GOSCOTE.] DALBY ON THE WOULD &SS Pedigree of the DUNCOMBE Family', (For the Arms, fee p. 254.) Duncombe.== -—-,— , l l. Thomas Duncombe, ofcpjoan . 2. William Duncombe, of Stocks, in the parish of Aldbury, Herts, and after- Barley End in Ivinghoe, ' wards of Great Brickhill and Wingrave, died I ^33 ; ancestor of the Dun- Bucks, died 1531. combes of Whitchurch, East Cleydon, Tring, Wingrave, and Ailefbury. Mary, dau. and==William Duncombe,=j=Alice, dau. of Robert Duncombe. Margaret, Elizabeth, wife Anne, wise coheir of Rich. j of Barley End, died Whitton John Duncombe. wife of.., of... Turney. of ReynesofClif- j 1576. of Oxfordsli. Holland. Newman. ton Reynes> co- 1 Bucks. William Dun-=pEllen, dau. of combe, of Bat- Will. Saunders,. Dun-=pAlice, Thomas ^Isabella, John Roger Dun- Cecilia, Elizabeth, tlesden, Bed- of Pottefgrovei om, of dau. of Duncombe, dau. of combe, of dau. of wife of fordshire. Bedfordshire. Barley End of Great Thomas Lillington Edmund William died 1594- Egleton. Brick Hill, j Saunders$ Park, Bed- Conquest, Draynes; Sir Edward Duncbmbe,= . Bedford- | ofAgmon • fordsliire, of Hough- of Battlefden. sliire. deiham. ton Con- quest, Bedfordfh. Right hon. sir John Sir Francis Dun- r T"! combe \ chancellor of j combe, ancestor Richard Dun- George Duncombe, Lucy, wife of the Exchequer 1672. of the Dun- combe, died ancestor of the H. Make- , -J combes of s. Dun combes of piece. William Duri-=j=Jane; dau. Broughton, Weston, Surrey; Anne, wife combe, of Bat- of Frede- Bedfordshire, of Tangley, Sur- of . t . tlefden, one of rick lord now extinct. rey, baronets; Fowkesi the lords justices Cornwal- and of Shene, of Ireland. lis. Surrey. Anne, wife of Henry earl of ' ' I'.I 'I Deloraine. William Duncombe,-- Foger Duncombe, died =Faith, dau. of Tho. Elizabeth. of Barley End, died Henry Duncombe, f. Clarke, of Huching- Alice. Thomas Duncombe, P 1630. don, Bucks. Agnes. Thomas Duncombe, William =pMaryy, Robert Duncombe, ancestor Francis. John, of Henry. Roger, of ancestor of the Dun- Duncombe, dau.of of the Duncombes of Stocks Ailefbury; Ivinghoe* combes of Barley of lvinghoe. John in Herts, and of Canterbury. End; died 1659. Thead. : William Duncombe, Alexander Duncombe,- Mary, dau. of Francis Duncombe, Faith. Anne. died s. p. of Whitchurch, . Paulye, of vicar of Ivinghoe. Mary. Elizabeth. Bucks. Whitchurch. I. Alexander, 2. Sir Charles Duncombe, goldsmith, 3. Valentine, 4. Anthony Dun- ^f=Jane, eldest Ursula, wife of born 1649; alderman, and lord-mavor of Lon- died s. p. combe, gover- dau. and co- Tho. Brown. died f. p. don 1709 ; purchased the manor of nor of Scarbo- heir of the Dalby on the Woulds, and Brough- rough Castle; hon. Frede- Thom- Brown, ton ; died April 9, 1711, s. p.; bu- died 1708. rick Corn- who assumed ried at Downton. wallis. the name of Duncombe, an- Margaret Verney,: :Franees, dau.=f=Anthony Dun-=pAnne, third dau. of Anne, wife of Jane, wife cestor of the dau. of George of Peter Ba- combe, created fir Thom. Hales, of John Sawyer, of sir John Duncombes of lord Willoughby thurst,ofCla- lordFeverlham, Beakefbourn,Kent, of Heywood, Cope, Yorkshire. de Broke; died rendon Park, baron of Down- bart. married 1758; Berks, esq. K.B. Wilts, esq. ton, 1747 ; died afterwards, 1765, third J died 1757. 1763. wife to William earl of Radnor. George Duncombe, Frances, wife of John Anne, wife of Jacob earl of Radnor. died s. p. Bowater, esq. [See Tilton on the Hill.] 1 " This name is Saxon, and is supposed to be derived from Dun, a hill or hilly plain ; and Comtct a valley between hills, whiih exactly corresponds with the situation of Barley End in Bucks, vvhere the elder branch of the family has resided many years. Comb-bank, in Kent, lord Frederick Campbell's house, is so styled for the fame reason." This note is by the late Rev. John Duncombe, of Canterbury. It appears from Le Neve's Fasti, vol. I, p. 220, that in 1257 William Duncombe was arch- deacon of Suffolk. * " While king Charles I. was a prisoner at Carilbrook Castle, 1648, he was his own chaplain, as not thinking it fit to accept ofany of the Presbyterian ministers on that account; albeit, as occasion offered, he thanked and was civil to them, when they applied themselves to him for that purpose. Among others, one Troughton, who was chaplain to colonel Hammond, governor ©f the Isle of Wight, and preacher to the soldiers of the garrison of Caristrook, would many times be in the presence-chamber when his majesty was at dinner. And though he was a young man, yet he was a scholar, had good education, and would argue notably in defence of some tenets he held in opposition to certain ceremonies and discipline in the Episcopacy. The king usually after meals would walk for near an hour, and take many turns in the presence-chamber; and when he found the chap- lain there, he would pleasurably enter into disputation with him, and the chaplain would be very earnest in defence of his opi- nion. The king never checked him for his confidence, but allowed him his liberty, and would be very pleasant and merry with, him. The king, being a good logician, and well read in history and matters of controversy, gained ground of his opponents and would please himself with one passage which happened, and that was this : During their discourse, the chaplain then stand- ing at the end of the presence-chamber, between a lieutenant of the garrison (who had a sword in his hand, and was earnestly listening to what the king said in the debate) and a gentleman who was not known there, the king, in the heat of his discourse, suddenly disarmed the lieutenant by taking the sword out of his hand, which made him look strangely, and the more when his majesty drew it, for that put the chaplain in a fright also, he not imagining the reason, until the stranger (better understanding the king's meaning) fell upon his knees, and the king laying the naked sword upon his flioulder, conferred upon him the order of knighthood, telling him withall, it was to perform a promise to his relations. This stranger's name viasjobn Duncombe, of Battlefden in Bedfordshire, esq. who was afterwards a servant to king Charles II. sworn a member of his privy council May 22, 1667, being then one of the commissioners of his majesty's treasury, and at length, on the resignation of sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, chancellor and under-treasurer of the Exchequer about the 20th of November, 1672. I had this story from sir Thomas Herbert the Traveller, then one of the grooms of bit majesty's bed-chamber." Wood, Athen. Oxon. vol. II p. 688. The.