Habington Barneby, Esq. + + + + +BERINGTON OF WINSLEY. + + +[Illustration] The name is derived from Berington, in the hundred of +Condover, and county of Salop, where Thomas and Roger de Berington +were living in the reigns of Edward I. and II. Another Thomas, +living in the time of Edward III., married Alice, daughter of Sir +John Draycot, Knight, and was ancestor of John Berington, of +Stoke-Lacy, in this county, who, about the reign of Henry VII. +married Eleanor, daughter and heir of Rowland Winsley, of Winsley, +Esq. From this marriage the present Mr. Berington is tenth in +descent. + + +From Roger de Berington, brother of Thomas first-named, the +Beringtons of Shrewsbury and of Moat Hall, co. Salop, traced their +descent. Thomas Berington, of Moat Hall, Esq. who died in 1719, +married Anne, daughter of John Berington, of Winsley, Esq.; and the +last heir male of their descendants, Philip Berington, Esq. dying +s.p. in 1803, devised his Shropshire estates to his kinsman, Mr. +Berington, of Winsley. + +From the MSS. of Mr. Joseph Morris, of Shrewsbury, and Eyton's +Shropshire, vi. p. 42. + +ARMS.--_Sable, three greyhounds courant in pale argent, collared +gules, within a border of the last_. + +Present Representative, John Berington, Esq. + + + + +HERTFORDSHIRE. + + + ++Knightly.+ + + +JOCELYN, OF HYDE HALL, IN THE PARISH OF SABRIDGEWORTH, EARL OF RODEN +IN IRELAND 1771; IRISH BARON 1743; BARONET 1665. + + +[Illustration] A family of Norman origin, said to have come into +England with William the Conqueror, and to have been seated at +Sempringham, in the county of Lincoln, by the grant of that monarch. +In 1249 Thomas Jocelyn, son of John, having married Maud, daughter +and coheir of Sir John Hyde, of Hyde, brought that manor and +lordship into this family, in which it has ever since continued. The +peerage was originally conferred on Robert Jocelyn, Lord Chancellor +of Ireland in 1739, created Baron Newport 1743, whose son, the first +Earl, married the heiress of the Hamiltons, Earls of Clanbrassil, in +1752. + +See "Historical Anecdotes of the Families of the Boleyns, Careys, +Mordaunts, Hamiltons, and Jocelyns, arranged as an Elucidation of +the Genealogical Chart at Tollymore Park," Newry, 1839, privately +printed. See also Archdall's Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, iii. 258, +and Chauncy's Hertfordshire, 1st ed. p. 182. + +ARMS.--_Azure, a circular wreath argent and sable, with four hawk's +bells joined thereto in quadrature or_. + +Present Representative, Robert Jocelyn, third Earl of Roden, +K.P. + + + + +WOLRYCHE OF CROXLEY. + + +[Illustration] This is a very ancient Shropshire family, descended +from Sir Adam Wolryche, Knight, of Wenlock, living in the reign of +Henry III., and who, previous to being knighted, was admitted of the +Roll of Guild Merchants of the town of Shrewsbury in 1231, by the +old Saxon name of "Adam Wulfric." His descendant Andrew Wolryche was +M. P. for Bridgnorth in 1435, being then of Dudmaston, where the +elder branch of this family was seated for a considerable period, +created Baronets in 1641, extinct in 1723. The present family +descend from Edward, third son of Humphry Wolryche, Esq. grandson of +Andrew Wolryche, which Humphry is recorded as one of the "Gentlemen" +of Shropshire, in the seventeenth of Henry VII., 1501. There were +branches of the family, now extinct, at Cowling and Wickhambroke, +Suffolk, and Alconbury, Huntingdonshire. + +From the MSS. of Mr. Joseph Morris, of Shrewsbury. + +ARMS.--_Azure, a chevron between three swans argent_. + +Present Representative, Humphry William Wolryche, Esq. + + + + +HUNTINGDONSHIRE. + + ++Knightly.+ + + +SHERARD OF GLATTON, BARON SHERARD IN IRELAND 1627. + + +[Illustration] The pedigree of this family does not appear to be +_proved_ beyond William Sherard, who died in 1304. His ancestors, +however, are said to have been of Thornton, in Cheshire, in the +thirteenth century. In 1402 the family were established at +Stapleford in Leicestershire by marriage with the heiress of +Hawberk. + +On the decease of Robert Sherard, sixth Earl of Harborough, in 1859, +the representation of the family devolved upon the present lord, +descended from George, third son of the first Baron. + +See Nichols's Leicestershire, vol. ii. pt. i. 343; and Brydges's +Collins, iv. 180, + +An extinct younger branch was of Lopthorne, in the county of +Leicester. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a chevron gules between three torteauxes_. + +Present Representative, Philip Castell Sherard, 9th Baron +Sherard. + + + + +KENT + + ++Knightly.+ + + +DERING OF SURENDEN-DERING, BARONET 1626. + + +[Illustration] The family of Dering descend from Norman de Morinis, +whose ancestor, Vitalis FitzOsbert, lived in the reign of Henry II. +Norman de Morinis married the daughter of Deringus, descended from +Norman Fitz-Dering, Sheriff of this county in King Stephen's reign. +Richard Dering died seised of Surenden, which came from the heiress +of Haute, in 1480. The loyalty of Sir Edward Dering in the Civil +Wars, in Charles I.'s time, deserves to be remembered: see his +character in Peck's Desiderata Curiosa, II. B. 14, 19, 20, and the +interesting memoir of him by John Bruce, Esq. F.S.A. in "Proceedings +in the County of Kent," printed for the Camden Society 1861. + +For a notice of the old seats of this family, in the parish of Lidd, +called Dengemarsh Place and Westbrooke, see Hasted's History of +Kent, iii. 515, and for the family, iii. 228; and Wotton's +Baronetage, ii. 13, + +ARMS.--_Argent, a fess azure, in chief three torteauxes_, borne by +"Richard fil' Deringi de Haut," in 19 Hen. IV. as appears by his +seal. The same coat is on the roof of the cloisters of Canterbury +Cathedral. The son of this Sir Richard Dering bore, _Or, a saltier +sable_, the ancient arms of De Morinis, and now generally quartered +with Dering. See Willement's Heraldic Notices of Canterbury +Cathedral, pp. 90, 106. + +Present Representative, Sir Edward C. Dering, 8th Baronet, M.P. for +East Kent. + + + + +NEVILLE OF BIRLING, EARL OF ABERGAVENNY 1784; BARON 1392. + + +[Illustration] "In point of antiquity, and former feudal power, +probably the most illustrious house in the peerage," says Brydges. +Descended from Gospatric, the Saxon Earl of Northumberland, whose +great-grandson, marrying the heiress of Neville, gave that name to +his posterity, for many ages the Nevilles were Barons of Raby and +Earls of Westmerland. The last Earl was attainted in the 13th of +Elizabeth. A younger branch of the Nevilles, in the person of Sir +Edward Neville, obtained the castle and barony of Abergavenny, and +the estate of Birling, with the heiress of Beauchamp, in the reign +of Henry VI.; and the present family is descended from this match, +having been Barons of Abergavenny previously to the creation of the +Earldom. Birling was long deserted by the family, whose principal +seat was afterwards at Sheffield, and Eridge, in Sussex; but it is +now the residence of Lord Abergavenny. + +See Hasted, ii. 200; Brydges's Collins, v. 151; and Surtees's +Durham, iv. 158, for pedigrees of the Nevilles, Earls of +Westmerland, and the Nevilles of Weardale and Thornton-Bridge. See +also Rowland's "Account of the Noble Family of Neville," privately +printed 1830, folio; Surtees's "Sketch of the Stock of Nevill," 8vo. +1843. + +ARMS.--_Gules, a saltier argent, thereon a rose of the first, seeded +proper_. + +This coat, without the rose, was borne by Robert de Neville in the +reign of Henry III. In the reign of Edward III. M. de Neville de +Hornby bore the coat reversed, _Argent, a saltier gules_. M. +Alexander de Neville, at the same period, differenced it by _a +martlet sable_. M. William Neville and N. Thomas Neville bore +for difference respectively, _a fleur-de-lis azure and a martlet +gules_, in the reign of Richard II. (Rolls.) The Rose is allusive to +the House of Lancaster, Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmerland, +having married to his second wife Joan, daughter of John of Gaunt, +Duke of Lancaster. The older coat was, _Or, fretty gules, on a +canton sable an ancient ship_. + +Present Representative, the Rev. William Neville, 4th Earl of +Abergavenny. + + + + ++Gentle.+ + + +HONYWOOD OF EVINGTON, IN ELMSTED, BARONET 1660. + + +[Illustration] The name is derived from Henewood, near Postling, in +this county, where the ancestors of this family resided as early as +the reign of Henry III. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries +the Honywoods removed to Hythe, which they often represented in +Parliament, and afterwards to Sene, in Newington, near Hythe. +Caseborne, in Cheriton, came from an heiress of that name before the +time of Henry VI.; Evington, by purchase, in the reign of Henry VII. + +Younger branches were of Marks Hall, in Essex, and of Petts, in +Charing, in this county. Of the former family was Robert Honywood, +whose wife Mary, daughter of Robert Atwaters, or Waters, lived to +see 367 descendants: she died in 1620, aged 93. + +See Topographer and Genealogist, i. 397, 568; ii. 169, 189, 256, +312, 433; Hasted's Kent, ii. 442, 449; iii. 308; Wotton's +Baronetage, iii. 105. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a chevron between three hawk's heads erased azure_. +These arms, of the time of Richard II. are carved on the cloisters +of Canterbury Cathedral. See Willement, p. 101. + +Present Representative, Sir Courtenay John Honywood, 7th Baronet. + + + + +TWYSDEN OF ROYDON-HALL, IN EAST PECKHAM, BARONET 1611. + + +[Illustration] Twysden, in the parish of Goudhurst, appears to have +given name to this family: it was possessed by Adam de Twysden in +the reign of Edward I.; and in that of Henry IV. Roger Twysden, his +descendant, married the daughter and heir of Thomas Chelmington of +Chelmington, in Great Chart, Esq. where his son Roger removed. +Twysden was sold in the reign of Henry VI. In the reign of +Elizabeth, William Twysden, of Chelmington, married Elizabeth, +daughter of Thomas Roydon, of Roydon-Hall, which has since been the +residence of his descendants. There is another Twysden, in the +parish of Sandhurst, in this county, where the family are also said +to have lived in the time of Edward I. + +A younger branch of Bradbourne, in this county, also Baronets, were +extinct in 1841. + +See Hasted's Kent, ii. 213, 275; iii. 37, 244; Philpot's Kent, p. +300; Wotton's Baronetage, i. 211. + +ARMS.--_Gyronny of four, argent and gules, a saltier between four +crosses crosslet, all counterchanged_. + +Present Representative, Sir William Twysden, 8th Baronet. + + + + +TOKE, OF GODINGTON. + + +[Illustration] This family claim descent from Robert de Toke, who +was present with Henry III. at the Battle of Northampton. In the +fourteenth and fifteenth centuries the Tokes were seated at Bere, in +the parish of Westcliffe, in this county: this line became extinct +at the latter end of the seventeenth century. + +The Tokes of Godington are a junior branch, descended from the +heiress of Goldwell, of Godington, about the reign of Henry VI. + +See Hasted's Kent, iii. 247; Visitations of Kent, 1574 and 1619; and +Harleian MSS. 1195. 55, 1196. 108. + +ARMS.--_Party per chevron sable and argent, three gryphon's heads +erased and counterchanged_. John Toke, of Godington, had an +additional coat, an augmentation granted to him by Henry VII., as a +reward for his expedition in a message on which he was employed to +the French King: viz. _Argent, on a chevron between three +greyhound's heads erased sable, collared or, three plates_. + +Present Representative, the Rev. Nicholas Toke. + + + + +ROPER OF LINSTEAD, BARON TEYNHAM 1616. + + +[Illustration] William Roper, or Rosper, who lived in the reign of +Henry III, is the first recorded ancestor; his descendants were of +St. Dunstan's, near Canterbury, in the reigns of Edward III. and +Richard II. Edmund Roper was one of the Justices of the Peace for +this county in the time of Henry IV. and V. + +The elder line of this family were seated at West-Hall, in Eltham, +and also at St. Dunstan's, and became extinct in 1725. The younger +and present branch at Linstead, which came from the heiress of +Fineux, in the reign of Henry VIII. King James I. conferred the +peerage on Sir John Roper in 1616. + +For the origin of the family, see Dugdale's Warwickshire, 2nd ed. p. +316; Hasted's Kent, i. 55; ii. 687; iii. 589; and Brydges's Collins, +vii. 77. + +ARMS.--_Per fess azure and or, a pale counterchanged, three buck's +heads erased of the second_. + +Present Representative, George Henry Roper Curzon, 16th Baron +Teynham. + + + + +KNATCHBULL OF MERSHAM-HATCH, BARONET 1641. + + +[Illustration] Hasted gives no detailed pedigree of this family +before the purchase of the manor and estate of Hatch, by Richard +Knatchbull, in the reign of Henry VII. It appears however that the +first recorded ancestor, John Knatchbull, held lands in the parish +of Limne, in this county, in the reign of Edward III., where some of +the name remained in that of Charles I. There are pedigrees in the +Visitations of Kent of 1574 and 1619. + +See Philpot's Kent, p.199; Hasted's Kent, iii. 286; and Wotton's +Baronetage, ii. 228. + +ARMS.--_Azure, three cross-crosslets fitchée in bend or, cotised of +the same_. + +Present Representative, Sir Norton Joseph Knatchbull, 10th +Baronet. + + + + +FILMER OF EAST-SUTTON, BARONET 1674. + + +[Illustration] The Filmers were anciently seated at the manor of +Herst, in the parish of Otterden, in this county, in the reign of +Edward II., and there remained till the time of Elizabeth, when +Robert Filmer, son of James, removed to Little-Charleton, in +East-Sutton: the manor was purchased by his elder son. There are +pedigrees of Filmer in the Kentish Visitations of 1574 and 1619. The +Baronetcy was conferred by Charles II., as a reward for the loyal +exertions of Sir Robert Filmer during the Usurpation. + +See Hasted's Kent, ii. 410; Wotton's Baronetage, iii. 581. +ARMS.--_Sable three bars, and in chief three cinquefoils or_. + +Present Representative, Sir Edmund Filmer, 9th Baronet, late M.P. +for West Kent. + + + + +OXENDEN OF DENE, BARONET 1678. + + +[Illustration] Solomon Oxenden, who lived in the reign of Edward +III., is the first known ancestor. Dene, in the parish of Wingham, +was purchased at the latter part of the reign of Henry VI. The +family had previously been stated at Brook, in the same parish. +Thomas Oxenden died seised of Dene in 1492. There is a pedigree in +the Visitation of Kent in 1619. + +See Hasted's Kent, iii. 696; Wotton's Baronetage, iii. 638. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a chevron gules between three oxen sable_. Confirmed +in the 24th of Henry VI. + +Present Representative, Sir Henry Chudleigh Oxenden, 8th Baronet. + + + + +FINCH OF EASTWELL, EARL OF WINCHILSEA AND NOTTINGHAM 1628-1681. + + +[Illustration] "The name of the Finches," writes Leland, "hath bene +of ancient tyme in estimation in Southsex about Winchelesey, and by +all likelyhod rose by sum notable merchaunte of Winchelesey." The +name is said to be derived from the manor of Finches in the parish +of Kidd. + +Vincent Herbert, alias Finch, married Joan, daughter and heir of +Robert de Pitlesden, of Tenderden. His son was of Netherfield, +in Sussex, in the reign of Richard II. and Henry IV.; and was the +ancestor of this family, who were of the Moat, near Canterbury, by +marriage with the heiress of Belknap before 1493. Eastwell came by +the coheiress of Moyle about the reign of Elizabeth. + +The heiress of Heneage, who married Sir Moyle Finch, was created +Countess of Winchilsea in 1628. The Earldom of Nottingham is due to +the law, being granted in 1681 to Heneage, grandson of the first +Countess. + +Younger Branch. Earl of Aylesford 1714. + +From John, second son of the second Vincent Finch, of Netherfield, +were descended the Finches of Sewards, Norton, Kingsdown, Feversham, +Wye, and other places in this county. + +See Leland's Itinerary, vi. fol. 59; Basted's Kent. iii. 198; and +Brydges's Collins, iii. 371. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a chevron between three gryphons sable_. + +Present Representative, George James Finch Hatton, 10th Earl of +Winchilsea, and 7th Earl of Nottingham. + + + + +LANCASHIRE. + + ++Knightly.+ + + +PENNINGTON OF PENNINGTON, BARON MUNCASTER IN IRELAND 1676. + + +[Illustration] Gamel de Pennington, ancestor of this ancient family, +was seated at Pennington at the period of the Conquest. But, as +early as the reign of Henry II., Muncaster, in Cumberland, belonged +to the Penningtons, and afterwards became their residence; and here +King Henry VI. was concealed by Sir John Pennington in his flight +from his enemies. There is a tradition that, on quitting Muncaster, +the king presented his host with a small glass vessel, still +possessed by the family, and called "THE LUCK OF MUNCASTER:" to the +preservation of which a considerable degree of superstition was +attached. + +See Baines's History of the County of Lancaster, iv. 669; Lysons's +Cumberland, 139; Wotton's Baronetage, iii. 602. + +ARMS.--_Or, five fusils in fess azure_. + +Present Representative, Josslyn Francis Pennington, 5th Baron +Muncaster. + + + + +MOLYNEUX OF SEFTON, EARL OF SEFTON IN IRELAND 1771 VISCOUNT MOLYNEUX +IN IRELAND 1628; BARON SEFTON 1831; BARONET 1611. + + +[Illustration] An ancient Norman family, who have been possessed of +the manor of Sefton, in this county, from the period of the +Conquest, or very soon afterwards: it was held as a knight's fee, as +of the Castle of Lancaster. + +William de Molines is the first recorded ancestor, and from him the +pedigree is very regularly deduced to the present day. This truly +noble family have been greatly distinguished in the field, witness +Agincourt and Flodden. Thrice has the honour of the banner been +conferred on a Molyneux. The second occasion was in Spain in 1367, +from the hands of the Black Prince himself. In the seventeenth +century, the family proved themselves right loyal to the crown, and +suffered accordingly. + +Sir Archdall's Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, iii. 239; Brydges's +Biographical Peerage, iv. 93; and Baines's Lancashire, iv. 276. + +Younger Branch. Molyneux, of Castle Dillon, co. Armagh, Baronet +1730, descended from Thomas Molyneux, born at Calais in 1531, for +whom see "An Account of the Family and Descendants of Sir Thomas +Molyneux, Knight, Chancellor of the Exchequer in Ireland to Queen +Elizabeth." Evesham, sm. 4to. 1820. + +For Molyneux of Teversal, co. Notts, Baronet 1611, extinct 1812, +descended from the second son of Sir Richard Molyneux, the hero of +Agincourt, see Thoroton's Nottinghamshire, p. 269; and Wotton's +Baronetage, i. 141. + +ARMS.--_Azure, a cross moline or_. The Irish branch bears a +_fleur-de-lis or_ in the dexter quarter. + +Present Representative, William Philip Molyneux, 4th Earl of Sefton. + + + + +HOGHTON OF HOGHTON-TOWER, BARONET 1611. + + +[Illustration] Hocton, or Hoghton, appears to have been granted in +marriage by Warin Bussel to one Hamon, called "Pincerna," whose +grandson was the first "Adam de Hocton," who held one carucate of +land in Hocton in the reign of Henry II. His grandson, Sir Adam de +Hoghton, lived in the 50th of Henry III., and was the ancestor of +this family. + +See Baines's Lancashire, iii. 348 and 459, for an interesting +account of Hoghton-Tower, long deserted by the family; and Wotton's +Baronetage, i. 15. + +ARMS.--_Sable, three bars argent_: borne in the reign of Richard II. +by Mons. Ric. de Hoghton. His son (?) Richard, the same, _with a +label of three points gules_. (Rolls.) + +Present Representative, Sir Henry Hoghton, 9th Baronet. + + + + +CLIFTON OF CLIFTON. + + +[Illustration] Clifton is in the parish of Kirkham, and here William +de Clifton held ten carucates of land in the 42nd year of Henry +III., and was Collector of Aids for this county. His son Gilbert, +Lord of Clifton, died in the seventeenth of Edward II. On the death +of Cuthbert Clifton, in 1512, the manor was temporarily alienated +from the male line by an heiress; but by a match with the coheiress +of Halsall, before 1657, it again became the property of the then +principal branch of this ancient family, who were originally a +junior line descended from the Cliftons of Westby. + +See Baines's Lancashire, iv. 404. + +ARMS.--_Sable, on a bend argent three mullets pierced gules_: borne +in the reigns of Edward III. and Richard II. by Mons. Robert de +Clyfton. (Rolls.) + +Present Representative, John Talbot Clifton, Esq. + + + + +TRAFFORD OF TRAFFORD, BARONET 1841. + + +[Illustration] Trafford is in the parish of Eccles, and here the +ancestors of this family are said to have been established even +before the Norman Conquest. The pedigree given in Baines's +Lancashire professes to be founded on documents in possession of the +family, but some of it is certainly inaccurate, and cannot be +depended on: Ralph de Trafford, who is said to have died about 1050, +is the first recorded ancestor, but this is before the general +assumption of surnames, which, as Camden observes, are first found +in the Domesday Survey. On the whole, it may be assumed that the +antiquity of the family is exaggerated, though the name no doubt is +derived from this locality at an early period. + +See Baines's Lancashire, iii. 110. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a gryphon segreant gules_. See in "Hearne's Curious +Discourses," i. 262. edit. 1771, for the supposed origin of the +Trafford Crest, "a man thrashing," which was however only granted +about the middle of the 16th century. + +Present Representative, Sir Humphry Trafford, 2nd Baronet. + + + + +HESKETH OF RUFFORD, BARONET 1761 + + +[Illustration] In the year 1275, the 4th of Edward I., Sir William +Heskayte, Knight, married the coheiress of Fytton, and thus became +possessed of Rufford, which has since remained the inheritance of +this ancient family. + +Younger branch. Hesketh of Gwyrch Castle, Denbighshire, descended +from the Heskeths of Rossel, Lancashire, who were a younger branch +of the house of Rufford. + +See Baines's Lancashire, iii. 426. + +ARMS.--_Argent, on a bend sable three garbs or_, the ancient coat of +Fytton. Hesketh of Gwyrch Castle bears, _Or, on a bend sable between +two torteauxes three garbs of the field_. + +Present Representative, Sir Thomas George Hesketh, 5th Baronet. + + + + +TOWNLEY OF TOWNLEY. + + +[Illustration] "This is not one of those long lines which are +memorable only for their antiquity," says Whitaker, in his account +of several remarkable members of this eminent family; who are +descended from John del Legh, who died about the 4th of Edward III., +and the great heiress Cecilia, daughter of Richard de Townley, whose +family was of Saxon origin, and traced to the reign of Alfred. There +is preserved at Townley, of which beautiful place Whitaker gives a +charming account, an unbroken series of portraits from John Townley, +Esq. in the reign of Elizabeth to the present time. + +See Leland's Itinerary, i. 96 and v. 102; Whitaker's Whalley, 271, +341, 484; and for the extinct branches of Hurstwood Hall, +[1562-1794,] p. 384; and of Barnside [Edw. IV.--1739,] p. 395. + +For the origin of the Legh (properly Venables) family of Cheshire, +see Leigh of Adlestrop, p. 92. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a fess and in chief three mullets sable_. + +Present Representative, Charles Townley, Esq. + + + + +GERARD OF BRYAN, BARONET 1611. + + +[Illustration] This family claims the same ancestor as the now +extinct house of the Windsors Earls of Plymouth; the Carews also, +both of England and Ireland, are descended, according to Camden, +from the same progenitors: the pedigree therefore is extended to the +Conquest, Otherus or Otho being the first recorded ancestor. The +Lancashire branch were not settled there till the reign of Edward +III., when they became possessed of Bryn, by marriage with the +heiress of that name and place, From the Gerards of Ince descended +the extinct Lords Gerard, of Gerard's-Bromley, and Sir William +Gerard, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, who died in 1581. + +See Baines's Lancashire, iii. 641; and Wotton's Baronetage, i. 51. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a saltire gules_. + +Present Representative, Sir Robert Tolver Gerard, 13th Baronet. + + + + +STANLEY OF KNOWESLEY, EARL OF DERBY 1485; BARONET 1627. + + +[Illustration] Although Sir Rowland Stanley Errington, brother of +Sir William Massey Stanley, late of Hooton, in the county of +Chester, Baronet, is in fact the head of this illustrious house, +yet, as that estate has been sold, and his family have now no +connection with Cheshire, the Earl of Derby must be considered the +_chief_, as he is in truth the _principal_, branch of the house of +Stanley. + +As few families have acted a more prominent part in History, so few +can trace a more satisfactory pedigree. Descended from a younger +branch of the Barons Audeley, of Audeley in Staffordshire, the name +of Stanley, from the manor of that name in this county, in the reign +of John, was assumed by William de Audleigh. Sir John Stanley, K.G., +Lord Deputy of Ireland, in 1381 married the heiress of Lathom, and +thus became possessed of Knowesley; it was this Sir John also who +obtained a grant of the Isle of Man, which afterwards descended to +the Murrays Dukes of Athol till 1765. The principal branch of this +family became extinct on the death of James, tenth Earl, in 1736; +when the earldom descended on Sir Edward Stanley of Bickerstaff, +Baronet, descended from Sir James Stanley, brother of Thomas second +Earl of Derby. + +For Stanley of Hooton, see Ormerod's Cheshire, ii. 230. The famous, +or rather infamous, Sir William Stanley was of this line. + +Younger Branches. Stanley of Cross-Hall, descended from Peter second +son of Sir Thomas Stanley, 2nd Baronet, who died in 1653; and the +family of the late Rev. James Stanley of Ormskirk, descended +from Henry 2nd son of Sir Edward Stanley 1st. Bart. who died in +1640. + +Stanley of Alderley, Cheshire, Baron Stanley of Alderley 1839, +descended from Sir John Stanley and the heiress of Wever of +Alderley. See Ormerod, iii. 306. + +Stanley of Dalegarth, Cumberland, descended from John, second son of +John Stanley, Esq., younger brother of Sir William Stanley, and the +heiress of Bamville. + +See Brydges's Collins, iii. 50; Seacome's House of Stanley, 4to. +1741; for Stanley Legend, &c. Coll. Topog. et Genealog. vii. 1. + +ARMS.--_Argent, on a bend azure three buck's heads cabossed and +attired or_, assumed on the match with the heiress of Bamville, +instead of the coat of Audeley.* + +Present Representative, Edward Geoffery Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of +Derby, K.G. + + * The Dalegarth family bear the _bend cotised vert_. + + + + +ASSHETON OF DOWNHAM. + + +[Illustration] This is the only remaining branch of the old +Lancashire family of Assheton, originally seated at +Assheton-under-Lyne, and of whom the Asshetons of Middleton and of +Great Lever, both Baronets, represented the elder lines. The present +family descend from Radcliffe Assheton, second son of Ralph +Assheton, of Great Lever, born in 1582. + +Downham appears to have come into the family in the seventeenth +century. + +See Whitaker's Whalley, p. 299 and p. 300, for the curious journal +of Nicholas Assheton, of Downham, Esq. 1617-18, since published +entire as vol. xiv. of the series of the Chetham Society, 1848. For +Assheton of Ashton-under-Lyne, Baines's Lancashire, ii. 532, and +Collectanea Topog. et Genealog. vii. 12; for Ashton of Lever and +Whalley, Baines, iii. 190. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a mullet pierced sable_. + +Present Representative, Ralph Assheton, Esq. + + + + +RADCLYFFE OF FOXDENTON. + + +[Illustration] This is a younger branch of the well-known Lancashire +family of this name, who trace their descent from Richard of +Radclyffe Tower, near Bury, in the reign of Edward I. Ordshall, also +in this county, was for many ages the seat of the ancestors of the +present family, who are descended from Robert, sixth and youngest +son of Sir Alexander Radclyffe, of Ordshall, who was born in 1650. +Foxdenton, which as early as the fifteenth century belonged to one +branch of the Radclyffes, was bequeathed to the present family early +in the last century. The extinct house of the Radclyffes, Barons +Fitzwalter and Earls of Sussex 1529, were sprung from William, elder +brother of the first Sir John Radclyffe, of Ordshall. The Radclyffes +of Dilston, Baronets 1619, and Earls of Derwentwater 1687, were +perhaps also of the same origin, but this has not been +ascertained. + +See Burke's Landed Gentry, 2nd. ed. vol. ii. p. 1091, and Ellis's +Family of Radclyffe, for the House of Dilston (1850). + +ARMS.--_Argent, two bends engrailed sable, a label of three points +gules_. The more simple coat of _Argent, a bend engrailed sable_, +was borne by the Earls of Sussex, and also by the Earls of +Derwentwater. + +Present Representative, Robert. Radclyffe, Esq. + + + + ++Gentle.+ + + +HULTON OF HULTON. + + +[Illustration] Hulton is in the parish of Dean, and gave name to +Bleythen, called de Hulton, in the reign of Henry II., and from him +this ancient family, still seated at their ancestral and original +manor, is regularly descended. + +See Baines's Lancashire, iii. p. 40. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a lion rampant gules_. + +Present Representative, William Hulton, Esq. + + + + +ECCLESTON OF SCARISBRICK (CALLED SCARISBRICK). + + +[Illustration] Descended from Robert Eccleston of Eccleston, living +in the reign of Henry III., an estate which continued in the family +until the last generation, when it was sold, and that of +Scarisbrick, with the name, acquired by marriage about the same +period. + +See Baines, iii. 480; and for Scarisbrick, iv. 258. + +In Flower's Visitation of this county, in 1567, is a pedigree of +Eccleston. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a cross sable, in the first quarter a fleur-de-lis +gules_. + +Present Representative, Charles Scarisbrick, Esq. + + + + +ORMEROD OF TYLDESLEY. + + +[Illustration] There is a good pedigree of this, his own family, in +Ormerod's History of Cheshire, (ii. p. 204,) under Chorlton, a seat +of the family purchased in 1811. The first recorded ancestor is +Matthew de Hormerodes, living about 1270. The elder line of his +descendants, whose name was derived from Ormerod in Whalley, became +extinct in 1793. The present family trace their lineage from George +Ormerod, fourth son of Peter Ormerod, of Ormerod, who died in 1653. + +See also Whitaker's Whalley, p. 364. + +ARMS.--_Or, three bars, and in chief a lion passant gules_. + +Present Representative, George Ormerod, Esq. + + + + +STARKIE OF HUNTROYD. + + +[Illustration] The pedigree begins with Geoffry Starky, of +Barthington (Barnton) in Cheshire, supposed to be the same with +Geoffry, son of Richard Starkie, of Stretton, in the same county, an +ancient family which can be traced almost to the Conquest. William +Starkie was of Barnton in the seventh of Edward IV. Huntroyd was +acquired by marriage, in 1464, with the heiress of Symondstone. + +See Whitaker's Whalley, 266, 529; also Ormerod's Cheshire, i. 474; +and Baines, iii. 309. + +Younger branches. Starkie of Twiston, and Starkie of Thornton, +Yorkshire. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a bend between six storks sable_. + +Present Representative, Le Gendre Starkie, Esq. + + + + +CHADWICK OF HEALEY. + + +[Illustration] A younger branch of Chadwick of Chadwick, now +extinct, a family which can be traced to the reign of Edward III. + +Healey came from the coheiress of Okeden in 1483. Mavesyn Ridware, +in Staffordshire, is also the property of this family, derived by an +heiress from the Cawardens, and ultimately from the Malvesyns, who +came in with the Conqueror. + +Younger branch. Chadwick of Swinton, in this county, derived from +the heiress of Strettell: they bear their arms differenced by a +_border engrailed or, charged with cross crosslets_. + +See Shaw's Staffordshire, i. p. 166, for a curious account of the +Malvesyns, Cawardens, and Chadwicks of Mavesyn Ridware: see also +Whitaker's Whalley, p. 459. + +ARMS.--_Gules, an inescutcheon within an orle of martlets argent_. + +Present Representative, John de Heley Mavesyn Chadwick, Esq. + + + + +PATTEN OF BANK-HALL. + + +[Illustration] Richard Patten, who appears to have flourished before +the reign of Henry III. by his marriage with a coheiress of Dagenham +became possessed of the Court of that name in the county of Essex, +and was the remote ancestor of this family. John Patten of Dagenham +Court, living in 1376, removed to Waynflete in Lincolnshire; he was +the great-grandfather of the celebrated William Patten alias +Waynflete Bishop of Winchester; from whose brother, Richard Patten, +of Boslow, in the county of Derby, the present family descend. His +son was of Warrington in this county in 1536. + +See the pedigree by Bigland and Heard drawn up in 1770, and printed +in Bloxam's Memorial of Bishop Waynflete for the Caxton Society in +1851. + +ARMS.--_Lozengy ermine and sable, a canton gules_. + +Present Representative, John Wilson Patten, Esq. M.P. for North +Lancashire. + + + + +LEICESTERSHIRE. + + ++Knightly.+ + + +TURVILE OF HUSBAND'S BOSWORTH. + + +[Illustration] "One of the ancientest families in the whole shire," +wrote Burton in 1622; descended from Ralph Turvile, a benefactor to +the abbey of Leicester in 1297. The principal seat was at Normanton +Turvile, in this county, where the elder line of the family became +extinct in 1776. Aston Flamvile, also in Leicestershire, was the +residence of the immediate ancestors of this younger branch. It was +sold early in the eighteenth century, and Husband's Bosworth +inherited, by the will of Maria-Alathea Fortescue, in 1763. + +See Nichols's Leicestershire, under Normanton Turvile, iv. pt. 2. +1004; under Aston Flamvile, ii. pt. 2. 465; under Husband's +Bosworth, iv. pt. 2. 451 + +ARMS.--_Gules, three chevronels vair_. This coat was borne by Sir +Richard Turvile, de co. Warw. in the reign of Edward II., and Sir +Nicholas Turvil, at the same period, bore the same coat reduced to +two chevrons. (Rolls of the date.) + +Present Representative, Francis Charles Turvile, Esq. + + + + +FARNHAM OF QUORNDON. + + +[Illustration] This ancient family was certainly seated at Quorndon +two descents before the reign of Edward I. In that of Henry VI. +Thomas, second son of John Farnham and Margaret Billington, living +in 1393, founded a junior branch denominated of "The Nether-Hall." +He was the ancestor of the present family, who also descend in the +female line from the elder branch, denominated "of Quorndon," by the +marriage of the coheiress in 1703 with Benjamin Farnham, of the +Nether-Hall. + +See Nichols's History of Leicestershire, vol. iii. pt. i. p. 103. + +ARMS.--_Quarterly or and azure, in the first and second quarter a +crescent interchanged_. + +Sir Robert de Farnham, of the county of Stafford, bore in the reign +of Edward II. _Quarterly argent and azure, four crescents +counterchanged_. (Roll.) + +Present Representative, Edward Basil Farnham, Esq. late M.P. for +North Leicestershire. + + + + +BEAUMONT OF COLEORTON, BARONET 1660. + + +[Illustration] Lewis de Brienne, who died in 1283, married Agnes, +Viscountess de Beaumont, who died in 1300: their children took the +name of Beaumont, and from hence this noble family is supposed to be +descended. Coleorton came from the heiress of Maureward in the +fifteenth century, but Grace-dieu, also in this county, was the +older seat. The representative of the elder line of the family was +created Viscount Beaumont in Ireland in 1622, extinct 1702, when +Coleorton went to the ancestors of the present Baronet, descended +from the third son of Nicholas Beaumont, of Coleorton, who died in +1585. + +See Nicholas Leicestershire, iii. pt. 2. 743; Wotton's Baronetage, +iii. 230; Erdeswick's Staffordshire, ed. 1844, 396; and Hornby's +Tract on Dugdale's Baronage. + +ARMS.--_Azure, semée of fleurs-de-lis and a lion rampant or_. Sir +Henry de Beaumont bore this coat with a _baton gabonny argent and +gules_, in the reign of Edward II.; in that of Richard II. Mons. de +Beaumont omitted the baton (Rolls of the dates.) + +Present Representative, Sir George Howland Beaumont, ninth +Baronet. + + + + +GREY OF GROBY AND BRADGATE, EARL OF STAMFORD 1628; BARON 1603. + + +[Illustration] Dugdale begins the pedigree of this great historical +family with Henry de Grey, unto whom King Richard the First in the +sixth year of his reign gave the manor of Turroc or Thurrock in +Essex. His son Richard was of Codnoure or Codnor in Derbyshire, +inherited from his mother, a coheiress of Bardolf. Groby and +Bradgate came from the heiress of Ferrers in the reign of Henry VI. +Of the latter Leland writes, "This parke was parte of the old Erles +of Leicester's landes, and since by heires generales it came to the +Lord Ferrers of Groby, and so to the Greyes." + +Extinct Branches of this illustrious family were, the Greys of +Codnor, of Wilton, of Rotherfield, of Ruthyn, and the Dukes of Kent +and Suffolk. + +See Dugdale's Baronage, i. 709; Nichols's Leicestershire, iii. pt. +2. 682; Brydges's Collins, iii. 340. + +ARMS.--_Barry of six, argent and azure_. Richard de Grey bore this +coat in the reign of Henry III. John de Grey differenced it with _a +label gules_. In the reign of Edward II. the same arms were borne by +different members of the family, with the additions of _a bend +gules, a label gules, a label gules bezantée, a baton gules, and +three torteauxes in chief_, which last was used by the Dukes of +Suffolk. + +Present Representative, George Harry Grey, seventh Earl of Stamford +and Warrington. + + + + +BABINGTON, OF ROTHLEY-TEMPLE. + + +[Illustration] The Babingtons were of Babington in Northumberland in +the reign of King John: they afterwards removed into +Nottinghamshire, and became very distinguished. The elder line was +seated at Dethick in Ashover, in the county of Derby, by marriage +with the coheiress of the ancient family of that name, before the +year 1431. The Rothley branch, descended from a second son of the +house of Dethick, was seated there at the very beginning of the +sixteenth century, and is now the chief line of the family on the +extinction of Babington of Dethick about 1650. + +See Nichols's Leicestershire, iii. pt. 2. 955; and Collectanea +Topographica et Genealogica, ii. 94, and viii. 313, for a most +valuable article on the elder line of this family. See also +Topographer and Genealogist, i. 133, 259, 333, for the various +branches of this ancient family. + +ARMS.--_Argent, ten torteauxes and a label of three points azure_. +This coat reversed and without the label was borne by Sir John de +Babington in the reign of Edward II. (Roll of the date.) + +Present Representative, Thomas Gisborne Babington, Esq. + + + + ++Gentle.+ + + +HAZLERIGG OF NOSELEY, BARONET 1622. + + +[Illustration] Originally of Northumberland, where Simon de Hasilrig +was seated in the time of Edward I. Early in the fifteenth century +Thomas Hasilrig of Fawdon, in that county, having married Isabel +Heron, heiress of Noseley, the family removed into Leicestershire. +Leland makes the following mention of the head of the house in his +time, "Hasilrig of Northamptonshire [a mistake for Leicestershire] +hath about 50li lande in Northumbreland, at Esselington, where is a +pratie pile of Hasilriggs; and one of the Coilingwooddes dwellith +now in it, and hath the over-site of his landes." + +See Leland's Itin., i. fol. 15. v. fol. 101; Wotton's Baronetage, i. +520; Nichols's Leicestershire, ii. pt. 2. 756; and the Scrope and +Grosvenor Roll, vol. ii. p. 325. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a chevron between three hazel-leaves slipped vert_. + +Present Representative, Sir Arthur Grey Hazlerigg, 12th +Baronet. + + + + +WOLLASTON OF SHENTON. + + +[Illustration] The Wollastons were lords of the manor of Wollaston +in the parish of Old Swinford and county of Stafford, (which they +sold to the Aston family in the time of Richard II.) at a very early +period: they afterwards settled at Trescot and Perton, in the parish +of Tettenhall, in the same shire. The pedigree in Nichols's +Leicestershire begins with Thomas Wollaston of Perton, "a person of +figure in the reigns of Henry VII. and VIII." In 1709, William +Wollaston, Esq., the celebrated author of "The Religion of Nature," +compiled an account of this family, which is printed in the History +of Leicestershire. He was the direct ancestor of the present family, +who have been also seated at Oncott, in Staffordshire, and +Finborough Hall, in Suffolk. Shenton was acquired early in the reign +of James I. + +See Nichols's Leicestershire, iv. pt. 2. 541. + +ARMS.--_Argent, three mullets pierced sable_. + +Present Representative, Frederick William Wollaston, Esq. + + + + +LINCOLNSHIRE. + + ++Knightly.+ + + +WELBY OF DENTON, BARONET 1801. + + +[Illustration] Welby, near Grantham, in this county, is supposed to +have given name to this "ancient howse, Bering armes,"* and here Sir +William Welby, who heads their well-authenticated pedigree, +undoubtedly possessed property between 1307 and 1327. The manor of +Frieston, with Poynton Hall, also in Lincolnshire, was held by Sir +Thomas Welby, (who it cannot be doubted was a still earlier +ancestor,) of King Henry III. in chief, in 1216. The first-mentioned +Sir William having married the heiress of Multon of Multon in this +county, that place continued, till the end of the sixteenth century, +the principal seat of his descendants. Denton was purchased by John +Welby, the ancestor of the present family, in 1539. + +See "Notices of the Family of Welby," 8vo., Grantham, 1842; and +Allen's History of Lincolnshire, ii. 314; for Welby of Multon, see +Blore's Rutlandshire, 192. + +ARMS.--_Sable, a fess between three fleurs-de-lis argent_. + +Present Representative, Sir Glynne Earle Welby, 3rd Baronet. + + * So styled in the Heralds' grant of crest in 1562. + + + + +DYMOKE OF SCRIVELSBY, CHAMPION OF ENGLAND. + + +[Illustration] The name is supposed to be derived from Dimmok, in +the county of Gloucester, but the pedigree is not proved beyond +Henry Dymmok in the second year of Edward III. His grandson John +married Margaret, sole grand-daughter and heir of Sir Thomas de +Ludlowe, by Joan youngest daughter and coheir of Philip last Lord +Marmyon, Baron of Scrivelsby, and by the tenure of that manor +hereditary Champion of England, which office, since the Coronation +of Richard II. has been held by the Dymoke family. + +See Banks's Family of Marmyon, p. 117; and Allen's Lincolnshire, ii. +83. + +ARMS.--_Sable, two lions passant argent crowned or_. Borne by Monsr. +John Dymoke in the reign of Richard II. (Roll of the date.) + +Present Representative, The Honourable and Rev. John Dymoke. + + + + +HENEAGE OF HAINTON. + + +[Illustration] John Heneage stands at the head of the pedigree; he +was living in the 38th Henry III. From him descended another John, +who in the 10th of Edward III. was Lord of the Manor of Hainton; +according to Leland however, "the olde Henege lands passid not a +fyfetie poundes by the yere." The family evidently rose on the ruins +of the monastic houses: "Syr Thomas Hennage hath doone much cost at +Haynton, where he is Lorde and Patrone, yn translating and new +building with brike and abbay stone." + +See Leland's Itinerary, vii. fol. 52; and Allen's History of +Lincolnshire, ii. 67. + +ARMS.--_Or, a greyhound courant sable between three leopard's heads +azure, a border engrailed gules_. + +Present Representative, Edward Heneage, Esq., M.P. for Lincoln. + + + + +MANNERS OF BELVOIR CASTLE, DUKE OF RUTLAND 1703, EARL 1525. + +[Illustration] Originally of Northumberland, where the family were +seated at an early period. The first recorded ancestor is Sir Robert +de Maners, who obtained a grant of land in Berrington in 1327, and +was M.P. for Northumberland in 1340. His son William Maners, of +Etal, died before 1324, which estate appears to have been inherited +from an heiress of Muschamp. At the end of the fifteenth century, by +marriage with the heiress of the baronial family of Roos, the house +of Manners came into possession of the Castle of Belvoir. In the +succeeding century, a fortunate match with the heiress of Vernon of +Haddon still further increased the wealth and importance of this +noble family. + +The royal title of Rutland, which had belonged to the house of York, +was conferred upon Thomas Lord Roos in 1525 as the grandson of the +lady Anne of York, sister to King Edward the Fourth. + +An extinct branch was from the time of Henry VIII. for a long period +of Newmanor House, in the parish of Framlington, in Durham. Another +branch of the Etal family was of Cheswick, in the same county, +extinct after 1633. + +See Raine's North Durham, 211, 230; Nichols's Leicestershire, ii. +pt. i. 67; and Brydges's Collins, i. 454. + +ARMS.--_Or, two bars azure; a chief quarterly azure and gules, on +the_ 1_st and_ 4_th two fleurs-de-lis, on the_ 2_nd and_ 3_rd a +leopard of England of the first_; the chief being an augmentation +granted by Henry VIII. The ancient arms, no doubt founded on those +of the Muschamp family, were, _Or, two bars azure, a chief gules_. +See the Rolls of the reign of Edward II. and Richard III. + +Present Representative, Charles Cecil John Manners, sixth Duke of +Rutland. + + + + +ALINGTON OF SWINHOPE. + + +[Illustration] This is a branch of the extinct family of the Lords +Alington, of Horseheath, in Cambridgeshire, who were originally of +Alington, in the same county, soon after the Conquest. The family +descend from a younger son of Sir Giles Alington, and were seated at +Swinhope in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. + +See Clutterbuck's History of Hertfordshire, ii. 542; and Collectanea +Topog. et Genealog. iv. 33-53, and note 2, p. 39. For Horseheath, +see Topographer, ii. 374. + +ARMS.--_Sable, a bend engrailed between six billets argent_. + +Present Representative, George Marmaduke Alington, Esq. + + + + ++Gentle.+ + + +THOROLD OF MARSTON, BARONET 1642. + + +[Illustration] It has been supposed, but without any evidence or +authority, that this family is descended from Thorold, Sheriff of +Lincolnshire in 1052, and that consequently it may claim Saxon +origin. There is however no doubt that this is a family of very +great antiquity, and seated at Marston as early as the reign of +Henry I. + +See Wotton's Baronetage, ii. 338, and iv. 250. + +ARMS.--_Sable, three goats salient argent_. + +Present Representative, Sir John Charles Thorold, 11th Baronet. + + + + +LANGTON OF LANGTON. + + +[Illustration] "Langton, Sir," exclaimed Dr. Johnson, alluding to +his friend Bennet Langton of Langton, at that time the accomplished +head of this very ancient family, "has a grant of free warren from +Henry the Second, and Cardinal Stephen Langton in King John's reign +was of this family." The name is derived from Langton-by-Spilsby in +Lincolnshire, a manor which has remained to the present day the +inheritance of this house, who are descended in the female line from +the Massingberds of Sutterton in this county. + +Younger branch. The Langton-Massingberds of Gunby. + +See Allen's History of the County of Lincoln, ii. 175; and Boswell's +Life of Johnson, ed. 1836, i. 294. + +ARMS.--_Paly of six argent and sable, a bend or_. + +Present Representative, Bennet Rothes Langton, Esq. + + + + +MASSINGBERD OF WRANGLE. + + +[Illustration] This very ancient family is descended from Lambert +Massyngberd of Soterton, now Sutterton, in this county, who lived in +the reign of Edward I. and has ever since remained in Lincolnshire. +In the latter part of the fifteenth century, by the marriage of Sir +Thomas Massyngberd with the heiress of Braytoft of Braytoft Hall in +Gunby, the Massingberds removed to that place, which became +the principal seat of their descendants. Ormsby, purchased from the +Skipwiths in 1636, and afterwards Gunby Hall, built by Sir William +Massingberd, the 2nd Baronet of this family, in 1699, was their +principal residence, till it went by an heiress to a younger branch +of the Langtons, who have assumed the name. Wrangle is a recent +purchase in this county by the present representative of the male +line of the family. The Massingberds early embraced the Reformed +faith. Thomas Massingberd, the last representative for Calais in +1552, "fled abroad for his religion" under Mary. Nevertheless his +descendant, William Burrell Massingberd of Ormsby, joined Prince +Charles Edward at Derby: a miniature given to him by the Prince is +still in the family. Ormsby belongs at present to a younger branch +of the Mundys of Markeaton in Derbyshire, who have assumed the name +of Massingberd. + +See the Genealogy of this House, a MS. by Robert Dale, Suffolk +Herald, compiled about the year 1718, and still at Ormsby; and +Allen's History of the County, under Ormsby and Gunby. + +ARMS.--_Azure, three quatrefoils (two and one,) and in chief a boar +passant or, charged on the shoulder with a cross patée gules_, with +which the following coat is generally quartered, said to be the arms +assumed by Sir Thomas Massingberd, Knight of St. John, in the reign +of Henry VIII. _Quarterly or and argent, on a cross humetté gules, +between four lions rampant sable, two escallops of the first_. + +Present Representative, The Rev. Francis Charles Massingberd. + + + + +MONSON OF BURTON, BARON MONSON 1728, BARONET 1611. + + +[Illustration] "In the Isle" of Axholme "be now there 4 gentilmen of +name, Sheffild, Candisch, Evers, and _Mounsun_. The lands of one +Bellewodde became by marriage to this Mounson, a younger son to old +Mounson of Lincolnshire. This old Mounson is in a maner the first +avauncer of his family." Thus wrote Leland in his Itinerary. The +Monsons however are clearly traced to the year 1378, as resident at +East-Reson, in this county. They were afterwards seated at South +Carlton, a village adjacent to Burton. + +See Leland's Itin., i. fol. 42; Allen's Lincolnshire, ii. 57; and +Brydges's Collins, vii. 228. + +ARMS.--_Or, two chevronels gules_. + +Present Representative, William John Monson, 7th Baron Monson. + + + + +WHICHCOTE OF ASWARBY, BARONET 1660. + + +[Illustration] This is an ancient Shropshire house descended from +William de Whichcote, of Whichcote, in that county, in 1255. In the +reign of Edward IV., by marriage with the heiress of Tyrwhitt, the +family became possessed of Harpswell in this county, which for a +long time continued the residence of the Whichcotes. + +See Wotton's Baronetage, iii. 13; and Allen's History of +Lincolnshire, i. 38. + +ARMS.--_Ermine, two boars passant in pale gules_. + +Present Representative, Sir Thomas Whichcote, 7th Baronet. + + + + +ANDERSON OF BROCKLESBY, EARL OF YARBOROUGH 1837, BARON YARBOROUGH +1794. + + +[Illustration] Roger Anderson of Wrawby, in this county, Esquire, +living in the latter part of the fourteenth century, and who came +from Northumberland, stands at the head of the pedigree. His +great-grandson Henry, also of Wrawby, was grandfather of Sir Edmund +Anderson of Flixborough, Knight, Lord Chief Justice of the Common +Pleas, who died in 1605. He was the ancestor of the present family, +and of Sir Charles Anderson of Broughton in Lincolnshire, Baronet +1660, and of the Andersons of Eyworth in Bedfordshire, Baronets +1664, extinct in 1773. Brocklesby came from an heiress of Pelham, a +younger branch of the Pelhams Earls of Chichester. + +See Wotton's English Baronetage, vol. iii. p. 191, vol. iv. p. 427, +and "The History of Lea," printed in 1841. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a chevron between three crosses flory sable_. + +Present Representative, Charles Anderson Pelham, 3rd Earl of +Yarborough. + + + + +BERTIE OF UFFINGTON, EARL OF LINDSEY 1626. + + +[Illustration] The ancient extraction of the Berties from Berstead +in the county of Kent is proved by the Thurnham charters in the +possession of Sir Edward Dering, and by various public records of +undoubted authority; and, although the exact line of pedigree is by +no means clear, there appears no reason to doubt the descent of this +"undefamed house" from John or Bartholomew de Bereteghe, who were +living in the 35th of Edward I. The marriage of Richard Bertie son +of Robert, who died in 1500, with Katherine daughter of William +Willoughby, last Lord Willoughby of Eresby, and widow of Charles +Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, was, as is well known, the origin of the +consequence of this right loyal family, five generations of whose +history have been so agreeably illustrated by Lady Georgiana Bertie. +Grimsthorpe, inherited from the Duchess of Suffolk from her paternal +Willoughby ancestors, became the principal seat of the Berties, +Barons Willoughby of Eresby and Lords Great Chamberlains of England, +advanced in the person of Robert second Lord Willoughby to the +Earldom of Lindsey by King Charles I. His great-grandson was created +Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven in 1715, which titles became extinct +on the decease of the fifth Duke in 1809. The Earldom of Lindsey and +representation of the family thereupon devolved on the father of the +present Earl, descended from the fifth son of the second Earl of +Lindsey by his first wife. + +Younger branch, the Earl of Abingdon 1682, Baron Norreys of Rycote +1572, descended from the second marriage of the second Earl of +Lindsey and the heiress of Wray, whose mother was the sole +heir of Francis Norreys, Earl of Berkshire, and Lord Norreys of +Rycote. + +See Lady G. Bertie's "Five Generations of a Loyal House," 4to. 1845, +and Brydges's Collins, vol. ii. p. 1, vol. iii. 628. + +ARMS.--_Argent, three battering rams barways in pale azure, armed +and garnished or_. The "docquet or grant" in the fourth of Edward +VI. gives the arms, _Quarterly,_ 1 _and_ 4, _Argent, a battering ram +azure, garnished or;_ 2 _and_ 3, _Sable a tower argent_. + +Present Representative, George Augustus Frederick Albemarle Bertie, +10th Earl of Lindsey. + + + + +NORFOLK. + + ++Knightly.+ + + +WODEHOUSE OF KIMBERLEY, BARON WODEHOUSE 1797, BARONET 1611. + + +[Illustration] "This family is very ancient, for they were gentlemen +of good ranke in the time of King John, as it appeareth by many +ancient grants and evidences of theirs which I have seen," wrote +Peacham in his "Compleate Gentleman," in 1634. (p. 191.) The name is +local, being derived from Wodehouse in Silfield, in this county; but +as early as the reign of Henry III. the family had property in +Kimberley, and in that of Henry IV. the manor was also inherited +from the heiress of Fastolff. + +See Blomefield's Norfolk, ed. 1739, vol. i. p. 751, for long +extracts from the curious old pedigree in verse; Wotton's +Baronetage, i. 164; and Brydges's Collins's Peerage, viii. 562. + +ARMS.--_Sable, a chevron or, guttée de sang, between three +cinquefoils ermine_. This coat is said to have been augmented as now +borne, by Henry V. in honour of John Wodehouse's valour at the +Battle of Agincourt, the _guttée de sang_, not at present considered +very good heraldry, being then added. The supporters, two wode or +wild men, were also, it has been said, then first used. + +Present Representative, John Wodehouse, 3rd Baron Wodehouse, Lord +Lieutenant of Ireland. + + + + +WALPOLE OF WOLTERTON, EARL OF ORFORD 1806, BARON 1723. + + +[Illustration] Walpole, in Mershland, in this county, gave name to +this historical family, and here Joceline de Walpole was living in +the reign of Stephen. Reginald de Walpole, in the time of Henry I. +seems to have been lineal ancestor of the house. He was father of +Richard, who married Emma, daughter of Walter de Hawton, or +Houghton, which at a very early period became the family seat, and +which, after the death of the third Earl of the first creation, +passed to the issue of his aunt Mary, Viscountess Malpas, daughter +of Sir Robert Walpole; whose descendant, the Marquess of +Cholmondeley, is the present possessor. + +See Blomefield, iii. 796, and iv. 708; also Brydges's Collins, v. +631. + +ARMS.--_Or, on a fess between two chevrons sable three +cross-crosslets of the first_. + +Present Representative, Horatio William Walpole, 4th Earl of +Orford. + + + + +BERNEY OF KIRBY BEEDON, BARONET 1620. + + +[Illustration] Berney, in the hundred of North Greenhow in this +county, doubtless gave name to this ancient family, who are traced +pretty nearly to the Conquest. Park Hall, the former seat, is in the +parish of Reedham, and was acquired by the marriage of Sir Thomas de +Berney with Margaret daughter and heir of Sir William de Reedham in +the reign of Edward III. + +Younger branch, Berney of Morton Hall in this county, descended from +a younger brother of the first Baronet. + +See Parkins's continuation of Blomefield's Norfolk, v. 1482; and +Wotton's Baronetage, i. 378. + +ARMS.--_Party per pale gules and azure, a cross engrailed ermine_. + +Present Representative, Sir Henry Hanson Berney, 9th Baronet. + + + + +ASTLEY, OF MELTON-CONSTABLE, BARON HASTINGS 1841, BARONET 1660. + + +[Illustration] Descended from the noble house of Astley Castle in +Warwickshire, and traced to Philip de Estlega in the 12th of Henry +II., and in the female line from the Constables of Melton-Constable, +which estate came into the family by the second marriage of Thomas +Lord Astley with Edith, third sister and coheir of Geffrey de +Constable, in the time of Henry III. Astley Castle, the original +seat, descended by an heiress to the Greys of Ruthin, afterwards +Marquesses of Dorset, and Dukes of Suffolk. Hill-Morton in +Warwickshire was also the seat of this family from the reign of +Henry III. + +The Astleys formerly of Patishull in Staffordshire were the elder +branch, sprung from the first marriage of Thomas Lord Astley, who +was killed in the Barons' Wars at Evesham, (the 49th of Henry III.,) +extinct 1771. The Astleys, now of Everley, in Wiltshire, Baronets +1821, descend from the second son of Walter Astley of Patishull, the +father of the first Baronet of that line (1662). + +See Parkins's Blomefield's Norfolk, v. 940; Thomas's Dugdale's +Warwickshire, i. 19, 107; and Wotton's Baronetage, iii. 63; for +Astleys of Patishull, Shaw's Staffordshire, ii. 287; and Wotton's +Baronetage, iii. 368. + +ARMS.--_Azure, a cinquefoil ermine within a border engrailed or_. +The Patishull and Everley family omit the border, and it was thus +borne by the head of the house in the reign of Richard II. Thomas de +Astley, at the same period, differenced his coat by _a label of +three points or, charged with two bars gules_. (Rolls.) + +Present Representative, Jacob Henry Delaval Astley, 3rd Baron +Hastings. + + + + +BEDINGFELD OF OXBOROUGH, BARONET 1660. + + +[Illustration] Traditionally a Norman family seated at Bedingfeld, +in Suffolk, soon after the Conquest. Oxburgh, or Oxborough, has been +the residence of this eminently knightly house from the reign of +Edward IV., when it came by the marriage of Edmund Bedingfeld with +Margaret, daughter of Robert Tudenham, and to whom licence was +granted to build the walls and towers of Oxburgh in the year 1482. +The baronetcy was conferred by Charles II. as a mark of his favour +and in consideration of the eminent loyalty and consequent +sufferings of the family during the usurpation. The Bedingfelds of +Ditchingham, in this county, are a younger branch parted from the +parent stem as early as the middle of the fourteenth century. + +See Blomefield, iii. 482; Wotton's Baronetage, iii. 212; and the +Rev. G. H. M'Gill's account of Oxburgh Hall in the Proceedings of +the Norfolk Archeological Society. + +ARMS.--_Ermine, an eagle displayed gules, armed or_. + +Present Representative, Sir Henry George Paston Bedingfeld, 7th +Baronet. + + + + +HOWARD OF EAST-WINCH, DUKE OF NORFOLK 1483. + + +[Illustration] The great historical house of Howard in point of +antiquity must yield precedence to many other English families: it +can only be traced with certainty to Sir William Howard, Judge of +the Common Pleas in 1297. Norfolk appears to be the county where +this great family should be noticed, the Duke of Norfolk still +possessing property in the county of his dukedom derived from his +ancestors of the house of Bigod. In the fourteenth century, by the +match with the heiress of Mowbray, the foundation of the honors and +consequence of the Howards was laid, the first Duke being the son of +Margaret, daughter and coheir of Thomas de Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk. +The Sussex estates came from the heiress of Fitzalan, Earl of +Arundel, in the reign of Edward VI.; Worksop from the Talbots; +Greystoke and Morpeth from the Dacres. + +All the English Peers of the house of Howard are traced to a common +ancestor in Thomas, the second Duke of Norfolk, who died in 1524. +The Duke of Norfolk, the Earls of Suffolk and Carlisle, descend from +his first wife, and the Earl of Effingham from the second. The +Howards of Greystoke, in Cumberland, are a younger branch of the +present ducal house. The Howards of Corby Castle, in the same +county, descend from the second son of "Belted Will," the ancestor +of the house of Carlisle. + +Extinct branches. The Viscount Bindon; the Earls of Northampton, +Nottingham, and Stafford; and Lord Howard of Escrick. + +See Brydges's Collins, i. 50, for the Duke of Norfolk; iii. 147, +for the Earl of Suffolk; iii. 501, for the Earl of Carlisle; and iv. +264, for the Earl of Effingham. See also Cartwright's Rape of +Bramber, p. 185; and Dallaway's Rape of Arundel; Hunter's South +Yorkshire, ii. 10. For the Howard Monuments at East-Winch, see +Weever's Funeral Monuments, p. 842-9; for their state in the 18th +century Parkins's Blomefield's Norfolk, iv. 746; and Topographer and +Genealogist, ii. 90. For the Earl of Carlisle, see Hodgson's History +of Northumberland, ii. pt. 2, p. 381; for Howard of Corby, the same +vol. p. 477. See also "Historical Anecdotes of some of the Howard +Family," 12mo. 1769; Tierney's Castle and Town of Arundel, 8vo. +1834; and Mr. Howard's "Indication of Memorials, &c. of the Howard +Family," fol. 1834. + +ARMS.--_Gules, a bend between six cross-crosslets fitcheé argent, on +an escucheon a demi-lion pierced through the mouth with an arrow, +within a double tressure flory counter-flory gules_, granted by +patent 5 Henry VIII. to Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, in +remembrance of the victory gained over the Scots at Flodden. The +present coat was borne by Sir John Howard in the reign of Edward +II., and by Mr. Howard in those of Edward II. and Richard III.: it +has been conjectured, from the similarity of this coat with that of +the Botilers, Barons of Wem, (Gules, a fess cheeky argent and sable +between six crosses pateé fitchée argent,) that Sir William Howard +the Judge was descended from the Hords, stewards to these Barons: it +is observable that none of the Howards ever prefixed the _de_ to +their name, a fact which opposes their derivation from Hawarden in +Flintshire. (Blakeway's Sheriffs of Shropshire, pp. 53 note.) + +Present Representative, Henry Fitzalan Howard, 15th Duke of +Norfolk. + + + + +GURNEY OF KESWICK. + + +[Illustration] This is a younger branch of the Gurneys of West +Barsham in this county, whose principal male line became extinct in +1661, West Barsham came from the heiress of Waunci about the reign +of Edward III. Previous to that time the Gurneys appear to have been +seated at Harpley, also in Norfolk, as early as 1206, and are traced +for two descents beyond that period, being (as there appears no +reason to doubt) descended from the great Norman baronial house of +the name. The present family may be said to have been refounded by +John Gurney, an eminent silk-merchant at Norwich, about 1670. +Keswick was purchased in 1747. The Gournays of Somersetshire, +represented by the Earls of Egmont, may have been a distinct family; +their arms were, Paly of six or and azure. Dugdale, however, gives +them a common ancestor with the former house. (Baronage, i. 429.) + +See the "Records of the House of Gournay," privately printed, 4to., +1848, and particularly, for the Norman origin of the family page 293 +of that work. For the Gournays of Somersetshire, see the History of +the House of Ivery. London, 1742, vol. ii. p. 473, + +ARMS.--_Argent, a cross engrailed gules, in the first quarter a +cinquefoil azure_. + +Present Representative, Hudson Gurney, Esq. + + + + +DE GREY OF MERTON, BARON WALSINGHAM 1780. + + +[Illustration] This ancient family is supposed to have the same +origin as the noble Norman house of Grey, now represented by the +Earl of Stamford; it is traced to William de Grey, of Cavendish, in +Suffolk; whose grandson Sir Thomas was seated about 1306 at Cornerth +in that county, by his marriage with the heiress of the same name; +their son and heir married the coheiress of Baynard, and thus became +possessed of Merton, the long-continued seat of this family. + +See Blomefield, i. 576; and Brydges's Collins, vii. 510. + +ARMS.--_Barry of six argent and azure, in chief three annulets +gules_. The ancient coat of Cornerth, _Azure, a fess between two +chevronels or_, (which was doubtless derived from their superior +lords the Baynards,) was borne for many generations by the ancestors +of this family. + +Present Representative, Thomas de Grey, 5th Baron Walsingham. + + + + +BACON OF RAVENINGHAM, PREMIER BARONET OF ENGLAND, OF REDGRAVE, +SUFFOLK, 1611. + + +[Illustration] This family is said to have been established at a +period shortly subsequent to the Conquest at Letheringsett, in +Norfolk, but is better known as a Suffolk family, having been seated +at Monks' Bradfield, in that county, in the reign of Richard I. +Redgrave was granted by Henry VIII. in the 36th year of his reign, +to the great Sir Nicholas Bacon, who with Francis his son, Viscount +St. Alban's, were the principal ornaments of this family. +Raveningham descended to the Bacons from the heiress of the ancient +family of Castell, or de Castello, about the middle of the 18th +century. + +See Parkins's Continuation of Blomefield's Norfolk, iv. 262 Wotton's +Baronetage, i. 1, and ii. 72. + +ARMS.--_Gules, on a chief argent two mullets pierced sable_. This +coat was borne by Sir Edmund Bacon, in the reign of Edward II., and +by M. Bacon in that of Edward III. (Rolls.) A brass circa A.D. 1320, +at Gorleston church, Suffolk, supposed to represent one of this +family, bears five lozenges in bend on the field, besides the +mullets in chief: see Boutell's Brasses, p. 36. + +Present Representative, Sir Henry Hickman Bacon, 11th Baronet. + + + + +JERNINGHAM OF COSSEY, BARON STAFFORD, RESTORED 1824, BARONET 1621. + + +[Illustration] The ancestors of this ancient house were seated at +Horham in Suffolk in the 13th century, "knights of high esteem in +those parts," saith Camden, and traced to Sir Hubert Jernegan of +that place. Somerleyton, in the same county, derived from the +heiress of Fitzosbert, afterwards became the family seat, and so +continued until the extinction of the elder line. Cossey was granted +to Sir Henry Jerningham, (son of Sir Edward Jerningham, by his +second wife,) in 1547, by Queen Mary, "being the first that appeared +openly for her after the death of Edward VI." He was the ancestor of +Lord Stafford. + +See Weever's Ancient Funerall Monuments, p. 769; Blomefield's +Norfolk, i. p. 660; Wotton's Baronetage, i. 450; and Suckling's +History of Suffolk, ii. p. 46. + +ARMS.--_Argent, three buckles gules_. + +Present Representative, Henry Valentine Stafford Jerningham, 9th +Baron Stafford. + + + + +TOWNSHEND OF RAINHAM, MARQUESS TOWNSHEND 1787; BARON 1661; VISCOUNT +1682. + + +[Illustration] In 1377, the ancestor of this family was of Snoring +Magna in this county. In 1398, John Townshend settled at Rainham, +which according to some accounts accrued to them by the heiress of +Havile, but the pedigree as given by Collins cannot be relied on, +neither can the defamatory account of Leland, who says--"the +grandfather of Townsende now living was a meane man of substance." +The truth seems to be that the family is old, but not of great +account before the time of Sir Walter de Townsend, who married Maud +Scogan, and flourished about the year 1400. + +See Blomefield, iii. 815; Brydges's Collins, ii. 454; and Leland's +Itinerary, iv. p. 13. + +ARMS.--_Azure, a chevron ermine between three escallops argent_. + +Present Representative, John Villiers Stuart Townshend, 5th Marquess +Townshend. + + + + +NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. + + ++Knightly.+ + + +WAKE OF COURTEENHALL, BARONET 1621. + + +[Illustration] This is a younger branch of the very ancient baronial +house of Wake, who were Lincolnshire Barons in the reign of Henry I. +Sir Hugh Wake was lord of Deeping in the county of Lincoln, and of +Blisworth in this county, by gift of his father, Baldwin fourth Lord +Wake. He died in 1315, and was the direct ancestor of the present +Baronet. See memoir of the family of Wake privately printed in 1833, +but written by Archbishop Wake; and Wotton's Baronetage, i. 465. + +ARMS.--_Or, two bars gules, in chief three torteauxes_. This coat +was borne by Hugh Wake in the reign of Henry III., and again by Sir +John Wake in that of Edward II. Sir Hugh Wake at the latter period +differenced his arms by a canton azure. His uncle reversed the +colours gules and argent, the field being gules. M. Thomas Wake de +Blisworth in the reign of Edward III. bore the same arms, with a +border engrailed sable. (Rolls of the dates.) + +Present Representative, Sir William Wake, 11th Baronet. + + + + +BRUDENELL OF DENE, EARL OF CARDIGAN 1661; BARON 1627; BARONET 1611. + + +[Illustration] William de Bredenhill, seated at Dodington in +Oxfordshire, in the reign of Edward I., and the owner of lands at +Aynho in this county at the same period, is the first ascertained +ancestor of the Brudenells, whose principal consequence however must +be traced to Sir Robert Brudenell, Chief Justice of the King's Bench +in the reign of Henry VII., who married a coheiress of Entwisell, +and thus became possessed of Dene and of Stanton Wyvill in the +county of Leicester. + +See the pedigree of this family in Nichols's History of +Leicestershire, vol. ii. pt. ii. p. 807; see also Brydges's Collins, +iii. 487. + +Younger branch. The Marquess of Ailesbury (1821), descended from +Thomas, fourth son of George fourth Earl of Cardigan, and the Lady +Elizabeth Bruce, eldest daughter of Thomas second Earl of Ailesbury. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a chevron gules between three morions azure_. + +Present Representative, James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of +Cardigan, K.C.B. + + + + +KNIGHTLEY OF FAWSLEY, BARONET 1798. + + +[Illustration] The first recorded ancestor of this ancient family is +Rainald, mesne lord of Knightley, in the county of Stafford, under +Earl Roger, in the time of William the Conqueror, as appears by +Domesday Book. That estate went out of the family by an heiress who +married Robert de Peshall, about the reign of Edward III., and the +Knightleys removed to Gnowsall, in the same county, in the 17th of +Richard II. (1394). Fawsley was purchased in the 3rd of Henry V. +(1415-16). It is thus mentioned by Leland: "Mr. Knightley, a man of +great lands, hath his principal house at Foullesle, but it is no +very sumptuous thing." (Itin. i. fol. 11.) + +See Baker's Northamptonshire, i. 381. Blakeway (Sheriffs of Salop, +p. 103) asserts that "_the Knightleys appear to have been a branch +of the Shirleys_," an assumption without any foundation except the +similarity of their arms. + +ARMS.--_Quarterly ermine, and paly of six or and gules_. This coat +was borne as early as 1301-2 (30th Ed. I.) by Sir Robert de +Knyteley: it is also borne by Cotes of Cotes, co. Stafford, probably +from family connection. + +Present Representative, Sir Rainald Knightley, 3rd Baronet, M. P. +for South Northamptonshire. + + + + +SPENCER OF ALTHORPE, EARL SPENCER 1765. + + +[Illustration] The Spencers claim a collateral descent from the +ancient baronial house of Le Despenser, a claim which, without being +irreconcileable perhaps with the early pedigrees of that family, +admits of very grave doubts and considerable difficulties. It seems +to be admitted that they descend from Henry Spencer, who, having +been educated in the Abbey of Evesham, obtained from the abbot in +the reign of Henry VI. a lease of the domains and tithes of Badby in +this county, and was induced to settle there. His son removed to +Hodnell in Warwickshire, his grandson to Rodburn in the same county, +his great-grandson Sir John purchased Althorpe in 1508. The Spencers +of Claverdon, co. Warwick (extinct 1685), were a younger branch. The +Dukes of Marlborough (1702) represent the elder line of this family. + +See Baker's Northamptonshire, i. 106; and Brydges's Collins, i. 378. + +The poet Spenser boasted that he belonged to this house; though, +says Baker, "the precise link of genealogical connexion cannot now +perhaps be ascertained." + +ARMS.--_Quarterly, first and fourth argent, second and third gules, +a fret or, over all a bend sable charged with three escallops of the +first_. This coat, which is differenced from the ancient baronial +arms by the three escallop shells, was used by Henry Spencer of +Badby, who sealed his will with it. In 1504 another coat was +granted, viz. _Azure, a fess ermine between six sea-mew's heads +erased argent_, but the more ancient arms have been generally borne +by the Spencers. + +Present Representative, John Poyntz Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer. + + + + +ROKEBY OF ARTHINGWORTH. + + +[Illustration] This is a junior branch of the Rokebys of Rokeby in +Yorkshire, a knightly race immortalized by Scott. The principal line +has been long extinct. Sir Thomas Rokeby was Sheriff of Yorkshire in +the eighth of Henry IV. The family was seated in the parish of +Ecclesfield, and also at Sandal-Parva, in South Yorkshire, where +William Rokeby was Rector in the reign of Henry VII. In 1512 he +became Archbishop of Dublin. His brother Ralph wrote the history of +the family, now in possession of Mr. Rokeby of Arthingworth, and +which is printed in Whitaker's Richmondshire, vol. i. p. 158. The +present family acquired Arthingworth from the Langhams by marriage +in the end of the seventeenth century. + +See Hunter's South Yorkshire, i. p. 199. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a chevron between three rooks sable_, borne by Mons. +Thomas de Rokeby in the reigns of Edward III. and Richard II. (Rolls +of the dates.) + +Present Representative, the Rev. Henry Ralph Rokeby. + + + + +MAUNSELL OF THORPE-MALSOR. + + +[Illustration] The curious poetical history of this family, +preserved in "Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica," claims one +"Saher," there written "_Sier, the syer of us all_," as their +ancestor: he is stated to have been the son of Ralph Maunsel, who +was living in Buckinghamshire in the 14th of Henry II. (1167). +Thickthornes in Chicheley in that county appears to have been the +residence of the Maunsells, and also Turvey in Bedfordshire. These +lands were sold by William the son of Sampson le Maunsel of Turvey +to William Mordaunt in 1287. The Maunsells afterwards settled at +Bury-End in Chicheley, and in 1622 at Thorpe-Malsor. + +Elder Branches. 1. Maunsell of Muddlescombe, co. Carmarthen, Baronet +1621-2. 2. The extinct Barons Maunsell, created 1711, extinct 1744. + +Younger Branch. Maunsell of Cosgrave in this county, which came from +the coheiress of Furtho. + +See Coll. Topog. et Genealog. i. p. 389; Baker's Northamptonshire, +ii. p. 132; and Memoirs of the family, an unfinished work privately +printed in 1850 by William W. Maunsell, esq. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a chevron between three maunches sable_. + +Present Representative, Thomas Philip Maunsell, Esq. late M. P. for +North Northamptonshire. + + + + ++Gentle.+ + + +ISHAM OF LAMPORT, BARONET 1627. + + +[Illustration] The name is local, from Isham in the hundred of +Orlingbury in this county, where an elder branch of the family was +seated soon after the Conquest. Robert Isham, who died in 1424, is +however the first ancestor from whom the pedigree can with certainty +be deduced. He was Escheator of the county of Northampton, and was +of Picheley (a lordship contiguous to Isham) in the first of Henry +V. Lamport was purchased by John Isham, the immediate ancestor of +the present family, fourth son of Sir Euseby Isham, of Picheley, +Knight, in the year 1559. He was an eminent merchant of London. + +See Wotton's Baronetage, ii. 28. + +ARMS.--_Gules, a fess and in chief three piles wavy argent_. This +coat was borne by Robert de Isham in the 2nd of Richard II. + +Present Representative, Sir Charles Edmund Isham, 10th Baronet. + + + + +PALMER OF CARLTON, BARONET 1660. + + +[Illustration] This family appears to have been founded by the law +early in the fifteenth century, and descends from William Palmer, +who was established at the present seat of Carlton in the ninth of +Henry IV. The celebrated Sir Geoffry Palmer, Attorney-General to +Charles II. was the first Baronet. + +See Wotton's Baronetage, iii. 19; and Nichols's Leicestershire, vol. +ii. pt. ii. p. 543. + +ARMS.--_Sable, a chevron or between three crescents argent_. + +Present Representative, Sir Geoffrey Palmer, 8th Baronet. + + + + +FANE OF APTHORP, EARL OF WESTMORELAND 1642. + + +[Illustration] The Fanes or Vanes are said to have originated from +Wales; in the reign of Henry VI. they were seated at Hilden in +Tunbridge, in Kent, by a marriage with the Peshalls. In 1574 Sir +Thomas Fane married Mary daughter and heir of Henry Neville, Lord +Abergavenny; hence the importance of the family, and the Earldom of +Westmoreland, the ancient honour of the house of Neville. Apthorp +came from the heiress of Mildmay, about the end of the reign of +Queen Elizabeth. + +Younger Branches. Fane of Wormesley, Oxfordshire, descended from +Henry Fane, Esq., younger brother of Thomas eighth Earl of +Westmoreland. The Duke of Cleveland (1833) and Sir Henry Vane, of +Hutton Hall in Cumberland, Baronet (1786), descend from John younger +brother of Richard Fane, ancestor of the Earl of Westmoreland. + +See Brydges's Collins, iii. 283, and iv. 499; Hasted's Kent, ii. +265; and Blore's Rutlandshire, p. 103. + +ARMS.--_Azure, three right-hand gauntlets or_. + +Present Representative, Francis William Henry Fane, 12th Earl of +Westmoreland. + + + + +NORTHUMBERLAND. + + ++Knightly.+ + + +CLAVERING OF CALLALY CASTLE. + + +[Illustration] Robert Fitz-Roger, Baron of Warkworth, the ancestor +of this great Norman family, was father of John, who assumed the +name of "Clavering," from a lordship in Essex, as it is said, by the +appointment of King Edward I. From Sir Alan, younger brother of +John, the present family is descended. Callaly was granted to Robert +Fitz-Roger by Gilbert de Callaly in the reign of Henry III., and has +ever since continued in the possession of the house of Clavering. + +Younger Branches. Clavering of Axwell, co. Durham, Baronet 1661, +descended from James, third son of Robert Clavering of Callaly. +Clavering of Berrington in North Durham, descended from William, +third son of Sir John Clavering, who died a prisoner in London for +his loyalty to King Charles I. Extinct about 1812. + +See Nicolas's Siege of Carlaverock, pp. 115, 117; Mackenzie's View +of Northumberland, vol. ii. p. 27; Surtees's Durham, ii. 248; +Wotton's Baronetage, iii. 295; and Raine's North Durham, p. 213. + +ARMS.--_Quarterly or and gules, a bend sable_, and so borne by +Robert Fitz-Roger, as appears by the Roll of Carlaverock, and by his +son John de Clavering, who differenced his coat by a label vert. Sir +Alexander de Clavering, in the reign of Edward II., charged the bend +with three mullets argent. John Clavering, in the reign of Richard +II., the same arms, with a label of three points argent. (Rolls of +the dates.) + +Present Representative, Edward John Clavering, Esq. + + + + +MITFORD OF MITFORD CASTLE. + + +[Illustration] Descended from Mathew, brother of John, who is said +to have held the Castle of Mitford soon after the Conquest, and by +whose only daughter and heiress it went to the Bertrams. The +ancestors of the present family appear to have been for many ages +resident at Mitford, though the castle was not in their possession +till it was granted with the manor by Charles II. to Robert Mitford, +Esq. + +Younger Branches. Mitford of Pitshill, co. Sussex, descended from +the fourth son of Robert Mitford of Mitford Castle, Esq., Sheriff of +Yorkshire in 1702. Mitford of Exbury, co. Southampton, sprung from +the third son of Robert Mitford, of Mitford Castle, Esq., who died +in 1674. From this latter branch Mitford Baron Redesdale (1803) of +Batsford, co. Gloucester, is derived. + +See Hodgson's History of Northumberland, vol. ii. pt. ii. p. 44 and +for Mitford of Exbury the same work, vol. i. pt. ii. p. 152; see +also Brydges's Collins, ix. 182. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a fess sable between three moles proper_. + +Present Representative, Robert Mitford, Esq. + + + + +SWINBURNE OF CAPHEATON, BARONET 1660. + + +[Illustration] Swinburne in this county gave name to this ancient +family, the first recorded ancestor being John, father of Sir +William de Swinburne, living in 1278, and Alan Swinburne, Rector of +Whitfield, who purchased Capheaton from Sir Thomas Fenwick, Knt., in +1274. + +Chollerton in Northumberland was also an ancient seat of the +Swinburnes; it was held under the great Umfrevile family by this +same Sir William de Swinburne, the arms being evidently founded upon +the coat of the Umfreviles. The date of the baronetcy points to the +loyalty of the family during the civil wars of the seventeenth +century. + +See the early part of the pedigree in Surtees's Durham, ii. 872; +Hodgson's History of Northumberland, vol. i. pt. ii. p. 231; and +Wotton's Baronetage, iii. 167. + +ARMS.--_Per fess gules and argent, three cinquefoils +counterchanged_, borne by Monsieur William Swynburne in the reign of +Richard II. (Roll of the date.) + +Present Representative, Sir John Swinburne, 7th Baronet. + + + + +MIDDLETON (CALLED MONCK) OF BELSEY CASTLE, BARONET 1662. + + +[Illustration] John de Middleton, father of Sir Richard Middleton, +sometime secretary and chancellor to King Henry III., is the first +on record of the ancestors of this family. The castle of Belsey +appears to have come from the heiress of Stryvelin in the reign of +Edward III. The name was exchanged for Monck in 1799. A younger +branch, now extinct, was of Silksworth, co. Durham. + +See Hodgson's History of Northumberland, vol. i. pt. ii. p. 353; +"The Record of the House of Gourney," 4to, pr. pr. 1848, p. 560; and +Wotton's Baronetage, iii. 382. + +ARMS.--_Quarterly gules and or, in the first quarter a cross flory +argent_. + +Present Representative, Sir Charles Miles Lambert Monck, sixth +Baronet. + + + + +SELBY OF BIDDLESTON. + + +[Illustration] In 1272, King Edward I. granted in the first year of +his reign the lands of Biddleston to Sir Walter de Selby: it has +ever since remained in the possession of his descendants, and has +been usually the chief seat of the Selbys. Their early history +unfortunately is defective, occasioned by an accidental fire which +took place at Allenton in 1721, at that time the residence of the +family, whose evidences were thereby mostly destroyed. + +For the grant above mentioned, and for the pedigree, see Mackenzie's +View of Northumberland, ii. 39. + +ARMS.--_Barry of eight or and sable_. + +Present Representative, Walter Selby, Esq. + + + + +GREY OF HOWICK, EARL GREY 1806, BARONET 1746. + + +[Illustration] An eminent border family, of which there have been +many branches, descended from Thomas Grey of Heton, living in the +second of Edward I. (1273), and from Sir John Grey of Berwick, +living in 1372, who was ancestor of the baronial house of Grey of +Wark and Chillingham, and of the Howick family, founded by Sir +Edward Grey of Howick, who died in 1532, and was the fourth son of. +Sir Ralph Grey of Chillingham. + +"No family perhaps in the whole of England," writes Raine in his +admirable History of North Durham, "has in the course of the +centuries through which the line of Grey can be traced, afforded so +great a variety of character." + +Younger Branches. Sir George Grey, Baronet 1814, and Grey of +Morwick, co. Northumberland. + +See the curious and valuable "Illustrations of the Pedigree of +Grey," in Raine's North Durham, p. 327, &c.; Surtees's Durham, ii. +19; and Brydges's Collins, v. 676. + +ARMS.--_Gules, a lion rampant within a border engrailed argent, a +mullet for difference_. The present coat was borne by Monsieur +Thomas Grey, as appears by the Roll of the reign of Richard II. + +Present Representative, Henry George Grey, 3rd Earl Grey, K. G. + + + + ++Gentle.+ + + +LORAINE OF KIRK-HARLE, BARONET 1664. + + +[Illustration] This is said to be a Norman family, and to have been +originally settled in the county of Durham. Kirk-Harle was inherited +from Johanna, daughter of William, son of Alan del Strother, in the +time of Henry IV. + +See Hodgson's History of Northumberland, vol. i. pt. ii. p. 246; and +Wotton's Baronetage, iii. 433. + +ARMS.--_Quarterly sable and argent, a plain cross counter quartered +of the field_. Another coat, viz. _Argent, five lozenges conjoined +in pale azure, in the dexter chief an escucheon of the second_, is +given in Courthope's Debrett's Baronetage. + +Present Representative, Sir Lambton Loraine, 11th Baronet. + + + + +HAGGERSTON OF ELLINGHAM, BARONET 1643. + + +[Illustration] The pedigree is not regularly traced beyond Robert de +Hagreston, Lord of Hagreston in 1399, although a Robert de +Hagardeston occurs in 1312. It has been supposed that this family is +of Scotch extraction; but a fire which took place at Haggerston +Castle, the ancestral seat of this house, in the year 1618, and +another which happened in 1687, having destroyed the ancient +evidences, the early history is somewhat imperfect. + +See Mackenzie's Northumberland, i. p. 328, note; Raine's North +Durham, p. 224; and Wotton's Baronetage, ii. 388. + +ARMS.--_Azure, on a bend cotised argent three billets sable_. The +ancient arms of this venerable family, of which Raine writes, "few +families can boast of such a pedigree or of such a shield of arms," +was a scaling ladder between two leaves, alluding to the coat of +Hazlerigg, an heiress of that house having married into the +Haggerston family. The arms were so borne in 1577, as appears by a +seal of that date: the scaling ladder was afterwards corrupted into +the bendlets and billets. + +Present Representative, Sir John Haggerston, 9th Baronet. + + + + +RIDLEY OF BLAGDON, BARONET 1756. + + +[Illustration] The pedigree is proved for three descents before the +reign of Henry VIII., the original seat of the family being at +Willimoteswick in this county, of which place Nicholas de Rydle is +designated Esquire in 1481; here also was born the Martyr Bishop of +London, Nicholas Ridley, early in the sixteenth century. + +The present family is a younger branch, seated at Blagdon and +inheriting the baronetcy on the death of Sir Mathew White in 1763. + +See Hodgson's History of Northumberland, vol. ii. pt. ii. p. 322, +and vol. iii. pt. ii. p. 340. + +ARMS.--_Gules, a chevron between three goshawks argent_. The more +ancient coat was, _Argent, an ox passant gules through reeds +proper_. + +Present Representative, Sir Mathew White Ridley, 4th Baronet. + + + + +NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. + + ++Knightly.+ + + +CLIFTON OF CLIFTON, BARONET 1611. + + +[Illustration] Gervase de Clifton, living in the fifth of John, is +the patriarch of this honourable family, who took their name from +the manor of Clifton, which was the inheritance of Sir Gervase +Clifton, in the ninth of Edward II. One of the most remarkable +members was the first Baronet, Sir Gervase Clifton, who died in +1666, "very prosperous and beloved of all, after having been the +husband of seven wives." + +See an interesting account of him and of the family and their +curious monuments in Thoroton's Antiquities of Nottinghamshire, p. +53, &c.; see also Wotton's Baronetage, i. 34. + +ARMS.--_Sable, semee of cinquefoils, and a lion rampant argent, +armed and langued gules_. This coat reversed was borne by Monsieur +John de Clyfton, in the reign of Richard II. (Roll of the date.) + +Present Representative, Sir Robert Juckes Clifton, 9th Baronet. + + + + +SUTTON OF NORWOOD, BARONET 1772. + + +[Illustration] Sutton-upon-Trent gave name to this ancient family, +the first upon record being Roland, son of Hervey, who lived in the +reign of Henry III., and married Alice, daughter and coheiress of +Richard de Lexington. From this match came the manor of Averham or +Egram in this county, which long continued the seat and residence of +the Suttons, who were represented in the days of Queen Elizabeth by +Sir William Sutton, whom her Majesty coupled, not in the most +complimentary manner, with three other eminent Nottinghamshire +knights in the following distich:-- + + "Gervase the gentle,* Stanhope the stout, + Markham the lion, and _Sutton the lout_." + +In 1646, Robert Sutton, the head of this family, was raised to the +Peerage as Baron Lexington, extinct 1723, who is represented in the +female line by Viscount Canterbury. The present family descend from +Henry, younger brother of the first Lord Lexington. + +See Thoroton's Nottinghamshire, pp. 327, 359; and Courthope's +Debrett's Baronetage, p. 195. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a canton sable_. + +Present Representative, Sir John Sutton, 3rd Baronet. + + * _i.e._ Sir Gervase Clifton. + + + + +STANHOPE OF SHELFORD, EARL OF CHESTERFIELD 1628. + + +[Illustration] Stanhope, in the wapentake of Darlington in the +bishoprick of Durham, gave name to this knightly family, of whom the +first recorded ancestor is Walter de Stanhope, whose son Richard +died at Stanhope, in 1338 or 1339. In the reign of Edward III. we +find Sir Richard Stanhope, grandson of Walter, Mayor of +Newcastle-on-Tyne. Hampton and other manors in this county came by +marriage with the heiress of Maulovel about 1370; but on the death +of Richard Stanhope in 1529, these estates went to his only daughter +and heiress, who became the wife of John Babington. The monastery of +Shelford was soon after this period granted to Sir Michael Stanhope +(in the 31st of Henry VIII). + +Younger Branches. 1. Stanhope of Holme-Lacy, Baronet 1807, descended +from the youngest brother of the great-grandfather of the present +Earl. 2. Stanhope Earl Stanhope 1718, descended from the eldest son +of the second marriage of the first Earl of Chesterfield. 3. +Stanhope Earl of Harrington 1742, descended from Sir John Stanhope, +younger brother by the half-blood of the first Earl of Chesterfield. + +See Lord Mahon's (now Earl Stanhope) Notices of the Stanhopes. 8vo., +1855; Thoroton's Nottinghamshire, 147; Surtees's Durham, ii. 46; and +Brydges's Collins, iii. 407, iv. 171, and 284. + +ARMS.--_Quarterly ermine and gules_. And so borne in the reign of +Edward III., but after the match with Maulovel, who brought into the +family the estate and seat of Rampton from the heiress of +Longvillers, the arms of that family, viz. _Sable, a bend between +six cross-crosslets argent_, were assumed; on losing that +great estate, Sir Michael Stanhope resumed the more ancient coat in +the reign of Henry VIII. + +Present Representative, George Stanhope, 6th Earl of Chesterfield. + + + + +WILLOUGHBY OF WOLLATON, BARON MIDDLETON 1711. + + +[Illustration] This is a younger and now the only remaining male +branch of the great Lincolnshire family of Willoughby, descended +from Sir Thomas Willoughby, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas +in the reign of Henry VIII., youngest son of Sir Christopher +Willoughby of Eresby, who was sprung from Sir William Willoughby of +Willoughby in Lincolnshire, and lord of that manor in the reign of +Edward I. Wollaton was inherited from the heiress of Willoughby (of +another family) in the thirty-eighth year of Queen Elizabeth. + +See Brydges's Collins, vi. 591, vii. 215; and for the +Nottinghamshire family, see Thoroton, p. 221; and for the tombs of +this ancient house, pp. 36, 223, 227; see also Dugdale's +Warwickshire, 2nd ed. vol. ii. p. 1052. + +ARMS.--_Or, fretty azure_. And so borne by Robert de Willoughby in +1300, as appears by the Roll of Carlaverock; but after the death of +Bishop Bek, his maternal uncle, in the 4th of Edward II. he adopted +the coat of Bek, _Gules, a mill-rind argent_. See Nicolas's Roll of +Carlaverock, p, 328. + +Willoughby of Wollaton and of Middleton in the county of Warwick +bore, _Or, two bars gules, the upper charged with two waterbougets, +the lower with one waterbouget, argent_. + +Present Representative, Henry Willoughby, 8th Baron Middleton. + + + + +CLINTON OF CLUMBER, DUKE OF NEWCASTLE 1756. + + +[Illustration] The Clintons are traced to the reign of Henry I., +when, by favour of that king, Geffery de Clinton "was raised from +the dust," as a contemporary writer affirms, and made Justice of +England. He was enriched by large grants of land from the crown, and +built the castle of Kenilworth. The present family descend from the +brother of this Geffery, whose issue were of Coleshill and Maxtoke +in Warwickshire, of which latter place John de Clinton was created +Baron in 1298. His descendant, Edward Lord Clinton, was advanced to +the Earldom of Lincoln in 1572. No family was more nobly allied, few +had broader possessions--all have been long dissipated; but a +fortunate match with the eventual heiress of Pelham in 1717 revived +the drooping fortunes of the Clintons; hence the estate of Clumber, +the former seat of the Holles family, and the Dukedom of Newcastle. + +See Dugdale's Warwickshire, 2nd ed. vol. ii. pp. 992, 1007; and +Brydges's Collins, ii. 181. + +ARMS.--_Argent, three cross crosslets fitchée sable, on a chief +azure two mullets pierced of the first_. The original arms, as borne +by Thomas de Clinton in the reign of Henry III., appears to have +been _a plain chief_. See his seal engraved in Upton, de Studio +Militari, p. 82. In the reign of Edward II. Sir John Clinton of +Maxtoke bore, _Argent, on a chief azure two mullets or_. At the same +period another Sir John Clinton bore, _Or, three piles azure, a +canton ermine_. His son in the fifth of Edward III. bore, _Argent, +on a chief azure two fleurs-de-lis or_. William Clinton, Earl of +Huntingdon, at the same period bore the present coat with the +exception of _three mullets or_ in place of the _two mullets +argent_, and John Clinton omitted the crosslets. William Clinton, +Lord of Allesley, who lived at the same period, bore the present +coat. John de Clinton in the succeeding reign, bore _two +mullets of six points or pierced gules_, and Thomas de Clynton the +same with _a label of three points ermine_. + +See Willement's and Nicolas's Rolls, and Montagu's Guide to the +Study of Heraldry, p. 51. + +Present Representative, Henry Pelham Alexander Pelham-Clinton, 6th +Duke of Newcastle. + + + + ++Gentle.+ + + +EYRE OF HAMPTON. + + +[Illustration] The Eyres appear as witnesses to charters in the Peak +of Derbyshire in the remotest period to which private charters +ascend. The first of the name known is William le Eyre, of Hope, in +the reign of Henry III. In the reign of Henry V. the family divided +into three great branches: the present house descends from Eyre of +Laughton in South Yorkshire, who spring from Eyre of Home Hall near +Chesterfield. One moiety of Rampton was purchased by Anthony Eyre in +the reign of Elizabeth; the other came from the coheiress of +Babington, in 1624. + +See Hunter's South Yorkshire, i. 288; see also Lysons's Derbyshire, +lxxxiii., for a note on the various branches of Eyre, and Gent. Mag. +1795, pp. 121, 212. + +Extinct Branches. 1. Eyre of Highlow, who adopted the names of +Archer, Newton, and Gell. 2. Eyre of Normanton-upon-Soar. 3. Eyre +Earl of Newburgh. + +ARMS.--_Argent, on a chevron sable three quatrefoils or_. + +Present Representative, the Rev. Charles Wasteneys Eyre. + + + + +OXFORDSHIRE. + + ++Knightly.+ + + +STONOR OF STONOR, BARON CAMOYS 1383, RESTORED 1839. + + +[Illustration] "Stonor is a 3 miles out of Henley. Ther is a fayre +parke and a warren of connies and fayre woods. The mansion place +standithe clyminge on a hille, and hathe 2 courtes buyldyd withe +tymbar, brike, and flynte; Sir Walter Stonor, now possessor of it, +hathe augmentyd and strengthed the howse. The Stonors hathe longe +had it in possessyon syns one Fortescue invadyd it by mariage of an +heire generall of the Stonors, but after dispocessed." Thus wrote +Leland in his Itinerary, (vii. fo. 62a.): to which it may be added +that the family has the reputation of being very ancient, and may +certainly be traced to the twelfth century as resident at Stonor. In +the reigns of Edward II. and III., Sir John Stonor, Chief Justice of +the Common Pleas, (whose tomb is preserved in the chancel of +Dorchester church in this county,) was the representative and great +advancer of the family. + +See Magna Britannia, iv. 425; and the first edition of Burke's +Commoners, ii. 440; see also Excerpta Historica, p. 353, for some +curious letters of the Stonors of the time of Edward IV. + +ARMS.--_Azure, two bars dancetté or, a chief argent_. Monsieur John +de Stonor bore, _Azure, a fess dancetté and chief or_, in the reign +of Edward III. (Roll.) + +Present Representative, Thomas Stonor, 3rd Baron Camoys. + + + + +WYKEHAM OF TYTHROP. + + +[Illustration] This ancient family is traced to the commencement of +the fourteenth century, when Robert Wykeham was Lord of Swalcliffe, +the original seat of the Wykehams in this county, and possessed by +the late W. H. Wykeham, Esq., who died in 1800, and still, I +believe, belonging to his daughter the Baroness Wenman. Tythrop came +from the Herberts by will to the late P. P. Wykeham, Esq. uncle of +Lady Wenman. + +The relationship of the great William of Wykeham, Bishop of +Winchester, with this family is a disputed point, for which see +Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, ii. 225, 368, iii. 178, +245; see also the Topographer and Genealogist, iii. 49, for a very +interesting paper on this subject by C. Wykeham Martin, Esq., M.P. + +Younger Branch. Wykeham Martin, of Leeds Castle, Kent. + +ARMS.--Allowed by Robert Cooke, Clarencieux, in 1571.--_Argent, two +chevronels sable between three roses gules, barbed and seeded +proper_. This coat was borne by the great Bishop, though when he was +Archdeacon of Lincoln he bore but _one chevron_ between the roses. +But the herald Glover attributed a variation of the arms of +Chamberlaine, derived from the Counts of Tankerville, to Wykeham of +Swalcliffe, viz: _Ermine, on a bordure gules six mullets or_. + +Present Representative, Philip Thomas Herbert Wykeham, Esq. + + + + +CROKE OF STUDLEY, ANCIENTLY BLOUNT. + + +[Illustration] This is the eldest branch of the great family of +Blount or le Blond, whose origin has been traced by the late Sir +Alexander Croke to the Counts of Guisnes before the Norman Conquest. +Robert le Blount, whose name is found recorded in Domesday, was a +considerable landholder in Suffolk, Ixworth in that county being the +seat of his Barony. Belton in Rutlandshire was afterwards inherited +by his descendants from the Odinsels, and Hampton-Lovet, in the +county of Worcester, from the Lovet family. In 1404, Nicholas le +Blount, who had been deeply engaged in the conspiracy to restore +Richard II. to his throne, changed his name to Croke, on his return +to England, in order to avoid the revenge of Henry IV. The Crokes +afterwards became a legal family, and seated themselves at Chilton +in Buckinghamshire. The priory of Studley was purchased from Henry +VIII. by John Croke, in 1539. + +Younger Branches. Blount of Sodington, in the county of Worcester, +and of Mawley Hall in Shropshire, descended from William, second son +of Sir Robert le Blount, who died in 1288, and the heiress of +Odinsels. The Blounts of Maple-Durham in this county, and the +extinct Lords Mountjoy, are of a still junior line to the house +of Sodington. The other extinct branches are too numerous to +mention. + +See Croke's Genealogy of the Croke Family, 4to. 1823, and "The +Scrope and Grosvenor Roll," vol. ii. p. 192, for a memoir of Sir +Walter Blount, who fell at the battle of Shrewsbury together with +Sir Hugh Shirley and two other knights in the royal coat-armour of +Henry the Fourth-- + + "semblably furnished like the King himself." + +ARMS.--For Blount. _Barry nebulée of six or and sable_. For Croke, +_Gules, a fess between six martlets argent_. The more ancient coat +was, _Lozengy or and sable_, which was borne by William le Blount in +the reign of Henry III. Sir William le Blount of Warwickshire, (so +called because he held under the Earl of Warwick,) bore the present +_nebulée_ coat in the reign of Edward II. Sir Thomas le Blount at +the same period _the fess between three martlets_, now called the +coat of Croke. (Rolls of the dates.) + +Present Representative, George Croke, Esq. + + + + +ASHURST OF WATERSTOCK. + + +[Illustration] A Lancashire family of good antiquity, and until the +middle of the last century lords of Ashurst in that county, where +they appear to have been seated not long after the Conquest. In the +reign of James II. the eldest son of a younger brother was created a +Baronet, of Waterstock in this county. His daughter and eventual +heiress married Sir Richard Allin, Baronet, whose daughter, marrying +Mr. Ashurst of Ashurst, great-grandfather of the present +representative of the family, brought the estate of Waterstock into +the elder line of the Ashursts. + +See Burke's Extinct and Dormant Baronetage, and his Landed Gentry. + +ARMS.--_Gules, a cross between four fleurs-de-lis argent_. The +Baronet family bore the _cross engrailed or, and but one +fleur-de-lis of the same_. + +Present Representative, John Henry Ashurst, Esq. + + + + +ANNESLEY OF BLETCHINGDON, VISCOUNT VALENTIA IN IRELAND 1621. + + +[Illustration] Ralph, surnamed Brito de Annesley, living in the +second year of Henry II. (1156,) is assumed to have been son of +Richard, of Annesley, in the county of Nottingham, mentioned in the +Domesday Survey. That estate continued in the Annesleys till the +death of John de Annesley, Esq., in 1437, when it went by an heiress +to the Chaworths. The family then removed to Rodington in the same +county, and afterwards to Newport-Pagnell in Buckinghamshire; but +Ireland was the scene of the prosperity of the family, early in the +seventeenth century, which may be said to have been re-founded by +Sir Francis Annesley, Secretary of State in 1616. Hence the +Viscountcy of Valentia, which afterwards merged in the Earldom of +Anglesey in England, adjudged by the English House of Lords to be +extinct in 1761; but by the same evidence the Viscountcy of Valentia +was allowed to the grandson of the last Earl of Anglesey, whom the +English House of Lords found to be illegitimate. He was created Earl +of Mountnorris in Ireland in 1793, and on the decease of the last +Earl in 1844, the Irish Viscountcy and the representation of +the family descended to Arthur Annesley of Bletchingdon, Esq., +descended from the second marriage of the first Viscount Valentia. + +Younger Branches. 1. Annesley of Clifford Chambers, co. Gloucester. +2. The Earl of Annesley in Ireland, 1789. + +See Baker's Northamptonshire, i. 502; Thoroton's Nottinghamshire, p. +251; Archdall's Lodge, iv. 99; and the Tyndale Genealogy, privately +printed, folio, 1843. + +ARMS.--_Paly of six argent and azure, a bend gules_. Monsieur de +Annesley bore, _Paly of six argent and gules, a bend vairy argent +and sable_, in the reign of Edward III. The present coat was borne +by John de Annesley in the reign of Richard II. (Rolls.) + +Present Representative, Arthur Annesley, 11th Viscount Valentia. + + + + +VILLIERS OF MIDDLETON-STONEY, EARL OF JERSEY 1697. + + +[Illustration] The family of Villers or Villiers is ancient in +Leicestershire, Alexander de Villiers being lord of Brokesby in that +county early in the thirteenth century. The present coat of arms is +said to have been assumed in the reign of Edward I., as a badge of +Sir Richard de Villers' services in the crusades. "Villiers of +Brokesby" occurs among the gentlemen of Leicestershire, "that be +there most of reputation," in the Itinerary of Leland the antiquary +in the reign of Henry VIII. But the great rise of the family +was in the reign of James I., when the favourite Sir George Villiers +became Duke of Buckingham in 1623, extinct 1687. The Earls of Jersey +are sprung from the second but elder brother of the first duke. +Their connection with Oxfordshire appears not to have been before +the middle of the last century. Brokesby was sold by Sir William +Villiers, who died s. p. 1711. + +Younger Branch. The Earl of Clarendon (1776), descended from the +second son of the second Earl of Jersey. + +Extinct branch. The Earl of Grandison in Ireland, 1721; extinct +1766; descended from the elder brother of Sir Edward Villiers, who +died 1689, ancestor of the Earl of Jersey. + +See Leland's Itinerary, i. fol. 23, and vi. fol. 65; Nichols's +Leicestershire, iii. pt. i. p. 197; and Brydges's Collins, iii. 762. + +ARMS.--_Argent, on a cross gules five escallops or_. The ancient +arms founded on those of the Bellemonts Earls of Leicester were +_Sable, three cinquefoils argent_. + +Present Representative, Victor Albert George Villiers, 7th Earl of +Jersey. + + + + ++Gentle.+ + + +COKER OF BICESTER. + + +[Illustration] The younger, but I believe now the only remaining, +line of a family formerly seated at Coker in the county of Somerset, +where it can be traced to the time of Edward I. Mapouder in +Dorsetshire, derived from the heiress of Veale in the reign of Henry +V., became afterwards the family seat. In 1554, John Coker, who +appears to have been second son of Thomas Coker, of Mapouder, +purchased the Manor of "Nuns' Place or King's End in Biscester," +which has since remained the residence of this ancient family. + +See Coker's Survey of Dorsetshire, p. 98; Hutchins's History of +Dorsetshire, vol. iii. p. 273; Kennett's Parochial Antiquities, 1st. +ed. p. 109; and Burke's Commoners, 2nd ed. vol. iii. p. 347. + +ARMS.--_Argent, on a bend gules three leopard's heads or_. The +Mapouder line bore the arms within a border engrailed sable; but the +elder branch of the family, who are represented by the Seymours +Dukes of Somerset, omitted the border. + +Present Representative, Lewis Coker, Esq. + + + + +PARKER OF SHIRBURN CASTLE, EARL OF MACCLESFIELD 1721, BARON PARKER +1716. + + +[Illustration] By the decease of the late Thomas Hawe Parker, Esq., +of Park Hall, in the county of Stafford, the representation of the +family has devolved upon the Earl of Macclesfield, who represents +the junior line. The Parkers were established at Park Hall, in the +parish of Caverswall, in the seventeenth century, having been +previously seated at Parwich, and before that at Norton-Lees, in the +county of Derby. The first recorded ancestor, Thomas Parker, was of +Bulwell, in Nottinghamshire, in the reign of Richard II. He married +the heiress of Gotham, and from hence, says Lysons, the seat of +Norton-Lees. + +See Lysons's Derbyshire, p. cxxxviii.; Brydges's Collins, iv, 190; +and Ward's Stoke-upon-Trent, p. 561. + +ARMS.--_Gules, a chevron between three leopard's heads or_. + +Present Representative, Thomas Augustus Wolstenholme Parker, 6th +Earl of Macclesfield. + + + + +RUTLANDSHIRE. + + ++Knightly.+ + + +WINGFIELD OF TICKENCOTE. + + +[Illustration] The Wingfields of Wingfield and Letheringham, both in +Suffolk, a distinguished family of the fourteenth and fifteenth +centuries, are traced nearly to the Conquest, though they do not +appear to have been lords of the manor or castle of Wingfield before +the reign of Edward II. The elder branch of this family is +represented by the Viscount Powerscourt in Ireland, descended from +Lewis the ninth son of Sir John Wingfield of Letheringham. The +present family is sprung from Henry, a younger brother of this Sir +John, who died in 1481. Tickencote was acquired by marriage in the +reign of Elizabeth with the heiress of Gresham. + +Younger Branch. Wingfield of Onslow in Shropshire, according to the +Visitation of that county, descended from Anthony Wingfield of +Glossop, co. Derby, younger son of Sir Robert Wingfield of +Letheringham, who died in 1431. + +See the elaborate dissertation on the House of Wingfield in the +second volume of Anstis's Register of the Order of the Garter; +see also Blakeway's Sheriffs of Shropshire, pp. 147, 150; +Camden's Visitation of the county of Huntingdon, 1613, (printed by +the Camden Society,) p. 125, &c.; and Blore's Rutlandshire, (fo. +1811,) for full pedigrees of the different branches formerly seated +at Crowfield and Dunham-Magna, co. Norfolk; Kimbolton Castle, co. +Huntingdon; Letheringham and Brantham, co. Suffolk; and Upton, co. +Northampton, p. 65-70. For Viscount Powerscourt, see Archdall's +Lodge, v. 255. + +ARMS.--_Argent, on a bend gules cotised sable three pair of wings +conjoined of the field_. In the reign of Richard II. Monsieur +William Wyngefeld bore, _Gules, two wings conjoined in lure argent_. +(Roll.) + +Present Representative, John Muxloe Wingfield, Esq. + + + + +SHROPSHIRE. + + ++Knightly.+ + + +CORBET OF MORETON-CORBET, BARONET 1808. + + +[Illustration] Pre-eminent among the ancient aristocracy of +Shropshire is the House of Corbet, descended from "Roger, son of +Corbet," so called in the Domesday Survey. In the twelfth century +the Corbets divided into two branches; the elder was seated at +Wattlesborough, the younger at Caus-Castle. In the time of Henry +III. the former became of Moreton-Corbet, derived from the heiress +of the Anglo-Saxon family of Toret; but the Caus-Castle line was by +far the most eminent, and became barons of the realm. In the reign +of Richard II. several of the most ancient of the Corbet estates +were lost by an heiress; and this happened again in 1583, when the +lands brought into the family by the heiress of Hopton went by +marriage to the Wallops and Careys. Moreton-Corbet remained till +1688, when it also descended to the sister of Sir Vincent Corbet; +but the male line was still preserved by the Corbets of Shrewsbury, +and the ancient estate of Moreton-Corbet re-purchased about 1743. + +Younger Branch. Corbett of Elsham (co. Lincoln) and of Darnhall +(co. Chester,) descended from Robert second son of Sir Vincent +Corbet, of Moreton-Corbet, who died in 1622. + +Extinct Branches. 1. Corbet of Stoke and Adderley in this county, +Baronet 1627, sprung from Reginald third son of Sir Robert Corbet of +Moreton-Corbet; extinct 1780. 2. Corbet of Hadley in this county, +descended from the second marriage of Sir Roger Corbet of +Wattlesborough, who died temp. King John. The heiress married John +Greville, in the 7th Henry V. 3. Corbet of Longnor in this county, +and of Leighton, co. Montgomery, Baronet 1642, descended also from +John third son of Peter Corbet, Baron of Caus, and Alice Orreby; +extinct 1814. 4. Corbet of Sundorne, formerley of Leigh in this +county, descended from John third son of Peter Corbet, Baron of +Caus, and of Alice his wife, daughter of Sir Fulke de Orreby; +extinct 1859. + +See Blakeway's Sheriffs of Shropshire, fol. Shrewsbury, 1831, pp. +37, 63, 65, 230, &c., corrected by the MSS. of the late Mr. Joseph +Morris of Shrewsbury;* see also Eyton's Antiquities of Shropshire, +vol. vii. p. 5; and Gent. Mag. for 1809, pp. 599, 903. + +ARMS.--_Or, a raven proper_. The present coat, "_Or, un corbyn de +sable_," was borne by Sir Peter Corbet in the reign of Edward II.; +but Thomas Corbet, in that of Henry III., bore "_Or,_ 2 _corbeaux +sable_," which, with the addition of a bordure engrailed sable, is +the coat of the Corbets of Sundorne. _Or, three ravens in pale +proper_, was borne by Corbet of Hadley, and was so borne by Sir +Thomas Corbet in the reign of Edward II. (Rolls.) + +Present Representative, Sir Vincent Rowland Corbet, 3rd Baronet. + + * In future quoted as "Morris MSS." + + + + +LEIGHTON OF LOTON, BARONET 1692-3. + + +[Illustration] The Leightons are stated to have been seated at +Leighton in this county prior to the Conquest: Domesday has "Rainald +(vicecom') ten' _Lestone_; Leuui tenuit temp. Reg. Edw." Hence there +can be no doubt the name Lestone, _i.e._ Lewi's-town, now Leighton, +was derived. Certain it is that the direct ancestors of the family +of Leighton were resident there at the very commencement of the +twelfth century. From Rainald the sheriff, who was the superior lord +of Leighton when Domesday was compiled, that and all his other +manors passed in marriage with his daughter to Alan, the ancestor of +the Fitz-Alan family; and in the _Liber Niger_, under the year 1167, +Richard son of Tiel (Tihel) is stated to hold Leighton under William +Fitz-Alan by the service of one knight. This Richard was the +undoubted ancestor of this ancient family. Leighton is now severed +from the inheritance of the male line of the Leightons, belonging to +Robert Gardner, Esq., whose wife was the heiress of the Kinnersleys, +descended in the female line from the second marriage of Sir Thomas +Leighton, knighted in 1513. Church Stretton, acquired by the heiress +of Cambray in the fifteenth century, was for four generations the +family seat. Loton (an ancient Corbet estate) was acquired by +marriage with a coheiress of Burgh, by John Leighton, Sheriff of +Shropshire in 1468. + +See Eyton's Shropshire, vii. p. 325; Wotton's Baronetage, iv. 38; +Blakeway, pp. 74, 75, 80, 91; Stemmata Botvilliana, 1858; and Morris +MSS. + +ARMS.--_Quarterly per fess indented or and gules_. In 1315, Sir +Richard de Leighton bore the present coat differenced by a bendlet, +as appears by his seal attached to a deed still preserved at Loton: +the same arms are on his monument, formerly in Buildwas Abbey, and +now in Leighton church. + +Present Representative, Sir Baldwin Leighton, 7th Baronet, late M.P. +for South Salop. + + + + +SANDFORD OF SANDFORD. + + +[Illustration] A family of acknowledged antiquity, whose ancestor +Richard de Sanford was certainly seated at Sandford soon after the +Conquest, and which has ever since remained their principal seat; it +is in the parish of Prees, and is mentioned by Leland in his +Itinerary. The Herald of the eighteenth century, and the late +excellent Bishop of Edinburgh, were both of this family. + +Younger Branch. Sandford of the Isle House near Shrewsbury, parted +from the parent stem in the fifteenth century, and who also by +marriage represent the ancient Shropshire families of Sprenghose and +Winsbury. + +See Eyton's Shropshire, ix. p. 221; and Blakeway, pp. 54, 190, 222. + +ARMS.--_Quarterly per fess indented azure and ermine_. The Sandfords +of the Isle bear, _Party per chevron sable and ermine, in chief two +boar's heads couped close or_. + +Present Representative, Thomas Hugh Sandford, Esq. + + + + +KYNASTON OF HARDWICKE, BARONET 1818. + + +[Illustration] The Kynastons are lineal descendants of the ancient +British Princes of Powys, sprung from Griffith, son of Iorwerth +Goch, who took refuge in this county; where, as it is stated in the +Testa de Nevill, King Henry II. gave him the manors of Rowton and +Ellardine, in the parish of High Ercall, and Sutton and Brocton in +the parish of Sutton, to be held in capite by the service of being +_latimer_ (_i.e._ interpreter) between the English and Welsh. He +married Matilda, younger sister and coheir of Ralph le Strange, and +in her right became possessed of the manor of Kinnerley and other +estates in Shropshire. Madoc, the eldest son of Griffith, seated +himself at Sutton, from him called to this day "Sutton Madoc;" +Griffith Vychan, the younger son, had Kinnerley, a portion of his +mother's inheritance, and in that manor he resided at Tre-gynvarth, +_Anglicè_ Kynvarth's Town, usually written and spoken as _Kynaston_; +and hence the name of the family. Griffith or Griffin de Kyneveston, +son of Griffith Vychan, was witness to a grant of land to the abbey +of Haghmond in 1313. His lineal descendant Roger Kynaston fought at +Blore Heathe in 1459, and Lord Audley the Lancastrian General is +supposed to have fallen by his hand; hence the second quarter in the +arms, and for this and other services he received the honour of +knighthood. The Kynastons, from the place so called, went to +Hordley, and latterly in the seventeenth century removed to +Hardwicke. + +The Kynastons of Oteley, extinct early in the eighteenth century, +were an elder branch; they acquired Oteley by the marriage of an +heiress of that ancient house in the reign of Henry VII., and were +descended from John, elder brother of Sir Roger Kynaston before +mentioned. + +See Blakeway, p. 73; and Morris MSS. + +ARMS.--_Quarterly_, 1 _and_ 4, _Argent, a lion rampant sable_; 2 +_and_ 3, _Ermine, a chevron gules_. Sir John de Kynastone in the +reign of Edward II. bore, _Sable, a lion rampant queve forchée or_. +(Roll.) + +Present Representative, Sir John Roger Kynaston, 3rd Baronet. + + + + +CORNEWALL OF DELBURY. + + +[Illustration] This is the only remaining branch of the once +powerful family of Cornewall, for so many ages Barons of Burford, +(though without a summons to parliament,) descended from Richard, +natural son of Richard Earl of Cornwall, King of the Romans, and +second son of John King of England: (an illegitimacy however which +was denied at the Heralds' Visitation of this county in 1623, by Sir +Thomas Cornewall, of Burford, who stated that the said Richard was +the legitimate son of Richard Plantagenet, Earl of Cornwall, by +Sanchia of Provence, his second wife). The Barony of Burford came +into the Cornewall family before he ninth of Edward II. with the +coheiress of Mortimer, and continued with the descendants till +the death of Francis, Baron of Burford, in 1726. The present +family is sprung from a younger line, seated at Berrington in the +county of Hereford, in the fifteenth century, and which estate was +sold in the eighteenth. Delbury was purchased by and became the seat +of Frederick Cornewall, Esq. who died in 1788, and was father of the +late Bishop of Worcester. + +See Blakeway, pp. 72, 83, 92; and Morris MSS. + +ARMS.--_Ermine, a lion rampant gules crowned or within a bordure +engrailed sable bezantee_. "Jeffery de Cornewall" and "Symon de +Cornewall" bore, _Argent, a lion rampant gules crowned or, with a +baston sable, the first charged with three mullets or, the second +with three bezants_. (Roll of the reign of Edward III.) The present +coat was borne by Monsieur Bryan Cornewall, in the reign of Richard +II. (Roll.) + +Present Representative, Herbert Cornewall, Esq. + + + + +LINGEN (CALLED BURTON) OF LONGNOR. + + +[Illustration] The first recorded ancestor of this loyal family is +Ralph de Wigmore, lord of Lingen, in the county of Hereford, founder +of the Priory of Lyngbroke. His son and grandson John took the name +of Lingen: the latter is recorded in the Testa de Nevill as holding +various estates in Herefordshire, "of the old feoffment," that is, +by descent from the time of King Henry I. His lineal descendant, Sir +John Lingen, of Lingen and Sutton, in the county of Hereford, having +married in the reign of Edward IV. the daughter and coheiress +of Sir John Burgh, succeeded to considerable estates in Shropshire, +and to the manor of Radbrook, in the county of Gloucester, until +recently the inheritance of his descendants. Longnor, the ancient +seat of the Burtons, came into the family in 1722, by the marriage +of Thomas Lingen, Esq. of Radbrook, with Anne, only daughter of +Robert Burton, Esq. and sister and heir of Thomas Burton, of +Longnor, Esq. Their son assumed the name of Burton by Act of +Parliament in 1748. + +From Morris MSS. + +ARMS.--_Barry of six or and azure, on a bend gules three roses +argent_. + +Present Representative, Robert Burton, Esq. + + + + +HARLEY OF DOWN-ROSSAL. + + +[Illustration] The origin of this knightly family has been recently +explored by Mr. Eyton in his Antiquities of Shropshire, and from +that valuable authority it appears that Edward and Hernulf, living +in the first half of the twelfth century, were lords of Harley, and +the ancestors of the race who were afterwards denominated therefrom. +Sixth in descent from William de Harley living in 1231 was Sir +Robert de Harley, who having married the coheiress of Brampton +Bryan, in the county of Hereford, that place became the residence of +his descendants, sprung from Sir Bryan his second son. The +Shropshire estates went to the elder son, and passed through +heiresses first to the Peshalls, and thence to the Lacons. Fifth +in descent from Sir Bryan de Harley was John Harley, Esq. who +signalised himself at Flodden Field in 1513. His eldest son was +ancestor of the Earls of Oxford (1711,) extinct 1853. The present +family, who now represent this ancient lineage, are descended from +William third son of the above mentioned John. He died in 1600, +having seated himself at Beckjay, in this county. The family +afterwards became citizens of Shrewsbury, and acquired Down-Rossal, +the present seat, in 1852. + +See Eyton's Antiquities of Shropshire, vol. vi. p. 230; Collins's +Noble Families, p. 184; Brydges's Collins, vol. iv. p. 37; and +Morris MSS. + +ARMS.--_Or, a bend cotised sable_, and which was borne by Sir +Richard de Harlee in the reign of Edward II. (Roll.) + +Present Representative, John Harley, Esq. + + + + +TYRWHITT, OF STANLEY-HALL, BARONET 1808. + + +[Illustration] This is a younger branch of an ancient Lincolnshire +family, according to Wotton, to be traced to Sir Hercules Tyrwhitt, +living in the tenth of Henry I., and raised to eminence by Sir +Robert Tyrwhitt, Justice of the Common Pleas and King's Bench in the +reign of Henry IV. He was seated at Kettleby, in that county, which +remained the residence of the elder branch, created Baronets in +1611, until its extinction in 1673. A younger son was of Scotter, in +the same county, the ancestor of the present family, of whom John, +fifth son of the Rev. Robert Tyrwhitt, married a descendant of the +Jones's of Shrewsbury, and by her acquired the Stanley-Hall estate, +and took the name of Jones, but the present Baronet has since +resumed the ancient name of Tyrwhitt. + +See Blakeway, p. 240; Wotton's Baronetage, i. 178; Camden's Remains, +p. 151; Baker's Northamptonshire, i. 115 and "Notices and Remains of +the Family of Tyrwhitt," &c. "printed not published." 8vo. n.d. [By +R. P. Tyrwhitt, Esq. of the Middle Temple, eldest son of Richard +Tyrwhitt, late of Nantyr Hall in Denbighshire, Esq. younger brother +of the first Baronet.] + +ARMS.--_Gules, three tyrwhitts or_. + +Present Representative, Sir Henry Thomas Tyrwhitt, third +Baronet. + + + + ++Gentle.+ + + +GATACRE OF GATACRE. + + +[Illustration] A family of great antiquity, and which is said to +have been established at Gatacre by a grant from Edward the +Confessor. The pedigree, however, is not traced beyond the reign of +Henry III. + +Although very ancient, this family does not appear to have been +distinguished except by "The fair maid of Gatacre," (see Blakeway, +p. 169,) and by the eminent divine of this house noticed in +"Fuller's Worthies," and who was the ancestor of the Gatacres of +Mildenhall, in Suffolk. + +See Leland's Itinerary, v. p. 31; Eyton's Antiquities of Shropshire, +vol. iii. p. 86; and Morris MSS. + +ARMS.--_Quarterly gules and ermine, on the second and third quarters +three piles of the first, on a fess azure five bezants_. This coat, +a remarkable exception to the simple heraldry of the period, is +supposed to have been granted to Humphry Gatacre, Esquire of the +Body to King Henry VI. The following coat, ascribed to this family, +was about the end of the seventeenth century in the church of +Claverley in this county: _Quarterly, first and fourth ermine, a +chief indented gules; second and third gules, over all on a fess +azure three bezants_. (Eyton's Shropshire, iii. p. 103.) + +Present Representative, Edward Lloyd Gatacre, Esq. + + + + +EYTON OF EYTON. + + +[Illustration] This family can also lay claim to great antiquity, +being certainly resident at Eyton on the Wealdmoors as early as the +reigns of Henry I. and II. They were in some way connected with the +Pantulfs, Barons of Wem, who were Lords of Eyton at the period of +the Domesday Survey, and, in consequence of this connection, not +only quarter their arms, but were among the very few Shropshire +gentry who were not dispossessed after the Rebellion of the third +Norman Earl of Shrewsbury, in the time of Henry I. + +Robert de Eyton stands at the head of the pedigree. + +See Blakeway, pp. 56, 70, 71; Eyton's Shropshire, viii. p. 26; and +Morris MSS. + +ARMS.--_Quarterly, first and fourth, or, a fret azure; second and +third, gules two bars ermine_. + +Present Representative, Thomas Campbell Eyton, Esq. + + + + +PLOWDEN OF PLOWDEN. + + +[Illustration] When the ancestors of this family were first seated +at Plowden is a matter of doubt, but it was at a very early period. +In 1194 Roger de Plowden is said to have been at the siege of Acre +with Richard I., and there to have acquired the fleurs-de-lis in the +arms. The name occurs upon all the county records from the reign of +Henry III. Edmund Plowden the lawyer, in the sixteenth century, was +the great luminary of this family. + +See Baker's Northamptonshire, i. 470; Blakeway, pp. 132, 222, and +Morris MSS. + +ARMS.--_Azure, a fess dancettée, the two upper points terminating in +fleurs-de-lis or_. + +Present Representative, William Henry Francis Plowden, Esq. + + + + +ACTON OF ALDENHAM, BARONET 1643-4. + + +[Illustration] Engelard de Acton, of Acton-Pigot and Acton-Burnell, +was admitted on the Roll of Guild Merchants of Shrewsbury in 1209. +His descendant Edward de Acton, of Aldenham, married the coheiress +of Le'Strange, living in 1387, and with her acquired an estate in +Longnor, in this county. The baronetcy was the reward of loyalty in +the beginning of the great rebellion. + +General Acton, Prime Minister to the King of Naples for twenty-nine +years, commencing in 1778, was a distinguished member of this +family. + +See Wotton's Baronetage, ii. 398; Blakeway, pp. 54, 174. + +ARMS.--_Gules, crusilly or, two lions passant in pale argent_. This +coat is evidently founded on that of Le'Strange. + +Present Representative, Sir John Emerick Edward Dalberg Acton, 8th +Baronet. + + + + +WHITMORE OF APLEY. + + +[Illustration] This is a younger branch of an ancient family +formerly seated at Whittimere or Whitmore, in the parish of +Claverley, where it is traced to the reign of Henry III. The Apley +branch made a large fortune by mercantile transactions in London in +the reign of Elizabeth, and purchased that estate in 1572, from Sir +Thomas Lucy, Knight. The Whitmores have represented Bridgnorth in +Parliament constantly since the reign of Charles II. Blakeway +observes that this family does not appear to have had any connection +with the Whitmores of Cheshire, though the Heralds have given them +similar arms, with a crest allusive to the springing of a young +shoot out of an old stock. + +Younger Branches. Whitmore of Dudmaston, in this county, and +Whitmore-Jones, of Chastleton, in the county of Oxford. + +See Blakeway, p. 106, and Notes on the Whitmore Family, in Notes and +Queries, 3rd series, v. p. 159. + +ARMS.--_Vert, fretty or_. + +Present Representative, Thomas Charlton Whitmore, Esq. + + + + +WALCOT OF BITTERLEY. + + +[Illustration] The name is derived from Walcot in the parish of +Lydbury, which was held under the Bishop of Hereford by Roger de +Walcot in 1255. He was the ancestor of the present family. Sixth in +descent from Roger de Walcot was John Walcot, of whom the pedigree +relates, "that playing at Chess with King Henry V. he gave him the +check-mate with the rooke, whereupon the King changed his coat of +arms, which was the cross with fleurs-de-lis, and gave him the rooke +for a remembrance." Walcot was sold in the year 1764, and Bitterley, +which had belonged to the family in 1660, became the seat of the +Walcots, descended from Humphry Walcot, who died in 1616, and who +was the eldest son of John Walcot of Walcot. He had livery of the +manor of Walcot in 1611, "on the extinction (says Blakeway,) I +suppose of the elder line." + +See Blakeway, p. 112; and Morris MSS. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a chevron between three chess-rooks ermine_. The +former coat, _Argent, on a cross patonce azure five fleurs-de-lis +or_, was ascribed to John de Walcote in the Roll of the reign of +Richard II. + +Present Representative, the Rev. Charles Walcot. + + + + +BALDWIN (CALLED CHILDE) OF KINLET. + + +[Illustration] This ancient family, which has been supposed to be of +Norman origin, was early seated at Diddlebury, (or Delbury,) in +Corvedale, which appears to have come from the heiress of Wigley. +Roger Baldwin of Diddlebury died anno 1398, and was the ancestor of +the family. Diddlebury was sold to the Cornewalls of Berrington in +the last century, when the Baldwins removed to Aqualate in +Staffordshire. Kinlet was the inheritance of the Childes, whose +coheiress married Charles Baldwin, Esq. The Childes derived it from +the Lacons, and the Lacons by inheritance from the Blounts of +Kinlet. + +See Blakeway, p. 212. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a saltire sable_. + +Present Representative, Walter Lacon Childe, Esq. + + + + +DOD OF CLOVERLY. + +[Illustration] A branch of the Dods of Edge in Cheshire, now extinct +in the male line, and one of the oldest families in England, which +can be traced in a direct line, undoubtedly of _Saxon_, if not of +_British_ descent, which, says Blakeway, "is in the highest degree +probable." The following is Ormerod's account of the origin of this +family. "About the time of Henry II., Hova, son of Cadwgan Dot, +married the daughter and heiress of the Lord of Edge, with whom he +had the fourth of that manor. It is probable that the Lord of Edge +was son of Edwin, who before the Conquest was sole proprietor of +eight manors; we may call him a Saxon thane. It appears by Domesday +that Dot was the Saxon lord of sixteen manors, from all of which he +was ejected; we may presume he was identical with Cadwgan Dot." "A +descent in the male line (adds Ormerod) from a Saxon noticed in +Domesday would be unique in this county" (Cheshire). The Dods of +Cloverley descend from Hugo, living in the fourteenth of Henry IV., +who married the coheiress of Roger de Cloverley. He was the son of +John Dod of Farndon, who was son of Roger Dod of Edge, living in the +reign of Edward III., which John Dod had also acquired property in +Shropshire, by marriage with the coheiress of Warden of Ightfield. + +See Ormerod's Cheshire, ii. 374; and Blakeway, p. 206. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a fess gules between two cotises wavy sable_. The +Dods of Edge bore three crescents or, on the fess, by which one +would imagine they were the younger rather than the elder line of +the family, and the present owner of Cloverly possesses deeds which +appear to prove that this was the fact. + +Present Representative, John Whitehall Dod, Esq. late M.P. for North +Shropshire. + + + + +OAKELEY OF OAKELEY. + + +[Illustration] An ancient family, descended from Philip, who in the +reign of Henry III. was lord of Oakeley in the parish of Bishop's +Castle, from whence he assumed his name, and which has ever since +been the inheritance of his descendants. + +Younger Branch. Sir Charles Oakeley, Baronet 1790. + +See Blakeway, pp. 132, 173; and Morris MSS. + +ARMS.--_Argent, on a fess between three crescents gules as many +fleurs-de-lis or_. These arms are, with those of the Plowdens and +other families of the vicinity, allusive to the services of +ancestors who fought under the banners of the great suzeraines of +their district, the Fitz-Alans, in the Crusades and the battlefields +of France. + +Present Representative, the Rev. Arthur Oakeley. + + + + +HILL OF HAWKSTONE, VISCOUNT HILL 1842, BARONET 1726-7. + +[Illustration] The first in the pedigree is Hugh de la Hulle, who +held the estate of Hulle, that is, Court of Hill, in the parish of +Burford, in this county, as the eleventh part of a knight's fee, of +the Barony of Stuteville, in the reigns of Richard I. and John, as +appears by the Testa de Neville. The family afterwards removed into +the north of the county, by marriages with the coheiresses of +Wlenkeslow, Buntingsdale, Styche, and Warren. The castle still borne +in the coat of Hill is found on the seal of William Hill in the +reign of Richard II. Court of Hill, the original seat of the Hills, +was bequeathed in the reign of Queen Elizabeth to the second son of +the eldest branch of the family, in whose line it continued till +carried by an heiress to the family of the present proprietor. +Hawkstone, the present seat, was settled upon Humphry Hill in 1560. +The great ornament of this family, and indeed he may be called the +founder of its modern consequence, was Richard Hill, Envoy +Extraordinary to the Italian States in the very beginning of the +eighteenth century. + +See Blakeway, pp. 142, 179; and Morris MSS. + +ARMS.--_Ermine, on a fess sable a castle argent_. + +Present Representative, Rowland Hill, second Viscount Hill. + + + + +FORESTER OF WILLEY, BARON FORESTER 1821. + + +[Illustration] This family is clearly descended from "Robert de +Wolint," (Wellington,) alias Forester, who is named in the Testa de +Neville as holding his estate by the serjeantry of keeping the royal +hay of Wellington in the forest of the Wrekin; and there is every +probability that he was the descendant of Ulger the Forester, chief +forester of all the king's forests in Shropshire in the time of +Stephen. + +See Blakeway, p. 126; and Morris MSS. + +ARMS.--_Quarterly per fess dancettée argent and sable, on the first +and fourth quarters a bugle horn of the last, garnished or_. + +Present Representative, John George Weld Forester, 2nd Baron +Forester. + + + + +EDWARDES, OF HARNAGE GRANGE AND SHREWSBURY, BARONET 1645. + + +[Illustration] Iddon, son of Rys Sais, a powerful British chieftain +in the Shropshire Marches at the period of the Norman Conquest, is +the ancestor of the family of Edwardes. His descendants were seated +at Kilhendre, in the parish of Ellesmere, in the reign of Henry I., +an estate which continued in the family in the time of Queen +Elizabeth. The eminent services of Sir Thomas Edwardes of Shrewsbury +to King Charles I. were rewarded by the grant of a Baronetcy in +1645. The patent, however, was not taken out till the year 1678, +with a right of precedency before all baronets created after 1644. +The distinguished Major Herbert Edwardes, C.B., one of Her Majesty's +Commissioners for settling the affairs of the Punjaub, is of this +family. + +See Blakeway, pp. 107, 121; Blakeway and Owen's Shrewsbury, ii. 259; +and Wotton's Baronetage, ii. 415; and Morris MSS. + +ARMS.--_Gules, a chevron engrailed between three heraldic tiger's +heads erased argent_. + +Present Representative, Sir Henry Hope Edwardes, 10th Baronet. + + + + +BETTON (CALLED BRIGHT) OF TOTTERTON HALL. + + +[Illustration] Walter De Betton had a freehold estate at +Betton-Strange, near Shrewsbury, in the reign of Edward I. William +Betton, fourth in descent from Walter, was seated at Great Berwick +prior to the reign of Henry IV., and at his house the renowned +Hotspur lay during the night preceding the Battle of Shrewsbury. + +The estate and mansion of Great Berwick continued with their lineal +descendants until sold in 1831, by Richard Betton, Esq. whose uncle +having succeeded to the estates of John Bright, Esq. assumed that +name, and was father of the present proprietor of Totterton Hall. + +From the Morris MSS. + +ARMS.--_Argent, two pales sable, each charged with three +cross-crosslets fitchée or_. + +Present Representative, the Rev. John Bright. + + + + +CLIVE (CALLED HERBERT) OF STYCHE, EARL OF POWIS 1804; BARON CLIVE IN +THE PEERAGE OF IRELAND 1762. + + +[Illustration] Although this family owe their elevation to the +military genius of the great Lord Clive, to whom the English nation +is so much indebted for its glory and power in the East, yet the +Clives have undoubted claims to antiquity both in Shropshire and +Cheshire, in which latter county, in the hundred of Northwich, is +Clive, from whence their ancestor Warin assumed his name in the time +of Henry III. About the reign of Edward II. the family removed to +Huxley, also in Cheshire, Henry de Clive having married the +coheiress; and again in the reign of Henry VI. on the marriage of +James Clive with the heiress of Styche, of Styche, they settled in +Shropshire at that place, which is in the parish of Moreton-Say, and +has remained uninterruptedly in the Clive family. The Earldom of +Powis is the result of the match with the heiress of Herbert, of +Powis Castle, in 1784. + +See Ormerod's Cheshire, ii. 435, iii. 115; Blakeway, p. 140; +Brydges's Collins, v. 543; and Morris MSS. + +ARMS.--_Argent, on a fess sable three mullets or_. In the fourth +year of Edward VI., three wolf's heads erased sable were added to +the field of the original coat. See Archdall's Lodge, vii. 80. + +Present Representative, Edward James Herbert, 3rd Earl of +Powis. + + + + +LAWLEY OF SPOONBILL, BARON WENLOCK 1839; BARONET 1641. + + +[Illustration] This family is descended from Thomas Lawley, cousin +and next heir to John Lord Wenlock, K.G. in the reign of Edward IV., +who was slain at the battle of Tewkesbury. The Lawleys were +described as "of Wenlock" in the reign of' Henry VI., and until that +of Henry VIII., when Richard Lawley, Esq. ancestor of Lord Wenlock, +was written "of Spoonhill." + +See Blakeway, p. 92; Wotton's Baronetage, ii. 261; and Morris MSS. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a cross formée, checky or and sable_. + +Present Representative, Beilby Richard Lawley-Thompson, 2nd Baron +Wenlock. + + + + +PIGOTT OF EDGMOND. + + +[Illustration] The Pigotts were formerly seated at Chetwynd in this +county, which they inherited from the coheiress of Peshall in the +fourteenth century. + +The family came originally from Cheshire; William Pigott of Butley +in the parish of Prestbury in that county, who died in 1376, was +grandfather of Richard Pigott of Butley who married the heiress of +Peshall. Chetwynd was sold about 1776, and the rectory of +Edgmond purchased by Thomas Pigott, Esq., in the reign of James I. + +See Blakeway, p. 84; and Morris MSS. + +ARMS.--_Ermine, three fusils in fess sable_. The coat formerly borne +by this family, founded on the arms of Chetwynd, was, _Azure, a +chevron between three mullets or, on a chief ermine three fusils +sable_. + +Present Representative, the Rev. John Dryden Pigott. + + + + +THORNES OF LLWYNTIDMAN HALL. + + +[Illustration] The name is local, from Thornes in the parish of +Shenstone, in the county of Stafford, where Robert, son of Roger de +la Thornes, was resident early in the fourteenth century. He was +elected burgess for Shrewsbury in 1357, a position subsequently +filled by several of his descendants. The family also became seated +at Shelvock in this county at an early period. Thomas Thornes of +that place erected a mansion on the old family estate at Thornes in +the reign of Edward IV., which estate was sold by his descendant +Roger Thornes in 1507. Shelvock continued in the family until the +extinction of the eldest branch of it in 1678. The present family +descend from Nicholas Thornes of Melverley, great-uncle of Richard +Thornes who was sheriff of this county in 1610. + +See Sanders's History of Shenstone, p. 215; Blakeway, p. 101; and +Morris MSS. + +ARMS.--_Sable, a lion rampant guardant argent_. + +Present Representative, Thomas William Thornes, Esq. + + + + +HARRIES OF CRUCKTON. + + +[Illustration] The ancestor of this family was of Cruckton in the +parish of Pontesbury in 1463. It has been supposed that the +Harries's are of the old race of "Fitz-Henry," mentioned in ancient +deeds of this county, and who were seated at Little Sutton prior to +the reign of Edward III. + +See Blakeway, p. 178; and Morris MSS. + +ARMS.--_Ermine, three bars azure, over all three annulets or_. + +Present Representative, Francis Harries, Esq. + + + + +SALWEY OF MOOR PARK. + + +[Illustration] About the reign of Henry III. William Salwey was Lord +of Leacroft, a hamlet in the parish of Cannock in Staffordshire; +hence the family removed to Stanford in Worcestershire; of' which +John Salwey was owner in the third of Henry IV. But this estate was +carried by an heiress to Sir Francis Winnington in the reign of +Charles II. Richard Salwey, younger brother of Edward Salwey of +Stanford, was seated at Richard's Castle in the county of Hereford +at the time of the Protectorate. His grandson Richard was of the +Moor Park, where he died in 1759, and was succeeded by his +great-nephew, whose grandson is the present representative of this +ancient family. See Erdeswick's Staffordshire, ed. 1844, p. +200; Nash's Worcestershire, ii. 369; and Morris MSS. + +ARMS.--_Sable, a saltier engrailed or_. + +Present Representative, John Salwey, Esq. + + + + +BOROUGH OF CHETWYND. + + +[Illustration] Lineally descended from Robert "Borowe," noticed by +Leland in his Itinerary, which Robert died in 1418, and was father +of Robert surnamed de Stokeden, Lord of Erdborough in the county of +Leicester. + +Chetwynd was purchased by Thomas Borough, Esq., in 1803, the family +having been previously for many years resident at Derby. + +See Glover's History of the County of Derby, 8vo. 1833, vol. ii. p. +558, who refers to the genealogy of the family in the College of +Arms, 4 Norfolk, p. 189; Nichols's Leicestershire, ii. 528; and +Morris MSS. + +ARMS.--_Gules, the stem and trunk of a tree eradicated, as also +couped, sprouting out two branches argent_. In 1702 a frightful +modern coat founded on the preceding, with the shield of Pallas +dependent from an oak-tree or, was granted by the College of Arms. + +Present Representative, John Charles Burton Borough, Esq. + + + + +SOMERSETSHIRE. + + ++Knightly.+ + + +POULETT OF HINTON ST. GEORGE, EARL POULETT 1706; BARON 1627. + + +[Illustration] Paulet, in the hundred of North Petherton in this +county, gave name to this historical family, the first on record +being Sir William de Paulet, who died in 1242. He was of Leigh in +Devonshire, which, with Rode in Somersetshire, successively became +the family seat. Hinton St. George, which came from the heiress of +Denebaud in the reign of Henry VI., is noticed by Leland as "a right +goodly manor place of fre stone, with two goodly high tourres +embattled in the ynner court," and has ever since remained the seat +of this the elder branch of the family. The Marquesses of Winchester +(1551) and the extinct Dukes of Bolton descend from William second +son of Sir John Paulet of Paulet, who died in 1378. They were of +Basing in Hampshire, derived through the heiress of Poynings from +the great house of St.John, in the reign of Henry VI. + +See Leland's Itinerary, ii. fol. 55, vi. fol. 11; Brydges's Collins, +ii. 367, iv. 1; Collinson's History of Somersetshire, ii. p. 165. +For an account of Hinton St. George, the Topographer, vol. i. p. +171, vol. ii. p.354. For Basing, Gent. Mag. 1787, p. 680. + +ARMS.--_Sable, three swords in pile, their points towards the base, +argent, the pomels and hilts or. Gules, a pair of wings conjoined in +lure argent_, being the coat of his mother the heiress of Reyney, +was borne by Sir John Paulet in the 15th of Richard II. + +Present Representative, William Poulett, 6th Earl Poulett. + + + + +SPEKE OF JORDANS. + + +[Illustration] This is a younger branch of an ancient family +descended from Richard le Espek, who lived in the reign of Henry II. +Wemworthy and Brampton, in the county of Devon, were the original +seats; but in the time of Henry VI. Sir John Speke, having married +an heiress of Beauchamp, became possessed of the manor of +Whitelackington in this county, which for eleven generations +continued the inheritance of his descendants in the male line, when +an heiress carried it to the Norths, Earls of Guildford. Jordans, a +hamlet in the manor of Ashill, also inherited from the Beauchamps, +appears to be the only remnant of the former possessions of this +venerable house. + +See Leland's Itinerary, ii. ff. 51, 55; Topographer, i. 507; and +Collinson's History of Somersetshire, i. pp. 12, 66. + +ARMS.--_Barry of eight argent and azure, an eagle with two heads +displayed gules_. + +Present Representative, William Speke, Esq. + + + + ++Gentle.+ + + +TREVELYAN OF NETTLECOMB, BARONET 1661-2. + + +[Illustration] The name sufficiently implies that this is a Cornish +family, traced to Nicholas de Trevelyan living in the reign of +Edward I., whose ancestors were of Trevelyan, in the parish of St. +Vehap, near Fowey, at a still earlier period. Nettlecomb was +inherited from the heiress of Whalesborough towards the end of the +fifteenth century. The Trevelyans suffered for their loyalty during +the Usurpation, and were rewarded by the baronetcy on the +Restoration. The estate of Wallington, in the county of +Northumberland, came from the heiress of Calverley of Calverley in +the last century. + +Younger Branch, Trevelyan of Nether-Witton in the county of +Northumberland. + +See Westcote's Devonshire Pedigrees, p. 558; Collinson's +Somersetshire, iii. p. 539; Gilbert's Cornwall, i. 564; Hodgson's +History of Northumberland, vol. i. pt. 2. p. 262; and Wotton's +Baronetage, iii. p. 353. + +ARMS.--_Gules, a land-horse argent, armed or, coming out of the sea +party per fess wavy azure and of the second_. This coat is +traditionally derived from one of the family swimming on horseback +from the rocks called Seven Stones to the Land's End, at the time of +an inundation. The more ancient arms are said to have been _a lion +rampant holding a baton_. + +Present Representative, Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan, 6th +Baronet. + + + + +UPTON (CALLED SMYTH) OF ASHTON-COURT, BARONET 1859. + +[Illustration] An ancient Cornish family, said to have been +originally of Upton, in that county, or, according to Prince in his +Worthies of Devon, named from Upton in the parish of Collumpton in +Devonshire, and fixed at Portlinch in the parish of Newton Ferrers, +by a match with the heiress of Mohun, about the end of the fifteenth +century. Here the elder branch was long seated, and became extinct +in 1709. The present family descend from a younger brother, who +settled at Lupton in Devonshire: his descendant was of Ingmire Hall +in Westmerland, derived from the heiress of Otway about the +beginning of the eighteenth century. The present representative, +succeeding to the estates of the Smyths of Ashton, assumed that +name, and was created a Baronet in 1859. + +Younger Branches. Upton of Glyde-Court in the county of Louth, +descended from the third son of John Upton of Lupton, living in +1620; and Upton, Baron Templetown, descended from Henry second son +of Arthur Upton of Lupton. This Henry came into Ireland in 1598, a +captain in the army under the Earl of Essex, and established himself +in the county of Antrim. + +See Prince's Worthies of Devon, ed. 1701, p. 572; Westcote's +Devonshire, p. 519; and Archdall's Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, vii. +p. 152. + +ARMS.--_Sable, a cross moline argent_. + +Present Representative, Sir John Henry Greville Upton Smythe, +Baronet. + + + + +SOUTHAMPTONSHIRE. + + ++Knightly.+ + + +TICHBORNE OF TICHBORNE, BARONET 1620. + + +[Illustration] Of the great antiquity of this family there is no +doubt, they having been seated at their manor of Tichborne from the +reign of Henry II., at which period Sir Roger de Tichborne, their +first recorded ancestor, was lord of that manor. The immediate +ancestors of the present family were of Aldershot, in this county, +being descended from the second son of the first Baronet. Henry +Tichborne, grandson of the celebrated Sir Henry Tichborne, so +distinguished during the Great Rebellion in Ireland, and who was +fourth son of the first Baronet, was raised to the peerage in +Ireland as Baron Ferrard in 1715; he died, and the peerage became +extinct, in 1728. + +See Wotton's Baronetage, i. 425; Collectanea Topographica et +Genealogica, vii. p. 213; and for a notice of Chidiock Tichborne, +engaged in the Babington Conspiracy in 1586, see Disraeli's +Curiosities of Literature, 1st series, vol. iii. p. 95. + +ARMS.--_Vair, a chief or_, borne by Sir John Tichborne in the sixth +of Henry IV. + +Present Representative, Sir Alfred Joseph, Doughty Tichborne, 11th +Baronet. + + + + +OGLANDER OF NUNWELL, BARONET 1665. + + +[Illustration] Richard de Okelandre, the patriarch of his family, is +supposed to have been of Norman origin, and was Lord of Nunwell, in +the Isle of Wight, the present seat, from the time of King John. +Seventeenth in direct male descent from Richard, was Sir John +Oglander, Knt., a great sufferer, both in person and fortune, for +his zealous attachment to his sovereign King Charles I. He died +before the Restoration, but his loyalty was recognised by the +baronetcy conferred upon his son, a worthy successor to his father, +by Charles II. in 1665. + +See Hutchins's History of Dorset, i, p. 450, for an account of the +family under "Parnham," which came from the heiress of Strode; see +also Wotton's Baronetage, iii. 492. + +ARMS.--_Azure, a stork between three cross-crosslets fitchée or_. + +Present Representative, Sir Henry Oglander, 7th Baronet. + + + + +WALLOP OF WALLOP, EARL OF PORTSMOUTH 1743. + + +[Illustration] The true and original name of this family is Barton, +Peter de Barton, lord of West Barton, in this county, having married +Alice, only daughter and heiress of Sir Robert de Wallop, who died +in the eleventh year of Edward I. His great-grandson Richard assumed +the name of Wallop, and was returned as one of the knights of the +shire for the county of Southampton in the second of Edward III. +Over and Nether Wallop, so called, says Camden, "from Well-hop, that +is, a pretty well in the side of a hill," continued till the reign +of Henry V. the principal seat, when Margaret de Valoynes brought +into the family the manor of Farley, afterwards called +Farley-Wallop, which has since been the usual residence of the +Wallops; of whom Sir John was greatly distinguished in the reign of +Henry VII., and Sir Henry in Ireland in that of Elizabeth. Robert +Wallop, grandson of Sir Henry, unfortunately taking part against his +sovereign Charles I., and sitting as one of his judges, though he +did not sign the fatal warrant, fell into universal contempt after +the Restoration, and died in the Tower of London in 1667. He was +great-grandfaher of the first peer. + +See Brydges's Collins, iv. p. 291. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a bend wavy sable_. This coat was borne by Monsieur +John de Barton in the reign of Richard II. (Roll.) + +Present Representative, Isaac Newton Wallop, 5th Earl of +Portsmouth. + + + + +COPE OF BRAMSHILL, BARONET 1611. + + +[Illustration] The Copes appear in the character of civil servants +of the crown in the reign of Richard II. and Henry IV., and were +rewarded with large grants of land in the counties of Northampton +and Buckingham. Hardwick and Hanwell, both in the neighbourhood of +Banbury, were subsequently the family seats, and are noticed by +Leland, who calls the latter "a very pleasant and gallant house." +Towards the end of the seventeenth century the family appear to have +been established at Bramshill, traditionally said to have been built +for Henry Prince of Wales, eldest son of King James I. + +See Wotton's Baronetage i. p. 112; and Beesley's History of Banbury, +p. 190. + +ARMS.--_Argent, on a chevron azure between three roses gules, +slipped and leaved vert, as many fleurs-de-lis or_. The original +coat was, _Argent, a boar passant sable_, which William Cope, +Cofferer to Henry VII., abandoned for _Argent, three coffers sable_, +allusive to his office; but he afterwards had assigned to him the +present arms alluding to the royal badges of the crown. + +Present Representative, the Rev. Sir William Henry Cope, 12th +Baronet. + + + + +STAFFORDSHIRE. + + ++Knightly.+ + + +OKEOVER OF OKEOVER. + + +[Illustration] Ormus, at the period of the Norman Conquest was Lord +of Okeover by grant of Nigel, Abbot of Burton. He is the direct +ancestor of this venerable house, which has been ever since in +possession of the ancient seat which gives name to the family, and +which lies on the very edge of the county, near Ashbourne in +Derbyshire. + +See Wood's MSS. 8594, vol. 6, for a very curious and valuable +cartulary of the Okeovers, and Dodsworth's MSS. 5037, vol. 96, fol. +17 (both in the Bodleian Library); see also Erdeswick's +Staffordshire, Harwood's ed. 1844, p. 487; Shaw's Staffordshire, +vol. i. p. 26; and the Topographer, ii. p. 313. + +ARMS.--_Ermine, on a chief gules three bezants_. This coat was borne +by Monsieur Philip de Oker, in the reign of Richard II. (Roll). + +Present Representative, Haughton Charles Okeover, Esq. + + + + +BAGOT OF BAGOT'S BROMLEY; BARON BAGOT 1780; BARONET 1627. + + +[Illustration] A most ancient family, also coeval with the Conquest, +descended from Bagod, who at the time of the compilation of Domesday +Book held Bromley of Robert de Stadford or Stafford. In the reign of +Richard I. the male line of the Staffords failing, Milicent Stafford +married Henry Bagot of this family, and their issue, assuming their +mother's name, were progenitors of the illustrious house of +Stafford, Dukes of Buckingham. Blythfield in this county, which came +from an heiress of that name, has been the seat of the Bagots from +the thirteenth century. + +Younger Branches. Chester of Chicheley Hall, co. Bucks, and Bagot of +Pype Hayes, co. Warwick, descended from the second and third sons of +Sir Walter W. Bagot, father of the first Lord Bagot. + +See Bagot Memorials, privately printed, 4to. 1824; Wotton's +Baronetage, ii. 47; and Erdeswick, p. 262. + +ARMS.--_Ermine, two chevrons azure_. A former coat was, _Argent, a +chevron gules between three martlets sable_, which was used from the +reign of Edward III. to that of Henry VIII. (Rolls.) The present +coat is of still greater antiquity. + +Present Representative, William Bagot, 3rd Baron Bagot. + + + + +GIFFORD OF CHILLINGTON. + + +[Illustration] A noble Norman family, which is traced to the +Conquest, and of which there were in Leland's time four "notable +houses" remaining in England, in the counties of Devon, Southampton, +Stafford, and Buckingham. All with the exception of the third have +been long extinct. The Giffords have been seated in Staffordshire +since the reign of Henry II., when Peter Gifford, by the gift of +Peter Corbesone, became Lord of the Manor of Chillington, ever since +their principal residence. He is called in the Deed of Gift, "_Nepos +uxoris meae_." This family had the honour to be concerned in the +preservation of King Charles II. after the Battle of Worcester. + +See Erdeswick, p. 158, corrected from Huntbach's MSS. penes Lord +Wrottesley. + +ARMS.--_Azure, three stirrups with leathers or_. The more ancient +coat, which was used by the elder line of the Giffords, who were +Earls of Buckingham, was, _Gules, three lions passant argent_. + +Present Representative, Thomas William Gifford, Esq. + + + + +WROTTESLEY OF WROTTESLEY: BARON WROTTESLEY 1838; BARONET 1542. + +[Illustration] "Sumetime," writes Leland, "the Wrotesleys were men +of more land than they bee now, and greate with the Earles of +Warwick; yet he hath 200 markes of londe; at Wrotesley is a fayre +house and a parker" and here, it may be added, the family are +supposed to have been seated from the period of the Conquest. The +pedigree however is not proved beyond William de Wrottesley, lord of +that manor before the reign of Henry III., father of Sir Hugh, who, +joining the insurgent Barons in the reign of Henry III., forfeited +his estate, redeemed under the dictum de Kenelworth for 60 marcs. +His great-grandson Sir Hugh Wrottesley, one of the "Founders" of the +Order of the Garter, who died in 1380-1, is the direct ancestor of +the present lord. + +See Leland's Itinerary in Coll. Topog. et Genealogica, iii. 340; +Erdeswick, p. 359; Wotton's Baronetage, ii. 345; and Shaw's +Staffordshire, ii. 205, kindly corrected by the Hon. Charles +Wrottesley. + +ARMS.--_Or, three piles sable and a quarter ermine_. The more +ancient coat, as appears by seals to original deeds of the years +1298 and 1333-37, preserved at Wrottesley, was _fretty_. Sir Hugh de +Wrottesleye bore the present arms in 1349 and 1381. But he is also +stated, on the authority of the Roll of the reign of Richard II., to +have used, _Or, a bend engrailed gules_. Sir William Wrottesley, +father of Sir Hugh, K.G., married Joan, daughter of Roger Basset, +which will account for the present arms, which belonged to the +Bassets of Warwickshire. + +Present Representative, John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley. + + + + +BROUGHTON OF BROUGHTON, BARONET 1660. + + +[Illustration] "The Broughtons descend in the male line from one of +the most ancient families of the county of Chester, the Vernons of +Shipbrook. Richard de Vernon, a younger brother of this house, was +father of Adam de Napton, in the county of Warwick, whose issue +assumed their local name from Broughton in Staffordshire. The +pedigrees vary as to the exact point of connection, and, confused +and contradictory as the Shipbrooke pedigree is at this period, +there can be little hope of its being positively identified; but the +general fact of descent is allowed by all authorities." + +See Ormerod's Cheshire, iii. 269; Wotton's Baronetage, iii. 259; and +Erdeswick, p. 111. + +ARMS.--_Argent, two bars gules, on a canton of the last a cross of +the first_. In the reign of Richard II. Monsieur Thomas de Broughton +bore, _Azure, a cross engrailed argent_. (Roll.) + +Present Representative, Sir Henry Delves Broughton, ninth +Baronet. + + + + +MAINWARING OF WHITMORE. + + +[Illustration] The first recorded ancestor of this great and +widely-spreading family is Ranulphus, a Norman, Lord of Warmincham, +in Cheshire, at the period of the Domesday Survey; where his +descendants remained seated for two centuries. In the reign of Henry +III. they were of Over-Peover in the same county, and remained there +until the principal male line became extinct in the person of Sir +Henry Mainwaring of Peover, Baronet, who died unmarried in 1797. +Whitmore was inherited by Edward ninth son of Sir John Mainwaring of +Peover, on his marriage with the heiress of Humphry de Boghey or +Bohun of Whitmore. This was in the year 1519. The senior line of the +Mainwarings were on the loyal side during the great Rebellion, and +in 1745 opposed to the pretensions of the house of Stuart. But the +Whitmore branch favoured the Parliamentary interest. + +Younger Branch. Mainwaring of Oteley Park, in the parish of +Ellesmere in Shropshire, sprung from Randle, third son of Edward +Mainwaring of Whitmore. + +Extinct Branches. Maynwaring of Ightfield, co. Salop; extinct 1712. +(See Blakeway, Sheriffs of Shropshire, pp. 83, 133.) Mainwaring of +Kermincham, co. Chester, extinct 1783. (See Ormerod's Cheshire, vol. +iii. p. 46.) And Mainwaring of Bromborough, in the same county, +extinct 1827. + +See Erdeswick's Staffordshire, p. 78; and Ormerod, vol. i. p. 368; +vol. ii. p. 239; vol. iii. p. 447. + +ARMS.--_Argent, two bars gules_. + +Present Representative, Rowland Mainwaring, Esq. + + + + +ARDEN OF LONGCROFT. + + +[Illustration] No family in England can claim a more noble origin +than the house of Arden, descended in the male line from the Saxon +Earls of Warwick before the Conquest. The name of Arden was assumed +from the Woodlands of Arden, in the North of Warwickshire, by Siward +de Arden, in the reign of Henry I.; which Siward was grandson of +Alwin the Sheriff in the reign of Edward the Confessor. The elder +line of the family was long seated at Park-Hall in Warwickshire, and +became extinct in 1643. A younger branch descended from Simon second +son of Thomas Arden, of Park-Hall, Esq. settled at Longcroft, in the +parish of Yoxall, in the reign of Elizabeth, and now represents this +most ancient and noble family. + +See Dugdale's Warwickshire, 2nd edit. vol. ii. p. 295; Shaw's +Staffordshire, vol. i. p. 102; and Erdeswick, p. 279; also a paper +by George Ormerod, Esq. LL.D., the historian of Cheshire, "On the +connection of Arden, or Arderne, of Cheshire, with the Ardens of +Warwickshire," in "The Topographer and Genealogist," vol. i. 1846. + +ARMS.--_Ermine, a fess checky or and azure_, and so borne by +Sir----de Arderne in the reign of Edward II. (Roll.) + +Present Representative, George Pincard Arden, Esq. + + + + +MEYNELL OF HORE-CROSS. + + +[Illustration] An ancient Derbyshire family, which can be traced to +the reign of Henry II. One of their most ancient possessions was +Langley-Meynell, in that county, an estate which remained in the +family till the end of the fourteenth century. A younger son at this +period was seated at Yeaveley, his grandson at Willington, both in +Derbyshire. Bradley, in the same county, became in the seventeenh +century, by purchase, the residence of a still younger branch, +descended from Francis, fourth son of Godfrey Meynell of Willington: +from him descends the present family, who were of Hore-Cross the +latter part of the last century. Temple-Newsom, in Yorkshire, was +inherited from the Ingrams by the present Mr. Meynell on the death +of the Marchioness of Hertford in 1835. + +Younger Branch. Meynell of Langley-Meynell, Derbyshire, descended +from Francis, second son of Francis Meynell, of Willington, who died +in 1616. + +See Leland's Itinerary, iv. fo. 17; and Topographer and Genealogist, +i. 439, and 494. + +ARMS.--_Vaire argent and sable_. This was the coat of De-la-Ward, of +which house Hugh de Meynell married the heiress in the reign of +Edward III. The proper coat of Meynell was, _Paly of six argent and +gules, on a bend azure three horseshoes or_. + +Present Representative, Hugo Charles Meynell-Ingram, Esq. + + + + ++Gentle.+ + + +WOLSELEY OF WOLSELEY, BARONET 1628. + + +[Illustration] "The most ancient among all the very ancient families +in this county," writes Mr. Harwood in his notes to Erdeswick's +Staffordshire. Siward, mentioned as Lord of Wlselei in a deed +without date, is the first in the pedigree of this venerable house, +who are said to have been resident at Wolseley even before the +Norman Conquest, and it has ever since remained their seat and +residence. + +Younger Branch. Wolseley of Mount Wolseley, in the county of Carlow, +Baronet of Ireland (1744), descended from the third son of the +second Baronet. + +See Erdeswick, p. 203; Wotton's Baronetage, ii. 133. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a talbot passant gules_. + +Present Representative, Sir Charles Michael Wolseley, ninth +Baronet. + + + + +COTES OF COTES. + + +[Illustration] Descended from Richard de Cotes, who was probably son +of Thomas de Cotes, living in 1157, when the Black Book of the +Exchequer was compiled. About the reign of Henry VI. the family +removed to Woodcote, in Shropshire, which has since continued the +principal seat, though the more ancient manor of Cotes or "Kothes," +on the banks of the Sow, has ever remained the property of this +ancient house. + +See Blakeway's Sheriffs of Shropshire, p. 103; and Erdeswick, p. +122. + +ARMS.--_Quarterly ermine and paly of six or and gules_. According to +the Visitation of Shropshire in 1623, the ermine was borne in the +third and fourth quarter. Erdeswick observes, "It would seem that +the Cotes's should derive themselves from the Knightleys, or else +they do the Knightleys wrong by usurping their armoury." It may be +remarked that Robert, third in descent from the first Robert de +Cotes, married a daughter of Richard de Knightley, and from hence +perhaps the arms. + +Present Representative, John Cotes, Esq. + + + + +CONGREVE OF CONGREVE. + + +[Illustration] The name, like those of most ancient families, is +local, derived from Congreve, in this county, where the ancestors of +this house were seated soon after the Conquest. + +In the reign of Edward II. William Congreve removed to the adjoining +village of Stretton, having married the heiress of Campion of that +place. Stretton was sold towards the end of the eighteenth century, +but Congreve still continues the inheritance of its ancient lords. + +Younger Branch. Congreve of Walton, Baronet 1812. + +See Erdeswick, p. 167. + +ARMS.--_Sable, a chevron between three battleaxes argent_. This is, +says Erdeswick, the coat of Campion. + +Present Representative, William Walter Congreve, Esq. + + + + +SNEYD OF KEEL. + + +[Illustration] "The noble race of Sneyds, of great worship and +account,"* appear to be denominated from Snead, a hamlet in the +parish of Tunstall, in this county, where they were seated as early +as the reign of Henry III. By marriage with the heiress of Tunstall +they had other lands in that parish, and for two descents were +called Snead alias Tunstall. Bradwell, the former seat of this +family, was purchased in the reign of Henry IV. The fine old house +at Keel, lately taken down and now rebuilt, was erected by Ralph +Sneyd, Esq. in 1581. During the Usurpation, the Sneyds being on the +loyal side, Keel house narrowly escaped destruction, and many of the +ancient evidences were plundered and lost at that time. + +Younger Branches. Sneyd of Ashcombe, and of Loxley in this county, +descended from the second son of William Sneyd, of Keel, who died in +1694: and the Sneyds of Ireland, descended from Wettenhall, +Archdeacon of Kilmore, younger brother of the ancestor of the +preceding branches. + +See Erdeswick, pp. 20, 25; Leland's Itinerary in Coll. Topog. et +Genealog. iii. 342; Gent. Mag. vol. lxxi. p. 28; and Ward's History +of the Borough of Stoke-upon-Trent. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a scythe, the blade in chief, the sned and handle in +bend sinister sable, on the fess point a fleur-de-lis of the +second_. This fleur-de-lis is said to have been assumed by Richard +de Tunstall, alias Sneyd, after the battle of Poictiers. + +Present Representative, Ralph Sneyd, Esq. + + * King's Vale Royal, b. ii. p. 77, who would derive them from + Cheshire. + + + + +WHITGREAVE OF MOSELEY. + + +[Illustration] In the reign of Henry III., Robert Whitgreave, the +ancestor of this family, was seated at Burton near Stafford. +Bridgeford, in the vicinity of Whitgreave, from whence the name is +derived, and early in the seventeenth century Moseley, successively +became the residence of the Whitgreaves, and at the latter place +Thomas Whitgreave, Esq. had the honour to shelter his sovereign +Charles II. after the battle of Worcester. + +See Erdeswick, pp. 137, 185, 348. + +ARMS.--_Azure, on a cross quarterly pierced or four chevrons gules_. +This coat, founded on the arms of Stafford, was granted by Humphry +Earl of Stafford to Robert Whitgrave in the 20th of Henry VI. See +the grant in Camden's Remains, ed. 1657, p. 221. An augmentation has +been lately added, _On a chief argent, a rose gules within a wreath +of oak proper_. + +Present Representative, George Thomas Whitgreave, Esq. + + + + +LANE OF KING'S BROMLEY. + + +[Illustration] The ancient seat of this family was at Bentley in +this county, of which Richard Lane was possessed in the sixth of +Henry VI. The Lanes can be traced to Adam de Lone de Hampton, +grandfather of Richard de le Lone de Hampton, in the ninth of Edward +II. (1315). The three last Lanes of Bentley each lessened the +estate, mainly from their devotion to the ill-fated house of Stuart; +and the fourth, John Lane, sold Bentley in 1748. This family, even +more than the Giffords and Whitgreaves, can lay claim to be +remembered for its loyalty to Charles II. after his flight from +Worcester. The celebrated Jane Lane was the daughter of the then +head of the house, and rode behind the King from Bentley to Bristol. +King's Bromley was inherited from the Newtons about the end of the +last century. + +See Erdeswick, pp. 235, 410; Shaw's Staffordshire, vol. ii. p. 97; +Gent. Mag. for 1822, vol. i. pp. 194, 415, 482. + +ARMS.--_Per fesse or and azure, a chevron gules between three +mullets counter-changed, on a canton of the third the Royal lions of +England_, being an augmentation granted by Charles II. + +Present Representative, John Newton Lane, Esq. + + + + +SUFFOLK. + + ++Knightly.+ + + +BARNARDISTON OF THE RYES. + + +[Illustration] A very remote but the only remaining branch of what +was in former ages the most important family in Suffolk, descended +from Geoffry de Barnardiston, of Barnardiston in this county, who +was living in the reign of Edward I., and who by his marriage with +the daughter and coheir of Newmarch became possessed of the +adjoining manor of Kedington or Ketton, which continued the seat and +residence of the Barnardistons, created Baronet in 1663, until the +death of Sir John the sixth Baronet of Ketton, in 1745. The present +family descended from Thomas Barnardiston, a merchant in London, who +died in 1681, fifth son of Sir Thomas of Ketton, Knight, and Mary, +daughter of Sir Richard Knightley. Besides the elder and principal +line of Ketton, other branches were of Brightwell in this county, +(created Baronets in 1663, extinct in 1721,) and of Northill, co. +Bedford, extinct in 1778. + +See Wotton's Baronetage, iii. 396; and Davy's Suffolk Collections in +the British Museum, Add. MSS. 19,116, p. 537, for long and +interesting accounts of this remarkable family. + +ARMS.--_Azure, a fess dancettée ermine between six cross-crosslets +argent_. + +Present Representative, Nathaniel Clarke Barnardiston. Esq. + + + + +JENNEY OF BREDFIELD. + + +[Illustration] This ancient family is supposed to be of French +extraction, and the name to be derived from Guisnes near Calais. The +first in the pedigree is Edmund Jenny, of Knoddishall, in this +county; grandfather of John Jenney, of the same place, who died in +1460; who was father of Sir William, one of the Judges of the King's +Bench in 1477. Edmund, second son of Sir Robert Jenney, of +Knoddishall, who died in 1660, married Dorothy, daughter and +coheiress of Robert Marryatt, of Bredfield, from whom the present +family descend. + +See Davy's Suffolk Collections, Add. MSS. 19,137, p. 181. + +ARMS.--_Ermine, a bend gules cotised or_. + +Present Representative, William Jenney, Esq. + + + + +BROOKE OF UFFORD. + + +[Illustration] Sir Thomas Brooke, Knight, Lord Cobham in right of +his wife, Joan, daughter and heir of Sir Reginald Braybrooke, +Knight, was sixth in descent from William de la Brooke, owner of the +manor of Brooke, in the county of Somerset, who died in the +fifteenth of Henry III. (1231). Sir Thomas Brooke died in the +seventeenth of Henry VI. From his eldest son descended the Barons +Cobham; from Reginald the second son sprung the present family. He +was seated at Aspel, in Suffolk, and here his descendants continued +for nine generations. Ufford came from the heiress of Thomson in +1761. + +See Davy's Suffolk Collections, Add. MSS. 19,120, vol. xliv.; and +Gent. Mag. for March 1841, p. 306, for an account of the restoration +of the Brooke monuments at Cobham. + +ARMS.--_Gules, on a chervon argent a lion rampant sable_. + +Present Representative, Francis Capper Brooke, Esq. + + + + +HERVEY OF ICKWORTH, MARQUESS OF BRISTOL 1826; EARL 1714; BARON 1703. + + +[Illustration] Descended from Thomas Hervey, who died before 1470, +having married Jane, daughter and sole heir of Henry Drury, of +Ickworth. There is some uncertainty as to who this Thomas Hervey +was; the peerages indeed assume that he was younger brother of Sir +George Hervey, of Thurleigh, in Bedfordshire; Mr. Gages however has +proved that this could not have been the case, but the Rev. Lord +Arthur Hervey in his interesting Memoir on Ickworth and the Hervey +family, has adduced several reasons by which it would seem that +Thomas Hervey was a younger son of John Hervey, senior, of +Thurleigh, and the coheiress of Niernuyt, and uncle of Sir George, +the last of the legitimate elder line of that knightly family. + +Younger Branch. Bathurst Hervey, of Clarendon, Wiltshire, Baronet +1818, descended from the eighth son of the first Earl of Bristol. + +See Gage's Thingoe, p. 286; Brydges's Collins, iv. p. 139; Davy's +Suffolk Collections, Add. MSS. 19,135, vol. lix. p. 160; the Rev. +Lord Arthur Hervey's papers on Ickworth and the Family of Hervey, +4to. Lowestoft, 1858; and Proceedings of the Suffolk Archaeological +Society, vol. ii. No. 7. + +ARMS.--_Gules, on a bend argent three trefoils slipped vert_, and so +borne by John Hervey, Esq., as appears by "The Proceedings in the +Grey and Hastings Controversy" in the Court of Chivalry in the year +1407. See the Proceedings, privately printed by Lord Hastings in +1841, p. 27. The arms of Hervey appear to have been founded on the +coat of Foliot, _Gules, a bend argent_. + +Present Representative, Frederick William John Hervey, 3rd Marquess +of Bristol. + + + + ++Gentle.+ + + +ROUS OF DENNINGTON AND HENHAM, EARL OF STRADBROKE 1821; BARON 1796; +BARONET 1660. + + +[Illustration] "All the Roucis that be in Southfolk cum oute of the +house of Rouse of Dennington," writes Leland in his Itinerary, vol. +vi. fol. 13. That estate appears to have come into the family by the +marriage of Peter Rouse with an heiress of Hobart in the reign of +Edward III., and to have been increased afterwards by matches with +the heiress of le-Watre and Phillips, the last representing one of +the co-heiresses of Erpingham. Henham, the present residence, was +purchased in 1545 by Sir Anthony Rous, son of Sir William Rous of +Dennington. + +See Wotton's Baronetage, iii. p. 159; Brydges's Collins, viii. p. +476; Suckling's History and Antiquities of Suffolk, vol. ii. p. 365; +and Davy's Suffolk Collections, Add. MSS. 19,147, vol. lxxi. p. +192. + +ARMS.--_Sable, a fess dancettée or between three crescents argent_. + +Present Representative, John Edward Cornwallis Rous, 2nd Earl of +Stradbroke. + + + + +HEIGHAM OF HUNSTON. + + +[Illustration] A younger branch of an old Suffolk family, who +derived their name from a hamlet in the parish of Gaseley in this +county. The pedigree is traced to Richard Heigham, who died in 1340; +his grandson Thomas was of Heigham, and died in 1409. The elder line +ended in co-heiresses in 1558. A younger branch was seated at +Barrow, and continued there till 1714, founded by Clement, fourth +son of Thomas Heigham, of Heigham, Esq., who died in 1492. From Sir +Clement, third in descent from the first Clement, the present family +is descended. Hunston was inherited from the heiress of Lurkin in +1701. + +See Gage's History of the Hundred of Thingoe, p. 8; and Davy's +Suffolk Collections, Add. MSS. 19,135, vol. lix. p. 50. + +ARMS.--_Sable, a fess cheeky, or and azure, between three horse's +heads erased argent_. + +Present Representative, John Henry Heigham, Esq. + + + + +BLOIS OF COCKFIELD HALL, BARONET 1686. + + +[Illustration] This family is supposed to derive its name from Blois +in France, and is thought to be of great antiquity in this county; +it is not regularly deduced, however, beyond Thomas Blois, who was +living at Norton in Suffolk in 1470. Third in descent was Richard +Blois of Grundisburgh, which he purchased, and which became for many +years the principal seat of the family. He died in 1557. + +See Wotton's Baronetage, iv. p. 9; and Davy's Suffolk Collections, +Add. MSS. 91,118, vol. xlii. p. 386. + +ARMS.--_Gules, a bend vair between two fleurs-de-lis argent_. +Gwillim makes the field _sable_, and the fleurs-de-lis _or_. + +Present Representative, Sir John Ralph Blois, 8th Baronet. + + + + +SURREY. + + ++Knightly.+ + + +BRAY OF SHERE. + + +[Illustration] The first in the pedigree is Sir Robert Bray, of +Northamptonshire, father of Sir James, who lived about the period of +Richard I. His great-grandson, Thomas, was lord of Thurnby, in the +same county, in the ninth of Edward II. (1316); from him descended +Sir Edward Bray, who died in 1558. Harleston, also in the county of +Northampton, was an ancient seat of the Bray family, which rose into +opulence with the success of Henry VII. after the Battle of +Bosworth, where Sir Reginald Bray, the devoted adherent of the King, +was said to have discovered the crown in a thorn-bush, in memory of +which he afterwards bore for his badge, "a thorn with a crown in the +middle of it." Shere was granted, with many other manors, to Sir +Reginald as a reward for his services. The present family spring +from Reginald, eldest son by the first wife of Sir Edward Bray, son +of John, and nephew of the celebrated Sir Reginald. Edmund Lord Bray +was elder brother of Sir Edward; he had an only son, John Lord Bray, +who died s. p. in 1557. + +Of this family was William Bray, Esq., Treasurer of the Society of +Antiquaries, and joint Historian of Surrey. + +See Leland's Itinerary, viii. 113, a; and Manning and Bray's Surrey, +vol. i. p. 514-523. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a chevron between three eagle's legs sable erased a +la cuisse, their talons gules_. Another coat usually quartered with +the above is, _Vair, three bends gules_. + +Present Representative, Edward Bray, Esq. + + + + +PERCEVAL OF NORK HOUSE, EARL OF EGMONT IN IRELAND 1733; BARON LOVELL +AND HOLLAND 1762; BARON ARDEN 1802. + + +[Illustration] "The House of Yvery," a work privately printed by the +second Earl of Egmont in 1742, professes to give the history of this +family, but the earlier descents cannot with certainty be relied on, +and even the extraction of Richard Perceval, the modern founder of +the present family in the time of James I., from the Somersetshire +Percevals, is according to Brydges, in his Biographical Peerage, not +without some doubts. It appears, however, certain that he was the +son of George Perceval, of Tykenham, in the county of Somerset, by +Elizabeth Bampfylde, and fifth in descent from Richard Perceval, of +Weston-Gordein, in the same county, who died between 1433 and 1439, +the representative of a family who had been seated there from the +reign of Richard I., and who claim to be descended from the House of +Yvery in Normandy. The elder branch of the Percevals continued at +their manor of Weston until the extinction of the male line in the +person of Thomas Perceval, Esq. in 1691. The younger branch, the +ancestors of the present family, were seated in the county of +Cork in Ireland, and in the eighteenth century at Enmore in +Somersetshire, sold after the death of the fifth Earl of Egmont. +Nork House was the seat of Lord Arden, father of the present Earl, +and brother of the third Earl of Egmont. + +See "A Genealogical History of the House of Yvery, &c." 8vo. 1742; +and Collinson's History of Somersetshire, vol. iii. p. 171. + +ARMS.--_Argent, on a chief indented gules three crosses patée of the +first_. This coat appears to have been borne by Sir Roger Perceval +in the reign of Edward I. See his seal engraved in "The House of +Yvery," vol. i. p. 41. + +Present Representative, George James Perceval, sixth Earl of Egmont. + + + + ++Gentle.+ + + +WESTON OF WEST-HORSLEY. + + +[Illustration] Adam de Weston, living in 1205, was the ancestor of +this family, which has been from a very early period connected with +Surrey. In the reign of Edward II., the Westons were of +West-Clandon, and also of Weston in Albury, and of Send and Ockham, +in this county. The last was sold in the latter part of the +seventeenth century, and West-Horsley inherited by the will of +William Nicholas, Esq. in 1749. + +See Manning and Bray's Surrey, vol. iii. p. 41; and Gent. Mag. for +1789, p. 223; for a notice of this family, as well as of the +extinct family of the same name, of Sutton, in this county, see +also Gent. Mag. for 1800, p. 606. + +ARMS.--_Sable, a chevron or between three leopard's heads erased +argent, crowned or_. + +Present Representative, Henry Weston, Esq. + + + + +ONSLOW OF WEST-CLANDON, EARL OF ONSLOW 1801; BARON 1716; BARONET +1660. + + +[Illustration] Although the foundation of the consequence of this +family was laid by Richard Onslow, a celebrated lawyer of the reign +of Elizabeth, yet he was sprung from an old gentle family seated at +Onslow in Shropshire, as far back as the time of Richard I., and +probably much earlier. The first recorded ancestor is John de +Ondeslowe, whose grandson, Warin, was father of "Roger de Ondeslow +juxta Shrewsbury," whose son Thomas was living in the twelfth of +Edward II. 1318. Richard Onslow became Speaker of the House of +Commons, and died in 1571. He was the first of his family connected +with Surrey, by his marriage with Catherine, daughter and heir of +Richard Harding, of Knoll, in this county, in the year 1554. +West-Clandon was purchased in 1641 by Sir Richard Onslow, created a +Baronet in 1660; the ancient family estate of Onslow having been +sold by Edward Onslow in 1617. + +Younger Branches. Onslow of Altham in the county of Lancaster, +Baronet 1797, descended from the next brother of the Right Hon. +Arthur Onslow, Speaker of the House of Commons from 1726 to +1761. Onslow of Staughton, in the county of Huntingdon, descended +from the second son of Sir Richard Onslow, the first Baronet. + +See Brydges's Collins, vol. v. p. 461; Manning and Bray's Surrey, +vol. ii. p. 723; and Blakeway's Sheriffs of Shropshire, p. 90, +corrected by the MSS. of Mr. Joseph Morris. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a fess gules between six Cornish choughs proper_. + +Present Representative, Arthur George Onslow, third Earl of +Onslow. + + + + +SUSSEX. + + ++Knightly.+ + + +ASHBURNHAM OF ASHBURNHAM, EARL OF ASHBURNHAM 1730; BARON 1689. + + +[Illustration] "A family of stupendous antiquity," writes Fuller. +"The most ancient family in these tracts," according to Camden. +"Genealogists have given them a Saxon origin," says Brydges; "but +that is a fact very difficult to be proved, though very commonly +asserted. They do not, I believe, appear in Domesday Book." There +can be no doubt, however, that the Ashburnhams have been seated at +Ashburnham from the reign of Henry II., and probably from a much +earlier period, and are descended from Bertram, Constable of Dover +in the reign of William the Conqueror. By the improvidence of Sir +John Ashburnham, who died in 1620, this ancient patrimony was lost +for a time, but recovered by Frances Holland, the wife of his eldest +son John (the groom of the bed-chamber to Charles I.), who sold her +whole estate, and laid out the money in redeeming Ashburnham. + +Younger Branch. Ashburnham of Bromham in this county, Baronet 1661, +descended from Richard, second son of Thomas Ashburnham, living in +the reign of Henry VI. + +See Brydges's Collins, vol. iv. p. 249; and Wotton's Baronetage, +vol. iii. p. 283. + +ARMS.--_Gules, a fess between six mullets argent_. The earliest seal +remaining of any of the ancestors of this family is, I believe, that +of "Stephen de Esburne," great-grandson of Bertram, the Constable of +Dover: the device is a slip or branch of Ash. His grandson, "Richard +de Hasburnan," bore the Maltravers fret, his mother being daughter +of Sir John Maltravers: the present coat was borne by Sir John de +Aschebornham, in the reign of Edward II. (Seals and Roll of the +reign of Edward II.) + +Present Representative, Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham. + + + + +GORING OF HIGHDEN, BARONET 1627. + + +[Illustration] The name is derived from Goring, in the rape of +Arundel, where the family can be traced to John de Goring, living in +the reign of Edward II. Burton, in this county, was the seat of the +principal and elder line of the family, created Baronets in 1662, +extinct in 1723. Of a younger branch was the celebrated George Lord +Goring 1628, Earl of Norwich 1644, (which titles were extinct on the +death of his third son, but heir, the second Lord, in 1670,) sprung +from the second son of Sir William Gorynge, of Burton, who died in +1553. + +The present family is descended from the second son of Sir Henry +Goring, of Burton, Knight, who died in 1594. Highden was purchased +in 1647. + +Younger Branch. Goring of Wiston, Sussex, descended from the second +marriage of Sir Charles Matthew Goring, of Highden, the fourth +Baronet, and the co-heiress of Fagg. + +See Dallaway's Rape of Arundel, p. 281, who refers to Evidences +relating to the family of Goring, MSS. Coll. Arm. Philpot, F. 119; +Leland's Itin., vol. vi. fol. 17; Cartwright's Rape of Bramber, p. +132; and Wotton's Baronetage, vol. ii. p. 71. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a chevron between three annulets gules_. + +Present Representative, Sir Charles Goring, 8th Baronet. + + + + +PELHAM OF LAUGHTON, EARL OF CHICHESTER 1801; BARON 1672; BARONET +1611. + + +[Illustration] The name is local, from Pelham, in Hertfordshire, the +seat of the ancestors of this family in the time of Edward I., and +probably even before the Conquest. In the 28th of Edward I., Walter +de Pelham had a confirmation grant of lands in Heilsham, Horsey, &c. +in this county. From the reign of Edward III. the Pelhams have been +a most important Sussex family; it was in that reign that Sir John +Pelham assumed the Buckle as his badge, in token of his claim to the +honour of taking John King of France prisoner at the battle of +Poictiers. Laughton belonged to the Pelhams before 1403, but has +been long deserted as the residence of the family. + +See Brydges's Collins, vol. v. p. 488; Horsfield's Lewes; and +Sussex Archaeological Collections, vol. iii. p. 211, for a curious +paper on the arms and badges of the Pelhams. + +ARMS.--_Quarterly,_ 1 _and_ 4_, Azure, three pelicans argent, +vulning themselves proper;_ 2 _and_ 3_, Gules, two belts in pale +argent with buckles and studs or_. + +Present Representative, Henry Thomas Pelham, 3rd Earl of Chichester. + + + + +SHELLEY OF MARESFIELD, BARONET 1611. + + +[Illustration] Although there is no doubt of the antiquity of the +house of Shelley, the accounts of the earlier descents of the family +are very scanty. Originally of the county of Huntingdon, the +Shelleys are said to have removed into this county at a very early +period. But the earliest mention we have in history of any of this +family is of John and Thomas Shelley, who, following the fortunes of +Richard II., were attainted and beheaded in the first year of Henry +IV. The remaining brother, Sir William Shelley, not being connected +with the followers of Richard II., retained his possessions, and was +the ancestor of this family, who in the reign of Henry VI., by a +match with the heiress of Michelgrove, of Michelgrove, in Clapham, +was seated at that place, which continued the residence of the +Shelleys until the year 1800, when it was sold, and Maresfield +became the family seat. + +Younger Branches. Shelley or Castle-Goring, Baronet 1806, +descended from the fourth son of Sir John Shelley, of Michelgrove, +who died in 1526. Shelley of Avington, in the county of Southampton, +and Shelley (called Sidney Foulis) Lord de L'Isle and Dudley 1835, +descended from the second marriage of Sir Bysshe Shelley, of +Castle-Goring, Baronet, and the heiress of Perry, of Penshurst., + +See Wotton's Baronetage, vol. i. p. 39; Cartwright's Topography of +the Rape of Bramber, p. 76; and Dallaway's Rape of Arundel, p. 40. + +ARMS.--_Sable, a fess engrailed between three whelk-shells or_. + +Present Representative, Sir John Villiers Shelley, 7th Baronet. + + + + +WEST OF BUCKHURST, EARL DE LA WARR 1761; BARON 1427. + + +[Illustration] The Wests are remarkable, not so much for the +antiquity of the family as for the early period at which they +attained the honour of the peerage. Sir Thomas West is the first +recorded ancestor; he died in the seventeenth of Edward II., having +married the heiress of Cantilupe, and thus became possessed of lands +in Devonshire, and at Snitterfield in Warwickshire. His grandson, +Thomas, married the heiress of De la Warr, and thus became connected +with Sussex. But the principal property of the Wests in this county +was granted to Thomas West, afterwards Lord la Warr, in the first +year of Henry VII. Few families indeed had broader lands; among +which may be mentioned, Offington, in the parish of Broadwater, +derived from the heiress of Peverel at the end of the fourteenth +century; and Halnaker, in the parish of Boxgrove, both in Sussex; +and Wherwell, in Hampshire; all now alienated. Buckhurst came to the +present Lord by his marriage with the coheiress of Sackville. + +Younger Branch. West of Ruthyn Castle, Denbighshire, descended from +the younger son of John, second Earl De la Warr. + +The Wests of Alscot, in the county of Gloucester, claim to be +descended from Leonard, the younger son of Sir Thomas West, Lord De +la Warr, K.G., who died in the year 1525, although there is nothing +but "family tradition," as is evident by the memorial to the Earl +Marshal of Mr. James West, of Alscot, dated December 12, 1768, to +justify this assumption; a distinct coat, viz. _Argent, a fess +dancette pean_, was granted to Mr. West on this occasion. + +See Brydges's Collins, vol. v. p. i.; Blore's Rutlandshire, p. 100; +Cartwright's Rape of Bramber, p. 38; and Dallaway's Rape of +Chichester, pp. 129, 133. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a fess dancette sable_. The badge of the De-la-Warrs +was a crampet or shape of a sword; assumed by Roger la-Warr, Lord +la-Warr, for having assisted Sir John Pelham in making John King of +France prisoner at the Battle of Poictiers. See Sussex +Archaeological Collections, vol. iii. p. 211. + +Present Representative, George John Sackville West, 5th Earl De la +Warr. + + + + +GAGE OF FIRLE; BARON GAGE 1790; VISCOUNT GAGE IN IRELAND 1720; +BARONET 1622. + + +[Illustration] John, son of John Gage, living in the ninth of Henry +IV., had issue by Joan, heiress of John Sudgrove, of Sudgrove, in +Gloucestershire, Sir John Gage; an adherent of the house of York, +knighted by Edward IV., and who died in 1475. He married Elianor, +second daughter and coheiress of Thomas St.Clere, of Heighton St. +Clere, in Sussex, and acquired by this marriage several manors in +this county, as well as in Surrey, Kent, Buckinghamshire, and +Northamptonshire. The present family, seated at Firle from this +period, descend from his eldest son. From his second son sprung the +Gages of Raunds, in Northamptonshire, sold in 1675. + +Younger Branch. Gage of Hengrave, in Suffolk, Baronet 1622, +descended from Edward, third son of Sir John Gage, of Firle, who +died in 1633. + +See Gage's Hengrave, p. 225; Gage's Hundred of Thingoe, p. 204; +Bridges's History of Northamptonshire, vol. ii. p. 188; Wotton's +Baronetage, vol. i. p. 503, vol. iii. p. 366; Brydges's Collins, +vol. viii. p. 249; and Leland's Itinerary, vol. iv. p. 12. + +ARMS.--_Party per saltier argent and azure, a saltier gules_. + +Present Representative, Henry Hall Gage, 4th Viscount Gage. + + + + ++Gentle.+ + + +BARTTELOT OF STOPHAM. + + +[Illustration] The head of this family, according to Dallaway, may +be considered one of the most ancient proprietors of land residing +upon his estate in this county. The first in the pedigree is Adam de +Bartelott, said to be of Norman origin, father of John, who married +Joan Stopham, coheiress of lands in the manor from whence the name +is derived. He died in 1428, and Stopham has ever since remained the +inheritance of their descendants. + +See the Topographer, vol. iv. p. 346; and Cartwright's edition of +Dallaway's Rape of Arundel, p. 347. + +ARMS.--_Sable, three falconer's sinister gloves pendent argent, +tasseled or_. + +Present Representative, George Barttelot, Esq. + + + + +COURTHOPE OF WYLEIGH. + +[Illustration] From the reign of King Edward I., this family has +been settled at Wadhurst, Lamberhurst, Ticehurst, and the adjoining +parishes on the borders of Sussex and Kent: at Goudhurst, in the +latter county, they held the manors of Bockingfield and the Pillery +from the year 1413 to 1498, and in 1513 Wyleigh, in the parish of +Ticehurst, was acquired by John Courthope in marriage with his wife +Elizabeth, daughter of William Saunders of Wyleigh. From this +marriage sprung three sons, John, George, and Thomas; the issue male +of the eldest has been long extinct; from the second, who had +Wyleigh, is descended the present Representative of the family; and +from the third and youngest, who succeeded to the estate of +"Courthope" in Goudhurst, is descended William Courthope, Esq. +Somerset Herald. + +See Collectanea Topog. et Genealog., vol. ii. pp. 279, 363; and The +Visitation of Sussex, C. 27, in Coll. Arm. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a fess azure between three estoiles sable_. + +Present Representative, George Campion Courthope, Esq. + + + + +WARWICKSHIRE. + + ++Knightly.+ + + +SHIRLEY OF EATINGTON (ELDER BRANCH OF STAUNTON-HAROLD, IN THE COUNTY +OF LEICESTER, EARL FERRERS 1711, BARON FERRERS OF CHARTLEY 1677, +BARONET 1611.) + + +[Illustration] Sasuualo, or Sewallis, whose name, says Dugdale, +"argues him to be of the old English stock," mentioned in Domesday +as mesne Lord of Eatington, under Henry de Ferrers, is the first +recorded ancestor of this, the oldest knightly family in the county +of Warwick. Until the reign of Edward III., Eatington appears to +have continued the principal seat of the Shirleys, whose name was +assumed in the twelfth century from the manor of Shirley, in +Derbyshire, and which, with Ratcliffe-on-Sore, in the county of +Nottingham, and Rakedale and Staunton-Harold, in Leicestershire, +derived from the heiresses of Basset and Staunton, succeeded, during +the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, as the usual residence of +the chiefs of the house. In the sixteenth century, Astwell, in +Northamptonshire, was brought into the family by the heiress of +Lovett; and in 1615, by the marriage of Sir Henry Shirley with the +coheiress of Devereux, a moiety of the possessions of the Earls of +Essex, after the extinction of that title in 1646, centred in Sir +Robert Shirley, father of the first Earl Ferrers; on whose death, in +1717, the family estates were divided, the Derbyshire, +Leicestershire, and Staffordshire estates descending with the +earldom to the issue of his first marriage, and the Warwickshire +property, the original seat of the Shirleys, eventually to the +great-grandfather of the present possessor, the eldest surviving +son of the second marriage of the first Earl Ferrers. + +Elder Branches.* Shirley of Staunton-Harold, in the county of +Leicester, represented by Sewallis Edward, tenth Earl Ferrers 1711; +and Shirley of Shirley, in the county of Derby, represented by the +Rev. Walter Waddington Shirley, Canon of Christ Church, D.D. only +son of the late Bishop of Sodor and Man, and great-grandson of +Walter, younger brother of the fourth, fifth, and sixth Earls +Ferrers. + +Younger Branches (extinct). Shirley, of Wiston, Preston, +West-Grinstead, and Ote-Hall, all in Sussex, and all descended from +the second marriage of Ralph Shirley, Esq., and Elizabeth Blount; +which Ralph died in 1466. All these families are presumed to be +extinct on the death of Sir William Warden Shirley, Baronet, in +1815. + +See Dugdale's Warwickshire, ed. 2, vol. i. p. 621; Nichols's History +of Leicestershire, vol. iii. pt. ii. p. 704-727; Stemmata +Shirleiana, pr. pr. 4to. 1841; and Brydges's Collins, vol. iv. p. +85. + +ARMS.--_Paly of six, or and azure, a quarter ermine_. The more +ancient coat was, _Paly of six, or and sable_, as appears by the +seal of "Sir Sewallis de Ethindon, Knight," with the legend, "Sum +scutum de auro et nigro senis ductibus palatum," engraved in +Dugdale's Warwickshire, and in Upton de Studio Militari. Indeed Sir +Ralph Shirley bore it as late as the reign of Edward II; see +Nicolas's Roll of that date, p. 73. Sir Hugh de Shirley bore the +present coat (Roll of Richard II.): so did his father Sir Thomas, +and his great-grandfather Sir James, as appears by their several +seals engraved in Upton, &c. + +Present Representative, Evelyn Philip Shirley, Esq., late M. P. for +South Warwickshire. + + * The Iretons of Little Ireton, in the county of Derby, extinct in + 1711, were in fact the elder line of the family, sprung from + Henry, eldest son of Fulcher, and elder brother of Sewallis de + Shirley. + + + + +BRACEBRIDGE OF ATHERSTONE. + + +[Illustration] In the time of King John, the venerable family of +Bracebridge, originally of Bracebridge in Lincolnshire, acquired by +marriage in the person of Peter de Bracebridge with Amicia, daughter +of Osbert de Arden and Maud, and granddaughter of Turchill de +Warwick, the manor of Kingsbury in this county, an ancient seat of +the Mercian Kings, and inherited by Turchill, called the last Saxon +Earl of Warwick, with his second wife Leverunia. The descendants of +which Peter and Amicia had their principal seat at Kingsbury till +about the beginning of Queen Elizabeth's reign, when it was sold, +and the Atherstone estate purchased. "Kinisbyri is a fair manor +place," writes Leland, in his Itinerary, "and lordship of 140 li.; +one Bracebridge is lord of it; it is in Warwikshir." At Bracebridge, +on the river Witham, near Lincoln, the original seat of the family, +so called it is supposed from the two bridges which still exist +there, a grant of free warren was obtained in the 29th of Edward I., +which was still retained by Thomas Bracebridge, Esq. who died in +1567. + +The Bracebridges represent the Holtes of Aston, near Birmingham, +and, through that ancient family, the Breretons of Cheshire. + +See Dugdale's Warwickshire, vol. ii. p. 1057-1061; Nichols's +Leicestershire, vol. iii. part ii. p. 1145; for Holte, see Dugdale's +Warwickshire, vol. ii. p. 871, and Davidson's History of the Holtes +of Aston, fol. 1854; for Brereton, see Ormerod's Cheshire, vol. iii. +pt. 31. + +ARMS.--_Vair, argent and sable, a fess gules_. This coat was borne +by Sir John de Brasbruge, de co. Lincoln, in the reign of Edward II. +and again by Monsire de Brasbridge in those of Edward III. and +Richard III. (Rolls). + +Present Representative, Charles Holte Bracebridge, Esq. + + + + +COMPTON OF COMPTON WYNIATE, MARQUESS OF NORTHAMPTON 1812; EARL 1618; +BARON 1572. + + +[Illustration] Although the early part of the pedigree of the +Comptons is not entirely without doubt, we may conclude that the +family was seated at Compton, called "in le Windgate," soon after +the Conquest. Arnulphus de Compton and Osbertus de Compton were +living in the 16th of Henry II., but Philip de Compton is the first +of the name who certainly held the manor of Compton, in the fifth of +John. Here the family continued resident for many ages; but its +importance arose in a great degree from Sir William Compton having +been brought up with Henry Duke of York, afterwards Henry VIII., and +from the marriage of his great-grandson, the first Earl of +Northampton, with the City Heiress of Spencer. + +The Comptons were pre-eminently distinguished for loyalty during the +Civil Wars of the seventeenth century. + +See Dugdale's Warwickshire, vol. i. p. 549; and Brydges's Collins, +vol. iii. p. 223. + +ARMS.--_Sable, a lion of England or between three esquire's helmets +argent_. A former coat, borne by Thomas de Comptone, apparently +about the reign of Edward III., was a chevron charged with three +fleurs-de-lis. This is proved by a silver seal dug up at Compton in +the year 1845; and the same arms are still to be traced on an +ancient mutilated monument of a knight with collar of S.S., supposed +to represent Sir Thomas de Compton, in the church of Compton +Wyniate. The three helmets were afterwards adopted, and appear to +have been the arms of a distinct family, the Comptons of Fenny +Compton in this county; to which Henry VIII. gave the lion as an +augmentation; at the same time, according to the custom of the +period, was added a quartering to the family arms, viz.: _Argent, a +chevron azure, within a border vert bezantee_. + +Present Representative, Charles Douglas Compton, 3rd Marquess of +Northampton. + + + + +CHETWYND OF GRENDON, BARONET 1795. + + +[Illustration] The younger, but, in England, the only remaining +branch of a very ancient family, denominated from Chetwynd, in +Shropshire, and of Baxterly, in this county, in the 37th of Henry +III. Sir William Chetwind was the first of the name seated at +Grendon, in the 39th of Edward III., his mother being daughter and +coheir of Sir Ralph de Grendon; but Ingestre, in Staffordshire, +which came from the heiress of Mutton, was the principal seat of the +Chetwinds, which was eventually carried by an heiress into the +Talbot family (now Earl of Shrewsbury). + +Elder Branch. The Viscounts Chetwynd of Ireland (1717). + +See Dugdale's Warwickshire, vol. ii. p. 1101; Erdeswick's +Staffordshire, ed. 1844, p. 61; Eyton's Shropshire, viii. p. 81; and +Archdall's Lodge, vol. v. p. 148. + +ARMS.--_Azure, a chevron between three mullets or_. In the reign of +Edward II. Sir John Chetwind bore, _Azure, a chevron or_, without +the mullets; the present coat was borne by others of the family in +the reigns of Edward III. and Richard II. (Rolls.) + +Present Representative, Sir George Chetwynd, third Baronet. + + + + +FEILDING OF NEWNHAM PADDOX, EARL OF DENBIGH 1622. + + +[Illustration] The princely extraction of this noble family from the +counts of Hapsburg in Germany is well known; its ancestor, +Galfridus, or Geffrey, came into England in the twelfth year of the +reign of Henry III., and received large possessions from that +monarch. The name is derived from Rin_felden_, in Germany, where, +and at Lauffenburg, were the patrimonial possessions of the house of +Hapsburg. Newnham was in possession of John Fildying in the twelfth +of Henry VI., inherited from his mother Joan, daughter and heir of +William Prudhome. + +See Dugdale's Warwickshire, vol. i. p. 86; Brydges's Collins' vol. +iii. p. 265; and Nichols's Leicestershire, vol. iv. pt. i. p. 273, +for the history of this illustrious family, compiled by Nathaniel +Wanley about the year 1670. + +ARMS.--_Argent, on a fess azure three fusils or_. The present coat +was borne in the reigns of Edward III. and Richard II., as appears +by Seals of those dates. + +Present Representative, Rudolph William Basil Feilding, 8th Earl of +Denbigh. + + + + +STAUNTON OF LONGBRIDGE. + + +[Illustration] This family is stated by Thomas, in his additions to +Dugdale's Warwickshire, to be a branch of the Stauntons of Staunton, +in the county of Nottingham, an ancient house which is traced to the +Conquest, and was lately represented by Sir George Staunton, Baronet +of Ireland 1785, extinct 1859. The first of the line seated in +Warwickshire was Thomas Staunton, in the 39th of Henry VI., 1461. +The parent house, existing in the male line, until the year 1688, at +Staunton, in Nottinghamshire, held their lands by tenure of +_Castle-Guard_, by keeping and defending a tower in the Castle of +Belvoir, to this day called Staunton Tower. There is an ancient +custom also that the chief of the house of Staunton should present +the key of this tower to any of the Royal Family who may honour +Belvoir with their presence. + +Younger Branch. Staunton of Wolverton, in this county, settled there +in the eighteenth of Elizabeth; extinct in the last century. + +See Dugdale's Warwickshire, vol. ii. p. 665; Thoroton's +Nottinghamshire, p. 157; and for the poetical pedigree of this +house, Ib. p. 159; the monuments at p. 164; see also "Memoirs of the +Life and Family of the late Sir G. L. Staunton, Bart." pr. pr. 8vo. +1833. + +ARMS.--_Argent, two chevrons within a border engrailed sable_. +Founded on the coat of Albany Lord of Belvoir, who bore, _Or, two +chevrons and a border gules_. The elder line of Staunton sometimes +omitted the border; see the tombs in the church of Staunton. + +Present Representative, John Staunton, Esq. + + + + +FERRERS OF BADDESLEY-CLINTON. + +[Illustration] The sole remains of what was perhaps during the +middle ages the most powerful Norman family in England. Illustrious +both for the antiquity of race, the former political consequence, +and the splendour of connection of the various branches, of which +the forfeited Earls of Derby, and De Ferrariis, or Ferrers, were the +chiefs. Descended from Henry de Feriers at the time of the Conquest, +who held in chief 210 lordships in fourteen counties of England, +besides the castle and borough of Tutbury, in Staffordshire, the +principal seat of the earldom. + +The Baddesley-Clinton line was founded by Sir Edward Ferrers, (son +of Sir Henry, who was second son of Thomas Ferrers, of Tamworth +Castle, in this county,) by his marriage with Constantia, daughter +and heiress of Nicholas Brome, of Baddesley. He died in 1535. + +After the forfeiture of the Earldom of Derby, in the reign of Henry +III., and the vast possessions attached to it, the Castle of +Chartley, in Staffordshire, inherited from Agnes, daughter and +coheir of Ranulph, Earl of Chester, became the seat of the principal +male line, extinct on the death of William Lord Ferrers of Chartley +in the 28th of Henry VI. The representation of the family thereupon +devolved on the Ferrers's of Tamworth, sprung from the house of +Groby, who were founded by William, younger brother of the last Earl +of Derby: and on the decease of John Ferrers, of Tamworth, Esq. in +1680, the present family of Baddesley-Clinton succeeded as chief of +this illustrious house. + +See Dugdale's Warwickshire, vol. ii. p. 971, for +Baddesley-Clinton, where however will be found no engravings +of the monuments of the Ferrers's, "because," says Dugdale, "so +frugall a person is the present heir of the family, now (1656) +residing here, as that he refusing to contribute anything towards +the charge thereof, they are omitted." For Ferrers of Chartley, and +the Earls of Derby, see Sir O. Mosley's History of Tutbury, 8vo. +1832; and Dugdale's Warwickshire, vol. ii. p. 1089; and for Ferrers +of Tamworth, the same, p. 1135. + +ARMS.--_Gules, seven mascles or, a canton ermine_. This was the coat +of Quinci, Earl of Winchester, from whom the Ferrers of Groby were +descended, the canton being added for difference. The original coat +assigned to the first Earls of Derby, was, _Argent, six horseshoes +sable_; afterwards, _Vair or and gules, within a bordure of +horseshoes_, was used. The Chartley line bore only, _Vair, or and +gules_, which was latterly also borne by Ferrers of Tamworth. The +Quinci coat was used by William de Ferrers at Carlaverock in 1300. +(See the Roll.) + +Present Representative, Marmion Edward Ferrers, Esq. + + + + +MORDAUNT OF WALTON, BARONET 1611. + + +[Illustration] Turvey in Bedfordshire was the principal seat in +England of this noble Norman family, descended from Osbert le +Mordaunt, who came over from Normandy with William the Conqueror, +and received a grant of the lordship of Radwell in that county. In +1529, John Mordaunt, the representative of the family, was summoned +to Parliament by writ as Baron Mordaunt of Turvey. His +great-great-grandson was created Earl of Peterborough in 1628; which +title, together with the elder line of the family, became +extinct on the decease of Charles-Henry Mordaunt, fifth Earl, in +1814. + +The present family descend from Robert, son of William Mordaunt of +Hemsted, in Essex, who was second son of William Mordaunt of Turvey, +living in the 11th of Henry IV., which Robert married Barbara, +daughter of John le Strange, of Massingham-Parva in Norfolk, and of +Walton-D'Eivile, in this county, which since the 32nd year of Henry +VIII., 1549-50, has remained the inheritance of their descendants. + +See Dugdale's Warwickshire, vol. i. p. 577: Parkins's continuation +of Blomefield's Norfolk, vol. iv. p. 643; and that very rare volume +compiled by order of the second Earl of Peterborough, called +"Halstead's Genealogies," fo. 1685, privately printed. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a chevron between three estoiles sable_. + +Present Representative, Sir Charles Mordaunt, 10th. Baronet, M. P. +for South Warwickshire. + + + + +BIDDULPH OF BIRDINGBURY, BARONET 1654. + + +[Illustration] This ancient family, originally of Biddulph, in the +northern parts of Staffordshire, is traced to Ormus, mentioned in +the Domesday Survey. He was, it is said, of Norman descent, and is +supposed to have married the Saxon heiress of Biddulph, from whence +the name was afterwards assumed. The elder line terminated on the +death of' John Biddulph, Esq. of Biddulph and of Burton in Sussex, +in the year 1835. The Birdingbury branch, now representing this +venerable house, was founded by Symon, second son of Richard +Biddulph, of Biddulph, in the time of Henry VIII., whose descendant, +another Symon, purchased Birdingbury in 1687. The family were +eminently loyal during the Civil Wars, when the ancient seat of +Biddulph was destroyed by the Cromwellians about 1643-4. + +Younger Branch. Biddulph of Ledbury, in the county of Hereford, +descended from Anthony, younger brother of the first Baronet. + +See Dugdale's Warwickshire, vol. i. p. 324; Shaw's History of +Staffordshire, vol. i. p. 352; Erdeswick's Staffordshire, ed. 1844, +p. 8; Ward's History of the Borough of Stoke-upon-Trent, p. 277; and +Wotton's Baronetage, vol. iii. p. 442. + +ARMS.--_Vert, an eagle displayed argent, armed and langued gules_. +Argent, three soldering-irons sable, is also said to have been borne +by the Biddulphs. + +Present Representative, Sir Theophilus William Biddulph, 7th +Baronet. + + + + +SKIPWITH OF HARBOROUGH, BARONET 1622 (FORMERLY OF NEWBOLD HALL). + + +[Illustration] The name is derived from Skipwith, in the East Riding +of Yorkshire, and was first borne by Patrick, living in the reign of +Henry I., who was second son of Robert de Estotevile, Baron of +Cottingham in the reign of William the Conqueror. In the reign of +Henry III. the Skipwiths removed into Lincolnshire, and were seated +at Beckeby and Ormesby, in that county; a younger son of Sir +William Skipwith, of Ormesby, who died in 1587, was of Prestwould, +in Leicestershire. He was the ancestor of the Skipwiths of Newbold +Hall, created Baronet in 1670, extinct in 1790, and of the present +family, who for five generations were of Virginia, in America, where +the grandfather of the present Baronet was born. + +See Dugdale's Warwickshire, vol. i. p. 84; Nichols's Leicestershire, +vol. iii. pt. i. p. 368; and Wotton's Baronetage, vol. i. p. 536, + +ARMS.--_Argent, three bars pules, in chief a greyhound courant +sable_. + +Present Representative, Sir Peyton Estoteville Skipwith, 10th +Baronet. + + + + ++Gentle.+ + + +SHUCKBURGH OF SHUCKBURGH, BARONET 1660. + + +[Illustration] The antiquity of this family need not be doubted, +although the lineal descent, as Dugdale avouches, is not very plain. +William de Suckeberge is presumed to be the first who assumed the +name, from Shuckborough Superior, in this county; he was living in +the third of John. The pedigree is deduced by Baker, in his History +of Northamptonshire, from John de Shuckburgh, living in the first of +Edward III. In the seventh of Henry V. his great-grandson William is +ranked amongst those knights and esquires of this county who bore +ancient arms from their ancestors. It was to Richard Shuckburgh, +head of the family in 1642, that the remarkable incident happened +which is related by Dugdale. Charles I. having met him hunting +with his hounds a day or two before the battle of Edgehill, "Who is +that," said the King, "hunting so merrily, while I am about to fight +for my crown and dignity?" He was knighted the next day, and proved +his loyalty at the battle of Edge-hill. He died in 1656, and his son +was rewarded with the Baronetcy on the Restoration. + +Younger Branch. Shuckburgh of Downton, Wiltshire, descended from +Charles, fourth son of the first Baronet. + +See Dugdale's Warwickshire, vol. i. p. 309; Baker's +Northamptonshire, vol. i. p. 371; Wotton's Baronetage, vol. iii. p. +76; and Hoare's Modern Wiltshire, vol. iv. p. 34. + +ARMS.--_Sable, a chevron between three mullets pierced argent_. This +coat is evidently founded on the arms of Danvers, the Norman family +under whom the Shuckburghs held: it has been fondly assumed that the +mullets are allusive to the astroites found in the ploughed fields +at Shuckburgh. + +Present Representative, Sir Francis Shuckburgh, 8th Baronet. + + + + +THROCKMORTON OF COUGHTON, BARONET 1642. + + +[Illustration] The name is derived from Throcmorton, in the parish +of Fladbury, in the county of Worcester, where John de Trockemerton, +the supposed ancestor of this family, was living about the year +1200. From this John descended, after many generations, another +"John Throkmerton," who was, according the Leland, "the first setter +up of his name to any worship in Throkmerton village, the which was +at that tyme neither of his inheritance or purchase, but as a +thing taken of the Sete of Wircester in farme, bycause he bore the +name of the lordeship and village. This John was Under-Treasurer of +England about the tyme of Henry V.;" and married Elianor, daughter +and coheir of Guido de la Spine, and thus became possessed of +Coughton, in the parish of Hadley, in this county, which has +continued the principal seat of the family, of whom the most +remarkable was Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, ambassador in France, in +the reign of Queen Elizabeth, who died in 1570. + +Younger Branches (now extinct), were the Throckmortons of Stoughton +and Ellington, in Huntingdonshire, [for the latter see Camden's +Visitation of that county in 1613, printed by the Camden Society in +1849, p. 123;] and the Carews of Bedington, in Surrey, Baronet 1714, +extinct 1764; descended in the male line from Sir Nicholas, younger +son of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, and Anne, daughter of Sir Nicholas +Carew, Knt.; see Wotton's Baronetage, vol. ii. pi 351, and vol. iv. +p. 159; Dugdale's Warwickshire, vol. ii. pp. 749 and 819; Nash's +Worcestershire, vol. i. p. 452; Leland's Itinerary, vol. iv. p. 16; +and for the poetical life of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, see Peck's +Memoirs of Milton. + +ARMS.--_Gules, on a chevron argent three bars gemelles sable_. + +Present Representative, Sir Nicholas William Throckmorton, 9th +Baronet. + + + + +SHELDON OF BRAILES. + + +[Illustration] The descent of this family from the ancient house of +Sheldon, of Sheldon, in this county, is a matter of doubt, but +admitted by Dugdale to be not improbable. It appears to be proved +that the Sheldons are descended from John Sheldon, of Abberton, in +Worcestershire, in the reign of Henry IV. Nash, in his History of +that county, carries the pedigree two descents higher, viz., to +Richard Sheldon of Rowley, in the county of Stafford, whose grandson +John was of the same place in the fourth of Edward IV. The manor of +Beoly, in Worcestershire, was purchased of Richard Neville Lord +Latimer by William Sheldon in the same reign, and continued till the +destruction of the mansion-house by fire in the Civil Wars of the +seventeenth century, the principal seat of the family, who were +connected with Warwickshire by the marriage of William Sheldon, Esq. +with Mary, daughter and coheir of William Willington, of Barcheston, +Esq., in the reign of Henry VIII. It was this William Sheldon who +purchased the manor of Weston, in the parish of Long-Compton, in +this county, and here his son Ralph built "_a very fair house_" in +the reign of Queen Elizabeth; but these estates have both, within +the memory of man, passed from this ancient family, who still +possess considerable properly at Brailes, purchased by William +Sheldon in the first of Edward VI. + +Younger branches of the Sheldons were formerly of Abberton, +Childswicombe, Broadway, and Spechley, in Worcestershire. See +Dugdale's Warwickshire, vol. i. p. 584; and Nash's Worcestershire, +vol. i. pp. 65 and 144. + +ARMS.--_Sable, a fess between three sheldrakes argent_. + +Present Representative, Henry James Sheldon, Esq. + + + + +GREGORY OF STYVECHALL. + + +[Illustration] This family is traced to John Gregory, Lord of the +manors of Freseley and Asfordby, in the county of Leicester, who +married Maud, daughter of Sir Roger Moton, of Peckleton, knight; his +son, Richard Gregory, of the same places, died in the year 1292. +Arthur Gregory, Esquire, the representative of this ancient family, +was seated at Styvechall, within the county of the city of Coventry, +of which his father, Thomas, died seized in the sixteenth of +Elizabeth. + +See Nichols's Leicestershire, vol. iii. pt. i. p. 19; and Dugdale's +Warwickshire, vol. i. p. 202. + +ARMS.--_Or, two bars and in chief a lion passant azure_. + +Present Representative, Arthur Francis Gregory, Esq. + + + + +GREVILLE OF WARWICK CASTLE, EARL BROOKE 1746, AND EARL OF WARWICK +1759; BARON 1620-1. + + +[Illustration] This family was founded by the wool-trade in the +fourteenth century by William Grevel, "+the flower of the wool +merchants of the whole realm of England,+" who died and was buried +at Campden, in Gloucestershire, in 1401. He it was who purchased +Milcote, in this county, long the seat of the elder line of this +family, who, after a succession of crimes, the particulars of which +may be seen in Dugdale's Warwickshire, became extinct in the +reign of James I. Fulke, second son of Sir Edward Greville of +Milcote, who died in the 20th of Henry VIII., having married +Elizabeth, one of the daughters and coheiress of Edward Willoughby, +only son of Robert Willoughby, Lord Brooke, became possessed of +Beauchamp's Court, in the parish of Alcester, inherited from her +grandmother Elizabeth, the eldest of the daughters and coheirs of +the last Lord Beauchamp of Powyke. This Fulke Greville was +grandfather of the more celebrated Sir Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke, +"servant to Queen Elizabeth, Counsellor to King James, and friend to +Sir Philip Sidney," who died in 1628. "The fanatic Brooke," killed +at Lichfield Close, was his cousin and successor, and ancestor of +the present family. The Castle of Warwick was granted to Sir Fulke +Greville by James I. in the second year of his reign. + +Younger Branch. Greville of North Myms Place, in the county of +Hertford, and of Westmeath, in Ireland, descended from Algernon, +second son of Fulke 5th Lord Brooke. + +See Leland's Itinerary, vol. iv. pt. i. fol. 16, vol. vi. fol. 19; +Dugdale's Warwickshire, vol. ii. pp. 706, 766; Brydges's Collins, +vol. iv. p. 330; and Edmondson's Account of the Greville Family, +8vo. 1766. + +ARMS.--_Sable, on a cross engrailed or, five pellets within a border +engrailed of the second_. The present coat, with the addition of a +mullet in the first quarter, was borne by William Grevil, of +Campden, as appears by his brass, still in good preservation; his +son John differenced his arms with ten annulets, in lieu of the five +pellets; both were omitted by the Grevilles of Milcote. + +Present Representative, George Guy Greville, 4th Earl of +Warwick. + + + + +WESTMORLAND. + + ++Knightly.+ + + +LOWTHER OF LOWTHER-CASTLE, EARL OF LONSDALE 1807; BARON 1797; +BARONET 1764. + + +[Illustration] Eminently a knightly family, traced by Brydges to Sir +Gervase de Lowther, living in the reign of Henry III. Other +authorities make Sir Hugh de Lowther, knight of the shire for this +county, in the 28th of Edward I., the first recorded ancestor; his +great-grandson was at Agincourt in 1415. There have been three +principal branches of this family, the first descended from Sir John +Lowther, created a Baronet of Nova Scotia in 1640, who was +grandfather of the first Viscount Lonsdale (1696), extinct on the +death of the third Viscount in 1750. The second family sprung from +Richard, third son of Sir John Lowther; and the third and present +family descended from William, third son of a former Sir John +Lowther, of Lowther, who died in 1637. + +Younger Branch. Lowther of Swillington, in the county of York, +Baronet 1824, descended from John, second son of Sir William +Lowther, who died in 1788. + +See Brydges's Collins, vol. v. p. 695; Burn's Westmorland, vol. i. +p. 428; Whitaker's Leeds, vol. i. p. 281; and Wotton's Baronetage, +vol. ii. p. 302. + +ARMS.--_Or, six annulets sable_, and borne by Monsire Louther, in +the reign of Edward III. (Roll ) + +Present Representative, William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale. + + + + +STRICKLAND OF SIZERGH. + + +[Illustration] Descended from Walter de Stirkland, Knight, so called +from the pasture-ground of the young cattle, called _stirks_ or +steers, in the parish of Morland, in this county; who was living in +the reign of Henry III. A good account of this family, derived from +original evidences, is given by Burn. + +Sizergh, in the parish of Helsington, appears to have belonged to +the Stricklands in the reign of Edward I. Sir Walter de Strickland +had licence to empark there in the ninth of Edward III. During the +civil wars of the seventeenth century the head of this house was +loyal, while Walter, son of Sir William Strickland, of Boynton, +Baronet 1641, was one of Cromwell's pretended House of Peers. The +Stricklands of Boynton are supposed to be a younger branch of the +house of Sizergh. The Stricklands called Standish, of Standish, in +the county of Lancaster, represent the elder line, the present Mr. +Standish being the eldest son of the late Thomas Strickland, of +Sizergh, Esq. + +See Burn's Westmorland, vol. i. p. 87; and Whitaker's Richmondshire, +vol. ii. p. 333. + +ARMS.--_Sable, three escallops within a border engrailed argent_. +The present coat, but without the border, was borne by Walter de +Strykelande, in the reign of Richard II. Another coat, used in the +reign of Edward II. was _Argent, two bars and a quarter gules_. +(Rolls.) The Stricklands of Boynton bear, _Gules, a chevron or +between three crosses patée argent, on a canton ermine a stag's head +erased sable_. + +Present Representative, Walter Strickland, Esq. + + + + +FLEMING OF RYDAL; BARONET 1705. + + +[Illustration] Michael le Fleming, living in the reign of William +the Conqueror, is the ancestor of this ancient family, originally +seated in Cumberland and at Gleston, in Furness, in Lancashire. +Isabel, daughter of Sir John de Lancastre, living in the sixth of +Henry VI., having married Sir Thomas le Fleming, of Coniston, +Knight, seated the Flemings at Rydal, ever since the residence of +the family. + +See Burn's Westmorland, vol. i. p. 150; and Wotton's Baronetage, +vol. iv. p. 105. + +ARMS.--_Gules, fretty argent_. The present coat, called "The arms of +Hoddleston," with a label vert, was borne by John Fleming de +Westmerland in the reign of Edward III. (Roll.) A more ancient coat, +according to Wotton, was a _Fleur-de-lis, within a roundell_. + +Present Representative, Sir Michael le Fleming, 7th Baronet. + + + + ++Gentle.+ + + +WYBERGH OF CLIFTON. + + +[Illustration] In the thirty-eighth year of the reign of Edward +III., William de Wybergh, of Saint Bee's, in Cumberland, became +possessed of the manor of Clifton, in marriage with Elianor, only +daughter of Gilbert D'Engayne, whose family had held it from the +time of Henry II. It has ever since continued the seat and residence +of their descendants. In Cromwell's days the Wyberghs had the honour +to be considered delinquents; and in the succeeding century, in +1715, the head of the house was taken prisoner in consequence of his +allegiance to the house of Hanover. + +Younger Branch. Lawson of Brayton, Baronet 1831. + +See Burn's Westmorland, vol. i. p. 417. + +ARMS.--_Sable, three bars or, in chief two estoiles of the last_. +Sometimes I find two mullets in chief, and one in base, used in +place of the estoiles. + +Present Representative, William Wybergh, Esq. + + + + +WILTSHIRE. + + ++Knightly.+ + + +SEYMOUR OF MAIDEN-BRADLEY; DUKE OF SOMERSET 1546-7, BARONET 1611. + + +[Illustration] This great historical family is of Norman origin, +descended from Roger de Seimor, or Seymour, who lived in the reign +of Henry I. Woundy, Penhow, and Seymour Castle, all in the county of +Monmouth, (the last sold in the reign of Henry VIII.,) were ancient +seats of the family, who we find in the fourteenth century resident +in Somersetshire, after the marriage of Sir Roger Seymour with the +coheiress of Beauchamp of Hache; his grandson married the heiress of +Esturmi or Sturmey of Chadham, in this county, and thus first became +connected with Wiltshire. Maiden-Bradley belonged to Sir Edward +Seymour, the elder, the eldest surviving son of the Protector +Somerset by his first wife, and the ancestor of the present family, +who in 1750, on the death of the seventh Duke of Somerset, succeeded +to the Dukedom, which by special entail went first to the +descendants of the Protector by his second wife, until the +extinction of her male line in that year. + +Younger Branches. Seymour, of Knoyle, in this county, descended from +Francis, next brother of Edward eighth Duke of Somerset, and second +son of Sir Edward Seymour, Baronet, of Maiden-Bradley, who died in +1741. Seymour Marquess of Hertford, (1793,) descended from +Francis, son of Sir Edward Seymour, Bart., who died in 1708, and his +second wife, Letitia, daughter of Francis Popham. + +See Brydges's Collins, vol. i. p. 144, vol. ii. p. 560; Westcote's +Devonshire Pedigrees, p. 479; and Wotton's Baronetage, vol. i. p. +86. + +ARMS.--_Quarterly,_ 1 _and_ 4, _Or, on a pile gules between six +fleurs-de-lis azure three lions of England;_ 2 _and_ 3, _Gules, two +wings conjoined in lure of the first, the points downwards_. The +wings, the original coat, was borne by Sir Roger de Seimor in the +23rd Henry III., as appears by his seal, with the legend "Sigill' +Rogeri de Seimor." (Collins.) The first quarter was granted by Henry +VIII. as an augmentation in consequence of his marrying Jane, +daughter of Sir John Seymour. + +Present Representative, Edward Adolphus Seymour, K.G. 13th Duke of +Somerset. + + + + +ARUNDELL OF WARDOUR, BARON ARUNDELL OF WARDOUR 1605. + + +[Illustration] A Norman family, which for centuries has flourished +in the West of England, traced by Dugdale to "Rogerius Arundel," +mentioned in Domesday. "The most diligent inspection, however," +writes Hoare in his Wiltshire, "of an immense collection of ancient +charters, deeds, and instruments of all kinds, and from the earliest +periods of documentary evidence, among the archives of Wardour +Castle, have not enabled us to trace the filiation of this House +from the said Rogerius." Reinfred de Arundell, who lived at the +end of the reign of Henry III. stands therefore at the head of the +pedigree as given by Hoare. Gilbert in his "Survey of Cornwall," is +inclined to believe the name to be derived from Arundel in Sussex, +and refers to "Yorke's Union of Honour." He says the family came +into Cornwall by a match with the heiress of Trembleth about the +middle of the twelfth century. Lanherne, in that county, was in the +fourteenth century their principal seat. The Castle of Wardour was +purchased by Sir Thomas Arundell from Sir Fulke Greville in 1547. + +Camden, Carew, and Leland unite in recording the hospitality and +honourable demeanour of this family, in all relations of social +life, and state that from the pre-eminence of their ample +possessions they were popularly designated "The Great Arundells." + +See Coll. Topog. et Genealog., vol. iii. p. 389; Leland's Itin., +vol. iii. fol. 2; Gilbert's Cornwall, vol. i. p. 470; Brydges's +Collins, vol. vii. p. 40; and Hoare's Wiltshire, vol. iii. pt. i. p. +175, &c. + +ARMS.--_Sable, six martlets argent_. The martlets, or _hirondelles_, +may be considered an early instance of Canting Heraldry. + +Present Representative, John Francis Arundell, 12th Baron Arundell +of Wardour. + + + + +WYNDHAM OF DINTON. + + +[Illustration] The sole remaining branch in the male line of this +ancient family, said to be of Saxon origin, and descended from +"Ailwardus" of Wymondham, or Wyndham, in Norfolk, living soon after +the Norman Conquest. Felbrigge, in the same county, was for many +ages the seat of the Wyndhams, and afterwards Orchard, in +Somersetshire, which came from the co-heiress of Sydenham. The +present family, who succeeded to the representation on the death of +the fourth and last Earl of Egremont, in 1845, descend from Sir +Wadham, ninth son of Sir John Wyndham, of Orchard and Felbrigge. +They were seated at Norrington, in this county, about 1660. Dinton +was purchased in 1689. + +See Parkins's Continuation of Blomefield's Norfolk, vol. iv. p. 309; +Hoare's Wiltshire, vol. iii. pt. i. 108, and vol. iv. p. 93; +Hutchins's History of Dorset, vol. iii. p. 330; Wotton's Baronetage, +vol. iii. p. 346; and Brydges's Collins, vol. iv. p. 401. + +ARMS.--_Azure, a chevron between three lion's heads erased or_. + +Present Representative, William Wyndham, Esq. + + + + +MALET OF WILBURY, BARONET 1791. + + +[Illustration] A noble Norman family of great antiquity, who were of +Baronial rank immediately after the Conquest, descended from William +Baron Malet, whose grandson, another William Baron Malet, was +expelled by Henry I. The elder branch of the family were long seated +at Enmore, in the county of Somerset; but the ancestors of the +present family, whose baronetcy was conferred for services in the +East Indies, at Corypole and Wolleigh, in the county of Devon, and +at Pointington and St. Audries, in Somersetshire. Wilbury was +purchased in 1803. + +See Hoare's Modern Wiltshire, vol. i. pt. ii. p. 106; Collinson's +History of Somersetshire, vol. i. p. 90; and the Gentleman's +Magazine for 1799, p. 117. + +ARMS.--_Azure, three escallops or_. Robert Malet bore _Argent, three +fermaux sable_, in the reign of Edward I. as appears by Sir R. St. +George's Roll, Harl. MS. 6137. + +Present Representative, Sir Alexander Charles Malet, 2nd +Baronet. + + + + ++Gentle.+ + + +CODRINGTON OF WROUGHTON. + + +[Illustration] The name is local, from Codrington, in the parish of' +Wapley, in the county of Gloucester, where this family was seated as +early as the reign of Henry IV. John Codrington, Esquire, +Standard-bearer to Henry V. in his wars in France, was the direct +ancestor; he died in 1475, at the age, it is said, of 112; his +monument remains at Wapley. + +Codrington remained in the family till 1753, when it passed with an +heiress to the Bamfyldes of Poltimore, and has since been +re-purchased by the present owner of Dodington. Didmarton, also in +Gloucestershire, which came by marriage in 1570, and was afterwards +sold, and latterly Wroughton, in this county, became the family +seats. + +Two younger branches have been seated at Dodington; the first, +descended from Thomas Codrington, brother of John the +Standard-bearer, long settled at Frampton-on-Severn in +Gloucestershire, bought Dodington in the time of Queen Elizabeth and +sold it at the beginning of the eighteenth century to the ancestor +of the present family, Codrington of Dodington, in the county of +Gloucester, Baronet 1721, descended from Christopher, second son of +Robert Codrington, who died in 1618. + +See Atkyns's Gloucestershire, pp. 204 and 391; Rudder's +Gloucestershire, p. 787; and Wotton's Baronetage, vol. iv. p. 201. +Corrected by the information of Mr. R. H. Codrington. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a fess embattled counter-embattled sable, fretty +gules, between three lioncels passant of the third_. The fretty is +sometimes omitted by the present Dodington branch. The ancient coat +was simply, _Argent, a fess between three lioncels passant gules_, +still used by the former family of Dodington, now settled in +Somersetshire. The embattlement and fret was an augmentation granted +to the Standard-bearer in the 19th of Henry VI.; and again two years +before he died he received a further acknowledgement of his support +of the Red Rose in a coat to be borne quarterly, _Vert, on a bend +argent three roses gules, in the sinister quarter a dexter hand +couped of the second_. + +Present Representative, William Wyndham Codrington, Esq. + + + + +THYNNE OF LONGLEATE, MARQUESS OF BATH 1789; VISCOUNT WEYMOUTH 1682; +BARONET 1641. + + +[Illustration] The name is derived from the mansion or inn at +Stretton, in the county of Salop, to which the freehold lands of the +family, with various detached copyholds, were attached. The original +name was Botfield, so called from Botfield in Stretton; the first on +record being William de Bottefeld, sub-forester of Shirlet, in +Shropshire, in 1255. About the time of Edward IV. the elder line of +the family assumed the name of Thynne, otherwise Botfeld, which was +borne for three generations before the time of Sir John Thynne, the +purchaser of Longleate, who died in 1580, the ancestor of the +present family. + +Younger Branch represented by the late Beriah Botfield of +Norton Hall, in the county of Northampton, and Decker Hill, co. +Salop, descended from John, second son of Thomas Bottefeld, of +Bottefeld, living in 1439. + +See the Topographer and Genealogist, vol. iii. p. 468; and the +Stemmata Botevilliana, (privately printed,) second edition, 1858, +4to. + +ARMS.--_Barry of ten or and sable_. The younger branch, who retained +the name of Botfield, bore _Barry of twelve or and sable_. + +Present Representative, John Alexander Thynne, 4th Marquess of +Bath. + + + + +WORCESTERSHIRE. + + ++Knightly.+ + + +ACTON OF WOLVERTON. + + +[Illustration] A junior branch of a very ancient family, said indeed +by Habington, the Worcestershire antiquary, to be of Saxon origin, +and formerly seated at Acton, properly _Oakton_, in the parish of +Ombersley. Elias de Acton, of Ombersley, occurs in the third of +Henry III. He was the ancestor of various branches of the Actons +resident in different parts of this county, at Sutton, Ribbesford, +Elmley-Lovet, Bokelton, and Burton, all of whom now appear to be +extinct, the male line being preserved by the present family, +founded by a younger son of Sir Roger Acton, of Sutton, and the +heiress of Cokesey, about the middle of the seventeenth century. + +See Nash's History of Worcestershire, vol. ii. p. 217; and +Blakeway's Sheriffs of Salop, p. 60. + +ARMS.--_Gules, a fess within a border engrailed ermine_. + +Present Representative, William Joseph Acton, Esq. + + + + +LYTTLETON OF FRANKLEY, BARON LYTTLETON 1794; IRISH BARON 1776; +BARONET 1618. + + +[Illustration] The name is derived from a place in the Vale of +Evesham, where the ancestors of this family in the female line were +seated before the reign of Richard I. Frankley came from an heiress +of that name in the reign of Henry III. In that of Henry V. +Elizabeth, heiress of Sir Thomas Lyttleton, of Frankley, married +Thomas Westcote of Westcote, in the county of Devon, Esquire, "but +the old knight, her father, desirous to perpetuate his name, (and +his purpose failed not,) would not yield consent to the marriage but +upon his son's-in-law assured promise that his son, enjoying his +mother's inheritance, should also take her name, and continue it, +which was justly performed." (Westcote's Devonshire, p. 306.) + +Hagley, the principal seat, was purchased in 1564. Mr. John +Lyttleton, the head of this family, was implicated in Lord Essex's +rising in 1600; but his son, Sir Thomas, was right loyal to the +Crown in 1642. + +See Leland's Itinerary in Coll. Topog. et Genealog., vol. iii. p. +339; Nash's Worcestershire, vol. i. p. 493; Prince's Worthies of +Devon, ed. 1701, p. 583; Wotton's Baronetage, vol. i. p. 306; and +Brydges's Collins, vol. viii. p. 316. See also in the Library of the +Society of Antiquaries a genealogical account of this family, in the +handwriting of Dr. Charles Lyttleton, Bishop of Carlisle, No. 151, +4to. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a chevron between three escallops sable_, borne by +Thomas Lyttelton in the reign of Henry IV. as appears by his seal. + +Present Representative, George William Lyttleton, 4th Lord +Lyttleton. + + + + +TALBOT OF GRAFTON, EARL OF SHREWSBURY 1442; EARL TALBOT 1784; BARON +1733; EARL OF WATERFORD IN IRELAND 1661. + +[Illustration] This great historical family is traced to the +Conquest, Richard Talbot, living at that period, being the first +recorded ancestor. No family in England is more connected with the +history of our country than this noble race; few are more highly +allied. The Marches of Wales appear to be the original seat; +afterwards we find the Talbots in Shropshire, in Staffordshire, +(where their estates were inherited from the Verdons in the time of +the Edwards,) and lastly in Yorkshire, at Sheffield, derived from +the great heiress of Neville Lord Furnival. This was the seat of the +first seven Earls of Shrewsbury, of whom an excellent biographical +account will be found in Hunter's Hallamshire (p. 43). The manor of +Grafton, formerly the estate of the Staffords, was granted by Henry +VII. to Sir Gilbert Talbot in 1486; it afterwards became the seat of +a younger branch, who eventually, on the death of the eighth Earl, +became Earls of Shrewsbury, from whom all the succeeding Earls, to +the decease of Bertram Arthur, 17th Earl of Shrewsbury, in 1856, +were descended. The present and 18th Earl, who is also the 3rd Earl +Talbot, springs from the second marriage of Sir John Talbot of +Albrighton in Shropshire, and of Grafton, in this county, who died +in 1550, and who was grandfather of the 9th and ancestor of the +succeeding Earls. + +Younger Branch. Talbot, Baron Talbot of Malahide in Ireland, (1831,) +descended from Richard, second son of Richard Talbot and Maud +Montgomery, the third ancestor of the House of Shrewsbury, who was +living in 1153. + +See Nash's Worcestershire, vol. i. p. 158; Brydges's Collins, vol. +iii. p. i.; and the Shrewsbury Peerage Claim before the House of +Lords, 1857. + +ARMS.--_Gules, a lion rampant within a border engrailed or_. Borne +by Sir Gilbert Talbot in the reign of Edward II. (Rolls), and said +to be the coat of Rhese ap Griffith, Prince of South Wales. The +ancient arms of Talbot being _Bendy of ten argent and gules_. The +Talbots of Malahide bear the border erminoise instead of or. + +Present Representative, Henry John Chetwynd Talbot, 18th Earl of +Shrewsbury, and third Earl Talbot. + + + + +WINNINGTON OF STANFORD; BARONET 1755. + + +[Illustration] Descended from Paul Winnington, living in 1615, +great-grandson of Robert, who was son of Thomas Winnington of the +Birches, in the county of Chester, living in the reign of Henry VII. +This Thomas represented a younger branch of the Winningtons, of +Winnington, in the same county, descended from Robert, son of +Lidulfus de Croxton, who took the name of Winnington in the reign of +Edward I., on his marriage with Margery, daughter and heiress of +Robert de Winnington, living in the fifty-sixth of Henry III. +Stanford, formerly the seat of the Salways, came to the Winningtons +in the early part of the reign of Charles II., on the marriage of +Sir Francis Wilmington and Elizabeth Salway. + +See Ormerod's Cheshire, vol. ii. p. 112, vol. iii. pp. 74 and +93; Pedigree privately printed by Sir Thomas Phillipps, from an +original MS. _penes_ Sir Thomas Winnington, Bart.; and Nash's +Worcestershire, vol. ii. p. 368. + +ARMS.--_Argent, an inescucheon voided, within an orle of martlets +sable_. + +Present Representative, Sir Thomas Edward Winnington, M.P. for +Bewdley, 4th Baronet. + + + + +NOEL OF BELL-HALL. + + +[Illustration] This is the only remaining branch in the male line of +the very ancient family of Noel; of which the Earls of Gainsborough, +created 1681, extinct 1798, represented a junior line. William, the +ancestor of all the Noels, was living in the reign of Henry I., and +was at that period Lord of Ellenhall, in the county of Stafford. In +the time of Henry II., either he or his son founded the Priory of +Raunton, in the same county. + +From the Noels of Ellenhall descended a branch of the family seated +at Hilcote, in Staffordshire; an estate which remained with them +until recent times; the father of the present representative, who +was son of Walter Noel, of Hilcote, Esq., having removed to +Bell-Hall, in the parish of Bell-Broughton, in this county. + +The Noels of Rutlandshire and Leicestershire were also descended +from the house of Ellenhall. + +See Harwood's edition of Erdeswick's Staffordshire, 1844, p. 132 and +Blore's Rutlandshire. + +ARMS.--_Or, fretty gules, a canton ermine_. + +Present Representative, Charles Noel, Esq. + + + + ++Gentle.+ + + +LECHMERE OF HANLEY; BARONET 1818. + + +[Illustration] A family of great antiquity, said to have migrated +from the Low Countries, and to have received a grant of land called +"Lechmere's Field," in Hanley, from William the Conqueror. The first +in the pedigree is Reginald de Lechm'e de Hanlee, mentioned in a +deed without date. He was father of Adam de Lechmere, who married +Isabella, and was the ancestor of this venerable house, whose +ancient seat at Severn-End, in Hanley, with the exception of a +period of thirty years, has ever since remained in the family. +During the civil wars the Lechmeres were on the side of the +Parliament. A second son, who died without issue in 1727, was raised +to the Peerage in 1721. + +Younger Branches. Lechmere of Steeple-Aston, in the county of +Oxford, and Lechmere of Fanhope, in the county of Hereford; also the +Lechmeres (called Patteshalls) of Allensmore, in the same county; +the two last being descended from Sandys, second son of Sir Nicholas +Lechmere, the Judge, who died in 1701. + +See Nash's Worcestershire, vol. i. p. 563. + +ARMS.--_Gules, a fess and in chief two pelicans or, vulning +themselves proper_. + +Present Representative, Sir Edmund Anthony Harley Lechmere, 3rd +Baronet. + + + + +SEBRIGHT OF BESFORD; BARONET 1626. + + +[Illustration] William Sebright, of Sebright, in Much Beddow, in +Essex, living in the reign of Henry II. is the ancestor of this +ancient family, who removed into this county at a very early period, +apparently after the marriage of Mabel Sebright with Katharine, +daughter and heir of Ralph Cowper, of Blakeshall, in the parish of +Wolverly, in which parish the Sebrights possessed lands in the sixth +year of Edward I. Besford was purchased about the reign of +Elizabeth. + +See Wotton's Baronetage, vol. ii. p. 8; and Nash's Worcestershire, +vol. i. p. 78. + +ARMS.--_Argent, three cinquefoils pierced sable_. + +Present Representative, Sir John Gage Saunders Sebright, 9th +Baronet. + + + + +BOUGHTON OF ROUSE-LENCH; BARONET 1641. + + +[Illustration] This is a Warwickshire family of good antiquity, +traced to Robert de Boreton, grandfather of William, who lived in +the reign of Edward III. In that of Henry VI. by the heiress of +Allesley, the family became possessed of the manor of Lawford, which +remained their residence till the murder of Sir Theodosius Boughton, +Baronet, by his brother-in-law Mr. Donnellan, in 1781. After that +event, a younger branch succeeding to the estate and title, Lawford +Hall was pulled down, and the ninth Baronet, on inheriting the +property of the Rouses of Rouse-Lench, in this county, assumed that +name, and made it his seat and residence. + +See Dugdale's Warwickshire, second ed., vol. i. p. 98; Nichols's +Leicestershire, vol. iv. pt. i. p. 202; and Wotton's Baronetage, +vol. ii. p. 220. + +ARMS.--_Sable, three crescents or_. + +Present Representative, Sir Charles Henry Rouse Boughton, 11th +Baronet. + + + + +YORKSHIRE. + + ++Knightly.+ + + +FITZWILLIAM OF WENTWORTH HOUSE; EARL FITZWILLIAM 1746; BARON of +IRELAND 1620. + + +[Illustration] William FitzGodric, who married Albreda de Lizours, +Lady of Sprotsborough, in this county, and who died before 1195, is +the remote ancestor of this ancient house. Their son, William +FitzWilliam, was seated at Sprotsborough in the reign of Henry II., +and here the family continued till the extinction of the elder line, +which ended in coheiresses in the reign of Henry VIII. + +The rise of this branch of the family must be ascribed to Sir +William Fitzwilliam, Lord Justice, and afterwards Lord Deputy of +Ireland, in the reign of Elizabeth, whose grandson was created Baron +Fitzwilliam in 1620. In the year 1565, Hugh Fitzwilliam collected +whatever evidences could be found touching the descent of the +family. This account, which is in the possession of Earl +Fitzwilliam, is the foundation of most of the histories of this +great family, whose present Yorkshire property came from the +Wentworths through the coheiress of the Marquis of Rockingham in +1744. From this match resulted the Earldom in 1746. + +See Hunter's South Yorkshire, vol. i. p. 331, vol. ii. p. 93; and +Brydges's Collins, vol. iv. p. 374. + +ARMS.--_Lozengy argent and gules_. The present coat, except that +ermine takes the place of argent, was borne by Thomas Fitzwilliam in +the reign of Henry III. In that of Richard II. William Fitzwilliam +bore the arms as at present used. + +Present Representative, William Thomas Spencer +Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, K.G. 6th Earl Fitzwilliam. + + + + +SCROPE OF DANBY. + + +[Illustration] Few families were more important in the fourteenth +and fifteenth centuries than the noble house of Scrope; their +descent is unbroken from the Conquest. Few houses also have been +more distinguished by the number of great offices of honour held +both in Church and State. The Scropes were very early settled in +Yorkshire, Bolton being, from the period of the reign of Edward I., +their principal seat and Barony. The present family is sprung from a +younger son of Henry, 6th Lord Scrope of Bolton; it was established +at Danby about the middle of the seventeenth century, by marriage +with the heiress of Conyers. + +See Whitaker's Richmondshire, vol. i. p. 368; the Scrope and +Grosvenor Roll by Sir Harris Nicolas, 1832, vol. ii. p. 1, and +Poulett-Scrope's History of Castle-Combe; see also Blore's +Rutlandshire, (fol. 1811,) p. 5-8, for full pedigrees of the Scropes +of Bolton and Masham, (Yorkshire,) Cockerington, (Lincolnshire,) +Wormsleigh or Wormsley, (Oxfordshire,) and Castle-Combe, +(Wiltshire,) all now extinct; also the Topographer, vol. iii. p. +181, for Church Notes from Cockerington by Gervase Hollis. Adrian +Scrope the Regicide was of the Wormsley branch. + +ARMS.--_Azure, a bend or_. These arms were confirmed by the Court of +Chivalry in 1390, on the celebrated dispute between the houses of +Scrope and Grosvenor, as to the right of bearing them. In the reign +of Edward III. M. William le Scroope bore the present coat, "en le +point de la bend une lyon rampant de purpure." In that of Richard +II., M. Henry le Skrop differenced his arms with a label of three +points argent, M. Thomas le Scrop at the same period charged his +label with an annulet sable, while other members of the family bore +the label ermine charged with bars gules, and lozenges and mullets +ermine. (Rolls of the dates.) + +Present Representative, Simon Thomas Scrope, Esq. + + + + +GRIMSTON OF GRIMSTON-GARTH. + + +[Illustration] Sylvester de Grimston, "Standard-bearer and +Chamberlain to William I.," of Grimston, in the parish of Garton, is +claimed as the ancestor of this venerable Norman family, who have +ever since the period of the Conquest resided at the place from +whence the name is derived. + +Younger branches of the Grimstons were seated in Norfolk and Essex, +besides the Grimstons of Gorhambury, Earls of Verulam, all now +extinct in the male line. + +See Poulson's Holderness, vol. ii. p. 60; Clutterbuck's +Hertfordshire, vol. i. p. 95; Brydges's Collins, vol. viii. p. 209; +and the Scrope and Grosvenor Roll, vol. ii. p. 292. See also +Boutell's Brasses, p. 129, for inscriptions to Sir Edward Grimston +and his son in Rishangles Church, near Eye, in Suffolk. + +ARMS.--_Argent, on a fess sable three mullets of six points or, +pierced gules_. This coat was borne by Monsieur Gerrard de Grymston +in the reign of Richard II. (Roll.) + +Present Representative, Marmaduke Gerard Grimston, Esq. + + + + +WYVILL OF CONSTABLE-BURTON. + + +[Illustration] This ancient Norman family is said to be descended +from Sir Humphry de Wyvill, who lived at the time of the Conquest, +and whose descendants were seated at Slingsby in this county; the +more modern part of the pedigree begins with Robert Wyvill of Ripon, +whose son was of Little Burton, in the reign of Henry VIII.; from +thence the family migrated to Constable-Burton, about the end of the +reign of James I. During the Civil Wars of the seventeenth century, +the Wyvills were distinguished by their loyalty and consequent +sufferings in the royal cause. An elder line of this family, on whom +the Baronetcy, created in 1611, has descended, is said to be +resident in Maryland, in the United States of America. + +See Leland's Itinerary, vol. iv. pl. i.; Whitaker's Richmondshire, +vol. i. p. 322; and Wotton's Baronetage, vol. i. p. 232. + +ARMS.--_Gules, three chevronels interlaced vaire, and a chief or_. +The arms are founded upon the coat of Fitz Hugh, and may be taken as +a proof of high antiquity. + +Present Representative, Marmaduke Wyvill, Esq. + + + + +TEMPEST OF BROUGHTON. + + +[Illustration] The pedigree of this ancient family is traced to +Roger, whom Dr. Whitaker calls "Progenitor of this the oldest and +most distinguished of the Craven families now surviving. That this +man was a Norman the name will not permit us to doubt; that he was a +dependant of Roger of Poitou is extremely probable; that he was at +all events possessed of Bracewell (in Craven) early in the reign of +Henry I., is absolutely certain." Dr. Whitaker proceeds to remark on +the name of Tempest, which he says, "whatever was its origin, seems +to have been venerated by the family, as in the two next centuries, +when local appellation became almost universal, they never chose to +part with it." The elder line of the Tempests continued at Bracewell +till the time of Charles I., when Richard Tempest, the last +representative, pulled down the family house, and devised the estate +to a distant relation. The house of Broughton descends directly from +Roger, second son of Sir Peirs Tempest, which Roger married in the +seventh of Henry IV. Katharine daughter and heir of Peter Gilliott +of Broughton, which has been ever since the seat of the Tempests-- +"a name never stained with dishonour, but often illustrated with +deeds of arms." + +A younger branch was of Tong in this county, descended from Henry, +youngest son of Sir Richard Tempest of Bracewell, Sheriff of +Yorkshire in the 8th of Henry VIII. created Baronet in 1664, extinct +1819. + +See Whitaker's Craven, pp. 80, 87. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a bend between six storm finches sable_. + +Present Representative, Charles Henry Tempest, Esq. + + + + +HAMERTON OF HELLIFIELD PEEL. + + +[Illustration] One of the most ancient families in the North of +England, according to Dr. Whitaker, descended from Richard de +Hamerton, who lived in the twenty-sixth of Henry II., anno 1170. +From Hamerton, the original seat, the family removed to Hellifield, +acquired by marriage with the heiress of Knolle, in the reign of +Edward III. The Castle, or Peel, was built in the reign of Henry +VII. The Hamertons were engaged in the Northern Rebellion in 1537, +and thereby Sir Stephen Hamerton lost his head, and his family the +estate; which was restored to the male representative of the family, +in the third year of Elizabeth, by a munificent settlement made by +John Redman, who had become possessed of the property, and was +related by marriage to the Hamertons. A younger branch was of +Preston-Jacklyn in this county. + +See Whitaker's Craven, ed. 1812, p. 124; and Dugdale's Visitation of +Yorkshire, 1665-6, printed by the Surtees Society in 1859, p. 354. + +ARMS.--_Argent, three hammers sable_. The Preston-Jacklyn line bore +_Argent, on a chevron between three hammers sable a trefoil slipped +or_. + +Present Representative, James Hamerton, Esq. + + + + +HOTHAM OF SOUTH DALTON; BARON OF IRELAND 1797; BARONET 1621. + + +[Illustration] Peter de Trehouse, who assumed the local name of +Hotham, and was living in the year 1188, is the ancestor of this +family, who were of Scarborough in this county in the reign of +Edward I., a seat which continued the principal residence of the +Hothams for several centuries until it went to decay after the Civil +Wars in the seventeenth century. The siege of Hull in 1643, when Sir +John Hotham was Governor for the Parliament, and with his son was +discovered holding correspondence with the Royalists, for which they +both suffered death, will ever render this family historical. + +See Wotton's Baronetage, vol. i. p. 473; the Scrope and Grosvenor +Roll, vol. ii. p. 306; and Oliver's Beverley, p. 509. + +ARMS.--_Barry of ten argent and azure, on a canton or a raven +proper_. M. John de Hotham is stated in the Roll of arms of the +period of Edward III. to have borne, _Or, a bend sable charged with +three mullets argent voided gules_. + +Present Representative, Beaumont Hotham, 3rd Baron Hotham. + + + + +BOYNTON OF BARMSTON, BARONET 1618. + + +[Illustration] Bartholomew de Bovington, living at the beginning of +the twelfth century, stands at the head of the pedigree; other +authorities mention Sir Ingram de Boynton of Aclam, (in Cleveland,) +who lived in the reign of Henry III., as the first recorded +ancestor. Barmston came from the daughter and coheir of Sir Martyn +del See, about the end of the fifteenth century. + +During the Civil Wars, Sir Matthew Boynton, the head of this family, +was one of the gentlemen chiefly trusted in Yorkshire by the +Parliament. + +See Poulson's History of Holderness, vol. i. p. 196; the Scrope and +Grosvenor Roll, vol. ii. p. 309; and Wotton's Baronetage, vol. i. p. +301. + +ARMS.--_Or, a fess between three crescents gules_. This coat was +borne by Monsieur Thomas de Boynton in the reign of Richard II. +(Roll.) + +Present Representative, Sir Henry Boynton, 10th Baronet. + + + + +WATERTON OF WALTON. + + +[Illustration] Waterton in the county of Lincoln was the original +seat, and from hence the name was derived at an early period. Sir +Robert Waterton, Master of the Horse to Henry IV., and John +Waterton, who served King Henry V. at Agincourt in the same office, +were of this place; the last was succeeded by his brother Sir +Robert, who was of Methley in this county, which he inherited with +his wife Cicely, the daughter and heir of Robert Fleming, of +Woodhall in that parish, and where his tomb is still preserved. This +Sir Robert was Govenor of Pontefract Castle during the time that +Richard II. was confined there. The present family descend from John +Waterton, a younger son of this house, (the male line of the elder +branch being extinct,) who married Catherine de Burgh, heiress of +Walton, in the year 1435, which has since continued the residence of +this ancient knightly lineage. + +See Whitaker's Leeds, vol. i. p. 269; and the Scrope and Grosvenor +Roll, vol. ii. p. 190, for a memoir of Hugh Waterton, Esq.; and the +History of the Isle of Axholme by Archdeacon Stonehouse. + +ARMS.--_Barry of six ermine and gules, over all three crescents +sable_. + +Present Representative, Edmund Waterton, Esq. + + + + +FAIRFAX OF STEETON. + + +[Illustration] "The truly ancient family of Fairfax," as Camden +styles it, is supposed to be of Saxon origin, and to have been +seated at Torcester in Northumberland at the period of the Conquest. +In 1205 (sixth of John,) Richard Fairfax, the first of the family +proved by evidence, was possessed of the lands of Ascham, not far +from the City of York. His grandson William purchased the Manor of +Walton in the West Riding, which continued for near six hundred +years, till the extinction of the elder male line of the family in +the person of Charles Gregory Fairfax, tenth Viscount Fairfax of +Ireland, in 1772, the inheritance of his descendants. From a younger +son of Richard Fairfax, of Walton, Chief Justice of England in the +reign of Henry VI. the present family is descended, as well as +Fairfax of Denton, Baron Fairfax of Cameron in Scotland (1627,) who +represents an elder line,* and who resides in the United States of +America. + +Steeton was the gift of the Chief Justice to Sir Guy Fairfax, his +third son, the founder of this branch of the family, and here he +erected a castle in 1477. + +See Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, ed. 1754, vol. ii. p. 397. + +ARMS.--_Argent, three bars gemelles gules, surmounted by a lion +rampant sable, crowned or_. + +Present Representative, Thomas Fairfax, Esq. + + * He is descended from the _eldest_ son of Sir William Fairfax of + Steeton, who died in 1557. + + + + + + +NORTON OF GRANTLEY, BARON GRANTLEY 1782. + + +[Illustration] The pedigree begins with Egbert Coigniers, whose son +Roger was living in the ninth year of Edward II., and was father of +another Roger, who marrying the heiress of Norton of Norton, their +son took that name; sixth in descent was Richard Norton, who joined +with the Earls of Northumberland and Westmerland in the Rebellion +of the North in 1569, and thereby caused the destruction of almost +every branch of his family. He was attainted in the twelfth of +Elizabeth, and died in exile in Spain. The present family descend +from Sir Fletcher Norton, Speaker of the House of Commons, descended +from Edmund Norton of Clowcroft, third son of old Richard Norton, +which Edmund had taken no part in the Northern Rebellion. + +An elder branch, also descended from the third son of Sir Richard, +and believed to be now extinct, was of Sawley near Ripon, from the +period of Charles I. + +See Brydges's Collins, vol. vii. p. 546; Whitaker's Richmondshire, +vol. ii. p. 182; and "Memorials of the Rebellion of 1569." + +ARMS.--_Azure, a maunch ermine, over all a bend gules_. In the reign +of Edward II., Sir John de Conyers bore, _Azure, a maunch or, and a +hand proper_. Sir Robert de Conyers at the same period reversed the +colours, bearing, _Or, a maunch azure, and a hand proper_. Monsieur +Robert Conyers in the reign of Richard II. bore, _Azure, a maunch or +charged with an annulet sable_. (Rolls of the dates.) + +Present Representative, Fletcher Norton, 3rd Baron Grantley. + + + + +SAVILE OF METHLEY, EARL OF MEXBOROUGH IN IRELAND 1765; AND BARON +POLLINGTON 1753. + + +[Illustration] The family of Savile was one of the most illustrious +in the West Riding of the county of York. Some writers have +fancifully ascribed to it an Italian origin, but it probably had its +rise at Silkston, in this county. It certainly flourished in those +parts in the thirteenth century; and in the middle of the fourteenth +century we find (1358) Margaret Savile Prioress of Kirklees. + +In the reign of Edward III. the family divided itself into two main +branches, in the person of two brothers, John of Tankersley and +Henry of Bradley. The senior branch acquired its greatest renown in +the person of George first Marquess of Halifax, a title which became +extinct in 1700. The junior branch was of Copley and Methley, and, +having produced one of the most learned men of our country, Sir +Henry Savile, the Provost of Eton, is now represented by the Earl of +Mexborough. + +See Dugdale's Baronage, ii. p. 462; Whitaker's Leeds, vol. i. pp. +272, 310; Archdall's ed. of Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, vol. iii. p. +156; Hunter's Antiquarian Notices of Lupset, 1851; and the Savile +Correspondence, edited for the Camden Society by W. D. Cooper, +F.S.A., 1858. + +ARMS.--_Argent, on a bend sable three owls of the field_. This coat +was borne by Monsieur John Sayvill, in the reign of Richard II. His +son John differenced it by a label of three points gules. + + +Present Representative, John Charles George Savile, 4th Earl of +Mexborough. + + + + +GOWER OF STITTENHAM, DUKE OF SUTHERLAND 1833; MARQUESS OF STAFFORD +1786; EARL GOWER 1746; BARON 1703. + + +[Illustration] Descended from Sir Nicholas Gower, knight of the +shire for this county in the reign of Edward III., and seated at +Stittenham from about the same period. Of this family, it has been +said, was Gower the Poet, but Sir Harris Nicolas in his memoir of +Gower could not trace the connection. Leland remarks, "The House of +Gower the Poet yet remayneth at Switenham (Stittenham) in Yorkshire, +and divers of them syns have beene knightes." In the end of the +seventeenth century the wealth of this family was greatly increased +by marriage with the heiress of Leveson, of Trentham, in +Staffordshire, and also in the year 1785 by the marriage of the +Marquess of Stafford with Elizabeth, daughter and heir of William +eighteenth Earl of Sutherland, mother of the present Duke. + +Younger Branches. The Earl of Ellesmere 1846, and Gower of +Bill-Hill, co. Berks, descended from John son of John first Earl +Gower, by his third wife. + +See Brydges's Collins, vol. ii. p. 441; Historical and Antiquarian +Mag., 1828, vol. ii. p. 103; and Leland's Itin., vol. vi. fol. 15. + +ARMS.--_Barry of eight argent and gules, a cross patonce sable_. + +Present Representative, George Granville William Sutherland Leveson +Gower, 3rd Duke of Sutherland, K. G. + + + + +DAWNAY OF COWICK AND DANBY, VISCOUNT DOWNE IN IRELAND 1680. + + +[Illustration] A Norman family by reputation, and said to be traced +to the Conquest, descended from Sir William Downay, who was in the +wars in the Holy Land with Richard I. in 1192, at which time that +King gave him, in memory of his acts of valour, a ring from his +finger, which is still in possession of the family. + +At an early period the Dawnays were in possession of lands in +Cornwall; fifteen manors in that county descended by an heiress to +the house of Courtenay Earl of Devon, about the reign of Edward II. +In Richard the Second's time the family removed into this county by +a match with the heiress of Newton of Snaith. Cowick was the seat +and residence of Sir Guy Dawnay, in the reigns of Henry VII. and +Henry VIII. + +See Brydges's Collins, vol. viii. p. 453; and Gilbert's Cornwall, +vol. i. p. 457. + +ARMS.--_Argent, on a bend cotised sable three annulets of the +field_. + +Present Representative, Hugh Richard Dawnay, 8th Viscount +Downe. + + + + +PILKINGTON OF NETHER-BRADLEY AND CHEVET-HALL, BARONET OF NOVA-SCOTIA +1635. + + +[Illustration] "A right ancient family, gentlemen of repute in the +county (of Lancaster) before the Conquest," according to Fuller in +his "Worthies," and also mentioned by Gwillim as a "knightly family +of great antiquity, taking name from Pilkington in Lancashire." That +estate appears to have remained in the family until the ruin of the +elder branch in consequence of Sir Thomas Pilkington having taken +part against Henry VII. and with Richard III. at the battle of +Bosworth. The present house descended from Sir John Pilkington, +second son of Robert Pilkington, and brother of the unfortunate Sir +Thomas. His son Robert is stated to have been of Bradley, in this +county. He died in 1429, and was the ancestor of Sir Arthur the +first Baronet. + +Younger Branches. Pilkington of Park-Lane Hall, in this county, +descended from the second son of Robert Pilkington, of Bradley, who +was living in 1540; and Pilkington of Tore, in the county of +Westmeath, descended from Sir Robert, younger brother of Sir John +Pilkington, ancestor of the house of Bradley. + +See Wotton's Baronetage, vol. iv. p. 338; Hunter's South Yorkshire, +vol. ii. p. 394; Burke's Landed Gentry; and "The Grand Juries of the +County of Westmeath," vol. ii. p. 254. + +ARMS.--_A cross patonce voided gules_. The crest, "a mower of +parti-colours argent and gules," is said by Fuller in his "Worthies +of England" to have been assumed in memory of the ancestor of the +family having so disguised himself in order to escape after _the +Battle of Hastings. The Battle of Bosworth_ is the more +probable scene of this event, where four knights of the family were +in arms on the part of Richard III. + +Present Representative, Sir Lionel Milborne Swinnerton Pilkington, +11th Baronet. + + + + +STOURTON OF ALLERTON, BARON STOURTON 1447. + + +[Illustration] A well-known Wiltshire family, seated at Stourton, in +that county, soon after the Norman Conquest. "The name of the +Stourtons be very aunciente yn those parties," writes Leland in his +Itinerary. "The Ryver of Stoure risith ther of six fountaines or +springer, wherof three be on the northe side of the Parke harde +withyn the pale: the other three be north also, but without the +Parke; the Lord Stourton gyveth these six Fountaynes yn his armes." + +The Yorkshire property, and consequent settlement in this county, +came from the match with the heiress of Langdale Lord Langdale in +1775. + +Younger Branch. Stourton, (called Vavasour,) of Hazlewood. Baronet +1828, first cousin of the present peer. + +See Brydges's Collins, vol. vi. p. 633; and Leland's Itin., vii. +fol. 78 b. + +ARMS.--_Sable, a bend or between six fountains proper_. + +Present Representative, Charles Stourton, 18th Baron Stourton. + + + + +MARKHAM OF BECCA-HALL. + + +[Illustration] A remote branch of an ancient Nottinghamshire family, +which can be traced to the time of Henry II. The name is derived +from Markham, near Tuxford, in that county, but Coatham was +afterwards the family seat, until it was sold by Markham, "a fatal +unthrift," who was the brother of the antiquary Francis Markham; +this was about the end of the reign of Elizabeth. William Markham, +Archbishop of York, who died in 1807, was the ancestor and restorer +of this worthy family; he was descended from Daniel, a younger son +of the House of Coatham. Becca-Hall has been in possession of the +Markhams since the end of the last century. + +See Markham's History of the Markhams, privately printed, 8vo. 1854; +the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, 1859; and the +Topographer, vol. ii. p. 296, for Markham of Sedgebrook, co. +Lincoln, extinct 1779. + +ARMS.--_Azure, on a chief or a demi-lion rampant issuing gules_. The +Markhams of Sedgebrook bore their arms differenced by a border +argent. + +Present Representative, William Thomas Markham, Esq. + + + + +BURTON (CALLED DENISON), OF GRIMSTONE, BARON LONDESBOROUGH 1850. + + +[Illustration] The name is derived from Boreton, in the parish of +Condover, in Shropshire, an estate which remained in the family +until the reign of James I., although the Burtons became resident at +Longner, in the same county, prior to the reign of Edward IV. +"Goiffrid de Bortona," (Burton,) one of the foresters of Shropshire, +in the reign of Henry I., is the first recorded ancestor. The senior +line of this house terminated with Thomas Burton, who died unmarried +in 1730, and whose sister carried the Longner estate to the Lingen +family, who have assumed the name of Burton (see p. 198.) Thomas, +fifth son of Thomas Burton, of Longner, is the ancestor of the +present family, and of the Marquess of Conyngham (elder brother of +the late Lord Londesborough). He went to Ireland in the reign of +James I., and died there in 1665. His great-grandson married the +heiress of Conyngham. The late Lord assumed the name of Denison on +succeeding to the estates of his uncle W. J. Denison, Esq. + +See Archdall's edition of Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, vol. vii. p. +173; and Morris MSS. + +ARMS.--_Per pale azure and purpure, a cross engrailed or between +four roses argent_, granted in 1478, and commemorative of the +devotion of this house to the White Rose of York. + +Present Representative, William Henry Forester Denison, 2nd Baron +Londesborough. + + + + ++Gentle.+ + + +RAWDON OF RAWDON-HALL, MARQUESS OF HASTINGS 1816 EARL OF MOIRA IN +IRELAND 1761; BARONET 1665. + + +[Illustration] Rawdon, in the parish of Guiseley in this county, is +the original seat of this ancient family, which is traced to Thor de +Rawdon, whose son Serlo lived in the reign of Stephen. Rawdon +remained the family residence till early in the seventeenth century, +when Sir George Rawdon, the then head of the house, removed into the +North of Ireland, and was seated at Moira, in the county of Down, +where the family principally lived till the match with the heiress +of Hastings in 1752. + +See Whitaker's Leeds, vol. i. p. 171; Brydges's Collins, vol. iv. p. +606; Wotton's Baronetage, vol. iii. p. 467; and Archdall's Lodge, +vol. iii. p. 95. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a fess between three pheons sable_. + +Present Representative, Henry Weysford Charles Plantagenet Rawdon +Hastings, 4th Marquess of Hastings. + + + + +TANCRED OF BOROUGH-BRIDGE, BARONET 1662. + + +[Illustration] At a very early date, and probably not long after the +Conquest, the ancestors of this family were seated at +Borough-Bridge, which appears to have been ever since one of the +residences of the house of Tancred. + +See Wotton's Baronetage, vol. iii. p. 387. + +ARMS.--_Argent, a chevron between three escallops gules_. + +Present Representative, Sir Thomas Tancred, 7th Baronet. + + + + +MEYNELL OF NORTH KILVINGTON. + + +[Illustration] Hilton in Cleveland appears to have been the original +seat of this ancient family; here it was resident in the twelfth +century, and here it remained till the middle of the sixteenth, when +Anthony Meynell, the immediate ancestor of the present family, +removed by purchase to North Kilvington, which has since continued +the residence of his descendants. + +See Graves's History of Cleveland; and Burke's Landed Gentry. + +ARMS.--_Azure, three bars gemelles and a chief or_. This is the +ancient coat of Meysnill or Meynell of Dalby-on-the-Woulds in +Leicestershire, and was borne by Trevor de Menyll in the reign of +Henry III., and also by Sir Nicholas de Meynell in that of Edward +II., with the exception of two instead of three bars gemelles. +(Rolls of the dates.) + +Present Representative, Thomas Meynell, Esq. + + + + +ANNE OF BURGH-WALLIS. + + +[Illustration] Of this family Mr. Hunter has remarked, that "it is a +single instance of the male line being maintained in its ancient +port and rank out of all the gentry of the Deanery of Doncaster, +summoned to appear before the Heralds in 1584." The pedigree begins +with Sir William de Anne, Constable of the Castle of Tickhill in the +time of Edward II. He married the coheiress of Haringel, from whom +came the manor of Frickley, sold in the latter part of the +eighteenth century. Burgh-Wallis came from the heiress of Fenton in +the reign of Elizabeth. Mr. Hunter observes, "The Annes, like too +many other families, have not been careful of preserving their +ancient evidences, and theirs was not one of the muniment rooms to +which our diligent antiquary Dodsworth had access." + +See Hunter's South Yorkshire, vol. ii. pp. 148, 485. + +ARMS.--_Gules, three stag's heads cabossed argent attired or_. + +Present Representative, George Anne, Esq. + + + + +LISTER OF GISBURN, BARON RIBBLESDALE 1797. + + +[Illustration] The pedigree is traced to the sixth of Edward II., +when John de Lister was resident at Derby. He married the daughter +and heiress of John de Bolton, Bowbearer of Bollond, and thus became +connected with this county. The elder line was of Mydhope, or +Middop, and afterwards, in the reign of Philip and Mary, of Thornton +in Craven, and became extinct in 1667. The present family is sprung +from Thomas, second son of Christopher Lister, who lived in the time +of Edward IV. The Listers were of Gisburn early in the sixteenth +century, the ancient seat of Arnoldsbiggin in that manor being their +seat for many generations. Lyster, of Rowton, in Shropshire, is +supposed to be a branch of this family, though there is no evidence +of the fact; Rowton has been in possession of the Lysters since +1482. + +See Whitaker's Craven, ed. 1812, pp. 38, 103; and Brydges's Collins, +vol. viii. p. 584; and for Rowton, Blakeway's Sheriffs of Salop, p. +144. + +ARMS.--_Ermine, on a fess sable three mullets or_. Lyster of Rowton +bears the mullets _argent_. + +Present Representative, Thomas Lister, 3rd Baron Ribblesdale. + + + + +LASCELLES OF HAREWOOD; EARL OF HAREWOOD 1812 BARON 1796. + + +[Illustration] A family of ancient standing in this county, +descended from John de Lascelles, of Hinderskelfe, now called Castle +Howard, in the wapentake of Bulmer, in the North riding, living in +the ninth year of Edward II. For seven generations immediately +following they were called "_Lascelles alias Jackson_." About the +reign of Henry VI. they removed to Gawthorpe, also in the North +riding, and afterwards to Stank and Northallerton; Harewood was +purchased about 1721. + +See Whitaker's Leeds, vol. i. p. 169; and Brydges's Collins, vol. +viii. p. 508. + +ARMS.--_Sable, a cross flory within a border or_. This coat, without +the border, was borne by Monsieur Lascelles de Worthorpe, as appears +by the Roll of the reign of Edward III. Monsieur Rafe de Lascelles +bore at the same period, Argent, three chaplets of roses _vermaux,_ +with a border engrailed sable. + +Present Representative, Henry Thynne Lascelles, fourth Earl of +Harewood. + + + + +WOMBWELL OF WOMBWELL, BARONET 1778. + + +[Illustration] There was a family who took the local name of +Wombwell from that manor in the thirteenth century, but this cannot +with certainty be connected with it. The pedigree therefore +commences with Hugh Wombwell of Wombwell, son of Henry Lowell de +Wombwell, living in the reign of Edward III. The elder branch of +this family became extinct in the male line on the death of William +Wombwell of Wombwell, Esq. in 1733. Part of the estate from whence +the name is derived belongs to the present family, who represent a +junior line, descended from George Wombwell, of Leeds, who died in +1682, by purchase of the coheirs. + +See Hunter's South Yorkshire, vol. ii. p. 124. + +ARMS.--_Gules, a bend between six unicorn's heads cooped argent_; +and so borne in the sixth of Henry IV. + +Present Representative, Sir George Orby Wombwell, 4th Baronet. + + + + +PALMES OF NABURN. + + +[Illustration] There appears no reason to doubt the antiquity of +this family, said to be descended from Manfred Palmes, living in the +reign of Stephen, and seated at Naburn since the year 1226, by a +match with the heiress of Watterville. + +See Burke's Landed Gentry. + +ARMS.--_Gules, three fleurs-de-lis argent, a chief vaire_. + +Present Representative, the Rev, William Lindsay Palmes. + + + + +ROUNDELL OF SCREVEN. + + +[Illustration] On the authority of Whitaker we learn that Screven +has been in this family since the early part of the fifteenth +century; the first recorded ancestor being John Roundell, of +Screven, living in the third of Henry VI. + +See Whitaker's Craven, ed. 1812, p. 76. + +ARMS.--_Or, a fess gules between three olive-branches vert_. + +Present Representative, the Rev. Danson Richardson Roundell. + + + + +"There is no subject more difficult to be dwelt on than that of +honourable descent; none on which the world are greater sceptics, +none more offensive to them; and yet there is no quality to which +every one in his heart pays so great a respect."--SIR EGERTON +BRYDGES'S Autobiography, p. 153. + + + + +INDEX + + Abney of Measham, 55 + Acland of Acland, 66 + Acton of Aldenham, 204 + Acton of Wolverton, 291 + Aldersey of Aldersey, 23 + Alington of Swinhope, 138 + Anderson of Brocklesby, 143 + Anne of Burghwallis, 319 + Annesley of Bletchingdon, 185 + Antrobus of Antrobus, 27 + Arden of Longcroft, 233 + Arundell of Wardour, 284 + Ashburnham of Ashburnham, 253 + Ashurst of Waterstock, 184 + Assheton of Downham, 120 + Astley of Melton-Constable, 149 + + Babington of Rothley Temple, 131 + Bacon of Raveningham, 155 + Bagot of Bagot's Bromley, 228 + Baldwin of Kinlet, 207 + Bamfylde of Poltimore, 67 + Barnardiston of the Ryes, 241 + Barnston of Churton, 26 + Barttelot of Stopham, 260 + Basset of Tehidy, 31 + Bastard of Kitley, 65 + Baskervyle of Old Withington, 23 + Beaumont of Cole-Orton, 129 + Bedingfeld of Oxburgh, 150 + Bellew of Court, 70 + Bendyshe of Barrington, 12 + Berington of Winsley, 97 + Berkeley of Berkeley Castle, 89 + Berney of Kirby, 148 + Bertie of Uffington, 144 + Betton of Totterton, 213 + Biddulph of Birdingbury, 271 + Bingham of Bingham's-Melcombe, 74 + Blois of Cockfield Hall, 247 + Blount of Sodington, 183 + Bodenham of Rotherwas, 94 + Bond of Grange, 78 + Borough of Chetwynd, 218 + Boscawen of Boscawen-Rose, 35 + Boughton of Rouse-Lench, 298 + Boynton of Barmston, 306 + Bracebridge of Atherstone, 264 + Bray of Shere, 248 + Brisco of Crofton, 43 + Brooke of Norton, 24 + Brooke of Ufford, 243 + Broughton of Broughton, 231 + Brudenell of Dene, 159 + Buller of Downes, 72 + Bunbury of Stanney, 18 + Burdet of Foremark, 51 + Burton of Grimston, 316 + + Carew of Haccombe, 61 + Cary of Torr-Abbey, 60 + Cave of Stretton, 52 + Cavendish of Hardwick, 49 + Chadwick of Healy, 125 + Chetwode of Chetwode, 6 + Chetwynd of Grendon, 266 + Chichester of Youlston, 58 + Cholmondeley of Cholmondeley, 16 + Clarke of Ardington, 5 + Clavering of Callaly, 167 + Clifford of Ugbrooke, 63 + Clifton of Clifton, 114 + Clifton of Clifton, 175 + Clinton of Clumber, 179 + Clive of Styche, 214 + Clutton of Chorlton, 25 + Codrington of Wroughton, 288 + Colvile of Lullington, 53 + Coke of Trusley, 54 + Coker of Bicester, 188 + Compton of Compton-Wyniate, 265. + Congreve of Congreve, 237 + Cope of Bramshill, 226 + Corbet of Moreton-Corbet, 192 + Cornewall of Delbury, 197 + Cotes of Cotes, 236 + Cotton of Combermere, 28 + Courtenay of Powderham, 56 + Courthope of Wyleigh, 261 + Croke of Studley, 183 + Curzon of Kedleston, 47 + + Davenport of Woodford, 13 + Dawnay of Cowick, 312 + Dayrell of Lillingstone-Dayrell, 7 + Dering of Surenden-Dering, 101 + De-Grey of Merton, 154 + Digby of Tilton, 76 + Disney of the Hyde, 86 + Dod of Cloverley, 208 + Drewe of Grange, 71 + Dykes of Dovenby, 43 + Dymoke of Scrivelsby, 135 + + Eccleston of Scarisbrick, 123 + Edgcumbe of Edgcumbe, 57 + Edwardes of Harnage-Grange, 212 + Egerton of Oulton, 15 + Estcourt of Estcourt, 92 + Eyre of Rampton, 180 + Eyston of East Hendred, 4 + Eyton of Eyton, 203 + + Fairfax of Steeton, 308 + Fane of Apthorp, 165 + Farnham of Quorndon, 128 + Feilding of Newnham-Paddox, 267 + Ferrers of Baddesley-Clinton, 269 + Filmer of East Sutton, 108 + Finch of Eastwell, 109 + Fitzherbert of Norbury, 46 + Fitzwilliam of Wentworth-House, 299 + Fleming of Rydal, 281 + Floyer of West Stafford, 80 + Forester of Willey, 211 + Fortescue of Castle-Hill, 59 + Frampton of Moreton, 77 + Fulford of Fulford, 56 + Fursdon of Fursdon, 68 + + Gage of Firle, 259 + Gatacre of Gatacre, 202 + Gent of Moyns, 87 + Gerard of Bryn, 118 + Gifford of Chillington, 229 + Glanville of Catchfrench, 39 + Goring of Highden, 254 + Gower of Stittenham, 311 + Gregory of Styvechall, 277 + Grenville of Wotton, 8 + Gresley of Drakelow, 45 + Greville of Warwick Castle, 277 + Grey of Groby, 130 + Grey of Howick, 171 + Grimston of Grimston-Garth, 301 + Grosvenor of Eaton, 14 + Gurney of Keswick, 153 + + Haggerston of Ellingham, 173 + Hamerton of Hellifield-Peel, 304 + Harcourt of Ankerwycke, 9 + Harington of Dartington, 64 + Harley of Down-Rossel, 199 + Harpur of Calke, 50 + Harries of Cruckton, 217 + Hazlerigg of Noseley, 132 + Heigham of Hunston, 246 + Heneage of Hainton, 136 + Hervey of Ickworth, 244 + Hesketh of Rufford, 116 + Hill of Hawkstone, 210 + Hoghton of Hoghton-Tower, 113 + Honywood of Evington, 103 + Hotham of South Dalton, 305 + Howard of East Winch, 151 + Huddleston of Hutton-John, 41 + Hulton of Hulton, 122 + Huyshe of Sand, 73 + + Irton of Irton, 42 + Isham of Lamport, 164 + + Jenney of Bredfield, 242 + Jerningham of Cossey 156 + Jocelyn of Hyde Hall, 98 + + Kelly of Kelly, 62 + Kendall of Pelyn, 37 + Kingscote of Kingscote, 90 + Knatchbull of Mersham Hatch, 107 + Knightley of Fawsley, 160 + Kynaston of Hardwicke, 196 + + Lambton of Lambton, 83 + Lane of King's Bromley, 240 + Langton of Langton, 140 + Lascelles of Harewood, 321 + Lawley of Spoonhill, 215 + Lawton of Lawton, 27 + Leche of Carden, 25 + Lechmere of Hanley, 296 + Legh of East Hall, 21 + Leigh of West Hall, 22 + Leigh of Adlestrop, 92 + Leighton of Loton, 194 + Leycester of Toft, 19 + Lingen of Longnor, 198 + Lister of Gisburn, 320 + Loraine of Kirk-Harle, 172 + Lovett of Liscombe, 10 + Lowther of Lowther, 279 + Lumley of Lumley Castle, 81 + Luttley of Brockhampton, 96 + Lyttelton of Frankley, 292 + + Malet of Wilbury, 287 + Mainwaring of Whitmore, 232 + Manners of Belvoir Castle, 137 + Markham of Becca, 315 + Massie of Coddington, 19 + Massingberd of Wrangle, 140 + Maunsell of Thorpe-Malsor, 163 + Meynell of Hore-Cross, 234 + Meynell of North Kilvington, 318 + Middleton of Belsey Castle, 170 + Mitford of Mitford, 168 + Molesworth of Pencarrow, 33 + Molyneux of Sefton, 112 + Monson of Burton, 142 + Mordaunt of Walton, 270 + Musgrave of Edenhall, 40 + + Neville of Birling, 102 + Noel of Bell Hall, 295 + Northcote of Pynes, 67 + Norton of Grantley, 309 + + Oakeley of Oakeley, 209 + Oglander of Nunwell, 224 + Okeover of Okeover, 227 + Onslow of West Clandon, 251 + Ormerod of Tyldesley, 124 + Oxenden of Dene, 109 + + Palmer of Carlton, 165 + Palmes of Naburn, 323 + Parker of Shirburne Castle, 189 + Patten of Bank Hall, 126 + Pelham of Laughton, 255 + Pennington of Pennington, 111 + Perceval of Nork House, 249 + Pigott of Edgmond, 215 + Pilkington of Nether Bradley, 313 + Plowden of Plowden, 204 + Pole of Radborne, 49 + Pole of Shute, 62 + Polhill of Howbury, 3 + Polwhele of Polwhele, 34 + Poulett of Hinton, 219 + Prideaux of Place, 30 + + Radclyffe of Foxdenton, 121 + Rashleigh of Menabilly, 38 + Rawdon of Rawdon, 317 + Ridley of Blagden, 174 + Rokeby of Arthingworth, 162 + Roper of Linstead, 106 + Roundell of Screven, 323 + Rous of Dennington, 245 + Russell of Kingston Russell, 75 + + St. John of Melchborne, 1 + Salvin of Croxdale, 82 + Salway of Moor Park, 217 + Sandford of Sandford, 195 + Savile of Methley, 310 + Scrope of Danby, 300 + Scudamore of Kentchurch, 95 + Sebright of Besford, 297 + Selby of Biddleston, 171 + Seymour of Maiden-Bradley, 283 + Sheldon of Brailes, 276 + Shelley of Maresfield, 256 + Sherard of Glatton, 100 + Shirley of Eatington, 262 + Shuckburgh of Shuckburgh, 273 + Skipwith of Harborough, 272 + Sneyd of Keel, 238 + Speke of Jordans, 220 + Spencer of Althorpe, 161 + Stanhope of Shelford, 177 + Stanley of Knowesley, 119 + Starkie of Huntroyd, 124 + Staunton of Longbridge, 268 + Stonor of Stonor, 181 + Stourton of Allerton, 314 + Strickland of Sizergh, 280 + Strode of Newenham, 69 + Sutton of Norwood, 176 + Swinburne of Capheaton, 169 + + Talbot of Grafton, 293 + Tancred of Borough Bridge, 318 + Tatton of Tatton, 17 + Tempest of Broughton, 303 + Thornes of Llwyntidman, 216 + Thornhill of Stanton, 54 + Thorold of Marston, 139 + Throckmorton of Coughton 274 + Thynne of Longleate, 289 + Tichborne of Tichborne, 223 + Toke of Godington, 105 + Townley of Townley, 117 + Townshend of Rainham, 157 + Trafford of Trafford, 115 + Trefusis of Trefusis, 34 + Tregonwell of Anderson, 78 + Trelawny of Trelawny, 29 + Tremayne of Helligan, 36 + Trevelyan of Nettlecombe, 221 + Trye of Leckhampton, 91 + Turvile of Husband's Bosworth, 127 + Twysden of Royden Hall, 104 + Tyrell of Boreham, 84 + Tyrwhitt of Stanley Hall, 201 + + Upton of Ashton Court, 222 + + Vernon of Sudbury, 48 + Villiers of Middleton-Stoney, 186 + Vincent of Debden-Hall, 88 + Vyvyan of Trelowarren, 32 + + Wake of Courtenhall, 158 + Walcot of Bitterley, 206 + Waldegrave of Naverstoke, 85 + Wallop of Wallop, 225 + Walpole of Wolterton, 147 + Walrond of Dulford, 69 + Waterton of Walton, 307 + Welby of Denton, 134 + Weld of Lulworth, 79 + West of Buckhurst, 257 + Weston of West Horsley, 250 + Whichcote of Aswarby, 142 + Whitgreve of Moseley, 239 + Whitmore of Apley, 205 + Wilbraham of Delamere, 20 + Willoughby of Wollaton, 178 + Wingfield of Tickencote, 190 + Winnington of Stanford, 294 + Wodehouse of Kimberley, 146 + Wollaston of Shenton, 133 + Wolryche of Croxley, 99 + Wolseley of Wolseley, 235 + Wombwell of Wombwell, 322 + Wrey of Trebigh, 38 + Wrottesley of Wrottesley, 230 + Wybergh of Clifton, 282 + Wykeham of Tythrop, 182 + Wyndham of Dinton, 286 + Wyvill of Constable-Burton, 302 + + + + WESTMINSTER: + J. B. NICHOLS AND SONS, PRINTERS. + PARLIAMENT STREET. + + + + + [Transcriber's Notes: + + The following misprints have been corrected: + + [in this county of B ckingham] -> + [in this county of Buckingham] + + [directly to the Couquest] -> + [directly to the Conquest] + + [This family wrs originally] -> + [This family was originally] + + [Torr-Abbey was purchasd] -> + [Torr-Abbey was purchased] + + [EARL WALDEGRVE 1729] -> + [EARL WALDEGRAVE 1729] + + [Cornewwall of Delbury.] -> + [Cornewall of Delbury.] + + See under "COMPTON OF COMPTON WYNIATE": + [the seventeenth eentury.] -> + [the seventeenth century.] + + [extinct in the last centnry.] -> + [extinct in the last century.] + + [who assumed the loca name] -> + [who assumed the local name] + + [G. H. M'Gill's account], this may seem a misprint but + [M'Gill] is an existing name. + + As the text below "DIGBY OF MILTON" suggests, the placename + [Milton] should be [Tilton]. Confirmation for this has been + found in "the Leicestershire Historian", vol. 2, no. 8 (the + article "The Tilton Family in America and its Link with Tilton + on the Hill" written by Peter D. A. Blakesley), page 7: + "... the family of Digby, lords of the manor of Tilton from the + twelfth century until the seventeenth century, when the manor + was sold." + [DIGBY OF MILTON, BARON] -> + [DIGBY OF TILTON, BARON] + + Another misprint for [Tilton] has been found in the "Index": + [Digby of Minton, 76] -> + [Digby of Tilton, 76] + + [Bedingfeld of Oxburgh, 156] -> + [Bedingfeld of Oxburgh, 150] + + [Leigh of East Hall, 21] -> + [Legh of East Hall, 21] + + [Onslow of West Clandon, 52] -> + [Onslow of West Clandon, 251] + + Two misprints in this one: + [Wake of Courtenhall, 138] -> + [Wake of Courteenhall, 158] + + The author used asterixes to indicate notes. + Unfortunately 3 asterixes lack an explanation. + They are located at: + [Leicestershire, iv. pt. 2. p. 519.*] + [Leicestershire, iii. pt. 2, p. 1009*] + [ii. pt. i. p. *261;] + + The word [coheiress] also occurs with the notation [co-heiress]. + Both notations have been maintained. + + The plain text file of this ebook uses underscores to indicate + italic text and plus signs to indicate a bold Gothic typeface. + + Each family description starts with an illustration representing + their arms. In the plain text file these have been replaced with + [Illustration]. + + A few cases of punctuation errors were corrected, but are + not mentioned here. + ] + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Noble and Gentle Men of England, by +Evelyn Philip Shirley + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 58212 *** |