8/6 HISTORY AMD ANTIQUITIES OF .

PEDIGREE of CROFT, WIGHTMAN, and JEE, of . (Extracted from Family Writings, the Registers of Peckleton, and Monumental Inscriptions, 1810.) I Armms of Croft: Quarterly: 1. Lozengy" Argent and Sable; Croft of Pecklelon. 2. Or, a chevron between three leopards' face* CrlllesH; Harveii of Elmesthorpe. 3. Azure, on two bars Or, three martlets Gules ; Burdett. 4. Or, on two bars Gules, three water- bougets Or, in chief an annulet Gules; U'illoughby of Rands. Pig. 39. Arms of Wightman.- Per fess Or and Sable, a maunch counterehanged, Crest, on the stump of a tree, a buck; fig.40 . Amis of Jee of .- G4J*s, a sword, in bend Argent, pomeled Or, a crescent for difference. Crest, a gauntlet Azure, garnished at the wrist Or, holding a sword Azure, hilt and pomel Or. Motto, Deus fortitudo mea; fig. 41. William Croft, 1530.=pDorothy, daughter and coheir of Thomas Harvey of Elmesthorpe (see p. 608). Thomas Croft, of .=pAnne, daughter of John Ducket.

1. William: :Mai>y, daughter of 2. John C'roft,=j=Anne, daugh- 3. Esaias Croft,=j=Catharine, dau. of William Elkabeth, wife of Croft, of sir Geo. Chaworth, rector of ter of John of Thornton. Stone, of Lindridge. John BarnwelL Peckleton, kt. afterwards the Peckleton; Tilsonjdied 1—. , ^ died June right hon. George buried Feb. March 14, William Croft, æt. 9, 1619. Mary. Katharine. Elizabeth. 18, 1613 ; viscount Chaworth 20, IC'20. 1G20; bur. buried at of Hamach, baron atEarlShil- i Peckleton. of Trim in Ireland. ton. I —I" I I '~l— 1—I—I 1. John Croft,= =Mary, daughter of 2. Thomas Croft, married 3. William. 1. Mary. 4. Elizabeth, rector of .... Rosse, of Lex- Susanna, widow of Thos. 4. Anthony. 2. Dorothy. marr. Hugh Mcasham, 1619. ton, c. Nottingham. Croft, of Peckleton; d. 5. James. 3. Catha- Goodall, of Feb. 14, 1651; buried 6. Barnabas. rine. EarlShilton. at Peckfeton. 1 j , 1. William 2.Thomas Croft, ofc=Susanna, daugh-=pThomas Croft, 3. George, I. Doro-=p Thomas 2. Grace, wife of 4.Mary,mar- Croft, born Peckleton, born ter of Thomas second son of 4. George, thy; bu- Wight- Tho. Averey, ried Richard in 1590; 1591; owner of Wright.ofSnel- the Rev. John 5. Henry; ried at man, of of Fleckney, Burdett of died before thismanor,March son, co. Derby; Croft, rector all died Peckle- , bom 1580. Mowsley. his father, 11, 1624; died died Mar. 14, of Peckleton; young. ton bo. 1578; 3. Anne, wife of Seep.228. Nov. 14, s. p. j buried at 1649. second husb. 1644. buried at Henry Mead, of 1590, s. p. Peckleton. [See above.] Peckle- Narborough, ton 1657. born 1588. i i Thomas Croft, of Leicester Forest, John. Christopher. 5. Katherine, d. young, son and heir, born 1626. Laurence. John Wightman, born in 1614 ;=j=Sarah. Thomas. Benjamin, buried at Peckleton 1666. r 1. John Wight-=p\nn, daugh- 2. William. 3. Joseph ^Elizabeth. 4. Benjamin Wightman; m man; married ter of Tho- Wightman. j buried at Peckleton 1655. 1. Dorothy, married William Ro- kt Peckleton mas Cutler, binson, 1674. 1654; buried of Peckle- .... =JohnWightman,rector=p;Anne Atterton, of New- Sarah. 2. Anna, born 1642 ; mar. Cad- there 1691. ton, gent. first of ; died in bold Verdon; married wallader Vaughan, clerk, rec- wife. 1735; buried there, there 1704; died and tor of Osgathorpe, whose æt. 66. buried at Desford 1734; grandson was George-Harley second wife. See under Vaughan, esq. serjeant at law, , p. who long resided at Leicester 824. 3. Sarah, married in 1659, to Samuel Martin, of Leicester. 1. Humphrey Wightman; 2. John, buried at 1. Isabella; buried=William Blick, of Walcote, 2. Anne, died died 1736, æt. 34; bu- Desford 1707. at St. Martin's, in the parish of Misterton, 1713. ried at Desford, s. p. 3. Thomas, d. 1706. Leicester, 17S3, gent.1; died June 6, 1781, 3. Mary, bu- 4. Thomas, buried aged 74, s, p. aged 81. ried at Des- at Desford 1710. ford. Joice, daughter of Samuel Harwai, of Stoke, in=l. John Wightman ;^=Mary; se- 2. Francis Wightman.=pElizabeth. the county of the city of , esq. 1683 j buried at Peckle- | cond wife. died s. p.; first wife. ton 1709. Mary. r i r 1 1 ' I II 1. John, born 1687; 5. Williams :Mary, dau. of George 7. John, born 10.BartholomewWight-=j=Dorolhy 1. Mary, born 168S; died 1691. Wightman, Bent, esq. mayor of 1G99. man, born 1705; bu- Linth- died 1689. 2. Thomas, born in born 1696; Leicester. She was 8. Thomas, ried at Peckleton waite,of 2. Mary, born 1692 j 1690. buried at afterwards marr. to bo. 1701; re- 1746, in the South Leices- died 1712. 3. John, born 1691. Peckleton Gabriel Newton, esq. sided in Lon- aile, the burial place ter; died 3. Grace, born and 4. Andrew, born in 1J24; died by whom she had one don. of his ancestors. 1773; died in 1695. 1693; died 1697. " s. p. son; she was buried 9. Richard, buried at 4. Sarah, born 1706. 6. Joseph,born 1697. in St. Martin's chan- born 1702. Peckle- cel, Leicester. ton. John Wightman, born 1735; Mai-y, born 1731; bu-=pjohl J n Jee, of Leicester, gent.; buried at St. Martin's in that town 1767; buried at Peekleton 1761; s. p. ried at Peckleton 1766T. lineally descended from Alexander Gee, of Rothley, temp. Henry Thomas-Wightman Jee, esq. married 1792; living, at Peckleton, 181O.^=Sarah Richards, of Leicester j living 1810. Thomas, born 1795; Maria, born 1792; Sarah, born 1795; Mary, born 1798; Lois, born 1801; living IS 10. living 1810. living 1810. living 1810. living 1810.

PEDIGREE of BANKES, of PECK£ETON. (From the Visitation of 1619.) William Bankes2, one of the king's \ibrel-=pAlice, daughter of John Scott, lators in the Tower of London, 1542. of CaTleton, co. York. 771 1. William. 3. ThomasTh . 5. Edward Bankes, of Finchley,=pMargaret, daughter of 6. Lupus. 1. Margaret, Elizabeth. $. Christopher. 4. Richard. co. Middlesex, and of Peckle- John Starkey, of Sut- 7- Villectims. wife of cap- ton ;1iving 1619. ton, co. Derby. tain Han-is. Thomas Bankes, of Meckley, co. Derby, æt. 52, 1619.=FElteabeth, daughter of Richard Foster, of London. I. Edward Bankes, of the parish of St. Augus-==Mary, daughter of.... Hall, 2. William Bankes, tine Old Change, London, draper, 1619. of Ashby de la Zouch, of London. Edward, æt. 1, 1619. 1 Brother of Mr. John Blick, who died in 1740; maternal grandfather of John Ward, of Hinckley, esq. See Pedigrees of Bacon and Ward, pp. 710, 711- ' Henricus Octavus, Dei gratia, Anglic, Francie, & Hibernie rex, &c. Omnibus, &c. Sciatis quod dedimus & concessimus dilecto eervienti nostro Willielmo Bankes locum sive offleium unius vibrellatorum nostrorum infra Turrim nostrum Londonie; & ulteriuS dedimus prefato Willielmo, pro exercitu offieii predicti vacia & feodum sex denariorum sterlingorum predicta, &c. habend' pro vita, 4c- Teste meipso, apud Westmonasterium, nono die Febniarii, anno regni nostii tricesuno quarto. , RATBY.