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 NOBLE AND GENTLE 
 
 MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 Mr. Evelyn Philip Shirley of Ellington Park, Stratford- 
 on-Avon, who for many years represented South Warwick- 
 shire in Parliament, died on the 19th September." Mr. 
 Shirley was a well-known antiquary, and was probably the 
 best authority on heraldry in England. He was the owner of 
 large estates in Ireland and England. His death was dueto 
 apoplexy, with which he was seized on Saturday. Mr. 
 Shirley sent one or two contributions to Bye-gones.*~/&2
 
 TH H 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE 
 
 MEN OF ENGLAND; 
 
 OR, NOTES TOUCHING 
 
 THE ARMS AND DESCENTS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 ANCIENT KNIGHTLY AND GENTLE HOUSES OF ENGLAND, 
 
 ARRANGED IN THEIR RESPECTIVE COUNTIES. 
 
 ATTEMPTED BY 
 
 EVELYN PHILIP SHIRLEY, ESQ. M.A. 
 
 ONE OF THE KNIGHTS OF THE SHIRE FOR THF. COUNTY OF WARWICK. 
 
 WESTMINSTER: 
 
 JOHN BOWYER NICHOLS AND SONS. 
 1859.
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 " That noble families are continued in a long succession of wealth, honor, and reputa- 
 tion, is justly esteemed as one of the most valuable of worldly blessings, as being the 
 certain tokens of God Almighty's providential favor, and the prudent conduct of such 
 ancestors." Nath. 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 
 
 * Quarterly Review, Jan. 1858, p. 37.
 
 VI PREFACE. 
 
 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 110 
 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 15&O, but merely 
 . if no*^ of those who were in the position of what we now call 
 Bounty families before that period. The line of demarca- 
 tion 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, depend- 
 ing as it does on documentary evidence often inaccessible, 
 and obscured by the fanciful and too favourable deduc- 
 tions of the heralds of the sixteenth and seventeenth 
 centuries. 
 
 * Quarterly Review, Jan. 1858, p. 31.
 
 PREFACE. Vll 
 
 With regard to the sources from whence the following 
 memoranda have heen taken, I have endeavoured as 
 much as possible to rely upon the hest 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 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, March 1, 1859.
 
 ' ' 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 ac- 
 quired by trade, you may give it, if you will, to the dog Totftser, and let him keep his own 
 name." DR. JOHNSON.
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 BEDFORDSHIRE. 
 
 ttntgfjtlg, 
 
 ST. JOHN OF MELCHBOURNE, LORD ST. JOHN OF BLETSHOE 
 
 1558-9. 
 
 THIS great and ancient Family, though not 
 connected with this county before the reign of 
 Henry VIII., yet, having been fora considerable 
 time seated at Melchbourue, 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, 
 
 * " 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. 
 
 B
 
 2 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 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 Boling- 
 broke, 1712. Baronet 1611. Descended from Oliver, second son of 
 Sir Oliver St. John and the heiress of Beauchamp. 
 
 See Leland's Itinerary, ed. 1769, vol. vi. folio 201, 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, 
 crustily 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 dancette gules 
 two mullets of six points or, pierced vert. Rolls of the dates. 
 
 Present Representative, St.Andrew Beauchamp St.John, 14th 
 Baron St.John.
 
 BEDFORDSHIRE GENTLE. 
 
 POLHILL OF HOWBURY, IN THE PARISH OF RfiNHOLD. 
 
 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 PolHtlls 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 Bur wash, in Sussex. The immediate ancestor of the present 
 family was Nathaniel Polhill, of Bui-wash 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 patee or. 
 
 Present Representative, Frederick Polhill, Esq. 

 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 BERKSHIRE. 
 
 Gentle. 
 
 EYSTON OF EAST HENDRED. 
 
 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 y^re 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, 26b, and 
 Had. 1532, 19b. See also Lysons's Berkshire, pp. 186, 292. 
 ARMS. (Confirmed in 1566.) Sable, three lions rampant or. 
 Present Representative, Charles Eyston, Esq.
 
 See 
 Harl. 
 
 BERKSHIRE GENTLE. 
 
 CLARKE OF ARDINGTON. 
 
 The pedigree begins with John Clarke, of 
 Basledon, in this county, living there the latter 
 part of the fifteenth century. The family after- 
 wards 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. 
 
 the Visitation of Berks 1566. Harl. MS. 5822, 22b. and 
 1532. See also Lysons's Berkshire, pp. 180, 186. 
 
 ARMS. (Confirmed Oct. 22, 1600.) Argent, on a fcss sable three plates 
 between three crosses patee of the second. Sometimes the fess is placed between 
 six crosses patee. 
 
 Present Representative, William Nelson Clarke, Esq. 
 
 DUKINFIELD OF STANLAKE, IN THE PARISH OF RuSCOMB, 
 BARONET 1665. 
 
 An ancient Cheshire family, to be traced to 
 Robert de Dokenfield, Lord of Dokenfield in 
 the reign of Edward L, an estate which re- 
 mained in the family until the extinction of the 
 elder and principal line on the death of Sir 
 William Dukinfield in 1758. The present is a 
 younger branch, possessing none of the ancient 
 Cheshire property. During the civil wars of the seventeenth 

 
 6 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 century, Robert Dukinfield, the representative of the family, was 
 very eminent as a general for the parliament. 
 
 See Ormerod's History of Cheshire, iii. 397; and Wotton's 
 Baronetage, iii. 487. 
 
 ARMS. (Confirmed 1623.) Argent, a cross pointed and voided sable. 
 
 Present Representative, the Rev. Sir Henry Robert Dukinfield, 
 7th Baronet. 
 
 BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. 
 
 CHETWODE OF CHETWODE, BARONET 1700. 
 
 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 Anstey 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 Buck- 
 ingham has continued the property of any other family now there 
 existing."
 
 BUCKINGHAMSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 7 
 
 See Willis's Buckingham, p. 172; Erdeswick'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 patee counterchangcd. 
 
 Present Representative, Sir John Newdigate-Ludford-Chetwode, 
 5th Baronet. 
 
 DAYRELL OP LILLINGSTONE DAYRELL. 
 
 A very ancient and honourable family of 
 Norman descent, who came over with the Con- 
 queror, and seated themselves at Lillingstone 
 before the year 1200, Richard, son of Elias 
 Dayrell, being seised of a messuage 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 Dayrells became possessed of the fee of the manor, 
 which has ever since continued in the family. 
 
 The Dayrells 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, Richard 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 Topo- 
 grapher, ii. 101, and the Darells of Richmond, Baronets, 1795, are sprung from the house 
 of Calehill.
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 GRENVILLE OF WOTTON UNDER BARNWOOD, DUKE OF BUCK- 
 INGHAM 1822, MARQUIS OF BUCKINGHAM 1782, EARL 
 TEMPLE 1749, VISCOUNT AND BARON COBHAM 1718. 
 
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 There is good reason to believe that this 
 family, seated at Wotton from the reign of 
 Henry^L, 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 Gren- 
 ville Family, collected by Richard Grenville, of Wotton, Esq. 
 during the civil wars of the seventeenth century. 
 
 ABMS. Vert, on a cross argent Jive torteaux's. 
 
 Present Representative, Richard Plantagenet-Templc-Nugent- 
 Brydges-Chandos- Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, K.G.
 
 BUCKINGHAMSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 
 
 HARCOURT OF ANKERWYCKE. 
 
 On the decease of the last EarJ 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 family 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 Leices- 
 tershire, 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.
 
 10 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
 
 HUDDLESTON OF SAWSTON. 
 
 An ancient nor them family, said to be of Saxon 
 descent. The elder line were of Hutton-John, 
 in Cumberland, and also of Millom Castle, in the 
 same county. This latter branch became extinct 
 in 1745. 
 
 The Hiiddlestons were fixed in this county by 
 a match with the illustrious house of Nevill. Sir 
 William Huddleston, having married Isabel, fifth daughter of John, 
 Marquess of Montecute, became possessed, on the partition of the 
 Nevill estates in 1496, of the manor of Sawston. 
 
 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 death-bed, 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. 74 and 107; also Burke's Stemmata 
 Anglicana, " Barones rejecti," and the Visitation of Cambridgeshire 
 1619, fol. 1840. p. 19. 
 
 AKHS. Gules, fretty argent. This coat was borne by Sir John de Hodele- 
 stone in the reign of Edward II., Sir Adam the same, with a border indented or,
 
 CAMBRIDGESHIRE KNIGHTLY. 1 1 
 
 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, Ferdinand Huddlcston, Esq. 
 
 COTTON OF LANDWADE, BARONET 1640. 
 
 It appears doubtful whether this family were 
 denominated from Cotton, a manor in this 
 county, or from a place of the same name in the 
 parish of Stone, in Kent. There is another 
 Cotton Hall in Ixning, co. Suffolk, which lays 
 claim to the same distinction. In 1251 the 
 manor of Landwode was in the family of 
 Hastings ; in the reign of Edward III. Sir Thomas Cotton, grand- 
 son of Sir Henry Cotton, acquired it by marriage with Alice, 
 daughter and heir of John de Hastings. It has long' been deserted 
 by the family, who have since resided at Madingley, which carne 
 from the heiress of Hinde in the reign of Charles I. 
 
 See Lysons, p. 226; Wotton's Baronetage, ii. 195; Philpot's Kent, 
 p. 325; and the Visitation of Cambridgeshire 1619, p. 11. 
 
 ARMS. Sable, a chevron between three gryphon's heads erased, argent. 
 Present Representative, Sir St. Vincent Cotton, 6th Baronet.
 
 12 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 Sentle. 
 
 BENDYSHE OF BABRINGTON. 
 
 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 " as far back 
 as the year 1493 ; it has ever since remained the inheritance of this 
 the eldest line of the Bendyshe family, of whom younger branches 
 were 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 
 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 (hree ram's heads erased azure. 
 
 Present Representative, John Bendyshe, Esq.
 
 CHESHIRE KNIGHTLY. 
 
 13 
 
 CHESHIRE. 
 
 ttntgfjtig. 
 
 DAVENPORT OP WOODFORD, ESQ. 
 
 The Davenports claim precedence among the 
 knightly families of Cheshire, that " seed- 
 plot of gentry," u 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 Daven- 
 ports at Davenport ; 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 Leeh 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, (ah 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
 
 14 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 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 
 Calveley, ib. ii. 153; for 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 betiveen three cross-crosslets fitchee sable. The crest 
 of this family, a felon's head, couped proper, haltered or, alludes to the power of 
 life and death within the Forests of Leeh and Macclesfield, granted by Hugh 
 Earl of Chester. 
 
 Present Kepresentative, Arthur Henry Davenport, Esq. 
 
 GROSVENOR OF EATON, MARQUESS OF WESTMINSTER 1831, EARL 
 GROSVENOR 1784, BARON GROSVENOR 1761, BARONET 
 1662. 
 
 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 were seated 
 at Hulme, in this county, in the hundred of 
 Northwich, and were extinct in the 22nd
 
 CHESHIRE KNIGHTLY. 15 
 
 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 foun- 
 dation 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, agarb 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 
 lend or, and allusive to his descent from the ancient Earls of Chester. 
 
 Present Representative, Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquis of 
 Westminster. 
 
 EGERTON OF OULTON, BARONET 1617. 
 
 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
 
 16 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 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 auncientis 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. 
 
 ASMS. 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 CHOLMON- 
 DELEY 1815, EARL OF CHOLMONDELEY 1706, BARON 1689. 
 
 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 Cholmon- 
 deley in the reign of King John. 
 Younger branches. Cholmeley of Whitby, in Yorkshire, Baronet
 
 CHKSHIKE KNIGHTLY. 
 
 17 
 
 1641, extinct 1688; descended from Robert, younger son of Hugh 
 Cholmondeley, temp. Edw. III. See the Memoirs of Sir Hugh 
 Cholmeley, Knight, 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 Goggles, 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 
 Marquis of Cholmondeley. 
 
 in the 
 branch 
 
 TATTON, CALLED EGERTON, OF TATTON. 
 
 Robert Tatton of Ken worthy, in North enden, 
 who married the heiress of William de Withen- 
 shaw, 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 
 twelfth century. Withenshaw, now the seat of the younger 
 of this family, remained from the period above mentioned 
 D
 
 18 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 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 Kepresentative, William Tatton Egerton, Esq. M.P. for 
 North Cheshire. 
 
 BUNBUEY OF STANNET, BARONET 1681. 
 
 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 Eichard 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. 
 ABMS. Argent, on a bend sable three chessrooks of (he field. 
 Present Representative, Sir Henry Edward Bunbury, 7th Baronet.
 
 CHESHIRE KNIGHTLY. 
 
 19 
 
 LEYCESTER OF TOFT. 
 
 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 gides. But this very unnecessary and overloaded coat does not 
 appear to have been used. 
 
 Present Representative, Ralph Oswald Leycester, Esq, 
 
 MASSIE OF CODDINGTON. 
 
 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
 
 20 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 Tatton, who died in the eighth of Henry V. 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 Koger 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 Pool-Hall, lii. 188. 
 
 ARMS. Quarterly gules and or, in the first and fourth three fleurs-de-lis argent, 
 a canton of the third. 
 
 Present Representative, Richard Massie, Esq. 
 
 WJLBRAHAM OF DELAMERE. 
 
 This family represents the eldest branch of 
 the Wilbrahams of Cheshire, descended from 
 Richard de Wilburgham, 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
 
 CHESHIRE KNIGHTLY. 
 
 21 
 
 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 Fal- 
 mouth 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 dis- 
 tinction a canton gules. Additional coat, granted by Flower, temp. Eliz. : Azure, 
 two bars argent, on a canton of the first a wolfs head erased of the second. 
 
 Present Representative, George Wilbraham, Esq. 
 
 LEGH OF EAST HALL, IN HIGH LEGH. 
 
 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. 
 
 AKMS. Allowed 1566. Argent, a lion rampant gules, armed and langued azure. 
 Present Representative, George Cornewall Legh, Esq. M.P. for 
 North Cheshire.
 
 22 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 LEIGH OF WEST HALL, IN HIGH LEGH. 
 
 Descended from Richard de Lymrae, 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 Ham on de Legh, the 
 first mentioned in the pedigree. Richard de 
 Lyrnme 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. 
 
 ABHS. 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 fusille 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.
 
 CHESHIRE KNIGHTLY. 
 
 23 
 
 ALDERSEY OF ALDERSEY, IN THE PARISH OF CODDINGTON. 
 
 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 Button 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 Kepresentative, Samuel Aldersey, Esq. 
 
 BASKERVYLE, (CALLED GLEGG,) OF OLD WITHINGTON. 
 
 OQ 
 
 Ormerod traces this family to Sir John Bask- 
 crvyle, 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.
 
 24 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OP ENGLAND. 
 
 See Ormerod, iii. 355; and for Glegg, ib. ii. 285. 
 
 A K.MS. 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. 
 
 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. 
 A KM-. Or, a cross engrailed party per pale gules and sable. 
 Present Representative, Sir Richard Brooke, 6th Baronet.
 
 CHESHIRE GENTLE. 
 
 Gentle, 
 
 GLUTTON OF CHORLTON, IN THE PARISH OF MALPAS. 
 
 Ormcrod gives no detailed pedigree, but states 
 that the Cluttons had been settled at Glutton, 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 Glutton 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, are descended the Glutton-Brocks of 
 Pensax, in Worcestershire, who were there established in the seven- 
 teenth 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 Glutton, Esq. 
 
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 LECHE OF GARDEN. 
 
 The pedigree commences in the reign of 
 Henry IV. with John Leche, (said to be a 
 younger brother of the house of Leche of Chats- 
 worth, in Derbyshire,) who married the heiress of 
 Cawarthyn, or Garden, and settled there about 
 the year 1475. Some pedigrees, however, seat 
 the Leches at Garden as early as the twentieth of 
 
 E
 
 26 
 
 NOHLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 Edward III. ; and there is also a tradition that the fatally is descended 
 from the leche, or chirurgeon, of that monarch himself. It is 
 remarkable that John 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. 
 
 The descent of this family is not proved 
 beyond Robert Barnston, of Churton, in the 
 third year of Richard II. But Hugh de Barn- 
 ston 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 fegs indented ermine between six cross-crosslets fitchee 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.
 
 CHESJIIHE GENTLE. 
 
 ANTROBUS OF ANTROBUS, BARONET, 1815. 
 
 This is an instance of an ancient family who, 
 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 An- 
 trobus 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. 
 
 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 Daven- 
 port. 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
 
 28 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 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 fitchee sable a cinquefoil 
 of the first. 
 
 Present Representative, Charles Bourne Lawton, Esq. 
 
 COTTON OF COMBERMERE, VISCOUNT COMBERMERE 1826, 
 BARONET 1677. 
 
 There are seyeral 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 Shrop- 
 shire, 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, Cotton of Etwall, co. Derby. 
 
 MSS. of 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. 
 
 ASMS. Azwe, a chevron between three hawks' lures, or cotton-hanks, argent. 
 
 Present Representative, Stapleton Stapleton-Cotton, 1st Viscount 
 Combermere.
 
 CORNWALL KNIGHTLY. 2!) 
 
 CORNWALL. 
 
 TUELAWNY OF TRELAWNY, BARONET 1628. 
 
 " 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 elder branch in the 
 reign of Henry VI. The latter was purchased from Queen Eliza- 
 beth 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. Tre- 
 lawny, under the Earl of Moreton, at the period of the Domesday 
 Survey, is the first recorded ancestor. 
 
 See Leland's Ttin., iii. fol. 20; Carew's Survey of Cornwall, ed.
 
 30 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 1602, p. 63 b; Gilbert's Survey of Cornwall, i. 546; Lysons's Cora- 
 wall, pp. 14 and 257; Wotton's Baronetage, ii. 87. 
 
 ARMS. Argent, a chevron sable. In the reign of Henry V. an augmentation 
 was added vii. 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. 
 
 PKIDEAUX OF PLACE, IN THE PARISH OF PADSTOW. 
 
 This is the eldest remaining branch of the 
 ancient family of Prideaux, who trace their 
 descent 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, who were seated at "Place'' in the sixteenth 
 century, are 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 were 
 established by marriage with the heiress of Orcherton in the reign 
 of Henry III. 
 
 Younger branch, Prideaux of Nethcrton, co. Devon, Baronet 
 1622, founded by Edmund Prideaux, an eminent lawyer, second son 
 of Roger Prideaux of Solden.
 
 CORNWALL KNIGHTLY. 31 
 
 See Carew, 143b; 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. i. 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. 
 
 VYVYAN OP TRELOWARREN, IN THE PARISH OF MAWGAN, 
 BARONET 1644. ORIGINALLY OF TREVIDERN IN THE 
 
 PARISH OF ST. BURIAN. 
 
 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 Trelowarreii 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, M.P. for Helstone.
 
 32 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 MoLESWOKTII OF PfiNCARROW, IN THE PARISH OF EGLOSHAYLE, 
 
 BARONET 1689. 
 
 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 Anthony, elder 
 brother of John Molesworth, who settled at Pencarrow in the reign 
 of the fame Queen. 
 
 See Gilbert's Cornwall, i. 571; Lysons, xcii. 82; Wotton's 
 Baronetage, iv. 25; Archdall's Lodge, v. 127. 
 
 ABMS. 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 de Lyndesey (?) of the same county bore the present 
 coat. 
 
 Present Representative, the Rev. Sir Hugh Henry Molesworth, 
 9th Baronet.
 
 CORNWALL GENTLE. 
 
 <entle. 
 
 POLWHELE OF POLWHELE, IN THE PARISH OF ST. CLEMENT'S. 
 
 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. 
 
 Sec Pol whole's Cornwall, i. 42; Gilbert's Survey, ii. 239; and 
 Lysons, pp. cxi. 60. 
 
 ARMS. Sable, a saltier engrailed ermine. 
 Present Representative, Richard Graves Polwhele, Esq. 
 
 TREFUSIS OF TREFUSIS, IN THE PARISH OF MILOR. BARON 
 CLINTON 1299. 
 
 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 Rolles,) on the death of George 
 third Earl of Orford, in 1791. 
 F
 
 34 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 See Carew, 150 b; Leland's Itin. iii. 26; Polwhele's Cornwall, 
 i. 42; Gilbert's Cornwall, i. 468. 
 
 ABMS. Argent, a chevron between three wJiarrow 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. 
 
 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. Ixxiv. 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 butt-dog argent, with a chief con- 
 taining the arms now used. 
 
 Present Representative, Evelyn Boscawen, 6th Viscount Falmouth.
 
 CORNWALL GENTLE. 
 
 35 
 
 TREMAYNE or HELLIGAN, IN THE PARISH OF ST. EWE. 
 
 Tremayne is in the parish of St. Martin's, 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 Colla- 
 comb, 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, fats proper. 
 
 Present Representative, John Tremayne, Esq.
 
 NOHLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 KKNDALL OF PELYN, IN THE PARISH OF LANLIVERY. 
 
 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 genera- 
 tions the seat of this family, descended from Walter, third son of 
 John Kendall, of Treworgy, who married a daughter and coheir of 
 Robert Hollard, an illegitimate son of the Earl of Exeter. It has 
 been remarked of this family, that they have perhaps sent more repre- 
 sentatives to the British Senate than any other in the United 
 Kingdom. 
 
 Sec 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.
 
 ( olfX WALL GENTLE. 
 
 WHEY OF TREBIGH, IN THE PARISH OF ST. IVE, BARONET. 
 
 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 Mo reton- Ham stead, 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 Christopher Wrey, the second Baronet, with one 
 of the coheiresses 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, pp. Ixxxix. 
 146 ; Wotton's Baronetage, ii. 84 ; Westcote's Devonshire Pedigrees, 
 567. 
 
 ARMS. Sable, afess between three pole-axes argent, helved gules. 
 Present Representative, Sir Bourchier Palk Wrey, 8th Baronet. 
 
 RASHLEIGH OF MENABILLY. 
 
 Rashleigh in the parish of Wemworthy, in 
 Devonshire, gave name to this ancient family, 
 the elder line of which became extinct in the 
 reign of Henrv 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
 
 38 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 mentioned by Carew, writing in 1602, " I may not passe in silence 
 the commendable deserts of Master Kashleigh the elder, descended 
 from a younger brother of an antient 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 day ly 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. 
 
 A RMS. 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, 
 aU 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'S. 
 
 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.
 
 CUMBERLAND KNIGHTLY. 
 
 39 
 
 See Prince's Worthies of Devon, pp. 326 and 339; Gilbert's 
 Surrey, ii. 121; Lysons, pp. civ. 116. 
 ARMS. Azure, three saltiers or. 
 Present Representative, Francis Glanville, Esq. 
 
 CUMBERLAND. 
 
 MUSGRAVE or EDENHALL, BARONET 1611. 
 
 Originally seated at Musgrave in Westmor- 
 land, 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 r he re- 
 moved to that manor, where is preserved the 
 celebrated glass vessel called the Luck of Eden- 
 hall, 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, Ixiv. 100; Wotton's Baronetage, i. 74, iv. 354; and 
 St. George's Visitation of Westmerland, printed 1853, p. 5, &c.
 
 40 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 ABMS. Azure, six annulets or. 
 
 Monsire de JVIusgrave bore this coat, as appears by the Eoll of the reign of 
 Edward III., and Thomas Musgrave in that of Richard II. (Roll of that date.) 
 
 Present Representative, Sir George Musgrave, 10th Baronet. 
 
 IRTON OF IRTON. 
 
 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, Ixxv. 119. 
 ABMS. Argent, afess sable, in chief three mullets gules. 
 
 Present Representative, Samuel Irton, Esq. M.P. for the Western 
 Division of Cumberland.
 
 CUMBERLAND GENTLE. 
 
 41 
 
 BRISCO OF CROFTON, IN THE PARISH OF THURSBY, 
 BARONET 1782. 
 
 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 Brisco family. 
 
 See Lysons, Ixvi. 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 Wastell Brisco, 2nd Baronet. 
 
 DYKES OF DOVENBY, IN THE PARISH OF BRIDEKIRK. 
 
 Originally of Dykesfield in Burgh, where the 
 Dykes are traced three generations before the 
 50th of Edward III. Dovenby, formerly the 
 seat of the Lamplughs, came by purchase and 
 family connexion to this family in the present 
 century. 
 
 See Lysons, Ixxii. 36. 
 ARMS. Or, three cinquefoils sable. 
 
 Present Representative, Frctchcville- La \vson Dykes- Ballantine, 
 
 Esq. 
 
 G
 
 42 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 DERBYSHIRE. 
 
 GRESLEY OF DRAKELOW, BARONET 1611. 
 
 " 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, men- 
 tioned 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 iminediately after- 
 wards at Drakelow, in the same parish. The present is a younger 
 branch, seated at Nether Scale, 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,!. 432,455, 474; Lysons, Ixiii. ; Wotton's Baronetage, 
 i. 121; and Erdeswick's Staffordshire, ed. 1844, p. 203. 
 
 ARMS. Fair, 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 Peres de Gresle, in the reign of 
 Edward II. (Roll.) John de Greseley bore simply, Vair,<argent and gules. 
 (Roll Ric. II.) 
 
 Present Representative, Sir Thomas Gresley, 10th Baronet.
 
 DERBYSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 
 
 FlTZHERBKttT OF NORBURY. 
 
 This ancient Norman house were 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 Fitz- 
 herbert 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., Ixvii. 
 p. 645; Topographer, iii. 57; and Brydges's Collins, ix. 156. 
 
 ARMS. Argent, a chief vair 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. Seethe 
 Visitation of Derbyshire. 
 
 Present Representative, John Fitzherbert, Esq.
 
 44 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 CURZON OF KEDLESTON, BARON SCARSDALE 1761, 
 BARONET 1641. 
 
 This ancient family was seated at Kedleston 
 as early as the reign of Henry I. It is said to 
 be of Norman origin, and descended from 
 Giraline, a great benefactor to the Abbey <)f 
 Abingdon, in Berkshire, in which county the 
 Curzons held lands soon after the Conquest. 
 
 Younger branches. Curzon Earl Howe 1821 ; Curzon of Parham, 
 
 O 
 
 Sussex. 
 
 Extinct branches. Curzon of Croxall, and Water-Perry, co. Ox- 
 ford, and of Letheringset, Norfolk. 
 
 See Lysons, Hi.; Brydges's Collins, vii. 294; Wo tton's Baronetage, 
 ii. 243. 
 
 A K.MS. Argent, a bend sable, charged with three popinjays or, collared gules, 
 borne by Monsr. Roger Curson in the reign of Richard II. Sir John Cursonn 
 bore, Argent, a bend gules bezantee, in that of Edward II. (Rolls.) According 
 to Burton's Collections quoted by Wotton, the more ancient coat was, Vair, or and 
 gvles, a border sable charged with popinjays argent : this was in compliment to 
 William Earl Ferrers and Derby, who had granted to Stephen Curzon the 
 manor of Fauld, co. Stafford. 
 
 Present Representative, the Kev. Alfred Nathaniel Holden Curzon, 
 4th Baron Scarsdale.
 
 DERBYSHIRE KXIGHTLY. 45 
 
 VERNON, or SUDBURY, BARON VERNON 1762. 
 
 The Vernons were originally of Cheshire, and 
 Barons of Shipbrooke, but became connected 
 with Derbyshire by the heiress of Avenell's 
 marriage with Eichard 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, and seated 
 himself at Haddon Hall in this county, and was the ancestor of the 
 different brandies of the House of Vernon. The Sudbury Vernons 
 settled there in the reign of Henry VIIL, 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 
 Courtney, 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. 
 
 AKMS. 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.
 
 46 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 7/\\ 
 
 POLE OF RADBOKNE. 
 
 Originally from Newborough in Staffordshire, 
 but from the fourteenth century established, 
 through female descent, first at Hartington, and 
 afterwards at Wakebridge, in this county. Rad- 
 borne 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. 
 
 ABMS. 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. 
 
 This family was originally from Cavendish, 
 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, 
 who had been Gentleman Usher to Wolsey, who may be called the
 
 DERBYSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 47 
 
 real founder of the Cavendishes, by the great share of abbey lands 
 which lie obtained at the Dissolution of Monasteries, " and after- 
 wards," 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 
 Xoble Families. 
 
 ARMS. Sable, three buck's heads cdbossed argent, attired or. Monsr. Andrew 
 Gavendysh of this family bore, Sable, three crosses botonnee fitchee or, 2 and 1 . 
 (Roll Ric. II.) 
 
 Present Representative, William Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of 
 Devonshire, K.G. 
 
 HARPUR OF CALKE, BARONET 1626 (CALLED CREWE). 
 
 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, Ixiii.
 
 48 NOBLK AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 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 Havpur Crewe, 9th Baronet. 
 
 BURDETT OF FOREMARK, BARONET 1618. 
 
 The pedigree begins with Hugo de Burdct, 
 who came into England with William I., and 
 was lord of the manor of Loseby, in Leicester- 
 shire, in 1066. Arrow, in the county of War- 
 wick, 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 ed. 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 cout in the reign 
 of Edward II. Sir Robert the same, in the upper bar three martlets gules. (Roll 
 K. 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.
 
 DERBYSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 49 
 
 CAVE OF STRETTON, BARONET 1641. 
 
 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, 
 Ixviii. 
 
 AHMS. 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, llth Ba- 
 ronet. 
 
 u
 
 50 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 COL VILE OF DUFFIELD. 
 
 This is an ancient 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 Xewton-Colvile, 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. 
 
 See Lysons's Cambridgeshire, 242. 
 
 ABMS. A zure, a lion rampant or, a label of Jive 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.) 
 
 Present Representative, Charles R. Colvile, Esq. M.P. for South 
 Derbyshire.
 
 DERBYSHIRE GENTLE. 
 
 51 
 
 Gentle. 
 
 COKE OF BROOKHILL HALL, IN THE PARISH OF PINXTON. 
 
 This is a younger branch 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 conse- 
 quence 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, Lords Melbourne, were descended. 
 
 See Lysons, Ixxxi. 
 ARMS. Gules, three crescents and a canton or. 
 
 Present Representative, D'Ewes Coke, Esq. 
 
 THORNHILL or STANTON, IN THE PARISH OF YOULGRAVE. 
 
 A I Descended from the Thornhills of Thornhill 
 
 T* 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 barsgcmelles and
 
 52 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 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. M.P. for 
 North Derbyshire. 
 
 ABNEY OF MEASHAM. 
 
 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 now belongs to 
 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 jive bezants. 
 
 Present Representative. William-Wotton Abney, Esq. 

 
 DEVONSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 
 
 53 
 
 DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 FULFORD OF FULFORD, IN THE PARISH OF DUNSFORD. 
 
 There is every reason to believe that the an- 
 cestors of this venerable family have resided at 
 Fulford from the time of the Conquest. Three 
 knights of the house distinguished themselves in 
 the wars in the Holy Land. William de Ful- 
 ford, who held Fulford in the reign of Kichard 
 I., is the first ascertained ancestor. 
 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 Eepresentative, Baldwin Fulford, Esq. 
 
 COURTENAY OF POWDERHAM CASTLE, EARL OF DEVON 1553, 
 
 RESTORED 1831. 
 
 This illustrious house is descended from Regi- 
 nald 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 con- 
 nected with this county. The Earldom of Devon 
 was first conferred on the Courtenays in 1335,
 
 54 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 by reason of their descent from William de Kedvers, 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, Ixxxvii.; 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, 
 with a bend over all. See also Willeinent's Heraldic Notices in Canterbury 
 Cathedral. 
 
 Present Representative, William Courtenay, 10th Earl of Devon. 
 
 EDGCUMBE OF EDGCUMBE, IN THE PARISH OF MILTON ABBOTS. 
 
 Richard Edgcumbe was Lord of Edgcumbe in 
 1292, and was the direct ancestor of this vene- 
 rable family, the present representative being 
 eighteenth in lineal descent from this first 
 Richard. 
 
 In the reign of Edward III., William Edg- 
 cumbe, 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 Edgcmnbes of 
 Cotehele and Mount Edgcumbe, Earls of Mount Edgcumbe (1789). 
 
 Another younger branch was of Brompton, or Brampton, in Kent.
 
 DEVONSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 
 
 55 
 
 See Prince's Worthies of Devon, ed. 1701, p. 281 ; Gilbert's Survey 
 of Cornwall, 4to. 1857, vol. i. p. 444; Carew's Cornwall, 1st ed., p. 
 99 b and 114 a; Brydges's Collins, v. 306; and Lysons's Cornwall, 
 Ixxiii. 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 PlLTON; BARO- 
 NET 1641. 
 
 This ancient family is said to have taken its 
 name from Cirencester, in Gloucestershire, the 
 residence of its remote ancestors. The Chiches- 
 ters were, however, as early as the reign of 
 r-r i Henry III. of the county of Devon, although 
 
 \__ Jr 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; 
 Tliichester 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.
 
 56 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 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 HlLL, EARL FORTESCUE 1789. 
 
 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, Ixxxv. 
 ARMS. Azure, a bend engrailed argent, cotised or. 
 Present Representative, Hugh Fortescue, 2nd Earl Fortescue, K.G.
 
 DEVONSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 57 
 
 CAKY OP TORR- ABBEY, IN THE PARISH OF TOR-MOHUN. 
 
 An ancient family, the history of which how- 
 ever is involved in great obscurity, supposed by 
 some to have come from Castle Gary, in Somer- 
 setshire, by others from Gary, 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 Gary, Knt. in 1662. 
 
 Younger branches. Gary 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 Gary. The present 
 Viscounts Falkland, and the extinct Barons Hunsdon, descend from 
 the second marriage of Sir William Gary, 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. 
 
 ARMS. Argent, on abend sable three roses of the first seeded proper, said to have 
 been the arms of a Knight of Arragon, vanquished by Sir Robert Gary in single 
 combat in the reign of Henry V. 
 
 Present Representative, Robert Shedden Sulyarde Gary, Esq.
 
 58 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 CAREW or HACCOMBE, BARONET 1661. 
 
 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 the 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.
 
 DEVONSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 
 
 59 
 
 KELLY OF KELLY. 
 
 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. 
 
 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 Represen- 
 tative of the family, the learned antiquary Sir 
 William Pole, resided at Shute 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 ; AVotton's Baronetage, ii. 
 124; Lysons, cix. 442.
 
 
 60 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 ARMS. Azure, semee 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. 
 
 An illustrious Norman family, traced to the 
 Conquest, of which the extinct Earls of Cumber- 
 land were the chiefs, first connected with Devon- 
 shire by the marriage of Thomas, fourth grand- 
 son of Sir Lewis 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 Stafford- 
 shire, ed. 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. 
 
 ARMS. Cheeky or and azure, afess gules. Borne by Roger de Clifford in the 
 reign of Henry III., and by Walter de Clifford at the same period, instead of
 
 DEVONSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 61 
 
 afess, 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 Koll of Carlaverock, p. 105. 
 
 Present Representative, Hugh Charles Clifford, 8th Baron Clifford 
 of Chudleigh. 
 
 HARINGTON OF DARTINGTON (CALLED CHAMPERNOWNE). 
 
 This is a younger line of the ancient and 
 noble family of Harington, formerly of Ridling- 
 ton, 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. 
 Darlington, the ancient seat of the Champernowne family, was car- 
 ried 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.
 
 62 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 . See Wright's History of the County of Kutland, pp. 48, 108 ; 
 Blore's Rutlandshire; and Courthope's Debrett's Baronetage, p. 10. 
 
 ASMS. Sable, fretty argent. 
 
 Present Representative, Arthur Champernowne, Esq. 
 
 Gentle. 
 
 BASTARD OF KITLEY, IN THE PARISH OF YEALMTON, OR 
 YALMETON. 
 
 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, Edmund Rodney Pollexfen Bastafd, Esq.
 
 DEVONSHIRE GENTLE. 63 
 
 ACLAND OF ACLAND, BARONET 1 644. 
 
 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 loyalty 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. Cheeky argent and sable, a fess gules. This coat was borne by M. 
 John Ackland, 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.
 
 64 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 BAMFYLDE OF POLTIMOKE, BARON POLTIMORE 1831, 
 BARONET 1641. 
 
 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 Poltimores taken away and re- 
 covered, see Prince's Worthies of Devon, p. 121; see also Westcote's 
 Devonshire Pedigrees, p. 492; Wotton's Baronetage, ii. 188; and 
 Lysons, ex. 
 
 ARMS. Or, on a lend gules three mullets argent. 
 
 Present Representative, George Warwick-Bampfylde, 1st Baron 
 Poltimore. 
 
 NORTHCOTE OF PYNES, BARONET 1641. 
 
 Descended from Galfridus, who was of North- 
 cote, in the parish of East-Downe, in the twelfth 
 century. Hayne, in the parish of Newton St. 
 Gyres, 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.
 
 DEVONSHIRE GENTLE. 
 
 65 
 
 See Lysons, pp. ex. 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, afess 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 t,able. 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 mis- 
 take. From the information of the present Baronet. 
 
 Present Representative, Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, 8th Baronet- 
 
 FURSDON OF FURSDON, IN THE PARISH OF CADBURT. 
 
 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. MSS. 
 1080. fo. 4; Lysons, cxlv. and 92. 
 
 ARMS. Argent, a chevron azure between three fire~ 
 balls proper. 
 
 Present Representative, George Fursdon, Esq.
 
 66 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OP ENGLAND. 
 
 STRODE OF NEWENHAM, IN THE PARISH OF PLYMPTON 
 ST. MARY. 
 
 Originally of Strode, in the parish, of Erming- 
 ton, 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 be- 
 came 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, civ. 
 
 ARMS. Argent, a chevron between three conies sable. 
 Present Representative, George Strode, Esq. 
 
 WALROND OF DULFORD IN THE PARISH OF BROAD HEMBURY. 
 
 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.
 
 DEVONSHIRE GENTLE. 67 
 
 See Lysons, clviii. and 540; Westcote's Devonshire Pedigrees, p. 
 484. 
 
 ARMS. Or, three buffs heads cabossed sable. (Westcote makes the field 
 argent.) 
 
 Present Kepresentative, Bethell Walrond, Esq. 
 
 BELLEW OF COURT, IN THE PARISH OP STOCKLEIGH-ENGLISH. 
 
 This is a younger branch of the great Anglo - 
 Irish family of Belle w 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. 
 
 ABMS. Sable,fretty or, a crescent for difference. 
 
 Present Representative, John Prestwood Belle w, Esq.
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 DREWE OF GRANGE, IN THE PARISH OF BROAD HEMBUUY. 
 
 J.I. j . J .1 
 
 * i 
 
 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. Gyres. 
 
 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.
 
 ' DEVONSHIRE GENTLE. 
 
 69 
 
 DULLER OF DOWNES, IN THE PARISH OF CREDITON. 
 
 This is the head of the wide-spread family of 
 Buller, of which there are several branches in 
 the Western counties. The first recorded an- 
 cestor 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. 
 
 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.
 
 70 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 DORSETSHIRE. 
 
 BINGHAM OF BINGHAM'S-MELCOMBE. 
 
 Sir John de Bingham, Knight, who lived in 
 the reign of Henry I., is the first recorded an- 
 cestor 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 patee or. 
 
 Present Representative, Richard Hippisley Bingham, Esq.
 
 DORSETSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 
 
 71 
 
 RUSSELL OF KINGSTON-RUSSELL, DUKE OF BEDFORD 1694, 
 EARL OF BEDFORD 1550. 
 
 Although this family may be said to have 
 made their fortune in the reign of Henry VIII., 
 first by Mr. John Russell's accidental meeting 
 with Philip Archduke of Austria, and his con- 
 sequent 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 WifTen's House of Russell, and Brydges's Collins, i. 262, &c. 
 ARMS. Argent, a lion rampant gules, on a chief sable three escallops of the first. 
 
 Present Representative, Francis Russell, 7th Duke of Bedford, 
 K.G.
 
 72 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OP ENGLAND. 
 
 DlGBY OF MlNTON, BARON DlGBY OF SHERBORNE 1765, BARON 
 
 DIGBY OF GEASHILL IN IRELAND 1620. 
 
 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 ^Elmar, the first recorded an- 
 cestor of the Digby s, 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 Digby 's both in England 
 and Ireland, besides the extinct Earls of Bristol. During the 
 seventeenth century the history of the family, as evinced in the lines 
 of the celebrated Sir Kenelm Digby and the Earl of Bristol, is very 
 remarkable. 
 
 See Leland's Itin., iiii. fo. 19; Dugdale's Warwickshire, ed. 2d, 
 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 fot portraits of the Digbys at Gothurst, ib. p. 449.
 
 DORSETSHIRE GENTLE. 73 
 
 ARMS. Azure, a fleur-de-lis argent. 
 
 Present Representative, Edward St. Vincent Digby, 9th Baron 
 Digby of Geashill. 
 
 FRAMPTON OF MORETON. 
 
 John Frampton, who occurs in the 9th of 
 Richard II. (1385), is the first recorded ancestor; 
 his son Walter, having married Margaret daugh- 
 ter arid heir of Maurice de Moreton, became 
 possessed of that manor 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 pedi- 
 gree is given from the Heralds' Office, CC. 22, 155, continued from 
 1623 to 1753 by James Lane, Richmond Herald. 
 
 ARMS. Argent, a bend gules cotised sable. 
 first ancestor John Frampton. 
 
 Said to have been borne by the 
 
 Present Representative, Henry James Frampton, Esq.
 
 74 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 BOND OF GRANGE AND LUTTON, IN THE PARISH OF STEPLE, 
 IN THE ISLE OF PURBECK. 
 
 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, 
 Swan wick, and Wareham. 
 
 See Hutchins's History of Dorset, vol. i. 326. 
 
 ARMS. Sable, afess or. 
 
 Present Representative, The Rev. Nathaniel Bond. 
 
 TREGONWELL OF ANDERSTON. 
 
 The name is derived from Tregonwell, in the 
 parish of Cranstock and county of Cornwall, and 
 there the remote ancestors of this family doubt- 
 less resided, though the pedigree is not proved 
 beyond the latter part of the fifteenth century. 
 In the reign of Henry VIII., Sir John Tregon- 
 well was employed by the king on his matri- 
 monial affairs, and sent into France, Germany, and Italy. His
 
 DORSETSHIRE. GENTLE. 
 
 75 
 
 services were rewarded by grants of monastic lands, among others, 
 by the mitred abbey of Milton in this county. Milton was sold to 
 the Darners in the eighteenth century, and Anderston purchased in 
 1622. 
 
 Younger branch, Tregonwell of Cranborne Lodge in this county. 
 See Gilbert's Cornwall, ii. 313; Hutchins's Dorset, iv. 210. 
 
 ARMS. Argent, on a f ess cotised sable, between three Cornish choughs proper, 
 three plates. 
 
 Present Representative, St. Barbe Tregonwell, Esq. 
 
 WELD OF LULWORTH CASTLE. 
 
 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 Fitz-Hugh. Lul worth 
 was purchased in 1641. 
 
 Younger branch. Weld-Blundell of Ince-Blundell, Lancashire. 
 
 See Ormerod's Cheshire, ii. 131; Hutchins's Dorset, i. 226; 
 Blakeway's Sheriffs of Salop, p. 120. 
 
 ARMS. Azure, a fess nebulee* between three crescents ermine. Confirmed by 
 Camden in 1606. See Morgan's Sphere of Gentry ; book 2, p. 112. 
 
 Present Representative, Joseph Weld, Esq.
 
 76 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 FLOYER OF WEST-STAFFORD. 
 
 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. 
 
 An MS. Sable, a chevron between three broad arrows argent. 
 
 Present Representative, John Floyer, Esq. late M.P. for Dorset.
 
 DURHAM KNIGHTLY. 
 
 77 
 
 DURHAM. 
 
 Itnigfjtig. 
 
 LUMLEY OF LUMLEY CASTLE, EARL OF SCARBOROUGH 1690, 
 VISCOUNT LUMLEY OF IRELAND 1628. 
 
 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 Lum- 
 leys 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 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; and 
 Roll of Caerlaverock by Sir H. Nicolas, p. 313.
 
 78 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 AKMS. 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 Caerlaverock, 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. 
 
 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 suppose to be derived from this wood 
 or forest, were seated at Norton before the year 
 1 140. 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. 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.
 
 DURHAM GENTLE. 79 
 
 Gentle. 
 
 LAMBTON OF LAMBTON CASTLE, EARL OF DURHAM 1833, 
 BARON 1828. 
 
 According to Surtees, traced to Robert de 
 Lambton, Lord of Lambton in 1314. There 
 was, it is true, a John de Lambton living be- 
 tween 1180 and 1200, but the pedigree can- 
 not be proved beyond this Robert. The Lamb- 
 tons 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, afess between three lambs trippant argent. 
 
 Present Representative, George Frederick D'Arcy Lambton, 2nd 
 Earl of Durham.
 
 80 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 ESSEX. 
 
 TYRELL OP BOREHAM, BARONET 1809. 
 
 " This is," says Morant, te 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 
 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 pos- 
 session. 
 
 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. 510. 
 
 ARMS. Argent, two chevrons azure within a border engrailed gules. 
 
 Present Representative, Sir John Tyssen Tyrell, 2nd Baronet, 
 M.P. for Essex.
 
 ESSEX KNIGHTLY. 
 
 81 
 
 WALDEGRAVE OF NAVERSTOKE, EARL WALDEGRAVE 1729; 
 BARON 1685; BARONET 1643. 
 
 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, 
 seized 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 North- 
 ampton 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. 
 
 Younger branch, Baron Radstock, of Ireland, 1800. 
 
 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 Waldegrave, 8th Earl Walde- 
 grave.
 
 82 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 DISNEY OF THE HYDE, IN THE PARISH OF INGATSTONE. 
 
 A younger branch of an ancient Knightly 
 Nornian 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, i. 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 afess gvles three fleurs- de-lis or. In the reign of Bichard 
 II. Monsieur William Dysney bore, Argent, three lions passant in pale gules. 
 Roll. 
 
 Present Representative, John Disney, Esq.
 
 ESSEX GENTLE. 
 
 83 
 
 (gentle. 
 
 GENT OF MOYNS. 
 
 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 Thomas Gent, the Judge, in 
 the reign of Queen Elizabeth. 
 
 See Morant's History of Essex, ii. 353. 
 
 ARMS. Ermine, a chief indented table. Sometimes a chevron sable is borne 
 on the field. 
 
 Present Representative, George Gent, Esq.
 
 "84 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 GLOUCESTERSHIRE. 
 
 BERKELEY OF BERKELEY CASTLE; EARL OF BERKELEY 1679; 
 BARON BERKELEY 1416. 
 
 Pre-eminent among the Norman aristocracy 
 is the house of Berkeley, and more especially 
 remarkable from being the only family in Eng- 
 land 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 Fitz-Hardinge, 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.
 
 GLOUCESTERSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 
 
 85 
 
 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. Oxon., cxlix; and, above all, Fos- 
 broke'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 patee 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 patee 
 or. (Roll of Edw. II. &c.) 
 
 See for the differences in the Berkeley coat, Camden's Remaines, Ed. 1657, p. 
 226. 
 
 Present Representative, Thomas Morton Fitz-Hardinge Berkeley, 
 6th Earl of Berkeley. 
 
 KlNGSCOTE OF KlNGSCOTE. 
 
 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 Agin-
 
 86 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 court, 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, 2d 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. 
 
 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 Alking- 
 ton 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. 
 
 Present Representative, Henry Norwood Trye, Esq.
 
 GLOUCESTERSHIRE GENTLE. 
 
 87 
 
 ESTCOURT OP ESTCOURT, IN SHIPTON-MoiGN. 
 
 WWWWW 
 
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 The printed accounts of this ancient family 
 are very 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 seized 
 in the fourteenth year of Edward IV. The 
 
 estate has remained the inheritance of his descendants from that 
 
 period. 
 
 See Atkyns's Gloucestershire, 2nd ed. p. 340; and Rudder, p. 654. 
 ARMS. Ermine, on a chief indented gules three estoils or. 
 
 Present Representative. Thomas H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt, Esq., 
 M.P. for North Wilts. 
 
 LEIGH OF ADLESTROP, BARON LEIGH OF STONELEIGH 1839. 
 
 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-Legh. (See p. 
 22.) They had a son who took the name of 
 Leo-h, and settled at Booths in Cheshire: from 
 
 o ' 
 
 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
 
 88 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OP ENGLAND. 
 
 Leighs of Ridge, iu 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. 
 
 89 
 
 HEREFORDSHIRE. 
 
 $tntQi)tlg. 
 
 BODENHAM OF ROTHEUWAS. 
 
 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, afess between three chess-rooks or. 
 Present Representative, Charles Thomas Bodenham, Esq.
 
 90 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 SCUDAMORE OF KENTCHURCH. 
 
 This is the only remaining branch of an 
 ancient Norman family formerly seated at Upton 
 and Norton near "VVarminster, 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 Home-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, Home-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 pateejttchee gules. 
 
 Present Eepresentative, John Lacy Scudamore, Esq.
 
 HEREFORDSHIRE GENTLE. 
 
 LUTTLEY OF BROCKHAMPTON, (CALLED BARNEBY.) 
 
 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, in 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 counter changed. 
 Present Representative, John Habington Barneby, Esq.
 
 92 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 BERINGTON OF WINSLEY. 
 
 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 Dray- 
 cot, 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. 
 
 ARMS. Sable, three greyhounds courant in pale argent, collared gules, within a 
 border of the last. 
 
 Present Representative, John Berington, Esq.
 
 HERTFORDSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 93 
 
 HERTFORDSHIRE. 
 
 JOCELYN, OF HYDE HALL, IN THE PARISH OF SABRIDGEWORTH, 
 EARL OF RODEN IN IRELAND 1771 ; IRISH BARON 1743 ; 
 BARONET 1665. 
 
 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 Joscelyn, son of John, having 
 married Maud, daughter and coheir of Sir John 
 Hide, of Hide, 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 Eluci- 
 dation 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.
 
 94 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 WOLRYCHE OF CROXLEY. 
 
 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 ad- 
 mitted 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 seven- 
 teenth of Henry VII., 1501. There were branches of the family, 
 now extinct, at Cowling and Wickornbroke, Suffolk, and Alconbury, 
 Hun tingdonshire. 
 
 From the MSS. of Mr. Joseph Morris, of Shrewsbury. 
 
 ARMS. Azure, a chevron between three swans argent. 
 
 Present Representative, Humphry William Wolrych, Esq.
 
 KENT KNIGHTLY. 95 
 
 KENT. 
 
 ooo 
 
 BERING OF SURENDEN-DERING, BARONET 1626. 
 
 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, de- 
 scended from Norman Fitz-Dering, Sheriff of 
 this county in King Stephen's reign. Richard 
 Dering died seized 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. 
 
 For a notice of the old seats of this family, in the parish of Lid, 
 called Dengemarsh Place and Westbrooke, see Hasted's History of 
 Kent, iii. 515, and for the family, iii. 228; and Wotton's Baro- 
 netage, ii. 13. 
 
 ARMS. Argent, a fens 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 Morinis, and now generally 
 quartered with Dering. See Willement's Heraldic Notices of Canterbury 
 Cathedral, pp. 90, 106. 
 
 Present Representative, Sir Edward C. Dering, Bart., late M.P. 
 for East Kent.
 
 96 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 NEVILLE OP BIRLING, EARL OP ABERGAVENNY 1784; 
 BARON 1392. 
 
 " 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 Westmorland. 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 previous to the creation of the 
 Earldom. Birling has long been deserted by the family, whose 
 principal seat was afterwards at Sheffield, and Eridge, in Sussex. 
 
 See Hasted, ii. 200; Brydges's Collins, v. 151; and Surtees's 
 Durham, iv. 158, for pedigrees of the Nevilles, Earls of Westmor- 
 land, and the Nevilles of Weardale and Thornton-Bridge. See also 
 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 M. 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
 
 KENT KNIGHTLY. 
 
 97 
 
 Lancaster, Ralph Neville, 1st Earl ofWestmerland, having marrieclto 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. 
 
 Centle. 
 
 HONYWOOD OF EVINGTON, IN ELMSTED, BARONET 1660. 
 
 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 Hony woods 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 Hony- 
 wood, 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 Baro- 
 netage, iii. 105. 
 
 o
 
 98 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 ARMS. Argent, a chevron between three hoick's heads erased azure. These 
 
 arms, of the time of Richard II. are carved on the cloisters of Canterbury Cathe- 
 dral. See Willement, p. 101. 
 
 Present Representative, Sir Courtenay Honywood, 7th Baronet. 
 
 TWYSDEN OF ROYDON-HALL, IN EAST PECKHAM, 
 BARONET 1611. 
 
 Twysden, in the parish of Goudhurst, appears 
 to have given name to this family : it was pos- 
 sessed 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 Chelming- 
 ton, 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 Bradbourn, 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 saltire between four crosses crosslet, 
 all counterchanged. 
 
 Present Representative, Sir William Twysden, 8th Baronet.
 
 KENT GENTLE. 
 
 99 
 
 TOKE OP GODINGTON. 
 
 This family claim descent from Eobert 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 Gold well, 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 aug- 
 mentation 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. Nicolas Toke.
 
 00 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 ROPER OF LINSTEAD, BARON TEYNHAM 1616. 
 
 William Roper, or Rosper, who lived in the 
 reign of Henry III., is the first recorded ances- 
 tor; 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 was 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 John Roper, the first man who proclaimed his Majesty 
 in the county of Kent. 
 
 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.
 
 KENT GENTLE. 
 
 101 
 
 KNATCHBULL OP MEUSHAM-HATCH, BARONET 1641. 
 
 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 Jitchee in bend or, cotised of the same. 
 
 Present Representative, Sir Norton Joseph Knatchbull, tenth 
 Baronet.
 
 102 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 FILMEK OF EAST-SUTTON, BARONET 1674. 
 
 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 eldest son. There are pedi- 
 grees of Filraer 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, ninth Baronet.
 
 KENT GENTLE. 
 
 103 
 
 OXENDEN OF DENE, BARONET 1678. 
 
 Solomon Oxenden, who lived in the reign of 
 Edward III., is the first known ancestor. Dene, 
 in the parish of Wingham, was purchased the 
 latter part of the reign of Henry VI. The 
 family had previously been seated at Brook, in 
 the same parish. Thomas Oxenden died seized 
 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, eighth 
 Baronet. 
 
 FJNCH OF EASTWELL, EARL OF WINCHELSEA AND NOTTING- 
 HAM 15281681. 
 
 " The name of the Finches," writes Leland, 
 " hath bene of ancient tyme in estimation in 
 Southsex about Winchelesey, and by all likely- 
 hod rose by sum notable merchaunte of Win- 
 chelesey." The name is said to be derived from 
 the manor of Finches in the parish of Lid. 
 
 Vincent Herbert, alias Finch, married Joan, 
 daughter and heir of Eobert de Pitlesden, of Tenterden. His son
 
 104 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 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 Winchelsea in 1628. The Earldom of Notting- 
 ham is due to the law, being granted in 1681 to Heneage, grand- 
 son of the first countess. 
 
 Younger Branch. Earl of Aylesford 1714. 
 
 From John, second son of the second Vincent Finch, of Nether- 
 field, were descended the Finches of Sewards, Norton, Kingsdown, 
 Feversham, Wye, and other places in this county. 
 
 See Leland's Itinerary, vi. fol. 59; Hasted's Kent, iii. 198; and 
 Brydges's Collins, iii. 371. 
 
 ARMS. Argent, a chevron between three gryphons sable. 
 
 Present Representative, George James Finch Hatton, eleventh 
 Earl of Winchelsea, and seventh Earl of Nottingham.
 
 LANCASHIRE KNIGHTLY. 105 
 
 LANCASHIRE. 
 
 PENNINGTON OF PENNINGTON, BARON MUNCASTER, IN 
 IRELAND, 1676. 
 
 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 con- 
 cealed 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 preser- 
 vation 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,fivcfiisils infess azure. 
 
 Present Representative, Gamel Augustus Pennington, fourth 
 Baron Muncaster.
 
 106 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 MOLYNEUX OF SEFTON, EARL OF SEFTON IN IRELAND 1771 ; 
 
 VISCOUNT MOLYNEUX IN IRELAND 1628; BARON SEFTON 
 1831 ; BARONET 1611. 
 
 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 an- 
 cestor, 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 be'en 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. 
 
 See 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. 
 
 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. ./4rre, a cross moline or. 
 
 Present Representative, William Philip Molyneux, fourth Earl of 
 Sefton.
 
 LANCASHIRE KNIGHTLY. 107 
 
 HOGHTON OF'HOGHTON-TOWER, BARONET 1611. 
 
 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 Mon?. 
 Ric. de Hoghton. His son (?) Richard, the same, with a label of three points 
 gules. (Rolls.) 
 
 Present Representative, Sir Henry Bold Hoghton, eighth Baronet.
 
 108 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 CLIFTON OF CLIFTON. 
 
 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 Col- 
 lector 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.
 
 LANCASHIRE KNIGHTLY. 
 
 109 
 
 TRAFFORD OF TRAFFORD, BARONET 1841. 
 
 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 pro- 
 fesses to be founded on documents in possession 
 of the family, but some of it is certainly inaccu- 
 rate, 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 this 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, second Baronet.
 
 110 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 HESKETH OF RUFFORD, BARONET 1761. 
 
 In the year 1275, the 4th of Edward L, Sir 
 William Heskayte, Knight, married the co- 
 heiress 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. 
 
 ABMS. 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 forteauxes three 
 garbs of the field. 
 
 Present Representative, Sir Thomas George Hesketh. fifth 
 Baronet.
 
 LANCASHIRE KNIGHTLY. Ill 
 
 TOWNLEY OP TOWNLEY. 
 
 " 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, 
 [1562-1704,] p. 384; and of Barnside [Edw. IV. 1739,] p. 395. 
 
 For the origin of the Legh (properly Venablcs) family of 
 Cheshire, see Leigh of Adlestrop, p. 87. 
 
 ARMS. Argent, afess and in chief three mullets sable. 
 Present Representative, Charles Townley, Esq.
 
 112 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 GERARD OF BRYN, BARONET 1611. 
 
 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 Gerard's of Ince descended the extinct 
 Lords Gerard, of Gerards- Bromley, and Sir William Gerard, Lord 
 Chancellor of Ireland, who died in 1/581. 
 
 See Baines's Lancashire, iii. 641; and Wotton's Baronetage, i. 51. 
 ARMS. Argent, a saltier gules. 
 
 Present Representative, Sir Robert John Gerard, thirteentli 
 Baronet.
 
 LANCASHIRE KNIGHTLY. 113 
 
 STANLEY OF KNOWESLEY, EARL OF DERBY 1485; BARONET 
 
 1627. 
 
 Although 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 BickerstaiF, 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, second Baronet, who died in 
 1653. 
 
 Q
 
 114 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 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 Geoffry Smith Stanley, four- 
 teenth Earl of Derby. 
 
 * 
 
 ASSHETON OF DOWNHAM. 
 
 This is the only remaining branch of the old 
 Lancashire family of Assheton, originally seated 
 at Assheton-under-Lyne, and of whom the Asshe- 
 tons of Middleton and of Great Lever, both 
 Baronets, represented the elder lines. The 
 present family descend from RadclifTe Assheton, 
 
 second son of Ralph Assheton, of Great Lever, 
 born in 1582. 
 
 Downham appears to have come into the family in the seventeenth 
 century. 
 
 * The Dalegarth family hear the bend cotised vert.
 
 LANCASHIRE KNIGHTLY. 115 
 
 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-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, William Assheton, Esq. 
 
 RADCLYFFE OF FOXDENTON. 
 
 This is a younger branch of the well known 
 Lancashire family of this name, who trace their 
 descent to 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. Foxden- 
 ton, 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 Fitzwal- 
 ter 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.
 
 116 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 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 pointy 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. 
 
 HlTLTON OF HULTON. 
 
 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.
 
 LANCASHIRE GENTLE. 
 
 117 
 
 ECCLESTON OF SCARISBRICK (CALLED SCARISBRICK). 
 
 Descended from .Robert Eccleston of Eccles- 
 ton, 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.
 
 118 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 ORMEROD OF TYLDESLEY. 
 
 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 Mathew 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. 
 
 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 Con- 
 quest. William Starkie was of Barnton in the 
 seventh of Edward IV. Huntroyd was acquired 
 by marriage, in 1464, with the heiress of Symondstone.
 
 LANCASHIRE GENTLE. 
 
 119 
 
 See Whitaker's Whalley, 266, 529; also Ormerod's Cheshire,!. 
 474; and Baines, iii. 309. 
 
 Younger Branches. Starkie of Twistori , and Starkie of Thornton, 
 Yorkshire. 
 
 ARMS. Argent, a bend between six storks sable. 
 
 Present Representative, Le Gendre Nicholas Starkie, Esq. 
 
 CHADWICK OF HEALEY. 
 
 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 Chad wicks 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.
 
 120 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 LEICESTERSHIRE. 
 
 TURVILE OF HUSBAND'S BOSWORTH. 
 
 " 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 Bos worth 
 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, George Fortescue Turvile, Esq.
 
 LEICESTERSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 
 
 121 
 
 FARNHAM OF QUORNDON. 
 
 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 Farnhain and Margaret Bil- 
 Ungton, living in 1393, founded a junior branch, 
 denominated of " The Nether- Hall." He was 
 the ancestor of the present family, who also de- 
 scend 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. 1. p. 103. 
 
 ARMS. Quarterly or and azure, in the first and second quarter a crescent inter- 
 changed. 
 
 Sir Robert de Farnham, of the county of Stafford, bore in the reign of 
 Edward II. Quarterly argent and azure, four crescents counter changed. (Roll.) 
 
 Present Representative, Edward Basil Farnham, Esq. M.P. for 
 North Leicestershire.
 
 122 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 SHERARD OF STAPLEFORD, EARL OF HARBOROUGH 1719; IRISH 
 
 BARON 1627. 
 
 CKO 
 
 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 by marriage with the heiress of 
 Hawberk. 
 
 See Nichols's Leicestershire, vol. ii. pt. 1. 343; and Brydges's 
 Collins, iv. 180. 
 
 Younger Branch. Sherard of Glatton, co. Huntingdon, de- 
 scended from George, third son of the first Baron. An extinct 
 younger branch was of Lopthorne, in this county. 
 
 ARMS. Argent, a chevron gules hetween three torteauxes. 
 Present Representative. Robert Sherard, sixth Earl of Harborough.
 
 LEICESTERSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 123 
 
 BEAUMONT OF COLEORTON, BARONET 1660. 
 
 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 Nichols's 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, semee 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 I L, in that of Richard II., Mons. de Beaumont omitted the baton. 
 (Rolls of the date.) 
 
 Present Representative, Sir George Howland Beaumont, ninth 
 Baronet.
 
 124 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 GKEY OF GROBY AND BRADGATE, EARL OF STAMFORD 1628 ; 
 
 BARON 1603. 
 
 Nichols begins the pedigree of this great histo- 
 rical family with Rolla or Fulbert, Chamberlain 
 to Robert Duke of Normandy, who held of his 
 gift the Castle of Croy, in Picardy, from whence 
 the name is derived. The earlier possessions of the 
 Greys in England appear to have been in Essex- 
 Groby and Bradgate came from the heiress of 
 
 Ferrers in the reign of Henry VI. Of the latter Leland writes, 
 
 " Thisparke was parte of the old Erles of Leicester's landes and sins. 
 
 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 Nichols's Leicestershire, iii. pt. 2. 682; Brydges's Collins, 
 iii. 340. 
 
 ARMS. Barry of six, argent andazvre. Richard dc 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 ghles, a label gules bezuntee, a 
 baton gules, and three torteuiixes in chief, which last was used by the Dukes of 
 Suffolk. 
 
 Present Representative, George Harry Grey, seventh Earl of 
 Stamford.
 
 LEICESTERSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 
 
 125 
 
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 909 
 oo 
 
 a 
 
 BABINGTON OF KOTHLEY-TEMPLE. 
 
 The Babingtons were of Babington in N orth- 
 umberland in the reign of King John: they 
 afterwards removed into Nottinghamshire, and 
 became very distinguished. The elder line was 
 seated at Dethick in Ashorn, 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 six- 
 teenth 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 Topo- 
 grapher 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.
 
 126 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 HAZLERIGG OF NOSELEY, BARONET 1622. 
 
 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 50 U lande in Northumbreland, at Esselington, where is 
 a pratie pile of Hasilriggs; and one of the Collingwooddes 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. 
 
 ARMS. Argent, a chevron between three hazle-leaves slipped vert. 
 
 Present Representative, Sir Arthur Grey Hazlerigg, twelfth 
 Baronet.
 
 LEICESTERSHIRE GENTLE. 
 
 127 
 
 WOLLASTON OF SHENTON. 
 
 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 IL] 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 his family, which is printed in the History of Leices- 
 tershire. He was the direct ancestor of the present family, who 
 have been also seated at Oncott, in Staffordshire, and Finborough 
 Hall, in Suffolk. Shentonwas 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.
 
 128 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 LINCOLNSHIRE. 
 
 WELBY OF DENTON, BARONET 1801. 
 
 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 be- 
 tween 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 six- 
 teenth 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. 
 
 ABMS. Sable, afess between three fleurs-de-lis argent. 
 
 Present Representative, Sir Glynnc Earle Welby, third Baronet, 
 M.P. for Grantham. 
 
 * So styled in the Heralds' grant of crest in 1562.
 
 LINCOLNSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 129 
 
 DYMOKE OF SCRIVKLSBY, CHAMPION or ENGLAND, 
 
 * 
 
 BARONET 1841. 
 
 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 Lincoln- 
 shire, ii. 83. 
 
 ARMS. Sable, two lions passant argent crowned or. Borne- by Monsr. John 
 Dyinoke in the reign of Richard II. Roll of the date. 
 
 Present Representative, The Honourable Sir Henry Dyinoke, first 
 
 "
 
 130 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 HENEAGE OF HAINTON. 
 
 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 fyfety 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 translat- 
 ing and new building with brike and abbay stone." 
 
 See Leland's Itinerary, vii. fol. 52 ; and Allen's History of Lin- 
 colnshire, ii. 67. 
 
 ARMS. Or, a greyhound courant sable between three leopard 's faces azure, a 
 border engrailed gules. 
 
 Present Representative, George Fieschi Heneage, Esq., M.P. for 
 Lincoln.
 
 LINCOLNSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 
 
 131 
 
 MANNERS OF BELVOIR CASTLE, DUKE OF RUTLAND 1703, 
 EARL 1525. 
 
 Originally of Northumberland, where the 
 family were seated at an early period. The first 
 recorded ancestor is Sir Robert de Manors, who 
 obtained a grant of land in Berrington in 1327, 
 and was M.P. for Northumberland 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 ofVernon 
 of Haddon still further increased the wealth and importance of this 
 noble family. 
 
 An extinct branch was from the time of Henry VI LI. 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 1st and 
 4th two fleurs-de-lis, on the 2nd and 3rd 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 sixth Duke of 
 Rutland.
 
 132 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 ALINGTON OF SVVINHOPE. 
 
 Tins is a branch of the extinct family of the 
 Lords Alington, of Horseheath, in Cambridge- 
 shire, 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 Chitterbuck's History of Hertfordshire, ii. 542; and Collec- 
 tanea Topog. et Genealog., iv. 33-53, and note 2, p. 39. For Horse- 
 heath, see Topographer, ii. 374. 
 
 ARMS. Sable, a bend engrailed between six billets argent 
 Present Representative, George Marmaduke Alington, Esq.
 
 LINCOLNSHIRE GENTLE. 
 
 133 
 
 (gentle. 
 
 THOROLD or MARSTON, BARONET 1642. 
 
 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, eleventh Ba- 
 ronet. 
 
 MONSON OF BURTON, BARON MONSON 1728. BARONET 1611. 
 
 " 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 Monson? 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.
 
 134 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 See Leland's Itin., i. fol 42; Allen's Lincolnshire, ii. 57; and 
 Brydges's Collins, vii. 228. 
 
 ARMS. Or, two chevrons gules. 
 
 Present Representative, William John Monson, sixth Baron 
 Monson. 
 
 WHICHCOTE OF ASWARBY, BARONET 1660. 
 
 This is an ancient Shropshire family descended 
 from William de Whichcote, of Whichcote, in 
 that county, in 1255. In the reign of Edward TV , 
 by marriage with the heiress of Tyrwhitt, the 
 family became possessed of Harpswell in this 
 county, which for a long time continued the resi- 
 dence of the Whichcotes. 
 
 See Wotton's Baronetage, iii. 13; and Allen's History of Lincoln- 
 hire, i. 38. 
 
 ARMS. Ermine, two boars passant in pale gules. 
 
 Present Representative, Sir Thomas Whichcote, seventh Baronet.
 
 NORFOLK KNIGHTLY. 
 
 135 
 
 NORFOLK. 
 
 WODEIIOUSE OF KlMBERLEY, BARON WODEHOUSE 1797, 
 BARONET 1611. 
 
 " This family is very ancient, for they were 
 gentlemen of good ranke in the time of King 
 John, as it appeareth by many antient grants and 
 evidences of theirs which I have seen," wrote 
 Peacham in his " Compleat Gentleman " in 163.4. 
 (p. 191.) The name is local, being derived 
 *rom 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. 1. 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, guttee de sang, between three cinquefoils ermine. 
 This coat is said to have been augmented as now borne by Henry V. in honor 
 of John Wodehouse's valor at the Battle of Agincourt, the guttee 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, third Baron Wode- 
 house. 
 
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 136 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 WALPOLE OF WOLTEKTON, EARL OF OKFOKD 1806, 
 BAKON 1723. 
 
 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 Howton, 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 fens between two chevrons sable three cross -crosslcts of the 
 first. 
 
 Present Representative, Horatio Walpole, third Earl of Orford.
 
 NORFOLK KNIGHTLY. 
 
 137 
 
 BERNEY OF KIRBY BEEDON, BARONET 1620. 
 
 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 Reed man 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 Hanson Berney, eighth Baronet.
 
 138 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 ASTLEY, OF MELTON-CONSTABLE, BARON HASTINGS 1841, 
 BARONET 1660. 
 
 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-Con- 
 stable, which estate came into the family by the 
 second marriage of Thomas Lord Astley with 
 Edith , third sister and coheir of Geffrey de Con- 
 stable, 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 dnquefoil ermine within a border engrailed or. The Patis- 
 hull 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 Astley, first Baron Hastings.
 
 NORFOLK KNIGHTLY. 
 
 139 
 
 BEDINGFELD OP OXBOROUGH, BARONET 1660. 
 
 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 Sir Robert de Tuddenham. The baronetcy 
 was conferred by Charles II. as a mark of his favour and in conside- 
 ration 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; and Wotton's Baronetage, iii. 212. 
 ARMS. Ermine, an eagle displayed gides armed or. 
 
 Present Representative, Sir Henry Richard Paston Bedingfeld, 
 sixth Baronet.
 
 140 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 HOWARD OF EAST- WINCH, DUKE OF NORFOLK 1483. 
 
 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 con- 
 sequence 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 Fitzallan, 
 Earl of Arundel, in the reign of Edward VI.; Worksop from the 
 Talbots; Greystock 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 ancestpr of the house of Carlisle. 
 
 Extinct Branches. The Viscount Bindon ; the Earls of North- 
 ampton, 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,
 
 NORFOLK KNIGHTLY. 141 
 
 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," fo. 1834. 
 
 ARMS. Gules, a bend between six cross- crosslets fttchee argent, on an escutcheon 
 a demi-lion pierced through the mouth with an arrow, within a double treasure flory 
 countf.rf.ory 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 con- 
 jectured from the similarity of this coat with that of the Botilers, Barons of 
 Wem, (Gules, a fess counter- company argent and sable, between six crosses patee 
 fitchee argent,) that Sir William Howard the judge was descended from the 
 Hords, stewards to those 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, p. 53 note.) 
 
 Present Representative, Henry Granville Howard, seventeenth 
 Duke of Norfolk.
 
 142 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
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 i^.iv^> 
 
 GURNET OF KESWICK. 
 
 This is a younger branch of the Gurneys of 
 West Barsham in this county, whose principal 
 male line became extinct in 1661. West Bars- 
 ham came from an 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 is supposed) 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, appear to have been a distinct family ; their 
 arms were, Paly of six or and azure. 
 
 See the " Record of the House of Gournay," privately printed, 
 4to., 1848. 
 
 ARMS. Argent, a cross engrailed gules, in the first quarter a cinquefoil azure. 
 Present Representative, Hudson Gurney, Esq.
 
 NORFOLK KNIGHTLY. 
 
 143 
 
 DE GREY OF MERTON, BARON WALSINGHAM 1780. 
 
 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 be- 
 came possessed of Merton the long-continued seat of this family. 
 
 See Blomefield, i. 576; and Brydges's Collins, vii. 510. 
 
 ARMS. Barry of six urgent and azure, in chief three annulets gules. The 
 ancient coat of Cornerth, Azure, a fess between two chevronells 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, fifth Baron Wal- 
 singham.
 
 144 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 BACON OF RAVENINGHAM, PREMIER BARONET OF ENGLAND, 
 OF REDGRAVE, SUFFOLK, 1611. 
 
 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 de- 
 scended 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. 
 
 AKMS. Gtiles, 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, 
 Sufiblk, 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 Edmund Bacon, tenth Baronet.
 
 NORFOLK KNIGHTLY. 145 
 
 JERNINGHAM OP COSSET, BARON STAFFORD, RESTORED 1824, 
 BARONET 1621. 
 
 The ancestors of this ancient family were seated 
 at Horham in Suffolk in the 13th century, 
 " knights of high esteem in those parts," saith 
 Cam den, and traced to Sir Hubert Jernegan of 
 that place. Somerleyton, in the same county, 
 derived from the heiress of Fitzosbert, after- 
 wards 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, 
 seventh Baron Stafford.
 
 146 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 TOWNSHEND OF RAINHAM, MARQUESS TOWNSHEND 1787; 
 BARON 1661 ; VISCOUNT 1682. 
 
 In 1377, the ancestor of this family was of 
 Snoring Magna in this county. In 1398, John 
 Townshend settled at Kainham, which according 
 to some accounts accrued to the family 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 sub- 
 stance." The truth seems to be that the family is old, but not of 
 great account before the time of Sir Walter de Townsend, wh o 
 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 ermine. 
 
 Present Representative, John Townshend, fourth Marquess Towns- 
 hend.
 
 NORTHAMPTONSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 
 
 147 
 
 NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. 
 
 ooo 
 
 WAKE OF COURTEENHALL, BARONET 1621. 
 
 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 torteaux. 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 Eepresentative, Sir Charles Wake, tenth Baronet.
 
 148 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 BBDDENELL OF DENE, EARL OF CARDIGAN 1661 ; BARON 1627; 
 BARONET 1611. 
 
 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 the family in Nichols's History of Leicestershire, 
 vol. ii. part 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. 
 
 ASMS. Argent, a chevron gules between three morions azure. 
 
 Present Representative, James Thomas Brudenell, seventh Earl of 
 Cardigan, K.C.B.
 
 NORTHAMPTONSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 
 
 149 
 
 KNIGHTLEY OP FAWSLEY, BARONET 1798. 
 
 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. 
 (1415-6.) 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 Shirley s" 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 Charles Knightley, second Baronet.
 
 150 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 SPENCER OF ALTHORPE, EARL SPENCER 1765. 
 
 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, fir stand fourth argent, second andthird gules a fret or, overall 
 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 Jess 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, fifth Earl Spencer. 
 
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 NORTHAMPTONSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 
 
 151 
 
 ROKEBY OF ARTHINGWORTH. 
 
 This is a junior branch of the Rokebys of 
 Rokeby in Yorkshire, a knightly race immor- 
 talized 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 
 15 12 he became Archbishop of Dublin. His brother Ralph wrote the 
 history of the famity, now in possession of Mr. Rokeby of Arthing- 
 worth, 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.
 
 152 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 MAUNSELL OF THORPE-MALSOR. 
 
 The curious poetical history of this family 
 preserved in " Collectanea Topographica et 
 Genealogica," claims one " Saher," there written 
 " Sier, thesyerofusall" as their ancestor: he 
 appears 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 Northampton- 
 shire, ii. p. 132. 
 
 ARMS. Argent, a chevron between three maunches sable, 
 
 Present Representative, Thomas Philip Maunsell, Esq. M.P. for 
 North Northamptonshire.
 
 NORTHAMPTONSHIRE GENTLE. 153 
 
 Gentle. 
 
 ISHAM OF LAMPORT, BARONET 1627. 
 
 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 second of Richard II. 
 
 Present Representative, Sir Charles Edmund Isham, tenth Baronet.
 
 154 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 PALMER OF CARLTON, BARONET 1660. 
 
 This family appears to have been founded by 
 the law early in the fifteenth century, and 
 descends from William Palmer, who was estab- 
 lished 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 John Henry Palmer, seventh Baronet. 
 
 FANE OF APTHORP, EARL OF WESTMORLAND 1642. 
 
 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 
 Westmorland, the ancient Honour of the house of Neville. Apthorp 
 came from the heiress of Mildmay, about the end of the reign of 
 Queen Elizabeth.
 
 NORTHAMPTONSHIRE GENTLE. 
 
 155 
 
 Younger Branches. Fane of Wormesley, Oxfordshire, descended 
 from Henry Fane, Esq., younger brother of Thomas eighth Earl of 
 Westmorland. The Duke of Cleveland, (1833,) and Sir Henry 
 Vane, of Button Hall in Cumberland, Baronet, (1786,) descend 
 from John younger brother of Richard Fane, ancestor of the Earl 
 of Westmorland. 
 
 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, John Fane, eleventh Earl of Westmor- 
 land, G.C.B. 
 
 NORTHUMBERLAND. 
 
 CLAVERING OF CALLALY CASTLE. 
 
 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.
 
 156 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 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 IL, the same arms, with a label of three 
 points argent. (Rolls of the dates.) 
 
 Present Representative, Edward John Clavering, Esq. 
 
 MlTFORD OF MlTFORD CASTLE. 
 
 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
 
 NORTHUMBERLAND KNIGHTLY. 157 
 
 of Yorkshire in 1702. Mitford of Exbury co. Southampton, sprung 
 from the third son of Kobert Mitford of Mitford Castle, Esq., who 
 died in 1674. From this latter branch Mitford Baron Eedesdale 
 (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, afess sable between three moles proper. 
 
 Present Keprescntative, Robert Mitford, Esq., Rear- Admiral R.N. 
 
 SWINBURNE OF CAPHEATON, BARONET 1660. 
 
 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 Whit- 
 field, who purchased Capheaton from Sir Thomas 
 Fenwick, Knight, 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. 278 ; 
 Hodgson's History of Northumberland, vol. i. pt. ii. p. 231 ; and 
 Wotton's Baronetage, iii. 167.
 
 158 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 ABMS. Per fess gules and argent, three cinquefoils countercharged, borne by 
 Monsieur William Swynburne in the reign of Richard II. (Roll of the date.) 
 
 Present Representative, Sir John Edward Swinburne, sixth 
 Baronet. 
 
 MIDDLETON (CALLED MONCK) OF BELSEY CASTLE, 
 BARONET 1662. 
 
 John de Middleton, father of Sir Richard 
 Middleton, some time 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. 
 
 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. 
 
 ABMS. Quarterly gules and or, in the first quarter a cross flory argent. 
 
 Present Representative, Sir Charles Miles Lambert Monck, sixth 
 Baronet (name exchanged in 1779).
 
 NORTHUMBERLAND KNIGHTLY. 
 
 159 
 
 SELBY OP BIDDLESTON. 
 
 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 Mac- 
 kenzie's View of Northumberland, ii. 39. 
 
 ARMS. Bun-y of eight or mid sable. 
 
 Present Representative, Walter Selby, Esq. 
 
 GREY OF HOWICK, EARL GREY 1806, BARONET 1746. 
 
 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 who was the fourth son of 
 
 Sir Ralph Grey of Chillingham.
 
 160 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 " 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 Kaine'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 born by Monsieur Thomas Grey, as appears 
 by the Roll of the reign of Richard II. 
 
 Present Representative, Henry George Grey, third Earl Grey. 
 
 Gentle. 
 
 LORAINE OF KIEK-HARLE, BARONET 1664. 
 
 This is said to be a Norman family, and to 
 have been originally settled in the county of 
 Durham . Kirk-Harle was inherited from Joanna , 
 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.
 
 NORTHUMBERLAND GENTLE. 
 
 161 
 
 ARMS. Quarterly sable and urgent, a plain cross counterquartered of the field. 
 Another coat, viz : Argent, Jive lozenges conjoined in pale azure, in the dexter 
 chief an escutcheon of the second, is given in Courthope's Debrett's Baronetage. 
 
 Present Representative, Sir Lambton Loraine, eleventh Baronet. 
 
 HAGGERSTON OF ELLINGHAM, BARONET 1643. 
 
 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 cotiscd 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, ninth Baronet.
 
 162 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 RIDLEY OF BLAGDON, BARONET 1756. 
 
 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 in- 
 heriting 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. 
 
 ABMS. 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, fourth Baronet.
 
 NOTTINGHAMSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 
 
 163 
 
 NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 
 
 BYRON OF THRUMSTONE, (LATE OF NEWSTEAD ABBEY,) 
 BARON BYRON 1643. 
 
 The antiquity of the Byrons is proved by their 
 ancestor Ralph de Buron occurring as a consi- 
 derable landholder " in capite" in Domesday 
 Book in the counties of Nottingham and Derby. 
 Horestan Castle in the latter county was at a 
 very early period the principal seat; but in the 
 reign of John, by the marriage of Robert de 
 Buron and Cecilia de Clayton, the lordship of Clayton in Lancashire 
 became the residence of the family. Sir Richard Byron, who died 
 in 1398, acquired lands in this county with the heiress of Colewick 
 of Colewick. The dissolved priory of Newstead was granted to Sir 
 John Byron in 1640, whose grandson Sir John was for his eminent 
 loyalty created Baron Byron of Rochdale in 1643. 
 
 See Thoroton's Nottinghamshire, p. 261, who mentions "the 
 great pedigree of this family done with great diligence and care by 
 Samuel Roper, Esq., upon a very large roll of vellum, with transcripts 
 of evidences." See also Baines's Lancashire, ii. 616; and Brydges's 
 Collins, vii. 89. 
 
 ARMS. Argent, three bendlets enhanced gides. Argent, three bendlets gtdes, was 
 borne by Sir James Byron in the reign of Edward II., and by Sir llichard 
 Byron in that of Richard II., (Rolls of the dates,) but the bendlets are not
 
 164 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 described as enhanced, nevertheless they are so drawn on the seal of Sir John 
 de Byron appended to a deed of the 21st of Edward I., with the motto " Crede 
 Beronti" See Montagu's Guide to the study of Heraldry, p. 56. The authority 
 is a MS. of Handle Holmes, Harl. MS. 2042. 
 
 Present Representative, George Anson Byron, seventh Baron 
 Byron. 
 
 CLIFTON OF CLIFTON, BARONET 1611. 
 
 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 
 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." 
 
 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, ninth Baronet.
 
 NOTTINGHAMSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 165 
 
 SUTTON OP NORWOOD, BARONET 1772. 
 
 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 1845, 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, third Baronet.
 
 166 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 STANHOPE OF SHELFORD, EARL OF CHESTERFIELD 1628. 
 
 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. Tn 
 the reign of Edward III. we find Sir Richard 
 Stanhope, grandson of Walter, Mayor of New- 
 castle-on-Tyne. Rampton 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 gides. 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 crosskts argent, were assumed; on losing
 
 NOTTINGHAMSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 167 
 
 that great estate, Sir Michael Stanhope resumed the more ancient coat, in the 
 reign of Henry VIII. 
 
 Present Representative, George Stanhope, sixth Earl of Chester- 
 field. 
 
 WlLLOUGHBY OF WOLLATON, BARON MlDDLETON 1711. 
 
 This is a younger, and now the only remain- 
 ing, 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 Nottingham- 
 shire 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, eighth Baron 
 Middleton.
 
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 168 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 CLINTON OF CLUMBER, DUKE OF NEWCASTLE 1756. 
 
 The Clintons are traced to the reign of Henry 
 I., when, by favour of that king, Geffery de 
 Clinton " was raised from the dust, 1 ' as a con- 
 temporary writer affirms, and made Justice of 
 England. He was enriched by lai'ge grants of 
 land from the crown, and built the Castle of 
 Kenil worth. 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 Holies 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 fitchee 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 succeed-
 
 NOTTINGHAMSHIRE GENTLE. 169 
 
 ing reign, bore two mullets of six points or, pierced gules, and Thomas cle 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 Pelhain Fiennes Pelham Clinton, 
 fifth Duke of Newcastle, K.G. 
 
 (Slemlr. 
 
 EYRE OF HAMPTON. 
 
 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 Laugh- 
 ton in South Yorkshire, who spring from Eyre of Holme Hall near 
 Chesterfield. One moiety of Hampton 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 Derby- 
 shire, Ixxxiii., 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 Newborough.
 
 170 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 ARMS. Argent, on a chevron sable three quatrefoils or. 
 Present Representative, the Rev. Charles Wasteneys Eyre. 
 
 OXFORDSHIRE. 
 
 STONOR or STONOR, BARON CAMOYS 1839. 
 
 " Stonor is a 3 miles out of Henley. Ther is 
 a fayre pa.rke and a warren of connes 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 pocessor of it, hathe augmentyd and 
 strengthed the howse. The Stonors hath 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 reign 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.
 
 OXFORDSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 
 
 171 
 
 See Magna Britannia, iv. 425; and the first edit, 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 dancette or, a chief argent. Monsieur John de Stonor 
 bore, Azure, afess dancette and chief or, in the reign of Edward III. (Roll.) 
 
 Present Representative, Thomas Stonor, first Baron Camoys. 
 
 WYKEHAM OP TYTHROP. 
 
 This ancient family is traced to the commence- 
 ment of the fourteenth century, when Robert 
 Wykeham was Lord of Swalcliflfe, 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, 345; 
 see also the Topographer and Genealogist, iii. 49, for a very interest- 
 ing 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
 
 172 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 but one chevron between the roses. But the herald Glover attributed a varia- 
 tion 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 
 
 ^t* * M 
 I I I I 1 
 
 CROKE OF STUDLEY. ANCIENTLY BLOUNT. 
 
 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 after- 
 wards 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 Wor- 
 cester, and of Mawley Hall in Shropshire, descended from William, 
 second son of Sir Robert le Blount, who died in 1288, and the
 
 OXFORDSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 
 
 173 
 
 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. 
 
 ARMS. For Blount. Barry nebulee of six or and sable. For Croke, Gules, 
 a Jess 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 nebulee 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. 
 
 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 Water- 
 stock 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 repre- 
 sentative 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.
 
 174 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 ARMS. Chiles, 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. 
 
 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 Domes- 
 day 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 Yiscountcy 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 Ear 1 of Mountinorris in Ireland, in 17 93, and on the decease 
 of the last Earl in 1844, the Irish Viscountcy and the representation
 
 OXFORDSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 
 
 175 
 
 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 Nottingham- 
 shire, p. 251 ; Archdall's Lodge, iv. 99; and' the Tyndale Genealogy, 
 pr. pr. fo. 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, tenth Viscount Valentia. 
 
 VlLLIERS OF MlDDLETON-SlONEY, EARL OF JERSEY 1697. 
 
 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 Villars' 
 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
 
 176 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 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 connec- 
 tion 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. 
 
 ARMS. Argent, on a cross gules Jive escallops or. The ancient arms, founded 
 on those of the Bellemonts Earls of Leicester, were, Sable, three cinque/oik 
 argeitt. 
 
 Present Representative, George Child Villiers, fifth Earl of 
 Jersey.
 
 OXFORDSHIRE GENTLE. 
 
 177 
 
 Ceutle, 
 
 COKER OP BlCESTER. 
 
 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. Ma- 
 pouder in Dorsetshire, derived from the heiress 
 of Veale in the reign of Henry V., became after- 
 wards 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 Bicester," 
 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. 809; and Burke's Commoners, 2nd ed. vol. iii. p. 347. 
 
 ARMS. Argent, on a bend gules three leopard's faces 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. 
 
 2 A
 
 178 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 RUTLANDSHIRE. 
 
 WlNGFIELD OF TlCKENCOTE. 
 
 The Wingfields of Wingfield and Lethering- 
 hara, 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 spmng 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 Lether- 
 ingham, 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
 
 SHROPSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 
 
 179 
 
 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 Crow- 
 field and Dunham-Magna, co. Norfolk ; Kimbolton Castle, co. Hunt- 
 ingdon; 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. 
 
 CORBET OF MORETON -CORBET, BARONET 1808. 
 
 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
 
 180 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 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 1.583, 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 Branches. 1. Corbet of Elsham (co. Lincoln) and of 
 Durnhall (co. Chester), descended from Robert second son of Sir 
 Vincent Corbet, of Moreton-Corbet, who died in 1622. 2. Corbet 
 of Sundorne, formerly 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 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. 
 
 See Blakeway's Sheriffs of Shropshire, fol. Shrewsbury, 1831. pp. 
 37, 63, 65, 230, &c., corrected by the MSS. of Mr. Joseph Morris 
 of Shrewsbury;* see also 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 
 
 * In future quoted as " Morris MSS."
 
 SHROPSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 
 
 181 
 
 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, third 
 Baronet. 
 
 LEIGHTON OF LOTON, BARONET 1692-3. 
 
 WWN/WV 
 
 The Leightons are stated to have been seated 
 at Leigh ton 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 Leigh ton, 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 
 Gardener, Esq., whose wife was the heiress of the Kinnersleys, 
 descended in the female line from the second marriage of Sir Thomas
 
 182 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 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 Wotton's Baronetage, iv. 38; Blakeway, pp. 74, 75, 80, 91 ; 
 and Morris MSS. 
 
 ARMS. Quarterly per f ess indented or and gules. 
 
 Present Representative, Sir Baldwin Leighton, seventh Baronet. 
 
 I 
 
 ww 
 
 SANDFORD OF SANDFORD. 
 
 A family of acknowledged antiquity, whose 
 ancestor "Thomas" was certainly seated at 
 Sandford soon after the Conquest, and which has 
 ever since remained their principal seat: it is in 
 the parish of Frees, and is mentioned by Leland 
 in his Itinerary. The Herald of the eighteenth 
 century, and the late excellent Bishop of Edin- 
 burgh, 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 Blakeway, pp. 54, 190, 222.
 
 SHROPSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 
 
 183 
 
 ARMS. Quarterly per fess indented azure and ermine. The Sandfords of the 
 Tsle bear, Party per chevron sable and ermine, in chief two boar's heads conped 
 close or. 
 
 Present Representative, Thomas Hugh Sandford, Esq. 
 
 KYN ASTON OF HARDWICKE, BARONET 1818. 
 
 The Kynastons are lineal descendants of the 
 ancient British Princes of Powys, sprung from 
 Griffith, son of lorwerth 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, youngest 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 him- 
 self 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, Anglice 
 Kynvarth's Town, usually written and spoken as Kynaston; and 
 hence the name of this 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 Heath in 1459, and Lord Audley the Lancastrian 
 General is supposed to have fallen by his hand ; hence the second
 
 184 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN Or ENGLAND. 
 
 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 Hardvvicke. 
 
 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 quive forche or. (Roll.) 
 
 Present Representative, Sir John Roger Kynaston, third Baronet.
 
 SHROPSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 185 
 
 CORNEWALL OF DfiLBUDY. 
 
 This is the only remaining branch of the once 
 powerful family of Cornewall, for so many ages 
 Barons of Bur ford, (though without a summons to 
 parliament,) descended from Richard, natural son 
 of Richard Earl of Cornwall, King of the Ro- 
 mans, 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 the ninth of Edward II. with the co- 
 heiress 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 Delbudy 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 gides crowned or within a bordure engrailed 
 .table bezanlee. " Jeffrey tie Cornewall " and " Svmon 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.
 
 186 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OP ENGLAND. 
 
 LINGEN (CALLED BURTON) OF LONGNEK. 
 
 The first recorded ancestor of this loyal family- 
 is Ealph 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 II. the daughter and co- 
 heiress 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. Long- 
 ner, 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 Longner, Esq. Their son assumed the name of Lingen 
 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.
 
 SHROPSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 
 
 187 
 
 BARLEY OF DOWN-ROSSAL. 
 
 At the head of this family, for a long period 
 one of the most eminent in Shropshire, stanclg 
 Sir John de Harley, of Harley, Knight, whose 
 son and heir Sir William Avent in the expedition 
 to the Holy Land in 1098. Sixth in descent 
 from this Sir William was Sir Robert de Harley, 
 who, having married the coheiress of Bramptou 
 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 then 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 became owners of 
 Down-Rossal, the present seat, in 1852. 
 
 See Collins's Noble Families, p. 185; Brydges's Collins, vol. iv. 
 p. 37; and Morris MSS. 
 
 ARMS. Or, a bend cotiaed sable, and which was borne by Sir Richard de 
 Harlee in the reign of Edward II. (Roll.) 
 
 Present Representative, John Harley, Esq.
 
 188 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 TYRWHITT, OF STANLEY-HALL, BARONET 1808. 
 
 This is a younger branch of an ancient Lin- 
 colnshire 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; and Baker's Northamptonshire, i. 114. 
 
 ARMS. Gules, three tyrwhits or. 
 
 Present Representative, Sir Henry Thomas Tyrwhitt, third Ba- 
 ronet.
 
 SHROPSHIRE GENTLE. 
 
 189 
 
 GATACRE OF GATACRE. 
 
 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 ap- 
 pear 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 Worthys," and who was 
 the ancestor of the Gatakers of Mildenhall, in Suffolk. 
 
 See Leland's Itinerary, v. p. 31 ; Eyton's Antiquities of Shropshire ; 
 and Morris MSS. 
 
 ARMS. Quarterly gules arid ermine, on the second and third quarters three 
 piles of the first, on afess 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. 
 
 Present Representative, Edward Lloyd Gatacre, Esq.
 
 190 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 EYTON OF EYTON. 
 
 This family can also lay claim to great anti- 
 quity, being certainly resident at Eyton on the 
 Wildmores 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 ; and Morris MSS. 
 
 ARMS. Quarterly, 1 and 4, Or, a fret azure ; 2 and 3, Gules, two bars ermine. 
 
 Present Representative, Thomas Campbell Eyton, Esq.
 
 SHROPSHIRE GENTLE. 
 
 191 
 
 PLOWDEN OF PLOWDEN. 
 
 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 ac- 
 quired the fleur-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 fens dancet'ee, the two upper points terminating injieurs-tf/f- 
 lis or. 
 
 Present Representative, William Henry Francis Plowden, Esq. 
 
 ACTON OF ALDENHAM, BARONET 1643-4. 
 
 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 Longner, 
 in this county. The baronetcy was the reward 
 of loyalty in the beginning of the great rebellion.
 
 192 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 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 crusitty or, two lions passant in pale argent. This coat is evi- 
 dently founded on that of Le'Strange. 
 
 Present Representative, Sir John Emerick Edward Dalberg Acton, 
 eighth Baronet. 
 
 WHITMORE OF APLEY. 
 
 This is a younger branch of an ancient family 
 formerly seated atWhittimereor Whitmore,inthe 
 parish ofClaverley, where it is traced to the reign 
 of Henry III. The Apsley 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. 
 
 ARMS. Vert, fretty or. 
 
 Present Representative, Thomas Charlton Whitmore, Esq.
 
 SHROPSHIRE ENTLE. 
 
 193 
 
 WALCOT OF BITTERLEY. 
 
 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 towards 
 the end of the eighteenth century, and Bitterley, which had belonged 
 to the family for more than a century, became the seat of "the 
 Walcots, descended from Humphry Walcot, merchant-adventurer of 
 London. 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 IT. 
 
 Present Representative, the Rev. Charles Walcot. 
 
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 194 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 BALDWIN (CALLED CHILDE) OF KINLET. 
 
 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 Corne walls of Berrington in the 
 last century, when the Baldwins removed to Aqualate in Stafford- 
 shire. Kinlet was the inheritance of the Childes, whose coheiress 
 married Charles Baldwin, Esq. The Childes derived it from the 
 Lacons, and the Lacons purchased it from the Blounts of Kinlet. 
 
 See Blakeway, p. 212. 
 
 ARMS. Argent, a saltire sable. 
 
 Present Representative, William Lacon Childe, Esq.
 
 SHROPSHIRE GENTLE. 195 
 
 DOD OF CLOVE RLY. 
 
 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., Hora, 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 that he is 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 Cloverly descend from Hugo, living in the fourteenth 
 of Henry IV., who married the coheiress of Roger de Cloverly. 
 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.
 
 196 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 Present Representative, John Whitehall Dod, Esq., M.P. for 
 North Shropshire. 
 
 OAKELEY OF OAKELEY. 
 
 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 afess between three crescents gules as many fleurs-de-lis or. 
 These arms are, with those of the Plowdens and other families of the vicinity, 
 ullusive 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 battle- 
 fields of France. 
 
 Present Representative, the Rev. Arthur Oakeley.
 
 SHROPSHIRE GENTLE. 197 
 
 HILL OF HAWKSTONE, VISCOUNT HILL 1842, BARONET 1726-7. 
 
 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 Nevill. 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 con- 
 sequence, 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 afess sable a castle argent. 
 
 Present Representative, Rowland Hill, second Viscount Hill.
 
 198 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 FORESTER OF WILLEY, BARON FORESTER 1821. 
 
 This family is clearly descended from " Robert 
 de Wolint," (Wellington,) alias Forester, who 
 is named in the Testa de Nevill 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 dancettee argent and sable, on the first and fourth 
 quarters a bugle horn of the last, garnished or. 
 
 Present Representative, John George Weld Forester, second 
 Baron Forester.
 
 SHROPSHIRE GENTLE. 
 
 199 
 
 EDWARDES, OF HARNAGE GRANGE AND SHREWSBURY, 
 BARONET 1645. 
 
 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, tenth Baronet.
 
 200 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 BETTON (CALLED BRIGHT) OF TOLLERTON HALL. 
 
 Walter de Betton had a freehold estate at 
 Betton-Strange, near Shrewsbury, in the reign 
 of Edward I. William Betton, fourth in de- 
 scent 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 Tollerton 
 Hall. 
 
 From the Morris MSS. 
 
 ARMS. Argent, two pales sable, each charged with three cross- crosslets fitchee 
 or. 
 
 Present Representative, the Rev. John Bright.
 
 SHROPSHIRE GENTLE. 201 
 
 CLIVE, (CALLED HERBERT,) OP STYCHE, EARL OF Powis 1804; 
 BARON OLIVE JN THE PEERAGE OF IRELAND 1762. 
 
 Although this family owe their elevation to 
 the military genius of the great Lord Clive, to 
 whom the English nation are so much indebted 
 for their 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 North wich, 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 co- 
 heiress; 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. Argeid, on afess sable three mullets or. In the fourth year of Edward 
 VI. three wolfs heads erased sable were added to the field of the original 
 coat. See Archdall's Lodge, vii. 80. 
 
 Present Representative, Edward James Herbert, third Earl of 
 Powis. 
 
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 202 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 LAWLEY OF SPOONBILL, 
 BARON WENLOCK 1839; BARONET 1641. 
 
 This family is descended from Thomas Lawlcy. 
 cousin arid 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 Spoonbill. " 
 
 See Blakeway, p. 92; Wotton's Baronetage, ii. 261 ; and Morris 
 MSS. 
 
 ARMS. Argent, a cross formee, cheeky or and sable. 
 
 Present Representative, Beilby Richard Lawley- Thompson, 
 second Baron Wenlock. 
 
 PIGOTT OF EDGMOND. 
 
 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 Prest- 
 bury 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
 
 SHROPSHIRE GENTLE. 203 
 
 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 bv this 
 family, founded on the arms of Chetwynd, was, Azure, a chevron between tltn-c 
 mullets or, on a chief ermine three fusils sable. 
 
 Present Representative, The Rev. John Dryden Pigott. 
 
 THORNES OF LLWYNTIDMAN HALL. 
 
 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 sub- 
 sequently 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. 
 
 Aims Sable, a lion rampant guurdant argent. 
 
 Present Representative, Thomas William Thornes, Esq.
 
 204 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 HARRIES OP CRUCKTON. 
 
 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 the old deeds of 
 this county, and who were seated at Little 
 Sutton prior to the reign of Edward III. 
 
 Sec Blakeway, p. 178; and Morris MSS. 
 
 ARMS. Ermine, three bars azure, over all three annulets or. 
 
 IVesent Representative, Francis Harries, Esq. 
 
 SALWEY OF MOOR PARK. 
 
 About the reign of Henry III. William 
 Salwey was Lord of Leacroft, a hamlet in the 
 parish of Cannock in Stafford shire; 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 Wilmington, in the reign 
 of Charles II. Richard Salwey, younger brother of Edward Suhvey 
 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.
 
 SHROPSHIRE GENTLE. 
 
 205 
 
 See Erdeswick's Staffordshire, ed. 1844, p. 200; Nash's Worces- 
 tershire, ii. 369; and Morris MSS. 
 
 ARMS. Sable, a saltier engrailed or. 
 
 Present Representative, John Salwey, Esq. 
 
 BOROUGH OF CHETWYND. 
 
 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; 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 pre- 
 ceding, 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.
 
 206 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 SOMERSETSHIRE. 
 
 POPHAM OF BAGBOKOUGH. 
 
 ' The first nobilitating of the Pophams, as it 
 is saide, was by Matilda Emperes, doughter to 
 Henry the firste, and by Henry II. her sunne;" 
 this is the remark of Leland in his Itinerary, to 
 which it may be added, that the name is local, 
 from Popbam in Hampshire, where Gilbert de 
 Popham was living in the time of King John, 
 and here the senior branch flourished to the seventeenth of Henry 
 VI., when the estate appears to have gone to four coheiresses. A 
 younger son was seated at Huntworth, in the county of Somerset, 
 by marriage with the heiress of Kentisbury in the reign of Edward 
 I. That estate was sold in the time of Charles I., but the male line of 
 the family was preserved by Thomas, third son of Alexander Popham 
 of Huntworth, whose grandson was of Bagborough in the latter part 
 of the last century. 
 
 The Pophams of Littlecott in Wiltshire were a younger branch, 
 descended from Sir John, second son of Alexander Popham of 
 Huntworth, in the reign of Elizabeth. The male line was extinct in 
 1780. 
 
 See Leland's Itinerary, vi. fol. 40; Collinson's History of Somer- 
 setshire, vol. iii. pp. 71, 242.
 
 SOMERSETSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 207 
 
 ARMS. Argent, on a chief gules two stag's heads cabossed or. This coat 
 appears carved on the roof of the cloisters of Canterbury Cathedral, of the date 
 of Richard II. 
 
 Present Representative, Francis Popham, Esq. 
 
 POULETT OF HlNTON ST. GEORGE, EARL POULETT 1706; 
 
 BARON 1627. 
 
 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 seats. 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," which 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.
 
 208 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 ARMS. Sable, three sn-ords in pile, their points towards the base, argent, the 
 poitiels 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 Kepresentative, John Poulett, fifth Earl Poulett. 
 
 SPEKE OF JORDANS. 
 
 This is a younger branch of an ancient family 
 descended from Richard le Espek, who lived in 
 the reign of Henry II. Wem worthy 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 Beau- 
 champ, became possessed of the manor of White- 
 lackington 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 tivo heads displuued 
 gules. 
 
 Present Representative, William Speke, Esq.
 
 SOMERSETSHIRE GENTLE. 209 
 
 TBEVELYAN OF NETTLECOMB, BARONET 1661-2. 
 
 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. Nettle- 
 comb was inherited from the heiress of Whales- 
 borough 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 Somer- 
 setshire, 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 md of the sea party per 
 fess wavy azure and of the second. This coat is traditionally derivedfrom 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, sixth 
 Baronet. 
 
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 210 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 SOUTHAMPTONSHIRE. 
 
 A A Aj , 
 
 lAAAJ 
 
 TICHBORNE OF TICHBORNE, BARONET 1620. 
 
 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 Tich- 
 borne, grandson of the celebrated Sir Henry Tichborne, so dis- 
 tinguished 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 Topographic* 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. 
 
 A KM-. Fair, a chief or, borne by Sir John Tichborne in the sixth of 
 Henry IV. 
 
 Present Representative, Sir James Francis Doughty Tichborne, 
 tenth Baronet.
 
 SOUTHAMPTON SHIRK KNIGHTLY. 211 
 
 OGLANDER OF NUNWELL, BARONET 1665. 
 
 Richard de Okelandre, the patriarcli of this 
 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 Oglandre, Knt., a great 
 sufferer both in person and fertune, 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 jitchee or. 
 
 Present Representative, Sir Henry Oglander, seventh Baronet.
 
 212 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 WALLOP OF WALLOP, EARL OF PORTSMOUTH 1743. 
 
 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 con- 
 tempt after the Restoration, and died in the tower of London in 
 1667. He was great-grandfather 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, (called Fellowes,) 
 fifth Earl of Portsmouth.
 
 SOUTHAMVTONSHIRE GENTLE. 
 
 213 
 
 Gentle. 
 
 COPE OP BRAMSHILL, BARONET 1611. 
 
 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 North- 
 ampton and Buckingham. Hard wick and Han- 
 well, 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, slipt and leaved vert, 
 us 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, 
 twelfth Baronet.
 
 214 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 STAFFORDSHIRE. 
 
 ooo 
 
 OKEOVER OF OKEOVER. 
 
 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.
 
 STAFFORDSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 
 
 215 
 
 BAGOT OF BAGOT'S BROMLEY; BARON BAGOT 1780; 
 BARONET 1627. 
 
 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, trvo 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, third Baron Bagot.
 
 216 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 GIFFORD OF CHILLINGTON. 
 
 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, South- 
 ampton, 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 Stephen, when Peter Gifford married the heiress 
 of Corbosone, and thus became Lord of the Manor of Chillington, 
 ever since their principal residence. This family had the honor to 
 be concerned in the preservation of King Charles II. after the 
 Battle of Worcester. 
 
 See Erdeswick, p. 158. 
 
 ARMS. Azure, three stirrups with leathers cr. 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.
 
 STAFFORDSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 
 
 217 
 
 WROTTESLEY OF WROTTESLEY; BARON WROTTESLEY 1838; 
 BARONET 1542. 
 
 " Sumetime," writes Lcland, " the Wrotes- 
 leys 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 parke ;" and here, it may be added, 
 the family are supposed to have been seated from 
 the period of the Conquest. The pedigree how- 
 ever is not proved beyond Hugo de Wrottesley, Lord of that manor 
 in the reign of Henry III. 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. 
 
 ARMS. Or, three piles sable and a quarter ermine. The more ancient, and, 
 according to Erdeswick, the proper coat of this family is, Or, a bend engrailed 
 gules ; it was so borne by Sir Hugh Wrottesley in the reign of Richard II. 
 (Roll.) The present arms would appear to belong to the Bassetts of Warwick- 
 shire. 
 
 ley- 
 
 Present Representative, John Wrottesley, second Baron Wrottes- 
 
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 218 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 BKOUGHTON OF BROUGHTON, BARONET 1660. 
 
 " 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 Yernon, 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. 569; 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.
 
 STAFFORDSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 2 1 9 
 
 MAINWARING OF WHITMORE. 
 
 The first recorded ancestor of this great and 
 widely- spreading family is Ranulphus, a Nor- 
 man, Lord of Peover, Warmincham, &c. in 
 Cheshire, at the period of the Domesday Survey ; 
 his descendants remained seated at Over-Peover 
 until the principal male line became extinct in 
 the person of Sir Henry Mamwaring of Peover, 
 Baronet, who died unmarried in 1797. Whitmore was inherited 
 by Edward, eighth 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 sixteenth century. The senior line of 
 the Mainwarings were on the disloyal side during the great Kebellion, 
 and in 1745 opposed to the pretensions of the house of Stewart. 
 
 Younger Branch. Mainwaring of Oteley Park, in the parish of 
 Ellesmere in Shropshire, sprung from Handle, third son of Edward 
 Mainwaring of Whitmore, which Handle was a zealous Royalist, and 
 Colonel for King Charles I. 
 
 Extinct Branches. Mainwaring of Ightfield, co. Salop; extinct 
 1712. (See Blakeway, Sheriffs of Shropshire, pp. 83, 133.) Main- 
 waring of Warmincham, co. Chester, extinct 1784. (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.
 
 220 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 i if m 
 
 T T * . ^ 
 
 ARDEN OF LONGCROFT. 
 
 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 Si ward de Arden, 
 in the reign of Henry I., which Siward was 
 grandson of Alwin the sheriff in the reign of Edward the Con- 
 fessor. 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. 
 
 ABMS. Ermine, a fess cheeky or and azure, and so borne by Sir de 
 
 Arderne, in the reign of Edward II. (Roll.) 
 
 Present Representative, the Rev. Francis Edward Arden.
 
 STAFFORDSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 
 
 221 
 
 MEYNELL OF HORE-CROSS. 
 
 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 seventeenth 
 century, by purchase, the residence of a still younger branch, 
 descended from Francis, fourth son of Godfrey Meynell of Willing- 
 ton : 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 Wil- 
 lington, who died in 1616. 
 
 See Leland's Itinerary, iv. fo. 17; and Topographer and Genea- 
 logist, i. 439, and 492. 
 
 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.
 
 222 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 (Gentle. 
 
 WOLSELEY OF WoLSELEY, BARONET 1628. 
 
 " 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 talb;>t passant gules. 
 
 Present Representative, Sir Charles Michael Wolseley, ninth 
 Baronet.
 
 STAFFORDSHIRE GENTLE. 
 
 223 
 
 COTES OF COTES. 
 
 Descended from Richard de Cotes, who was 
 probably son of Thomas de Cotes, living in 
 1167, 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 armory." 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.
 
 224 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 CONGREVE OF CONGREVE. 
 
 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. Suble,a chevronbettveen three battleaxes argent. This is, says Erdeswick, 
 the coat of Campion. 
 
 Present Representative, William Congreve, Esq.
 
 STAFFORDSHIRE. GENTLE. 225 
 
 SNEYD OF KEEL. 
 
 " The noble race of Sneyds, of great worship 
 and account," * appear to be denominated from 
 Snead, a harnlet 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 Sneyd 
 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 rebuilding, was erected by Kalph 
 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 
 Wettenall, 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. 71, 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 Kepresentative, Ralph Sneyd, Esq. 
 
 * King's Vale Royal, B. II. p. 77, who would derive them from Cheshire. 
 
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 226 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND . 
 
 WHITGREAVE OF MOSELEY. 
 
 In the reign of Henry III., Robert Whit- 
 greave, the ancestor of this family, was seated 
 at Burton near Stafford; Bridgeford, in the 
 vicinity of Whitgrave, from whence the name is 
 derived, and early in the seventeenth century 
 Moseley, successively became the residences 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 Humphrey 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.
 
 STAFFORDSHIRE GENTLE. 
 
 227 
 
 LANE OF KING'S BROMLEY. 
 
 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, 
 and the fourth, John Lane, an attorney in London, 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 fess or and azure, a chevron, gules, between three mullets counter- 
 changed, on a canton of the third the Royal lions of England, being an augmen- 
 tation granted by Charles II. 
 
 Present Representative, John Newton Lane, Esq.
 
 228 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 PARKER OF PARK-HALL. 
 
 This is the elder branch of the Parkers Earls of 
 Macclesfield, 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 the same county, in 
 
 the reign of Richard II. He married the heiress of Gotham, and 
 
 from hence, says Lysons, the seat of Norton- Lees. 
 
 Younger Branch. 
 Parker (17 16.) 
 
 The Earl of Macclesfield (1721); Baron 
 
 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 Hawe Parker, Esq.
 
 SUFFOLK KNIGHTLY. 
 
 229 
 
 SUFFOLK. 
 
 BAKNARDISTON OF THE RYP:S. 
 
 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 descend 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 
 1712,) 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 dancettec ermine, between six croxs-crosslets argent. 
 Present Representative, Nathaniel Clarke Barnardiston, Esq.
 
 230 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 JENNET OF BREDFIELD. 
 
 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 Jenney, 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.
 
 SUFFOLK KNIGHTLY. 
 
 231 
 
 BROOKE OF UFFORD. 
 
 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 genera- 
 tions. 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 chevron argent a lion rampant sable. 
 Present Representative, Francis Capper Brooke, Esq.
 
 232 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 (Gentle. 
 
 Rous OF DENNINGTON AND HENHAM, EARL OF STRADBROKE 
 1821; BARON 1796; BARONET 1660. 
 
 " All tlie Roucis that be in Southfolk cum 
 oute of the house of Rouse of Dcnnington," writes 
 Leland in his Itinerary, vol. vi. fol. 13. That 
 estate appears to have come into the family by 
 the marriage of Peter Rous with an heiress of 
 Hobart in tlie 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. Ixxi. 
 p. 192. 
 
 ARMS. Sable, afess dancette or between three crescents argent, 
 
 Present Representative, John Edward Cornwallis Rous, second 
 Earl of Stradbroke.
 
 St FI-'OLK GEM 1.1 .. 
 
 HEIGHAM OF HUNSTON. 
 
 A younger branch of an old Suffolk family, 
 who derived their name from a hanilet in the 
 parish of Gaseley in this county. The pedigree is 
 traced to Richard Heighani, who died in 1340; 
 his grandson Thomas was of Hcigham, 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 Heighani, 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, nr and azure, between three horse's heads eraser! 
 argent. 
 
 Present Representative, John Henry Heigham, Es<|. 
 
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 234 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 OF COCKFIELD HALL, BARONET 1686. 
 
 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 formany 
 years the principal seat of the family. He died in 1557. 
 
 See Wotton's Baronetage, iv. p. 9; and Davy's Suffolk Collection?, 
 Add. MSS. 91,118, vol. xlii. p. 386. 
 
 ARMS. Gules, a bend vair between tiro fleurs-de-lis argent. Guillim makes 
 the field sable, and the fleurs-de-lis or. 
 
 Present Representative, Sir John Ralph Blois, eighth Baronet. 
 
 * 
 
 HERVEY OF ICKWORTH, MARQUIS OF BRISTOL 1826; EARL 
 1714; BARON 1703. 
 
 Descended from Thomas Hervey, who died 
 before 1470, having married Jane, daughter 
 and sole heir of Henry Drury, of Ickworth. It 
 is uncertain who this Thomas Hervey was; the 
 peerages indeed assume that he was younger 
 brother of Sir George Hervey, of Thurley, in 
 Bedfordshire; there appears, however, no proof 
 
 of the fact, though he might have been descended from that knightly 
 
 familv-
 
 SURREY KNIGHTLY. 
 
 235 
 
 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; and 
 Davy's Suffolk Collections, Add. MSS. 19,135, vol. lix. p. 160. 
 
 ARMS. Gules, on a bend argent three trefoils slipt vert. 
 
 Present Representative, Frederick William Hervey, first Marquis 
 of Bristol. 
 
 SURREY. 
 
 BRAY OF SHERE. 
 
 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 
 1558. Harleston, also in the county of 
 
 in 
 
 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
 
 236 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 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 Keginald 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 
 Keginald. Edmund Lord 13 ray was elder brother of Sir Edward ; 
 he had an only son, John Lord Bray, who died s. p. in 1557. 
 
 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 OP NOBK HOUSE, EARL OF EGMONT IN IRELAND 
 
 1733; BARON LOVELL AND HOLLAND 1762; BARON 
 
 ARDEN 1802. 
 
 " The House of Yvery," a work privately 
 printed by the second Earl of Egmont in 1742, 
 /N/\A/VV\A/^| 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 Somer- 
 setshire Percevals, is, according to Brydges, in his Biographical
 
 SURREY KNIGHTLY. 237 
 
 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 extinc- 
 tion 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 patee 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, James Perceval, sixth Earl of Egmont.
 
 238 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 WESTON OF WEST-HORSLEY. 
 
 Adam de Western, 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 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.
 
 SURREY GENTLE. 
 
 239 
 
 VINCENT OF STOKE D'ABERNON, BARONET 1620. 
 
 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 Ly- 
 field, removed to Stoke D'Abernon, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. 
 
 See Wotton's Baronetage, vol. i. p. 418 ; and Manning and 
 Bray's Surrey, vol. ii. p. 723. 
 
 ARMS. Azure, three quutrefoils argent. 
 
 Present Representative, Sir Francis Vincent, tenth Baronet.
 
 240 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 ONSLOW OF WEST-CLANDON, EARL OF ONSLOW 1801; BARON 
 17 16 ; BARONET 1660. 
 
 ^^ 
 J3-~ 
 
 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 Shrews- 
 bury," 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 Lan- 
 caster, 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, de- 
 scended from the second son of Sir Richard Onslow, the first 
 Baronet. 
 
 See Brydges's Collins, vol. v. p. 461; Manning and Bray's
 
 SUSSEX KNIGHTLY. 241 
 
 Surrey, vol. ii. p. 723; and Blakeway's Sheriffs of Shropshire, p. 
 90, corrected by the MSS. of Mr. Joseph Morris. 
 
 ARMS. Argent, a f ess gules between i>ix Cornish choughs proper. 
 
 Present Representative, Arthur George Onslow, third Earl of 
 Onslow. 
 
 SUSSEX. 
 
 ASHBURNHAM OF ASHBURNHAM, EARL OF ASHBURNHAM 1730; 
 
 BARON 1689. 
 
 " 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, ap- 
 pear in Domesday Book." There can be no 
 doubt, however, that the Ashburnhams have been seated at Ashburn- 
 ham 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 
 
 2 I
 
 242 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 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 Kichard, second son of Thomas Ash- 
 burnham, 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, afess 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 fretty, his mother being daughter of Sir John Maltravers : the 
 present coat was borne by Sir John de Aschebornham, in the reign of Ed- 
 ward II. (Seals and Roll of the reign of Edward II.) 
 
 Present Kepresentative, Bertram Ashburnham, fourth Earl of 
 Ashburnham. 
 
 GORING OF HIGHDEN, BARONET 1627. 
 
 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 1622, extinct in 1725. Of a younger 
 branch was the celebrated George Lord Goring 
 1626, Earl of Norwich 1646, (which titles were extinct on the death
 
 SUSSEX KNIGHTLY. 
 
 243 
 
 of his eldest son, the second Lord, in 1672,) 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 William 
 Goring, of Burton, Knight, who died in 1601. Highden was 
 purchased in 1647. 
 
 Younger Branch. Goring of Wiston, Sussex, descended from the 
 second marriage of Sir Charles Matthews Goring, of Highden, the 
 fourth Baronet, and the co- heiress of Fagg. 
 
 See Dallaway's Eape 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 Eape of Bramber, p. 
 132 ; and Wotton's Baronetage, vol. ii. p. 71. 
 
 ARMS Argent, a chevron between three annulets gules. 
 
 Present Kepresentative, Sir Harry Dent Goring, seventh Baronet. 
 
 PELHAM OF LAUGHTON, EARL OF CHICHESTER 1801 ; BARON 
 1672; BARONET 1611. 
 
 The name is local, from Pelham, in Hertford- 
 shire, 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., Wal- 
 ter 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
 
 244 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 Pelliam assumed the Buckle as his badge, in token of his claim to 
 the honour of taking JoTm 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, ruining themselves 
 proper ; 2 and 3, Gules, two belts in pale argent with buckles awl studs or. 
 
 Present Representative, Henry Thomas Pelhani, third Earl of 
 Chichester 
 
 SHELLEY OF MARESFIELD, BARONET 1611. 
 
 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 account 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 re- 
 maining brother, Sir William Shelley, not being connected with the 
 followers of Richard II., retained his possessions, and was the ances- 
 tor of this family, who in the reign of Henry VI., by a match with
 
 SUSSEX KNIGHTLY. 245 
 
 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 of 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 South- 
 ampton, 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 Eape of Bramber, p. 76; and Dalla way's Rape of Arundel, 
 p. 40. 
 
 ARMS. Sable, afess engrailed betv>een three whelk-shells or. 
 
 Present Representative, Sir John Villiers Shelley, seventh Ba- 
 ronet. 
 
 WEST OF BUCKHURST, EARL DE LA WARR 1761; BARON 1427. 
 
 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
 
 246 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 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, after- 
 wards Lord la Warr, in the first year of Henry VII. Few families 
 indeed had broader lands, among which may be mentioned, Offing- 
 ton, 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 Hamp- 
 shire, all now alienated. Buckhurst came to the present Lord by 
 his marriage with the coheiress of Sackville. 
 
 Younger Branch. West of Euthyn Castle, Denbighshire, de- 
 scended 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, a 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 me- 
 morial 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 Eape 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 chape 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, fifth Earl 
 De la Warr.
 
 SUSSEX KNIGHTLY. 247 
 
 GAGE OF FIKLE, BARON GAGE 1790; VISCOUNT GAGE IN 
 IRELAND 1720; BARONET 1622. 
 
 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 Heighten 
 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 Kaunds, in Northamptonshire, sold in 1675. 
 
 Younger Branch, Gage of Hengrave, in Suffolk, Baronet 1662, 
 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; Brydges'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. iiii. fol. 12. 
 
 ARMS. Party per saltier, argent and azure, a saltier gules. 
 
 Present Kepresentative, Henry Hall Gage, fourth Viscount Gage.
 
 248 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OP ENGLAND. 
 
 Centie. 
 
 BARTTELOT OF STOPHAM. 
 
 The head of this family, according to Dalla- 
 way, 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 
 Dalla way'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. 
 
 Goudhurst, in Kent, was, from the year 1413 
 to 1511, the residence of this family, descended 
 from Henry Courthope, of Goudhurst, whose 
 great-grandson held the manor of Bockingfield, 
 in the same parish, in 1498. Wyleigh, in the 
 parish of Ticehurst, in this county, was inherited 
 by John Courthope, with his wife Elizabeth, 
 daughter of William Saunders, early in the sixteenth century.
 
 AVARWICKSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 
 
 249 
 
 See Collectanea Topog. et Genealog., vol. ii. pp. 279, 393; and 
 The Visitation of Sussex, C. 27, in Coll. Arm. 
 Arms. Argent, afess azure between three estoiles sable. 
 Present ^Representative, George Courthope, Esq. 
 
 WARWICKSHIRE. 
 
 SHIRLEY OF EATINGTON (ELDER BRANCH OF STAUNTON-HA- 
 ROLD, IN THE COUNTY OF LEICESTER, EARL FERRERS 171 1 ; 
 BARON FERRERS OF CHARTLEY 1677; BARONET 1611). 
 
 Sasuualo, or Scwallis, whose name, says Dug 
 dale, " 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 of this, the oldest knightly family 
 in the county of Warwick. Until the reign of 
 Edward III., Eatington appears to have con- 
 tinued 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-Wreke, 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 residences 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 co-heiress of Devereux, a 
 
 2 K
 
 250 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 moiety of the possessions of the Earls of Essex, after the extinction 
 of that title in 1646, centered 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. 
 
 Younger Branches (extinct). Shirley, of Wiston, Preston, West- 
 Grinstead, and Ote-Hall, all in Sussex, and all descended from the 
 second marriage of Ealph 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; Kichols'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 ;" and the legend, " Sum scutum de auro et nigro senis ductibus pala- 
 tum," 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 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., 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.
 
 WARWICKSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 251 
 
 BRACEBRIDGE OF ATHEUSTONE. 
 
 In the time of King John, the venerable 
 family of Bracebridge, originally of Bracebridge 
 in Lincolnshire, acquired by marriage in the 
 persons of Peter de Bracebridge with Amicia, 
 daughter of Osbert de Arden and Maud, and 
 grandaughter 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 ; for Brereton, see Ormerod's Cheshire, 
 vol. iii. p. 31. 
 
 ARMS. Faz'r, 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 that of Edward III. and Richard III. (Rolls.) 
 
 Present Representative, Charles Holte Bracebridge, Esq.
 
 252 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 COMPTON OF COMPTON WTNIATE, MARQUIS OF NORTHAMPTON 
 1812; EARL 1618; BARON 1572. 
 
 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 to the marriage 
 of his son, 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 I., was a chevron charged with three fleurs-de-lis. This is proved by 
 a silver seal dug up at Compton in the year 1845. The three helmets were 
 afterwards adopted, 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, third Marquess 
 of Northampton.
 
 WARWICKSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 
 
 253 
 
 CHETWYND OF GRENDON, BARONET 1795. 
 
 The younger, but, in England, the only re- 
 maining branch of a very ancient family, de- 
 nominated 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 Kalph 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; 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 Kepresentative, Sir George Chetwynd, third Baronet.
 
 254 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OP ENGLAND. 
 
 FEILDING OP NEWNHAM PADDOX, EARL OF DENBIGH 1622. 
 
 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 posses- 
 sions from that monarch. The name is derived 
 from IHmfelJen, in Germany, where, and at 
 Lauffenburg, were the patrimonial possessions of the house of Haps- 
 burg.- 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'a 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 afess 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, William Basil Percy Feilding, seventh 
 Earl of Denbigh.
 
 WARWICKSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 255 
 
 STAUNTON OF LONGBRIDGE. 
 
 This family is stated by Thomas, in his addi- 
 tions to Dugdalc'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 is now represented by Sir 
 George , Staunton, Baronet of Ireland 1785- 
 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 18th of Elizabeth; extinct in the last century. 
 
 See Dugdale's Warwickshire, vol. ii. p. 665 ; Thoroton's Notting- 
 hamshire, 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, ttvo 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.
 
 2.36 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 FERRERS OF BADDESLEY- CLINTON. 
 
 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 conse- 
 quence, and the splendour of connection of the 
 various branches, of which the forfeited Earls of 
 Derby, and Do Ferrariis, or Ferrers, were the 
 chiefs. Descended from Henry de Feriers at the time of the Con- 
 quest, 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 Tarn- 
 worth Castle, in this county,) by his marriage with Constantia, 
 daughter and heiress of Nicholas Brome, of Baddcsley. 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 co- 
 heir 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 there- 
 upon devolved on the Ferrers's of Tarn worth, 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 Tarn- 
 worth, Esq. in 1680, the present family of Baddesley-Clinton suc- 
 ceeded as chief of this illustrious house. . 
 
 See Dugdale's Warwickshire, vol. ii. p. 971; for Baddesley-Clin-
 
 WARWICKSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 257 
 
 ton, 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 0. 
 Mosley's History of Tutbury, 8vo. 1832; and Dugdale's Warwickshire 
 vol. ii. p. 1089; and for Ferrers of Tarn worth, 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's 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 Fair, 
 or and gules, which was latterly also borne by Ferrers of Tamworth. The 
 Qviinci 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. 
 
 Turvey, in Bedfordshire, was the principal seat 
 in England of this noble Norman family, de- 
 scended from Osbert le Mordaunt, who came over 
 from Normandy with William the Conqueror, 
 and received a grant of the lordship of Radwill, 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, 
 
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 258 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 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 llth of Edward 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,' 5 fo. 1685, privately printed. 
 
 AKMS. Argent, a chevron between three estoils sable. 
 Presentjlepresentative, Sir Charles Mordaunt, tenth Baronet. 
 
 BlDDULPH OF BlRDINGBURY, BARONET 1654. 
 
 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
 
 WARWICKSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 259 
 
 Biddulph, of Biddulph, in the time of Henry VIII., whose de- 
 scendant, 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 before 
 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 ktngued gules. Argent, 
 three soldering-irons sable, is also said to have been borne by the Biddulphs. 
 
 Present Kepresentative, Sir Theophilus William Biddulph, seventh 
 Baronet. 
 
 SKIP WITH OF HARBOROUGH, BARONET 1622 (FORMERLY OF 
 XEWBOLD HALL). 
 
 The name is derived from Skip with, 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 
 
 r- , of Cottingham in the reign of William the 
 
 \ ~7 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
 
 260 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 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 16 70, extinct in 1790, and of the 
 present family, who for five generations were of Virginia, in America, 
 where the father of the present Baronet was born. 
 
 See Dugdale's Warwickshire, vol. i. p. 84; Nichols's Leicester- 
 shire, vol. in. pt. i. p. 368; and Wotton's Baronetage, vol. i. p. 536. 
 
 ARMS. Argent, three bars gules, in chief a greyhound courant sable. 
 
 Present Representative, Sir Thomas George Skipwith, ninth 
 Baronet. 
 
 (Gentle. 
 
 SHUCKBURGH OF SHUCKBURGH, BARONET 1660. 
 
 The antiquity of this family need not be 
 doubted, although the lineal descent, as Dugdale 
 avouches, is not very plain. William de Sucke- 
 berge 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 remark- 
 able incident happened which is related by Dugdale. Charles I.
 
 WARWICKSHIRE GENTLE. 261 
 
 having met him hunting with his hounds a day or two before the 
 battle of Edge-hill, "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 Eestoration. 
 
 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 Northamp- 
 tonshire, 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, eighth Baronet. 
 
 THROCKMORTON OF COUGHTON, BARONET 1642. 
 
 The name is derived from Throcmorton, in 
 the parish of Fladbury, in the county of Wor- 
 cester, where John de Trockemerton, the sup- 
 posed ancestor of this family, was living about 
 the year 1200. From this John descended, 
 after many generations, another " John Throk- 
 merton," who was, according .to 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,
 
 262 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OP ENGLAND. 
 
 but as a thing taken of the sete of Wicestre in fanne, 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 
 Frauce 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. p. 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 gemettes sable. 
 
 Present Kepresentative, Sir Robert George Throckmorton, eighth 
 Baronet.
 
 WARWICKSHIRE GENTLE. 263 
 
 SHELDON OF BRAILES. 
 
 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 Eichard 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 Xeville Lord Latimer by 
 William Sheldon in the same reign, and continued till the destruc- 
 tion 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 property 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 Xash's Wor- 
 cestershire, vol. i. pp. 65 and 144. 
 
 ARMS. Sable, afess between three sheldrakes argent. 
 Present Representative, Henry James Sheldon, Esq.
 
 264 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 GREGORY or STYVECHALL. 
 
 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 Eoger Moton, of Peckleton, Knight; his 
 son, Eichard 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 OF BROOKE 1746, 
 AND EARL OF WARWICK 1759; BARON 1620-1. 
 
 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
 
 WARWICKSHIRE GENTLE. 265 
 
 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 co-heiress of Edward Willoughby, only son of Robert 
 Willoughby, Lord Brooke, became possessed of Beauchamp's Court, 
 in the pari-'h 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 Broke," 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 Al- 
 gernon, second son of Fulke, 5th Lord Brooke. 
 
 See Leland's Itinerary, vol. iv. pt. 1. 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, fourth Earl of 
 Warwick. 
 
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 266 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 WESTMERLAND. 
 
 ooo 
 
 LOWTHER OF LOWTHER-CASTLE, EARL OF LONSDALE 1807 ; 
 BARON 1797; BARONET 1764. 
 
 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 grand- 
 father 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 Westmoreland, vol. i. 
 p. 428 ; Whitaker's Leeds, vol. i. p. 281 ; and Wotton's Baro- 
 netage, vol. ii. p. o02. 
 
 ARMS. Or, six annulets sable, and borne by Monsire Louther, in the reign 
 of Edward III. (Roll.) 
 
 Present Representative, William Lowther, second Earl of Lonsdale.
 
 WKSTMEULAND KNIGHTLY. 267 
 
 STRICKLAND OF SIZEKGH. 
 Descended from Walter de Stirkland, Knight, 
 
 ' O 
 
 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 Westmoreland, vol. i. p. 87; and Whitaker's Rich- 
 rnondshire, vol. ii. p. 333. 
 
 ARMS. Sable, three escallops icithin a border engrailed argent. The present 
 coat, but without the border, was borne by Walter de Strjkelande, in the 
 rein 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 patee argent, on a canton ermine, 
 a stag's head erased sable. 
 
 Present Representative, Walter Strickland, Esq.
 
 268 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 FLEMING OF RYDAL, BARONET 1705. 
 
 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 Westmoreland, vol. i. p. 150; and Wotton's Ba- 
 ronetage, 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, ivithin a roundell. 
 
 Present Representative, the Rev. Sir Richard Fleming, sixth 
 Baronet.
 
 WESTMERLAND GENTLE. 
 
 269 
 
 (Gentle. 
 
 WYBERGH OF CLIFTON. 
 
 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 Westmoreland, vol. i. p. 417. 
 
 ARMS. Sable, three bars or, in chief two estoiles of the last. Sometimes 1 find 
 two mullets in chief, and one in base, used in place of the estoiles. 
 
 Present Representative, William Wybergh, Esq.
 
 270 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 WILTSHIRE. 
 
 Itntgijtlg. 
 
 SEYMOUR OF MAIDEN-BRADLEY, DUKE OF SOMERSET 1546-7, 
 BARONET 1611. 
 
 This great historical family is of Norman 
 origin, descended from Roger de Sancto Mauro, 
 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 the 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.
 
 WILTSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 
 
 271 
 
 Seymour Marquis 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, \ 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 thejirnt, the 
 points downwards. The wings, the original coat, was borne by Sir Roger de 
 Sancto Mauro in the 23rd Henry III., as appears by his seal, with the legend 
 " Sigill' llogeri de Seimor." (Collins.) The first quarter was granted by 
 Henry VIII. as an augmentation. 
 
 Present Representative, Edward Adolphus Seymour, twelfth 
 Duke of Somerset. 
 
 ARUNDELL OF WARDOUR, BARON ARUNDELL OF 
 WARDOUR 1605. 
 
 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, how- 
 ever," 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
 
 272 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 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 Honor." 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 Fulk Greville in 1547. 
 Camden, Carew, and Leland, unite in recording the hospitality and 
 honourable demeanor of this family, in all relations of social life, and 
 state that from the preeminence 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 hirundelles, may be con- 
 sidered an early instance of Canting Heraldry. 
 
 Present Representative, Henry-Benedict Arundell, eleventh Baron 
 Arundell of Wardour.
 
 WILTSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 
 
 273 
 
 WYNDHAM OF DINTON. 
 
 The sole remaining branch in the male line of 
 this ancient family, said to be of Saxon origin, 
 and descended from " Ailwardus " of Wy- 
 mondam, 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 
 Wadh am, 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 Blomfield's Norfolk, vol. iv. p. 309; 
 Hoare's Wiltshire, vol. iii. pt. i. p. 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 lioris heads erased or, 
 Present Representative, William Wyndham, Esq. 
 
 2 x
 
 274 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 MALET OF WILBURY, BARONET 1791. 
 
 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 AYolleigh, 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 Maga- 
 zine for 1799, p. 117. 
 
 ARMS. Azure, three escallops or. 
 
 Present Representative, Sir Alexander Charles Malet, second 
 Baronet.
 
 WILTSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 
 
 275 
 
 <entle. 
 
 CODRINGTON OF WROUGHTON. 
 
 The name is local, from Codrington, in the 
 parish of Dodington, in the county of Gloucester, 
 where, and at Wapley adjoining, 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 Dodington. Didmarton, also in 
 Gloucestershire, was subsequently the family seat, and latterly 
 Wroughton, in this county. 
 
 Younger Branch. Codrington, of Dodington, in the county of 
 Gloucester, Baronet 1721, descended from Christopher, second son 
 of Kobert 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. 
 
 ARMS. Argent, a fens embattled counter- embattled sable, fretty gules, between 
 three lioncels passant of the third. The fretty is sometimes omitted by the 
 Dodington branch. 
 
 Present Representative, William Wyndham Codrington, Esq.
 
 276 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 THYNNE OF LONGLEATE, MARQUIS OF BATH 1789; VISCOUNT 
 WEYMOUTH 1682; BARONET 1641. 
 
 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. 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, 1859, 4to. 
 
 ARMS. Barry often, or and sable. The younger branch, who retain the 
 name of Botfield, bear Barry of twelve or and sable. 
 
 Present Representative, John Alexander Thynne, fourth Marquis 
 of Bath. 
 
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 WILTSHIRE GENTLE. 
 
 277 
 
 WORCESTERSHIRE. 
 
 ACTON OF WOLVERTON. 
 
 A junior branch of a very ancient family, said 
 indeed by Habington, the Worcestershire anti- 
 quary, 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 resi- 
 dent in different parts of this county, at Sutton, Ribbesford, Elrnley- 
 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 Blake- 
 way's Sheriffs of Salop, p. 60. 
 
 ARMS. Gules, afess within a border engrailed ermine, 
 Present Representative, William Joseph Acton, Esq.
 
 278 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 LYTTLETON OF FRANKLEY, BARON LYTTLETON 1794; IRISH 
 BARON 1776; BARONET 1618. 
 
 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 West- 
 cote, 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 per- 
 formed." (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 
 Lyttleton in the reign of Henry IV. as appears by his seal. 
 
 Present Representative, George William Lyttleton, fourth Lord 
 Lyttleton.
 
 WORCESTERSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 
 
 279 
 
 TALBOT OP GRAFTON, EARL OF SHREWSBURY 1442; EARL 
 TALBOT 1784; BARON 1733; EARL OF WATERFORD IN IRE- 
 LAND 1661. 
 
 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 in- 
 herited 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 Shrews- 
 bury, 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.
 
 280 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 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. 
 
 ASMS. Gules, a lion rampant within a border engrailed or. Borne by Sir 
 Gilbert Talbot in the reign of Edward II. (Roll.) 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, eighteenth 
 Earl of Shrewsbury, and third Earl Talbot. 
 
 HANFORD OF WOLLASHILL. 
 
 Hanford, or Honford, in Cheshire, was the 
 original seat of the family, descended from 
 Thomas Hanford and Margaret Huggeford, the 
 heiress of Wollashill ; which Thomas was son of 
 Lawrence, second son of Robert Hanford of 
 Hanford, who was sixth in descent from Sir 
 John Hanford, of Hanford, in Cheshire. The 
 
 elder line of the family became extinct in 1513. The present branch 
 
 has been seated at Wollashill since 1536. 
 
 See Orrnerod's Cheshire, vol. iii. p. 327 ; and Nash's Worcester- 
 shire, vol. ii. p. 182. 
 
 ARMS. Sable, an estoile of eight points argent. 
 
 Present Representative, Compton John Hanford, Esquire.
 
 WORCESTERSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 281 
 
 WINNINGTON OF STANFORD; BARONET 1755. 
 
 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 eighth 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 Winnington 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 Worcester- 
 shire, vol. ii. p. 368. 
 
 ARMS. Argent, an inescutcheon voided, within an orle of martlets sable. 
 
 Present Representative, Sir Thomas Edward Winnington, M.I', 
 for Bewdley, fourtli Baronet. 
 
 2 o
 
 282 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 NOEL OF BELL-HALL. 
 
 This is the only remaining branch in the male 
 line of the very ancient family of l^pel; of which 
 the Earls of Gainsborough, created ^Q81, 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 tord 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. 
 
 SeeHarwood'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.
 
 WORCESTERSHIRE GENTLE. 283 
 
 Gentle. 
 
 LECHMERE OF HANLEY; BARONET 1818. 
 
 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 Lechem'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 Par- 
 liament. 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. 560. 
 ARMS. Gules, afess or, and in chief two pelicans vuhting themselves proper. 
 
 Present Representative, Sir Edmund Anthony Lechmere, third 
 Baronet.
 
 284 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 HORNYOLD OF BLACKMORE PARK (iN HANLEY). 
 
 John de Horny old, living in the reign of 
 Edward III., appears to be the first recorded 
 ancestor of this family, who have been since that 
 period seated in this county, in the parish of 
 Hanley. The Hornyolds were on the loyal side 
 during the Civil Wars of the seventeenth 
 century. 
 
 See Nash's Worcestershire, vol. i. p. 558 ; and the Worcestershire 
 Visitations of 1634 and 1683. 
 
 ARMS. Azure, a bend embattled counter-embatthd argent. Agreyhound courant 
 table was afterwards added on the bend^ between two escallops argent on the field. 
 
 Late Representative, Thomas Charles Hornyold, Esq. [This 
 gentleman died in January 1859, while this sheet was passing through 
 the press, and the family is consequently extinct.] 
 
 SEBRIGHT OF BESFORD; BARONET 1626. 
 
 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.
 
 WORCESTERSHIRE GENTLE. 285 
 
 See Wotton's Baronetage, vol. ii. p. 8 ; and Nash's Worcester- 
 shire, vol. i. p. 78. 
 
 ARMS. Argent, three cinque/oils pierced sable. 
 
 Present Representative, Sir Thomas Gage Saunders Sebright, 
 eighth Baronet. 
 
 BOUGHTON OF ROUSE-LENCH ; BARONET 1641. 
 
 This is a Warwickshire family of good anti- 
 quity, 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 resi- 
 dence till the murder of Sir TheodosiusBoughton, 
 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 pro- 
 perty 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, 
 eleventh Baronet.
 
 286 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 YORKSHIRE. 
 
 FlTZWlLLIAM OF WfiNTWORTH HOUSE ; EARL FlTzWlLLIAM 
 
 1746; BARON OF IRELAND 1620. 
 
 William fitzGodric, who married Albreda de 
 Lizours, Lady of Sprotsborough, in this county, 
 and who died before 1 195, is the remote ancestor 
 of this ancient house. Their son, William Fitz- 
 Williams, was seated at Sprotsborough in the 
 reign of Henry II., and here the family con- 
 tinued 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 Fitz William, 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 Fitz William 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.
 
 YORKSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 
 
 287 
 
 argent and gules. The present coat, except that ermine 
 takes the place o.f argent, was borne by Thomas Fitz William in the reign of 
 Henry III. In that of Richard II. William FitzWilliam bore the arms aa at 
 present used. 
 
 Present Representative, William Thomas Spencer Wentworth- 
 Fitz William, sixth Earl FitzWilliam, 
 
 SCROPE OP DANBY. 
 
 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, sixth 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; 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 
 Musham, (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.
 
 288 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 ABMS. 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 or GRIMSTON-GARTH. 
 
 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 Hertford- 
 shire, vol. i. p. 95; and Brydges's Collins, vol. viii. p. 209. See also 
 Boutell's Brasses, p. 129, for inscriptions to Sir Edward Grimston 
 and his son in Rishangles Church, near Eye, in Suffolk.
 
 YORKSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 289 
 
 ARMS. Argent, on a fess sable three mullets of six points or, pierced gules. 
 This coat was borne by Monsieur Gerrard dc Gryuiston in the reign of 
 Richard II. (Roll.) 
 
 Present Representative, Charles Griraston, Esq. 
 
 WYVILL, OF CONSTABLE- BURTON. 
 
 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. pi. i.; Whitaker's Richmondshire, 
 vol. i. p. 322; and Wotton's Baronetage, vol. i. p. 232. 
 
 ARMS. Gtdes, three clievronels 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, Marmadukc Wyvill, Esq. M.P. for Rich- 
 mond. 
 
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 290 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 HAMERTON or HELLIFIELD PEEL. 
 
 One of the most ancient families in the North 
 
 T.T 
 
 of England, according to Dr. Whitaker, de- 
 scended from Richard de Hamerton, who lived in 
 Tthe twenty-sixth of Henry II., anno 1 1 70. From 
 I Hamerton, the original seat, the family removed 
 S 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 became possessed of the property, and was related by 
 marriage to the Hamertons. 
 
 See Whitaker's Craven, ed. 1812, p. 124. 
 
 ARMS. Argent, three hammers sable. 
 
 Present Representative, James Hamerton, Esq.
 
 YORKSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 
 
 291 
 
 HOTHAM OF SOUTH DALTON; BARON OF IRELAND 1797; 
 BARONET 1621. 
 
 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. 470; 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. 
 
 Present Representative, Beaumont Hotham, third Baron Hotham.
 
 292 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OP ENGLAND. 
 
 BOYNTON OF BARMSTON, BARONET 1618. 
 
 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; 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 Kepresentative, Sir Henry Boynton, tenth Baronet. 
 
 WATERTON OF WALTON. 
 
 Waterton in the county of Lincoln was the 
 original seat, and from hence the name was 
 derived at an early period; Sir John Waterton, 
 Esquire of the Body to Henry IV., and Comp- 
 troller of the Household to Henry V. and VI., 
 was of this place. He was succeeded by his 
 brother Sir Robert, who was of Methley in this 
 county, which he inherited with his wife Cicely, the daughter and
 
 YORKSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 
 
 293 
 
 licir of Robert Fleming, of Woodhall in that parish, and where his 
 tomb is still preserved. The present family descend from a 
 younger son of this house, (the male line of the elder branch being 
 extinct,) who married Catherine Burghe, heiress of Walton about 
 the reign of Richard II., which has since continued the residence of 
 this ancient knightly lineage. 
 
 See Whitaker's Leeds, vol. i. p. 269. 
 
 ARMS. Barry of six ermine and gules, over all three cresccn/s table. 
 
 Present Representative, Charles Watcrton, Esq. 
 
 FAIRFAX OF STEETON. 
 
 " The truly ancient family of Fairfax," as 
 Camden stiles 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 AVest 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
 
 294 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 England in the reign of Henry VI. the present family is descended, 
 as well as Fairfax of Denton, Baron Fairfax of Cameron in Scot- 
 land (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 gemeUes gules, surmounted by a lion rampant sable 
 crowned or. 
 
 Present Representative, Thomas Fairfax, Esq. 
 
 NORTON OF GBANTLEY, BARON GRANTLEY 1782. 
 
 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 Westmorland 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 
 
 
 
 * He is descended from the eldest son of Sir William Fairfax of Steeton, who died 
 in 1557.
 
 YORKSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 295 
 
 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, 
 believed to be noAv extinct, was of Sawley near Ripon, from the 
 period of Charles I. 
 
 See Brydges's Collins, vol. vii. p. 546; Whitaker's Richmond- 
 shire, vol. ii. p. 182; and " Memorials of the Rebellion of 1569." 
 
 AHMS. 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 
 maund azure, and a hand proper. Monsieur Robert Conyers in the reign of 
 Richard II. bore, Azure, a maunch or charged with an annulet sable. (Roll of the 
 Dates.) 
 
 Present Representative, Fletcher Norton, third Baron Grantley.
 
 296 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 SAVILE OF METHLEY, EARL OF MEXBOROUGH IN IRELAND 
 1765; AND BARON POLLINGTON 1753. 
 
 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 couuty. 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. Tke senior branch acquired its greatest 
 renown in the person of George first Marquis 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 repre- 
 sented by the Earl of Mexborough. 
 
 See 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 Jield. 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 Savile, third Earl of Mexborough.
 
 YORKSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 
 
 297 
 
 GOWER OF STITTENHAM, DUKE OF SUTHERLAND 1833; MARQUIS 
 OF STAFFORD 1786; EARL GOWEU 1746; BARON 1703. 
 
 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 Switenhain (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 
 Marquis 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, nephew of the 
 present Duke; 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 Eepresentative, George Granville Sutherland 
 Gower, second Duke of Sutherland. 
 
 2Q
 
 298 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 DAWN AY OF COWICK AND DANBY, VISCOUNT DOWNE IN 
 IRELAND 1680. 
 
 A Norman family by reputation, and said to 
 be traced to the Conquest, descended from Sir 
 William Dawnay, who was in the wars in the 
 Holy Land with Eichard 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 Corn- 
 wall ; 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, eighth Viscount 
 Downe.
 
 YORKSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 299 
 
 PILKINGTON OP NETHER-BRADLEY AND CHEVET-HALL, 
 
 BARONET OF NOVA-SCOTIA 1635. 
 
 "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 ta 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 York- 
 shire, 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 " Worthys 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
 
 300 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLANJ). 
 
 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 Melbourne Swinnerton Pil- 
 kington, tenth Baronet. 
 
 STOURTON OF ALLEKTON, BARON STOURTON 1447. 
 
 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 springes, 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 Itiu., vii. fol. 
 78 b. 
 
 A K.MS. Sable, u bend or between six fountains proper. 
 
 Present Representative, Charles Stourton, eighteenth Baron 
 Stourton.
 
 YORKSHIRE KNIGHTLY. 
 
 301 
 
 MARKHAM OF BECCA-HALL. 
 
 A remote branch of an ancient Nottingham- 
 shire 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 Mark- 
 ham, 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; and the Topographer, vol. ii. p. 296, for Markham of Sedge- 
 brook, co. Lincoln, extinct 1779. 
 
 ARMS. Azure, on a chief or a demi-lion rampant issuing gules. The Mark- 
 hams of Sedgebrook bore their arms difierenced by a border argent. 
 
 Present Representative, William Thomas Markham. Esq.
 
 302 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 BURTON, (CALLED DENISON,) OF GRIMSTONE, BARON 
 LONDESBOROUGH 1850. 
 
 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 Longnor, in the same county, prior to the 
 reign of Edward I. " 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 un- 
 married in 1730, and whose sister carried the Longnor estate to the 
 Lingen family, who have assumed the name of Burton, (see p. 186.) 
 Thomas, fifth son of Thomas Burton, of Longnor, is the ancestor of 
 the present family, and of the Marquis of Conyngham (elder brother 
 of 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 present 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 
 urgent, granted in 1478, and commemorative of the devotion of this house to 
 the White Rose of York. 
 
 Present Representative, Albert Denison Denison, first Baron 
 Londesborough.
 
 YORKSHIRE GENTLE. 
 
 303 
 
 (gentle. 
 
 RAWDON OF RAWDON-HALL, MARQUIS OF HASTINGS 1816; 
 EARL OF MOIRA IN IRELAND 1761 ; BARONET 1665. 
 
 Rawdon, in the parish of Guisclcy 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. ii. p. 171; Brydges's Collins, vol. vi. 
 p. 606; Wotton's Baronetage, vol. iii. p. 467; and Archdall's Lodge, 
 vol. iii. p. 95. 
 
 ARMS. Argent, afess between three pheoris sable. 
 
 Present Representative, Henry Weysford Charles Plantagenet 
 Rawdon Hastings, fourth Marquis of Hastings.
 
 304 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 TANCRED OF BOROUGH-BRIDGE, BARONET 1662. 
 
 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, seventh Baronet. 
 
 MEYNELL OF NORTH KILVINGTON. 
 
 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 re- 
 mained till the middle of the sixteenth, when 
 Anthony Meynell, the immediate ancestor of the 
 \. a/ present family, removed by purchase to North 
 
 ^^^^ Kilvington, which has since continued the resi- 
 
 dence of his descendant". 
 
 See Graves's History of Cleveland ; and Burke's Landed Gentry. 
 
 ARMS. Azure, three bars gemettes 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.
 
 YORKSHIRE GENTLE. 
 
 305 
 
 ANNE OF BURGH- WALLIS. 
 
 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, sum- 
 moned to appear before the Heralds in 1548." 
 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. 
 ASMS. Gules, three stag's heads cabossed argent attired or. 
 Present Representative, Michael Anne (Tasburgh), Esq. 
 
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 306 
 
 NOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 LISTER OF GISBURN, BARON RIBBLESDALE 1797. 
 
 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 Bolland, 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 afess sable three mullets or. Lyster of Rowton bears the 
 mullets argent. 
 
 Present Representative, Thomas Lister, third Baron Ribblesdale.
 
 YORKSHIRE- GENTLE. 
 
 I,AS< KLLKS OF HAUEWOOD, EAUL OF HAKEWOOD 1812; 
 
 1796. 
 
 A family of ancient standing in this county, 
 descended from John de Lascelles, of Hinder- 
 skelfe, now called Castle Howard, in the wapen- 
 ttike of Buhner, in the North riding, living in 
 the ninth year of Edward II. For seven gene- 
 rations 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 North Allerton ; 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 vermmix, with a border engrailed sable. 
 
 Present Representative. Henry Thynne Lascelles, fourth Earl of 
 II arc wood.
 
 308 
 
 XOBLE AND GENTLE MEN OF ENGLAND. 
 
 WOMBWELL OF WOMBWELL, BARONET 1778. 
 
 There was a family who took the local name 
 of Wombwell from that manor in the thirteenth 
 century, but this cannot with certainty be con- 
 nected with it. The pedigree therefore com- 
 mences 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 re- 
 present 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 8 heads couped argent ; and so borne 
 in the sixth of Henry IV. 
 
 Present Representative, Sir George Orby Wombwell, fourth 
 Baronet
 
 YORKSHIRE GENTLE. 
 
 309 
 
 PALMES OF NABURN. 
 
 There appears no reason tp doubt the antiquity 
 of this family, said to be descended from Man- 
 fred 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. 
 
 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 f ess 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 BRYIHJES'S Autobiography, p. 153.
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Abney of Meashaui, 52 
 Acland of Acland, 63 
 Acton of Aldenham, 191 
 Acton of Wolverton, 277 
 Aldersey of Aldersey, 23 
 Alington of Swinhope, 132 
 Anne of Burghwallis, 305 
 Annesley of Bletchingdon, 174 
 Antrobus of Antrobus, 27 
 Arden of Longcroft, 220 
 Arundell of Wardour, 271 
 Ashburnham of Ashbtirnham, 241 
 Ashurst of Waterstock, 173 
 Assheton of Downham, 114 
 Astley of Melton-Constable, 138 
 
 Babington of Rothley-Temple, 125 
 Bacon of Raveningham, 144 
 Bagot of Bagot's Bromley, 215 
 Baldwin of Kinlet, 194 
 Bamfylde of Poltimore, 64 
 Barnardiston of the Ryes, 229 
 Barnston of Churton, 26 
 Barttelot of Stopham, 248 
 Bastard of Kitley, 62 
 Baskervyle of Old Withington, 23 
 Beaumont of Cole-Orton, 123 
 Bedingfeld of Oxburgh, 139 
 Bellew of Court, 67 
 Bendyshe of Barrington, 12 
 Berington of Winsley, 92 
 Berkeley of Berkeley Castle, 84 
 Betton of Tollerton, 200 
 
 Biddulph of Birdingbury, 258 
 Bingham of Bingham's-Melcombe, 70 
 Blois of Cocktield Hall, 234 
 Blount of Sodington, 172 
 Bodenham of Rotberwas, 89 
 Bond of Grange, 74 
 Borough of Chetwynd, 205 
 Boscawen of Boscawen-Rose, 34 
 Boughton of Rouse-Lencb. 285 
 Boynton of Barmston, 292 
 Bracebridge of Atherstone, 251 
 Bray of Shere, 235 
 Brisco of Crofton, 41 
 Brooke of Norton, 24 
 Brooke of Ufford, 231 
 Broughton of Broughton, 218 
 Brudenell of Dene, 148 
 Buller of Downes, 69 
 Bunbury of Stanney, 18 
 Burdet of Foremark, 48 
 Burney of Kirby-Beedon, 137 
 Burton of Grimstone, 302 
 Byron of Thrumstone, 163 
 
 Carew of Haccombe, 58 
 Gary of Torr- Abbey, 57 
 Cave of Stretton, 49 
 Cavendish of Hardwick, 46 
 Chadwick of Healy, 119 
 Chetwode of Chetwode, 6 
 Chetwynd of Grendon, 253 
 Chichester of Youlston, 55 
 Cholmondeley of Cholmondeley, 16
 
 312 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Clarke of Ardington, 5 
 Clavering of Callaly, 155 
 Clifford of Ugbrooke, 60 
 Clifton of Clifton, 108 
 Clifton of Clifton, 164 
 Clinton of Clumber, 168 
 Clive of Styche, 201 
 Clutton of Chorlton, 25 
 Codrington of Wroughton, 275 
 ColvUe of Duffield, 50 
 Coke of Brook-hill Hall, 51 
 Coker of Bicester, 177 
 Compton of Compton- Wyniate, 252 
 Congreve of Congreve, 224 
 Cope of Bramshill, 213 
 Corbet of Moreton-Corbet, 179 
 Cornewall of Delbury, 185 
 Cotes of Cotes, 223 
 Cotton of Landwade, 11 
 Cotton of Combermere, 28 
 Courtenay of Powderham, 53 
 Courthope of Wyleigh, 248 
 Croke of Studley, 172 
 Curzon of Kedleston, 44 
 
 Davenport of Woodford, 13 
 Dawnay of Cowick, 298 
 Dayrell of Lillingstone-Dayrell, 7 
 Bering of Surenden-Dering, 95 
 De-Grey of Merton, 143 
 Digby of Minton, 72 
 Disney of The Hyde, 82 
 Dod of Cloverley, 195 
 Drewe of Grange, 68 
 Dukinfield of Stanlake, 5 
 Dykes of Dovenby, 41 
 Dymoke of Scrivelsby, 129 
 
 Eccleston of Scarisbrick, 117 
 Edgcumbe of Edgcumbe, 54 
 
 Edwardes of Harnage- Grange, 199 
 Egerton of Oulton, 15 
 Estcourt of Estcourt, 87 
 Eyre of Rampton, 169 
 Eyston of East Hendred, 4 
 Eyton of Eyton, 190 
 
 Fairfax of Steeton, 293 
 Fane of Apthorp, 154 
 Farnham of Quorndon, 121 
 Feilding of Newnham-Paddox, 254 
 Ferrers of Baddesley-Clinton, 256 
 Filmer of East Sutton, 102 
 Finch of East well, 103 
 Fitzherbert of Norbury, 43 
 Fitzwilliam of Wentworth- House, 286 
 Fleming of Rydal, 258 
 Floyer of West Stafford, 76 
 Forester of Willey, 198 
 Fortescue of Castle-Hill, 56 
 Frampton of Moreton, 73 
 Fulford of Fulford, 53 
 Fursdon of Fursdon, 65 
 
 Gage of Firle, 247 
 Gatacre of Gatacre, 189 
 Gent of Moyns, 83 
 Gerard of Bryn, 112 
 Giffard of Chillington, 216 
 Glanville of Catchfrench, 38 
 Goring of Highden, 242 
 Gower of Stittenham, 297 
 Gregory of Styvechall, 264 
 Grenville of Wotton, 8 
 Gresley of Drakelow, 42 
 Greville of Warwick Castle, 264 
 Grey of Groby, 124 
 Grey of Howick, 159 
 Grimston of Grimston-Garth, 288
 
 INDEX. 
 
 313 
 
 Grosvenor of Eaton, 14 
 Gurney of Keswick, 142 
 
 Haggerston of Ellingham, 161 
 Hamerton of Hellifield-Peel, 290 
 Hanford of Wollashill, 280 
 Harcourt of Ankerwycke, 9 
 Harington of Dartington, 61 
 Harley of Down-Rossel, 187 
 Harpur of Calke, 47 
 Harries of Cruckton, 204 
 Hazlerigg of Noseley, 126 
 Heigham of Hunston, 233 
 Heneage of Hainton, 130 
 Hervey of Ickworth, 234 
 Hesketh of Ruffbrd, 110 
 Hill of Hawkstone, 197 
 Hoghton of Hoghton-Tower, 107 
 Honywood of Evington, 97 
 Hornyold of Blackmore Park, 284 
 Hotham of South Dalton, 291 
 Howard of East Winch, 140 
 Huddleston of Sawston, 10 
 Hulton of Hulton, 116 
 
 Irton of Irton, 40 
 Isham of Lamport, 153 
 
 Jenney of Bredfield, 230 
 Jerningham of Cossey, 145 
 Jocelyn of Hyde Hall, 93 
 
 Kelly of Kelly, 59 
 Kendall of Pelyn, 36 
 Kingscote of Kingscote, 85 
 Knatchbull of Mersham Hatch, 101 
 Knightley of Fawsley, 149 
 Kynaston of Hardwicke, 183 
 
 Lambton of Lambton, 79 
 Lane of King's Bromley, 227 
 
 2 s 
 
 Lascelles of Harewood, 307 
 Lawley of Spoonbill, 202 
 Lawton of Lawton, 27 
 Leche of Carden, 25 
 Lechmere of Hanley, 283 
 Leigh of East Hall, 21 
 Leigh of West Hall, 22 
 Leigh of Adlestrop, 87 
 Leighton of Loton, 181 
 Leycester of Toft, 19 
 Lingen of Longnor, 186 
 Lister of Gisburn, 306 
 Loraine of Kirk-Harle, 160 
 Lowther of Lowther, 266 
 Lumley of Lumley Castle, 77 
 Luttley of Brockhampton, 91 
 Lyttleton of Frankley, 278 
 
 Malet of Wilbury, 274 
 Mainwaring of Whitmore, 219 
 Manners of Belvoir Castle, 131 
 Markham of Becca, 301 
 Massie of Coddington, 19 
 Maunsell of Thorpe-Malsor, 152 
 Meynell of Hore-Cross, 221 
 Meynell of North Kilvington, 304 
 Middleton of Belsey Castle, 158 
 Mitford of Mitford, 156 
 Molesworth of Pent-arrow, 32 
 Molyneux of Sefton, 1 06 
 Monson of Burton, 133 
 Mordaunt of Walton, 257 
 Musgrave of Edenhall, 39 
 
 Neville of Birling, 96 
 Noel of Bell Hall, 282 
 Northcote of Pynes, 64 
 Norton of Grantley, 294 
 
 Oakeley of Oakley, 196
 
 314 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Oglander of Nunwell, 211 
 Okeover of Okeover, 214 
 Onslow of West Clandon, 240 
 Ormerod of Tyldesley, 118 
 Oxenden of Dene, 103 
 
 Palmer of Carlton, 154 
 Palmes of Naburn, 309 
 Parker of Park Hall, 228 
 Pelham of Laughton, 243 
 Pennington of Pennington, 105 
 Perceval of Nork House, 236 
 Pigott of Edgmond, 202 
 Pilkington of Nether Bradley, 299 
 Plowden of Plowden, 191 
 PoleofRadborne, 46 
 Pole of Shute, 59 
 Polhill of Howbury, 3 
 Polwhele of Polwhele, 33 
 Popham of Bagborough, 206 
 Poulett of Hinton, 207 
 Prideaux of Place, 30 
 
 Radclyffe of Foxdenton, 115 
 Rashleigh of Menabilly, 37 
 Rawdon of Rawdon, 303 
 Ridley of Blagden, 162 
 Rokeby of Arthingworth, 151 
 Roper of Linstead, 100 
 Roundell of Screven, 309 
 Rous of Dennington, 232 
 Russell of Kingston-Russell, 71 
 
 St. John of Melchbourne, 1 
 Salvin of Croxdale, 78 
 Salway of Moor Park, 204 
 Sandford of Sandford, 182 
 Savile of Methley, 296 
 Scrope of Danby, 287 
 Scudamore of Kervtchurch, 90 
 
 Sebright of Besford, 284 
 Selby of Biddleston, 159 
 Seymour of Maiden-Bradley, 270 
 Sheldon of Brailes, 263 
 Shelley of Maresfield, 244 
 Sherard of Stapleford, 122 
 Shirley of Eatington, 249 
 Shuckburgh of Shuckburgh, 260 
 Skipwith of Harborough, 259 
 Sneyd of Keel, 225 
 Speke of Jordans, 208 
 Spencer of Althorpe, 150 
 Stanhope of Shelford, 166 
 Stanley of Knowesley, 113 
 Stark ie of Huntroyd, 
 Staunton of Longbridge, 255 
 Stonor of Stonor, 170 
 Stourton of Allerton, 300 
 Strickland of Sizergh, 267 
 Strode of Newenham, 66 
 Sutton of Norwood, 165 
 Swinburne of Capheaton, 157. 
 
 Talbot of Grafton, 279 
 Tancred of Borough Bridge, 304 
 Tatton of Tatton, 17 
 Thornes of Llwyntidman, 203 
 Thornhill of Stanton, 51 
 Thorold of Marston, 133 
 Throekmorton of Cough ton, 261 
 Thynne of Longleate, 276 
 Tichborne of Tichborne, 210 
 Toke of Godington, 99 
 Townley of Townley, 111 
 Townshend of Rainham, 146 
 Trafford of Trafford, 109 
 Trefusis of Trefusis, 33 
 Tregonwell of Anderston, 74 
 Trelawny of Trelawny, 29 
 Tremayne of Helligan, 35
 
 INDEX. 
 
 315 
 
 Trevelyan of Nettlecombe, '209 
 Trye of Leckhampton, 86 
 Turvile of Husband's Bosworth, 120 
 Twysden of Roydon Hall, 98 
 Tyrell of Boreham, 80 
 Tyrwhitt of Stanley Hall, 188 
 
 Vernon of Sudbury, 45 
 Villiers of Middleton-Stoney, 175 
 Vincent of Stoke d'Aberuon, 239 
 Vyvyan of Trelowarren, 31 
 
 Wake of Courtenhall, 147 
 Walcot of Bitterley, 193 
 Waldegrave of Naverstoke, 81 
 Wallop of Wallop, 212 
 Walpole of Wollerton, 136 
 Walrond of Dulford, 66 
 Waterton of Walton, 292 
 Welby of Denton, 128 
 Weld of Lulworth, 75 
 
 West of Buckhurst, 245 
 Weston of West Horsley, 238 
 Whichcote of Aswarby, 134 
 Whitgreve of Moseley, 226 
 Whitmore of Apley, 192 
 Wilbraham of Delamere, 20 
 Willoughby of Wollaton, 167 
 Wingfield of Tickencote, 178 
 Winnington of Stanford, 281 
 Wodehouse of Kimberley, 135 
 Wollaston of Shenton, 127 
 Wolryche of Croxley, 94 
 Wolseley of Wolseley, 222 
 Wombwell of Wombwell, 308 
 Wrey of Trebigh, 37 
 Wrottesley of Wrottesley, 217 
 Wybergh of Clifton, 269 
 Wykeham of Tythrop, 171 
 Wyndham of Dinton, 273 
 Wyvill of Constable-Burton, 289
 
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