SIR JOHN CHESTER 4TH BART.

CHAPTER XIX.

Sir Joltn Chester, tlte 4tl, Baronet, 1666-1726. II. His second wife Dame Frances CIlester, 1672-1752. III. !lis eleven cltildrenby his first wife A nne Wollaston.

Sm JOIrn CrrEsTER, the eldest surviving SOil of Sir Anthony Chester III. and Mary Cranmer his wife, was 31 years old and the fatl1er of eight chHdnm when he succeeded his father as the fourth Baronet on 15th Feb. 1BU7-8. The eighth child and second son of his parents, he was born at Chicheley Hall at six A.:lJ. on Sunday, 24th June 1666; and was baptized at Chicheley on 6th July following. (I) He figures as a blue-eyed, fair-haired boy of 12 or 13, with his brother Anthony, in a picture at Chicheley which has been already de­ scribed in my 16th chapter.- The only incident of his boyhood which I have discovered is, that he was staying at Bergham Hall in Cambridgeshire with his mother and his sisters Mary and Diana on 29th June 1681, when his uncle Millicent signed in their presence the Willt which so emphatically forbids his son to marry his cousin Alice Fisher. John was little more than 19 years old when he became the heir to the baronetcy by the death of his eldest brother Anthony, and he was still under age when he married at Shenton in Leicestershire, on 2d Nov. 1686, Anne Wollaston, the eldest daughter and co-heiress of William 'Vollaston Esq. of Shenton Hall. (2) She was five years older than her husband, for she was baptized at Shenton on 13th 1\1ay 1661 ; but she had a marriage portion of 10,000/., and was the heiress expectant of a moiety of her father's great es­ tates in Leicestershire, Staffordshire, and Suffolk. She was distantly related to the Chesters through her mother, who was the only child of Lady ViIliers of Brooksby

t See pap 166.

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in Leicestershire, by her second husband, Captain Francis· Cave of Ingarsby, and was nearly related to many personagest of distinction. (3) From the time of his marriage J oh11 Chester lived at Shenton Hall with his wife's parents, and all his children were born there. He fully expected that his wife would inherit Shenton, for her father . had his estates at his absolute disposal, and after the death of his only son Francis Wollaston (who died on 20th Nov. 1684 at the age of 17) (4) his two daughters were his natural heirs. But the old Squire considered that his elder daughter was suf- aKS 01' CAVE. ficiently provided for by the 10,0001. which she had received on her marriage, and by the reversion of a small estate at Merevale on the borders of Warwickshire which he left to her after the death of her mother; and when he died on 19th August 1688 he devised the bulk of his estates to a younger son of a cousin, who was neither bis male heir nor his next of kin. The fortunate devisee, William W oUaston, was afterwards known in literature as the author of the Religion oj Nature Delineated, and was the lineal ancestor of the present owner of Shenton. The Manor of Shenton was devised to Mrs. W oUaston the widow for her life, and as she survived her husband nearly 30 years, the occupation of the Hall was not affected by the alienation of the estate, and the Chesters continued to reside there. Sir John came into possession of his family estates in Feb. 1697-8, but he was in no hurry to live in a house of his own, and 16 years elapsed before he removed from Shenton to Chicheley. This did not arise from any want of affec­ tion to his native place, for he devoted his whole energies and fortune for several years after his succession to the task of rebuilding Chicheley Hall. The old manor-house, built by Anthony Cave in 1550, had long ceased to satisfy the requirements and taste of his descendants, and had suffered so much damage in the Civil Wars that it stood in constant need of costly repairs. Sir John therefore pulled it down immediately after his father's death, and proceeded to build a new mansion on higher ground to the north of the old site. Chicheley Hall was rebuilt without regard to expense, and is a favourable specimen of the debased style of classical architecture which found favour in England at the beginning of the 17th century. It is a huge square mass of red brick with stone facings and a flat roof, and has nothi,lg imposing about it except its size. The effect of the mass is not frittered away by a balustrade and statues on

• Bee page 82. and pedigree at p. 51. • t Three of Mrs. Wollaston's balf-sisters were peeresses: viz. Anne Visconntesl Beaumont, Mart Conntess of Feversham, and Catharine Connte•• of Pembroke.

Digitized by Coogle SIR JOHN CHESTER 4TH BART. 527 the roof, which so often disfigure mansions of this period; but the merit of this simplicity is dne, not to the architect, but to his employer, for the original plans show these hideous accessories in tasteless profusion. The interior is sufficiently commonplace and comfortable. The principal features are a large and well-lighted hall, with a spacious staircase leading to a library· at the top of the house. This room has the walls lined with oak wainscot in large panels divided by fluted pilasters, which open with a curious chisel-shaped key, and disclose bookshelves concealed behind the panels, and two tiers of drawers beneath. The fashion of building a library so that nQ books are visible was a capriccio of Italian architects, who cared more for art than for literature. It is one of the 'splendid faults' of the Vatican Library that its noble hall is adorned with frescoes, marbles, pictnre~, and everything except books, which are all completely hidden out of sight in cabinets of painted wood between marble columns. The doors of the book-presses are exqui­ sitely painted with arabesques from the designs of Raphael, but no one admires them without an instinctive feeling that they are out of place, and that books are the natural ornament of a library. The materials of the old house were freely used in the construction of the new building, and some few fragments are still. easily recognised. The ancient oak wainscot in one of the upper rooms was evidently brought from a room of lower pitch, and when the accumulated coats of white paint were scraped off in 1872, a Latin inscription punning on the name of Cave was brought to light on a beam over the fireplace. (6) The letters were originally gilt:

CAVE NE DEUH OFFEND.\S. CAVE NB PROXIHUH L.lEDAS. CAVIi NE :J:UA NEGLIGBN:J:IA I'AHILIAH DESERAS 1550. The massive wooden chimneypiece in the butler's pantry is of somewhat later date, for the shield in the centre has the Arms of Ohester and Cave qnarterly car,'ed out of the solid oak in bold relief, and the panel on each side has the figure of a soldier with his sword and halbert painted in oils. There is also an old oak staircase from the basement to the roof, which probably came from the old house. The upper flight is curiously divided in the middle, for the half-steps on each side of the division are unequal in height, showing that they originally led to rooms of' different level on the same story. (6) Sir John's alterations were not confined to the house, for the pleasure grounds and park were completely transformed by a landscape gardener. An ornamental lake (locally known as the canal) was dug in the park in 1699, and a boat-house with stone steps to the water's edge were added in the next year. A new garden was laid out and enclosed with walls. New approaches were made with avenues

• The same arrangement is found at Stanford Court, the Beat of the Winningtons in Worcelterahire, where the old llbral'1 is a large room at the top of the house under the roof, panelled ~upeut with dark oak. (5)

Digitiz~d by Coogle 528 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. of elm, and thousands of trees were planted at different points of view for shelter· and onlament. I have no means of tracing the progress of the works in detail, but I gather from the contemporary list of trees planted on the estate between 1698 and 1717, that the fabric was completed in 1701, and that the Dowager Lady Chester was living in the new house in 1703. (7) The cost of all these operations was enormous, and it has always been believed in the family that Sir John might have purchased fur less money the great house at Gayhurst with the Manors of Gayhurst and Stoke Goldington, which were then for sale, and were sold in 1704 for 27,0001. to the son of Sir Nathan 'Vrighte the Lord Keeper. (8) Gayhurst Hall was the seat of the Digby family, and is historically interesting as the place where the Gunpowder Plot was discussed, if not concocted. This fine old mansion with its picturesque gables anr,l mullioned windows is preferred by modern taste to Chicheley lIall; but the rooms are low-pitched, and ill the eyes of Sir J olm and his contemporaries Elizabethan gothic was barbarous and old-fashioned, which no man of refinement would put up with who could afford to indulge his taste. Chicheley Hall was scarcely finished when Sir J olm lost the wife of his youth, for Lady Chester died at Shenton ill childbed on 3d Oct. 1704. Her body was removed to Chicheley, and she was buried there on 11 th Oct. (J) The tablet to her memory in the chancel is of precisely the same design and dimensions as that which Sir John erected for his father and mother, and was probably put up at the same time. It is surmounted with the Arms· of Chester impaling Wollaston, and bears this inscription: Juxta hunc locum conduntur Reliquim Annm de Castro Wilhelmi Wollaston de Shenton in agro Leicestriensi Annigeri filim, et Dom: Ioannis de Castro Baronetti uxoris: QUIll in Dewn pietate, in Maritwn fide et amore, in Liberos indulgentill, in Arnicos officio, in Omnes benignitate mansuetudiue et morum suavitate inclaruit. Cui intemerata Fides, vera Simplicitas, ingenuus Pudor, nuda Verita.s, casta Modestia, quando ullam invenient parem? Obijt, at fama non molitur, hane nulla mtas conticescet, non longa annorum series, nec Oblivio ipsa delebit. The burial of his wife would naturally call Sir John's attention to the state of Chicheley Church, and he proceeded to beautify and restore it. The chancel was now entirely rebuilt, and a spacious vault was formed beneath it, as a burial-place for the family. Up to this time the Chesters were buried at the east end of the north aisle near their ancestor Anthony Cave, who was not the O\vner of the chancel. When the new vault was finished Sir John removed into it the bodies of his father and of his wife, and every member of the family, who has since been buried at Chicheley, lies there; but it has not been used 'since the death of Sir Charles Bagot Chester in 1755, and is not nearlyt full. No expense was spared in rebuilding the chancel on a smaller Bcale. It is paved with alternate squares of limestone and black marble, and is adorned with Italian

• The Arms are divested of the bordure, as represented at p. 525. t The vault was opened in April 1845, on the oooaBion of repairs being done to the chancel i1oor, when it 11''' foud to oonWn thirteen col!lna. arranged in two rows. (6) Seven of them are of lead, ad have

Digitized by Coogle SIR JOHN CHESTER 4TH BART • !S29 • cornices, and ceiling of stucco like the drawing-room at the Hall; but these embellishments are out of character with the rest of the church, and do more credit to Sir John's piety than to his taste. The leaden spouting has his monogram impressed on it, with the date 1707. (6) His generous disregard of expense in decorating the burial-place ot' his family is only one proof out of many of his respect for his ancestors, and of his zeal for the honour and glory of his own name and blood. His first act on succeeding to the title was to employ Peter Ie Neve the Herald to compile a complete genealogy of the Chesters, and Le Ne,-e's pedi­ gree, written on a vellum roll, embellished with many coats of Arms, is still in the library at Chicheley. It carries down the history of the family to 1697, and is printed in Berry's PedirJrees of Buckingltamshire, but it was drawn up in an uncritical age, and is disfigured by a multitude of errors, which have hitherto passed current without challenge. Sir John's affectionate relations with his mother-in-law Mrs. Wollaston were not interrupted by the death of his wife. Eight of his children were still in the nursery, and their grandmother now devoted herself to the care of them. He had also other inducements to remain at Shenton, for the constant drain on his resources at Chicheley made it highly convenient to postpone the expense of maintaining an establishment of his own, and Shenton Hall is in the centre of the best hunting country in England. Sir John was passionately fond of the chase, but he was a courtier as well as a sportsman, and was one of the Gentlemen of Queen Anne's Privy Chamber. (9) His name stands second in the list in 1707, and next to him comes his brother-in-law Charles Nicholas Eyre. Francis Duncomb of Broughton, who married Mary Chester, occurs lower in the list. (9) The Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber were all men of birth and fortune, who' served her Majesty at their own charges for the honour of the place,' and represented the Lord Chamberlain in his absence. Twelve of them were always in waiting, and therefore Sir John was obliged to reside in London three months in the year to serve in his tum at Court. Unlike many foxhunting squires he was distinguished by the finished courtesy of his manners and address. This will be recognised in two of his letters to his son William's friend, :Mr. Burrell Massingberd of Ormsby, which I am enabled to print by the kindness of his living representative:

From Sir .JoTtn ChIJster Bart. to Burrell Ma88illgberd EIII].

Sir,-I am exstreamly obliged to you for ilie favour of Y' letter, web I did not receive till Wednesday last at my return out of 'Vorcestershire. As matters have happened I hade no occasion for more money than I had by me, but shouM I purchase the ffee ffarm rents £700 or £800 would doe me a kindness, of which I shall take the liberty to acquaint you, if we agree &c. co&ln.plates. Five others are of wood much decayed, and arc without any inscription; but I have no doubt about the namell and dates of their occupants, and that they contain~l. Sir Anthony Chester III., 1698. 2. Dame Anne Chester, 1704. S. Mrs. Judith Oneby, 1707. 4. Dame Mary Chester, 1710. Ii. Mrs. Ruperta Oony, 1721. The other is a cbild's coffin, which I am unable to identify. In all proba­ bility I shall m)'BeU be the nel.t tenant of this vault, for it is intended to be mylaat earthly habitation.

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I conclude my son hath, as fan as he is able, acquA.inted you with the managemt at Newton; if I can dive farther into it (before I goe to Chicheley), w·h I must soon doe on acctl of the (ilugible), I will not fail writing to you, and if! can serve you in that or anything else I Sllall do it with gr' pleasure. There hath been a match proposed to me tor my son; what it will come to I canot yett tell: should it not suoceed, I should then with grt satisfaction accept of y' kind offerr. It's a concerne to me that I canot waite on you abt this time as I proposed to doe, but you may be assured that when I am att liberty I shall bo ready to give myself the satisfaction, and to show on all occasions how sincerely I am Shenton, 7ber ye 29th 1710. yr most obliged ffaithfull To Burrell Massingberd Esqre, J. CHESTER. &tt Ormesby near Alford, Lincolnshire. p. London. Froln Sir John Ohuter Bart. to Burrell MUlBingberd Esq. Dear Sir,-I was in hopes of meeting you & Foxbunting yesterday. We found at Wedington Wood, the place appointed to meet at, weh was very Dear you; for that reason we hunted thare. He made us a very good chue to Bosworth Park, Kirkby, Ld Stamford's, and so to Charley forrest, whare the snow on the ground obliged us to knock off, and at my return I f\lund two letters directed to you by the post, and one from Osbaston'" under a covert directed to me. I wish it may give you moret satisfaction than you have lately reed from that place. I am invited out to-morrow, but doe not intend to goe, that if I caD doe you any service, I may be in the way to receive y' comands, which shall ever be readily obeyed by, D' S', Shenton, Jan. ye 27th 1712. yr most faithfull humble serv', To BurD Massingberd Esq. J. CHESTER. att Calcut. Sir John took a leading part in county business in Leicestershire, for he was foreman of the grand jury at Leicester at the Easter Assizes of 1712, (10) and he is named first in the Royal Commission to inquire into the charities of Lutterworth, which was issued on 2d May 1713. (II) But this was the last year of his resi­ dence in that county; for he contracted a second marriage in April 1714, which naturally severed his connexion with Shenton, and he thenceforth resided in his own house at Chicheley, which had stood empty since his mother's death in 1710. Frances Lady Skrimshire, the second wife of Sir John Chester, was a widow of suitabl8 age and rank, and of a Leicestershire family, for she was nearly seven years younger than her husband, and was the only child of Sir 'William Noel Bart. of Kirkby Mallory by his second wife Frances, daughter of Humble Lord Ward. She was born at Himley Hall in Staffordshire, the seat of her grandmother Frances Baroness Dudley, and was baptizedt at Himley on 14th April 1673. Sir John Ohester was her third husband. She married first at the age of 17, on 23d April 1690, at Lichfield Cathedral, Ralph Sneyd, the son and heir apparent of Ralph • Mr. Ma8singberd had then been courting for more than two years Miss Philippa Mundy of Osbastan, whom he eventually married; but his overtures were coldly received by her father, and his friends at Shenton were engaged to use their good offices in his favour. A letter to him from William Chester on this subject, dated 28th Oct. 1710, will be printed in a future chapter. t From the Pan,h Regi.ttr of Himley, Staffordlhirt. (12.) 1672, July 9. Sir William Noell and Madam Frances Ward married. 1678, April 14. FranceB, dau. of William Noell Kt. and Francis his wile, bapt.

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Sneyd Esq. of Keele in Staffordshire, by whom she had three children. Her husband died in the lifetime of his father on 4th April 1695 at the age of 25, and her eldest son Ralph was 11 years old when he succeeded his grandfather at Keele on 9th March 1703-4. (13) Frances married secondly in 1699 Sir Oharles Skrim­ shire Kt. of Aqualate and Norbury in Staffordshire, (14) a widower with three daughters, who was knighted by Oharles II. at Windsor Oastle on 26th April 1682. (15) He had no issue by his second wife, and died at his lodgings in London on 2d March 1708-9. (16)

1 w. Hester, dau. Sir Charles Skrimshire=2 w. Frances, dau. of Sir Wil· 1. h. Balph SneydEsq.; of Gao. Taylor Kt. of Aqualate and Nor- 1iam Noel Bart.; bapt. 14 April mar. at LichfleldCathe­ Esq. of Chester- bury, co. Staft'ord, knight- 1678; re-mar..... April 1714 dral28 April 1690; diel! Beld; died 1694. ad 26 April 1682; died 8d h., Sir John Chester Bart.; 4 AprU 1696, aged 26. • 2 March 1708-9. re-mar. 4th h., Charles Adderley Esq.; died widow Feb. 1761. I I 1 Thomas Booth Elizabeth Eleanor, 2d Heater Skrim-=Sir Eusebiu 2d w. Honora by Skrimshire Skrimahire, dau. and co­ shire, coheir; Buswell Bart. Sneyd; bapt. Esq. of Tooley eldest dau. heir; marr. died 7 April 28 May 1694. Park, co. Leic.; and coheir; Acton Bald­ 1706. s.p. SheriA' of co. mar. 1697; wyn Esq. Leio. 1709; died 20 Sept. M.P. B.p. died 2 Aug. 1704, aged 1762, aged 71. 28. r- Frances Buswell,~ihrilrtopher Horton dau. and heir. Esq. of Catton, Derby­ shire, trustee of Lady Chester's Will.

I I I William, bapt. 21 April Ralph Sneyd,I Bon and Edward Sneyd; bapt. 8 May 1691; died infant. heir; bapt.17 May 1692 ; 1698; of Almington, Salop; of Keele, co. Stafford. died unmar. 1780. 1

Lady Skrimshire was only 36 years old when she became a widow for the second time, and being a woman of fashion, with great personal attractions and a hand­ some jointure, she had no want of suitors; but five years elapsed before she married again. Sir John Chester was no sooner settled at Chitheley than he began to make fresh improvements. His first act was to plant an avenue of elms to the old manor­ house called Balney 'for a view from the great house.' (7) He was enthusiastically fond of the music of church-bells, and the tower of Chicheley Church is so close to the Hall that an amateur would be driven to distraction by bells of inferior tone. 3y

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Sir John therefore sent the old bells to Abraham Rudhall, the famous bellfounder at Gloucester, to be recast, and purchased from him a new peal of six bells, which are so celebrated for their silvery tones that it is firmly believed amongst the local traditions that Sir John threw in during the casting a cap full of silver crowns. (17) The new bells were put up in 1718, and have this date inscribed on them with A. R., the initials of the bellfounder. The third has also' Sir John Ohester Bart • . Benefactor.' The fifth, ' Abraham Rudhall of Gloucester cast us.' The sixth, 'In multis annis resonet campana Johannis.' It was Sir John's delight to ring these bells with his own hands, and the silken rope attached to a wheel, with which he used to practise ringing, is still preserved at Chicheley Hall. This exercise served him as a substitute for hunting, for which he was getting too old, and for which Chicheley afforded fewer opportunities than Shenton. He found endless occupation during the few remaining years of his life in projecting further improvements at Chicheley. His last great work (which was not completed before his death) was to build in the park over a never-failing spring a tower three stories high, which contains a. curious mechanical contrivance for raising a constant supply of water to the upper floors of the mansion. The machinery is, in appearance, most elaborate and complicated, and the unscientific eye is bewildered by a maze of iron chains, wheels, and buckets. This contrivance excites the ridicule of modem engineers, but it efficiently performed its purpose for a century and a ha.lf without intermis­ sion or serious repair, until the brickwork of the tower gave way. It is now a picturesque ruin, which is kept from falling by the mass of hoy clustering round it. The second marriage of a widower with grown-up children must always exercise a disturbing influence in a family by creating new interests and breaking up old habits and associations. But it is a remarkable instance of human inconsistency that Sir John Chester, after impoverishing his family to build a great house at Chicheley, and devoting the best years of his life to embellishing it, should have deliberately consented to settle his estate in such a fashion that his Successors at Chicheley Hall were left without an adequate income to reside there, and keep it in repair. Un"til his marriage with Lady Skrimshire Sir John's relations with his eldest son had been singularly affectionate, and William lived with him at Shenton, although he was 27 years of age. When Sir John removed to Chicheley, William remained at Shenton, and was gradually supplanted in his father's affections by his brother John, who was in high favour with his stl'lpmother. There had been several projects for William's marriage, in which his father had warmly interested himself, but they had all fallen through, and in the beginning of 1717 William chose a wife for himself. His bride, Penelope Hewitt, was related to him through his mother, and her fortune was small, for she had then no expectation of the estates which ultimately came to her grandchildren. Sir John gave a cold assent to his son's marriage, and the settlement was limited to Chicheley Hall and lands adjoining of about 800l. a year, which were assured to William and his heirs male

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DAME FRANCES CHESTER, the widow of Sir John, survived him nearly twenty.. sL't years, and although she was 53 years old at the time of his death, she still retained enough of the beauty and grace which had distinguished her through life to charm another husband. She married, fourthly, Charles Adderley Esq. of Hams Hall in Warwickshire, a widower with children, but was agaiu left a widow, for he

Digitized by Coogle 534 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. died before her on 2d Feb. 1746, aged 82. (21) There is a portrait of her at Hams HalJ, in which she wears a guard-ring, with the posy: (2 I) If I survive I'll make them five. But she did not marry a fifth husband. The home of her widowhood was at Almington near Market Drayton, the seat of her son Edward Sneyd, (13) but she was a constant visitor at Catton Hall in Derbyshire, the residence of Christopher Horton Esq., who married her favourite granddaughter Frances Buswell. (22) Their son Edward Horton was privately baptized at Croxall (the parish church of Catton) on 12th Feb. 1749, and it is noted in the parish register that Lady Chester was present at the christening. (23) She died in Feb. 1751, (13) in the 78th year of her age, and the legacies in her Will are confined to the descendants of her first marriage. DAME FRANCES CHESTER, widow, relict of Charles Adderley of Hams Hall, co. Warwick, Esq., deceased. Will dated 24 Oct. 1747. Weak in body. To be buried in the church of the parish where I die. :My interest in the Manor of Swinnerton, Staffordshire, and in the mortgage of £300, to Thomas Massey of Nantwich, Cheshire, tallow-chandler (which was paid off and assigned on 11 Novembel· last to Christopher* Horton Esq. of Catton, Derbyshire), to become the absolute property of my grandson Ralph Sneyd, provided that he secures £:2000 to the said Christopher Horton, who is to hold the same in trust for my granddaughter Honorat Sneyd, to be settled on her absolutely on her marriage; but if she die unmarried, then the £2000 is to be divided between my two grandsons Edward (a) and William Sneyd. If Ralph Sneyd fails to secure the £2000 as aforesaid, then the interest which I have hereinbefore conditionally bequeathed to him is to go to the said Honora Sneyd. To tlle said Christopher Horton, £2000 in trust for my granddaughter Annet Sneyd. to be settled on her absolutely on her marriage, and in case of her dying unmarried to be divided between my grandsons Edward (a) and William Sneyd. To my granddaughter, tlle wife of the said Christopher Horton, £100. To my son Edward (b) Sneyd, £100. To my kinswoman Frances Harrison, widow, £40. To Miss Frances (c) Horton, the eldest daughter of the said Christopher Horton, and to the said Honora and Anne Sneyd, rings in remembrance of me. To the said Ralph (tl) Sneyd, my diamond-ring; and I make him my executor and residuary legatee. To the poor of Keele, £5. To the poor of Catton, £50. To the poor of Lea Marston, (e) Warwickshire, £50. Witnell68: Mary Horton, Richard Wilkes, Samson Adderley. Will proved in C.P.C. by Ralph Sneyd 21 Jan. 1752. [7 Bettesworth.]

• ChristopMr Horton was buried at Croxall 10 Jan. 1764. His wife Frances was the only child of Sir Eusebius Buswell Bart. by Honora Sneyd, the only daughter of Lady Chester's first marriage. She outlived her husband many lears, and died very old after 1780 at Cannock in Staffordshire. She had issue five sons and three daughters. Her son and heir Christopher Horton married Lady Anne Luttrell, daughter of Simon Earl of Carhampton, and was buried at Croxall on 18 Aug. 1769. His widow married on 2 Oct. 1771 Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland, the brother of George fil. (zz) t Honora Sneyd and her .uter .J.nne both died unmarried. (a) Edward Sneyd, the grandson, was Vicar of Wolstanton, and died in 1795, aged 68. (13) (b) Edward Sruyd, the son, died at Keele Hall unmarried in 1780, aged 86, when he devised his estate at Abnington to his niece Mrs. Horton. (13) (e) France. Horton married at Croxall on 11 May 1752 Sir Edward Littleton Bart. of Pillaton, and died without issue 21 Aug. 1781. (:&2) (d) Ralph Bneyd Esq. of Keele Hall, son and heir of the eldest son of the testatrix, who died in 1738. (e) Hams Hall is in the parish of Lea Mar,ton.

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lll. Sir John Chester had issue by his first wife Anne Wollaston eleven children, five sons and six daughters, who were all born at Shenton Hall, their grandfather's seat in Leicestershire, and were baptized at Shenton. (2) I. WILLIAM CHESTER, 'son and heir,' was born on 5th Sept. 1687, and succeeded his father as the 5th Baronet. II. THOMAS CHESTER was born on 31st March 1689, and was baptized at Shenton on 16th April, (2) when his mother's cousin-german, Thomas Earl of Pembroke, was his godfather. He matriculated with his brother William at Christ Church, Oxford, on 18th May 1705; (24) but before the time arrived for taking his degree more brilliant prospects were opened to him by the favour of Lord Pembroke. When that nobleman went to Ireland as Lord Lieutenant in 1707 he took his godson with him, and gave him the place in his household of Gentleman-in-waiting. (25) Thomas could scarcely have found a nobler patron, for the Earl had filled 80me of the highest offices of State, and his political eminence was by no means his chief distinction. His character and abilities commanded equal respect. He served James II. with devoted loyalty until he was forced to choose between deserting the King or the Church of England. In an age of corruption his integrity was never even suspected, and his hereditary wealth saved him from the scandal of those • inordinate gains which were reckoned among the perquisites of office by a low standard of public morality. Without any pretensions to scholarship he was a lover of literature and art, and courted the society of men of letters. His collection of marbles from Italy is still the pride of Wilton; and he was a member of the French Academy at Paris, to which few foreigners were admitted. It will never be forgotten that he was the generous friend to whom John Locke dedicated his immortal treatise on '1'1,6 Human Und8rstanding. His vice-regal court was full of attractions to a young man fresh from Oxford, for the wit George Bubb Dodington was Chief Secretary, and Swift, with his brilliant lingo of Castilian puns, was a constant visitor at Dublin Castle. (26) Lord Pembroke was still President of the Council in England, and was recalled from Ireland in November 1707 to protect Prince George of Denmark from the onslaught made on him in Parliament in his capacity of Lord High Admiral. (27) English politics soon engrossed his attention, and before the end of the next year he ceased to be Viceroy. One of his last official acts was to secure an honourable provision for his young relation. In Sept. 1708 four new regiments of infantry were raised in Ireland, (28) and Thomas Chester was appointed at the age of nineteen lieutenant-colonel of the regiment commanded by Colonel Edward Jones. (25) His regiment was ordered on foreign service in Oct. 1710, (29) and in the following January embarked at Cork for Portugal; (30) but the fleet was overtaken by a storm, and the transport which had Colonel Chester

Digitized by Coogle 536 TilE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

on board was wrecked 011 the Irish coast, and every soul perished. (25) He was never married, and was only 21 years old when he was drowned. III. MARY CHESTER was born 011 29th Oct. 1690, and was baptized at Shenton on 10th Nov. (2) She died in childhood at the age of four, and was buried at Shenton on 27th July 1695. (2) IV. ELIzABETH CHESTER was born on 29th April, and was baptized at Shenton on 16th May 1692. (2) She never married, and after her father's death resided at Lindley in Leicestershire. She ·died there about Christmas 1732. ELiZABETH CUESTBR of Lindley, co. Leicester, Spinster. Will dated 17 March 1728. To my sister Anne Chester, my diamond-earrings, my diamond· buckle, and my best suit of laced lynnen. To my goddaughter Elizabeth Chester, daughter of my late brother Sir William Chester, ten guineas. To my godson Henry Smith, son of my sister Smith, ten guineas. To my cousin Elizabeth Richers/' five guineas. :My second best lace and the rest of my clothes to be given to my maidservant. All the rest of my real and personal estate to my brother Francis Chester, whom I make my sole executor. Witne8l1l': Samuel.t :Mary,t and Margaret Bracebridge. Will proved in P.C.P. 7 Jan. li32-3 by Francis Chester Esq. [(j Plice.] V. JOHN CHESTER was born on 23d April 1693, and succeeded his brother William as the 6th Baronet. VI. FRANCIS CHESTER 'Was born on 3d May 1694, and succeeded· his nephew Sir Charles Bagot Chester as the 8th Baronet. VII. ANNE CHESTER was born on 5th Aug. 1695, and was baptized at Shenton on 25th Aug. (2) She married by license,+ dated 13th May 1738, Thomas Theed Esq. of Leighton Buzzard, but had no issue. She died on 11th Feb. 1762, and was buried at Padbury, Bucks, where her sister Penelope erected a tablet in the chancel of the church with this inscription: (32) In memory of Ann, wife of Thomas Theed of Buckingham Gent., sillter of the late Sir John Chester of Chicheley in the county of Bucks l3art., and also of Mrs. Penelope Smith of this place; a rare example of piety, benevolence, and lowliness of mind. by the daily practice of which virtues in the several relation; of life she eminently distinguished herself; and as she lived wiiliout a foe, beloved by most and esteemed by all, her death, which happened on ilie 11th day of Feb. 1762, was universally regretted. VIII. CATHARINE CHESTER was born on 26th Oct. 1697, and was baptized at Shenton on 14th Nov. following. (2) She married (I) at Chicheleyon 18th Sept. 1718 John Toller, son and heir apparent of John Toller Esq. of Billingborough

• See pp. 818, 845. t Samuel Bracebridge E'I]. of Lindley Hall was M.P. for Tamworth 1710-1722, and was Treasurer of the Inner Temple in 1782. He married Anne, daughter of Thomas Savage Esq. of Elmley CasUe, Worcestershire, and was buried at Drayton in Leicestel'shire on 11 Nov. 1785. His son and heir Samuel gained some notoriety in his time from his residence in tho Isle of Scio. Mary Bracebridge has been mentioned elsewhere (Bee p. 514) as the wife of Robert Oneby Esq. of Loudham. (31) : Marriage Liceme from Vicar-General', Regiltry. (2.4) 1788, May 18. Thomas Theed of Leighton Buzzard, Beds, bacbelor, above 24, and Anne Chester of Padbury, Bucks, spinster, above 21; to marry at Padbury aforeaid.

Digitized by Coogle THE CHILDREN OF SIR JOHN CHESTER 4TH BART. 537

Hall in Lincolnshire, who had been for many years the intimate friend- of her brothers William and John. He was then a barrister of Lincoln's Inn, but was afterwards Serjeant-at-Law. They had three children, and their second daughter Catharine Toller was great-grandmother to the author of this book. A full account of her descendants and of the ToIlers of Billingborough will be given in a subsequent chapter. IX. REBECCA CHESTER was born on 4th Sept. 1699, and was baptized at SllCnton on 25th Sept. (2) She died at the age of eight, and was buried at Shenton on 12th Dec. 1707. (2) X. PENELOPE CHESTER was born on 14th March 1700-1, and was baptized at Shenton on 7th April 1701. (2) She married on 30th March 1719 Richard Smith. Esq. of Padbury, Bucks. Her marriage settlement is dated 28th March 1719, and the trustees are her brother John Ohester (afterwards the 6th Baronet) and her brother-in-law John Toller of Billingborough. (33) Her husband was the son and heir of Harris Smith of Padbury by Frances, daughter and heir of Allen Par­ sous of Hendon in Middlesex, and was descended from Thomas Harris also Smith, who was Rector of Padbury 1593-1644, and purchased an estate there. (32) Richard was High Sheriff of Bucks in 1725, and was buried at Padbury 26th Aug. 1742. (34) He died intestate, and letters of administration were granted on 8th Oct. 1742 to his widow. He had issue by Penelope Chester fifteen children, who were all born and bap­ tized at Padbury. (34) 1. FRANCES S~UTH was baptized 12th Jan. 1719-20, and married Thomas Sheppard Esq. of Littlecote in the parish of Stewkley, Bucks, the grandson of Sir Thomas Tyrrell Bart. of Thornton, Bucks. She died his widow 30th May 1792, and has a monument in Stewkley Church. (35) Her son and heir Thomas Sheppard was created a Baronet 29th Sept. 1809, and married his cousin Elizabeth Ootton, the heiress of Crakemarsh in Staffordshire and of Thornton. His two sons assumed the additional name of Cotton; but both died without issue, when the baronetcy became extinct, and their only sister's only child Elizabeth Hart carried Thornton Hall to her husband the Honourable Richard Cavendish, whose son and heir is the present owner (1877). . 2. PENELOPE was baptized 17th Sept. 1721, and was living unmarried in 1769. (33) 3. RICHARD SMITH, son and heir, was born 23a July and baptized 27th July 1723. He succeeded to Padbury Lodge, and died unmarried, and was buried at Padbury 29th Sept. 1769. 4. HENRY SMITH was born 29th Sept. and was baptized on 11th Oct. 1725, when his aunt Elizabeth Chester was his godmother. He was an attorney at

• See p. 851.

Digitized by Coogle 588 THE CBESTERS OF CmCHELEY.

Bicester, and succeeded to Padbury Lodge on the death of his brother Richard in 1769. He married, and had several children, who were all baptized at Dicester. (34) His son and heir Richard Smith (who was baptized on 5th Oct. 1754) sold the family estate at Padbury after the death of his grandmother. 5. }'RANCIS was born 26th April and baptized 7th May 1727. He died young and unmarried. 6. ANNE was baptized 14th Aug. 1728, and died unmarried. 7. JAMES died in infancy, and was buried at Padbury on 29th March 1730. 8. BRIDGET was baptized 1st June 1731, and was living in 1769 the wife of Samuel Yates. (33) 9. CHARLES was baptized 26th Dec. 1732, and died young. 10. JOHN was baptized 5th May 1734, and was living unmarried in 1769. (33) 11. BERNARD was baptized 14th July 1735, and died in childhood. 12. WILLIAM was baptized 14th Nov. 1736, died at the age of 11, and was buried at Padbury 17th Feb. 1747. 13. ANTHONY was baptized 5th March 1737, and was living unmarried in 1769·(33) 14. LEIGH was baptized March 1740, and died in childhood. (33) 15. BERNARD MONTAGUE was baptized 9th May 1742, and was buried at Pad­ b~ on 18th November in the same year. Mrs. Penelope Smith survived her husband forty years, and long outlived all her brothers and sisters. She died at the age of 82, and was buried at Padbury on 18th Dec. 1782. (34) XI. ANTHONY CHESTER, the youngest child of Sir John by Anne Wollaston, was born on 18th July 1702, and was baptized at Shenton on 15th Aug. (2) He died an infant, and was buried at Shenton on 13th June 1705. (2)

PROOFS AND AUTHORITIES.

(I) See A in Appendix of Edraets from Parish Registers. (a) See B in Appendix of Extraeta from Parish Registers. . <3) See 'l1l'1 pedigree of the maternal anoostors of Elizabeth Cave, wife of William Wollaston Esq. of Shenton, in the Herald and Genealogist, vol. viii. p. 1-6. (4) Pedigree of Wollaston, in Nichols'S Hist. of Leicestershire, vol. iv. p. 541. (5) First Report of Royal Commission on Historicalxss., p. 54. (6) From the information of the Vicar of Chicheley, Rev. W. Jeudwine. (7) From the contemporary List of Trees planted at Chichelp.y, &c., on Sir John Chester's estate, between 1698 and 1717, preserved at Chicheley Hall. (8) Lipscomb's Bueks, voL iv, p. 158, Gayhurlt, (9) Chamberla7De's Present State of England, 1707, p. 880.

Digitized by Coogle PROOFS AND AUTHORITIES. 539

(10) Niohols's Hist. of Leioestershire, voL iv. p. 758. (II) Idem. vol. iv. p. 255. (12.) Shaw's Hist. of Staffordshire, vol. ii. p. 225. (13) Pedigree of Sneyd, with additions, communioated by Rev. Walter Sneyd of Keele HaIl, 1875. (14) !.ysons' Colleotions for Staffordshire, in British Museum, Add. )ISS. 9459, fol. 88. (15) Pedigree of Skrimshire, in Nichols's Hilt. of LQicestershire, voL iv. p. 178 j Le Neve's Pedigrees of Knights, p. 868, Harleian Society. (16) Le Neve's Memoranda, printed in the 8d vol. of the Topographer and Genealogist. (17) Gentleman's Magazine, Feb. 18i9, p.158. (IS) Case of Chester v. Chester, in Chancery Reports, by W. P. Willianrs, 5th edition, 1798, voL iii. p.55. (19) From his coffin-plate in the vault at Chicheley. (2.0) From the information of Miss Beatrice Backhouse of Chicheley Vicarage. (2.1) Communicated by the Right Hon. C. B. Adderley M.P. of Hams Hall, 1875. (2.2.) Pedigree of Horton, in Nichols'S Hist. of Leicestel'llhire, vol. iv. p. 578. (2.3) Communicated by the Right Rev. Bishop Staley, Vicar of Croxall, Derbyshire, 1875. (2.4) From Col. J. L. Chester's HS. Collections. (2.5) Collins's Baronetage, 1720, vol. i. OM,ur of OhicMley. (2.6) Forster's Life of Swift, 1667-1711, vol. i. p. 191. (2.7) Idem, p. 205. (2.S) Luttrell's Diary, 18 Sept. 1708. (2.9) Luttrell's Diary, 14 Oct. 1710,19 Oct. 1710,18 Feb. 1710-11. bo) List of the Britieh Army, with their present disposition, on 2 April 1712 j printed in Gentleman's Magazine, Sept. 1865. (31) Nichols's Hist. of Leioostershire, vol. iv. p. 647. b2.) Lipscomb's Bucks, vol. iii. p. 60, Padbury. (33) From an Abstract of Deeds relating to land at Hendon, Middlesex, which belonged to the families of Parsons and Smith. (2.4) (34) See C in Appendix of Extracts from Parish Registers. C3s) Lipsoomb's Bucks, voL iii p. 119. (36) Pedigree of Cotton Sheppard, Barts. in Burke's Peerage and Baronetage. Bee also Lord. Watetpark.

APPENDIX. EXTRACTS FROM PARISH REGISTERS.

EXTBACTS BBL.lTIHG TO TmI F,uULY 01' CUESTBB. (A.) OhicMley, Dueb (verifled by Rev. W. Jeudwine, Vicar). 1666. John Chester, the son of sr Anthonye Chester Baronett and ye Ladye Marye his wife, was baptized July 6. 17M, Oct. 11. Ann Lady Chester, wife of Sir John Chester, buried. 1718. John Toller, of Lincoln's Inn in ye County of Middlesex, Esq. was married to Mrs. Catherine Chester, betweene ye Hours of eight and twelve in the forenoon, in the Parish Church of Chicheley, 18th September. . 1725-26. Sir John Chester was buryed Feb. 16.

(B.) SMnton, Leicc8tershire (extracted from the Parish Register for me by Major Wollaston of Shenton HaIl). 1661. Anne Wollaston, dau. of William Wollaston the younger and Elizabeth his wife, was crisned on Monday, 18 May. 1686. John Chester Esq. and Mdm Ann Wollaston was marryed by Licence 2 Nov. 1687. William Chcster, sonn of John Chester Esq. and Ann his wife, was borne on Monday, 5 Sept., and baptized Thursday, 8 Sept. 1689. Thomas Chester, son of same, was borne 31 March, and was baptized 16 April. 1690. Mary Chester, dau. of same, was born 29 Oct. and was baptized 10 Nov. 1692. Elizabeth Chester, dau. of same, was born 29 April, and was baptized 16 May. 1693. John Cheater, son of same, was born 23 April, and was baptized 16 May. 3z

Di~itized by Coogle 540 THE CHESTERS OF CHlCHELEY.

1694. Francis Chester, son of same, was born 8 May, and was baptized 9 Mar. 1695. Mary Chester, dan. of John Chester Eaq., was buried 27 July. 1695. Anne Chester, dan. of same, waa born 5th Angt. and was baptized 25 Augt. 1697. Catherine Chester, dan. of same, was born 26 Oct. and was baptized 14 Nov. 1699. Rebecea, dan. of 8' John Chester Baronet and Anne his wife, was born 4 Sept. and was baptized 25 Sept. • 1700-1. Penelope, dan. of same, was born 14 March, and baptized 7 April 1701. 1702. Anthony, son of same, was born 18 July, and baptized 15 Ang. 1705. Mr. Anthony Cheater, Bon of Sir John Chester Baronet, was buryed 18 June. 1707. Mrs. Rebecca Chester, dan. of air John Chester Baronet, was buryed 12 Dec.

EXTRACTS BBL.Unto TO THII FABILY 0 .. SJIITJI 0 .. PADBUBY. (C.) PadbUf'l/, Buc1cl (communieated by Rev. F. G. Lee, D.C.L.). 1719·20, Jan. 12. Franoes, dan. of Riohard Smyth Esq. and Penelope his lady, was baptized. 1721, Sept. 17. Penelope, dan. of same, bapt. 1728, July 28. Richard, son of same, waa born and was baptized 27 July. 1725, Sept. 29. Heury, son of same, was born and was baptized 11 Oetober. 1727, April 26. Franois, son of same, was born and was baptized 7 May. 1728, Ang. 14. Anne, dan. of same, bapt. 1780, March 29. James, son of same, infant, buried. 1731, May 24. Bridget, dan. of Richard Smith Esq. and Penelope his wife, was privately baptized, and was received into the congregation June the 1st following. 1782, Deo. 18. Charles, son of same, was privately baptized; received into the congregation 26 December. 1734, May 5. John, son of same, privately baptized; received into the congregation August 16. 1735, July 14. Bernard, son of same, privately baptized; received into the OOngregatiOIil Angust 22. 1786. Nov. 14. William, son of same, bapt.; bnried 17 Feb. 1747. 1787, March 5. Anthony, son of same, bapt. 1740, March ••. Leigh, son of same, bapt. 1741, May 9. Bernard Montagne, son of same, bapt.; buried 18 Nov. 1742. 1742, Aug. 26. Riohard Smith Esq. buried. 1769, Sept. 29. Richard Smith Esq. buried. 1782, Dec. 18. Mrs. Penelope Smith, aged 82, buried.

Bleelter, Ozora. 1758, July 6. Harry, son of Heury Smith, Attorney, bapt. 1754, Oct. 5. Richard, son of same, bapt. 1756, Nov. 80. Charles, son of same, bapt. 1758, Jnne 14. Leigh. son of same, bapt. 1760, Feb. 24. Fanny and Anne, twin dans. of same, bapt. 1761, May 80. Mary, dan. of same, bapt.

IHBOBIPTIONS ON TOIIBBTONES IN THB CIL\PIIL-YABD AT SJ;[ENTON, LJuOBBTEBBHIBB. Maria de Castro, Johannis de Castro Baronetti fllia, obiit Jalii 25, A.D. 1696, .tat. 6• . Antonius de Castro obiit Junii 11, A.D. 1705, I8tat. 8. Bebeooa de Castro obiit Dec. io, A.D. 1707, l8~t. 9.

Digitized by Coogle ANNE WOLLASTON, LADY CHESTER. 541

CHAPTER XX.

The Wollastons of Perton and Trescot Grange. II. The Wollastons of Perton and London. III. The Wollastons of London and Waltham Abbey. IV. The Wollastons of Shenton and Finborough. V. Elizabeth Cave, wife of William Wollaston Esq. IL of Shenton; her maternal ancestors and relations. ANNE WOLLASTON, the first wife of Sir John Chester and the mother of his children, was the sole heir in her issue of the elder line of the W o11astons of Shenton. The history of the W o11astons was written in the beginning of the last century by William W o11aston, the well-known author of T/&8 Religion of Nature. His narrative was inserted by Nichols in The Hi8tory of Leice8ter8hire, (I) and was reprinted in his Illustrations of Literary Hi8tory. (2) It has much literary merit; and I should gladly have left it to so accomplished a writer to tell the story of his ancestors, if my researches had permitted me to vouch for his genealogical accuracy. But he took so little pains to gauge the truth offamily traditions, and his statements of fact are so often contradicted by Wills and Records, that his memoir is historically worthless, and can only be regarded as an apology in disguise for the unnatural Will under which he became possessed of the Shenton estate. His assertion, that , the family of W o11aston was ancient and had been considerable,' might be tacitly dismiRsed as a mere flourish of rhetoric, if it had not been gravely repeated by the whole series of modern genealogists. (3) This is the more remarkable because the ancient gentility of the W ollastons was unknown to Erd~swick; and they are expressly named by Sir Simon* Degge in 1669 amongst the new families in Staf­ fordshire who had .risen by trade within the last sixty years. Such genealogical pretensions are usually sifted without mercy by the author of The Noble and Gentl8 Men of England; but in this instance Mr. Evelyn Shirley was an indulgent critic, for his grandmother was a Wollaston. (5) It is certain that the W ollastons were yeomen in the neighbourhood of

• Letter from Sir Simon Degge Kt. to George Digby Esq. of Sandon, dated 20 Feb. 1669 : I When Mr. Erdeswick wrote this tract (.;1 Short VielD of Staffordshire),159S-160S, there were but three citizen owners of any considerable estates in Staffordshire, but in these latter 60 years you'll find three Barons, four Baronets, and near twenty that will take it ill if you write them 1es8 than Esquires. For the barons there is Lord Leigh, &0. And for Esquires (inter alios) Mr. William Wollaston of aheb.er and OllCote Grange,' &0. (4)

Digitized by Coogle 542 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY,

Wolverhampton, without pretension to gentility or coat-armour until the reign of James I., when Henry Wollaston, citizen and draper of London, purchased several manors in Staffordshire, and obtained the sanction of the Heralds to use armorial bearings. The name of Wollaston is of local origin, and occurs in several counties in England. There are places called Wollaston in N orthamptonshire, Staffordshire, Gloucestershire, Shropshire, and Worcestershire, and in all these places obscure 'persons are found from an early period bearing the local name. The ancestors of the W ollastons of Shenton came to London from Stafiordshire; and there is little doubt that their original habitation was at Wollaston in the parish of Wheaton Aston; but they were settled near W olverhampton, at Perton in the parish of Tettenhall, before the end of the 15th century. Their proved pedigree begins with WILLIAM WOLLASTON, a substantial yeoman at Perton, who occurs in 16 Hen. VIT. (1500-1) amongst the attesting witnesses of a local deed, (6) and died at the age of 88 early in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. He was probably the uncle of Henry Wollaston, who was one of the five priests of the college at Tettenhall at the time of its dissolution in 1551, (7) and, if we may believe· the Heralds of the 17th century, he was the younger brother of the ancestor of the Wollastons of Walsall. (8) William lies buried in Tettenhall Church, and a brass plate on an alabaster gravestone in the middle aisle bears the following inscrip~ion: (7) Here lyeth William Wollaston, who long WIle lived in health, Whose honest life, still making peace, did far exceed his wealth ; With sweat of brow he went to plow, he eate still of his labour; o well was he, and ever free from law and lawyer's favour. Three ,on7UI', one daughter, here he left, all able well to live, Whose prayers did advance them more than wealth that he could give. He fourscore yeus and eight did live, beloved of rich and poore, And saw his children well bestowed; what could he ask for more ? Twelve years before his death God tooke his loving wife away; Then he all worldly goods forsooke, and nothing did but pray. His seRBes to the last he had, the world he did defye, Still crying, • Come, Lord Jesu, come,' till death did close his eye. The daughter mentioned in this epitaph married William Bamesley of Trysull in the neighbouring parish of Wombume, where their posterity long flourished. (9) William Wollaston's three sons were L WILLIAM, afterwards of Trescot Grange. II. HENRY of Perton, the ancestor of the W ollastons of Waltham Abbey and of Shenton.

• It iB highly unsatisfactory to find that the nameB of William WollaBton'B father and brother are cllirerently Btated in the only two pedigrees which notice their existence. In the Stat1'ordshire Visitation of 1662 he is the son of John and the brother of ThomaB; (8) whilst in the Heralds' pedigree of 1669 he is the Bon of Thomas and brother of John, which John waB father of Thomas, bam in 1515, who married IS June 1541 Joan, daughter of John Ham of Walsall, and waB the ancestor of the WollaBtona of Walsall. (I S)

Digitized by Coogle WOLLASTON OF TRESCOT GRANGE. . 543

m. A SON, who is variously named RICHARD and THOMAS in conflicting pedi­ grees, and whom I am wholly unable to identify. WILLIAM WOLLASTON, the eldest son of William of Perton, removed into the parish of Over* Penne, where he purchased the Grange in the hamlet of Trescot, which lies a mile beyond Perton. He married Jane J urden or J ordayne of Dunsley, who died before him, leaving several children, and was buried at Penn 5th May 1591. (10) William lived to a great age, and died 7th Jan. 1603-4. (II) He was buried at Penn on 9th January following, (10) and it was found at the inquest held after his death that he died seised of the Gt:ange and mill at Trescot in Over Penne, and also of lands in Trysull, W omburne, and. Ov~rton, and that his heir was his son Hugh, who was then 50 years o~ age. (I r) His Will is not on record, hut we know fromhinon's Will that it contained a legacy 'of 8t. to the poor of Over Penne, to be distributed in bread. He had several children, of whom only four can be identified with certainty, viz. i. -HUGH, his son and heIT; II. THOMAS, who died in his father's lifetime, and was huried at Penn 2d June 1600; (IO) III. ALICE; and IV. ELIZABETH, who "both married their cousins. ALICE WOLLASTON married firstly ••• Smyth, and secondly her nncle Henry's son Henry Wollaston, citizen and woollen-draper of London, who was by his first wife the ancestor of the W ollastons of Shenton. She had three children by her second marriage, and her only 'son Henry Wollaston inherited his father's estate at Waltham Abbey. ELIzABETH WOLLASTON mUrled Edward Wollaston of Perton, the brother of her sister Alice's husband. She died before 1616, and was the motherf of Sir John Wollaston, the Lord Mayor, as will be s~n hereinafter. HUGH WOLLASTON, the son and heir of William, was born in 1553, (I I) and succeeded on his father's death to Trescot Grange. He was 40 years old wheJ? he married Jane Bach from the hamlet of Oken in the neighbouring parish of Codsall, who was buried at Penn on 1st Dec. 1606. (10) He survived her four years, and died early in 1610, when it was found that his heir was his son Edward, who was then 12 years of age. (12)

HUGH WOOLLASTON OF TRESCOTT GRANGE IN THE PABISH OF OVER PENNE, CO. STAFFORD. Will dated 1 Feb. 1609-10. To be buried in the Parish Church oC Over Penne. To the poor oC the said parish, 401., to • It appears from the Registers of Penn that William Wollaston of the Grange was not the only one of his family who was living at that time in Penn i for' Harri Wollaston' had seven children baptized there between 1669 and 1684. (10) I am wholly unable to fix Harri's place in the pedigree, for he is too old to be the son or nephew of William of the Grange, and he is too young to be his brother. t The pedigrees differ as to which of William Wollaston's daughters was the widow of Smyth when she married her cousin. It might have been supposed that it was Elizabeth, and that she was the Elizabeth Smyth who married Edward Wollaston at Tettenhall on 8th November 1604, (10) but that this Elizabeth conld not be the mother of Edward's children, for his eldest son William was married in 1610, and his youngest son Henry was hom in 1593. Sir John Wollaston distinctly says in the pedigree, which he signed at the Visitation of 1632-4, that his mother Elizabeth was the daughter of William Wollaston of Trescot. (See p. 649.~

Digitized by Coogle 544 THE CHESTERS OF CmCHELEY. be employed in same sort as the £8 given by my late father William Woollaston by his last Will. To the poor of Tresull, 40 shillings; of Tettenhall, 40,.; of Wolverhampton, 40•. ; of Patlingham, 20,.; of Sedgeley, 20,.; and of Wombome, 20.. To my three daughters Jane, Mary, and Eliza­ beth, 500 marks each at 21 or marriage. My executors to have the use and benefit of my close called Jeffreys Bruche till my son Richard reach the age of 24, when it is to go to my eldest son Edward. I have granted to • my ruar ki1llmm and loving friends' Thomas Jurden, Humphrey Jurden, William Barnsley, and John Dancer, a lease for 12 years of my mills, water-courses, and certain lands, &c., of my manor or grange called Trescott Grange, &c. Richard* Moseley Esq., Johnt Fowke, Esq., Edmond Warings Esq., and Williamt Moseley Gent. to be my executors. The residue to be divided equally between my said children Edward, Richard, Jane, Mary, and Elizabeth. Will proved 7 Dec. 1610 in C.P.C. by the said Richard Moseley, power being reserved to the other executors. [100 Wingfield.] Hugh Wollaston had issue by his wife Jane three sons and three daughters, who ,were all baptized at Penne. (10) I. WILLIAM was baptized 7th Sept. 1595, and dying an infant was buried at Penn on 5th Nov. following. (10) n. JANE was baptized 30th Jan. 1596-7. m. EDWARD WOLLASTON, son and heir, was baptized 2d July 1598, and succeeded to Trescot Grange on his father's death, when he was only 12 years old. (I 2) Soon after he came of age he sold all his estates in Staffordshire. IV. MARy was baptized 8th Sept. 1599; and VI. ELIZABETH was baptized 29th June 1602. V. RICHARD WOLLASTON was baptized 8th Nov. 1600, and was a citizen of I .. ondon. He was free of the Fishmongers' Company, but was a linendraper by trade, and carried on business in partnership with his brother-in-law Richard Husband at the Golden Lion in Corn hill. He married Hannah, daughter of Peter Hazard, merchant of London, by whom he had an only son John. He died about Christ­ mas. 1648.

RICHARD WOLLASTON, Citizen and Fishmonger of London. Will dated 16 May 1648. My wife Hannah to be my executrix. • My loving friends and neare alliance' Sir John Wollaston Kt., Alderman of London, my wife's father Mr. Peter Hazard, merchant, and Roger Hill Esq. of the Temple, Counsellor at Law, to be overseers of my Will. My brother-in-law and partner Mr. Richard Husband to give an account of my stock·in-trade. To the two children of Mr. Nicholas Lockyer 20 nobles each. To my kinswoman Mary§ Stephens, now living with me in my house, .£100 towards her marriage. To my wife's two uumarrled§ sisters, 40 shillings each. To my brother-in-law Husbands' two children, £20 each. • .Richard Moseley Esq. of Tunstall in Staffordshire and Owsden, Snffolk, died in 1630. (13) t John Fowke Esq. of Gunston in Staffordshire was living in 18 James I. His daughter Susannah Fowke married Nicholas Moseley Esq. of The Mere in tbe parish of Enville, and her eldest brother Walter Fowke married Dorothy dau. of Richard Creswell Esq. of Barnhurst in Tettenhall. (13) t WiUiam Mo.eley of Bushbury married Lucretia Whitgreve, aunt to the wife of the first William Wollaston of Shenton, and died in 1619. (13) § I have not discovered Mary's relationship to the testator, but should guess that she was related to John Stephens of Maldon in Essex, whose daughter Anne married Thomas White, merchant of London, and was the mother of Sir Stephen White of London, who married Rebecca Hazard, one of ' the unmarried sisters of the testator's wife,' and was knighted 13 July 1660. (14)

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-The residue of my personal estate to be equally divided between my wife and my son John. My house and brewhouse at Witham, Essex, to my wife for life, with remainder to my son John. To my said son at 21 the lease of my house and shop. wherein I have long dwelt, called the Golden Lyon, in Cornbill, London. If I have omitted anything proper to be done the same is to be performed by my' wife and her three assistants. Will proved in C.P.C. 10 Jan. 1648·{} by Hannah Wollaston the Widow. [4 Fairfax.]

JOHN WOLLASTON, the only son of Richard, has a legacy of 30l. in the Will of Sir John Wollaston in 1658, and was living in Spain on 22d July 1669, when he entered his pedigree at the College of Arms, and the coat of Wollaston was allowed to him with the filial difference of a crescent on a crescent. (IS)

WOLLASTON OJ!' PEBTON AND TBEBCOT GRANGE. The registers not specifl.ed are from Pellll, 8ta1fordahire. Thomas Wollaston of Parton in the pariah of Tettenhall,I 00. Stafl'ord. r-- ...... ----'------" John Wo1laston, ancestor of the William Wollaston of Perton,living 16 Hen. VII'T Wollastons of Walsall died aged 88. M.I. a~ Tettenhall. _

I I i I William Wo1laston ane, dau. of Henry, 2d son, Sd son. Daughter, marr. William Tresoot Grange in the •.•• Jurden of Perton, an- Bamesleyof Trysull. pariah of Pellll, son and of DUDSley ; cestor of ~he 1 heir; died 7 Jan. 1608-4 ; bur. 6 May Wollastons of bur. at Penn, 9 J&I1- 1691. Shenton.

HughWollaston of Tres· ane, dau. of Alioe, marr. E1izabeth,mar. Thomas, bur. 2d cot Grange, son and heir; • • • • Bach of 1..... Smyth; Edward Wol­ June 1600• hom 16lS3; died 1610. Oken; bur. 1 2. Henry Wol· laston of Per­ Will. Dec. 1606. laston, Citizen ton. and Draper of A-.. London. Pedigree at A-.. p.669. WOLL&STOJI o. WALTHAll ABBEY.

William, bapt. Edward Wollas­ Richard Wollas- Hannah, dau. of Mary, bapt. 8 Sep~. 1696; bur. 6 ton of TreBoot ton, Citizen and Peter Hazard, 1699. Nov. 1696. Grange, Bon and Fishmonger of Me1'Cban~ of Lon­ heir; bapt. 2 Jnly London; bapt. 8 don; exeoubix 1698. Bold his Nov. 1600. Will 1649. Elizabeth, bap~. 29 Jane, bap~. 80 estates. dated 16 May June 1602. Jan. 1696·7. 1648; proved 10 Jan. 1648·9. John Wollaston, only son; legatee 1668; living in SpaiD 1669.

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HENRY WOLLASTON, the second son of William of Perton, ~nd the brother of William of Trescot Grange, is misnamed William in the pedigree which his grand­ son Sir John Wollaston entered at the Visitation of Lon don in 1633-4; (16) a mistake which has led to endless confusion in subsequent pedigrees. His true name is proved by the exemplification of arms to his son Henry in 1616, who distinctly describes himself as the son of Henry of Perton. (17) He was a yeoman at Perton, where he occupied his father's farm and homestead, and married •••. Elliot of Penn, whose Christian name is lost, and by whom he had issue four children: I. RICHARD; . n. HENRY; III. EDWARD; IV. A DAUGHTER, married Thomas Perry of Trescot, and died before 1601, leaving issue. I. RICHARD WOLLASTON, the eldest son of Henry of Perton, was a citizen of London, and was free of the Grocers' Company. He lived in Bucklersbury, and married Margery, widow of • • . . Tyrrell, and daughter of Christopher Wase, goldsmith of London, by whom he had four children. She sprang from a family of good standing at Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, who were related to the Hamp­ dens. (18) He died in 1602, and was buried in the church of St. Bennet Sherehog in Size-lane.

RICHARD WOLLASTON, CITIZEN AND GROC~R OF LONDON. Will dated 19 March 1600-1. To be buried in the church of St. Benedict Sherehog; London, where I am a parishioner. The money now in my hands belonging to Thomas Tirrell, son to Margerie my now wife, is to be delivered into the hands of my brother Henry Wollaston, draper, or into the Orphans' Court in Guildhall, London. H my four children Christopher, Edward, Elizabeth, and Margery all die under age, then their portions to be divided between the children of my brother Edward Wol­ laston of Perton, co. Sta1ford, and the children of my brother-in-law Thomas Perry of Trescott, co. Stafford, equally. My wife Margery to have my now dwelling-house in Bucklersbury during the minority of my eldest son Christopher, with remainder to said Christopher, remainder to my son Edward, remainder to my daughters, remainder to my godson Richard, Bon of my brother Henry Wollaston, remainder to William, another son of my said brother Henry, remainder to the heirs of my brother Edward Wollaston, remainder to the Treasurer and Master of Christ's Hospital. My farm called Courtesden in Kent to my 2d son Edward Wollaston, remainder to my son Christopher, remainder to my daughters, remainder as before declared about my dwelling­ house. My wife Margery and my two sons Christopher and Edward to be my executors. My llrother-in-law Christopher* Wase, goldsmith, my brother Henry Wollaston, draper, and Thomas White, citizen and grocer of London, to be overseers of my Will. Witnu'6': Wm. Gwyn, Edwd. Bullock scr., Edwd. Perry, Christopher Gayler. Will proved in C.P.C. on 20 Sept. 1602 by the widow. [61 Montague.] Richard Wollaston left two sons and two daughters, who were all under age at the time of his death. They were 1. CHRISTOPHER WOLLASTON, married before 1616, and is mentioned with his

• ChriBropher W lilt, oitizen and goldsmith of London, by his Will dated 10 Sept. 1602, gives mourning to his • sister Wollaston,' and mentionB his lands at Great Wycombe. (19)

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wife in his uncle Henry's Will He had a son John, to whom Sir John Wollaston left 30/. in 1658 by his Will. 2. EDWARD was unmarried in 1616. 3. ELIZABETH. 4. MARGERY. n. HENRY 'VOLLASTON, second son of Henry, was a citizen and draper of London, and the ancestor of the W ollastons of Shenton and of \Valtham Abbey. . III. EDWARD WOLLASTON was the only one of Henry's three sons who was contented to lead a country life. He was, like his father, a yeoman at Perton, and married Elizabeth, the daughter of his uncle William Wollaston of Trescot Grange. Edward outlived his wife* and both his brothers, and had issue four children: I. WILLIAM; II. JOHN; III. HE.~RY; and IV. SARAH. I. WILLB.?tI WOLLASTON, the eldest son of Edward, was, like his father and grandfather, a yeoman at Perton, where he inherited the farm which had been the birthplace of four generations of the W ollastons. His two younger brothers were apprenticed in London, where his brother John rose to wealth and eminence; but William did not Ii ve to witness his success, for he was buried at Tettenhall 5th April 1629. (10) He married at Codsall19th Feb. 1609-10 Eleanorf Greene, (10) and left four daughters.

WILLIAll 'VOLLASTO!ll 01' PERTON IN THE PARISH 01' TETTESH.\LL, ST.\FFORDSII\RE, YEOll.\N. Will dated 16 Jan. Hi~I:l·9. To be buried in Tettenhall Church near my ancestors. My debts to be paid out of my good!!, of which my wife Eleanor is to have the residue during her widowhood; but if she marry again or die, the same is to be divided between my four daughters Elizabeth, Sarah, Mary, aud Judith. My wife is to occupy my leasehold cottage and lands in Overton so long as she keepeth herself sole. To the poor of Tettenhall, 20 shillings. My said wife to be my Bole executrix. Will proved in C.P.C. by the widow on Ii Sept. 1fl211. [711 Ridley.]

His widow Eleanor Wollaston lived to a great age, for she survived her husband above 44 years. She outlived two of her daughters, and was buried at Codsall 28th Sept. 1674. (10) ELEANOR WOLLASTON OF OKEN, STAFFORDSHIRE, WIDOW. 'Vill dated 15 Feb. 1672·3. To John and Mary, the children of my daughter Elizabeth Wilkins, .t~o each. To my two grandchildren William and John Blakemore, .0£10 each. To my gmndson Edward Shinton, .t15. '1'0 my grandchildren William, George, Alexander, Anne, Elizabeth, and Mary Shinton, .£ 10 each at their ages of Itl respectively. To my daughter Judith's eldest child, if it please God she should have any children, £20. To my two sons·in·law William Shiuton and Thomas Dach, 10 shillings each. To my two daughters Elizabeth Wilkins and Judith Dach, 20 shillings each. To my grandchild Anne Shinton my joyne·bedd standing in the parlour at Perton. My daughter Judith Bach to be my exeeutlix. Will proved in C.P.C. 10 Feb. 1(;71)·11 by Judith Dach. [:,w Bence.]

• I suspect that she is thc Elizabetll JVol1a~ton who was buried at Tcttcnha1115 June 1609. (10) t Eleanor Ore.lle seems to have been a widow with ehildren, for Sir John Wollaston left to her by his Will in 165B :.lUI. for the use of her' daught.cr Anne Perkins, widow i' and it is certain that Anne was not one of William Wollaston'l! daughters. 4A

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four daughters of William eventually inherited 1I:J"r\f>llIt,>t' part of their uncle W oHaston's ELlzAnETH married at Tettenhall Cole-Orton in (10) by whom JOHN and 2. SARAH, and 3. MARY WOLLASTON, both married and died, leaving issue in their mother's lifetime. One of them married •.. Blakemore, and the other was the wife of Alexander Shinton. 4. JUDITH -"'YOLLASTON was baptized at TettenhaU 23d June 1625, and married there on 29th Dec. 1656 Thomas Bach Gent. of Oken in the parish of Codsall, ( I 0) died in 1674. She secondly John of Oken, and

issue 10th Dec. She is described monument in VUUIHIJI as 'the daughter Wollaston of the heirs W oUaston Kt., of London.' (20) JOHN WOLLASTON a Knight), son of Edward Perton, was a citizen and goldsmith of London, of great wealth and consideration. He married before 1616 Rebecca, the youngest of the four daughters and co-heirs of Edward GrceIle,· goldsmith of London, but had no issue. Wollaston was well known at Court, and in Aug. 1618 the wife of Sir Walter Raleigh was committed to his custody by the King's command. This onerous charge compelled him to in Sir Walter's Broad-street from to 10th Sept. on his representing Privy Council which it caused many great occasions ' her safe ",,,,,,;un,,,,, Richardt ) The good-will ".n~ .... " was further years afterwards of the Privy '"'V''''',".u on 27th Oct. 1624 that he should be the sole Refiner of the Mint. (23) Wollaston lived and carried on his business in Foster-lane in the parish of St. John Zachary in London, but like most of the wealthier merchants he had a country house in the suburbs. His home for more than thirty years was at Highgate in the parish of Hornsey, where he was elected one of the six Governors of the Free School Chapel on 28th (24) The chosen by cooptation the principal inhabitants Highgate, and cone~ues were Bishop of Sir Thomas well-known Recorder London and of Charles 1. took an His Will bolow cnnmeratcs his four daughters and their husbands : EDWARD GREENB OF THE PARlsll OF ST. JOHN ZACHARY, LONDON, GOLDBJUTH. Will da\ed 12 Jan. 1618·19. To my dnu. Sara, wife of Joaua Greene of Ring's Lynn, Norfolk, linendrapcr, £100. To my dau. Anne, wife of John 1I1a,on, £100. To my dan. Eli7.nbctb, wife of Edward Lambort of Banstcad, Snrrey, Gent., £100. To my

PBDIOBBB or WOLLASTON FROU THB VISITATION or LoNDON, 1632·4. ABxs.-Argent, three mullets sable pierced of the field, with a crescent for difference. . William Wollaston of Parton in eo. Btaff'T i i HeDl1 Wollu· Edward WOllastonrElizabeth, dan. of Wm. ton, leon. of Perion. Wollaston of Treseot Grange, eo. Staff. ,r------' John Wollaston of London, =Rebecca, dan. of 2d eon, anno 1634. Ed. Greene of London.

(Signtd) Jo. WOLLASTON. The errors in this pedigree show how little reliance can be placed on the accu­ racy of these Visitations, for John's paternal grandfather was not William, but Henry; and his uncle Henry was not the first son, for he had an elder brother Richard, whose sons were still living in 1634. Wollaston took no part in the various schemes of colonial enterprise in which so many of his contemporaries risked their lives and fortunes, although the Vice­ President of the Council for New England, Captain John Mason, was his intimate friend and his wife's brother-in-law. Mason was the proprietor of what is now the State of New Hampshire in the United States of America, and this province was granted to Wollaston in trust for him on 22d April 1635; but he had JlO J>ene­ ficial interest in the grant, and reconveyed 'it to Mason sL"< weeks afterwards. (25) John Mason figures prominently in the early history of New England, and deserves a high place in the annals of maritime enterprise and colonial discovery; but his name is little known on this side of the Atlantic, and I am indebted to an American genealogist- for many of the particulars of his interesting career. John Mason, the son of John Mason of King's Lynll in Norfolk, by Isabel Steed his wife, was baptized at St. Margaret's, King's Lynn, on 11th Dec. 1586. (19) He never forgot his native tOWIl, and his Will contains a legacy of two thousand acres in New England to the corporation of King's Lynn; but whilst he was still a boy his father removed to Portsmouth, which thenceforward became his home, and John is described as of the county of Southampton when he matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford, on 25th JUlie 1602. (19) He left the University with­ out taking a degree, and married at St. Margaret's, King's Lynn, on 29th Oct. • My knowledge of the personal history of Captain John Ma'Bon is mainly derived from my friend Col. J. L. Chester, U.S.A., who tolls me that Mr. Charlcu W. Tuttle of BOllton, U.S.A., has a VOlume in progress, entitled Tilt Life and Time. of Captain John Millon.

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1606, Anne, daughter of Edward Greene, goldsmith of London, (19) whose Will has been already noticed. Mason was not yet 20 years of age, and his early mar­ riage created the necessity of exerting himself. His adventurous spirit recom­ mended to him a seafaring life, and he entered the Royal Navy, whero he rapidly rose to distinction. In 1610 he commanded the naval expedition which was sent by James I. to suppress a rebellion in the Hebrides. In 1616 he went to New­ foundland as Governor of the colony; and in 1621 was appointed the King's Lieu­ tenant in those parts, with two ships at his command to keep down piracy and preserve good order amongst the fishing fleet. (25) He made a complete survey of Newfoundland during his term of office, which was printed for the information of the undertakers of the plantation. His description of the island was published at Edinburgh in 1620, and his map of the coast was published in London six years afterwards. He had in 1617 explored and surveyed the coast of New England, when his quick intelligence perceived that the continent offered better prospects of success for adventurers than the island of which he was Governor. He left Newfound­ land early in 1622, and on 9th Maroh in that year obtained a grant from the Council for New England of Cape Trebizond, the northern point of Massachu­ setts. (25) This grant consisted of the tract of land on the sea-coast between the rivers Naumkeag and Merrimac, which he called Mariana; but on the 10th August in the same year the province of Maine was granted to him and Sir Ferdinando Gorges as joint proprietors. (25) He spent the next seven years in settling and establishing plantations on his territory, and on 7th Nov. 1629 his boundaries were enlarged by a grant of the province of New Hampshire. (25) At the same time the Council granted to him, jointly with Sir Ferdinando Gorges, the lands upon the rivers of the Irroquois, which included Lake Champlain, and were designated as the province of Laconia. (25) These accumulated grants made Mason the chief proprietor of the whole country north of New England, and excited considerable jealousy. He therefore returned to England in 1632 to protect the interests of the colonies. He was well received, and was admitted with Lord Maltravers into the Council for New England on 21st June 1632. The charter had fixed the number of the Council at forty, but they had dwindled down to fourteen before Mason was admitted. They now pro­ ceeded to increase their number, and the seven new members were all men of influ­ ence and high distinction. Amongst them were Lord Thurles, Lord Chamberlain Lindsey, and Sir Kenelm Digby. (25) Mason took at once so prominent a place in the deliberations of the Council that it was ~OTeed on 29th June 1632 that his house in Fenchurch-street should in future be their place of meeting, and on 26th November he was formally chosen Vice-President. (25) The financial ability and energy of character which he displayed in colonial affairs recommended him to the favour of the King, who appointed him Treasurer of the Army and Captain of

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Southsea Castle, with the command of the Channel fleet. But he soon became impatient to revisit his territory on the other side of the Atlantic, and in June 1635 he obtained the promise of the post of Vice-Admiral of New England. The grant of the province of New Hampshire with the addition of 10,000 acres in New England, to be called Masonia, hall been confinned to him on the preceding 22d April by indentures from the Council to his brother-in-law John Wollaston, who acted as his trustce, and when the war broke out with Frauce he became anxious for the safcty of the Amcrican colonies. He writes from Ports­ mouth to the Secretary of the Admiralty on 11th July, 'that 150 French vessels had been taken as prizes into Dunkirk and other places, and that he is busily employed in repairing the defences of Southsea Castle; but he begs the Lords to expedite his walTaut for his Vice-Admiralty in New England, for the English plantations there already extend 300 miles and contain above 13,000 inhabitants; the ships trading there exceed 40 sail, and he would fain be in readiness for the French.' (25) His patent accordingly was drawn up on 1st October, by command of the Lords of the Admiralty, appointing him Vice-Admiral of New England, with jurisdiction extending between 40 and 48 degrees of north latitude, and comprising the South Seas, California, and New Albion. But it was fatcd that he should never leave England, for he was taken ill at Portsmouth six wceks after his appointment, and died there in the beginning of December, whilst he was making preparations for his voyage. He was only 49 years old when he died, and left an only child Ar.'NE, who was then the wife of Joseph Tufton of Betchworth in Surrey, and the mother of four children. Her eldest son Hobert Tufton was the heir of his grandfather's estates in America, and assumed the name of Mason.

CAPTAIN JOHN MASON of London Esq. Will dated 2£\ Nov. 1£\35. To be buried* in the Collegiate Church of St. l~eter in Westminster. To the poor of Ports· mouth in the county of Southampton, £5. To my sister Dorothy Moore, ,£10 per annum for her life; and to each of her children, £!l. To Beatrice Baldwin, £5. To my brothers·in·law Mr. Joshua Greene, Mr. Edward Lambert, Mr. Henryt Burton, and Mr. John Wollaston and their wives, and to my loving cousins Dr. Hobertt Mason of Greenwich and his wife and mother, Mr. Thomas Geere and his wife, Thomas Mason Gent., and Mr. Thomas Gippes and his wife, 60 shillings each in rings. The residue of my estate to my wife for life, and after her death to my four grandchildren John, Anne, Robert, and Mary Tufton, in equal shares at their rCRpective ages of:H or marriage; and if my wife Anne die before they be 21, my brother-in-law John Wollaston is to receivc the rents to the use of my grandchildren. My said wue to be my executrix, and the said John • There is no record of Captain Mason's burial in Westminster Abbey. (2.6) The Abbey Registers of that period are so imperfect that their silence is' no proof that he was not buried there, and the best living authority on the SUhj.lCt (Col. J. L. Chester), after searching in vain for his burial in every other likely place, has little doubt that the direction in his Will was duly complied with. t Henry Burton did not marry one of Edward Green's daughters, and was therefore connected with the testator iu Bomo othor way. : Dr. Robert MaBon, Chancellor of Winchoster and Mastor of Requests to Charles I., was the son of Georgo Mason of Now Windsor, son of Robert Masou, son of Robert Mason, the grand-uncle of tho testator. (19)

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Wollaston to be overseer of my Will, and I give him my coach and horses. To the Corporation of King', Lynn, Norfolk, Ichere I lea, born, 2000 acres of land in my county of New Hampshire, or manor of Mason Hall in New England. To my said brother·in·law ,Tohn Wollaston, 3000 acres there. To my grandchild Anne* Tufton, my lands at Cape Ham of Wagen, upon the south-east side of Sagadahock in New England, called Masonia, containing 10,000 acres, at 21 or her marriage. To my grandson Robert Tufton and his heirs, my manor of Mason Hall in New England at 21, when he is to take the surname of Mason. 'l'he rest of my estate in New England to my grandson John Tufton, with remainder to the said Hobert Tufton, remainder to my cousin Dr. Robert Mason, Chancellor of 'Vinehester, remainder to my own right heir. All other lands to my said wife and brother-in-law John Wollaston during the joint lives of my daughtert Anne Tufton and her now husband, in trust for the separate use of my said daughter during her life. Joseph Tufton, the father of my said grandchildren, has placed .£1000 in my hands, &C. Will proved in C.P.C. 22 Dec. 1635 by the widow. [127 Sadler.] Captain Mason's widow survived her husband 20 years, and is described as of St. Stephen'lI, Coleman-street, London, in her non-cupative Will, which was made about 20th Feb. 1654-5, and was proved in C.P.C. on 12th Nov. 1655 by her grandson Robert Tufton als. Mason. (19) It is to be feared that neither Wollaston nor the Corporation of King's Lynn derived any substantial advantage from the bequests of Captain Mason's Will, for these grants of colonial territory were often illusory possessions. So long as they produced neither revenue nor profit, no one cared to dispute them; but so soon as the country became settled, and interests grew up v.·hich clashed with the rights of the proprietors, the occupiers disputed the legality of the King's letters-patent, and set the grantees at defiance. The proprietors suffered the proverbial fate of the absent, and were eventually glad to compromise for a small consideration their nominal dominion. Captain Mason's widow and grandson suffered constantly from encroachments, against which they protested in vain, (25) and in 1659 Robert Mason was amongst the proprietors and inhabitants of the provinces of Maine and Laconia who appealed to the Parliament of the Commonwealth against the usurpa­ tion of the Government of Massachusetts, who were endeavouring by force and menaces to deprive them of their privileges and patents. (25) Mason's heirs sold in 1691 their seignorial rights to the provincial government of New Hampshire, with certain reservations, and in 1746 Colonel John Tufton Mason sold to a company for 15001. all that remained of the principality granted to his ancestor. W o11aston was one of the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex in 1638, and was elected in the same year an Alderman of London. His civic honours are recorded in the parish register of \Vomburne, in grateful remembrance of his having presented

• Arlflc TuJloR, granddaughter of the testator, was bom in 1627, and marricd at St. Augustine's, London, 6 Jan 1647-8, Dr. Richard Gibbon M.D., second son of Thomas Gibbon Esq. of Westcliffe, Kent, by whom he bad three daughters. Dr. Gibbon was buried at St. Olave's, Hart-street, London, 26 Aug. 1652, and letters of Administration were granted to bis widow on 11 Oct. following. (19) Mrs. Gibbon had a legacy of GOl, in 1659 from ber grand-aunt Lady Wollaston. t Anne Tulton, daugbter of tbe testator, was tbe tbird wife of Josepb Tufton of Batcbwortb, Surrey. Sbe survived him, and married secondly ..... Ashurst. (19)

Digitized by Coogle SIR JOHN WOLLASTON KT., LORD MAYOR. 553 in the preceding year services of communion-plate in silver to Womburne Church and Trysull Chapel, of which he was the patron. (27) He had purchased these advowsons in 1631, and they are still held on the trusts of his Will. He was knighted at Hampton Court by Charles 1. on 3d Dec. 1641, but when the civil out, he took an on the side of and at the the City trainbands Sept. 1643 Sir Colonel of the Regiment, Venn M.P. Lieut.-Colonel. (29) was Lord Mayor in 1644, and held several official under the Commonwealth. He was for some time Treasurer at War, and acted as one of the Commissioners for the sale of the lands which had belonged to the Crown and the Dishops. He became himself the purchaser of the estates of the see of London at Hornsey and Finchley, which were valued in 1647 at 2241.168. 3d. per annum, with improvements in reversion estimated at 884l. 118. 4d. and timber worth 101Ol, (30) His purchases made at different Finchley were him on 24th Sept, I) Haringay little park' at 1648 for 10301. The Gate- to him on 26th together with the Bishop's woods at Homsey, for which he paid 1022l. 188. (33) His last purchase was the tolls at Highgate, for which he gave 449l. on 27th Feb. 1649-50. (34) All these estates were restored to the bishopric of London at the Restoration, and the purchase-money was lost to Wollaston's heirs and legatees. Sir John was eminently and religious, and of the Church but he was inclined, and was associated with divines of the His zeal for betrayed acts of oppres- orthodox a consenting deprivation of Thomas Carter, the Master of Highgate School, (24) who was ejected from the 8choo~house in 1644 under circumstances of cruel hardship, for his wife was actually in labour at the time of his expulsion, and was delivered of a child in the chapel porch. (35) He also concurred in the sequestration of Thomas Lant, the Rector of Hornsey, whose sole offence was his loyalty to the King, and by Sir John Wollaston's John Dalton into the Rectory in 1654. (66) of Christ's which he sub- per annum of his life. lIe should Le continued death, when he annuity of 100l. for ever to the charged upon the Gate-House at Highgate amI the tolls taken there, and the little park' at Hornsey. The 12l. per annum was duly paid during Latly W olhiston's life, but the rent-charge of 100l. per allnum was lost to the charity on the resumption of the Bishop of

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London's estates. (38) His foundation of six almshouses at Highgate, which he built in his lifelime and endowed by his Will, is still in existence. They were devised by his Will to the Govemors of Highgate School, and the endowment was charged on the meadows at the back of his mansion, part of which were taken by the Archway Company in 1831 to make their new road. (39) The almshouses were rebuilt in the reign of George I. by Edward Pauncefort E~q., Treasurer of the Excise and one of the Governors of Highgate School, and now form one uniform building with the charity school for girls and four new almshouses of Mr. Pannce­ fort's foundation. (39) Sir John ·Wollaston died without issue on 26th April 1658, (40) and was buried in Highgate Chapel on 29th April following. (19)

SIR JOHN 'VOI.LASTON OF LONDON, KSIGHT AND ALDER)IAN. 'Vill dated 15 April 16Ml. To be buried in the Chapel of Highgate, Middlesex, under or near my pew. To my wife Dame Rebecca, one clear half of my personal estate. To the poor of St. John Zachraue in London, where I now dwell, .t5, of Highgate and Homsey £10, of Finchley .£5, and of Tetten­ lUlU, co. StaJ!ord, Il'ltere I U'lUl burll, .t5. To my sister Sarah Edlyn, widow, £100. To my sister-in-law Eleanor 'Vollaston, for the usc of her daughter Ann Perkins, widow, ,£20. To my four nieces Elizabeth, Sarah, Mary, and JUdiUl, daughters of my brother William Wollaston, deceased, .t50 each. To Stephen llowtell and Susan his wife, £100 each. To my cousin John* 'Vollaston, son of Richard 'Volla8ton, late of London, Fishmonger, deceased, 1;:10. To John Wollaston, son of Clu-istophert Wollaston, .£:\0. To William l'cny of llrolllwich, co. Stafford, .£5. To MalY Phillil)l'l. daughter of Richard Oclmld, deCelll'led, .£50; and to her sister Ann Honychureh, her dwelling·house, where she now dwells, rent free during her widowhood. Item. To Master Josepht Caryll, Master 6eorge§ Gri.ffith, Master Thomas Brooks,

.~~~ tfu~~ t Joseph Caryll, one of the most learned and eminent Preshyterian ministers of his time, graduated at Exeter College, Oxford, in 1627. He then entered Holy Orders, when his abilities as 0. preacher o.nd puritanical opinionSlll'ocured for him the Lectureship at Lincoln's Iun. ne became a prominent member of the Asst:Jmbly of Dhines, and "'as a fl'('quent preacher before the Long Parliament, who appointed him a licenser of books for the cause, and selected him to preach the th:mksgiving sermons on several occa­ sions of their victOlles over the royal forces. In 1046 he was one of the chaplains to the Commissioners who were sent to the King at Newcastle·on-Tyne, o.nd he was one of the London ministers who offered their sphitual services to Charles I. on tho eve of his executiou. He was appointed in 1658 one of the TriCl"ll of Public Ministers of thc Gospel, and in the next year became o.n active member of the Committee who were charged with the duty of ejecting scandalous ministers and sehoolmasters. He accompanied Whalley to Scotland in November 1659 to Bound the intentions of General Monk, and on 14 March following he, with Reynolds and others, received the authoIity of Parliament to approve and admit ministers of God's Wor,l in the Presbyterian way. (41) On the Restoration he l'etired to his cure at St. Magnus, London Britlge, into which he had been intruded in 1645, but he was ejecte(l in 1062 by tho Actof Uniformity. lIc was the editor of Tile FarclIlcll Sermuns uf tile latc London Minister8, preached 17 Aug. 1(j('2. They wel'e de,"en in number, inchuling Richnrd Bnxter, nnd there arll}JOl-traits of them all on the title-pngc. Curyll [Urvivea his ('j"ctment ten yearp, and elie!l at his house at BU1-y.street in London, 25 Fcb. 1(;72·3. lie wall a ,"oluminons writcr, Rnd hit; works show great erudition, but he is RccnRcd of being a Milleuarilln, nll(l ~nve his impIimntur in extravagant terms of praise in 1654 to Tile ReBlm'cetion Revea:ed, oy Nathanicl Holmes. (41.) CllI-yll's chief theological work waR TIu> Expo8ition of tlll' ]Jook ':' .1,./" which Iw pl"inL(-d in d",cn quarlo \'olum~s. It had a great r(·pul'ltion, ana w,~s repub­ lishcel after his de 11th in 1676 in two lnr:,:e folio volumes, to the secoud of which his pol-trait is prefixed. Heha(l:also a' primc hand in' Tile Sai7lts' lIIclllorials, 1674, and in an English-Greek Lexioon containing the words in thc New Testament, 1661. (4') § Thc only minister named George G"iJ!ith that I can fiud at this pel'iod was the loyal Canon of St. Asaph, who WI\S made Bishop of that See at tho Restol"l~tion, and died in 1666. (43)

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Master Humphrey* Vernon, Master Ambrose Parry, Master Edmond Broome, Master Ithiellf Smart, and Master Thomas! Willesby, Ministers of the Gospel, £10 a peece, as a rememberance of my love to them. To Ann Foster, daughter of Edward Foster of Admaston, co. Stafford, and grandchild to Humphrey§ Wightwick, late of Coventry. deceased, £10 legacies to servants. The residue of my personal estate to my said wife Dame Rebecca, whom I appoint with Matthew Mason and Thomas Dickins my executors. , Whereas by deed, dated l:!th April Hi02, I disposed of all my manors, lands, and tenements in Middlescx and the City of London to Phillip Wiggs and John Holloway, as trustees, to the use of myself for life, and then to the use of my said wife for life, and then for such uses as I should by Will appoint, I do now appoint the same as follows: The two messuages in St. John Zachary to go, after my wife's death, to the Company of Goldsmiths, in tru!lt, to pay the Hospital of Bethlehem £20 per annum for ever, The Gate­ House at Highgate and the tolls taken there, and' the little park' at Hornsey, to go to the same Company upon trust, to pay an annuity of £100 p.a. to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, for ever; and also a like annuity of£lOO p.a. to Christ's Hospital, bf which I am President. My executors in the mean while to pay to the said hospital £12 p.a. for the same uses as I have given the same every year in my lifetime. My farm at Finchley to my kinsman William Wilkins of Cole­ Orton, Leicestershire, and his wife Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of my late brother William Wollaston deceased, for their lives, with remainder after the death of the survivor of them to their eldest son John Wilkins, remainder to his first and other sons successively in tail male, remainder to my own right heirs. To the Governours of the Free School of Highgate the six almshouses which I have built there in trust for the use of six poor men or women of Homsey or Highgate; also an annuity of £18 10,. per annum out of the meadows adjoining my capital messuage at Highgate where I live, upon trust to pay to each of the six aImspeople 50 shillings a year, and 20 shillings a year to provide for the repairs to the almshouses, and also 50 shil­ lings a year for a collation to the Governours at their meeting. The two messuages, &C. in Homsey-lane, now in lease to my kinsman John Brett of Lon­ don, grocer, to be sold. The residue of all my real estate to my said wife Dame Rebecca for life, with remainder to my nephew William Edlyn also Wollaston, son of my sister Sarah Edlyn, widow, for his life; remainder to his first and other sons successively in tail male; remainder to the four daughters of my late brother William Wollaston, viz. Elizabeth, Sarah, Mary, and Judith. and the,ir heirs as tenants in common and not as joint heirs. Item. To Alexander§ Wightwick of Wightwick, co. Stafford. Esq.. William Bendy of Shutend Esq .• Henry Stone of Walsull Esq., John Birch of Cannock Esq., William Pinson of Wolverhampton Gent.. Edward Jorden of Dnnnesley Gent.• and William Hayes of Wolver­ hampton. ironmonger, their heirs and assigns, all that the donation, advowson. and patronage of the church and rectory of Wombourne. and of the chappell of Tresull, and either of them. in the connty of Stafford. And I desire their care to present a learned and painful preacher, honest

• Hnmphrey Vernon waB intimate with Archbishop Bancroft before his promotion. It is mentioned in a letter from Bancroft to hiB brother, dated 17 Nov. 1650, that· Vernon had gone three weeks before to live at London in Sir John Wollaston's house, and to be miniBter at Highgate.' (44) It appears from the parish register that Vemon was still minister at Highgate on 16 March 1665·6, when his infant son ThomaB waB buried there. (45) t Ithiel Smart JI.A. wss preBented by John Wollaston, citizen of London, on 19 Aug. 1682, to the Rectory of Wombame and Vicarage of Trysull ;(2.7) but he resigned these livings in 1652, when he was presented by Ferdinando Earl of Huntingdon to the Vicarage of Ashby de la Zouch. (46) He died 22 Nov. 1661 aged 62. and had issue three sons and live daughters by his wife Dorcas, daughter of William Holbrooke, Vicar of West Ham, Essex, who died a widow in September 1680. Their eldest son Uhiel Smart was Vicar of Ashby 1676-92, aad eatered his pedigree at the Visitatioa of Leioostershire in 1682, whea he was 45 years old. (46) : Too71lall Wilw8by M.A.. was preseatecl by Sir Joha WollaBton to the living of Womburne 18 May 1652,011 the resignation of Swart. (2.7) § See (47)' 4B

Digitized by Coogle 556 THE CHESTERS OF CHlCHELEY. in life and conversation, to the said living as often as it shall become voyd, whereby soules may be gayned to Christ. And I do will the three last survivers shall make choyse of new Trustees to be added to them successively, to present to the said living a fitt Minister qualifyed as above­ said, as often as the said church shall become voyd. And I give to the said Trustees twenty shillings a peece to buy every of thcm a ring. Whereas my uncle Henry Wollaston of London, draper, hath formerly given fifty-two shillings per annum to the poor of Tettenhall aforesaid, I now make up the same to .£10 per annum. My loving friends Samuel Wightwick Esq. and William Gibbs Esq. to be overseers of my Will. Will proved in C.P.C. 14th May 1M/:! by the relict Dame Rebecca Wollaston, power being reserved to the other executors. [248 Wotton.]

Dame Rebecca W o11aston survived her husband two years; but the only inci­ dent of her widowhood which I have met with is that in 1659 she presented Samuel Bendy to the rectory of Hornsey. (48) Soon after his induction, Bendy made petition to the Committee of Ecclesiastical Affairs that the rectory was only worth 92l. p.a., out of which he had to pay 16l. p.a. to the wife and children of the late incumbent; whereupon they ordered that the pension should be made up to him out of otller rectories. (49) Bendy was ejected in the next year from his living as 'an intruding miuister,' and the old rector Thomas L~t was reinstated. Lady W 011a8ton did not live to see his ejectment, for she was buried at Highgate on lst June 1660. (10)

DAME REBECCA WOLLASTON 011 THE PARISH OF ST. JOHN ZACHARY, LONDON, WIDOW AND RELICT OF SIR JOHN WOLLASTON, LATE ONE OF THE ALDERMEN OF LONDON, DBCEASED. Will dated 13 May 1650. To be buried in the chapel of Highgate, co. Middlesex, near my said late dear husband. Whereas Matthew Mason, citizen and goldsmith of London, oweth me .£1060, to be paid at my now dwelling-house in Foster-lane, London, on the 25th June next, I dispose of the same as fol­ lows: To my nephew Mr. Josua Greene, one of the" sons of my late sister Mrs. Sara Greene, deceased, £50; and to my nieces, the four sisters of the said Josua Greehe, eaoh .£5. To my nephew Nicholas Lambert, one of the sons of my late sister Mrs. Elizabeth Lambert deceased, £20; and to my nephew Mr. Daniel Lambert, another of her sons, .£10; and to my niece Mrs. Catherine Daniell, daughter of my said sister Lambert, .£50. To my cousin Mrs. Anne­ Gibbon, £50. To my cousin Mrs. Dorcas Taylor. £100. To my. cousin Sir Jamest Ware Kt., .£100. To Mr. Evan Tyler, citizen and stationer of London, £100. The said Sir James Ware and Evan Tyler to be my executors. To Mr. Cole of Grsys Inn Esq., .£50; and I appoint him overseer of my Will. To the said Matthew Mason. £3. To such. of the three children of my nephew Mr. Robert

• .Anne, widow of Dr. Richard Gibbon M.D., and granddaughter of Captain John Muon by Anne, sister of the Testatrix. See note • at page 552. t I have been nnable to discover how Sir Jame. Ware, the well·known writer on Irish Antiquities, was related to the Testatrix. He was the son of Sir James Ware Kt., Secretary to the Lords Justices of Ireland. who married the sister of Sir Ambrose Briden Kt. of Maidstone, and died in 1632 Auditor·General of Ireland. He was succeeded in office by his son James, who had been knighted by the Lords Justices in 1629, and was swom of the Irish Privy Council in 1639. Sir James was ejected from his place in 1644, but was reinstated at the Restoration. He died 1 Dec. 1666, and wail' buried on 4. Dec. at S'. Warbergh's, Dublin. (So) Be was twice married and left several children. His first wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob Newman Esq. of Dublin, and his second wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Lord Windsor. (19)

Digitized by Coogle HENRY WOLLASTON, KEEPER OF NEWGATE. 557

Green as live to be 21 or married, £50 between them. To Mr. Vernon,· minister of Highgate, and to Mr, Brookes,· Mr. Griffith,· Mr. Venning,t and Mr. Bendy,: ministers of God's word; and to my chaplain Mr. Benoni§ Barke, £5 each. To my now menial servants Edward Osborne, E1Iinor Holder, and Catherine Wadleworth, £50 each; and to each of my other servants, £11 apiece. To the poor of Highgate, Homsey, Finchley, and St. John Zachary, £5 to each parish. To the poor of St. Matthew, Friday·street, in which parish I was born, £10. To my said nephew Mr. Robert Green, son of my said sister Mrs. Sara Greene, £lO for mourning. To my kinswoman Mrs. Anne Primrose, wife of Docto~ Primrose,1I £10 for mourning. To my cousin Mrs. Priscilla. Nowell, widow of Thomas Nowell Esq., late one of the Aldermen of London, deceased, £10 for mourning. To Mr. Carroll,. minister of God's word. for preaching my funeral sermon and for mOlJ}'Iling, £10. My funeral charges not to exceed tMOO. including the above sums bequeathed for mourning. To my cousin Mrs. Rebecca Brett., daughter of my niece Mrs. Ruth Brett, £400 at :U or marriage, and £24 per annum till then. I desire that she may live with and be bred up by that godly and painful minister of God's word Mr. Carroll. The residne of my estate to Mrs. Avis Tyler, the wife of my said executor Mr. Evan Tyler, to her own particular use. Will proved in C.P.C. 20 Aug. 11160 by Evan Tyler, power being reserved to Sir James Ware Kt. [218 Nabbs.] .

IlL HENRY WOLLASTON, the third son of Edward of Perton, was born in or just before 1593, for he describes himself as above 70 years old in 1663. (23) He was, like his brother John, a citizen of London, and is mentioned with him in their unele Henry's Will in 1616. He was a haberdasher by trade, and carried on his business in Lombard-street; but in Oct. 1638 he was appointed Keeper of Newgate Prison by his brother John, who happen~d to be Sh~riff when this lucrative office fell vacant. (54) The Lord Mayor and Aldermen of' London disputed his appoint­ ment, and denied that the custody of their prison was in the gift of the Sheriffs.

• HUfIIIJMIJ!I Vernon, minister of Highgate, Mr. BrookB, and Mr. Griffith are mentioned in Sir John Wollaston's Will, and the notes thereto. See p. 554. t Ralph Yew,ling, some time of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, had a high reputation for learning alDougat the Nonoonformista of his time. He was associated with Caryll and others in the oomposition of an Efiglilh·Gree1c Luicon oj the Wordl in the New Testament, 1661, and also of The Saiflu' Memoria", or Wordl fitly IpOMft, like ~ppu, oj Gold in Picture. oj Sil!}". Being a Coluation oj Dil1ine SentMu:u bf/ ,everal Prubf/terian Minilten, 1674. He died 10 March 1678-4, and his funeral was attended by a large gathering of the London Dissenters. (41) t 8_l Bendy was minister of Homsey, 1659-1662. § Benoni Barke was appointed on 26 Nov. 1659 Master of Highgate School, and afternoon lecturer at Highgate Chapel, in the room of George Marsdon, M.A., (:14) who was bw;j.ed at Highgate on 16 April 1659. After the Restoration, ThollllLll Carter the schoolmaster, who had been ejootcd by the Parliament in 1644, claimed to be reinstated, to the great embarrassment of the Govemors j but Barke resigned his omce on 21 Sept. 1660, when he was rewarded by the Governors with a gratuity of 20l., which amounted to a year's salary. (2.4) II .Tame, Pri_OIe M.D. was the elden son of Gilbert Primrose D.D., preacher of the French ChuJ'Oh in London and Canon of Windsor, who died in 1642. (51) James was hom in the city of St.Jeand'Angely, in the province of Xantoignll in France, and graduated M.A. at Bordeaux. He studied medicine at Monlpelier, where he took his Doctor's degree, and was inoorporated at Oxford in March 1628. (5:1) He was admitted a Licentiate of the London College of Physicians 10 Deo.1629, and practised his profellllion at Hull in Yorkshire with great reputation. (53) He was a voluminou8 writer on medioal SUbjects. His best·lmOWD work D/J Vulgi in Medicina Erroribtu was published in 1688, and was translated into English by Dr. Robert Wittie of Hull in 1661. The translation has severa! copies of laudatory verses aftixed by local poeta, amongst whom the celebrated Andrew Marvell is one. (5:1) , Reatius Caryll, Minister of St. Magnus, London Bridge. See note t at p. 664.

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Wollaston t.herefore was forcibly ejected from Newgate after six weeks of office, and the keys were delivered to the nominee of the Corporation. (54) He was restored, however, by the House of Commons on his petition; for he was the Keeper of New­ gate, on 23dJune 1646, to whom Colonel John Lilburne gave formal notice that he denied the competency of the Lords to judge him, and that he would not appear before them except by force. (55) Wollaston was soon afterwards superseded by the Parliament, for he was loyal to the King, and contributed to his Majesty's expenses at Oxford. He then returned to his business in Lombard-street, and his wife died there on 27th Dec. 1655. (40) His dismissal from office and opposition to the Parliament completely alienated ~im from his brother John, who was a con­ spicuous member of the opposite party, and Henry was wholly ignored by Sir John Wollaston's Will and Settlement. This loss of all share in his brother's wealth was of serious consequence to him, fOf his business failed, and in his later years he was reduced to poverty. On 26th March 1663 he petitioned to the King to be admitted a pensioner at Sutton's Hospital, in the place of Edward Sherburne of Ribbleton, Lancashire, who had never made his appearance at the hospital since his nomination. (23) He was then seventy years of age, and produced the receipt of Captain Robert Bradshaw for 501. lent to the late King, whioh was still owing to him. (23) His petition was granted, and he died a poor brother in the Charter­ house on Christmas-day 1669. (40) Letters of Administration were granted on 21st Jan. 1669-70 to Henry Wollaston, one of his next of kin and a creditor, who was, I presume, his cousin-german Henry Wollaston of W· altham Abbey. This implies that he left no children; but it is confidently stated in the extinct Baronetage, and in the county histories of Hertfordshire and Leicestershire, (56) that Henry W 01- laston, brother of Sir John, was the father of Richard W o11aston the gunfounder, who purchased the manors of Loseby in Leicestershire and of Wormley in Hert­ fordshire. I am unable to discover any evidence whatever for the received account of the origin of the Wo11astons of Loseby, and there are many presumptions against it. Richard Wollaston was a major in the Parliamentary Army in 1645, (57) and was appointed the third Judge of the Admiralty by the House of Commons in July 1652; (58) and it is highly improbable that Sir John would have wholly ignored a prosperous nephew of his own way of thinking in religion and politics, with whom he was constantly brought in contact in public life. ·It is also unlikely that a rich, pious, and charitable man like Richard Wollaston would have suffered his father to die in debt, a poor brother of the Charterhouse. It is to be regretted that the parentage of Richard Wollaston of Loseby should be so obscure, for he was an honour to his name. By a codicil to his Will (which is dated 27th Feb. 1689-90, and was proved 25th May 1691) he bequeathed 100L a year for ever to the poor on his estates, with preference to 'such poor as should be by his executor really judged to fear God, though of different opinions.' (59)

Digitized by Coogle WOLLASTON OF PERTON AND LONDON. 559

IV. SARAH WOLLASTON, the only daughter of Edward of Perton, was unmarried in 1616, and was in 1658 the widow of •.• Edlyn, by whom she had a son, William Edlyn a1s. Wollaston, who was the principal heir of his uncle Sir John.

PEDIGREE OF WOLLASTON OF PERTON AND LONDON.

AluI:s.-Argent, three mullets sable, pierced of the tield, with a crescent for dift'erence. Contlrmed to Sir John Wollaston at the Visitation of London, 1634.

Edward Wollaston of Perton (3d Elizabeth, dau. of William son of Henry of Perton. See Wollaston Gent. of Trescot Pedigree at p. 57~); living 1616. Grange. (Set p. 545.)

I I I I Sarah, William Eleanor Sir John Wol·=Rebeeca, dau. Henry Wollas·= unmar. Edlyn, Wollas­ Greene; laston Kt., 2d and cohoof Ed· ton, 3d son ; died 27 1616; d. 1658. ton,eldeat man. at son, Goldsmith ward Groen, Citizen andHa· Dee. widow son, of Codsall19 and Aldorman Citizen and berdasher of 1655. 1658. Perton, Feb. 1609· of London; Goldsmith of London ; Keep- Yeoman; 10; bw'ied Sheriff 1638; London; bur. er of N ewgate buried 5 there 28 Lord Mayor at Highgate 1638; died in Apr. 1629. Septemb. 1644 ; died 26 1 June 1660. Charterhouse Will. 1674- April; bur. at 25 Dec. 1669. Will Highgate, Mid· Prctendtd an· dlesex, 29 Apr. eeltOT of the 1658; s.p. Woll4ltom of Lo.eby.

William Edlyn Elizabeth Wol William Wil­ Sarah, eeheir ; Mary, coheir; Judith, coh.; bapt. ala. Wollaston, laaton, coheir; kins of Cole­ unmar. 1658 ; man. Alexan· 23 June 1625; mar. heir of Sir JQaJT. 5 Oot. Orton, co. Leie. married ..• . der Shlnton ; 29 Dee. 1656 : 1 h. John,1658. 1636 ; wife Blakemore; d. dead 1672. Thos. Bach Gent. 1658; widow 1672. of Oken; 2 h. 1672. John Traunton Gent. She died 10 1 1 Dee. 1705 B.p. The registers not speci1lcd aro from Tcttenhall. (10)

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m. HENRY WOLLASTON, the second son of Henry of Perton, was the real founder of the wealth and consequence of the W ollastons. He was born at Perton in one of the last years of the reign of Henry VIII., and, like his brother Richard, was sent up to London at an early age to learn a traue. He was apprenticed to a woollen­ draper, and after serving his time was made free of the Drapers' Company of London. He lived in the parish of St. Martin Orgar's, where he carried on a prosperous busiuess; and a long life of frugality and industry was rewarded by the accumula­ tion of great wealth. Of all the outward and visible signs of growing prosperity, that which has always found most favour in the eyes of London citizens is the pur­ chase of a country house within an easy distance of London. Wollaston accom­ plished this object of a citizen's ambition whilst his children were still in the nursery, for he bought before 1588 a house at Waltham Abbey called Fishers, with 100 acres of land attached. This estate remained with his descendants for several generations, and the old house is still standing on the right-hand side of the green on the road to Cheshunt, but has long been occupied as a farmhouse. (60) As he grew richer, he invested his savings in more important purchases of land in his native county of Stafford. He bought from Sir Walter Harcourt iu Erdeswick's time (1593-1603) Oncote Grange in the parish of Eccleshall, with the Manor of Sirescot, and 935 acres in the parish of Tamworth, (6 I) and at a lat~r period of his life he purchased the manors of Chebsey and Shalford, with lands and messuages in adjoining parishes. (62) He married two wives, and had issue by them both. He married at Sevenoaks 1st Jan. 1579-80 Sarah, daughter of William Burgis of Kippington in that parish, (63) by whom he had seven children. Her father was a clothier by trade, and bore (if we may trust the emblazonment on his grandson'S monument at Shenton) Argent a /e88 checquy Or and Gule8 between tht'ee cr088 cr088letB 0/ tlut last. He died in 1594, and Wollaston was one of'the overseers of his Will. WIt.LlAM BURGI8 OF GREATE KEPINOTON IN THE PARRl8HE OF SEVENOKE, KENT. CLOTHYER. Will dated 4 March 1693-4. [36 Eliz.] To be buried in the church of Sevenoke. To the poor people inhabiting the almshouses there, 10 shillings. To the poor of Sevenoke. 40 shillings. to be distributed by my executrix. To my son-in-law Richard Ainscombe • .£20, and to his wife Bridgett a bed and furniture. To my son-in-law George Hanger, .£20 ; and whereas he standeth indebted to me by his bill indented in the sum of .£400, to be paid after the death of myself and my wife, I give thereof .£200 to my son John Burgis, and .£200 to my son Thomas Burgis. My wife Alice Burgis to have all my personal estate, and to be my sole executrix. My sonnes-in-law Henry Wollaston and Thomas Pococke to be overseers of my Will Witft8l,": Henry Wollaston, Richard Butler, and John Burgis. Will proved in C.P.C. 16 Nov. 1694 by the widow. [76 Dixy.] Alice Burgis, widow of the testator, survived her husband 17 years, and was buried at Sevenoaks 9th July 1611. (63) Wollaston married secondly Alice, the widow of • . . . Smyth, and the daughter

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HENRY WOLLASTON, OF LONDON AND WALTHAM ABBEY. 561 of his uncle William W o11astol1 of Trescot Grange; but she also died before him, and was buried at St. Martin Orgar's. She left three children •. W o11aston was elected an Alderman of London by the livery of Cord­ wainers' Ward on 21st Jan. 1611-12; but he had no taste for civic honours, and excused himself from ~erving by payment of the usual fine. (64) He was not, however, without ambition of another kind; for in 1616, a few months before his death, he applied to the College of Arms for legal sanction to use armorial bearings. It was a common practice for the Heralds in those days to disguise new grants of arms by calling them confirmations and exemplifications. Accordingly on 10th July 1616 a crest was granted to ' Henry Wollaston, citizen of London, second son of Henry of Perton,' and his arms were exemplified-by Camden Clarencieux. The crest was a demi-griffin 8egreant A rgent on a mural crown Or, holding a mullet &ble,piel'ced Argent, and the coat assigned to him was Argent three mullet8 &ble pierced of tile field. The filial difference is denoted by a crescent gules. The original grant is not on record at the College of Arms, but the exemplification was produced to the Heralds at the Visitation of Leicestershire on 4th Aug. 1682 by Henry's grandson William Wollaston of Shenton. (17) He died on 22d Nov. 1616, (62) and was buried in the church of St. Martin· Orgar's. He ~as getting an old man when he died; but it is clear from the ages of his brothers' children that he was not 92 years old, as his descendant asserts. (I) The four children of his eldest brother Richard were all minors in 1601, and Edward's children were still younger, for his daughter Sarah was still unmarried in 1616.

HENRY WOLLASTON THE ELDER, CITIZKN AND DRAPER Of LONDON. in good and perfect mynda and memorye. Will dated 21 Nov. 1fi16. To be buried in the quyre of St. Martin Orgar's in London, where I am a parishioner, before my pew-door, where my two wives were lately buried. To my eldest son William Wollaston and his heirs my manors of Chebsey, Shalford, and Senscourte. and my other lands in Staffordshire, and also my house in St.-Martin Orgnr's. where I now dwell. My said dwelling.house to be charged for ever with the payment of 52 shillings per annum. to be distributed every Sunday in bread to the poor of St. Martin Orgar's; and my messuage &C. at Oncott in Staffordshire to be charged with a like payment of 52 shillings per annum to the poor of Tettenhall in Staffordshire. To my 2d son Thomas Wollaston and his heirs my manor of Bretts in Essex, which was assured to him on his marriage, To my 3d and youngest son Henry'Vollaston and bis heirs my capital messuage and lands at'Valtham Holy CrOR8. ESRex. called FisherR or Salmons. and also six houses in St. Lawrence Pountney-Ianc. London. charged* with the payment of 528. per annum to the poor of Waltham Holy Cross, to be distributed every Sunday in bread. o This gift of bread is still diBtribut.ed at Waltham, anu ill now charged on No. 28 Bt. Lawrence Pountney-Iane, (65) which was sold by the youDgcr Henry WoUastoD iD 1646. (66)

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To Jane*' Burges widow, £4~ per annum for life. To my eldest SOD William Wollaston, £1600. My SOD Thomas Wollaston has already had .t2200, of which £1200 was to buy him an office.t To my youngest son Henry Wollaston, .£1000. To my daughter Ales Gray and her two sons William and Henry Gray, and the longest liver of them, my tenement!! in Fenchurch-street and a house in Hogge-lane, London, where the said Ales and her husband now dwell; also to my said daughter Alice, £100. To my daughter Ffrancess Jackson, £400 after the death of her husband RobertJackson, and in the mean time, £20 per annum. To Robert and Susauna Jackson, the two children of my tlaid daughter Jackson, £100 each at their ages of 21 or marriage; and if they both die, the said money to go to the children of Richard Gray and of my said daughter Ales Gray. To Thomas and Ffrancis, children of my daughter Judith Terry, £100 each, to be paid to their father for their use withlD three years after my death. To Henry, son of my daughter Sara Middlemore, £100. To my grandchildren William and Henry Gray, sons of my daughter Ales Gray, £100 each at 21. To my cousin Sarat Wollaston, daughter of my brother Edward Wollaston, £66 131.4ll. To Christopher and Edward, the two sons of my brother Richard Wollaston, £10 each. To John§ and Henry, sons of my brother Edward Wollaston, £10 each. To my godson Henry Hancock,tlO. To the Drapers' Company, £25 for a dinner on day of my burial To my sister FfrancesH Hanger, cloth for mourning. To my brother Edward Wollaston, 40 •. for a ring. Mourning to be given to the following persons, viz. to Edward Hancock and his wife, to my cosen Hambleton am1 his wife, to John§ Wollaston and his wife, to Christopher~ Wollaston and his wife, to Robert** Smyth and his wife, and to my brotller Edward Wollaston, and to my nephew Edward Wollaston, son of my brother Richard Wollaston, and to Henry Wollaston, my brother Edward's son. To the poor of the parish of Tettenhall in Staffordshire, where I wa. chrhuned, £5 on the day of my funeral, at the discretion of my brother Edward Wollaston, and of my kinsman Mr. RichardH Creswell. To my eldest son William Wollaston, my great gold ring; and to my 2d son Thomas Wol­ laston, a ring given me by his grandfatller Burges. To my eldest daughter Frances Jackson, a hooped wedding-ring, which was her mother's. To my 2d daughter Judith Terry, a pair of needlework vallance fringed, &c., which her mother wrought when she was with child of her. To my 3d daughter Ales Gray, a needlework vallance that I bought of my sister Burges. To my 4th daughter Sarah Middlemore, a gold ring with a whistle in it, that was her mother's, and a valance bought of my cousin Agar. To my youngest daughter Hester Burnell, a ring, &C. &C. I forgive my cousin Thomas Perry!! of Trescot in Staffordshire £10, which he owes me. My son 'Villiam Wollaston and my son-in-law Samuel Middlemore to be my executors. My sons-in-law Mr. Terry and Mr. Burnell to be overseers of my Will. WitneBl: Charles Bostocke, scrivener, and otllers. Will proved in C.P.C. on 2~ Nov. 1010 by both executors. [107 Cope.] The usual inquests were held by the Kings escheator after Wollaston's death in the different counties in which he had lands of inheritance. (62) The jurors found at Stafford on 20th Sept. 1618 that Henry Wollaston, citizen and draper of London, • The widow of one of the brothers·in-Iaw of the Testator. t Thomas was Philazer for Yorkshire in the Court of Common Pleas. t Sarah afterwards married . . . . Edlyn, and her BOn William was the p$cipal heir of biB uncle . Sir John Wollaston. § Afterwards Sir John Wollaston Kt., Lord Mayor, 1644. II Frafu:e, Burge., sister of the Testator's first wife, married before 159J, George HaR{/er of Bedford­ shire, and had two BOns, John and George. John Hanger, merchant of London, was 70 years old in 1651, and the ancestor of the Lords Coleraine. (67) ~ Christopher was the eldest BOn of the Testator's brother Richard. See p. 546. •• Robert Smyth would probably be related to the Testator's second wife, who was the widow of . . . Smyth. tt Ric1iard Crelwell was of Barnhurst, in the parish of Tettenhall. :: Thoma. Perry was sister's son of the Testator. Sec p. 546.

Digitized by Coogle HENRY WOLLASTON OF LONDON AND WALTHAM ABBEY. 563' was at the time of his death seised in Staffordshire of the Manors of Chebsey, Shalford, and Sirescot, and of lands in HarIaston, Haughton, Stotfield, Tamworth, Amington, Elford, Oncote, Seighford, Weston, and Birchfield. 2. THAT he died on 22d Nov. 1616, and that his next heir was his son William, who was thirty-five years old and upwards at the time of his father's death. (02) Another inquest was held at Chelmsford on 18th Jan. 1619-20, when it was found that Henry W ollaston, being seised of the Manor of Bretts and of lands in West Ham, Plaistow, Wanstead, and East Ham in Essex, settled the same when his son Thomas married at St. Anne's, Blackfriars, on 15th Dec. 1614, Philadelphia, daughter of John Vincent, on himself for life, with remainder to the said Thomas and Philadelphia, remainder to the issue of their marriage. 2. THAT the said Henry W ollaston also died seised of a messuage and lands in Waltham Holy Cross called Fishers or Salmons, and that he devised the same by his Will to his third son Henry in fee. 3. THAT he died on 22d Nov. 1616, and that his next heir was his son William, who was thirty years old and upwards. (62) Henry Wollaston had isSue by his first wife Sarah Burges seven children, viz. I. RICHARD WOLLASTON, son and heir apparent, is mentioned in the Will of his uncle Richard in 1601, but died unmarried in Ireland in his father's life­ time. (68) It may be guessed from the place of his death that, like some other young men of his own condition from that part of Essex, he was serving as a Volun­ teer in the Irish wars.· II. WILLIAM WOLLASTON, surviving son and heir. ID. HENRY WOLLASTON died young, and was buried at Waltham Abbey 14th Aug. 1588. (03) IV. FRANCES WOLLASTON was in 1616 the wife of Robert Jason also Jackson of Enfield, Middlesex, with two children, Robert and Susanna. It seems that she SUl"\-ived her husband, and was singularly unhappy in her son, for in Jan. 1637-8 Frallces Jason and her two daughters addressed a petition to the Council of State, praying for relief against her unnatural son Robert, theu a prisoner in the Fleet. Tbey complained that Robert had taken rooms in the Old Bailey and settled his family there, preferring to remain in prison than to pay his mother and sisters what was justly due to them, so that they were heavily suffering through want. (23) V. JUDITH WOLLASTON was in 1616 the wife of William Terry of Newington Green, Middlesex, with two children, Thomas and Frances. Her husband was afterwards knighted by James I., for he is described as Sir William Terry on 27th Feb. 1622-3, when he was godfather to bis wife's niece at Waltham Abbey. (69) VI. ALICE WOLLASTON was in 1616 the wife of Richard Gray, citizen of London, who lived in Hogge-lane, and had two sons, William and Henry. • See p. 232. 4c

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VII. THOMAS WOLLASTON was born in 1587, and was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge. (I) He was bred to the law; and his father gave him 1200L to buy the office of Philazer for Yorkshire in the Court· of Common Pleas. He married at St. Anne's, Blackfriars, on 15th Dec. 1614,· Philadelphia, daughter and heir of John Vincent, when his father settled on him an estate of 2001. a year in Essex, consisting of Bretts Manor in the parish of West Ham and a farm at Plaistow, which he had purchased in 1609 from the Countess of Oxford. (70) His wife died in childbed with her infant son in the year after her marriage, but Thomas had the reversionary fee of the settled estate devised to him by his fathtn"s Will. Thomas married secondly at Tottenham, Middlesex, on 23dApri11618, Sabina, daughter of Sir George Aldrycht Kt., by whom he had six children. He resided after his second marriage at Abbots Langley in Hertfordshire, where he had a small estate; but his habits of life were extravagant, and he soon spent the whole of his patrimony, as well as the money which he received from the sale of his Philazership. Men of broken fortunes are easily suspected of disaffection to the Government; and Thomas was so far compromised by unguarded expressions amongst his boon companions that he thought it prudent to conceal himself for a time in Ireland. (I) On his return. he lived in retirement at Oncote in Staffordshire, when his brother William lent him a house, and allowed him an annnity. But the last years of his life were spent in his son William's house at Shenston in Staffordshire, where he died at the age of 87 in April 1674. ( I) He had issue by his second wife six children, who made little effort to retrieve the fallen fortunes of their family, and were contented to live as dependents on their kinsman at Shenton. 1. GEORGE WOLLASTON was edncated at his uncle William's expense at Market Bosworth School and Trinity College, Oambridge, where he was the companion and attendant of his cousin Henry, the heir of Shenton. He was of a restless and adventurous temper; and on leaving the University enlisted as a soldier in the. Low Countries, where his family lost sight of him. There is a vague tradition, founded on the merest hearsay, that George long survived his disappearance, and having changed his name and religion, became a Jesnit priest, and died a Provincial of the Order. (I) 2. THOMAS WOLLASTON is described in the family Wills after his brother George's disappearance as his father's eldest son. He lived at Doxey in Stafford-

• From the Pamh RtguUr of St• .dnne'., Blackfriar•• (19) 1614, Dee. 15. ThomaB Wollaston and Philadelphia Vincent married. t From the ParUh ReguUr of Tottenham, Middluez. 1618, April 9S. Thomas Wollaaton Esq. of London and Sabina, dau. of Sir George AldrJch Kt, married. 1691, June 95. Lady Mincea, wife of Sir George Aldryoh Kt., buried. 1696, June 96. Sir George Aldrycb Kt. buried.

Digitized by Coogle WILLIAM WOLLASTON, THE AUTHOR. 565 shire, and became in 1688, on the death of his cousin William of Shenton, the head of the family. He was provided for by an annuity of 150l. a year, and had two sons, who both married and had issue. 3. ELIzABETH WOLLASTON died unmarried in 1666. 4. PHILADELPHIA resided with her brother William until his death, and died unmarried at an advanced age. 5. Lucy is described as Mrs. Manistry in 1665. (&e p. 573.) 6. WILLIAM WOLLASTON, the youngest child of Thomas, was born on 27th Oct. 1634, after his father had ruined himself. He therefore received little education, and was apprenticed to a woollendraper in London; but he was found incapable of business from an impediment in his speech, and soon returned into Staffordshire. He married there about 1657 Elizabeth Downes, the daughter of one of the minor gentry at Coton Clanford, who was six years older than himself, and had a small fortune. He settled on his marriage in a small bouse at Coton belonging to his father-in-law; but his narrow circumstances made him a constant wanderer. He had eight children, whom he had the greatest difficulty in maintaining and educating, for his means were limited to his wife's portion, and to a small annuity allowed to him by William of Shenton. He was chosen by his cousin as the heir of his great estates in case of the failure of his own issue, and this possibility of wealth increased his discontent at his narrow fortunes. When his second son William had the singular good lnck to inherit the family estates in 1688, he was by no means con­ tented that his own claims had been passed over in favour of bis son, although he must have known that he was wholly unfitted to be the owner of a great estate, and his wants were more suitably provided for by a comfortable annuity. He survived his son's elevation above two years, and died at Lichfield on 10th March 1691-2. His wife lived until 24th Sept. 1707, when she was buried near him in Shenston Church. He had issue eight children, of whom only two need be noticed. 1. llENRy, the eldest son, was a mercer at Lichfield, but failed in business, and was a constant source of anxiety and expense to his father and brother. He was for a long time prisoner in the King's Bench, and ended his discreditable life at Chester in 1694. 2. WILLIAM WOLLASTON was born at Coton Clanford on 26th March 1659, . and was educated at the free school at Shenston. He was a lad of great promise, and on the recommendation of his schoolmaster was admitted a pensioner at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, on 18th June 1674, where his cousin of Shenton con­ tributed to his maintenance. He failed in gaining any University preferment, and left Cambridge at Micbaelmas 1681, after taking his Master's degree. He was appointed in 1682 an Usher in the Grammar Scbool of Birmingham, and four years afterwards was promoted to be second master, when he entered Holy Orders. This place was worth to him 701. a year; and he filled it about two years with so much

Digitized by Coogle 566 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. credit that the head of his family was induced by his reputation to select him as the worthiest of his name to represent and continue the male line of the W ollastons. He was 29 years of age when he was unexpectedly raised by the Will of William Wollaston of Shentou in August 1688 from the humble position ofa country school­ master to be the owner of a noble estate. His subsequent career justified the choice, for his fortune and leisure were devoted to intellectual pursuits; and he achieved high literary distinction. His cbiefwork, The Religion of Nature Delineated, was the production of bis old age, and was received with so much favour by his contemporaries tbat ten thousand copies were sold within a very few years. The lucid precision of his reasoning and the elegance of his style are beyond all dispute, and his book is deservedly reckoned as a classic by that school of theological free­ thinkers who lay more streas on natural than revealed religion. It was fiercely assaiJed for its infidel tendencies by Bishop Warburton, and as warmly vindicated by Middleton, who laboured under similar imputations of infidelity. It was 80 much admired by Queen Caroline that she commanded Dr. John Clark, Dean of Salisbury, to translate the notes into English for her own use. There is a tradition in the family that Wollaston refused the offer of a bishopric; and a dignity so unsuited to his habits would not have added to his comfort or fame, for his life had been spent in study and seclusion; and for more than thirty years before his death he was never absent from his house in Charterhouse-square even for a single night. His dislike to society partly arose from his consciousness of being deficient in that polished refinement of manner which is confined to those who have been accustomed to good society from their youth, and can never be acquired in after life. His fortune enabled him to be hospitable to men of learning; and amongst his visitors was Joshua Barnes, who addressed a Greek sonnet to his friend, full of compliments to Mrs. Wollaston and their children: .

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Wollaston's published writings give an inadequate idea of his literary labours for, like most scholars of independent fortune, he was fasllidious in correcting what

Digitized by Coogle WILLIAM WOLLASTON, THE AUTHOR. 567 he wrote, and his works were planned upon a scale which life was not long enough to complete. J nst before his death he destroyed most of his unfinished works, and amongst the few which were saved from the flames was the memoir of his family, to which I have so often referred. It was not intended for publication, and was compiled for the information of his children, who were likely to accept without criticism his account of himself and his ancestors. From a literary point of view, his narrative is an interesting contribution to the collection of lives of distin­ guished men of letters, written by themselves; but as a genealogical history of the Wollastons it is worthless and untrustworthy. It gives an unfavourable impres­ sion of his candour and zeal for truth :that he did not take more pains to obtain accurate infprmation.· He might at least have taken the trouble to read the Wills, of which he has 80 often misrepresented the contents. The picture which he draws of his grandfather's descendants is a most u'npleasing one; for they are all repre­ sented as-; being 80 incapable of induStry and self-respect, that they made no effort to improve their eondition, and idled away their lives in obscurity and dependence as pensioners on the bounty of their kinsman at Shenton. It is painful also to remark that, instead of being grateful for this assistance, there is a constant ettort to misrepresent it as a' tardy and imperfect satisfaction of an imaginary debt. Auto­ biographical sketches are as interesting for what they omit as for what they con­ tain; and one of Wollaston's omissions is too curious to be left unnoticed. He makes no allusion whatever to the most romantic passage of his earlier life-the death of his first love. Soon after his accession of fortune he was engaged to marry Alice Coburne, th~ only child of a rich brewer at Stratford-Ie-Bow, in whom (as it t~en seemed to him) every charm of womanly perfection was united. But she was attacked by the smallpox,:and died on 9th May 1689, the very day which had been fixed for her wedding. Her disconsolate lover raised a monument to her memory in Stratford Church, with an inscription which exhausts the pathos of learning and rhetoric in the ecstasy of his grief for the loss of 'the half of his soul.' (7 I) But the surviving half was more quickly consoled than he cared afterwards to remember, for, at the end of six months, before the scnlptor had finished engraving the story of his inconsolable grief, he married, on 26th Nov. 1689, Catherine Charlton, the co-heir of a London citizen. It is to be hoped that the mother of his children was jealous of her predecessor in his affections, for one would rather attribute his silence to consideration for the living than to forgetfulness of the dead. He died on 29th Oct. 1724, leaving nine children, and is now (1876) worthily represented by Major Frederick Wollaston -of Shenton.

Henry Wollaston had issue by his second wife Alice three children, viz. VIII. SARAH WOLLASTON married at Waltham Abbey, on 5th Oct. 1612, Samuel Middlemore, citizen of London, (63) a cadet of the Middlemores of Edge­ baston in Warwickshire, and had a son Henry, to whom his grandfather left

Digitized by Coogle 568 THE CHBSTERS OF CHICHELEY.

1001. Middlemore was one of his father-in-law's executors in 1616, and was god­ father to his wife's nephew at Waltham Abbey on 23d Feb. 1625-6. (6g) IX. HEsTER WOLLASTON married Thomas Burnell, merchant of London, who was one of the overseers of his father-in-law's Will iu 1616. He was the second son of Thomas Burnell Gent. of Dover, and the brother of John Burnell of Stan­ more in Middlesex, who had a grant of Arms on 25th April 1570. (72) Thomas had no issue in 1633, when he entered his pedigree at the Visitation of London. (72) X. HENRY WOLLASTON, the only son of hiB father's second marriage, succeeded to his father's estate at Waltham Abbey. He also inherited six freehold houses in . Lawrence Pountney-lane, one of which was purchased by his father from John Robinson in 1600 (66) and another from Richard Butler in 1606. (66) He mar­ ried at Waltham Abbey, on 29th April 1617, Ursula, the eldest daughter of Dr. Samuel Foxe of WarHes Park in that parish, (63) who was the eldest son of John Foxe the Martyrologist. It was agreed on the marriage that Henry and his wife should have their board for three years at Warlies; and it was not until May 1620 that they went to keep house at Fishers. (69) In the mean while Henry had sold, by deed dated 4th Sept. 1618, two of his houses iu Lawrence Pountney:-lane to Simon Wood, merchant taylor of London. His four remaining houses were sold for 10801. on 20th Nov. 1646 to Peter Matthews and William Van Brugh, mer­ chants of Loudon, when his wife Ursula concurred in the sale and was party to the fine levied in Easter term 23 Charles I. (66) Henry was a Justice of the Peace both during the Commonwealth and after the Restoration, and his name is appended to nearly every contract of marriage in Waltham Abbey RegiSter between 1653 and 1657. He entered his pedigree at the Visitation of Essex:in 1664, (73) and was buried at Waltham Abbey on 17th Feb. 1669-70. (63) His widow Ursula survived him only seven weeks, and was buried near him on 11th April 1670. (63) They had issue seven children, who were all baptized at Waltham Abbey. (63) 1. EDWARD WOLLASTON, son and heir apparent, was born at Warlies between 6 and 7 P.M. on Friday 15th June 1621, and was baptized at Waltham Abbey on 27th June, when Edward Lord- Denny and his grandfather Foxe were his god­ fathers; and his aunt Mrs. Burnell was his godmother. (69) He was bred to the bar, and was admitted to the Inner Temple on 28th June 1639; (74) but he died unmar­ ried, and letters of administration were granted to his father on 12th Feb. 1651-2. 2. ANNE WOLLASTON was born at 5 P.M. on Tuesday 18th Feb. 1622-3 at her father's house of Fishers, and was baptized at Waltham Abbey on 27th Feb., when her aunt's husband Sir William Terry was her godfather, and her godmothers were her grandmother Foxe and her grandaunt Mrs. Grisill Leveson. (6g) She married at Waltham Abbey, on 24th April 1645, Adam Edwards Gent. (63)

• Sir Edward Denny Kt. was created 27 Oct. 1604 Baron Denny of Waltham, and 24 Oct. 1626 Earl of Norwich. He died 20 Dec. 1680.

Digitized by Coogle WOLLASTON OF WALTHAM ABBEY. 569

3. HENRY WOLLASTON, surviving son and heir. 4. URSULA WOLLASTON was baptized on 17th April 1628. (63) 5. THOMAS WOLLASTON was baptized on 18th Sept. 1629, and was buried at Waltham Abbey on 3d Sept. 1632. (63) 6. ELIzABETH WOLLASTON was baptized on 31st Dec. 1630, and married at Waltham Abbey, on 28d Nov. 1648, Rowland Beresford Esq. (63) 7. SAMUEL WOLLASTON was baptized on 30th Ang. 1632. (63)

HENRY WOLLASTON, snrviving son and heir of Henry by Ursula Foxe, was born at Fishers at 5 P.M. on Wednesday 15th Feb. 1625-6, and was baptized at Waltham Abbey on 23d Feb., when his aunt Mrs. Boteler of Stapleford was his godmother, and his godfathers were his uncles Mr. Thomas Burnell and Thomas Foxe, who were represented on the occasion by Dr. Foxe and Mr. Samuel Middle­ more. (69) Henry was Captain of the Essex trainbands after the Restoration,

PEDIGREE OF WOLLASTON OF WALTHAM ABBEY.

ABBs.-Argent, three mullets ~able, pieroed of the fle1d, a mullet for clliI'erence. Henry Wollaston Esq. of FiBhers'iUrsula, dau. of Dr. Samuel Foxe of in the parish of Waltham Abbey Warlies; married 29 April 1617; (3d son of Henry of London. See buried 11 April 1670. Pedigree at p. 579). J.P. for Essex; buried 17 Feb. 1669-70.

I I I I I I Edward Wol- Aune,I Henry IWol- Anne, Ursula, Thomas, Elizabeth, bapt. Samuel, laaton Esq. of bapt. 27 laston Esq., dau. of bapt.17 bapt. 18 81 Dec. 1680; bapt.80 the Inner Feb.1622- son and heir, OliverBo­ April 8eptemb. marr. 28 Nov. August Temple, Bon 8; marr. of Fishers; teler Esq. 1628. 1629; bur. 1648 Bowland 1682. and heir appt.; 24 April Captam of of Har­ 8 Sept. Beresford EB4. hapt. 27 June 1645 Essex train­ rold, 1682. 1621; died un­ Adam Ed­ bands; hapt. Beds. mar. 1651. wards 15 Feb. 1625- Gent. 6; bur. 21 March 1678- 9. I I I I I Ursula, Henry, Judith, Henry Wollas­ Ri , bapt. Oliver, Thomas, hap. A son, born 29 born 25 died in­ ton Esq., of 19 Dec. 1662; bapt. 80 8 Nov. 1666; died in­ Septemb. Jnly1656; fant; bur. Fishers, son buried at St. April an uphol- fant; 1655. died in­ 7 Sept. and heir; bapt. Giles's-in-the­ 1665. stererinLon- bur. 2 fant. 1658. 1 April 1660. Fields, 28 don, 1688. Dec. Sold his es- March 1674. 1668. tats at W 0.1- thamAbbey. The registers not specified are from Wo.1tham Abbey.

Digitized by Coogle 570 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. and succeeded to Fishers ou his father's death iu 1670. He married in 1654 Anne, daughter of Oliver Boteler Esq. of Harrold, Bedfordshire, and had eight chil­ dren, four of whom died young in his lifetime. His youngest son Thomas was an upholsterer in London in 1688, when he is named in the Will of William Wollaston of Shenton as heir in remainder to his estates in case his devisee had no issue. Captain Henry Wollaston died at the age of 52, and was buried at Waltham Abbey on 21st March 1678-9. (63) lIENRy WOLLASTON, ·son and heir of Henry by Anne Boteler, was baptized at Waltham Abbey on 1st ApIiI 1660, (63) and was therefore under age when his father died. He was the fourth of his names who was the owner of Fishers, and was living there in 1684 when his cousin Francis Wollaston, the heir apparent of Shen­ ton, was buried in WalthaD?- Abbey Church. Bnt he afterwards wasted his estate, and the whole of it was alienated, before the end of the century. (I) It now belongs to the trustees of Fuller's Charity in London. (60)

IV. WILLIAM WOLLASTON, the son and heir of Henry of London by his first wife Sarah Burges, was born in Nov. 1581, and was therefore 35 years old wben bis fatber died. (62) He inherited a considerable fortune, for he succeeded to all his fatber's estates in Staffordshire, whicb comprised the manors of Chebsey, Shalford, Sirescote, and Oncote, with lands and messuages in ten parishes. He preferred a country life, and after his father's death went to live on his owu estates at Oncote; but Oncote Grange did not please him as a residence, and nine years afterwards he purchased from Sir Richard Molineux the manors of Shenton and Upton in Leices­ tershire. They were conveyed to him by deed dated 6th Feb. 1625-6, (75) and on the completion of the purchase he removed with his family to Shenton. But the old manor-house there was found so inconvenient and dilapidated, that he was obliged to pull it down and rebuild it from the foundations. The date of the new building is shown by the inscription over the door: ' Tltis house was builte by me, William Wollaston Esqui'l', lO'l'd of Sll.enton, Anno Dni. 1629.' (75) Shenton Hall is still the principal seat of the family, and is a fine example of the architecture of the Jacobian period, for the picturesque features of the old mansion were judiciously preserved, when the exterior was restored at a vast expense at the beginning of the present century. W oHaston had scarcely finished his new house at Shenton when he was appointed High Sheriff of Leicestershire. His year of office began with a great domestic calamity, for his wife died at the age of 31, on 16th Feb. 1629-30, and was buried at Shenton on 18th Feb. (76) He had married in 1616 Anne, daughter of Humphrey Whitgreve Esq. of' Great Bridgeford, who belonged to a family of ancient gentry in Staffordshire, and

Digitized by Coogle WILLIAM WOLLASTON I. OF SHENTON. 571 was descended from the Noels of Hilcote and the Egertons of Wrinehill. (77) Hc bore Azure on a cross pierced Or four chevronels Gules, in tlte dexter quarter a crescent &ble; and his nephew, Thomas Whitgreve of Moseley, is remembered in history for his hospitality to Charles II. after the battle of Worcester, when the King found shelter at Moseley Hall after his ad ventures in the royal oak in Boscobel Wood. (78) The list of freeholders in Leicestershire, made in 1630 for William Wollaston the Sheriff, is preserved amongst the county records, and is printed by Nichols. (79) In the next year Wollaston was High Sheriff of Staffordshire, but Oncote Grange had been dismantled when he removed into Leicestershire, and he obtained leave from the King to reside at Shenton during his year of office, on the ground that he had no habitable residence in Staffordshire. (23) The high sheriff was required* nnder heavy penalties to reside within his bailiwick, but this rule was often dispensed with, and the form of dispensation nsed on such occasions may be seen at p. 129, when Sir Henry Chester had permission from Richard Cromwell the Protector to live in Bedfordshire whilst he was High Sheriff of Bucks. Wollaston was the first of his family to fill this honourable and nnprofitable office, and was recompensed for the barden and expense of two successive years of shrievalty by the position which he gained amongst the principal gentry in both counties. He was getting an old man when the civil wars broke out, in which neither his age nor his cautious temper fitted him to take an active part. He was too much engrossed in his own affairs to care for politics, but like most rich men he had an instinctive dislike to changes in Church aud State, aud was generally 'esteemed a cavalier.' (I) He was so much afraid of giving offence to the wiuning side, that when the hostile armies met on Bosworth ~'ield in June 1644, and Lord Grey of Groby gained a victory over the Royal forces under the windows of Shenton Hall (80) he took care to be absent from home, anp concealed himself in London until the scene of war was removed to a safer distance. Bosworth Field was then an open plain, just as it was in 1485, when the great battle was fought in which Richard ill. was slain. It remained in the same state until 1646, when Wollaston fenced and enclosed that part of it which lies within the lordship of Shenton. (8 I) His frugal management of his large income enabled him to take advantage of the low price of land during the Commonwealth, and to make from time to time considerable additions to his estates; but he was too cautious to meddle with bargains of confiscated lands, which might be disputed on a change of Govern­ ment. He purchased from the Hastings family the manors of Kirby Muxloe, Sad­ dington, and N arborough in Leicestershire, and of Measham on the borders of Derbyshire; but the chief acquisition of his later years was in Suffolk, where he bought from Sir Henry North in 1656 the ma.nors of Great Finborough and Adder'

• See l'age 113. 4D

Digitized by Coogle 572 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

Hall. (82) He was noted as a good,1andlord, and when he purchased an estate he usually lowered the rents. (I) . He lived to a great age, but his last years were saddened by the loss of his eldest son Henry, who died in 1663 at the age of 44 without issue. He was in his 86th year when he died at Shenton at ten A.M. on Monday, 10th Dec. 1666. He was buried there on 13th Dec., (76) and has a noble monument in Shenton Church. It is adorned with marble busts of Mr. and Mrs. Wollaston in niches, with a shield above, on which the Arms of Wollaston and Whitgreve are impaled. Below are three other shields of Arms: I. Wollaston impaling KeigiLtley; n. Wollalton impaling Cave; III. Wollaston impaling Burges, (83) with the following inscription: Near this place is buryed the body of William Wollaston, Lord' of the Manor of Shenton in the county of Leicester, eldest son of Henry Wollaston of St. Martin Orgar's parish, London, Esq., who descended from tho Wollastons of Perton in the county of Stafford. Hee was bom in Nov. 1581, and departed this lifo 10th Dec. 1I1Ofl, anno retatis ~fl. And also, in the Bame place, is buried the body of Anne Wollaston his wifo, who departed this life Iflth Feb. 11129, anno rotat. 31. Shee was one of the daughters of Humphry Whitgreve of Greate Bridgeford in the county of Stafford Gent. They had four sonnes, Henry, William, Richard, and John: the two youngest died in their infancy, and lye here buryed. Henry married Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Keightley of Hertingfordbury Park in the county of Hertford Esq., and dyed without issue lOth March Iflfl2, anno rotatis 44. William married Elizabeth, the only daughter of Francis Cave of Ingarsby in the county of Leicester Esq., by the Lady Villiers of Brookesby in the same county of Leicester, and hath issue by her three sons and three daughters, whereof William, Henry, and Elizabeth are dead, Francis, Anne, and Uebecca are living.

His Will is without date, but \'Vas made after the second marriage of his daughter­ in-law, Mrs. Henry Wollaston. My readers will look in vain for the legacies of , 1001. a year to four women-servants apiece,' which is so circumstantially related in the family memoir. (I) ,VILLIAll 'VOLLASTON OF SUIo:NTON, co. LKlct;HTER, ESQ., 'in good and perfect bealth and memorie.' Willlnot dated). To be buried in UIO vault in Shonton chu1'Ch where' my wife' was buried, and a small monu­ ment to bo I

• Sir George J'illill/'s was the half-brother of the wife of the testator's Bon and heir. Set p. 691. t ThomlU.Bana8ter Esq. of Upton and Temple Hall, 00. Leicester, diod unmarried in 1698. (84) : Samuel Roper of Heanor Hall in Derbyshire was the oldest son of the well-known antiquary, the patron and friend of Dugdale. He was cousin to tho wife of the testator's son, and was a frequent visitor at Shenton. See p. 58·1. § William Foz was the sixth son of William Fox of Bosworth and Ratcli1fe Culley, who entered his pedigree at the Visitation of Leicestershire in 1619. (8S)

Digitized by Coogle WILLIAM WOLLASTON I. OF SHENTON. 573

for such daughter or daughters as my said son William shall leave, and subjcct thcrcto to the use of William Wollaston Gent., 2nd son of my brother Thomas Wollaston, and his heirs male. The said manors and lands to be charged with the payment of the following life annuities: To Mr. Thomas Wollaston (eldest son of my said brother Thomas Wollaston), .£145 per annum during the life of Mrs. Elizabeth Cary, relict of my son Henry Wollaston deceased, and also .£10 per annum during the life of my said brother Thomas. To Elizabeth Wollaston, Philadelphia Wollaston, and Mrs. Lucy l\lanistry, sisters of the said Thomas and William Wollaston and daughters of mysaid brother Thomas, £10 each per annum. To Francis Hnsell, :JOB. per annum. To Mrs. Dorothy Thornebury, tiiO per annum. '1'0 Mrs. Elizabeth \Vollaston, wife of my son William Wollaston, £150 per annum. My manors of Shenton and Upton and my capital messuage of llioforlcy in Leiccstcrsltirc, and my manors of Chebsey, Shawford, and Wollaston in Staffordshire, to my son William Wollas­ toD and his heirs male, with remainder to the same trustees and for the SRme purposes as before mentioned concerning my other settled estates. Certain woods in lledfordshire and lands at Enderby in Leicestershire to my son William Wollaston in fee. My said son to be my sole executor. Witnu.e,: Wm. Fox, John Brooke, A.* Spence, Dorothy Thornbury, Fran. Stampton. Will proved in C.P.C. 20 May 1007 by the SOD. [74 Carr.] William Wollaston had issue by Anne Whitgreve his wife four sons, of whom only the second survived him. I. HENRY WOLLASTON, son and heir apparent, was born in 1618, and was educated at Market Bosworth School. He afterwards entered as a fellow-commoner at Trinity College, Cambridge, where his cousin George attended him as a sizer, after the fashion of those times. (I) He finished his education at the Inner Temple, where he was admitted a student on 23d May 1639. (74) He married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Thomas Keightley Esq. of Hertingfordbury Park, who was High Sheriff of Hertfordshire in 1651, and died 22d Feb. 1662-3, 18 days before his son-in-law. (87) Henry lived after his marriage at Finborough Hall, his father's seat in Suffolk, and died without issue 10th March 1662-3 in the 44th year of his age. It was 'believed that he had died intestate, and letters of administration were gi-anted to his widow on the 13th 'March following, wherein it is stated that he died in London in the parish of St. Bartholomew the Great. But some years after his death his Will was found and proved. HENRY WOLLASTON OF FINBOnoUGH MAGNA, SUFFOLK, ESQ. Will dated 27 Oct. 1060. All my personal estate to my wife Elizabeth, whom I make my sole executrix. Will proved in C.P.C. 22 Feb. 1665-6. [20 Hyde.] His widow Elizabeth married secondly W &iter Cary Esq. of Everton in Bedford­ shire, a barrister of the Middle Temple, who was buried at Everton on 1st Oct. 1679, aged 63. (88) Elizabeth had no issue by her second marriage, and was buried at Everton on 5th Sept. 1684. (89) Her nephew Thomas Keightley of Ilerting-

• Abraham Spence was presented to the Rectery of Market Bosworth by Beaumont DiPe Esq., 22 May 1668. (86)

Digitized by Coogle 574 THB CHESTERS OF CIIICHELEY.

fordbury married I ... ady Frances Hyde, the daughter of Lord Chancellor Clarendon, who like her sister the Duchess of York afterwards became a Roman Catholic. (go) II. WILLIAII WOLLASTON, son and heir. m. RICHARD and tV. JOHN WOLLASTON were twins, and were baptized at Shenton on 27th Jan. 1626-7. (76) Richard was buried there on the same day, and John was buried on 1st Feb. following. (76)

WILLIAM WOLLASTON, the only surviving son of William of Shenton by Anne Whitgreve, was born in 1623, and like his brother Henry was educated at Cambridge and an Inn of Court. He was admitted at the Inner Temple on 1st Dec. 1645, (7+) and lived there for several years in chambers. (I) He was still a younger brother, when he married in 1666 Elizabeth Cave, the only child of Lady Villiers of Brooksby by her second husband Captain Francis Cave. Mrs. Wollaston's father died in 1646, and was a younger brother of Sir Brian Cave Kt. of Ingarsby in Leicestershire, whose descent has been fully set forth in my 7th Chapter.* Her mother Lady Villiers was the daughter of Robert Roper Esq. of Heanor in Derbyshire, and had been previously married to Sir William Villiers Bart., the eldest brother of George Duke of Buckingham, who died 12th June 1629, leaving her a young widow with a large jointure. She was his third wife, and was the mothert of his only son, Sir George Villiers, who was warmly attached to his half-sister Elizabeth, and was one of the trustees of her marriage settlement. Lady Villiers had also by her first marriage four daughters, three of whom married peers of high rank, so that Mrs. Wollaston was nearly related through her mother to several personages of distinction. William inherited a large fortune from his father both in money and land. He took great pride in Shenton, and made many improvements at the Hall. He had a liking for heraldry, in which he was encouraged by his wife, and this taste found expression in the decorations of the principal drawing-room, for the crests ofWollaston and Cave are emblazoned on the ceiling, and over the chimneypiece are four shields of arms, which are repeated on his father's monument in the church. He was High Sheriff of Leicestershire in 1672, and was a Justice of the Peace; but like his father he took little interest in politics, and never sat in Parliament. He entered his pedigree on 4th Aog. 1682, at the Visitation of Leicestershire, when he produced to the Heralds at Hinckley the exemplification of Arms granted by Camden Clarencieox to his grand­ father Henry Wollaston of London on 10th July 1616. (68) But all his projects of foonding a family were defeated two years afterwards by the death of his only son, who died of smallpox at the age of 16, on 20th Nov. 1684. (I) He had still two daughters, who were his presumptive heirs, but he had barred the entail of his great estates, and they were at his absolute disposal. His eldest daughter Anne • See p. 82. See also the pedigree at p. 51. t Lady Villiers is erroneously stated in The Hi.tory of Leict.ter.hirt to have died without issue. (91)

Digitized by Coogle WILLIAM WOLLASTON II. OF 575 married at the age of 25 on 2d Nov. 1686 John Chester Esq., the son and heir apparent of Sir Anthony Chester Bart. III., but her settlement was limited to 10,OOOl. in money. Her husband was still under age, and it was agreed on their marriage that he and his wife should reside for three years with the W ollastons at Shentou son William there in the next notwithstanding the determined that his that his estates W ollastons. relations on his were the descendants his granduncle 'V 01laston, sometime Philazer for Yorkshire, but they had fallen into decay, and were living in Stafford­ shire in an inferior station on small pensions doled out to them from Shenton. His father had selected a younger son of this line as his heir in case of the failure of his own issue, and this William Wollaston (who was second son of Thomas the Philazer) was living obscurely at Gteat Bloxwich with eight children. His eldest son Henry mercer at Lichfield, failed discreditably ; but the next was a clergyman, "nder-master Sc4001. The V011lnizer William was now old, and was not unknown at Shenton, spent three the autumn of left Cambridge, given offence uneouthness during left Shenton in disgrace. He had, however, since redeemed himself in the eyes of his cousin by his reputation for industry and learning, and although he had no pretensions by his birth to be the heir male of the W ollastons, he was now chosen as the worthiest of his name to represent and contin~e the family. H an heir was to be taken from this branch of the W ol1as1Ons he fully deserved to be selected, for he was the only grandfather's who had received education, and was himself to earn independence. no inkling of the .Will made in his kept secret from April 1688, four lU"UU"" before Wollaston's he made a codicil deathbed, which does not refer to the disposition of his estates, and is attested by his two daughters and their husbands. He had long been an invalid, and had suffered for years from a painful disease of the bladder, which confined him to his own grounds. Such com­ plaints are proverbially apt to make men irritable, and Wollaston had always been hasty j but his heart was as warm as his temper, and although he was' now and tra.nSl)Orted by anger, good-natured after and very indulgeut and children.' men can be ill loug being made to feel those who are around some feeling in his own way. evil inseparable to be kept secret from those who are most interested in knowing the truth, and the dying testator must be conscious of something like a trick on those who are standing round his

niniti70rl h\l C 576 THE CHESTEHS OF CHICHELEY.

deathbed and reckoning on his affection. Wollaston's disposition of his estates was the more galling to his daughters because they had no sympathy with his desire to perpetuate the name of Wollaston. They had learnt from their mother to set high value on the advantages of birth and station, and their father's relatives had never been recognised at Shenton. They felt therefore that they were deprived of their natural inheritance for a stranger, who had never been received as an equal at the house of which he now became the master. Wollaston died 19th Aug. 1688 at the age of 65, and was buried &,t Shenton on 21st Aug. following. (76) lie has no memorial in the church, and deservedly; for by his own act his children had no interest ill the inheritance of Shenton, and his testamentary heir was indebted to him for benefits too great for gratitude. WILLIAM WOLLASTON OF SHENTON, co. LEICESTER, ESQ., infirm of body, but of sound and perfect mind and memory. Will dated 20 April 16fl8. To be buried in Shenton Church. To my wife Elizabeth, my manot of Shenton for life, and all my household goods, plate, coaches, coach-horses, &C., absolutely. To my cousin William Wollaston, clerk (second son of William Wollaston of Great BIoxwitch, co. Stafford, Gent.), and the heirs male of his body all and singular, my manors of Upton and Narborough with the advowson of Narborough; my lands at BIoford and Enderbie and my mills at Swepston in Leicestershire; also my manors of Chebsey, Shawford, and Wollaston also Olston, and other lands in Staffordshire; also my manor and advowson of Measham in Derbyshire; and also my manors of Finborow and Addershall-cum-Cantelawes in Suffolk; and in default of his issue, remainder to Thomas* Wollaston of London upholsterer, one of the sons of Henry Wollaston late of Waltham, Essex, Gent., deceased. John Cholmeleyt of St. Dunstan's-in-the-West, London, Gent., and John Cave, Rector of Nelson, co. Leicester, clerk, to be trustees for the support of contingent remainders and for the payment of the annuities charged on the said estates. To my cousin Thomast Wollaston of Doxey, Staffordshire, Gent., £150 per annum, and to his wife£t\O per annum, and £10 per annum to each of their children. To my cousin William Wollaston of Great BIoxwitch before men­ tioned, £150 per annum, and to his wife £80 per annum, and to their children £10 per annum each. My lands at Lea Grange in Merevale, co. Warwick, to my wife Elizabeth for life, remainder to my daughter Anne Chester for life, remainder to my grandson William Chester, eldest son and heir apparent of John Chester Esq. by my said daughter Anne, in fee_ William§ Beebie, formerly servant to my son Francis, to have a lease of a farm at Sutton. My lands at Thorpe Emald and Sutton Cheynell, co. Leicester, and at Coton Clauford, co. Stafford, to my daughter Rebecoa Wilkins in fee. To my godchildren Herbert Monck and Wollaston Winnington, 40•. each. To Mr. Edward Alsop and Mrs. Elizabeth Alsop his sister, 20,. each. To my son­ in-law John Chester Esq., £100. The before-mentioned John Cholmeleyand Johnll Cave to be joint executors with my wife.

• Tiumuu was the youngest son 01 Captain HeDry Wollaston of Waltham Abbey, and was then 22 yean old. See p. 569. He had probably been the friend of the testator's son Francia, who was nearly of the same age, and was buried at Waltham Abbey 6 Dec. 1684. t John COOlmeley was the family solicitor, and was one of the trustees of the Will 01 the testator's father in 1667_ He was the son of Lady Villiers' uterine brother Nathaniel Cholmeley, and was therefore cousin-german of the testator's wife_ t ThomtJI was the eldest aurviving son of the testator's uncle Thomas Wollaston_ Set! p. 564_ § Beeby's descendants are still teuauts OD the Shenton estate. (9:1) II John Cave, Rector of Nailston ala. Nelson, and Prebendary of Durham, was then the representa­ tive of the Caves of Ingarsby, for his father John Cave, Rector 01 Middleton Cheney, Northamptonshire,

Digitized by Coogle WILLIAM WOLLASTON II. OF SHENTON. 577

JVitnt!8.e.: Danvers Hodge!!, Hen. Bonsall, Wm. Fox, Robt. Tarleton, Tho. Miles. CODICIL dated 17 Aug. 16HI'!. Small legacies to servants. JVitnt!lJlJclJ: Ann Chester, Re. Wilkins, Jolm Chester, John Wilkins. Will aod Codicil proved in C.P.C. 6th Oct. 161:11:1. [144 Exton.]

William Wollaston had issue by his wife Elizabeth Cave six children, but three of them died in infancy, and only two daughters survived him. I. ANNE WOLLASTON was baptized at Shenton on Monday, 13th May 1661, and married there by licence, on 2d Nov. 1686, JOHN CHESTER ESQ. afterwards Sm JOHN CHESTER BART. of Chicheley (103) She was in her issue sole heir to her father and mother. n. REBECCA WOLLASTON, Mrs. Wilkins, of whom presently. m. WILLIAM WOLLASTON was bom on 27th Aug. 1662, and was baptized at Measham 3d April 1663. He died an infant on 13th May 1664, and was buried at Measham, where there is a tablet to his memory. IV. HENRY WOLLASTON died an infant, and was buried at Shenton on 26th May 1666. (103) V. ELIZABETH WOLLASTON was bom on Monday, 6th March 1666-7, and was baptized at Shenton on 28th March, when Mr. William Beaumont, the only son of her aunt the Viscountess Beaumont, was her godfather. (103) She died an infant, and was buried at Shenton on Friday, 14th June 1667. VI. FRANCIS WOLLASTON, son and heir apparent, was bom at midnight on Thursday, 2d July 1668, and was baptized at Shenton on 23d July. (103) He had just entered at the Middle Temple when he caught the smallpox, and died on 20th Nov. 1684 at the age of 16, to the great grief of' his parents. He was buried

Wlloll the eldest surviving son of Sir Brian Cave Kt. of Ingarsby, who was Mrs. Wollaston's uncle. He Wlloll born at Stoke Lyne in Oxfordshire in 1638, and was educated at the Grammar Schools at Thame. (93) He was elected a demy of Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1654, where he proceeded B.A. on 11 June 1658. (94) • He had been disciplined under Presbyterians and Independents,' but at the Restora­ tion he confonned to the Church of England, and took his degree of M.A. on SO April 1661. (94) He now entered Holy Orders, and married bis cousin Anne St. John, the daughter of John St. John Esq. of Cold­ Overton by Elizabeth, daughtor of Sir Brian Cave. (95) He obtained with his wife the advowson of Cold­ Overton, and was inducted Rector there in 166S. (95) When Bishop Crew was translated to Durham in 1674, he appointed Mr. Cave to be one of his chaplains, and in the next yeaI' the Bishop presented him to the Rectory of Gateabead-on-Tyne, which he exchanged for the living of Nailston in 1679. (96) By the favour of the same bishop he obtained in May 1686 the third stall in Durham Cathedral, and he held this prefennent with the livings of Cold· Overton and Nailston until biB death. He died early in October 1690, at the age of 52, and was buried at Cold-Overton. (95) Cave had a high reputation in Leiccstershire a8 a preacher, and published several sennons, amongst which Wlloll the funeral sennon on the death of Francis Wollaston. His other sermons were: 1. A Scrnwn prt'aclwclat Lt'icester ABBiuBOIl 81 July 1679; Lond. 1679, 4to. 2. Sermon 10 a Country Audience on the late Day of l!'asting and Prayer, Jan. 80; Lond. 1679, 4to. S. Tile Go'pel preached to tll.e Roman.; in four Bennons, of which two were preached on the 5th November, and two on the SOth of January; Lond. 1681, 8vo. 4. The Drl.ty and Bcn~lit of Sulnni ..ion to the Will of God in A.fflictiom; two sermons on Heb. xii. 9; Lond: 1682, 4to. 5. King David's Delit'crance and Thanksgiving applil'd to the Calle of ollr King and Nation; in two sormons, one preached on the 2d, the other on the 9th September 1688; Lond. 1684. 4to. (93)

Digitized by Coogle 578 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

PEDIGREE OF WOLLASTON OF SHENTON AND FINBOROUGH. AlUIs.-Argent, three mullets Bable, pierced of the field.

William Wollaston of Perton in the parish 0 Tettenhall; living 1500; died aged 88. M.1. at Tettenhall.

William Wollaston, son and . . . . daughter of heir, of Tresoote Grange in ..•• Elliott of Penn, 00. Staff.; died 7 Jan. Perton. 1608-"'. ).. PEDIGOB at p. 545.

r------.---~------~------B 1. Richard wOI-TMargery, sister 1 w. Sarah, dau.· ..Henry Wollaston, 2d=F".11 w. Alice, dau. of laston, Citizen of Christopher of William Bur- son,CitizenandDraper William Wollaston and Grocer of Waae, Goldsmith gia of Kipping- of London. Purchased of Treaoote Grange; London. Will dat. of London, and ton in Sevenoau; Oneote Grange, eo. widow of... Smyth; 19 March 1600-1, widow of . . . . marr. there 1 Jan. Stafford, and Fishers dead 1616; bur. at and proved 20 Tyrrell, extrix., 1579-80; bur. at in Waltham Abbey, St. Martin Orgar's. Sept 1692. 1602. St. Martin Or- Essex; died 22 Nov. gar's. 1616. Will.

~------o 1. Christopher, a 2. Edward, 1602, Frances, eldest minor 1602 ; hus- 1616. dau.; mar. Robert band 1616. 1. Elizabeth, Jason ala. Jack­ son of Enfield, 1602. Middlesex, 1616. 2. Margery,1602. )..

_I ------~~------'I------D JohnWol­J Richard, son and Anne, dau. of Hum William Wollaston Esq., surviving son and heir; laston,le­ heir appt. 1601; phrey Whitgreve of born ..• Nov. 1580; purchased Shenton, co. Leic., gatee, died unm. in Ire- Bridgeford, co. Staff.; in 1626, and Finborough, co. Suffolk, in 1666; 1658. land before his died 16 Feb. 1629-S0, Sheriff of co. Leic. 1629, and of eo. Staff. 1680 ; father. aged 81; bur. 18 Feb. died 10 Dec. 1666, aged 86; bur. 18 Dec. Will.

_I------~------~------:B Henry Wollaaton=Elizabeth' dau.of=2 h. Walter Cary William Wollaston Elizabeth, dau. and Esq.,sonandheir Thomas Keight- Esq. of Everton, Esq., surviving son heir of Capt. Francia appt. of Fin- ley Esq. of Hert- Beds.; bur. there and heir of Shenton Cave of Ingarsby, eo. borough; died 12 ingfordbury; died 1 Oct. 1679. 8.p. and Finborough ; She­ Leic., by Rebecca March 1642. s.p. widow; bur. at riff of 00. Leic. 1672; Lady Villiers; died Everton 5 Sept. died 19 Aug. 1688; widow; bur. 28 Mar. 1684. bur. 26 Aug. Will. 1717.

1 1 ------.--~------~------r_------p ANNB wOLL.\sToN'lsm JOHN CUES­ William, born 27 Henry, died infant; Francis Wollaston, sole heir in her is- TBR BA.RT. of Aug. 1662; died bm·. 26 May 1666. Bon and heir appt.; sue; bapt. 18 May Chicheley,Bucks; 18 May 1664. born 2 July; bapt. 28 1661; marr. 2 Nov. died 6 Feb. Elizabeth, bapt. 28 July 1668; died 28 1686; died 8 Oct. 1725-6. Mar. 1666; bur. 14 Nov. 1684. M.I. at 1704. June 1667. Waltham.

CUESTER OF CIIICUBLEl:.

Digitized by Coogle PEDIGREE OF WOLLASTON OF SHENTON. 579

Regis~rB not speoi.fled are from Shenton, co. Leic.

1 1 [Richard] Sd BOn. A dau., married William Barns­ ley of Trysull. ""

B Edward WOllasto1Elizabeth, dau. of ThOmas of Perion, 1616. William Wollaston daughter.I. . . 'I of Tresoot,Perry of Trescot Grange. widower, 1600.

PBDIGUB at p. 559.

O------~I------1 1 Sarah Wollaston, 4th Henry Wollaston Esq., 3dIUrsula, dau. of Dr. Samuel Hester,5th dau.; dau.; mar. 5 Oct. 1612, BOD,ofWalthamAbbey; J.P. FoxeofWarlies; mar. atWal­ mar. Thomas at Waltham Abbey, for Essex; bur. at Waltham tham Abbey 29 April 1617; Burnell, Mer- Samuel Middlemore of Abbey, 17 Feb. 1669-70. bur. there 11 April 1670. chant of London. London. s.p. PBDIGBBB at p. 569. D------
.------1 ------,1------,1 Henry, died 1 w. Philadelphia,=Thos. Wollaston Esq., w. Sabina, dau. Judith,2d Alice, Sd young; bur. dau. of John 2d son, of Brett's of Sir George dau.;mar. dau.; man. at Waltham ViDceDtGent.;mar. Manor,Ess8lI:;Filazer AldrichXt.; mar. Sir Wm. RalphGrey, Abbey, 14 at St. Amle's, Black- of Yorkshire; died 28 April 1618, at TerryXt., Citizen of Aug. 1588. friars,15Dec.1614; Apr. 1674,aged87;bur. TotteDham, lIrfid- 1616. London. died 1616. s. p.s. at Shenstone, co. StafF. dleaex. "" "" ·,------,I----~I Richard, bapt. and 1. George, of 2. Thomas, of 8. William Wol Eliza- Elizabeth. bur. 17 Jan. 1626·7. Trill. Coll., Cam.; Doxey, co. Staft'.; laston, born 27 beth, died unmarried. male heir of the Oct. 1684; died dan. of Philadel- John, bapt. 27 Jan. ; family, 1688; 16 March 1691-2; phia. bur. 1 Feb. 1626-7. married and left bur. at Shenstone. Downes; issue. died 24 LUcy,wife Septem. of •••• 1707. ManiBtry. 1 Rebecca, coheir; born ohD Wilkins Esq. of Henry Wollaston, William Wollaston, 2d Other 1668 ; wife 1688 ; RaveDstone, co. Leic.; eldest son, of BOn; devisee of Shenton issue. foundress of Raven­ M.P. for co. Leic.; Lichfleld; died and FiDborough, 1688 ; stone Hospital; died died 19 Feb.; bur. 25 1694. died 1724. 7 July 1718. Will. Feb. 1726-7. I Francis Wollaston Wilkins, son and heir appt. ; WOLLAS'rOR OF SEBnOR. bapt. 2 May 1689; bur. 5 Feb. 1711-12. 4E

Digitized by Coogle 580 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. at Waltham Abbey on 6th Dec. 1684. in the family vault of the Wollastons of that place. (63) His monument in the church there is surmounted by the bust on a pile of books of a curly-haired youth in a gown, and has this inscription: Francis Wollaston, only son of William Wollaston Esq. of Shenton, co. Leicester, and Eliza­ beth Cave of Ingarsby in the same county, died Nov. 20, ItlH-l, of the smallpox in the Middle Temple, aged 17. His funeral sermon was preached at Shenton by his cousin John Cave, the Rector of Nailston, and was afterwards published in 4to. The text was taken from 1 Corinthians vii. 30, and the sermon is entitled 'Chri8tian Tranquillity; or the Government of tIle Pas8ions of Joy and Grief. A Sermon upon the occasion of the much-lamented rkath of that hopeful young gentleman Mr. Francis Wollaston, an only ,on and heir to a very fair e8tate. Preaclted at Shenton in Leice8tershire.' REBECCA WOLLASTON, the younger daughter and co-heir of William of Shen­ ton, was two years younger than her sister Anne, for she was 19 years of age in August 1682. (b8) She married shortly before her father's death John Wilkins J!:sq. of Ravenstone, who had raised himself to wealth by coal-delphs and other suoh industries, and had built for himself at Ravenstone a noble mansion-house of brick and stone, with gardens, orchards, and fish-ponds, twelve acres in extent, and 456 acres of park. (97) He was the lieutenant of Lord Beaumont's troop of yeomanry in 1681, (97A) but his marriage with a co-heiress of so considerable a family greatly improved his position in the county, and he was High Sheriff of Leicester­ shire in 1693. He was afterwards elt'cted one of the knights of the shire, and was M.P. for Leicestershire in two Parliaments of Queen Anne. His wife was not so hardly dealt with by her father's Will as her elder sister Lady Chester, for she could never have expected to inherit the bulk of the estate, and 10,000/. was a great fortune for a country gentleman's younger child. Her lands of inheritance were at Coton Clanford in Staffordshire, and at Thorpe Emald and Sutton Cheyney in Leicestershire, and were all settled to her own separate use. She had issue an only son, FRANCIS WOLLASTON WILKINS, who was born on 25th April 1689, and was baptized at Ravenstone on 2d May; (98) but he was like his uncle Francis in bis early death as well as his name, for he died unmarried in the lifetime of his parents, to their inexpressible grief. He died at the age of 23, on 5th Feb. 1711- 12, and was buried at Ravenstone on the next day. (98) When he came of age, his father and mother had settled his mother's lands of inheritance, by deed dated 27th April 1710, on themselves and the survivor of them for life, with remainder to their son Francis in tail, with remainder to such uses as Rebecca should by her Will appoint; so that on his death the reversion of her whole estate became at his mother's ahsolute disposal. It might have been expected tllat ber resentment at the contents of her father's Will would have prevented her from following his example, and that she would- have scrupulously respected the rights of her sister's children, who were her natural heirs. But one injustice in a family is apt to pro-

Digitized by Coogle MRS. WILKINS OF RA VENSTONE. 581 yoke another, and in the year after her son's death Mrs. Wilkins made a Will which diverted her whole estate from her own blood and kindred for what are called 'charitable purposes.' She died six years afterwards in the lifetime of her husband, and was buried at Ravenstone on 12th July 1718. (98) Her Will is dated 24th Jan. 1712-13, and she devised thereby all her settled estate in Thorpe Ernald and Sutton Cheyney, after the death of her husband, to William Lord Digby, Sir Nathan W righte, late Lord Keeper, John Curzon of Kedl~ston, Robert Burdett of Foremarke, William Jesson of Langley, John Bur­ dett of Donisthorp, her (husband's) nephew Nicholas* Harding of the Inner Temple, John Beresford of Ashbourne, John Port of Dam Esquires, her (husband's) nephew James Adams, Simon Barwell of Leicester, and John Perry of Winster Gentlemen, and the survivors of them upon trust, to build at Ravenstone out of the rents and profits, in remembrance of her son Francis W o11aston Wilkins, a hospital or almshouse for the perpetual habitation of thirty poor, blind, aged, or impotent women, widows or maids, and three able women-servants for the attendance and service of the said thirty in sickness. and health. Each one of such poor women and servants to receive for her maintenance three shillings and sixpence a week, and also a gown and petticoat of gray serge, at two shillings and fourpence a yard, to be given to them on St. Mark's-day in e\'ery year, which was the birthday of her said son, and also two wagon-loads of coals: and each of them to wear a brass badge engraved with three capital Roman letters, F. W. W., to be affixed upon the upper and most visible parts of the breasts of their gowns. The trustees to meet on 25th April in every year, and when any five of them be dead, the survivors are to elect 'fiYe other honest and worthy gentlemen of the counties of Derby, Warwick, and Stafford, and not elsewhere.' The poor women to be chosen from the parishes of Ravenstone, Swanington, or Cole Orton, and to be single women without husbands, fifty years of age. 'Provided always that if any woman who is of my blood and kindred, or of the blood and kindred of my dear husband, or is the daughter of any person who is a gentleman of higher degree in the counties of Leicester or Derby, shall be poor, and stand in need of this my charity, and shall be desirous thereof, being single and unmarried, in such case my trustees may nominate any such, although they may not be of the towns aforesaid.' (99) Wilkins survived his wife above eight years, for he died 19th Feb. 1726-7, and was buried at Ravenstone on 25th Feb. (98)

JOHN WILKINS OJ!' RAVENSTONE ALS. RAUNSTON IN THE COUNTIES OF LEICKSTER AND DERBY ESQ. Will dated 5th Feb. 1718-19. To be buried in the chancel of Ravenston Church. To my nephew Captain James Adams, Gilbert'~ farm in Ravenston, and o.lso £200 0. year for his life out of my other manors and lands

• Nicholas Harding, BOn of Nicholas Harding Gent. of FumyaU's Inn, was admitted of the Inner Temple SO April 1686. (74)

Digitized by Coogle 582 THE CHESTERS OF CHICJlELEY. in Leicestershire and Derbyshire, upon condition that he takes on himself the care and man­ agement of all my coal-mines, &c. To my niece Elizabeth Harding, .£60 for mourning. To Francis Burges, the son of my niece Elizabeth Burges, .£60 a year for life; to his brother Richard, .£20 a year; and to his sister Sarah Burges, .£40 a year. To my kinsman Charles Whitgreve of Weston Underwood, Bucks, .£20 a year. Subject to these annuities, I give all my manors and lands to trustees for the Hospital which my late wife and I have built and endowed in Ravenston, in memory of our late dear son. [Long directions about the management of the Hospital.] My said nephew James Adams to be my sole executor. CODICIL dated 7th July 1'124. I revoke the annuities given by my Will to the three children of my niece Elizabeth Burges, and in lieu thereof I give .£30 a year to their mother, and .£100 a year to her brother the said James Adams. Will proved in C.P.C. 14th April 1727 by James Adams. [102 Farrant.] Admon. de bonis non granted in C.P.C. 20th Sept. 1729 to Leonard Peacock, executor of the said James Adams. Mrs. Wilkins had her husband's full sanction in her endowment of Ravenstone Hospital, and the original building was erected by her widower. It was enlarged out of the rents of the charity estate in 1784, and a view of the new buildings is engraved in Nichols's History of Leicestershire (Plate cxxvi.). It has two wings, one of which is occupied by the chapel, and t~e other by the chaplain's house. On a tablet in the front are the founder's Arms·-Guus two BtDorda in .altire Argent ltilted and pommelled Or; on a chief argent tl,ree mullets &ble-and this inscrip­ tion: This Hospital was built by John Wilkins Esq. and with his consent very liberally endowed by Rebecca his wife, in memory of their only son Francis Wollaston Wilkins, who died on the fifth day of February, A.D. 1'111. Soli Deo Gloria. On another tablet is inscribed: The two wings and the front of this Hospital were erected by the savings from the fund appropriated to its support. A.D. 1784.

IV. Mrs. Wollaston, the widow of William of Shenton, was not left without an ample provision, for besides what she took under her husband's Will and her jointure of 1451. a year at Saddington, she successfully asserted her right to dower out of

• These Arms are evidently founded on the coat of Wollaston, and BDggest that John Wilkins was the grandson of William Wilkins of Cole-Orton, who lIl&lTied in 1686 Elizabeth Wollaston, one of the nieoes and coheirs of Sir John Wollaston the Lord Mayor. 8ee p. 648.

Digitized by Coogle MRS. WOLLASTON OF SHENTON. 583 the whole estate of her husband. His devisee conteuded that her right was satisfied by her acceptance of her jointure and of the life interest in the estates at Shenton and Lea Grange bequeathed to her by the Will; but the testator had not expressly declared that his bequests were to be taken in lieu of dower, and the jointure being. framed in the form of a lease, was insufficient to bar her widow's right at law. Her claims therefore were compounded for by a further annuity of 4001. a year, wbich she lived to enjoy nearly thirty years. As she had Shentou Hall for her life, and all its contents were unreservedly bequeathed to her, her household arrange­ ments were not affected by the alienation of the estate, and the Chesters continued to live with her at Shenton. All their eleven children were born in her house; and when Lady Chester died in 1704 they found a second mother in their grand­ mother. Sir John Chester removed to Chicheley on bis second marriage in 1714, but Shenton was the home of his children until Mrs. Wollaston's death. She just lived to witness the marriage of her favourite grandson to one of her .cousins, for William Chester married Penelope Hewitt at Shenton on 5th March 1716-17, and Mrs. Wollaston was buried there on 28th March following. Her last work on the estate was the construction of a gigantic dovecote, which will hold 2040 pairs of pigeons, and is still standing. (92) If it was ever full, the whole countryside must have suffered from the depredations of the Shenton pigeons. After Mrs. W ollas­ ton's death Shenton Hall was occnpied for a short time by Mr. Hewitt of Stretton, but was soon degraded into a farmhouse, fer the new family of Wollaston fixed their residence at Finborough Hall in Suffolk. The lltate-room at Shenton, with its armorial decorations, was used as a ~ranary in 1789. by the farmer who enter­ tained Nichols the historian on his tour; (81) but the Finborough estate was 80ld within the next ten years, when the family returned to Shenton, and the old Hall has ever since been worthily occupied by the owner. Mrs. Wollaston took 80 much pride in her ancestors, that the story of her life would be incomplete without some further notice of them. The honours of her paternal descent have been already set forth in my 7th Chapter; but she was 80 young when her father died, that her family associations were chiefly connected with her relations on her 1nother's side. Her mother Lady Villiers was the daughter and eventually co-heir of Robert Roper Esq. of Heanor Hall in Derby­ shire, a barrister of Lincoln's Inn. He was the uncle of Samuel Roper, also of Heanor and Lincoln's Inn, the well-known antiquary, the friend of Dodsworth and the early patron of Dugdale. (100) Samuel worked out the genealogy of his family with great industry and skill, and his elaborate pedigree of the Ropers fills several pages in the Visitation of Derbyshire of 1634. (101) It is illustrated by numerous extracts from deeds and drawings of seals; but his proofs are usually takeu from private muniments, and are seldom corroborated by public records. They were sufficient, however, to satisfy Sir William Dugdale, who was connected by marriage with the Ropers, and was easily convinced of the ancestral importance ofbis friends.

Digitized by Coogle 584 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

He therefore repeated the pedigree with additions in his Visitation of Derbyshire of 1662, when a coat of twelve quarterings was allowed to Samuel Roper the younger, (102) who inherited his father's taste for genealogy, and was a frequent visitor at Shenton. (100)

ABIIs. Quarterly of twelve. 1 and 12. Roper. 2. Muaard. Barons by tenure. S. Furneux. 4. Furneux. 6. Chevrolcourt of Carleton. 6. Staunton. 7. Chaworth. 8. Walehervilc. 9. Harberiour. 10. Kendall. 11. Gresbrooke.

AlUIB AND QUABTBBINGB 011 BOPEB PJIOII TIIB VlBrrATIOR 011 DBBDYBBIBB, 1662.

The received pedigree of the Ropers of Heanor would require a chapter to itself. They claim to be descended in the male line from Richard Fourneux of Beighton in Derbyshire, who married in 1421 (7 Hen. VI.) 180lda Roper, the heiress of Turnditch in the same county, and assumed her name under the conditions of his marriage settlement. (103) Richard was sixth in descent from Richard de Fourneux, who acquired the lordship of Carleton in Nottinghamshire in the reign of Henry TIL by his marriage with Sibyl de Chevrolcourt, whose ancestor Thorold de Chev. rolcourt (Capricuria) was tenant-in-chief of Carleton in Domesday. (104) This lordship remained with his descendants until the middle of the fourteenth century, when Joan, the sister and heir of , Villi am de Fourneux, carried it to her husband Henry Fitzhugh, the son and heir apparent of Henry Lord Fitzhugh of Ravens­ worth. (104) The male line was continued by Joan's uncle Robert de Fourneux,

Digitized by Coogle ROPER OF BEAN OR. 585 who was the mesne lord of Beighton, and Isolda's husband Richard Fourneux was his heir in the fourth generation. John Roper of Turnditch, the father of Isolda, is called seventh in lineal descent from William cum Rubra Spatha, who was the younger brother of Hasculf Musard, the feudal Baron of Staveley, and the mythical ancestor of all the families of Roper. (105) But the silence of public records prevents me from verifying the accuracy of the names in the intervening generations. It might have been expected that an heiress so considerable, who imposed her name on.her husband and posterity, would have left some traces of her existence in contemporary records; but the modesty of the Ropers was as great as their alleged antiquity, and their name is not to be found in the list of Sheriffs or Escheators or members of Parliament, or, in fact, of the holders of any public office which country gentlemen of considera­ tion are called upon to fill. Their existence would have been forgotten altogether but for the researches of Samuel Roper in the reign of Charles I., who was fortunate enough to find a series of family deeds ofthe greatest antiquity. Up to this time the cadets of this ancient line were as ill-informed of their hereditary honours as the head of the family, for the grandfather of the Sir Thomas Roper, who was created by Charles I. Viscount Baltinglass in Ireland, was a younger son of the house of Heanor, and was therefore entitled to the coat and quarterings allowed to his family by Dugdale. But Sir Thomas waived his right to these memorials of his baronial ancestors, and accepted a new coat from Camden, when he received the honour of knighthood in 1603.(106) He bore Ermine two chevrone18 paly Or and Guie8.(I06) Thomas Roper of Heanor, the grandfather of Lady Villiers, is said to have been the great-grandson and representative of Richard Fourneux by Isolda Roper his wife. He married two wives, and had issue by them both; but the two sons of his first marriage both died unmarried. His first wife was the daughter and co-heir of . • • Partridge of King's Bromley, Staffordshire, and her eldest son German Roper made claim in 1575 to his grandfather's estate. (107) She had issue besides GER}IAN, a son Wn.LIAM, who died in 1586 s.p., and a DAUGHTER, who married John Brownlow Gent. of High Holborn, Mjcldlesex, and was the grandmother of Sir William* Brownlow of Belton, Lincolnshire. (101) Thomas Roper died in 1579, and left issue by his second wife Matilda Bouteshall two sons, I. THOMAS, II. ROBERT, who were both bred to the Bar. THOMAS ROPER, the elder son of Thomas and Matilda, was admitted of the Inner Temple in 1578, (108) and is mentioned in 1598 in his brother Robert's Will. He was the father of Samuel the antiquary, and his descendants are suffi­ ciently set forth in my tabular pedigree of Roper on the next page. ROBERT ROPER, the second son of Thomas by Matilda Bouteshall, was a barrister

• John Brownlow Gent. was one of the trustees of Hobert Roper's Will in 1598, and is described in the Visitation of Lineolnshire of 1634 as of High Holborn, Middlesex. Bis eldest son Riehard Brownlow the Prothonotary was the father of Sir William of Belten.

Digitized by Coogle 5B6 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

PEDIGREE OF ROPER OF HEANOR.

ABJ(s.-Sable an eagle close Or. (See p. 684.)

1 w..•.• dau. and cohe' homaa Roper Gent. Ofr w. Matilda, dau. of ••.• of •••• Partridge Gent. of ~eanor, co. Derby, great· Boutcshall of co. Derby, King's Bromley, co. Staft'. grandson and heir of Rich- proved her hnsband's will ard Fonrnenx of Beighton, at Lichfield 15 J1JD.e 1679. Derbyshire, by Isolda Roper of Tnmditch, died 1679. I r---~--~--~ I I German Wlll- A dan.,I 1 w. Anne,,=Thomal w.Anne, Robe Eliza· h. John Roper, liam, mar. John dan. and Roper dau. and Roper beth, dau. Cholme­ son and died Brown- coheir of Esq. of coheir of Esq. of ofWm. ley, man. heir; 1686 low, Gent. William Heanor, Alvered Heanor Notte at St. Pe- claimed s.p. grand· Manley admitted Gres· Hall, co. Esq. of ter's,Der. the Part­ father of Esq. of of the In- brooke of Derby; Imber­ by, 16 ridge es­ Sir Wm. Heming. ner Tem- Middle· barrister court in March tate in Brownlow ton, co. pie 1678; ton, co. of Lin· Thames 1699· 1676; died Kt., of Leic. living Warwick. coln'Blnn; Ditton; 1600. nnm. Belton co. 1698. mar.1688; dead Lincoln. bur. at St. 1616. A Peter's, Derby, 27 Dec. 1698. Will

PBDIGBBB at p. 696.

1 h. EdWard1Elizabeth Ro·=2 h. Thomas Anne Roper, Elizabeth, dau'TIamuel Roper Charnells of per, died wi- Falconer Gent. mar. Samuel and coheir of Esq., son and Snareston, co. dow; buried at of Snareston; Mold Gent. of Sir Henry heir of Heanor, Leic., Gent.; Snareston, 28 dead 1647. Snareston; Goodeere Kt. barrister of died 1621. March 1677. wife 1684. of Polesworth, Lincoln's Inn, Warwick; the antiquary, widow and died 1 Sept. executrix, 1668. Will. 1 1668. I Samuel Roper Anne, aged 27 Elizabeth, aged Constanee, dau'TThomaa Roper Esq., son and and nnmarried in 28 and 1JD.marr. of John Bat~urst Esq., aged 21 in heir of Heanor; 1662. 1662. M.D.; marned 4 1662. barrister of Lin­ coln's Inn; bom Francis, bom Rebecca, aged 22 April 167'. 1 1688; died 1JD.mar. 1629; died Y01JD.g, and unmar. 1662. 1 Nov. 1678. after 1684.

Digitized by Coogle ROPER OF HEANOR. 587 of Lincoln's Inn, and married, after May 1587,· Elizabeth, the yonngest daughter of William Nott Esq. of Imber Court in Thames Ditton, by Elizabeth Smyth, whose descent from the blood-royal of England is shown in my tabular pedigree at pp. 596-7. The effigies in brass of Mrs. Roper's parents and grandparents are still to be seen in the church of Thames Ditton. (109) Robert Roper had issue by his wife Elizabeth seven children, and was buried in St. Peter's, Derby, 27th Dec. 1598. (110)

RoBERT RoPER OF DERBY ESQ. Will dated 20 Dec., 41 Eliz. (1598). To be buried in the church of St. Peter's, Derby. Whereas I have convcyed to my friends Richard Dale and Francis Aspinall Gents. certain woods and tithes in the county of Derby, I will that the same be Bold, and that the proceeds be applied by them and my friends Richard Harpur Esq., Bryan Bewlye, Thomas Roper, and John Brownloe Gents., to the payment of my debts and legacies. They are to raise for my two younger daughters, .£100 each; and for my eldest daughter, 200 marks; and the residue (if any) is to go to my eldest Bon. My lands and tenements in Heynor [Heanor] were demised to my brother Thomas Roper by lease, dated 11 Nov., 38 Eliz. [1690], to the use of my wife Elizabeth for life with remainder to my eldest BOD Robert. My Baid wife to be my sole executrix, and to have the rents of my farm in Langley towards bringing up my Bon Henry Roper. Will proved in C.P.C. 8 Jan. 1598-9 by the widow. [6 Kidd.] His widow Elizabeth married secondly at St. Peter's, Derby, 15th March 1599- 1600, John Cholmeley Esq., (110) and before the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign Oholmeley and his wife filed a Bill in Chancery against Richard Dale, Thomas Roper, and Thomas Culpepper, for an account of the proceeds of the lands in Heanor, which had been conveyed to them by the late Robert Roper on trust for the payment of his debts. (I 1 I) She died before her son Robert, leaving two children by her second marriage, Nathaniel and Anne, who were both living in 1616. Robert Roper had issue by his wife Elizabeth two sons and five daughtel'8, of whom two daughters died before him. The othel'8 were all of tender age at the time of his death. I. ROBERT RoPER, his son and heir, was a boy of ten when his father died. He was a barrister of Lincoln's Inn, and had a license from the Crown in 1616 to sell Heanor Hall to Richard Croshaw. (112) He had then lately married Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir Henry Finch Kt. of Canterbury, Serjeant-at-law, and sister of John Finch, afterwards Lord Keeper of the. Great Seal, and Lord Finch of Ford­ wich; (113) .but she had no issue, and was still under age when her husband died in February 1616-17.

RoBERT RoPER OF HEnwR, CO. DERBY, GENT. Will dated 12 Feb. 1616-17. Whereas Mr. Richard Croshaw, citizen of London, still owes me £1200, part of the sum for

• She was still unmarried on 13 May 1587, for aD that day her mother Elizabeth, widow of William Nott Esq. of Thames Ditton, made her Will; wherein she says, • My youngest daughter Elizabeth Nott to have the rooms in the manor·house of Imworth ala. Imber, which I now occupy, .,,8 long as she ehJtU be unmarried; and also £166 1&. 4d. in money for her portion.' lS6 Spencer in C.P.C.] 4F

Digitized by Coogle 588 THE CHESTERS OI!' CHICHELEY. which I sold to him my lands, of which sum .£800 is to be paid within six months, and .£400 is to remain at interest, paying £34 per annum, until my wife shall be of age and shall release her right of dower, I will that my wife Elizabeth shall re('.eive the said £34 per annum during her nonage. If my said wife be not with child at the time of my death, and shall at her full age release her dower, then my brother Henry &per is to receive the said £400, and to pay my said wife such annual sum as they shall agree upon. But if my wife be with child, and it prove a son, such son is to have £300 out of the said £400; and if it prove a daughter, such daughter is to have £200. To my said brother Henry Roper, .£200. To my sister Elizabeth Roper, £200. To my sister Ellinor &per, £40. To my sister Rebecca Roper, £5, if she be alive at the time of my death. To my brother Nathaniel Cholmeley, .£30, on condition that he releases a certain bond for a debt of my mother's. To my sister Anne Cholmeley, .£10 at eighteen or marriage. To my aunt Elizabeth Wheeler. £5 for a ring. To Robert, son of my loving kinsman &ben Delahay of Lincoln's Inn, £10, to be paid to his father for him. The residue to my brother Heury noper, who is to be my executor. My friends Humphrey Chambers Esq. and Roben Delahay Gent., both of Lincoln's Inn, to be overseers of my Will. The probate of this Will was contested by the guardians of the widow, but sentence was pronounced in favour of the executor Henry &per on 4 Nov. 1617. [115 Weldon in C.P.C.,

II. ELEANOR ROPER was one of the co-heirs of her brother Henry, and had license from the Crown with her brother-in-law Sir William Villiers and others on 1st Febrnary 1625-6 to complete the sale of the family estates at Heanor to Richard Croshaw Esq., (114) who had purchased Heanor Hall from Robert Roper the younger in 1616. (112) Eleanor was still living in 1634, and died unmarried. III. REBECCA ROPER, afterwards Lady Villiers. IV. MARGARET ROPER was baptized at St. Peter's, Derby, 16th April 1592, (110) and died unmarried before her brother Robert. V. HENRY ROPER was baptized at St. Peter's, Derby, 26th Dec. 1594, (110) and was heir to his brother' in 1617. He died unmarried before 1626. VI. ELIZABETH was baptized 13th Feb. 1596-7, and was buried at St. Peter's, Derby, on 26th March in the next year. (IIO) VII. ELIzABETH RoPER was baptized at St. Peter's, Derby, 8th Oct. 1598, (I 10) and married after 1617 William Delahay Esq. of Hoby, Leicestershire, who was distantly related to her through his descent from an aunt of her grandfather Roper. (101) They were both living in 1634. (101)

REBEOCA ROPER, the second daughter of Robert and Elizabeth, was baptized at St. Peter's, Derby, 17th Jan. 1690-1, (110) and was so great an invalid, when her brother Robert made his Will on 12th Feb. 1616-17, that his legacy was contingent on her surviving him. She outlived him in fact 43 years, and quickly recovered her health, for before 1618 she married Sir William Villiers Bart. of Brooksby in Leicestershire, the eldest brother of George Duke of Buckingham. (115) She was his third wife, but was the mother of his heir; for he had no issue by his first wife

Digitized by Coogle VILLIERS OF BROOKSBY BARTS. 589

Anne, the daughter of Sir Edward Griffin Kt. of Dingley, Northamptonshire, and by his second marriage he had two daughters only: I. ELIZABETH, II. AUDRIA. His second wife was the daughter of Sir Richard Fenys Kt., Lord Say and Sele, who died in 1612 before his daughter's marriage.* She is misnamed Aune in all the pedigrees, (116) aud is said to have been the widow of Henry Cavet of Ingarsby, and to have died without issue; but it is certain from her mother's Wiilt that her name was Elizabeth, and that she was the mother of Elizabeth and Audria Villiers. This error is only one of many which disfigure the received pedigree of Villiers of Brooksby; and it is remarkable that I should be unable to refer to any complete and accurate account of the elder line of a noble family, which is included in every edition of the Peerage of England and Ireland. (117) Dame Elizabeth Villiers died within a few years after her marriage, and her daughters were taken charge of by their grandmother. Sir William Villiers was created a Baronet 19th .July 1619, but was so notori­ ously indifferent to titles of honour that he never could be persuaded to accept a peerage, although all his younger brothers were ennobled. He had not, however, the same objection to increasing his fortune; and in 1627 he acquired by the grant of his brother George the barony of Dromahaire in the English plantation of Leitrim. (120) This noble estate comprised 6500 acres of arable and pasture land, and 5114 acres of wood and bog, with many seiglliorial privile~s; and from its romantic situation on the banks of a lake has always attracted the admiration of travellers. Sir William had five children by his third wife, and died in the year after the assassination of his brother the Duke of Buckingham, on 12th June 1629, at the age of 54. (121)

SIR WILLIAM VILLlBRS OF BBOOKSBY, LEIOESTEBBHIRE, BART. Will dated 12 June 1629. Since my son is heir to all my setUed estates in England, my wife Rebecca is to have my estate in Ireland for the benefit of my four daughters only, viz. Anne, Rebecca, Marie, and Catharine Villiers, who were bom to me of the body of the said Rebecca. My other two daughters Elizabeth and Adry Villiers§ to have only .£50 each out of Hoby, as they have 1000 marks' worth of goods and jewels of mine, which belonged to my former wife, and are now in the hands of their grandmother Lady Sele.

• Sir Richard Feny. Kt., Lord Say and SeZe, by his Will dated 17 Jaly1612, and proved 6 Feb. 1612-18, gives to his daughter Eli,abethFeny. the money whioh he had put out on Beourityin the names of Sir Oliver St. John and Sir William Turpyn Kts., and also the glass which the Duke of Askott gave him. (Jl8) . t It is equalq certain that Henry Cave of Ingaraby, who died about 1610, hadODlyone wife, Elizabeth laham, who survived him many years. See p. 81. t HiB widow Eluabeth Lady Say antlSeZe, by her Will dated 6 Feb. 1681·2, and proved 10 1\Iayl682, gives' To my grandohild Elizabeth Villiers, one of the daughters of my daughier Elizabeth Villiers by my Lord Bay, my dwelliDg-houBe in the parish of Great at. Bartholomew in London; and to Audria Villiers, another of my grandohildren by the Bame daughter of my Lord Say, another houBe in the Bame parish. My executors to be truBtees for my granddaughters until they be 21 or marry.' (119) § Elilabeth Villier. afterwards married •.•• Conquest Esq. of Houghton Conquest, Beds; and .A.drg Villier. married John Chemooke Esq. of Haloote, Beds, who waB created a Baronet 21 1\Iay1661, and died in 1680.

Digitized by Coogle 590 TIlE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

The residue of my goods and chattels to my wife Dame Rebecca ViDiers, who is to be my Bole executrix. Witnellel: Alexander Cave, Rebecca Firebrasse, Joan Thorpe, Tho. Aston. Will proved in C.P.C. 27 Aug. 1629 by the widow. [75 Ridley.] Dame Rebecca Villiers had Brooksby Hall for life as well as the Irish barony of Dromahaire, and during her son's minority enjoyed the income of the whole estates of her husband. A young, rich, and attractive widow of high rank did not want suitors for her h~nd; but some years elapsed before she married again. Her second husband was Francis Cave, a younger son of the Caves of Ingarsby in Leicester­ shire, whose descent has been stated in my 7th Chapter. He was a Captain of Horse in the Royal Army, and was serving in the garrison at Leicester when that town was taken by Fairfax on 18th June 1645. He was included in the articles of surrender, but having no estate of his own was permitted to compound by a fine of 100l., which he did not live to pay. (122) His widow Lady Villiers renounced the administration of his estate on 28th April 1646, and the fine was formally remitted by the Parliament on 10th June following.- He left an only child Elizabeth, who was afterwards the wife of William Wollaston II. of Shenton, and the mother of Dame Anne Chester. Lady Villiers was devoted to the Royal cause, and during the civil wars Brooksby Hall was always open to cavaliers in distress. Her nephew the Duke of Buckingham found shelter there after the battle of Worcester. (123) . She lived to see all her children well married, and survived the Restoration, but the precise date of her death has not been ascertained. Sir William Villiers had issue by his third wife Rebecca five children. I. GEORGE VILLIERS, son and heir, succeeded his father as the 2d Baronet. II. ANNE VILLIERS was the second wife of Sapcote Viscount Beaumont of Cole-Orton, who died in 1658. (124) She had issue an only son WILLIAM, who was baptized at Whitwick on 10th Dec. 1643, and was in 1667 the godfather of his cousin Elizabeth Wollaston.t He died unmarried before 1682, and his Will is remembered amongst lawyers as being the leading case that a voluntary settlement cannot be defeated by a subsequent Will. (12S) His mother, the Viscountess· Beaumont, was buried at Brooksby 6th Sept. 1678. (117) ID. REBECCA VILLIERS died unmarried before her mother. IV. MARY VILLIERS was the ~nd wife of Sir George Sondes K.B. of Lees Court, Kent, who was created in 1676 Earl of Feversham, with remainder to his son-in-law, and died 16th Apri11677. (126) His widow died at Tunbridge Wells 9th Sept. 1688. She had two daughters and co-heirs: I. MARY; II. CATHARINE, of whom only the younger survived her. MARY SONDES married Lewis Duras, Marquis of Blancfort in France, and nephew of Marshal Turenne, who was natural­ ized in England in 1665, and succeeded his father-in-law as 2d Earl of Feversham. He was a Knight of the Garter and the well-known General of James II., but had • See page 82. t See page 677.

Digitized by Coogle vILLmas OF BROOKSBY BARTS. 591 no issue by his wife Mary, who died in 1687 before her mother. CATHARINE SONDES, the only surviving child, married in July 1677 Lewis Watson, Earl of Rockingham, and is now represented by Earl Fitzwilliam. (126) V. CATHARINE VILLIERS, the youngest sister of Mrs. Wollaston, was the 2d wife of Philip Herbert, 5th Earl of Pembroke, (127) and was the mother of the 8th Earl, who was the godfather and patron of Colonel Thomas Chester, whose untimely fate has been related in my preceding chapter.- The Countess' dtharine was buried in Salisbury Cathedral 28th Feb. 1677-8, (128) and her portrait by Sir Peter Lely is still to be seen in the Earl of Dartmouth's collection at Patshull. (129)

Sm GEORGE VILLIERS was born in Feb. 1619-20, (121) and was therefore only nine years when he succeeded his father as the 2d Baronet. He married at Boar­ stall, Bucks, (130) 17th June 1641, Margaret, the eldest daughter and co-heir of Sir John Dynham Kt., who brought him a good estate; but as Brooksby Hall was occupied by his mother he rebuilt for his own residence the manor-house at Goadby­ Marwood, (131) which had descended to him in 1632 on the death of his grand­ father's widow, the famous Countess of Buckingham. He was, like all his family, a . staunch Royalist, and was one of the seven noblemen and knights in Leicestershire to whom the Royal commission of array was addressed on the outbreak of the civil wars. They raised 27,0001. for the King's service, for which they suffered imprison­ ment and paid 30,0001. in fines. (122) Sir George was the colonel of the Leicester­ shire train-bands, and with his regiment took a leading part in the rejoicings at Melton Mowbray on the day of the coronation of Charles II. (13IA) His mother died soon after the Restoration; but he never removed to Brooksby, and lived at Goadby Hall until his death. Dame Rebecca had, in spite of her husband's Will, reserved for her only son the Irish barony of Dromahaire, and he succeeded to it at her death; but he set little store on this inheritance, for he sold it at a low price on 3d March 1664-5 to Sir George Lane, afterwards Viscount Lanesborough, (132) whose descendant Mr. Lane Fox is still its possessor. The proceeds of the sale were welcome to Sir George, for he had the same careless habits of gaiety and extrava­ gance which ruined so many of his family. The story is told of him that when he went up to London to pay his annual visit to the Court, and left his wife at Goadby, she exacted from him a solemn promise that he. would write to her every day during his absence. But lest this engagement should interfere with his amusements in town he provided- himself beforehand with a packet of letters duly dated day after day, which satisfied Lady Villiers, until the carelessness of his servant despatched to her one day the rest of the batch, and betrayed the trick he was playing her. (133) Dame Margaret Villiers had several children; but she did not·live to see her daughter married, for she was buried at Goadby on 24th July 1668. (130) Sir George married secondly Mary, sister of Thomas Golding Esq. of Posling- • See page 535.

Digitized by Coogle 592 TITE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. ford, Suffolk, but had no further issue. He presented to the living of Goadby on 11th Oct. 1681,(131) and died in the next year. His widow Dame Mary* Villiers survived him 17 years, and died in London 14th Nov. 1699. She was buried at Poslingford on 23d Nov. following, and has a gravestone on the floor of that church. (134) Dun: l\hRY VILLIERB OF POSLINOFORD, SUFFOLK, WIDOW. Will dated 4 Oct. 1699. To be buried in the chancel of Poslingford Church. To the Rector of Goadby, Leicester­ shire, .£5, to be distributed amongst the poor; and £10, for binding apprentice poor children of the parish. To Frances, wife of Thomas Coates of Goadby, .£5. To the poor of Clare, Suffolk, .£5. To my niece Mary Golding and her heirs all my messuages and lands in Clare, on condition that she does not marry her cousin Edmund Draper; but if she does marry him she is to have the said lands for her life only, and after her death they are to go to my niece Frances Golding and her heirs, with remainder to my niece Amy Golding and her heirs, remainder to my nephew George Golding and his heirs. To my niece Mary Golding, my two largest silver salvers. To my niece Frances Golding and her heirs, all my lands and tenements in Goadby, with remainder to my niece Mary Golding for life; remainder to my goddaughter Sarah Sherwood in fee. To Sir William Villiers and to his lady, a mourning-ring price one guinea. To my sister Plume, .£10; and to her two daughters Frances and Elizabeth, .£5 each for mourning. All the residue of my estate to my niece Frances Golding, whom I make my sole executrix; and I beg' my dear brother Thomas Golding Esq. to be helpful and assisting to her;' and I give him for his trouble .£20. MEMORANDUM. Before the publishing of the Will the testatrix gave a ring worth twenty shillings to each of the following persolls, viz. my nephew George Golding; my nieces Joyce Brent, Hannah Sherwood, and Amy Golding; my nephew and niece Geoffrey Maltyward and his wife; my nephew John Smith and his wife; and my nephew Joseph Sherwood. Wit"",,,: Brent Sherwood, Joseph Sherwood. Will proved in C.P.C. 17 Dec. 1699. [197 Pett.] Sir George Villiers had issue by his first wife Margaret Dynham seven children, of whom only two were married. I. WILLIAM VILLIERS, son and heir, succeeded his father as the 3d Baronet. II. PENELoPE, afterwards Lady .Jesson, of whom hereinafter.. m. REBEcCA VILLIERS was baptized at Goadby 6th Sept. 1647. (130) She died unmarried at the age of 36, and was buried at St. Paul's, Covent-garden, 19th Jan. 1683-4. REBECCA VU.LIEBS. Will dated 14 Jan. 1688-4. To my sister Jesson's daughter, my goddaughter, .£400; and to the rest of her children, .£100 each at 21. To my sister Mary, .£700. To my brother Sir William Villiers, .£100. To my consin Cholme1ey,t .£50. To my cousin Potter, .£50. To the parishes of Hoby and Goadby in Leicestershire, .£50, to place out poor children. To Lady Catharine! Herbert, my locket of Lady Rebecca's hair; and to Lady Rebeccat Herbert, my locket of Lady Anne'st hair. To my Lady Villiers, .£10 for mourning. My sister Mary to be my sole executrix. Will proved in C.P.C. 8 Feb. 1688-4 by Mary Villiers. [24 Hare.] • She is misnamed Penelope in the printed copy of horM.I. (135) t See note t at p. 676. t Lady Catharine Herbert, third daughter of Philip, ftfth Earl of Pembroke, by Catharine Villiers, aunt of the testatrix, was born 9 June 1654, and married Sir John Williams Bart. of Langibby Castle, Mon­ mouthshire. Her sister Lady Rebecca was born 18 July 1656, and died unmarried 9 Doc. 1729. Their sister Lady .An", was the youngest of the family, and died in childhood. (1:&7)

Digitized by Coogle VILLIERS OF BROOKBBY BARTS. 593 IV. MARGARET VILLIERS w~ baptized at Goadby 27th Sept. 1648, (130) and died unmarried shortly before her sister Rebecca. She is mentioned with Rebecca in the M.1. at St. Paul's, Cove~t-garden, (136) but her burial is not noticed in the Register of that parish. (19) V. CATHARINE VILLIERS died an infant, and was buried at Goadby 9th Jan. 1656-7. (130) VI. ALICIA VILLIERS died an infant, and was buried at Goadby 3d Oct. 1660. (r30 ) VIT. MARY VILLIERS was the executrix of her sister Rebecca in 1684, and died unmarried about 10 P.M. on 3d June 1685 at the house of her brother Sir William Villiers in Southampton-street, Bloomsbury, where she had been living for the last seven months. She was buried at St. Paul's, Covent-garden, 6th June 1685. (130) MARY VILLIERS. Will dated 23 May 1684. To my goddaughter Margaret Jesson, the daughter of my sister Jesson, £400. To my nephew Villiers Jesson and his sister Anne, £100 each. To my niece Pen Jesson and her brother Tom, £200 each. To my brother Sir William Villiers, .£100. To my cousin John Cholmeley, .£50. To my cousin Potter, £50. To my sister Jesson, 20 guineas, and all my lockets, rings, plate, gold ornaments, books, and pictures to dispose of amongst her children as she thinks fit. To the poor, £50. To my cousin Rathbone, 10 guineas. To Mrs. Lister, £5. To Mrs. Bell, .£5. To old Mrs. Margaret Palmer, 20 guineas and my gold watch. Affidavit made 15 June 1685 that the testatrix on the day of her death desired her brother Sir William Villiers to be her executor. Will proved in C.P.C. 15 June 1685 by Sir W. Villiers Bart. [79 Cann.] 8m WILLIAM VILLIERS, the only son of Sir George Villiers Bart. by his first wife, was born in 1645, and was 36 years old when he succeeded his father as the 3d Baronet. He was elected M.P. for the town of Leicester in 1698 and again in 1700, and married Anne, daughter and heir of Charles Potts Esq. of Mannington in Norfolk; but she died 31st July 1711 without issue. He survived her only seven months, for he died 27th Feb. 1711-12, aged 66, and was buried at Brooksby, (137) although he had sold the manor in his lifetime to his wife's cousin Sir Nathan Wright the Lord Keeper. Sir William was the last of his family, and on his death the Baronetcy became extinct. SIR WILLIAM VILLIERS OF ST. ANDREW'S, HOLBORN, BART. Will dated 26 Feb. 1711·12. My manor and lands of Hoby, Leicestershire, to Sir George Beaumont Bart. of Stoughton Grange, his heirs and assigns, upon trust to sell the same, and to payout of the proceeds .£:1000 to each of my two nieces Dame Anne, wife of Sir James Robinson Bart. of Cranford, and Penelope, wife of George Hewett Esq. of Stretton, to their sole and separate use respectively; the residue after such payment to be diyided equally between my said nieces. To my brother· Colonel John Drake, £20 for mourning. To my cousin the Honble. Charles Villiers Esq., son of the late Lord Grandison, £100.. To my cousin William Hewett, the son of my said niece Penelope Hewett, all my books. To the said Sir George Beaumont and to Basil Fitzherbert Esq.• £20 each for mourning. To Mr. Ezekiel Wrigh~, brother to the late Lord Keeper Wright, £50. To

• Colonel Drake was uterine brother to the testator's wife. whose mother Susanna, sister of Sir Benja­ min Wright Bart. of Cranham. Essex, married secondly Francis Drake Esq., and died 15 July 1664. (138)

Digitized by Coogle 594 THE crrESTERS OF CHICHELEY. the Rev. Mr. Richard* Cox, Rector of Hoby, £20; and to his daughter Anne· Cox, my wife's goddaughter, £20. To the Rev. Mr. Johnt Steele, Rector of Rotherby; £10 for mourning. To the poor of Hoby, £50. To Mr. Thomas! Noble of the borough of Leicester, £50. '1'0 be buried in Brooksby Church. My funeral to c08t.£150; and a marble monument, to cost .£200, to be erected there for me and my wife. The residue of my estate to the said Sir James Robinson and '1'homas Noble, who are to be my executors, upon trust to divide the over­ plus equally between my said two nieces. Will proved in C.P.C. II March 1711-12 by both ex(:cutors. [01 Barnes.] The directions of the Will were not strictly complied with by the trustee, for the manor of Hoby was not sold, and in 1760 it was still in the possession of the testa­ tor's grand-nephews Sir John Robinson and William Hewett. (139) The monu­ ment, too, in Brooksby Church was erected on a scale of magnificence which far exceeded the expense prescribed by the Will. It is of white marble, with fluted pillars of the Corinthian order, between which stand full-length statues of Sir Wil­ liam Villiers and his wife in marble. He wears the dress of the period, mantled in a large cloak, and she is draped ill a flowing robe to her feet. Below is this inscrip­ tion: (137) Sacred to the memory of Sir William Villiers Bart., descended from a race of worthy ances­ tors, upward of 500 years happily enjoyiug great revenue in this county, in a right noble and hospitable use thereof, by whose much-lamented death is determined the male line of the eldest house of that honourable name in Great Britain, to none of whom he was inferior in all accom­ plishments requisite to adorn his quality. He departed this life in the 67th year of his age, on the 27th day of Febrnary 1711-12. Near also rests Dame Anne Villiers, wife of Sir William, daughter and heir of Charles Potts of the county of Norfolk Esq., a lady of singular virtue, piety, and charity. She died the 31st day of July 1711. The two nieces and co-heirs of Sir William Villiers were the surviving children of his eldest sister PENELOPE, who married at Goadby-Marwood, 23d Jan. 1669-70, Sir William Jesson Kt. of Burleigh Park in the parish of Loughborough. (130) He was knighted 12th Feb. 1668-9, ( J 42) and had issue five children, of whom three died unmarried. I. VILLIERS JESSON, son and heir apparent, died unmarrit>d at Chicbeley Hall, where he was visiting Sir Anthony Chester. He was buried at Chicheley 17th May 1690, and his gravestone in Chicheley Church bears this inscription: (143) Here lyeth the body of Mr. Villiers Jesson, son of Sir William Jesson of Coventry Knt., by Dame Penelope his second wife, the daughter of Sir George Villiers of Brooksby in the county of Leicester Barronet, who departed this life the 14th of May, Ano. Dni. 1690. II. THOMAS JESSON died unmarried after 1684. • Richard Co:!: purchased from Sir William Villiers the advowson of Hoby, and presented himself to the Rectory 30 Jan. 1696-7_ He died 23 December 1713, aged 41, and his only surviving child Anne (the godda.ughtcr of Lady Villiers) married Rev_ Rohert Brown, Rector of Hoby 1722-82, who Wall also Rector of Brampton, Northants, and died 21 Aug. 1732. His widow died 21 July 1748, aged 46. (139) t John Steel M.A. was presented to the Rectory of Rotherby 10 Deo. 1691 by Tlw71UU Noble Geni. He succeeded Mr_ Cox as Reotor of Hoby in 1713, and held both livings when he died 21 Dec. 1715, aged 58. (140) t TIi

Digitized by Coogle PEDIGREE OF ROPER AND VII,LIERS. 595

m. ANNE JESSON, one of the co-heirs of her uncle Sir William Villiers, married Sir James Robinson Bart. of Cranford, Northamptonshire, abd was the grandmother of Sir George Robinson Bart., who married in 1764 Dorothea Chester. (&e p. 363.) IV. PENELOPE JESSON, the other co-heir of Sir William Villiers, was born in 1672, and married George Hewett Esq. of Stretton, Leicestershire, who died 25th Aug. 1714, leaving two sons and a daughter. (144) She died 31st Aug. 1728, aged 56, and her only daughter Penelope was the wife of Sir William Chester, the 5th Baronet of Chicheley. (144) V. MARGARET JESSON was the goddaughter of her aunt Mary Villiers, and died unmarried after 1685.

PEDIGREE OF ROPER AND VlLLIERS. 1 h. Robert Roper Esq. of Hea Elizabeth, dan. of wm.r: h. John Cholmeley nor, co. Derby (lte pedigree at p. Noti Esq. of Thames Dit· Esq. ; man. 15 March 586); bur. ai St. Peter's, Derby, ton; dead 1616. 1599·1600. 27 Dec. 1598. r------"---.--~------,------,--~,.------,, Robert Ro· = Elizabeth, Henry Bo- Sir William Rebeooa Bo- Margaret, Elizabeth, ooh. ; perEsq.,aon daa. of Sir per, brother VilliersBart. per, coheir; bapt.16Apr. bapt. 8 Oot. and heir; HenryFinoh and heir of Brooksby, bapt.17Jan. 1592; died 1598;wife,1634, sold Heanor Xt., Ber· 1617; bapt. co. Laio. ; 1690·1; reo unman. be· of Wm. Delahay Hall 1616; jeant·ai- 26 Deo.1594; died 12 June man. Capt. fore 1616. Esq. of Hoby, died 1617. law; widow died unmar. 1629, aged FranoisCave co. Leio. Will 1617. 1625. 54. of Ingaraby. Elizabeth, Eleanor, 00· I bapt.1S Feb. heir ; died A-.. 1596·7; died unmar. after Pedigree at infant. 1634. p.597. , 1 w. MargaITSir George=2 w. Mary, Anne Vii· Rebecca, Mary Vii· Catharine Villiers, ret, daa. and Villiera sister of Tho· liers, man. died un· liers, man. man. Philip Her· coh. of Sir Bart., son mae Golding Bapoote Via· married. Sir George bert, 5th Earl of John Dyu· and heir; Esq. of Pos· count Beaa· BoadesX.B. Pembroke. ham Xt.; Ibom Feb. lingford,Saf· mont of Earl of Fe· mar.17 Jane 1619·20, of folk; died 28 Cole·Orton. veraham. 1 I July1641'~'''1 1668.t Lalll.;~.!"'. died N~.s.p. ...,. A-.. 1682. 1 ------.,r------.,.------".------r, ~,------~, Sir William=Anne, da. Penelope Sir Wm. Rebecca, Margaret. Catharine, died Mary Vii· VillieraBart. and heir of Villiers, JessonXt. bapt. 6 bapt. 27 infant 1657. liers, died of Brooksby, Charles man. 23 of Coven· Beptemb. Septemb. unman. 8 Bon and heir, Potts Jan. 1669· try; 1647;t 1648 ;t Alice, died in· June M.P. for Lai· Esq.; died 70;t dead knighted bur. 19 deadunm. fant 1660. 1685. cester; died 81 July 1711. 12 Feb. Jan. 1688· 1683. Will. 27Feb.1711· 1711. 1668·9; 4;t died 12. s.p. Will. dead 1711. anm. Will. , r , Villiers J es· Anne J es..,=Sir James Penelope, ,Gco. Hewett Marga.ret, Thomos, died sooEsq.,son son, coh. OflRobiDBon coheir 1712; I Esq. of died unmar. unmarril'(l. and heir her ancle Bart. of died 31 Aug. Stretton, CD. appt.; died Sir William Cranford ; 1728, agedlLeio.; died· unman. 14 Villiera. died 28 Aug. 56. 25 August May 1690. 1731. 1714. Registers not specified are from St. Peter's, Derby; t Goadby, co. Leic.; t St. Paul'B, Covent·garden. 4G

Digitized by Coogle 596 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

ROYAL DESCENT OF ANNE WOLLASTON, LADY CHESTER.

i I Humphry de Bohun, Earl of Here'TElizabeth Countess of Holland KiDg Edward n. 181 March__ 1821..14N~""';, .... "1 ...... • . l

1 h.James Butler,Earl=;=Eleanor de Bohun, bomOct.1804;r h. Thomas Lord KiDg Edward m of Ormond, died 1887. I re·married 1844; died 1863. Dagworth. ,. I ~ Petronilla Butler, died 23 April ilbert Lord Talbot, died 24 April John of Gaunt, Duke of 1868. 1387. Lancaster K.G., died 1899.

1896.""""'" Lonl ...... : .... • I!opI.T...... Thomas LoNevill, ...... Lord -.Furnivall; ,., died 18 May 1418. I 1 h. S· Allee Talbot,=2h.SirRichard 1 h.Robert FerToaD Beau 1 h. RalphI Neville, Thomas died 14 Aug. de 1a Mare Kt., rere of Wemme, fort, died 18 Earl of Westmore­ Barre Kt., 1486. died 1485. died 1896. Nov. 1440. land K.G., died died 7 Dec. 1425. 1~. ~------:B PBDIQBIUI 0 .. CJIlISDB W~'l'JUI8.

~beth Barre'TEdmOnd Comwall, Baron of Burford, died 1485. eohCU'. I Eleanor Cornwall, widow of Sir Hugh Mo~er Kt'TSir Richard Croft Kt. of Croft Castle, died 29 July 1509.

Anne cro1Sir Thomaa mount Kt. of KiDlet, 00. Hereford, died _ 1528. Ir------~ Catharine Blount, died 10 July 1549."FRobert Smyth Esq. of Thames Ditton, died S Sept. 1589.

I I Elizabeth Smyth, died 15 May 1587'TWilliam Nott Esq. of ThameB Ditton, died 25 Nov. 1576. i 1 h. Robert Roper Esq. of Heanor Hall'TElizabeth Nctt..,.-2 h. John Cholmeley Esq., marr. 15 Maroh 00. Derby, died 1598. _ ",,1599·1600. Other r'------L------oissue. 1 PuIOBBB at p. 595.

Digitized by Coogle HOY AL DI<:SCRNT OF ANNE WOLLASTON, LADY C!I1ESTEH. 5~7

1 w. Eleanor ofCastille=rEdward I. King of ,England,2 w. Margaret of France. A.------~l,l 1~ ____ ~1 Ralph de Monthermer'TJoan of Acre'TIilbert de Clare, Earl Edmond of WOO(l'TMargaret, sister Lord Monthermer, 2 died 23 April of Gloucester, died 7 stock, Earl of Kent, of Thomas Lord husb., died 1824. 1307. Dec. 1295. died 1380. Wake. r------.J A-.I I Thomas Lord de Mon· PEDIGREE lit p. 140. ~ thermer, died 1340., I I. r,----- Margaret de Mou.,,-John Lord de Thomas de HO'foan Plantage'12 h. Edward Prince of thermer, heir. IMontacute, died land, Earl of Kent net, • The Fair Wales, the Black Prince. 1389. K.G., died 1860. Maid of Kent.'

i I • r- I John de Montacute, Earl of Sahsbury Thomas Earl of Kent, died 1897. King Richard II. K.G., died 14~0. T T L-, B: ______Trl homas Ea~l. of Salisbury K.G., died 142~.TEleanor ,de Holand.

Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury K.G., died 1460.,Alice de Montacute, heir.

r I ------, Richard Earl of Salisbury and Warwick K.G., Henry Lord Fitz,Hugh, died 1472.,Alice Neville • • The King-maker,' died 1471. I I I Nicolas Lord Vaux of Harrowden, died 1523'TElizabeth Fitz·Hugh.

I Sir George Throckmorton Kt. of Coughton, co. Warwick, died 1558.,..catharine Vaux. I r--' Bryan Cave Esq. of Ingarsby, 00. Leio., died 1592. Margaret Throckmorton, widow of Sir William JCatesby Kt. I Henry Cave Esq. of Ingarsby, son and heir.,Elizabeth Isham (8ee pedigree, p. 51). Cl------, I , 1 h. Sir WilliRm Villiers Bart. of BrOOkSbY'TRebeCOa Roper, COh"12 h. Francis Cave Esq.,3d son of co. Leio., died 16 June 1629. Will. died widow 1661. Brooksby jure ux. ; died 1646.

. ~ PEDIGREE at p. 595. r----J I William Wollaston Esq. of Shenton, died 19 Aug.,Elizabeth Cave, only child; marr. 1660; died 1688. I widow; bur. 28 March 1717. I I Sit· John Chester Bart. of Chicheley, died 6 Feb.lAnne Wollaston, sole heir in heris8ue ; marr. 2 Nov, 1725·6. 1681;; died 3 Oct. 1701.

CHESTER OF CmCHELEY.

Digitized by Coogle THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

PROOFS AND AUTHORITIES. (I) Nichols's Rist. of Leicestershire, vol. iv. pp. 529-541. (2) Nichols's Illustrations of Literary History, vol. i. pp. 167-210. (3) The Noble and Gentle Men of England, by E. P. Shirley Esq., Wollaston of Shenton. (4) Erdeswicke's Survey of Staffordshire, edited by Harwood, 8vo, 1844, Preface, p. lviii. (5) Stemmata Shirleiana, 2d edition, p. 221. (6) Shaw'S Statrordshire, vol. ii. p.215. (7) Idem, vol. ii. pp. 195-6, Tettenhall. (8) Pedigree of Wollaston of Walsall, in the Visitation of Statrordshire of 1662, Harleian I(S. 6104, p.68. (9) Pedigree of Barnesley, in Shaw's Statrordshire, vol. ii. p. 209. (10) See A in Appendix of Extracts from Parish Registers. (II) Inq. p.m. Willielmi Wollaston Gent., 1 James I. (u.) Inq. p.m. Hug. Wollaston Gent., 7 James I. (13) Pedigrees of Moseley and Fowke, in Shaw's Statrordshire. (14) Le Neve's Knights, Harleian Society, p. 98, Sir Stephen White. (IS) Pedigree of Wollaston, in College of Arms, registered in Book 2, D xiv. 116. (16) Pedigree of Wollaston, in Visitation of London, 1682·4. (17) Exemplification of Arms to Henry Wollaston of London, by Camden, dated 10 JnIy 1616, and pro- duced at the Visitation of Leicestershire, 4 Aug. 1682. (18) Pedigree of Wase, in Visitation of London, 1568, printed by Harleian Society, p. 40. (19) From the HS. Collections of Colonel J. L. Chester. (2.0) Shaw'S Statrordshire, vol. ii. p. 89. (21) Life of Sir W. Raleigh, by Edwards, vol. i. p. 684. (2.2.) Pedigree of Champion, in Visitation of London, 1568. (2.3) Calendars of State Papers, Domestic Series, under the dates. (2.4) From the OIiginal Minute-Book of the Governors of Sir Roger Cholmeley's School at Highgate. (2.5) Calendars of State Papers, Colonial Series, America, 1574·1660, under the dates. (2.6) Registers of Westminster Abbey, edited by Col. J. L. Chester for the Harleian Society, 1876. (2.7) Shaw'S Statrordshire, vol. ii. p. 216, Womburne. (2.8) H8. list of Knights, in College of Arms. (2.9) Harleian HS. 986. (30) Nichols's Collectanea Topographica et Genealogiea, vol. iii. p. 81, Valnation of the.Estate. of the . Bishopric8 in 1647. (31) Idem, voL i. p.3. (32.) Idem, vol. i. p. 128. (33) Idem, vol. i. p. 286. (34) Idem, vol. i. p. 288. (35) Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy, fol. 1714, p. 414. (36) Newconrt's Repertorium, vol. i. p. 227. (37) Trollope's Hist. of Christ's Hospital. (38) Charity Reports, vol. xxxii. part vi. p. 182. (3:) Idem, vol. xviii. p. 898. (40) Smyth's Obituary, Camden Society. (41) Athenm Oxon., 1721, vol. ii. p. 512, Joseph Caryll. (42.) Idem, vol. ii. p. 619, Nathaniel Holum. (43) Idem, vol. ii. p. 887, George GriDith. (44) Cary's Memorials of the great Civil War, 1646-62, from letters in the Bodleian Library, 8vo, 1842, vol. ii. p. 287. . (45) From the liS. Collections of G. E. Cokayne Esq., Lancaster Herald. (46) Nichols's Hist. of Leicestershire, vol. iii. pp. 619, 686. (47) Pedigree of Wightwick, in Shaw's Statrordshire, vol. ii. p. 201. (48) Cole'S HSS. in British Museum, vol. vii. p. 74, and vol. xxxv. p. 94, Rector, of Homsey. (49) Lysons's Environs of London, Hormey. (50) Athenm Oxon., 1721; Fasti, vol. ii. p. 42. (5 I) Idem, vol. i. ; Fasti, p. 280. (52.) Idem, vol. i.; Fasti, p. 246. (53) Munk's Roll of College of Physicians, vol. i p. 184. (54) Calendars of State Papers, Domestic Series, 1 March 1688-9, p. 525.

Digitized by Coogle PROOFS AND AUTHORITIES. 599

(55) Calendars of Clarendon Papers, in the Bodleian Library, voL L p. 322. (56) Pedigree of Wollaston of Loseby, in Burke's Extinct Baronetage; Chauncy's Hist. of Herts, p. 2911; Nichols's Hist. of Leicestershire, vol. iii. p. 234. (57) Journals of House of Commons, vol. iv. p.251. (58) Idem, vol. vii. p. 289. (59) Charity Reports, vol. xiv. p. 447, and vol. xxix. part i. p. 446. (60) Paper on Jo/m Foze the MartyrologiBt and hi' Family, by William Winters, printed in vol. v. of Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (1877), pp. 28-82. (61) Shaw's Staffordshire, vol. i. p. 430. (6z) Inq. p.m. Hennci Wollaston civis Londin., 14 and 15 James I., Bundle 24, No. 42, and 17 and 18 James I., Bundle 29, No. 238. (63) See B in Appendix of Extracts from Parish Registers. (64) Communicated by Mr. W. H. Overall, the oourteous Librarian of Guildhall, from the City Records. (65) Charity Reports, vol. xxiii. p. 249. (66j Wilson's Rist. of St. Laurence Pountney, 4to, 1831, p. 247. (67) Le Neve's Knights, printcd by Harleian Socioty, p. 458, Pedigree of Hanger. (68) Pedigree of Wollaston, in Visitation of LeiccBtershire, 1682, in the College of Arms. (69) Extracted from Samuel Fou's Commonplaee Book, in Landsdowne IISS. in British Mnseum, No. 679. bo) Morant's Hist. of Essex, vol. i. p. 18. (71) Nichols's Hist. of Leicestershire, vol. iv. p. 528. (7Z) Pedigree of Burnell, in Visitation of London, 1633, Harleian liS. 1476, fo. 1/4. (73) Pedigree of Wollaston, in Visitation of Essex, 1664. (74) Admissions at the Inner Temple. (75) Nichols'S Hist. of Leicestershlre, vol. iv. p. 526. (76) See G in Appendix of Extracts from Parish Registers. <77) Pedigree of Whitgreve, in Visitation of Staffordshire, HarL liS. 1077, fo. 60. (78) Hughes's Boscobel Tracts, 8vo, 1830. <79) Nichols's HiBt. of Leiccstershire, vol. i. p. 92. (80) Idem, vol. iv. p. 558. (81) Idem, voL iv. p.555. (8:t) Hollingsworth's Hist. of Stowmarket in Suffolk, small 4to, 1844, p. 97; Davy's Suffolk liS. in Brit. Mus., Finborough Magna. (83) Plate 32, in Nichols's Leiccstershire, vol. iv. (84) Nichols's Hist. of Leiccstershire, voL iv. p. 505, Pedigree of Banaster. (85) Idem, vol. iv. p. 504, Pedigree of Foze. (86) Idem, vol. iv. p. 502. (87) Clutterb11l.lk's Hist. of Herts, vol. ii. p. 205. (88) Herald and Genealogist, voL iv. p. 888. (89) Idem, vol. vi. pp. 80-82. (90) Dodd's Church History, fol. Brussels, 1742, vol. iii. p. 824. (91) Nichols'S Rist. of Leicestershire, vol. iii. p. 198. (9Z) From the information of Major Wollaston of Shenton. (93) Athenm Oxon., 1721, voL ii. p. 854, John Oave. (94) Idem, Fasti, vol. it pp. 122, 141. (95) Nichols's Leiccstershire, voL ii. p. 141, Oold Overton. (96). Idem, voL iv. p. 809, NaiZ.ton. (97) Nichols's Leiccstershire, vol. iii. p. 984, Bavemtone. (97A)Idem, vol. iv. p. 470. (98) See D in Appendix of Extracts from Parish Registers. (99) Charity Reports, Bavemtone Hospital. (100) Hamper's Life of Dugdale, 4to. (101) Pedigree of Roper, in Visitation of Derbyshire of 1634. (IOZ) Pedigree of Roper, in Visitation of Derbyshire of 1662, in the College of Arms. (103) Dugdale's Monasticon, vol. iv. p. 296, Wallingwells Nunnery. (104) Thoroton's Hist. of Nottinghamshire, ed. Throsby, vol. iii. p. 408, Oarlton; Pedigree of Fitzhugh, in Dugdale's Baronage, vol. i. p. 403. (lOS) Pedigree of Musard, in Niohols's Colleetanea Topographica et Genealogica, vol. iv. p. 2; Pedigree of Roper, in Dodsworth's IISS. in Bodleian Library, vol. xli. p. 70. (106) Communicated by G. E. Cokayne Esq., Lancaster Herald, from the Records in the College of Arms. (107) Shaw's Hist. of Staffordshire, King" Brolnley.

Digitized by Coogle 600 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

(108) Printed List of Admissions ai the lJmer Temple, 1571-16115. (109) Hanning and Bray's Hilt. of Surrey, vol. i. p. 468; the Herald and Genealogiai, vol. viii. pp. 1-6. (110) Bee E in Appendix of Extracts from Pariah Registers. (III) Chancery Proceedings, temp. II Eliz. C. c. Ill, No. 59. (liS) Rot. Pat. 14 James I., part 8S, No. 87. (113) AthelU8 Olton., 17111, vol. i. p. 499, Sir Henry Finch. (II",) Rot. Pat. 1 Charles I., parllll, No.4, Feb. 1. (115) Pedigree of Villiers, in the Visitation of Leioostershire, 1619. (116) Pedigree of Villiers, in Le Neve's HS. Pedigrees of Baronets, in the College of Arms, voL i. p. 108. (117) Pedigree of Villiers, in Nichols's Hist. of Leioestershire, vol. iii. p. 19S. (118) Will of Richard FenYB, Lord Say and Bele, 16111, registered IS Capell, in C.P.C. (119) Will of Elizabeth Lady Say and Sele, 1682, registered 51 Audley, in C.P.C. (ISO) Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, Villier. Viscount Grandison, note. (lSI) Inq. p.m. Willielmi Villiers Baronetti, 5 Charles I., Bept. 21 i Cole's Escheats, in British H1III8um, vol. i. pp. 21S, 800. (ISS) Niohols's Hist. of Leioestershire, vol. iii. p. 1185. (IS3) Jesse's Hemoirs of the Court of England under the Stuarts, 1855, voL iii. p. 71. (1S4-) Pedigree of Beaumont of Cole-Orton, in Nichola's Hiat. of Leioeatershire, vol. iii. p. 787. (ISS) Vernon's Reports, vol. i. p. 100. (ls6) Baker's Hilt. of Northamptonahire, vol. i. p. 197. (lS7) Collins's Peerage, IS12, voL iii. p. 140. (1S8) Dodsworth's Hist. of Salisbury Cathedral, p. 219. (IS9) Shaw's Hili. of Statfordahire, vol. ii., PatBhull. (130) See H in Appendix of Extracts from Parish Regiatera. (131) Nichola's Hilt. of Leioostershire, voL ii. p. 196, Godeby. (13 u.)Herenrius Publicns, 9 May 1661. (13S) See 88d Report of Depnty-Keeper of Public Recorda. (133) Aubrey's Lives. (13 ...) Communicated by the Vioar of Poalingford. (13S) Niohola's Hist. of Leiooatershire, vol. iii. p. 194. (136) H.I.s at St. Paul's, Covent-garden, in Strypa's edition of Stowe's Survey of London. (137) H.I. at Brooksby, Nichols's Hilt. of Leioeatershire, vol. iii. p.196. (138) M.I. at Cranham, Nichols's Leioestershire, vol. iii. App. p. 555. (139) Niohola's Hist. of Leioeaiershire, vol. iii. pp. 265-7, Hoby. (140) Idem, vol. iii. p. 899, Rotherby. (1"'1) Idem, vol. iii. p. 461, Pedigree oj Noble. (r... s) La Neve's Knights, published by Harleian Society, p. 200, Sir William Jeuofl. (1 ... 3) Communioated by Rev. W. Jeudwine, Vicar of Chiohe1ey. (r ...... ) Pedigree of Hewett, in Nichola's Hilt. of Leioostershire, vol. ii. p. 5S1.

APPENDIX. EXTRACTS FROH PARISH REGISTERS. (A.) ErrB.lCTB BBLlTlll'G TO TlIJI WOLLUTONS OJ' TBBBCOT GBANGB, OJ!' PBBTON, AND OJ'LoNDO•• Penfl, mar Wolllerhampton (examined by G. B. Wollaston Esq., 1877). 1569-70, Jan. 21. Thomas, BOn of Harn WoUaaton, bapt. 1572-8, Harch 14. William, son of same, bapt. 158\1, June 10. Edward, BOn of same, bapt. 1591, Hay 5. Jane, wife of Willism Wollaston of the Grange, buried. 1595, Sept. 7. William, BOn of Hugh Wollaston and Jane, bapt. Buried 5 Nov. 1595. 1596-7, Jan. 80. Jane, dau. of same, bapt. 1598, July 2. Edward, BOn of same, bapt. 1599, Sept. S. Hary, dau. of same, bapt. 1600, June 2. Thomas, BOn of William Wollaston of the Grange, burled. 1600, Nov. S. Richard, BOn of Hugh Wollaston, bapt. 1602, June 29. Elizabeth, dau. of Hngh Wollaston, bapt. 1608-4, Jan. 9. William woUaaton of the Grange buried.

Digitized by Coogle EXTRACTS FROM PARISH REGISTERS. 601

1606, Dec. 1. Jane, wife of Hugh Wollaston, buried. 1626, July IS. Henry Wollaston buried. 1629-S0, Jan. S. Edward Wollaston buried. CodlaU, Btaffordlhire (eumined by G. B. Wollaston Esq., 1877). 1609-10, Feb. 19. William Wollaston and Eleanor Greene married. 1664, Oct. 18. Alme, dan. of Thomas Bache of Ol~en, hapt. 1674, Sept. 28. Eleanor Wollaston, widow, buried. 1686-6, Feb. S. Judith Bache of Oken buried. Tettenhal', Sto§ordlhire (examined by G. B. Wollaston Esq., 1877). 1604, Nov. 8. Edward Wollaston and Elizabeth Smyth married. 1608, Nov. H. Elizabeth Wollaston and Thomas Latham married. 1609, JUDe 15. Elizabeth Wollaston buried. 1624, March 7. Mary, wife of Edward Wollaston, buried. 1625, JUDe 2S. Judith, dan. of William Wollaston, bapt. 1628, July 24. Edward, son of William Wollaston, hapt. 1629, April 5. William Wollaston buried. 1636, Oct. 5. William Wilkins and Elizabeth Wollaston married. 1660, Oct. 8. Edward Wollaston JUD'. buried. 1666, Dec. 29. Thomas Bache and Judith Wollaston of Perton married. Highgau Chapel, Middlue:J:. 1668, April 29. Sir John Woolastou buried in the chaucel. 1660, JUDe 1. Dame Rebecca Woolaston, widow of Sir John, buried.

(B.) EUBAars BBLATJlIIG TO rBlI FAlIILY 01' WOLLASTON 01' WALTJUII ABDIIY. Bewmoa1c., Kent (commllDicated.by G. B. Wollaston Esq., 1877). 1679-80, Jan. 1. Henry Wollaston and Sarah Burgia married. 1611, July 9. Alice Burgis, widow, buried. WaUham Abbey, E.,". (60) 1688. Henry Wolliston, the BOD of Henry WolliBton of London, bnryed August 14. 1606·7. Thomas Wooleston and Margaret Colburne married January 18. 1612. Samwell Middilmas and Sara Woollarston married Oct. 5. 1617. Henry Woolerstone Gent. maned to Mst. Ursula Fox, Apri1l29. 1621. Edward Woolerstone, son of Henry Woolerstone and Ursula, was baptized JUDe 27. 1622-8. Alm Wolleston, daughter to Hendri and Ursula his wife, hapt. Feb. 27. 1625-6. Henry Wollerstone, BOUD of Henry and Ursular, bapt. Feb. 2S. 1628. Ursula Woo1erstone, daughter to Henry and Ursula, hapt. April 17. 1629. Thomas Wollurstone, BOn of Henry and Ursula, hapt. Sept 18. 1680. Elizabeth Wollerstone, daughter of Henry and Ursula, bapt. Dec. last day. 1682. Samuel Woolerstone, BOnD of Mr. Henry and Ursula, bapt. August SO. 1682. Thomas Woolerstone, BOD to Mr. Henry Woolerstone, buried Sept. S. 1646. Memerrandum, that the Banes of Matrimonie between Mr. Adam Edwards and MisteriB ADn Woolaston ware three 88verall times published in our Parish Church of Waltham Abby without oontradicktion, and the last time of the publishing thereof was the 20 day of Apri1l1645, and they ware married one Thursday the 24 of the same moneth. 1648. Mr. Rowland Berisford and Misteris Elizabeth Wollastone married Nov. 2S. 1655. Ursula, daughter to Mr. Henry and Mrs. Ann Wollaston, borne at Harehold in Bedfordshire. Birth, Sept. 27. 1656. The seaoond cbild, but ftrst sonn to Mr. Henry and Mrs. Ann Wollaston. Birth, July 25. 1668. Judith, daughter to Henry and Ann Wollastone, buried Sept. 7. 1660. Henry, BOnn of Mr. Henry and Mrs. Alm Wollaston, bom April!. 1662. Richard, BOnn to Captain Henry Wollaston and to Ann, bapt. Dec. 19. 1665. Oliver, BOnn to Captain Henry Wollaston, hapt. April 30. 1666. Thomas. BOnn to Captain Henry Wollaston, bapt. Nov. 8. 1668. A son,.,. sixth of Captain Wollaston, buried Dec. 21.

Digitized by Coogle 602 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

1669·70. Henry Wollaston senior Esq., Justice of ye Peace and Quorum many years, buried in ye Church at the BOuth end of his own pew, Feb. 17. 1670. Mrs. Ursula Wollaston, wid., relict of Henry Esq., buried ye 11 April. 1674. Richard, son to Captain Henry Wollaston and of Mrs. Ann, buried in ye Church of St. Giles in y' Fields, Middx. March 23. 1678. Captain Henry Wollaston buried in ye Church, March 21. 1684. Francis, BOn of William Wollaston of Shenton in county of Leistershire, and of Elizabeth his wife, she being y. only daughter and heir of Captain Cave of Inglc8\Jie in y" same county, buried att y" south end of ye pew of Hen. Wollaston Esq., Dec. 6.

(c.) EXTRACTS BBLATING TO TUE WOLLASTONS OF SHENTON. Shenton, co. Leice.te-r (communicated by Major Wollaston of Shenton Hall, 1871). 1626·7. Richard Wollaston and John Wollaston, sonneR of William Wollaston Esq., were baptized 27th January. Richard Wollaston buried the same day. John Wollaston buried 1st February. 1629·30. Anne Wollaston, the wife of William Wollaston Esq., was buried 18th February. 1661. Anne Wollaston, the daughter of William Wollaston the younger and Elizabeth his wife, was christened 13th May. 1662. William Wollaston, the BOnne of William Wollaston and Elizabeth his wife, the daughter of the Lady Villiers, was christened at Measham 3d April by ..... lil/egible] , curate of Shenton, and ...•• [illegible], God, 27 August, about 10 A.H. 1666. Henry Wollaston, son of Mr. William Wollaston the younger and Ann his wife, was buried by me, Abraham Spense, Rector of Market Bosworth, 26th May. 1666. William Wollaston Esq. departed this world 10th December about 10 A.H., bt'ing Monday, and was bnrydd on Thursday after about 3 P.H. by Mr. Abraham Spense, Rcctor of Marke~ Bosworth. 1667. Mrs. Elizabeth Wollaston, daughter to the Lady Villiers and wife of Henry Wollaston Esq., was brought to bed of a daughter on Monday, about 6th March 1666, and was baptized 28th March 1667, after evening church, by Mr. Abraham Spense, Rector of Market Bosworth, and was named Elizabeth, and had for godmothers and godfather Mrs. Roper and Mrs. Elizabeth •••• [illegible] and Mr. William Beamont. 1667. Elizabeth Wollaston, daughter of William Wollaston Esq. and Mrs. Elizabeth Wollaston his wife, was buryed by Mr. Abrabam Spense, Rector of Mark('t Bosworth, on Friday, 14th June. 1668. Francis Wollaston, the sonne of William Wollaston and Elizabeth his wife, was born on Thursday at night about twelve of the clock, being the 2d July, and was baptized on Thursday,23d July after, by Mr. Abraham Spense, Rector of Market Bosworth. 1684. Mrs. Elizabeth Whitgreve was buried 11th October, and certified for according to Act of Parliament 12th October. 1688. William Wollaston Esq. was buryed 21st August. 1717. Mrs. Elizabeth Wollaston was buried 28th March.

(D.) EXTRAOTS BBLATING TO THE FAHILY OF WILKINS. Rave7lltone, co. LeicesteT (Nichols'S Leicestershire, vol. iii. p. 934). 1689, May 2. Frances Wollaston, son of John Wilkins Esq. and Rebecca, baptized. Buried 5 Feb. 1711·12. 1718, July 12. Rebecca, wife of John Wilkins Esq., bur. 1726·7, Feb. 25. John Wilkins Esq. buried. Died 19 Feb.

(E.) EXTRAOTS BBLATING TO THE FAMILY OF ROPER OF HEANOR. St. PeteT'R, DeTby (certified by Rev. W. Hope, Vicar, 1877). 1590·1, Jan. 17. Rebecca Roper 1ilia Roberti bapt. 1592, Apru 16. Margareta 1iIia Roberti Roper bapt. 1594, May 26. Johannes Roper et Maria Wandill marr. 1594. Dec. 26. Henricus 1iIius Roberti Roper bapt. 1596-7, Feb. 13. Elizabetha 1ilia Roberti Roper bapt.

Digitized by Coogle EXTRACTS FROM PARISH REGISTERS. 603

1097, March 26. Elizabetha filla Roberti Roper sepulta. 1098, Oct. 8. Elizabetha filla Roberti Roper bapt. 1098, Dec. 27. Mr. Robertus Roper sepultus. 1099-1600, March 10. Johanne8 Cholmeley et Elizabetha Roper nupti. 1600, Deo. 14. Nathaniel fillU8 Johannis Cholmeley bapt. 1604, May 12. Nioholas Moon et Katharin& Cholmeley nupt.

(H.) EXTlUoOT8 BBLATmO TO TJIB FAlIILY OP VILLIBBB oJr BROOESBY. Goadby.Manoooa, Leice.Ur,hire (verified by Rev. S. G. Bellairs, Rector, 1877). 1647, Sept. 6. Rebeoo&, dau. of Sir George Villiers Bart. and Dame Margaret his wife, bapt. 1648, Sept. 27. Margaret, dau. of same, bapt. 1606-7. Jan. 9. Catharine, dau. of same, buried. 1660,~.8. Alima,dau.ofsame. burie~ 1668, July 24. Dame Margaret Villiers, wife of Sir George Villiers Bart., buried. 1669-70, Jan. 28. Sir William JeBSOn of Burleigh Park in the parish of Loughborcugh and Penelope Villiers, eldest daughter of Sir Gecrge Villiers Bart. of Goadby, married. 1682, July 20. Sir George Villiers bur. Boar.tall, BvcTu (Lipscomb's Buoks, vol i. p. 94). 1641, June 17. Sir George V"illiers Kt. and Bart. and Margaret Dynham married. Se. Paul'" CO'/JeJlt-garden, London. (19) 1683-4, Jan. 19. Madam Rebeeca Villiers buried. 1681i, June 6. Mrs. Mary Villiers buried.

Po,ZingJortJ, S~ollc (cerWled by the V"lOar, 1870). 1699, Nov. 28. Lady Marie Vyllers, ,. reliot of Sir George Vyllers of Goadby Bart., buried. Died in London 14 November.

I am indebted to Mr. Charles Bridger for the following 11Otes, relating to the family of Roper of HeaDor, from the Bishop's Registry at Lichfteld : 1048. HJ:HBY RoPBB of the parish of Morley, Derbyshire. Will proved at Liohfteld 18 Sept. 1048, by Margaret Roper the widow and Thomas Roper the SOD. 1079. TROHA8 RoPBB of Heynor, Derbyshire. Will proved 10 June 1079, by Matilda Roper the widow and her sons Thomas and Robert Roper. 1686. WILLUlI RoPBB of Heynor. Letters of Administration granted 10 June 1686 to Emote Roper the widow.

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Digitized by Coogle 604 THE CHESTERS OF CHIC HE LEY.

CHAPTER XXI. Sir William Chester, 5th Bart., 1687-1726. II. .Dame Penelope Chest(!/" and the Hewett.'J of Stretton. III. The si-v Daughters of Sir IVilliam CMster Bart. IV. Sir John Cllester, 6th Bart., 1693-1748. V. Sir Charles Bagot Chester, 7th Bart., 1724-17.55. VI. Sir Francis Chester, 8th Bart., 1694- 1766. VII. Sir Anthony CI,ester, 9th Bart., of East Haddon, 1706-1769.

SIR WILLIAM CHESTER, the son and heir of Sir John Chester the 4th Baronet, by Anne Wollaston, was in his 38th year when he succeeded to his father's title and estates on 6th Feb. 1725-6. He was born on 5th Sept. 1687 at Shenton Hall in Leicestershire, and was baptized at Shenton on 8th September following, when his grandfather William Wollaston was his godfather. (I) He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he matriculated as a gentle­ man commoner with his brother Thomas on 18th May 1705; (:1) but he took no degree, and probably left the University in 170'7, when his brother went to Ireland with the Earl of Pembroke.- For some years after he came of age he was content to make his father's house his home; for unlike most heirs-expectant he enjoyed his father's full confidence and affection, and warmly interested himself in all his plans of rebuilding and improvement at Chicheley. He soon began to look a,bout him for a wife; and it appears from the correspondencet of his intimate friend Mr. Burrell Massingberd of South Ormsby in Lincolnshire, that in the autumn of 1710 Sir John and his son had already a young lady iu view. Mr. Massingberd was then at the be~inning of his courtship of the lady whom he eventually married, Miss Philippa Mundy of Osbaston Hall near Market Bosworth; but his overtures were coldly received by her father, and the match was not concluded for several years. In the mean while he engaged his friend Chester to use his good offices with Mr. Mundy,t who lived within visiting distance of Shenton Hall.

WILLIAM CHESTKR ESQ. TO BURRELL MASBINGBERD ESQ. Dear Sir, I had not defer'd making my acknowledgements till this time, but in exspectation every day of being satisfy'd in matters relating to us both, w·h are as follows: Yesterday I dined with ?vIr 1\1 rundy ] ,who began witll me, Buppo~ing me (with a great deal of reason) to wonder I had not hrant from him while in L-nc-ns-re, and then gave me this reason, His daughter Mill§ being

• S,'.' 1'. i5:}.). t Sa p. 529. t Frallcis Jlu71dy Esq. of Markeaton, Derbyshire, acquired the mansion Rnd estate olOsbaston in Leiceatershiro with his wife Philippa Wrightson, by whom he had five sons and threo daughters. He died in 1718, and his youngest daughter Philippa married Burrell Massingberd. (3) § Millicent, the eldest daughter of Mr. Mundy, died unmarried BOOn after the date of this letter. (3)

Digitized by Coogle SIR WILLIAM CHESTER, 5TH BART. 605

so dangerously ill at the Bath, made it improper at this time to treat, &c., and desired me to excuse it to you, weh I cant do otherwise tban by telling you I believe all things will hit and the fortuue not fall sbort. As to mine, we bave beard nothing of the bright Lady, tho' I believe she'll answer exspectation. I go on Tuesday next to meet sr Rob' Throgmorton* in Warwick­ shire, but shall return to this place before I can receive an answer to this. 'Tis late and I'm in company, yet nothing can make me ungratefull and consequently keep me from acknowledging myself, Dear sr, Shenton, Octor ye 28, yr obliged Friend 1710. and faithfull SerY', \V· CHKSTEIl. All our respects attend you; my father will have no occaasion for the money, and hopes it will be no disapointment. I beg my humble service to Sir Will. Massingberd,t and Mr White and spouse, Mr Amcoats,t and my br' Jockey§ T. To Bur" ...lJas,ingberd E'q., (Jtt Ormtl,hy near Alford, Lincolrukire, per London.

DRAFT LKTTER FROM BURRELL MASSINOBERD ESQ. TO WII.LIAM CHKSTER ESQ. Indorsed' ...lJine to ...lJr. 0I1.8,t6r, 20 Nov. 1710.' Dear Sir, I received yours, and bave a very long arrears of thanks and acknowledgements, which, according to my accustomed rudeness, I am ready to curtail and finish at once. I wish you abondance of success with the Bright!l Lady, and hope to be 80 happy as to see you in Town this winter, but fear I shall not gett up before Xmas. I beg my bumble service to Sir John, and should have been very glad of an opportunity to serve him if he had had occasion; the pleasure of doing it would ha' been equall to anything else: but as it happens the luck in point of gain is on my side, for I have laid out my money in Bank Stock, wch was bought for me so cheap that it is almost impossible but I must get very considerably by it. My humble respect to Mro Wolaston and all at Shenton or elsewhero concludes from yor, &c. William remained at Shenton with his grandmother Wollaston when his father removed to Ohicheley in 1714 on his second marriage; and it is to be feared that she encouraged him in resenting the intrusion of a stepmother, for from this time forward he became estranged from his father, who was eventually induced to dis­ inherit him in great measure by settling the reversion of his Bedfordshire estates on his younger son Johu. William married at Shenton, on 5th Mareh 1716-17, Mrs. Penelope Hewett, (I) the ouly daughter of George Hewett Esq. of Stretton and

• The Throckmortom were hereditary friends of the Chesters, for their ancient seat at Weston Under­ wood is only a few miles from Chicheley. t Sir Willian, Mas.ingberd, the 2d Bart. of Brayton and Gunby in Lincolnshire, was consin-german of Burrell Massingberd, and died in 1719, t Vincent Amcotts E.q. of Harrington and ABtrop in Lincolnshire was High Sherifi' of that connty in 1726, and died 26 Aug. 1733. His wife Elizabeth Quincy of Aslackby was cousin·german to John Toller of Billingborough, the husband of Catharine Chester. § Probably John Toller, afterwards his brother·in-Iaw. ~ I cannot identify the Bright Lady, but it iij certain thai she never became William Chester's wif ..

Digitized by Coogle 606 1'HE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

Great Glen in Leicestershire by Penelope Jesson, who was Mrs. Wollaston's grand­ niece. It must be assumed from the marriage being celebrated at Shenton, that it had the old lady's full approval; but the match was not to Sir John's liking, and the settlement was limited to the reversion of Chicheley Hall and 8001. a year in lands adjoining. This estate was settled on William and his heirs male, with the proviso that if he had no son the estate was to revert to Sir John's disposal; but in case he had daughters only, their fortune was limited to 40001. between them. (+) Penelope's father George Hewett belonged to a family which has been already mentioned in my 13th chapter;* for he was the son -and heir of Nele Hewett Esq. of Dunton Bassett and Great Glen, who was the great-grandson of William Hewett, to whom his uncle and godfather Sir William Hewett, Alderman of London, devised the Parsonage of Dunton Bassett by his Will in 1567. (s) George was bom in 1664, and inherited the Manor of Stretton from his uncle George in 1690. He was High Sheriff of Leicestershire in 1700, and died 25th Aug. 1714,t leaving two sons and a daughter. (s) His wife Penelopet was the elder of the two daughters and co-heirs of Sir William Jesson Kt. of Coventry by Penelope Villiers, of whom a full account was given in my last chapter. Mrs. Wollaston died a fortnight after her grandson's marriage, for she was buried at Shenton on 28th March 1717. (I) On her death William came into possession of the estate at Merevale, on the borders of Warwickshire, which had been devised to him in reversion by his mother's father; but he had to quit Shenton Hall, which now passed to his grandfather's testamentary heir. He did not, however, leave Leicestershire altogether, for he removed to Great Glen, one of the seats of his wife's family, where he resided until his death. He succeeded his father on 6th Feb. 17~-6; but he did not live to take possession of Chicheley Hall, for he died at Great Glen on 10th March .1725-6, just 32 days after his father. (7) His body was carried to Chicheley, and he was buried there with his ancestors on 19th March. (I) He left six daughters; but Chicheleyand the other estates included in his marriage-settlement passed under his father's Will to his brother John, who also succeeded to the Baronetcy.

II. DAME PENELoPE CHESTER, the widow of Sir William, was great with child when her husband died, and their daughter Mary was bom two months after her father's death. Her six daughters were most inadequately provided for by the sum of 40001. secured to them under her marriage settlement, and she was advised to contest on their behalf the succession to the Chicheley estate. Her father-in-law

• Beep. 229. t On tombltof&e. in the chaneel oj Great Glen Ohurch. (5) George Hewet~ Arm., died Aug. 25, 1714, mtat. 50. Peuelope Hewe", widow 01 George Hewett Esq., died 81 Aug. 1721, aged 66.

Digitized by Coogle DAME PENELOPE CHESTER. 607 had reserved to himself the disposal of the estates comprised in his son William's settlement, in the event of William's leaving no son; but the wording of his Will was ambiguous, for it contained no specific devise of the contingent reversion in Chicheley, and Dame Penelope contended that it had descended to her daughters as his heirs-at-law. Sir John devised 'all his lands in Lidlington, Marston, and Milbrook in Bedfordshire and elsewlure not by him formerly settled' to his younger son John in fee; but it was contended that the lands settled on William Chester's' marriage would not pass under this description, and that the testator had incident­ ally expressed his intention of leaving them to descend to his granddaughters, who were his heirs-at-Iaw, by devising to their father in fee the field with the conduit and waterpipes, which supplied Chicheley Hall with water. But the suit was decided in Trinity term, 1730, in favour of Sir John Chester the uncle, by the unanimous judgment of Lord Chancellor King, Lord Chief Justice Raymond, Lord Chief Baron Reynolds, and Mr. Justice Price. (+) After ten years of widowhood Dame Penelope married by license* on 5th April 1736 James Montague Esq. of Newbold Verdon, a childless widower offamilyand fortune. The marriage was celebrated at the Mercers' Chapel iu the City of London by Mr. Anthony Chester (afterwards the ninth Baronet), who was then the chaplain of the Mercers' Company. (I) Dame Penelope'S second husband, James Montague, was the grandson of Edward 1st Earl of Sandwich, (8) and was M.P. for Camelford in the first Parlia­ ment of George I. He was iD high favour with his granduncle Lbrd Crewe, the munificent Bishop of Durham, who appointed him on 26th Dec. 1715 Seneschal of Durham for life, and conveyed to him by deed of gift in 1721 the lordship of Newbold Verdon. (9) It was then a poor place, but James Montague greatly improved it. His sister-in-law Mrs. Edward Montague, ' the blue-stocking,' says in one of her letters, dated from Newbold 9th Aug. 1744, 'This is one of the most charming and pleasant seats I ever saw. It is delightful to observe the regularity and order of the family, and the happiness that appears in the countenance of every friend and servant.' (9A) James had no issue, and died in London on 8th Nov. 1748, when he devised his estate to his cousin Edward Wortley Montague, the husband of the famous Lady Mary. (9) His wife, Lady Chester, died some years before him, but I have not discovered the precise date of her death. It can, however, be fixed wit~n narrow limits, for it appears from the marriage licenses of her daughters that she was alive on 14th May 1739, and that she was dead in December 1744. There is a fine portrait of her, three-quarter length, in the drawing-room at Cransley Hall in N orthamptonshire, which was the seat of her son-in-law Mr. Robinson. Her figure is singularly

• MarTiage Licmae from the Faculty O~e. (~) 1786, April 6. James Mountague Esq. of Newbold, co. Leicester, widower, and Dame Penelope Chester o18heUon,00. Leicester, widow, kl marry at St. Paul's, Covent Garden, or Mercers' Chapel.

Digitized by Coogle 608 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. elegant, and although her face is rather long, her features are regular and her fair complexion is set off by dark-brown hair and eyes, with well-pencilled eyebrows. She is dressed in white satin with pearl ornaments, and is holding a pug-dog in her arms. (10) Dame Penelope had no expectation in her lifetime that her children would ever enjoy the family estates of the Hewetts, for her two brothers stu'Vived her many years. But they both died without issue, and their sister's posterity eventually inherited their estates at Stretton and Great Glen. Her two brothers were both noted characters in their day for their eccentricities. The elder of them, WILLIAM HEWETT of Stretton, succeeded his father at the age of 25, and was High Sheriff of Leicestershire in 1719. He was the intimate friend of the Marquess of Granby, and was colonel of the regiment of Volunteers which that nobleman raised at his own expense in 1745 to oppose the Pretender. ( 5) He is reputed to be the original, from whom Smollett drew the character of' the Demonstrator' in his novel of Count Fathom. He travelled to Italy with Lord Granby, and purchased there many works of art to embellish his seat at Stretton. But his untravelled heirs set so little value on his collections, that sixteen marble statues as large as life, which had been brought from Italy at a great cost, were sold for a trifling sum by Sir George Robinson when he removed to Cranford. (lOA) Colonel Hewett died at Florence in 1766 at the age of 76. (5) His brother and heir, GEORGE VILLIERS HEWETT, was baptized at Stretton on 1st Feb. 1691-2, (5) and was known as' Beau Hewett.' He is amusingly described byThrosby, the editor of Thoroton's History ofNottingham8ltire, in hisE.xcur8iona:( II) This gentleman [George Villiers Hewett] was captain of a company in the Leicestershire regiment of Volunteers, under the command of the Marquis of Granby, in the rebellion of 1745, and resided long in Leicester. He was in his earlier life considered the polite and accomplished gentleman in the bo.1l- and assembly-rooms; and his mind was fraught with learning and good l!Iense. In the decline of life he was considered by the young as a whimsical old man, his habits being original, his dress peculiar, and his deportment bordering upon rudeness. He was a con­ stant attendant at church, sat among the aldermen, but looked very unlike one. He wore shoe­ strings (then little used), red garters below his breeches-knees, a scarlet coat (retaiuing the fashion of his youth), a queue wig (the aldermen then wore large wigs full-bottomed), and a large black ribbon tied round his neck. In the church he never kneeled, disliked singing, and showed not a token of complaisance to those about him. As he came into the church he went out, without a nod or a bend, and always before the congregation, while the clerk was giving out the Psalm. He lived a bachelor till he was upwards of 70 years of age, and then took a wife of 25. George succeeded his brother William at Stretton in 1766, and died in 1772 without issue in his 8Ist year. (5)

Ill. Sir William Chester had issue by Penelope Hewett his wife six daughters, of whom the eldest was only eight years old when hel' father died.

Digitized by Coogle THE DAUGHTERS OF SIR WILLIAM CHESTER BART. 609

I. PENELOPE CHESTER was baptized at Stretton on 27th Feb. 1718-19, (I) and married by license,. dated 29th April 1737, John Pryce, a surgeon in Covent Garden. Her mother's assent to the marriage was attested by her cousin John Chester, who made a runaway match with her sister Elizabeth in the next year. She had two daughters: I. FRANOES DOROTHEA, afterwards Mrs. Surtees; II. PENELOPE, was baptized at St. Paul's, Covent Garden, 18th April 1739, and was bnried there 24th Aug. 1740. (I) Mr. Pryce was living in May 1744, but died soon afterwards; for his widow Penelope was in 1747 the wife of Dr. Timothy Lee, Rector of Ackworth in Yorkshire. She had succeeded in 1743 to a considerable fortune as one of the three surviving co-heirs of her father, for on the death of Charles Wood als. Cranmer Esq. of Loud­ ham Park in September 1743 his great estates in Suffolk reverted in equal moieties to the heirs of the two sisters of Sir Henry Wood, the original purchaser. Sir Henry's elder sister Mary was the mother of the wife of Sir Anthony Chester III., of whom Penelope and her sisters were in 1743 the heirs-at-law. The co-heirs of Sir Henry'S younger sister Elizabeth have been fully noticed in my 18th chapter.t A commis­ sion under the Great Seal issued on 13th April 1747 for a partition of the Wood estates between the co-heirs, when the manor and advowson of Whepsted with other lands adjoining were allotted to Penelope Lee. (12) She joined her husband in levying a fine ofthese lands in Michaelmas term 1747, and shortJy afterwards they alienated the manor. The advowson was not included in this sale, but was sepa­ rately sold in 1751. (12) Penelope had no issue by her second marriage, and died of consumption at the age of 44 on 7th May 1762. She was buriedt at Ackworth on 14th May following. (13) Her husband Dr. Lee was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1736, M.A. in 1740, and D.D. in 1752. (14) He held the living of Ackworth for 33 years, 1744-1777, and is honourably remembered for the scrupulous care which he took in keeping the Registers of his parish at a period when they were generally left by the clergy at

• Marriage Licerue from the Faculty OjJice. (2.) 1787, April 29. John Pryce of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, surgeon, bachelor above 25, and Penelope Chester of the same parish, spinster above 19, with the consent of her mother Dame Penelope Chester, wife of (blank) Montague Esq., residing in co. Leicester, attested by John Chester of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, Gent., cousin·german to said Penelope the younger. To marry at St. Mary Savoy, Somerset Honse Chapel, or Mercers' Chapel. t See pedigree at p. 516. t From the Parish Register of Ackworth, YorluhiT8. (13) 1768, July 14. Anthony Surtees of Ackworth Esq., bachelor, aged 21, and Franees Dorothy Pryoe of Aokworth, spinster, aged 25, were married by license by T. Lee, rector, in the presenoe of D. J. Wilson, Dorothy Chester, and George Shaw. BUTialII : 1762, May 14. Penelope Lee, wile of Rov. Dr. Loe, Reotor of Aokworth, aged 44 years; died of con· sumption 7 May. 1777, April 21. Timothy Lee, Dr. and Reetor of Ackworth, aged 68; died of mortification 19 April. 1802, March 30. Franoes Dorothy Surtees, wile of Anthony SurteeB Esq. of Ackworth, aged 64; died of decline 27 March.

Digitized by Coogle 610 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. the mercy of the parish clerk. (J 5) He died at the age of 63 on 19th Apri11777, and was buried* at Ackworth on 21st April. FRANCES DOROTHEA PRYCE, the only surviving child of Penelope Lee by her first husband, was baptized at St. Paul's, Covent Garden, 27th Feb. 1737-8, (I) and married* at Ackworth 14th July 1763 Anthony Surtees Esq. of an ancient family in the county of Durham. The ceremony was performed by her stepfather Dr. Lee, and her cousin Dorothea Chester, afterwards Lady Robinson, was one of her bridesmaids, and signed the Register as a witness. Surtees was five years younger than his wife, who had a considerable fortune, and occupied after his marriage Ackworth Park, where he and his wife spent their lives. He was an active magis­ trate for the West Riding of Yorkshire, and was for many years Lieut.-Colonel of the 2d West York Regiment of Militia. He had no issue by his wife, who died of decline on 27th March 1802, aged 64, and was buried* at Ackworth on 30th March. He survived her nearly five years, and died 12th Jan. 1807, aged 65. A tablet in Ackworth Church bears the following inscription: (13) Sacred to the memory of Anthony Surtees Esq., one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the West Riding of Yorkshire, and many years Lieut.-Coli of the 24 West York Regiment of Militia. He died the 12th day of January 1807, aged 65 years. Also, in the same vault are interred the remains of his wife Frances Dorothea Surtees, who died the 27th day of March 1802, aged 64 years. She was the daughter of Penelope, the wife of John Prioe Esquire, who afterwards married 1'imothy Lee, D.D. and Rector of this Parish. II. ELIZABETH CHESTER was baptized at Stretton on 17th Aug. 1719, (I) when her father's sister Elizabeth was her godmother. She was 19 years old when she ran away with her cousin John Chester, the only son of her father's uncle Thomas Chester of St. Paul's, Covent Garden; and she was married at the Fleet on 24th Aug. 1738. (I) The other incidents of her short life have been already related in my account of her husband in my 16th chapter.t To which it may be added that John was a solicitor by profession, and that he enjoyed the confidence and affection of his cousin Charles Wood of Loudham, who gave him by his Will in 1743 his house in Dover-street, with all the furniture and pictures, and lOOOI. in money.t Her only child Dorothea Chester married on 2d Dec. 1764 her cousin Sir George Robinson Bart. of Cranford in Northamptonshire, and died 27th Jan. 1815, the last survivor of the Chesters. The present Baronet (1877), Sir John Blencowe Robinson of Cranford, is her great-grandson through both his parents. III. ANNE CHESTER was born in 1720, and married {I) at the Mercers' Chapel on 15th May 1739 Robert Lee Esq., who is described in his marriage license as a bachelor aged 28, of the parish of Christchurch, Middlesex.§ She died without issue • See DOto t, p. 606. t See p.862. : See p. 467_ § Marriage License from the Bishop of London', Registry. (:I) 1789, May 14. Robert Lee of Christ Church, MiddlE., bachelor, aged 28, and Anne Cheater of St. George's, Middz., spinster, aged 18, with the consent of her mother Dame Penelope Chester, DOW wife of James MODtague Esq., of the same parish. To marry at St. Mary Ie Bow or Meroers' Chapel. .

Digitized by Coogle THE DAUGHTERS OF SIR WILLIAM CHESTER BART. 611 within the year, and letters of administration were granted to hel' husband on 10th Jan. 1740. IV. DOROTHEA CHESTER was born in 1724, and married by license at St. Paul's, Covent Garden, on 26th Dec. 1744 John Robinson Esq. of Crans ley in Northamp­ tonshire, (I) the grandson of Francis Duncombe Esq. of Broughton, Bucks, who married Mary Chester.- Her marriage licenset is dated 18th Dec. 1744, and was granted with the consent of her guardian Lucy Oliver Esq. of the Middle Temple, who was appointed for the purpose, as Dorothea was still under age, and her mother was dead. Her fortune was considerable, for she inherited in 1743 a third part of a moiety of the Wood estates in Suffolk, and the Gentleman' 8 :Magazine thus announces her marriage: (16) 'John Robinson Esq. of Cransley to Miss Chester, niece of Sir John Chester Bart., with 30,0001.' She died without issue on 1st Dec. 1786, aged 62, and was buried at Cransley, where a marble tablet in the chancel of the church bears this inscription: (17)

Sacred to th,e memory of John Robinson Esq., descendant of the late Sir William Robinson Bart. of Hawkstone in Yorkshire, whose family were in pOBBession of the chief part of Cransley lordship from the beginning of Queen Elizabeth's reign. He departed this life 22 Nov. 1791, aged 71 years. Also to the memory of Dorothea Robinson his wife, daughter of Sir William Chester Bart. of Chicheley, Bucks, who departed this life 1 Dec. 1786 aged 62 years.

Mrs. Robinsou's portrait still hangs over the mantelpiece of the dining-room at Cransley Hall. It is of life-size, three-quarter length, and she is holding a feather­ fan in her hand. She is dressed in black velvet slashed with pink satin, and set oft' with a high lace ruff and deep rufBes. She is a plain likeness of her mother, with a very long thin face, and a tall slight figure. (10) Her widower was the last of his family; and when he died at Bath on 22d Nov. 1791 he left his estate at Cransley to his natural daughter Mrs. Rose, the widow of the Rev. Zachary Rose, Rector of Broughton and Draughton in Northamptonshire. (16) She had three children. Her only son John Capel Rose Esq. was High Sheriff of Northampton­ shire in 1801>, and was father to the present owner of Cransley. His sister Dorothea Frances Rose married 30th June 1799 Rev. Thomas Methold, Rector of Stonham Aspall, Suffolk, and grandnephew of Sir William Chester. V. CATHARINE DIANA CHESTER, the 5th daughter of Sir William, died at Melton Mowbray intestate and unmarried in 1743. Letters of administration were granted 2d May 1744 to her sister Penelope, then the ,rife of John Pryce Esq. (2) VL MARy CHESTER was born in 1726 after her father's death, and died on 30th

• See p. 850. t Marriage Liceme from the Bishop of London', Registry. (2.) 1744, Dec. 18. John Robinson junr. Esq. of Cransley, co. Northampton, bachelor, aged 25, and Dorothea Chester of St. Clement Danes, spinster, aged 20, with the consent of her guardian elected, Lucy Oliver, Gent. of the Middle Temple. To marry at Mercers' Chapel, Cheapside, Somerset House Chapel, or St. Paul's, Covent Garden. 41

Digitized by Coogle 612 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

April 1732, aged five years. A flat stone in the chancel of Great Glen Church is thus inscribed: (18) Here lyeth interred the body of Mary Chester, youngest daughter of Sir William Chester Bart. by Dame Penelope his wife, who departed this life 30 April 1732 in the sixth year of her age.

IV. SIR JOHN CHESTER, the 6th Baronet, was in his 34th year when his brother Sir William Chester died on 10th March 1725-6, and by the provisions of their father's Will he succeeded to his brother's estate at Chicheley as well as to the title. The 3d son and 5th child of Sir John Chester, the 4th Baronet, by Anne Wollaston, he was born at Shenton Hall on 23d April, and was baptized at Shenton on 16th May 1693. (I) His two elder brothers had been educated at Oxford; but John entered as a fellow commoner at Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1709, where he proeeeded B.A. in 1712, and M.A. in 1716. (14). After taking his degree at Cambridge he studied for the Bar, and was admitted at the Inner Temple on 6th June 1713 as a student. (19) But his father's partiality placed him abo.e the necessity of following a profession; and when he married in 1719, the family estates at Lidlington and Tilsworth in Bedfordshire, with upwards of 1000l. a year in land, were secured to him after the death of his father. These estates had been devised to the third Baronet by his uncle Sir Henry Chester;· and Sir John was induced by his estrangement from his eldest son to follow the example of the first Baronet,t and to separate them from Chicheley Hall and the title. He was encouraged in this resolution by his second wife, with whom John was a special favourite; but it was an act of extreme injustice to his eldest son, whose sole offence consisted in disliking his stepmother. John married at Blithfield in Staffordshire on 15th Feb. 1718-19 Frauces, daughter of the late Sir Edward Bagot, the 4th Bart., by Frances WagstafFe, then the wife of Sir Adolphus Oughton Bart. (20) She was the goddaughter of Sir John Chester's second wife, and was cousin to the children of her first marriage. John maintained through life terms of affectionate intimacy with his wife's family; and her uncle Charles Bagot, sometime M.P. for Staffordshire, when he died in London at his lodgings in Essex-street, Strand, on 28th April 1738, left 10001. and all his plate to his niece Lady Chester. (I b) Sir William Chester died so soon after his father that in fact the separation of Chicheley from the Bedfordshire estates never took place; and it has been already related that Sir John succeeded in defeating the claims of his nieces to Chicheley. After his succession he took a more prominent part in public life than his father had ever done, and was a warm supporter of the Grenvilles in their political contests in Buckinghamshire. He was elected in 1741 M.P. for Bedfordshire in the Tory interest, when Sir Roger Bur-

• See pp. 180, 844. t See p. 116 .

Digitized by Coogle SIR JOHN CHESTER, 6TH BART. 613 goyne was his colleague. He voted steadily in the Tory minority against the Whig Ministers, and was one of those sturdy country gentlemen who voted on 10th Dec. 1742 against the Hanoverian troops being taken into British pay. (21) Parliament was dissolved on 18th June 1747, and the Whigs carried the election in Bedfordshire in the new Parliament; but Sir John was now too ill to trouble himself with politics, for he died on 8th Feb. 1747-8, (7) and was buried at Chicheley on 13th February. (I) He died intestate, but letters of administration were granted on 27th May 1748 to his son Sir Charles Chester. There are portraits of Sir John and his wife at Chicheley Hall. They are both of three-quarter length, and were evidently taken soon after their marriage. Sir John has a handsome oval face with an aquiline nose, dark-blue eyes, and dark hair drawn back from the forehead, and worn in a pigtail. His coat and breeches of yellow satin are fastened with gold cord, and are set off by a blue-silk scarf over the right shoulder. His collar and cuffs are of point-lace, and a sword hangs at his left side from a belt of red and gold. The portrait of his wife Lady Chester justifies the tradition of her beauty. She has large blue eyes, with well-pencilled dark eye­ brows, a straight nose, and small mouth. Her luxuriant fair hair is parted from the forehead, and falls in a large curl over the left shoulder. She is dressed in simple white satin, trimmed with blue and cut low at the neck and sleeves. (22) DAME FRANCES CHESTER just lived to complete the year of her widowhood, for she died in London in the parish of St. Margaret's, Westminster, on 17th Feb. 1748-9, (7) a.nd was buried at Chicheley on 21st February. (I) The silver chalice and paten used in the Holy Communion at Chicheley Church are of her gift, and are inscribed, 'Lady Chester, 1747.' (23) DAME FRANCES CHESTER, WIDOW AND RELICT OF SIR JOHN CHESTER OF CIlICHELEY, BUCKS, BART. Will dated 5 Feb. 1748-9. To be buried at Chicheley near my husband. To my brother Sir Walter Wagstaff Bagot Bart. the £1000 left to me by my uncle Charles Bagot Esq., in trust for my two younger children, Frances Chester and Anthony Chester, in the proportions following, viz. £700 to my said daughter at 25 or marriage, and £300 to my said son Anthony at 25, or sooner if my said brother thinks fit. To my said daughter Frances Chester, the silver coffee·pot and one dozen of the large spoons which have the arms of my uncle Bagot on them, all the teaspoons, my diamond solitaire and little brilliant·top earrings, my watch and seals, and rings, my best laces, Dresden work and Flourishing, and all my clothes that have any gold or silver in them; also a five·pound piece of gold, and all my japan. The residue to my son Sir Charles Bagot Chester Bart., who is to be my executor. Codicil dated 15 Feb. 1748-9. I now wish my daughter Frances to have £800 out of the said £1000, and my son Anthony to have £200 only. Will proved in C.P.C. 19 July 1749 by Sir Charles Chester Bart. [210 Lisle]; Affidavit being made on 17 July 1749 by John Sharp of St. Sepulchre's, London, peruke-maker, that the codicil was in the handwriting of the testatrix, who died in the parish of St. Margaret's, West­ minster. Sir John Chester had issue by his wife ~'rances Bagot three children, two sons and a daughter, viz.

Digitized by Coogle 614 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

I. CHARLES BAGOT CHESTER, son and heir, succeeded his father as the 7th Baronet. ll. ANTHONY CHESTER was a boy at Westminster School when his father died, but soon afterwards was sent to sea by his mother to serve in the Royal Navy. He was Lieutenant on board the Vigilant when he died unmarried three years after his mother, and letters of administration were granted to his brother Sir Charles on 3d Nov. 1752. Ill. FRANOES CHESTER was older than her brother Anthony, and was baptized at Ohicheley on 4th Nov. 1728. (I) She married (by license- dated 28th May 1750) on 12th June 1750 Henry Uthwatt Esq. of Great Linford and Lathbury, Bucks. (16) She was short and fat, and ungraceful in her person, and for that reason was disliked by her mother, who was singularly distinguished in appear­ ance, and set great store on personal advantages; but her affectionate intercourse with her brother was never interrupted, and therefore she was deeply hurt by his unnatural Wil~ which alienated Chicheley from the family of Chester, and only mentioned his sister's name to leave her a pair of diamond earrings which had belonged to their mother. Henry Uthwatt was High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire in 1755, and, like his wife's grandfather Sir John Chester, loved the music of church­ bells. In 1756 he completed the peal of bells at Great Linford at his own expense by adding a sixth bell, and by having the old bells recast by the famous bell­ founder Eyre of St. Neots. (24) Two of the old bells then still retained their original inscriptions, viz. 'Hujus Campanre nomen est J'hu speciale,' and' Ave Maria gratia plena.' But at the recasting these words were expunged, and a new motto, more in harmony with Protestant feeling, was inscribed on each of the six bells :t 1. Henrieus Uthwatt Armiger me propriis sumptibus hie eollooari evavit. 2. Quod sit sacra dies primo dennncio mane. S. Dat sonitum plenum Deus et modulamen amlBnum. 4. Ad Templum per me Populus properare jubetur. 6. Conjugium Partus Mysteria Festa decoro. 6. Me resonare jubent Hominum mors Concio Fnnus. Mr. Uthwatt died in London of consumption on 22d Dec. 1757, at the early age of 29, (26) and was buried with his ancestors at Lathbury. He had no children, and left by his Will the whole of his estates to his widow for life, 'to make some amends for the injustice of her brother.' His widow, in grateful remembrance of him, restored Lathbury Church, in which he was buried, and' refitted it with new

• Marriage License/rom. the Vicar-a_aZ', Regi.try. (2.) 1750, May 28. Henry Uthwatt of Lathbury, Buoks, Esq., bachelor, above 21, and Franees Chester of Chioheley, Buoks, spinster, above 21, to marry at Maid's Morton, Calverton, or Thornton, co. Buoks. . t These mottoes (with the exception of Nos. 1 and S) were copied from the new bells put up in Bletohley Church by Mr. Browne Willis. (Ss)

Digitized by Coogle SIR CHARLES BAGOT CHESTER BART. 615 pews, because she knew that such had been his design.' (26) She also erected a costly monument to his memory, with this inscription: (27) Near this place, in the Vault of his Ancestors, lieth the Body of Henry Uthwatt of Great Linford in this county, Esq., who, by accession to an ample Patrimony, had an early opportu­ nity of distinguishing himself in every instance of benevolence. The sincerity of his affection and the sweetness of his manners deservedly intitled him to the Love of his relations and acquaint­ ance. By his extensive liberality he became the Patron of all in distress. Having a due sense of his Redeemer's merit, and a Conscience void of Reproach. He received his final summons with singular cheerfulness of mind, and departed this life in Cull assurance of a better on ye 22 of Dec' 17 67, in the 30th year of his age. He married Frances, daughter of S' John Chester Bart., who, in testimony of her atreotion and gratitude, caused this monument to be erected to his memory. Frances Uthwatt survived her husband nearly 43 years. There is a family tradition that, after she had been a widow some 12 years, she engaged herself to marry her kinsman Mr. Lawson Shan the Rector of Great Linford. He was the 2d son of Mr. Shan, the Vicar of Chicheley, by Barbara Remington, granddaughter of Sir Anthony Chester m., and was presented by Mrs. Uthwatt's trustees on 20th August 1762 to the rectory of Great Linford, which had been held in trust for him since 1755, when he was an undergraduate at St. John's College, Cambridge. (24) But, the marriage never took place, for Lawson Shan died unmarried on 22d Jan. 1770, at the age of 36.· Mrs. Uthwatt was generally esteemed for her life of charity and munificence, and she did not neglect to satisfy the just expectations of her kindred; for on all three occasions that the living of Great Linford fell vacant she exercised her right of patronage in their favour. Mr. Shan's successor was his brother-in-law Mr. Edmund Smyth, and he was succeeded in 1789 by his son. She died 28th Nov. 1800, at the age of 72.

V. SIR CHARLES BAGOT CHESTER, the son and heir of Sir John Chester, the 6th Baronet, by Frances Bagot, was born in 1724, and was the godson of his grand­ uncIe Charles Bagot, M.P. for Staffordshire. He was therefore in his 24th year when he sncceeded to his father's title and estates. He was educated at Westminster School, which was then the largest and best of public schools, (28) and matriculated at St. John's College, Oxford, on 4th Nov. 1741. (2) He left the University without taking the ordinary degrees, but being a prominent member of the Tory party in Buckinghamshire he was created D.C.L. on 14th April 1149 by a special grace. (29) He is said by Cole the antiquary to have been 'a thorough accomplished gentle­ man, and universally esteemed by his acquaintance;' (30) which proves that by the low standard of morality then current a fine gentleman could devote himself to wine, women, play, and politics without losing caste in society or forfeiting the

• 866 page 182.

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esteem of a clergyman, for Cole was well aware that Sir Charles kept two mistresses to tlJ.e day of his death, and had children by both of them. The end of his life was not edifying. He drank himself into a fever at New­ market, and was removed to his lodgings in London for better advice. Here, in a fit of delirium t1'6m6nS, he threw himself out of the window, and as his chamber was on the second floor he broke his hip-bone and thigh. His nurse and his servant in vain attempted to hold him; bnt although one of them caught hold of him by the neck and the other by the foot, he broke loose from them and fell. The delirium passed off from the shock of the fall and he recovered his senses; (16) but he employed his short respite of life in making an unjust Will to the ruin of his family. In order to have money at his command to meet the calls of politics and play he had cut off the entail of the family estates, and he now devised them in their entirety to his mother's nephew Charles Bagot, who had been his schoolfellow at Westminster, and was then a wine-merchant at Oporto, on condition of his adopting the name and Arms of Ohester. (31) Cole the antiquary records the general feeling of society at the time in these terms: (30) It was looked upon as a very crqel and hard thing that he should give all his great estates to his mother's relations when he had an own sister, Mrs. Uthwatt, who never had disobliged hUn, and who was infinitely fond of him. His zeal also for party matters was so strong that he overlooked his own name and family, as it was thought, and let the title go without any estate, or a very small one, to support it.

But his uncle and successor Sir Francis Ohester had still stronger grounds of complaint, for Sir Charles would never have had the estates at all if they had not been strictly settled by his grandfather on the male line, in order to perpetuate the name and blood of Chester, to the exclusion of the daughters of the 5th Baronet, Sir William Chester. Sir Charles died on 25th May 1755, in the 31st year of his age, (7) and was buried at Chicheley on 29th May. (I)

SIR CH~ES BAGOT CHESTER OF CHICHELEY, BUCKS, BART. Will dated 21 May 1755. To my sister Uthwatt, the diamond earrings which were my mother's. To Francis Chester Esq. of Wootton, Beds, .£300 a year for his life. To Alice Wild of Chicheley, .£100 a year for her life; to her son Charles Wild, .£600 at 21; and to any child to be bom of her body within nine months after my death, .£600. To Frances Symmonds, .£60 (or her life; and to her children Henry and Susanna Symmonds, .£500 each at 21; and to any child of hers bom within nine months after my death, .£600. To the said Alice Wild and Frances Symmonds, .£100 each. To Assheton Curzon Esq. and three other Trustees, all the residue of my personal estate; and all my real estate whatsoever to the use of Charles Bagot Esq., the second son of my uncle Sir Walter Wagstaffe Bagot Bart., and the heirs of his body in tail male, on condition that he and they take the name and bear the Arms of Chester; with remainder to Walter Bagot Esq., 3d son of my said uncle in tail male; remainder to Richard Bagot Esq., 4th SOil in tail male; remainder to Lewis Bagot Esq., 5th son in tail male; remainder t{) Thomas Bagot Esq.,6th son in tail male; remainder to my own right heirs. Will proved in C.P.C. 27 May 1755. [126 Pa.ul.]

Digitized by Coogle SIR CHARLES BAGOT CHESTER BART. 617

By this iniquitous Will the whole of the Chester estates in Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire, together with the plate, pictures, and family relics, which had accumulated for generations, passed away to a stranger in blood. The fortunate devisee Charles Bagot, afterwards Chester, was born 1st Sept. 1730, and was the second son of Sir Walter Wagstaffe Bagot Bart., M.P. for Staffordshire and after­ wards for the University of Oxford, by Lady Barbara Legge, daughter of William 1st Earl of Dartmouth. (20) He was educated at Westminster with his cousins Charles and Anthony Chester, (31) and on leaving school was placed in a merchant's office at Canton. He returned from China in 1753, when he embarked in the wine trade; and he was a merchant of the English factory at Oporto, when he unex­ pectedly succeeded to his cousin's estate. Three of his brothers were equally fortunate in life, for the eldest, William Bagot, was created a Peer in 1780; Richard acquired a great estate, and assumed the name of Howard on his marriage with the sister and heir of the 12th Earl of Suffolk; and Lewis Bagot died Bishop of Norwich. Charles Chester married on 5th Oct. 1765 his cousin Catharine, daughter of the Honourable Heneage Legge, and had issue 12 children, of whom Mary Chester was the wife of Robert 2d Earl of Liverpool, the Prime Minister. He died 2d April 1793; and his death is mentioned with respect and regret by Cowper the poet, who was a frequent visitor at Ohicheley when he lived at Olney. CHARLES CHESTER n., the son and heir of Mr. Bagot Chester, succeeded on his father's death to all the Chester estates except the Manor of Lidlington, which had been sold in 1769 to Mr. Isaac Hawkins;· (32) but a man of fashion who is fond of horse-racing and cards seldom contrives to retain the whole of his inherit­ ance; and he was compelled to sell his estate at Tilsworth in Bedfordshire. This estate had been purchased by Sir Anthony Chester I. in 1601, and comprised the entire parish except a few acres, with the manor and the advowson of the Vicarage. It consisted of 1327 acres, and was sold by auction in 17 lots, when it produced about 50,OOOL (33) Mr. Chester died unmarried at Hampton Court on 11th June 1838, at the age of 67, (16) when Chicheley Hall, and what remained of his patrimony in Bedford­ shire, descended to his nephew REV. ANTHONY OHESTER, M.A., of Merton College, Oxford. Mr. Anthony Chester died 10th Dec. 1858 without male issue,t when Chicheley passed under the entail to his cousin and heir male OHARLES MONTAGUE CHESTER ESQ., who is the present owner (1877).

• Mr. Isaac Hawkins sold Lidlington Manor in 1774 to the Earl of Upper Ossory, from whom it was acquired in 1801 by the Duke of Bedford. (32.) t His only child, Henrietta Mary Chester, married 16 AprillB61 Richard Purefoy Fitzgerald Esq. R.N., 3d son of Thomas Fitzgerald Esq. of Shalston, Bucks.

Digitized by Coogle 618 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

VI. Sm FRANCIS CHESTER, the 8th Baronet, was a widower in his 6lst year, and a confirmed invalid, when he succeeded to the baronetcy on 25th May 1755, on the death of his nephew Sir Charles Bagot Chester. The 4th son and 6th child of Sir J olm Chester, the 4th Baronet, and Anne Wollaston his wife, he was bom at Shenton on 3d May, and was baptized there on 9th May 1694. (I) He began life as a merchant of London; but when he was 23 years old he married his father's cousin, who had a competent fortune. He married by license- at St. Augustin's, Paul's Gate, London, (I) on 4th March 1717-18, Bethia, one of the four daughters and co-heirs of Thomas Webbt als. Wood Esq. of Kensington, the nephew and co-heir of Sir Henry Wood Bart. of Loudham. She was above 10 years oldel' than her husband, for she was baptized at Chelsea on 29th Jan. 1683-4. After their marriage they went to live at Hackney, where the Woods had possessed an estate from the time of (~ueen Elizabeth, and their only son Francis was bom there on 17th July 1724. Bethia enjoyed under her father's Will one half of the annuity of 2000l. a year, payable to him out of Sir Henry Wood's estate during the life of the Duke of Southampton, who lived until 1732. But just before her death she received a great accession of fortune, for her cousin Charles Cranmer also Wood of Loudham Park died without issue on 12th Sept. 1743, and on his death a moiety of the Wood estates descended to Bethia and her sisters.t She died on 29th Sept. 1743, just 17 days after her cousin, and was buried at Hackney on 5th Oct. (I) Her husband was inconsolable, and his mind gave way from grief, so that the rest of his life was spent in a lunatic asylum at Chelsea. (30) A ledger-stone in the old churchyard of St. Augustin's, Hackney, bears the arms of Chester with those of Webb on an escutcheon of pretence, and this inscription: Here lyeth the body of Mrs. Bethia Chester, wife of Francis Chester Esq., 8 son of the late Sir John Chester of Chichley, in Bucks, Bart. She was the daughter of Thomas Webb (alias Wood) of Kensington Esq., and departed this life 29 Sept. 1743, in the 60th year of her age. Also the body of Francis Chester Esq. (the BOD of Francis and Bethia) , who died Dec. 18, 1757, aged 34.

FRANCIS CHESTER, the only son of Sir Francis Chester and Bethia Webb, was

• Marriage Licc1I8e from the Vicar· General', Regi,tn}. (2) . 1716-7, March 2. Fra.ncis Chester of St. Peter Ie Poor, London, Merchant, bachelor, above 21, and Mrs. Bethia Webb of same parish, spinster, ahove 21, and at her own disposal. To marry at St. Austin's, Paw's-gate, London. t See pp. 512, 515. : See p. 467.

Digitized by Coogle SIB ANTHONY CHESTER, 9TH BART. 619 born at Hackney on 17th July, and was baptized there on 25th July 1724. (I) He inherited his mother's share of the Wood estates, when partition was made between the co-heirs in 1747; and his fortune was increased in 1755 by an annuity of 300l. a year under the Will of his cousin Sir Cparles Bagot Chester. He died unmarried in his father's lifetime, 'at his lodgings near Berkeley-squarc,' (16) on 18th Dec. 1757, and was buried at Hackney beside his mother on 24th December. (1) His father's income was, I hope, already ample for the wants of a hopeless invalid; for Francis bequeathed his whole estate to his mother's nephew Sir John Chapman Bart.; and his father's name is not mentioned in his Will.

FRANCIS CHESTER, the younger, of James-street in the parish of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, Middlesex. Will dated 5 June 1740, 23 George II. AIl my real and personal estate to my cousin Sir John Chapman of London Bart., the son of my late deceased aunt Elizabeth Chapman; and I appoint him to be my executor. WitMlle.: James Haymers, Catherine Haymers, James Deane. Will proved in C.P.C. by Sir John Chapman 21 Jan. 1758. [7 Hutton.) Sir Francis Chester succeeded to the title two years before the death of his son, and is confused with him in all the printed Baronetages, which state that the son was the 8th Baronet. He dragged out his weary existence at Chelsea for nearly nine years after his son's death; and it is to be feared, from the language of Ilis epitaph, that he was never unconscious of the loss of his wife and child. He died on 18th Oct. 1766, and was buried at Hackney by his own desire on 30th October. (1) A monument (now much dilapidated) in Hackney Church bears the Arms of Chester without the border, and this inscription : lIic, juxta cineres carissimre uxoris et filii, suas etiam requi­ escere voluit Franciscus Cbester naronettus, -filiUB Johannis Chester, Baronetti, de Chichley in agro Buckingham: vir ~nus fidelis et eximire pictatis obiit 'IRO die Dcc. Anno Christi 17M retatis sure 74.

VII. SIR ANTHONY CIlESTEU, the 4th Baronet of his name and the 9th of his family, was above 60 years of age when his cousin Sir Francis Ohester died on 18th Oct. 1766. He had then been for nearly nine years heir-presumptive to the title; but until late in life he had no reasonable expectation of succeeding to it, for his uncle Sir John Chester, the 4th Baronet, left three sons, who all married and had chil­ dren. Sir Anthony was the only child of Henry Chester Esq. of East Haddon, the second surviving son of Sir Anthony Chester III. by Thcodosia Towers, who were married at Chicheley on 14th Aug. 1698. (I) There was a slur upon his mother's 4K

Digitized by Coogle 620 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. birth, for she was repudiated by her father Thomas Towers Esq. of Haddenham in the Isle of Ely. He made his Will on 14th May 1698 (exactly three months before his daughter'S marriage), when he devised his whole estate to his brother .Tohn Towers and other relations. His wife and daughter are literally cut oft' with a shilling apiece in these terms: (2) To my wife Elizabeth Towers. she having been inconstant and dishonest towards me, and to her illegitimate daughter Theodosia. whom I hereby disown to be Illy daughter, and am fully satisfied she was not gotten by me, one shilling apiece and no more. Mrs. Henry Chester, howeyt>r, was worthy of a better mother; for when she died, eight years after her marriage, to the great grief of her husband, he bore emphatic testimony to 'ber early, sincere, and lasting piety,'- She died within a few days after the birth of her only son, who was born at Astwoodbury, the seat of his grand-uncle Sir Cresar Cranmer, and was baptized at Astwood on 26th June 1706. (I) He was educated at Cambridge, and matriculated at Emanuel College as a Pensioner on 10th July 1724, (34) where lie was still an undergraduate when bis father died on 6th May 1726. He proceeded B.A. in 1727, when he obtained the prize of silver plate which was left by Dean Sudbury to the best commencing Bachelor of his year. (34) He took bis Master's degree in 1731, and in the same year was ordained a minister of the Churcb of England. It is remarkable that he was the only clergyman in the family except Thomas Chester, who was Bishop of Elphin in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. He was in 1734, and for several years afterwards, the Chaplain of the Mercers' Company of London; and it may be guessed that his descent from one of the ancient benefactors of the Company induced him to seek this appointment, and assisted him in obtaining it; for the, sermon founded by John Chester's Will in 1513 was still preached C\·ery year in Mercers' Chapel by a Fellow of Catherine Hall, Cambridge, on the anniversary of his death.t Whilst he was the Incumbent of the Mercers' Chapel he performed the marriage ceremony there for the widow of Sir William Chester and two of her daughters. Anthony had inherited from his father the impropriate rectory of East Haddon with 202 acres of glebe-land, which were retained by the 3d Baronet as a provision for his second son Henry, when be sold the manor and advowson; and he was preseuted to the vicarage of East Haddon by Dame Elizabeth Humble, the Lady of the Manor, on 28th Nov. 1748. (35) This modest preferment in the parish where his youth had been spent and where his patrimony lay satisfied his ambition; for he never obtained or sought any other. He married by license,t dated 18th Jan.

• See her monumental inscription at p. 857. t See p. 29. t Marriage Liceme from t11e Faclllty Office. (20) 1760·1, Jan. 18. The Rev. Anthony Chester of East Haddon, co. Northampton, bachelor, above 40, and Elizabeth Burt of at. Mary Arden, eo. Loicester, spinster, above 25. To marry at Famdon or Piaford, co. Norlhampton.

Digitized by Coogle 752 TUM CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

PEDIGREE OF WATERS DESCENDED FROM CHESTER AND TOLLER. Sir Anthony Chester, 3d Bart. of Chicheley,-Mary, sister Ilnd (in her issue) sole heir of Bucks, married 21 May 1657; High Sheri1Fof Sir Cresar Crllnmer als. Wood Kt. of Loud­ Bucks 1671 ; M.P. for Bedford 168-1 ; died 15 ham Park, Snft'olk; died widow 12 May 1710, Feb. 1697-8, aged 64. M.I. at Chicheley. aged 75. M.1. at Chicheley.

1 w. Anne,uau.and heirofWm.-Sir John Chester, 4th Dart. of=2 w. Frances, dau. of Sir William Wollaston ES'l. of Shenton, co. Chicheley, born 24 June 1666; Noel Bart., widow of 1 h_ Ralph Leic., and Finborou~h, Suffolk; Gent. of the Privy Chamber of Sneyd Esq. of Keele; 2 h. SirChas. mar.therc2Nov.1686; diCl13 Oct. Q. Anne; (lieu 6 Feb. 1726; Skrimshire Kt.; remarried 4 h. 1701, nged 43." (Sa lIer clescent bur. at Chicheley. Charles Adderley Esq. of Hams; from K.Eclw. Ill. at pp. 596-7.) died widow Feb. 1751.

Sir William Chester, 5th Bart. 2. Thomas, 5. Sir John-Frances, dau. 3. Mary. of Chichcley, born 5 Sept. 1687; Lieut. - Col. of Chester, 6th of Sir Edward 4. Elizabeth. died 10 March 1725·6; married, Foot, born 31 Bart. of Chi- Bagot Bart. 7. Anne. 5 March 1716·17, Penelope, dau. March 1689; cheley, born 23 M.P., marr. lit 9. Rebecca. of Geo. Hewett Esq. of Stretton, drowned lit sea April 1693; Blithfield 15 11. Anthony. co. Leic. (who remarried, 1736, JIln.1711,aged M.P. for Beds.; Feb. 1719; died James Montagu Esq. of Newbold 21, unmarried. died 8 Feb. widow 17 Feb. All died unmarr. Verdon M.P.), and had iBsuesix 1748. 1749. daughters. rl------r------~------~ ., I B Sir Charles Bagot Ches· Frances Chester, bapt. 4 Nov. Anthony Chester, Frllneis Chester Esq., son ter, 7th Dart. of Chiche· 1728; marr., 12 Jane 1750, Lieut. R.N., died aUlI heir appt.; born 17 ley, D.C.L. Oxon. 1749; Henry Uthwatt Esq. of Great unmarrieu 1752. July 1724; coheir of Sir died llnmanicd 25 May Linforu, Sheriff of Bucks Henry Woou's estate; 1755, aged 31; bur. at 1755; died 28 Nov. 1800. s.p. died unmarried 18 Dec. Chicheley. 1757. M.I. at Hackney.

------TI------~c 1 w. Mllria, dau. of"FRev. r,Thomas Methold B.o.L.=r=2 w. Dorothea Frances, dau. of George, born Nathaniel Tumer RectorofStonhamAspallllndof Rev. Zachary Rose, Rector of 18 July 1765; Esq. of Stoke Hall, Wetheringsett, Cllnon of Nor- Broughton Ilnd Draughton, co. died infant. nr.lpswich;mar.30 wich,ChairmanofQ.SessionsatI Northampton; mar. 30 June Jan. 1793; died 14 Ipswich; born 14 July 1764; 1799; died 20 April 18!8. Aug. 1795. died 17 June 1836.

, , I D Rev. Thomas=Susan, dau. Thomas Me Anl).e, dau.of Edmond Thomas Catha--Rev. John Methold, Reo- and heir of tholdWaters John Hawks Waters Esq., born rine, Gay Cople- tor of Kilver- Richard For- Esq.,sonand of Gates- 20 July 1795, heir born 22 ston M.A. of ston,co.Nori., ster of Nor- heir, born 5 head-on- to Mrs. Foulkes of July Offwell, De- J.P. for Norf.; wich Esq.; Jan. 1794; Tyne Esq.; Billingborough,the 1797; von; mar. at born 28 Feb. marr. 1824; died 8 JIln. marr. at St. last survivor of died 2! Basildon, 1794; dieds.p. died 23 JIln. 1869;" bur. Pllncras, the ToIlers; died March Berks,28 141\1ar. 1853; 1872, aged at Kensal London, 5 unm. 1 Aug. 1868; 1846; Feb. 1832 ; bmied at Kil- 75; buried at Green. M.I. July 1827 .. buried at Kensal bur. at living 1878. vereton. Kilverston. Green. M.I. Otl'well.

E Robert Edmond Chester Waters Esq., only son, born-Emily Esther Anne, dau. of Jonathan Peel Esq. of 18 JUly 1828; B.A. Oxon. 25 Nov! 1851; Barrister of StIlndhill, Oxon., nephew of Sir Robert Peel Bart. the Inner Temple 30 Jan. 1852; of Upton Park, M.P.; marr. at Cheltenham 17 Oct. 1850. Dorset (the autllOT of tllis book).

Edmond Anthony Chester Waters, only son, born 27 Catharine Dillna Chester Waters, July 1851 i died at Florence 8 March 1854.· only surviving chUd, 1875.

Di-giliZed by Coogle PEDIGREE OF WATERS. 753

• Denotes a monumental inscription in Chichclpy Chureh.

John Toller Esq. of Billingborough Hall, co. Lincoln, and of RYhall'JElizabeth,dau.andheirOfThOS. Rutland; born 24 May 1662; Fellow Commoner of Emmanuel Collegc, NethcreoteB Esq. of ~cttlehnrn. Cambli<1ge, 16 April 1679 ; ?lI.A.27 Sept. 1681; High Sheriff of Lin· co. Lincoln; marr. HI Juno colnshire 1707; burie<1, 11 May 1732, at Billingborough. (See pediYTee 1684; buried 1 Sept. 170t. (S,'e (If Tulla at P]J. 672-3.) Iter descellt fro", Killg Edward , III. at p. 6tH.) A I I -, I I 6. Sir Francis-Bethia, daugh. 10. Penelope, born 14 Mar. R. Catharine- ohn Toller Esq., Cbcster,8thBt., and coho of 1701; mar. Richard Smith Chester, born son and heir, of Bil- unclc and heir, Thomas Webb Esq. of Padbury, Sheriff 26 Oct. 1697; lingborough Hall born 8 May als. WoooEsq. of Bucks 1725; died marr. at Chi· and Ryhall, Ser· 1694; marr. 4 of Hackney; widow 15 Dec. 1782. cheley 18 Sept. jeant·at·Law; died Mar. 1718; died died 29 Sept. 1 1718 ; died 14 Nov. 1737, aged 18 Oct. 1766. 1748. M.1. at widow March 52. M.I. at Billing· B.p.S. M.I. at Hackney. 1755.' borough. Hackney. D------~ I Edward BrownIFranccs Toller, Thomas Me'TcatharinO Tol· Brownlow Toller=;=Anne, dau. aud ofWa~cot, nea~ bapt .. 8 Sept. tholdofRew, ler, bapt. 23 of Billingbol"Ough coho of Rcv. Wm. Horhling,Esq., 1721, marr. 80 co. Surrey, Dec. 1727; mar. Hall and Ryhall, Hyde M.A., coho died 7 May Sept. 1746; bur. Esq.; died 12 16 March 1762, born 17 July 1730j of the Burrells of 1772, aged 60. at Horbling 7 June 1794, at Walcot, co. LL.B. of Clare Dowsby and Ry· Sept. 1768. aged 64. Lincoln; died 12 Hall, Camb.1751; hall; mar. 26 Dec. M.I. at Rew. Feb. 1805, aged died 4 Sept. 1791. 1754; died widow Conant of Lyndon. 77.' 29 Jan. 1803, aged 68. c------, r I I i Edmond Thomas Waters Esq. of atharine Methold, bom Four daughters and coheirs, of whom Tyvry and Stormy, co. Glamorgan, 13 May 1767; marr. at the last survivor, Philippa Mrs. brother and heir of General Sir John Rew 22 Dec. 1792 j Foulkcs, died 5 Juno 1840, and de· Waters G.C.B.; died at Cheltenham died at Clifton 26 May vised her estatcs to Edmond Thomns 28 Jan. 1818, aged 84. • (See pedigree 1846.' Waters Esq. the younger. of Watm at pp. 722-723.)

D ------,r-~,------r,--',------~----r------~~---·____, Grace, born Harriet, John WiI· Georgiana, dau. of Rev.=Henry Swan Wa· 9 Aug. 1799 ; born 11 Oct. liam, born Frederick Pierrepoint ters, Major· General died nnm. 25 1802; died 2 August Gardiner M.A., Rector in the Army, born June 1878. nnm. young. 1805; died of Combe Hay, near 30 Oct. 1809; died uumarr. Bath; marr. at Chelten· B.p. at Ryde, Isle of Aune, born 2 Millicent, 1832. ham 18 May 1843; widow Wight, 28 Oct. 1871. April 1801; born 23 Jan. 1878. died unm.21 1804; died Jan. 1872. unmarr. 13 Dee. 1818.

E:------',~------,,~------T,-----,i Aune Selina Waters,srCaptain Dashwood Ellen Jan -Major Sidney Parry Emily, born 22 Dec. mar.atTrinitYChnrch'lJoncs R.A., only Bon Waters, R.A., son and heir 1836; died 15 Aug. Westbonrne • terrace, of Major·Gen. W. D. marr. at St. of F.J. Sidney Parry 1842; buricd at Hom· 18 July 1854; died 15 JODes R.A., brother George's, Esq. (late 17th Lan· sey. March 1863; bur. at 8t. of Sir John Joncs, of Hanover· sq. eers) of the Cedars, Peter's, Bonrnemouth, Cranmer Hall, Nor· 16 Oct. 1862. 81U1DingHill,Berks. Mary Alice, living Hants. M.1. folk, Bart. unmarried 1878.

Digitized by Coogle 754 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. prize winners, that he had pictures of them painted by one of the first artists of the day, which are still preserved in the family. His own likeness is preserved in the well-known engraving of ' The Sheep-shear­ ing at Woburn Abbey,' in which all the leading members of the Smithfield Club are portrayed. They were for the most part noblemen and gentlemen of the first distinction: for the Club was formed on patriotic principles for the improvement of stock; and the annual show was a national gathering of landowners, which Royalty set the example of attending. In this interesting gallery of agricultural portraits 'Vaters is distinguished by his tall slight figure and handsome features, for he was at this period so eminently good-looking, that when the City Light Horse was embodied he and the late Sir 'Villiam Duff Gordon were reckoned the handsomest men in the corps. The breeding of prize cattle was then the rage, and many illustrious visitors came to Aldborough. Amongst them were the Royal Dukes of York, Kent, and Sussex, who never forgot their acquaintancc with Mrs. Waters when they were all children at Kew. They were entertained by her husband with that punctilious deference which the code of old-fashioned courtesy prescribed; but one day he was so completely engrossed in the beauties of his DeVOll heifer that his wife saw to her horror from the windows, that whilst he stood enlarging on them to the Duke of York the Duke of Kent was left to shut the gates of the enclosure. Another con­ stant visitor was Lord Beverley, who was also a frequent correspondent on farming topics; but it was a standing joke that they each wrote so execrable a hand, that when they met their time was taken up in reading the letters which had passed between them in the interval. But the chief friend of the family was Lord Castlereagh, whose long tenure of office enabled him to render many services to Waters and his brother. It was by his introduction that Captain John Waters went out to Portugal in 1808 as the aide-dc-camp of General Charles Stewart, where the foundation was laid of his military distinction and of his lifelong intimacy with the future Marquess of Londonderry. The same friendly and powerful interest was exerted to secure the election of Edmond Waters at the Alfred Club, when there were so many candidates eager for admission that vacancies were filled by selection from a numerous list· after weeks of canvassing. Men of every variety of social distinction were elected at the Alfred, where statesmen, bishops, and merchants were associated with dandies and poets, but a new member was expected to be somebody or to have done something; and of all disqualifications insignificance was the most fatal. Castlereagh's loyalty to his friends was repaid by their enthusiastic faith in his character and abilities; but in

• Dr. Copleston, Provost of Oriel (afterwards Bishop of Llandaff), has noted in his diary that he was elected a member of the Alfred Club on 10th Oct. 1820. There were fourteen vacancies and nearly two hundred candidates; and amongst the fourteen selected were five peers, Sir William Scott, the head­ master of Westminster, and Milman the poet. (108) The decadence of the Alfred was caused by the secession of the literary and episcopal element, who formed a new club and fouuded the Athenmum.

Digitized by Coogle EDMOND THOMAS WATERS ESQ. 755 the judgment of posterity he was one of those statesmen who had greatness thrust upon him by the gigantic eyents of his administration; for he bore the chief part in the Union with Ireland, the Coalition against Napoleon, and the Congress of Vienna. His friendly intercourse with the Waters family was never interrupted, and Colonel \Vaters visited him at Foots Cray a few days before his deplorable death. The farming operations at Aldborough were unremunerative in their pecuniary returns, and involved great expenses; but "-tVaters had a large income from his business, which had been greatly increased since the war, when he became a member of Lloyd's, and undertook the insurance of ships at the high premium paid for war risks. He was also for many years a Director of the London Docks; and on 25th July 1806 a silYer soup-tureen of the value of 200 guineas was voted to him at a general meeting of the proprietors. It is a handsome piece of plate, and bears the following inscription: To Edmond Thomas 'Vaters Esq., from the proprietors of the London Docks, by the unani­ mous vote of tho General :Meeting on thll 25th July 1806_ In testimony of their sincere gratitude for his services during the many years in which he has been a Director of that Establishment. He had given up his house in Bedford-row when he settled at Aldborough Hatch, and was contented for several years to take a house for the season in a more fashionable quarter of London. But this arrangement was found to be neither convenient nor economical, for the rent of 37 'Yimpole-street, where his son John was born in 1805, was twenty guineas· a week, and the house was not large enongh to accommodate his household and nursery. He resolved therefore on returning to Bloomsbury, and purchased in 1808 from Sir Henry Fletcher for 3000/. the lease of 62 Russell-square, which was held for a long term at a ground-rent of 99l. a year. He had now ·three establishments to maintain, for he had purchased in 1804 a pleasure farm of about 300 acres, called Grayburys, on the Surrey hills near God­ stone. It was a mere cottage; but he made it his country house when he broke up his household at Aldborough; for he was at last convinced by frequent illness in his nursery that the climate of Essex was better adapted for rearing cattle than children; and the panic at Lloyd's made it highly cOllvenient to reduce his expendi­ ture. Grayburys was delightfully situated, and the farm abounded with pheasants of every variety of his own breeding. As the law then stood game could not be strictly preserved, except by the lord of a manor; but Waters had qualified him­ self in 1801 by purchasing the Manor of Humbershoe on the confines of' Hertford­ shire and Bedfordshire. (I 10) He made many improvements at Grayburys, and was contemplating the addition of a new wing to the house when he suffered a reverse of fortune, and in 1814 the estate had to be sold. He had received the first check in his long career of prosperity in 1807, when the Berlin and Milan

• Mrs_ Piozzi paid seventeen guineas a week in May and Jane 1810 for a small house in Welbeck- street, which she calls a • mere dust-basket.' (109) .

Digitized by Coogle 756 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

Decrees of Napoleon, and the retaliatory Orders in Council of the English Govem­ ment, involved the underwriters at Lloyd's in 'ruinous losses. The profits of his other business enabled him for some years to weather the storm; but his credit was maintained by the sacrifice of his accumulations, and his subsequent efforts to recoup his losses were crippled by want of capital. He made a brave 'struggle; but his embarrassments increased, and in 1814 he stopped payment. His affairs were quickly arranged, for he had powerful friends; and he was enabled to retain his house in Russell-square, and to resume his original business in Londou and Oporto. He carried this on uutil 1820, wheu he gave it up altogether to his eldest son, and went to reside in France. He lived for some years at Versailles, and was honoured by Louis XVllI., whom he had knmvn at Hartwell, with the much-coveted privi­ lege of sporting in the Royal forests. He was 56 years old when he gave up his house in London; and it is characteristic of the man that he resnmed his original position of a country gentleman with a small fixed income as naturally and con­ tentedly as if his long career of luxury and speculation had been II. dream, which he lived almost to forget. He returned to England in 1830, and settled eventually at Cheltenham, where he lived in full vigour of mind and body to the great age of 84. He died there at his house in Lansdowne-crescent on 28th Jan. 1848, and was buried with his wife, who had died at Clifton on 28th May 1846. He had issue by his wife Catharine Methold nine children, viz. I. THOMAS METHOLD 'WATERS, son and heir. n. EDMOND THOMAS 'VATEUS was born at 37 Bedford-row on 20th July 1795, and was baptized at St. Andrew's, Holborn, on 11 th Jan. 1796, when his godfathers were John Price Esq. of Llandough Castle, Glamorganshire, and Mr. Bainbridge the banker, who soon afterwards married his aunt. He was educated with his eldest brother under Dr. Butler at Harrow, where he was the fag of the late Earl Delawarl', and succeeded in June 1840 to a portion of the Toller estates in Lincolnshire, when his mother's cousin Mrs. Philippa Foulkes, who was the last survivor of the Tollers of Billingborough Hall, made him her principal heir. He was in 1842 the executor and residuary legatee of his uncle General Sir John Waters, and died unmarried on lst Aug. 1863, aged 67. He was buried at Kensal Green on 6th August fol­ lowing in the grave of his uncle Sir John Waters. III. CATHARINE W ATEUS was born at 37 Bedford-row on 22d ,July 1797, and was baptized at St. Andrew'S, Holboru, on 26th Jan. 1798. She married at Basildon,· Berks, on 28th Feb. 1832, the :Rev. Jolm Gay Copleston M.A., Vicar of Kingsey, Bucks, who succeeded his father in 1841 as rector and patron of Offwell in Devonshire. The Coplestons of Offwell are the on]y survi"ing branch of a family which was conspicuous in the Middle Ages amongst the Devonshire gentry for the antiquity of their descent and the extent of their possessions. According to local tradition they • She married from the house of her aunt Mrs. Bainbridge, who was then living at Basildon Park.

Digitized by Coogle THE CHILDREN OP EDMOND TIlOMAS WATERS ESQ. 757 were settled at Copleston in the parish of Col brooke before- the Norman Conquest; but the main line has long been extinct, and their greatness was wrecked in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, when Christopher Copleston of Copleston murdered his nephew in a fit of passion, and purchased his pardon from the Crown by the forfeiture of thirteen manors. (J J I) A younger branch of the Coplestons of Copleston was settled at Nash in Dorsetshire, and from this line came Dr. John Uopleston,t Provost of King's College, Cambridge, 1681-1689, whose younger brother 'William was the ancestor of the late Dr. Edward Copleston of Offwell House, Dean of St. Paul's, and Lord Bishop of Llandaff 1827-1849. (108) Mrs. Copleston died on 24th March 1~46, and was buried at Offwell. She left five children : 1. MARY COPLESTO~ was born at Kingseyon 22d Jan. 1833, and died un­ married on 1st Feb. 1852, when she was buried at Offwell. 2. CATHARINE COPLESTON and 3. GRAOE CO~STANCE COPLESTON are living unmarried (1878). 4. ELLE~ HOPE COPLESTON was adopted by her mother's sisters, and died unmarried 13th Aug. 1876, aged 38. 5. JOHN HENRY COPLESTON, only son and heir, was born on 28th April 1841, and was educated at Winchester and Corpus Christi College, Oxon. He married at Kirkby Overblows, Yorkshire, on 7th Sept. 1864, Edith Emma, daughter of Rev. J~ J. Toogood, rector of that parish, and has nine children. He is in Holy Orders, and is rector of VV' est Buckland, Devon (1878). Mr. Copleston of Offwell, the father of these children, is still living (1878). lie married secondly, on 28th Aug. 1850, Maria, daughter of the late George Lovell Esq. of Rookley House, Hants, who died without issue 16th Oct. 1865. IV. GRACE WATERS was born on 9th Aug. 1799, and was baptized at St. Andrew's, Holborn, on 21st May 1800. She died unmarried at Clevedon 25th June 1873. V. A.,,{NE WATERS was born 2d April 1801, and was baptized at St. Andrew's, Holborn, on 3d Feb. 1802. She died unmarried at Ryde on 21st Jan. 1872. VI. HARRIETT WATERS was born 11th Oct. 1802, and was baptized at St. Andrew's, Holborn/on 20th May 1803, when her godmother was Miss Harriett Dallast of Upper Fitzroy-street. She died unmarried of consumption in her 17th year. VII. :MILLICENT WATERS was born on 23d Jan. 1804, and was the god-

• There is an old distich current in Devonshire: (I I I) • Croker, Cmwys, and Coplestane, When the Conqueror came were found at hame.' t A silver-gilt cup, presented by Charles II. to Dr. John Copleston when he was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, is still preserved at Oft'well. (108) t Miss Harriett Dallas, the eldest sister of Sir George Dallas Bart., and of Sir Robert Dallas Kt., Chief Justice of Common Pleas, died in Gloucester-place, POrlman-square, 80th July 1888. (53)

Digitized by Coogle 758 THE CHESTERS OF CHICHELEY. daughter of Mrs. Robert Shedden· of Brooklands, Hants. She died unmarried of decline in her 15th year at 62 Russell-square on 13th Dec. 1818. VIll. JOHN WILLL\M WATERS was born at 37 Wimpole-street 011 2d Aug. 1805, and was baptized at St. George's, Bloomsbury, on 11th Jan. 1810. He died un­ married at St. Leonards-on-Sea In March 1833. IX. HENRY SWAN WATERS was born at 62 Russell-square on 30th Oct. 1809, and was baptized with his brother John at St. George's, Bloomsbury, on 11th Jan. 1810. He was nominated to a cavalry cadetship at the age of Iii, and joined the 3d Regiment of Madras Cavalry as Cornet on 8th June 182(i. (18) He was a Captain in this regiment when he returned to England on furlough in 1842, and married at St. Mary'S, Cheltenham, on 11th May 1843, Georgiana Philipson, danghter of Rev. Frederick Pierrepoint Gardiner M.A., Rector of Combe Hay, Somerset. He returned to India soon after his marriage, and was constantly employed on the staff wltil he obtained the rank of Lieut.-Colonel. He served through the Indian Mutiny, when three regiments of cavalry were brigaded under his command. lIe retired from the service in 1860 with the rank of Major-General; and on his return to England settled at Ryde in the Isle of Wight, where he died on 28th Oct. 1871 at the age of 62.t He left 110 issue, and his widow is still living (1878).

THOi\IAS METHOLD WATERS, the eldest son of Edmond Thomas 'Vaters Esq. by Catharine Methold, was born at 37 Bedford-row on 5th Jan. 1794, and was baptized at St. Andrew's, Holborn, on 10th March following, when his grandfather Thomas Methold Esq. of Kew was his godfather. His father and mother spared no pains or cost in the education of their children, and as soon as :Methold was ten years old he was sent to Mr. Gilpin's school at Cheam, which was then in high repute from the great number of distinguished men who had been educated by Gilpin and his father. Amongst the pupils of the elder Gilpin were two Prime Ministers of England (William Pitt and Lord Sidmouth), Vansittart the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mitford the historian of Greece. (113) The younger Gilpin was almost equally fortunate in his pupils, for Charles Longley, afterwards Arch­ bishop of Canterbury, was one of 'Vaters's schoolfellows at Cheam; but he gave up his school in 1M05 to his assistant, Mr. Wilding, when he was presented to a living in the New Forest by Lord Redesdale. Methold Waters remained nearly two years longer at Cheam, when he was removed to Harrow, where Dr. Butler, afterwards Dean of Peterborough, was hearl-master. He was a boarder in the schoolhouse,

• Robert Shedden Esq. of Brooklands married Millicent, daughter of Robert Duncan Monro Esq., and had an only child, Emily Monro, who was born in Upper Gower·street, Bedford·square, on 5th June 1804, and mlUTied at Marylebone, 12th JUly 1827, Henry George Cary Esq. of Tor Abboy, Devon. (lIZ) t His death was thus announced: '1871, Oct. 28, at Walton House, Rytlo, aged 62, Major.General Waters, nephew of the late General Sir John Waters X.C.B., and uncle of R. E. Chester Waters Esq. of Upton Park, Dorset.'

Digitized by Coogle TnOMAS METHOLD WATERS ESQ. 759 and was the fag of the last Duke of Dorset, who is mentioned in Lord Byron's poems, but the poet had gone to Cambridge in the preceding year. Harrow was at this period the most exclusive and aristocratic of all the public schools, which partly arose from the total absence of those university endowments which attracted so many poor men's sons to Eton, Winchester, and Westminster. If the school-lists of 1808 be compared together, it will be seen that there were more than twice as many boys at Eton (525 againsf245), but the number of nobkmen was greater at Harrow, and the average rank of the boys was higher. (114) (115) This is the more remarkable, because Ifurrow was nothing more than a village grammar school of yeoman foundation and slender endowment until the middle of the last century, when it was raised from obscurity by a succession of able head­ masters. The first of the series was Dr. Thackeray, the great-grandfather of the author of Vanity Fair, who had been an assistant-master at Eron and an unsuccessful candidate for the Provostship of King's. (116) His appointment was the making of Harrow, for when he went there in 1746 there wcre scarcely 40 boys in the school, and they were all day-boys from the neighbouring villages; whereas when he died in 1760 there were upwards of 200 boarders, and many of them. were noblemen's sons. The school continued to flourish under the charge of his successor, Dr. Sumner, and the school-list of 1770 (the earliest on record) contains 236 names, amongst whom (to omit lesser names) are the Duke of Grafton; the Marquesses of Hastings, Abercom, Hertford, and Wellesley; the Earls of Dartmouth, Hardwick, Dunraven, Verulam, Peterborough, Bradford, Spencer, and Pembroke; Lords Edward and Hugh Seymour Conway; Lords de Dunstanville, Chedworth, Bangor, Towns­ hend, and Teignmouth; with several baronets and younger SOIlS of peers. The numbers and quality of the school were maintained with little variation until 1803, when the numbers rose to 345; for Dr. Drury, who had been head-master since 1785, was eminently popular and successful in the last three years of his career. His successor's appointment in 1805 excited a mutiny amongst the elder boys, who resented the governors' refusal to elect the assistant-master Mark Drury in his uncle's place; and althongh Dr. Butler was fully equal to his predecessor in scholar­ ship and attainments, the number of boys fell at once from 345 to 250, and never reached 300 during the 24 years of his mastership. (115) Methold Waters and his brother Edmond and their cousin Thomas Methold were all in the fourth form in May 1808. (I IS) Amongst the most notable of their friends and form-fellows were the Earl of Dysart and his brothers Felix and Arthur Manners, afterwards Tollemache; Sir Charles Fitzroy, the late Governor of Australia; Sir Robert Gunning; Lords Zetland, Waterpark, and Muskerry; Sir Augustus D'Este (then Douglas) and Sir Richard Rycroft; Thomas Slingsby Duncombe and Henry CharlesSturt, afterwards well-known 1t;LP.s; who are all dead (1878) except the venerable Earl of Dysart. One of the few survivors of the lower school is the 5E

Digitized by Coogle 760 THE CIIESTERS OF CIIICHELEY. much respected Usher of the Black Rod, General Sir William Knollys, who figures in the school-list of 1808 as Viscount Wallingford. (115) The instruction given at a public school was then so strictly limited to Latin and Greek that it was usual to spend some time with a private tutor before entering into life, and Waters, after leaving Harrow, spent nearly two years at Denham in Buckinghamshire, as the pupil of the Rev. George Haggitt, who was himself an old Harrovian. The chief incidents of his life at Denham were the melancholy death of his schoolfellow 'Valter Fawkes, the heir of Farnley, who was found drowned in Denham Canal in June 1811, and the hospitality of Mr. :Mortimer Drummond, who lived at the Fishery and was till' brother-in-law of his father's friend Lord Lovaine. Waters was intended for a mercantile life, and when he left Mr. Haggitt's was sent to travel through Spain and Portugal. He reached Lisbon in 1814, and was furnished with letters from Lord Castlereagh, which secured him a friendly reception from :Mr. Canning, who was then the English Minister in Portugal. He soon learnt the mysteries of the wine trade, and became his father's partner and representative at Oporto, where he resided until 1820, when he succeeded to his father's business and established himself in London. He was a member of Gray's Inn, and occupied chambers in Verulam-buildings until his marriage. lIe married at St. Pancras, on 5th July 1827, Anne, daughter of John Hawks Esq. of Tavistock-square, who was one of the proprietors of the well­ known· ironworks at Gateshead-oll-Tyne, in partnership with his brother Sir Robert Shafto Hawks. (J) The forty-two years of his married life were spent in and near London, aud he resided for many years at Highgate Lodge, which stands on the southern slope of the steep hill rising from Kentish Town, and is only sepa­ rated by the high-road from Holly Lodge, the well-known seat of Lady Burdett­ Coutts. This was the verge of Lord Southampton's estate, which has long been broken up and built over; but in 1834 you could walk from the lawn of Highgate Lodge to Hampstead Heath through green fields and meadows without seeing a single house. Mr. Waters died in London at 108 Sloane-street on 3d Jan. 1869, aged 75, and was buried on 8th Jan. at Kensal Green, near his uncle Sir John Waters. His

• The story of these ironworks has bccn told elsowhere. (117) They were founded in November 1749 by William Hawks, and remained with his descendants until 1870, when the Crawshays, who had been partners since 1841, acquired tho whole llroperty. George Hawks of Redhengh Hall, the eldest son of John and the fifth senior partner of his name and family, was by universal consent the foremost man in Gateshead, and when the town was incorporated in 1836 he was unanimously elected the first mayor of the new borough. He consented to fill the office again in 1848 and 1849, in order to receive her Majesty when she visited Gateshead to open the ltigh Level Bridge. He died on 13 Oct. 1863, and was honoured with a public foneral. His statne was erected by public SUbscription in 1866 in the People's Park at Gateshcad. His ARlI1s were, Qua·rlcl·/Y 1 and 4 Gules a jess Sable between tllree hawks proper, !Dilll a lIIullet JOT dW·erence: HAWKS. 2. Per pale Argcnt and Gul.e8, three jleur,.de·ly' countercllanged, with a crescent jor dij}erence : LONGRIDGE. 3. Argent, aero.. engrailed Sable betlleenjour ogrc ..es, eacl' charged with a phron oj the field: FLETCIIER OF ROTHBURY. •

Digitized by Coogle THOMAS METIIOLD WATERS ESQ. 761 only son has restored as a memorial of his father the monument of Sir Francis Chester at Hackney (sce page 619), which has been lying in pieces in the Rowe Mausoleum since the old church was pulled down in 1799. It has now been placed in the north vestibule of the parish church, near the monument of the Wood family, with this additional inscription:

TnOYAS METnOLD 'VATERS ARM. D. FRANCISCI CHESTER BARONETTl EX SOllORE PRONEPOS, ODIIT 3 JA..'i. A.D. 186!), .lEUT. BU.iE 75.

Hoc 1l01lt'MENTt:Y YETt'STATE DILAPSUM, P.UHlS IN MEYORlAll OPTlYI, REtiTITLl'r R. E. CUESTEII WATERS ARM. A.D. 1677. Mr. Waters had issue, surviving infancy, an only son and three daughters, who are sufficiently shown in the tabular pedigree at pages 752-53. His only son is the author of this book, and is the sole surviving descendant in the male line of the family of Waters, descended from the Chesters of Chicheley. He is still living (18th July 1878), 8i rit'it qui non miet. (I 18)

VIII. Umbilical descent, or natural genealogy traced through continuous maternal descents, is obviously important from a physiological point of view (pm-tu8 sequi­ tur ventrem); but as it carries no heirship or legal consequences in modern society, it has received so little attention, that in the few cases in which it has been ascer­ tained, it is regarded as a mere genealogical curiosity, ineptia1-um labo1'. As this kind of pedigree is interrupted by ignorance of a single marriage, it can seldom be carried up through many generations, and the pedigree below of 24 descents is believed to be almost without parallel. It is remarkable that the last 22 families in the pedigree are all extinct in the male line except the Talbots, now Earls of Shrewsbury.

UMBILICAL DESCENT OF THOMAS METHOLD WATERS ESQ. Thomas Metbold Watcrs Esq, and Major-Gencral H. S, Waters Are the surviving sons of Edmond Thomas Waters Esq. of Tyvry, Glamorganshire, By Catherine Methold, daughter of Thomas Methold Esq. of Kcw, By Catherine Toller, !laughter of John Toller Esq. SCljeant-at-law, of Billingborough, Lincolnshire, By Catherine Chester, daughter of Sir John Chester Bart. of Chicheley, Bucks, By Anne Wollaston, daughter of William Wollaston Esq. of Shenton, Leicestershire, By Elizabeth Cave, daugbter of

Digitized by Coogle 762 TIlE CnESTERS OF CHICHELEY.

Captain Francis Cave of Ingarsby, Leicestershire, By Rebecca Lildy Villiers, daughter of Robert Roper Esq. of Heanor, Derbyshire, By Elizabeth Notte, daughter of Willia.m Notte Esq. of Imbercourt in Thames Ditton, By Elizabeth Smyth, daughter of Robert Smyth Esq. of Thames Ditton, Surrey, By Catherine Blount, daughter of Sir Thomas Blount Kt. of Kinlet, Salop, . By Anne Croft, daughter of Sir Richard Croft Kt. of Eldersfield, Herefordshire, By Eleanor Cornwall, Lady Mortimer, daughter of Edmond Cornwall, Baron of Burford, By Elizabeth Barre, daughter of Sir Thomas Barre Kt. of Clehonger, Herefordshire, By Alice Talbot, daughter of Richard Lord Talbot, By Ankaret Ie Strange, daughter of John Lord Ie Strange of Blackmere, By Mary Fitz-Alan, daughter of Richard Fitz-Alan, Earl of Arundel K.G., By Eleanor Plantagenet, daughter of Henry Plantagenet, Earl of Lancaster, grandson of King Heury Ill, By Maud Chaworth, daughter of Patrick Lord Chaworth, By Isabel de Beauchamp, daughter of William de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, By Maud Fitz-John, daughter of John Fitz-Geoffrey, Justiciary of Ireland, By Isabel Bigot, widow of Gilbert de Lacy and daughter of Hugh Bigot, Earl of Norfolk, By Maud Marshall, daughter of William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke, By Isabel de Clare, daughter of Uichard Strongbow, Earl of Pembroke, the conqueror of Ireland, By Eva,daughter of Dermot McMurrough, King of Leinster.

PROOFS AND AUTHORITIES. (l) Extracts from Parish Registers. See A in Appendix I. (1.) Marriage Licenses. See A in Appendix II. (3) Blomefield's Rist. of Norfolk,8vo, 1807, vol. vi. p. 21, LanujfJf'd. Idem, vol. vi. p. 70, South PickCllham. (4) Additional )IS. in British Museum 4820, fo. 271. (5) Bocthius de Gemmis, 8vo, 1647. King's History of Precious Stoncs, Bvo, London, 1865. (6) Purchas's Pilgrims, fol.1626, vol. v. pp. 998-1007. (,) Journals of the Housc of Commons, 27 June 1650. (S) Acts 27 & 28 Victoria, c. 291. (9) Proceedings of tho Norfolk and Norwich Archmological Society, vol. vii. (IO) Herald and Genealogist, vol. vi. pp. 598-603, Pedigree oj JletllJllold oj St. Lawrence Jew"J. (II) Town and Country Magazine, 1778.

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(12.) Entries in the Family Bible. (13) Gentleman's Magazine, under the dates. (14) Historical Register, under the datea. (IS) Admon. in C.P.C. (16) Hutchins's History of Dorset, new edition, vol. ii. p. 282, Pedigree oj Iromi". (17) Malcolm's Londinum Redivivum, vol. ii. p. 412. (18) Dodwell and Miles. List of Servants of the East India Company. (19) Berry's Pedigrees of Hampshire, p. 69, Pedigree oj LlI', (zo) Burke's Landed Gentry, Pedigree of Burge•. (ZI) From the HS. Colleetions of Colonel J. L. Chester. (n) Sir Bernard Burke'S Rise of Great Familie., 1873, p. 346. (z3) Communicated by Rev. John Bond, Vicar of Weston 1869. (Z4) Dallaway's History of Western Sussex, edited by Cartwright: Rape of Arundel, p. 215; Rape of Bramber, p. 342; Pedigree of Goble. (z 5) HOl'sfield's Hist. of Sussex, vol. ii. p. 146. (z6) Admission-Book of the Inner Temple. (Z7) Richardson's Local Historian's Table·Book, vol. ii. p. 408. (:&8) Surtces History of Durham, vol. iii. p. 108. (Z9) Will of Henry Methold Esq. of Burn Hall, co. Durham, dated 7th Oct. 1797, and proved "23d May 1799, in C.P.C. (377 Howe). (]o) Historical Recorda of the 85th Regiment. (31) Surtees HiBtory oj Durham, Chester-Ie· Street. (3z) Hart's Army List. (33) From Deeds and Family Papers in my possession. (34) Lysons' Environs of London, vol. iii. p. 26, Kew. (35) See page 355. (]6) Boswell's Life of Johnson. (37) Gentleman's Magazine, December 1792. (38) Strypa's Stowe, St. Dumtan', in the We.t. (39) Jones's History of Brecknockshire, vol. ii. p. 164, Pedigree oj Water•. (40) From the original Deed in the possession of Rev. H. H. Knight of Newton Nottage. (41) Reports of thc Charity Commission, vol. xxxii. part iii. p. 426. (4Z) Communicated by Rev. Daniel Evans, Vicar of Pyle 1865. (43) The Name. of all the Freeholder, in Glamorgamhire in 1034, when Watkin Louglltr E.g. oj Tytheg.km Waf Ilign Sheriff. Printed at Neath 18!9, from the original List in the possession of Rev. H. H. Knight. (44) Bee A in Appendix III., Monumental Imcriptiom. (45) Bee B in Appendix I., ExtractB Jrom RegiBteTl. (46) See B in Appendix III., Will, of WaterB. (47) Stemmata Chieheleiana, 4to, 1765. (48) Glamorganshire Pedigrees, printed by Sir Thos. Phillipps of Middlehill. (49) Bee B in Appendix II., Oxford MatriculationB. (ZI) (49A)Communicated by the late John Bennett Esq. of Laleston. (So) See C in Appendix III., DeedB. (51) Wood's Athelllll Oxon., 1721, vol. i. Fasti, p. 45. (sz) AtheIUII Oxon., 1721, vol. i. p. 93, Robert Laugher. (53) Gentleman's Magazine, under the dates. (54) East India Military Calendar, vol iii. p. 593-59&. (55) Reminiscences of Captain Gronow, 1st series, p. 49. (56) The HuguenotB, by S. Smiles, 1867, p. 482. (57) Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, vol. ix. p. 212. (58) Hutchins's Hi.t. oj Dor.et, 1772, vol. ii. p. 246. (59) Hutchins's Hilt. oj DorBet, new edition, 1872, vol. iii. p. 676, Stalbridge. (60) Gentleman's Magazine, vol. lxxxvii. part i. p. 577. (61) DeeBt. (6:&) Memoir of Sir John Waters in United Service Magazine, January 1843. (63) Hart's Army List. (64) Napier's History of the Peninsular War, book iv. chapter iv. (65) Narrative of Sir John Moore's Campaign in Spain, by James Moore, 8vo, 1809. (66) Communicated by Colonel Charles Wood, formerly of 10th Hnssars.

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(67) Sir John Moore's Despatches to Lord Castlereagh, dated 16th Dec. 1808 and 28th Dec. 1808. (68) The same, dated 13th Jan. 1809. (69) The Duke of Wellington's Despatcbes, edited by Colonel Gurwood, 1844, vol. v. p. 229. (70) Napier's Peninsular War, book vii. chapter ii. Story of the Peninsular War, by General Stewart, afterwards Marquess of Londonderry, chapter mi. p. 158. Life of Duke of Wellington, in the Time. of 15th Sept. 1852. (71) Napier, book vii. chapter ii. (72.) Napier, preface to vol. v. of 2d edition, 8vo, 1850. (n) Quarterly Review, article on Napier's Peninsular War. (74-79) Desunt. (80) Wellington Despatcbes, 1844, vol. iii. p. 326. (81) Idem, vol. iii_ pp. 37l, 397, 621. (8:z) Idem, vol. ill. p. 406. (83) Idem, vol. iii. p. 565. (84) Napier's Peninsular War, book xi. cbapter vi. (85) Autobiograpby of Sir James McGrigor Bait., 1861, p. 413. (86) Wellington Despatches, vol. iii. pp. 230, 286, 291. (87) Napier, book xi. cbapter vi. (88) Wellington Despatcbes, vol. iii. p. 291. (89) Idem, vol. iv. p. 347. (90) Private Journal of;F. S. Larpent Esq., Judge.Advooate-General, 1812-14, LondoD, 1843, vol. i. p. 146. (91) Wellington Despatches, vol. iv. p. 724. (92.) Idem, vol. iv. p. 735. (93) Napier, book xii. chapter v. (94) Wellington Despatches, vol. iv. p. 732. (9S) Idem, vol. iv. p. 745, lath April 1811. (96) Idem, vol. iv. p. 753, 16th April 1811. (97) Larpent, vol. i. p. 145. (98) Napier, book xviii. chapter iii. (99) Wellington Despatches, vol. v. p. 757. (100) Idem, vol. vi. p. 119. (101) Captain Gronow's Reminiscences, 1st series, pp. 19-25. (102.) Reminiscences of Fifty Years, by Mark Boyd, 1871, pp. 11-13. (103) Brialmont's Life of Wellington, translated and edited by Rev. G. R. Gleig, vol. iv. p. 289. (104) Colonel Mackinnon's Services of the Coldstream Guards, 8vo, 18113, vol. ii. Appendix, pp. 377, 516. (105) Dust. (106) Notes and Queries, 3d series, vol. vii. p. 326. (107) These drawings arc now in the possession of Mr. E. J. Bage of Btoke Newington, who has been good enough to supply me with a copy of the printed particulars of theAldborough estate, when it was offered for sale at Garraway's on 26th June 1802 by Messrs. Young & Bons, auctioneers. (108) Memoir of Dr. Copleston, Bishop of Llandaff, by W. J. Copleston, 1851, p. 87. (109) Dr. Whalley's Journals and Letters, vol. ii. p. 341. (1I0) Clutterbuck's Hist. of Hertfordshire, vol. i. p. 348, Caddingt~n. (III) Prince's W~es of Devon. (1I2.) Pedigree of Cary of Tor Abbey, in the Herald and Genealogist, vol. viii. p. 95. (113) Gentleman's Magazine, May 1810, p. 417. (114) Eton School-lists, 1791-1850, by H. E. C. Btapylton, 2d edition, 1864. (115) Harrow School-lists, 1770-1829, by Dr. Butler, Peterborough, 1849. (116) Memoir of Dr. Thackeray in the Herald and GenealogiBt, vol. ii. p. 319, &c. (117) Genealogical Notes of the Kindred Families of Longridge, Fletcher, and Hawks, compiled by R. E. Chester Waters Esq., 4to,1873. (118) Bee D in Appendix ill.

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APPENDIX I. EXT1U.CTS ROH PARISH RBGIII'rBlIS. (A.) BXTBACTS RBLATDlG TO THB J'AHILY OF HBTHOLI>. St. Paul'., Covent Garden, London. (2.1) 1714, May 16. Mary, dan. of William and Mary Methold, bapt. 1714-15, Jan. 15. Mary, dan. of William and Mary Methold, buried. 1715, May 22. Mary, dau. of William and Mary Methold, bapt. St. Olave'., Hart·ltreet, London. (u) 17B2, Nov. BO. Edward, son of William and Mary Methold, bapt. 17BB, Dec. 28. Ann, dau. of William and Mary Mcthold, bapt. 17B5, Dec. 21. Sarah, dan. of William and Mary Methold, bapt. 1757, Aug. B:William Henry, son of Franois and Mary Magdalen Mothold, ballt. 1758, Sept. 5. Mary Magdalen, dan. of Francis and Mary Magdalen Methold, bapt. 1760, Feb. 18. Francis, son of Francis and Mary Magdaleu Methold, bapt. 1761, Feb. 25. Henry, son of Francis and Mary Magdalen Methold, bapt. 1762, May 19. Magdalen Methold and Francis Mothold buried in the vanlt undor the pulpit. 1764, May 19. Francis Methold, widower, and Alice James, widow, both of this parish, were married by license. 1778, May 19. William Methold Esq. buried in pulpit vault.

Walcot, near Folkingl.am, Lincolmhire (certiAed by the Vicar, 1872). 1762, March 16. Thomas Methold of 8t. Olan'8, Hart·street, London, and Catherine Toller of Walcot, were married by license by me, I Brownlow Toller,' in the presence of I Richard 8mith and Edward Brown.' ..tIL Hallow., Staining, London. 1764, Aug. 16. Thomas, son of Thomas and Catherine Methold, bapt. 1765, Aug. 15. George, son of Thomas and Catherine Methold, bapt. 1766, May 18. George Methold buried. 1767, June 12. Catherine, dau. of Thomas and Catherine Methold, bapt. NOTthaw, Hert/oTd.hiTI!. 1769, Oct. 18. Mary Methold buried.

(n.) BXTBACTS DELATING TO THB FAMILY OF WATBBS OF GLAMOBGANBlIlBB. Pyle, GlamoTgamhire (commnnicated by the Vicar, 1851). 1695, April SO. David, son to Richard Waters by Catharine, bapt. 1696-7, Feb. 21. Richard Waters buried. 17M [illegible]. Edmund Waters buried. 1708-9, Jan. 19. Elizabeth Waters bnried. 1724, April 27. Evan Waters buried. 1724, 8ept. 24. Jenkin, son to Morgan Waters by Rachel, bapt. 1726, April 28. Michael Richards and Margery Waters married. 1726-7, March 19. Rachel Waters, dau. to Morgan Waters by Rachol, bapt. Tytheg.ton, GlamorgamhiTI! (from the Bishop's Registry at Llandaft'). 1726, May 6. Catharine Waters buried. 1740, May 14. Joan Waters buried. 1758, 8ept. 2. Rachel, wife of Morgan Waters, buried. 1760, Jan. 20. Margery, wife of Morgan Waters. buried. Tytheg.ton (communicated by the Vicar of Newcastle Bridgend, 1848, from tho only existing Register, which begins in 1761). 1764, March 11. Edmond, 80n of Morgan Waters by Grace, hapt. 1766, Oct. 8. Ann, dan. of same, bapt. 1767, May 16. Grace, dau. of same, hapt.

Digitized by Coogle 766 THE CHESTEUS OF CHICHELEY.

1767, July 19. Magdalen, dau. of William and Catharine, servants with Mr. Waters [she was after­ wards acknowledged as the natural daughter of Morgan Waters, and married Thomas Jenkins, a farmer at Llantwitt Major]_ 1769, Nov. 26. Thomas Swan, son of Morgan Waters by Grace, bapt. 1773, July 6. Morgan Walters (ric) buried. 1784, July 1. Morgan Walters (ric) buried. " July 10. Grace Waters (Bic), his wife, buried. " July 23. Catharine Waters, their daughter, buried. St. Peter", Carmartheon (certified by the Vicar). 1777, Oct. 13. Morgan, BOn of Morgan Waters, bapt. Great Coxwell, Bcrbhire (certified by the Vicar, 1850). 1763. MORGAN WATERS of the parish of Tidiston (sic) in the county of Glamorgan and Grace Swan residing in this parish were married by license this 1st day of June 1763 by me, Richard Payne, Vicar, in the presence of Thomas Swan sen. and Thomas Swan jun. St. Andrew'" Ho/born, London. 1794, March 10. Thomas Methold, son of Edmond Thomas Waters Esq. and Catharine his wife, bapt. Bedford-row. 1796, Jan. 11. Edmond Thomas, son of same, bapt. ; born 20 July 1795. 1798, Jan. 26. Catharine, dau. of same, bapt.; born 22 July 1797. 1800, May 21. Grace, dau. of same, bapt.; born 9 Aug. 1799. 1802, Feb. 3. Anne, dau. of same, bapt. 1803, May 20. Harriett, dau. o~ same, bapt.; born 11 Oct. 1802. St. George'8, Bloomsb1lry, London. (:u) 1810, Jan. 11. John William, son of Edmond Thomas Waters Esq. aUlI Catharine, bapt.; born 2 Aug. 1805. 1810, Jan.n. Henry Swan, son of same, bapt.; born 30 Oct. 1809. St. Panora., London (certified by Rev. F. G. Stainforth, Curate, 24 June 1846). 1827, July 5. Thomas Methold Waters of Verulam-bnildings, Gray's Inn, bachelor, and Anne Hawks of this parish, spinster, were married by liccnse by James Moore, Vicar of St. Pancras, in the presence of Edward Hawks, Jane Hawks, Henry Browning, John Waters (Colonel).

APPENDIX II. (A.) Maf'riage Liceme. (from Colonel J. L. Chester's MS. Collections). 1727, Aug. 25. William Methold of St. Olave's, Hart-street, London, wine-merchant, widower, above 35, and Mary Hughes ofsame, spinster, above 26: to marry at St. Olavc's (Jo'/lClllty). 1741, Jan. 2. John Theed of St. Dionis Backchurch, London, bachelor, above 21, and Mllry Methold of St. Olave's, Hart-street, London, spinster, above 21: to marry at St. Clement Dllnes or St. Mary-Ie-Strand (Vicar-General). 1755, March 25. Francis Methold of St. Dunstan's in the East, London, bachelor, aged 26, and Mary Magdalen Lys of Kingston, eo. Southampton, spinster, aged 25: to marry at Kings­ ton aforesaid (Vicar-General). 1762, March 11. Thomas Methold of St. Olave's, Hart-street, London, bachelor, 21 and upwards, and Catherine Toller of Walcot, co. Lincoln, spinster, 21 and upwards: to marry at Walcot aforesaid (Vicar-General). 1764, May 18. Francis Methold of St. Olave's, Hart-street, London, widower, and Alice James of Bame parish, widow: to marry at St. Olave's aforesaid (,Vicar-General). 1790, June 9. Henry Methold Esq. of Bath, co. Somerset, bachelor, above 21, and Dorothy Eden of Windlestone, co. Durham, spinster, above 21, and daughter of Sir John Eden Bart., special license : to marry at any time and place (Faculty). (D.) MatritlUlation. at the Univer,itll of Ozford (from Colonel J. L. Chester's M8. Collecuons). 1588-6, Jan. 17. Henry Waters of Glamorganshire, aged 16, JeBUB ColL 1603, July 1. David Waters of co. Bracon, aged 16, Jesus College.

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1665-6, March 16. Edmund Waters, son of David Waters of Pyle, Glamorganshire, aged 17, Jesus College. 1697, July 3. John Waters, son of John Waters Esq. of co. Breeon, aged 16, Jesus Coli. 1780, Feb. 26. Henry Methold, son of Francis Methold Esq. of Bath, aged 18, Trinity College. 1781, April 6. Thomas Methold, son of Thomas Methold Esq. of London, aged 16, Trinity College. (c.) Gradllate •. Ouord: Thomas Methold, Trinity College, B.C.L. 13 Nov. 1787. Cambridge: Thomas Methold, Caius College, B.A. 1816, M.A. 1820. " John William Methold, Trinity College, B.A. 1823.

APPENDIX m. PBOOFS OF THE PEDIGREE 01' WADBS. (A.) MONUMENTAL INBCBIPTIONS. Kenfig Ohurch, Glamorga1llhire. OD a marble tablet in the chancel: Underneath lieth the body of RICHARD WADBS of Cornelly Gent., deceased 19 February A.D. 1696, aged 49. MABY WATEBS, ye daughter of Richard Waters by Kate Lougher, dyed 23 December 1687. DAVID WADBS, ye son of Richard Waters by Kate Lougher, dyed 13 June 1689. OD an altar-tomb: Underneath lieth interred MABGEBY WUEllS, a virtuous virgin and only child of Evan Waters and Anne Morgan his wife, who dyed 26 July 1694, ICtat. 18. Tythegston Ohurch, Glamorga1llhire. Here lyeth the body of THOMAS WADRS: died 16 March 1657. JOAN WADBS dyed 30 August 1673. Here lyeth the body of TnoMAS WATEBS: dyed 26 Jan. 1680. Here lyeth the body of JOAN WADBS, the daughter of Morgan Waters by Margarct his wile. She dyed 9 May 1740, aged 28. (D.) Willi and Admons. in the Bi.llOp's Reoistry at Llandalf. 1635, July 8. WENLLUN WATERS of Tythegston. Will. 1673. JOAN WADRS of Tythegston. Will dated 15 August 1673, and proved 23 Sept. 1673 by Elizabeth Waters the executrix. The inventory of household goods was taken 16 Sept. 1678, and is signed by James Lougher, brother of the testatrix. By a nuncupative codicil she gave legacies of £5 each to Thomas, Barbara, Joan, and Elizabeth Waters. 1680. TBoKAS W ADRS of Tythegston. Will dated 26 Sept. 1680. My lands at Merthyr-Mawr in the lordship of Tythegston to my son Thomas. My daughters Elizabeth, Joan, and Barbara Waters. My daughter Barbara to be my executrix. The inventory of house­ hold goods includes five feather beds and pillows, and is signed by Richard Lougher (If Cornelly Gent., who died 28 March 1698, and has a monument in Kenfig Church. The Will is sealed with a coat-of-arms, and is witnessed by John Lougher, clerk, who died 3 Feb. 1695-6 a Prebendary of LIandaft' and Vicar of LIantrissant. 1697. RICHARD WATEBB of Pyle and Kenfig. Letters of Administration granted 20 April 1697 to his widow Catharine Lougher also Waters. 1724. EVAN WATERS of Cornclly in Pyle and Kenfig Gent. Will dated 25 March 1724. My lands to my wife Anne for life, with remainder to David Waters, son of my deceased brother Richard, remainder to my sister's son Roes Griftith. My brother Jenkin Morgan of Stormy Gent. and his daughter Margery JenkinB als. Waters. 1782. JENKIN MORGAN of Tythegston Gent. Letters of Administration granted 18 Aug. 1782 to his widow Margaret Morgan. 1745. ANNE WADRS of Pyle and Kenfig, widow lof Evan,1724]. Letters of Admon. granted 15 Jan. 1745 to her ncphew Morgan Waters. 1749. DAVID WATEBS Gent. of Pyle and Ken:8g. Admon. granted 28 March 1749 to his widow Jennet Waters. 1765. MOBOAN WATEBS of Tythegston, widower. Admon. granted 14 May 1765 to his granddaugh­ ter Catharine Williams, wife of John Williams. 1773. JENNET WADBS of Cornelly in Pyle and Kenfig, widow [of David, 1749J. Admon. granted 25 March 1773 to her sister Anne Thomas. 5F

Digitized by Coogle 7GS TIlE ClIESTERS OF CII1Cll~L:£Y.

(c.) DEEDS. (1) Extracts froln the Court Rolli of the Manor of NelDcastle and CefncribblDr in the pam1& oj Tythegston (ccrtified by John Randall, steward of the Manor, 11 March 1851, and vermed by Henry Randall 1878) .

1722, March 11. Morgan Waters was feoffee for John Rees of Laleston. 1724, Oct. 2. Morgan Waters was feoffee for Mary Jenkin. 1764, Nov. 17. Morgan Waters of Parkae in Tythegston surrendered a farm of 80 acres known as Cefn Clibbwr to l\lorgnn Waters of Stormy in Tythegston, Gentleman. 1765, Oct. 12. William Bennett snrrendered a messnage and 15 acres of land neal Cefn Cwse to Morgan Watel's the yonngor. 1770, AIJril H. Morgan Waters the younger of Stormy surrendered his estates at Cefn Cribbwr and Cefn Cwse to John Bedford. .

(2) Abstract. oj counterpart Lea.us preserved amongst the ",uniments oj C. R. Mamel Talbot E.q. M.P., at Margam Abbey (communicated by C. R. M. Talbot Esq. M.P., 1878). 1763, Sept. 26. Indenture between Jane Talbot of Margam, widow, and John Ivory Talbot of Margam Esq., the acting tnlstccs of the Will of Rev. Thomas Talbot, late of Margam, clerk, deceased, of tho lst IJartj Morgan Wllters of Stormy in tlle parish of Tythegston, Gentleman, and Morgan Waters the younger his son, of the 2d part; and Hopkin Llewellyn of Margam, Gentleman, of the 3d part. In consideration of the surrender of five several leases heretofore granted by tlle Honourllble Sir Edward Mansel Bart., deceased, of tlle lands and mill herein­ after mentioned, wherein the said Morgan Waters the elder had tlle term of his own life yet unexpired; and in consideration of the surrender of another lease of the same premises lately granted to the said Morgan Waters the younger, for which he had paid 2501. as a fine for tlle term of his own life, the said Jane Talbot and John Ivory Talbot demised to tlle said Morgan Waters tlle elder and Morgan Waters tlle younger all tlle lands, farms, and messuages in tlle parishes of Tythegston, Pyle, and Kenfig, tllen in tllcir possession, and specl1led at my page 715, to hold as joint tenants, at the rent of 271. 158. per annum, to tllo use of Morgan Waters tllc cIder and his assigns during his life ; and after his deatll to tlle use of Morgan Waters tlle younger and his Rssigns during his lifo in caso of his surviving his father. (Signed) MonoAN WATERS and M. WATERS, in tho presence of James Shepherd and David Rces. Tho seal Dsecl by tlle el(1er Morgan Wllters shows the head of a Roman emperor finely cut. 1770, July 16. Indenture betwcen Thomas Mansel Talbot of Mllrgam Esq. of the one part, and Morgan Waters of Tyvry in tlle parish of Tythegston, Gent., of the otller part; whereby all tlle lands, farms, and messuagcs comprised in the lease of 26tll Sept. 1763 arc demised to Morgan Waters in reversion after his own and his fatllcr's death for a furtller term of ninety·nine years if his son Edmond Thomas Waters, tllen aged six years, should so long live, at tlle rent of 601. a year.

(3) Memorial oj tlle Water8 Cha~ity at Kenjig and Pyle, regia~red in 1813. COUNTY OF Gr..wORGAN. A MEMORIAL in pursuanco of an Act for tlle registering and securing of Charitable Donations: Whereby it is declared by the undersigned-That in tlle parish of Kenfig and Pyle, otllerwise Pyle in Kenfig, a charitable donation was founded in part by tlle last Will and Testament of John Waters Gent. of Nortll Comely, in tlle parish of Kenfig and Pyle, dated 29th February 1515, to the amount of £20, the interest tllercof yearly to bo divided amongst tlle poor of the said parish for ever. And ruso in a further grant by tlle last Will and Testament of Mary Lougher, wife of Thomas Lougher of South Comely, in the same parish, Gent., dated 2d June 1781, the sum of £50, the interest thereof yearly to be divided at five different times in bread between the poor of the said palish. To our knowledge and belief there is no other foundation. And to avoid tlle danger of tlle money being lost, it was agreed between and amongst tlle parishioners, in tlle yeal' 1749, to apply both tlle above suma to purchase lands tllerewith; which was effected in trust by Robert TDrIJin of Hall and Thomas Wild of Tydraw Gentlemen, both of the said Pllrish of Kcnng and Pyle (and since deceased) ; which lands are situated within the borough Rud manor of Kcnfig, in the county of Glamorgan, estimated to be seven acres (more or lc~s), purchllsc-molwy £'137 lOs., and let for three lives, in tlle year 1757, at tlle yearly

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rent of ,t,. 10 .•. , Rnllject to a chief rent of Is. 4,z., the term yet nnexpirell d('pl'nlling on one old lifo upward~ of 80, worth to be let by the year .£1'1 or ther('about~. CopieR of Wills and Purchase Deeds in the trust an(l pORRes~ion of Joseph Rees of the borough of Kenng. Signed, 19th Sept. 1813. WILLlAlI LLEWELYN, JOlIN JENKIN, DANIEL REES, JOSEPH REES. 1818. Mrs. Bainbridge, eldest daughter of Morgan Waters of Tyvl'Y antl Stormy d('ceased, and wife of Thomas Bainbridge Esq. of Croydon Lodge, contributed £10 in aid of the WlltOrs Charity lit Pylo and Kenfig. (D.) Memoranda of R. E. Ohester Waters, tile Author of t!

BY A VEBY LAROE NUMBER 01' TIlE COliSEBV.~TIVES OF NORWICH, AS AN EXPREf!SION OF THEIR CORDIAL SYMPATIlY AXD REOARD, AliD IN APPRECIATION 01' THE GALLANT AND CHIVALROUS SPIRIT IN WHICH, UNDER DIFFICULTIES UNPRECEIlENTED, HE FOUOIlT THE BATTLE OF TIlE CONSERV.6.TIVE CAUSE, LOYALLY, COURTEOUSLY, AND FEARLESSLY, AT TIlE PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION FOR NORWICIJ, 1865:' 1867. Became a helpless and hopeless invalid from paralysis. (2.) Extracts from the RegiBter of the Bishop of Tivoli, nCllr Rome. Curia Epi.copali. Tiburis: Fidem facio ego Notarius et Curim Episcopalis Tibnris Caneellarius, qualiter ex regesto chrisma· torum in eadem curia servato legitur, ut infra, videlicet. Die 29 Julli 1855. DImul. et Bmus. D. Karolus Gigli, Episcopus Tiburtinus in inBigni Basilica Cathedral" S. Laurentii,

Digitized by Coogle 770 TIlE CIIESTERS OF CTJlCIIELEY,

hujus civitatis Tibnris juxta Ritum S.R.E .. solemniter &aerO chriBmate delinivit Dimum, D. Robertum Edmondum [Mariam LudovicumJ Chester Waters, nobilem Anglum, fil. ThODUe MeUioldi Waters, nobills Angli, natum Londinii. Patrinus fnit Emus. et Rmu. D. Gabriel Ferretti S.R.E .. Cardinalis Penitentiarius Major, Episcopus Sabinensis, &c. In quorum, &c. Datum Tibure ex Cancellaria Epali. die sexta Octobris, Anno 1855. Pro PETRO SERDUCCI, Not·. Cane ell·. Epali., DOIIIINICUS SERDUCCI, Substus. Curia EpUc~pali' TiburU: Fidem facio ego Notarius et Curim Episcopalis Tiburius Cancellarius, qualiter ex regesto chriama­ torum in eadem curia servato legitur, ut infra, videlicet. Die 12 Septembris 1855. IlImus. et Rmus. D. Karolus Gigli, Episcopus Tibnrtinus in Ven. Oratorio S. Getulii M., hujus civi­ tatis Tiburis jutn Ritum S.R.E., 801emniter saero chrismate deliniyit Illmam D. Emillam Esthernm Annam [I\Inrinm Cntheriuam,J !iliam Jonnthnui Peel, nohilis Angli defuncti, uxorem nobills Angli Edmomli [Marim Ludovici] Chester Water~, nntam Oxonire. Matrina fnit IlIma. D. Victorill Gigli, !ilia Illmi. D. Johis. Petri I'atritii Anagniensis. In qnorum, &c. Datnm Tibnre ex Cancellaria Eprui. dio sexta Octobris, anni 1855. Pro PETRO SnRDUCCl, Cancellario Epali., DOIIIINICUIl SnBBUCCl, SUbatn8,

ARMS OF WATERS AND CRBSTER, QUARTERLY, FROll THE SHIELD ON A BRASS IN CHICHELEY CHunCH.

Digitized by Google INDEX OF TABULAR PEDIGREES.

Amadas of London, 22. Doreward of Essex, 300. Amcotts of Harrington and Astrop, 652-653. Drayton of Btrixton, 48·49. 50. Anderson of Eyworth Barts., 38. Drury of Hawsted, 140. Anosty of Essex, 200. Dunsmore, Leigh Lords, 145.

Bankworth of London, 131. Felbrigge of Felbrigge, 255. Bassett Lords Bassett of Bapoote, 197. Ferrera, Lords Ferrers of Wemme, 664. Beaupr{i of Beaupre Hall, SOO. Fisher of Islington Barts., 27S. Bell of Beaupre Hall, 120. Fisher of Wisbech, 182. Bernard of Iselham, 202. Fitz·Hugh, Lords, 80, 584,597. Billing of Astwell, 42. FIoud als. Lloyd of Chevening, 450. Blaydwin of Boston, 680. Foderinghay, SOO. Blythman of Leeds, 285. Foster of Dowaby, 634, 6S7. Boteler Lords Boteler of Brantlleld, 140·141. Freere of the Blankets, 72. Boteler of Watton Woodhall, 138·141. Bowes of Jenkins, 22. Gardiner of Cuddesdon, 478·479. Bressey of Battersea, 517. Gaunt, John of, Descendants of, 596·597, 664. Brown of Horbling, 634, 666, 667; of Saltlllletby Gemon of Bakewell, 199. and Pinchbeck, 682; of Walcot and Horbling, Gemon of Ireland, 196. 666,667. Gi1ford of Astwell, 42. Bryce of Jenkins, 22. Gobaud of Rippingale, 197. Bullock of Maplestead, 285. Gobion of Hertfordshire, 155. Greystock, Lords, 664. Calthorpe of Burnham, 140. Campbell, 285. Hampden of Great Hampden, 92. Cape, 182, 442. Haselden of Gilden Morden, 217. Cave of Chicheley, 49, 51, 108; of Iugarsby, 51, Hawkwood of Hedingham Bible, 800. 597 i of Btanford·on-Avon, 78-80. Herris of Chevening, 878·879, 447. Chapman of London Barts., 517. Heton of Wisbeeh, 72. Chester of Bucks, 124; of London, 82, 72. Hewett of Wales and Parslocs, 287. Clare, Earls of Hertford and Gloucester, 140, 597; Hewett of Stretton and Great Glen, 595. Earla of Pembroke, 762. Hill of Hampton, 22. Clobury of Winchester, 449. Holland Earls of Kent, 597. Coggeshall of Essex, SOO. Holt of Aston Barts., 449. Coleville Lords Coleville of Bytham, 197. Horton of Catton, 581, 584. Cradock Lords Howden, 680. Howard, Duke of Norfolk, 255. Cranmer of Aslacton, 448·445 i of Astwood and Hughes of Northampton, 442. Loudham, 446 i of Chevening, 447; of Canter­ bury and Rotterdam, 448·449 i of Kirkstall, Isham of Pytehley, 51, 597. 44S i of London, 454 i of Mitcham and QueDdon, 447. Jenkinson of Walcot Barta., 414-415, 448. Cranmer als. Wood, 446. JeBsoD of Longhborough, 595. Crawley Boevey Barts., 450. Joan of Acre, Desepndants of, 140, 597. Croke of Bucks, 79. Kenrick of Rotterdam, 409·418, 448. D'Amory, Lords, 140. Keateven, Trollope Lords, 448. Darcy Lords Darcy, 664:. Rblg of Maplestead, 285.

Digitized by Coogle 772 INDEX OF TABULAR PEDIGREES.

Langley of Knowlton, 20-1. Saxby of Northampton, 76. Leigh Earls of Chichester, 144. Beales, Lords, 253·256. Lloyd of Chcvcning, 450. Scrape of Barking, 22. Lovett of Astwcll, 42, 49, 51. Seward of Bengworth, 617. LyUing of Abington, 202. Shan of Methley, 182. Bkrimshire of Aqualate, 631. Mainwaring of Goltho, 650. Smyth of Linford, 442. Mallory of Welton, 202. Smyth of Thames Ditton, 696, 761. Methold of London and Norfolk, 708·709. Sneyd of Keele, 631. Millicent of Bergham, 167. Southampton, Earls of, 145. Molder,22. Stapylton of Ingham, 140. Montacute, Earls of Salisbury, 597. Strange of B1ackmerc, Lords, 696, 762. Montacute, Lords Montacute of Bung&y, 882. Monthermcr, Lords, 597. Talbot, Lords, 696, 762. Throckmorton of Coughton, 697. Nance of Trengoff, 127. Tindal of Essex, 280. Nethercotes of Nettieham, 6M. Toller of Billingborough, 672·673. Neville Earls of Salisbury and Westmoreland, 597, Toller of Stamford, 656. Newport, Earls of, 151·152. Tomlins of Bow, 448. Norfolk, Dukes of, 255. Trott of Colnpy Hatch, 40. Northumberland, Earls of, 145. TYlulale of Hayling I~land, 277. Nott of Thames Ditton, 596, 761. Tyndall of Hockwolll, 276·277; of Maplestead, 278·284. OJBey of London, 234·236. Vaux of Harrowden, Lords,697. Oneby of Barwell and Loudham, 616. Vere Earls of Oxford, 48, 50, 265. Osbome of Parsloes and Northill, 237. Vere of Addington, 60·51. Villiers of Brooksby Barts., 595, 697. Peyton of Peyton Ball, 244; of Knowlton (Barts.), Villiers Viscounts Grandison, 145. 288; of Doddington (Barts.), 288. Pitt Earl of Chatham, 146. Waller of Coleshill, 92. Plantagenet, 597, 664, 762. Waters of Glamorganshire, 722·728, 752-763, 7~1- Pointz of North Ockendon, 40·41. 762. Porter of Gloucestershire, 147·149. Webb of Kensington, 516·517. Portland, Weston, Earls of, 108·109. Webb also Wood of Great Bealings, 617. Weston of Roxwell, 108·109. Qnincey of Aslackby, 660. Wollaston of Perton and Trescot Grange, 645; of Perton and London, 549, 659; of London and Rands of Nettleham, 664. Waltham, 669,678; of Shenton and Finborough, Roche of Wixley and Lamer, 160. 61, 678·679, 696-597, 761·762. Roper of Hennor, 686, 695, 696·697,761. Wood of Hackney, 472·473. Royal Descents, 140, 696·6.97, 761-762. Wood als. Cranmer of Loudham, 446. Wriothesley Earls of Southampton, 146. Sackville of E&s8X, 200. St. George of Hatley at. George, 680. Yorke of Ashby, 664.

Digitized by Coogle INDEX. • The small capitals clenore genealogies, biographie" or pedigrees, in which the flUme frequently occurs. The Roman numerals rifer to the Additions and CorrectioJ&B, whicl, follow tlte Priface.

Abdy, Anthony, 116, 181, 186; Elizabeth, 181, Boteler, 188; Broughton, 287; Brown of Salt· 186. lI.eetby, 681, 635; Brown of Waloot, 666; Bur­ Abell, Blanch, John, 57,66. gis,560. Abergavonny, Georgo (Lord), 20. Card, 461; Cave, 78, 80, 526; Chester of Bris­ Adams, Captain James, 582. tol and Almondsbnry, 1; of Chicheley, 1,9, Addams, Charles, Isabella, Margarot, 480. 618, 619, quartering Waters, 770; of Herta, Adderley, Charles, 538. 2; of East Haddon, 127, 358, impaling Webb, Ainscombe, Bridget, Richard, 560. 515. AlaiDbrig alB. Leeds, Jolm, Nicholas, 659. Clobnry, 418 ; Coggeshall, 800; Cranford,42, 48. Albini, Flora de, Sir Oliver de, William de, 155. Cranmer, ancient Arms of, 867, 425, 444; Arch· Aldborough Hatch, 751, 754. bishop Cranmer, with quarterings, 882, 425, Aldryeh, Sir George (Kt.), Sabina, 564. 428-481, 434, 443, 445 ; of Aslacton, 443, 454 ; Aleyn, Jolm, Matilda, 8. of Astwood, 446; of Canterbury, 398; of Che­ Allord als. Enyon, Alice, Conetance, Margaret, vening, 877; of Londen, 426, 454; of Mitcham, Philip, 446, 451, 452. 422. Alfred Club, 754. Dallyson, 874; Day, 899; Dela Garde, 465,251; Alleu, Elizabeth, George, 89. Dene, 251; Drayton, 87, 42, 48; Duncombe, Alleyne, Rev. John, Penelope, 848, 849,858,859; 850; Doreward, 800. Thomas, 859. Fitzjames, 262; Fletcher, 760; Foderinghay, 800; Alston, Lady, 648; Sir Thomas, 639, 648. Fretcheville, 872. ALBABEz, l'd.uwmoNEsiI 01',107. Gardiner, 478; Gifford, 87, 42; Gobion, 155. AUADAS OF LONDON, 20; PEDIGREE, 22. Hasilden, 218, 211; Hatfield, 868; Hampden, AUADAs, RoBBRT, MASTER GF THE MINT (1526), 20. 92; Hawks, 760; Hawkwood, 800; Hewett, AHCOTTS OF HARRINGTON AND AsTROP, 651; PEDI- 287. GREE, 652-653. Jewell, 42, 48. ANDERSON OF EYWORTH, BARTS, PEDIGREE, 88. Kenrick, 409. Anderson, Sir Edmund, 92; Sir Francis, 144; Sir Longridge, 760; Lowe, 815, with quarterings, Henry, Elizabeth, Sir Richard, 818. 87,42; Lovett, 41*, 55, with quarterings, 87, Andrew, Sir Thomas (Kt.), 75. 42, 48; Lillyng, 202 j Lys, 700. Andrews, Alderman, 457; Aune, Elizabeth, 474. Mallory, 202; Methold, 696, 708; Millicent, ANBSTY, PEDIGREE 01',200. 167; Morton, 874. Anesty, Richard de, 191,200. Netherootes, 668, 672; Newmaroh, 868; Nor­ Anglesey, Elizabeth Dowager CGuntess of, Chris- ton, 898; Norwood, 408. topher Earl of, 100. Osbome, 287. Annesley, Anne, Hugh de, 418. Parry, 417; Powell, 714; Peyton, 183, 244; of Anson, General Sir George, 678, 680. Doddington, 288 j Prayers, 42, 48. Anstey, George, 215. Roche, 160; Roper, with eleven quarterings, Apleton, Christina, William de, 185. 584·586 j Rands, 661; Ryley, 179; Russell, Argall, Laurence, 66. 270. ARIIS: Soales, Lord, 258; Seller, 401; Shenton, 560 ; Amcotts, 652; Aslacton impaling Cranmer, 377. Spenser, 400 j Symonds, 454. Beaupr6, 300; Bernard, 202; BilliDg, 87, 42; Toller, 665, 672; Turville, 42, 48; Tyndall, 276.

Digitized by Coogle 714 INDEX.

UfFord, De, 881, 884. Base1l, Elizabeth, Simon, 898. Waller, 92; Waters, 712, quartering Chester, 770; BASBETT, LORDS BABBETT OF SAl'COTE, 197, 198; Webb, 516; Weston, Earls of Portiand, 108; PBDIGREE, 197. Wilkins, 582; Wbitgreve, 671 ; Wollaston, 525, Bathurst, Constance, John, 586. 549,589,561,579; Wood,468,469,472. Baynard, Richard, 201. York,661. Beale, Robert, Clerk of Council, B90. Arsick, Margaret, Sir Roger .Ie, 800, 809. Beauchamp, Elizabeth, Isabella, Thomas, Earl of Arnndell, Henry Earl of, 385, 892; Richard Earl Warwick, 829, B33; Simon, of Bedford, 168; of,762. Maud, William .Ie, 263, 254. Ashburnham, William, 146. Beaufort Hunt, 706; Duke of, 702, 706. Ashby, Margaret, Thomas, 51. Beaameys, Anne, Thomas, 258. Ashton, Catherine, 133. Beaamont, Sir George, 593; Sapeete, Viscount, Aslacton, Isabella, Reginald, William .Ie, 868, 590; William, Viscountess, 577,590. 426,444. BEAUPU OF BEAUPRil H.u.L, 299-810; l'EDIGREE, Aston, Lord, 100, 108; Mary, Sir Roger (Kt.), 300. 248; Sir Walter, 346. Beaupre, Dorothy, Edmund, 290; Margery, Nicho- Astwoodbury,458,456,466. las, 310. Atkin, Elizabeth, Thomas, 406. Becket, St. Thomas, 56, 427. Audiey, Eve .Ie, Sir James .Ie, Thomas .Ie, 887. Becon, Dr. Thomas, 85. Audiey, Sir Henry, 149; Hugh the Usurer, 477 ; Bedell, Dr., Bishop of Xilmore, poem of, 645. Francis, 451. Bedingfield, Catherine, 290, 299; Lady Elizabeth, AunseU, Alice, William, 197-. Sir Henry, Roger, 346; Sir Philip, 223; Philip, Aylesbury, Robert Earl of, 859. 248,299. Ayscoughe, Anne, Sir Francis, 659, 660. BELL OF BEAUl'RJ'i HALL, 119-122; PEDIOREE, 120. Ayshcombe, Sir Oliver, 512. BELL, SIR ROBERT, LORD CHIEF BARON, iii. 121. BELLAlIONT, RICIIARD EARL OF (1690), 172. Bach. Jane, 548; Judith, Thomas, 547, 548. Bellingham, Mary, Sir Edward Bart., 239. Bacon, Sir Robert (Bart.), 222, 243; Robert, of Benhall, Robert Lord dc, 838. Harleston, 259. Beresford, Rowland, 569. Bagot, Frances, Sir Edward, 612; Charles, 617. Berkeley, Maurice, Richard, 261. Bagration, Prince and Princess, 685. Berkshire, The Lady of, 409. BAINBRIDGB OP CROYDON LODGE, 728-730. BERNARD OF ISELHAM, PEDIGREE, 202. BAKER, SIR JOHN, RECORDER OF LONDON, 30. Beswicke, Joan, William, 86, 37. Balam, Charles, Robert, 219. Beverley, Earl of, 754. Baliol, Reginald .Ie, 93. Bigod, Hugh, Earl of Norfolk, 183,762; Roger, Ball, Ceclly, Thomas, 92_ 252. Balle, Alice, Edmund, 625, 673. BILLING OP ASTWBLL, PEDIGREE, 42. Banaster, Sir Robert, 81, 248; Thomas, 572. BILLING, SIR THOlllAS (LORD CHIEP JUSTICE, 1469- Bankes, Anne, John, 90-; Sir John, 99. 1481),54. Bankworth, Judith, Robert, 116, 136. Billingberough Hall, 623, 626. BANItWORTH OF LONDON, l'BDIGREE, IBl; .Addi­ Bingham, Henry, 369. tion8, iv. Birkett, Elizabeth, John, 628. Barclay, Charles Maitlaud, 671. Bishops Itcbington, 505, 507. Bardolfe, Cecily, William (Lord),140, 839; Sir Bisshopp, Sir Ceei1 (Bart.), 66. Edmund, Hugh (Lord), 156. Blakemore, John, William, 647. Barke, Benoni, 557. BLAYDWIN OP BOSTON, 657, 674; PEDIGRBE, 680. Barker, Edmund, Frisworth, Fulke, 61; Thomas, Blenerhasset, Jane, John, v. 253. Samuel, 671, 673; Sarah, 666; Sir William, BLOUNT, EARLS OP NEWPORT, 151. 508. BLOUNT, SIR WALTER KIRKHAM BART., 446, li05; Barkham, George, 175. .Additionl, vii. Barnaby, John, Rebecca, William, 658. Blount, Anne, 464; Charles, Lord Mountjoy, 402 ; Barnard, George, Sir Frederick, 731. Catherine, Sir Thomas, 596. Bame, Sir George, 38, 69. Blowfteld, George, 400; John, 406. Bames, Johu, 56; Joseph,666. Blythe, Anne, George, 278. . Bamsley, William, 542,644. BLYTH MAN OF LEEDS, l'EDIGREE OF,285. Baron, Frances, James, B50; Thomas, 258. Boate, John, Margaret, 408. Barraclough, John, Ruth, 471; Walter, 474. Bockocke, Daniel, Deberah, 272, 275. Barrington, Anne, Sir John, 170. Bodley, Catharine, 653; Denise, Thomas, 227. Bartrome, Anne, Isaac, 452. BOHEMIA, KINOS OF, 252, 264.267. Barwick, Judith, Thomas, B1I6. Bohun, Eleanor, Humphry de, 596.

Digitized by Coogle INDEX. 775

BOLEYNE, ALICE, LADY CLERE, 206. I Brotherton, Alice, Thomas, Etl.rl of Norfolk, 331. Bolle, Sir Charles, 12:3. Broughton, E,lwaTd, Jane, Lancelyn, Richard, 22::;. Bond, Anne, Henry Jermyn, 467 j Mary, 458 j Sir Brounc~o, Hugh tIc, MfLI'garet, 252. Thomas, 458, ·183. Drowning, Henry, 730. Booth, Anne, 630; William, G36. Brownlow, John, Sir William, .j85. Boothby, Thomas, 514. Bnowli OF HORDLlNG, 1j30, 631, 6(jS; PEDlGnn:', Bootie, Wilbruhn.m, 674. 634,6(j1j·667. Borlace, William, 66. BROWN GF SALl'FLEETDY AliD PINCIIDECK, PEDlGnr.r:, Borough, Sir John, 174. 632. Bosworth Field, 571. Brown's Chapel at Horbling, 631. Botecourt, Elizabeth, John (Lord), 329; Sir John, Brusyard Priory, 324. 1!J9. Bryan, Esther, Uobert, 667. BOTELER OF WATTON WOODIIALL, chapter xi. and BRYCE OF JENKINS, 17·20; PEDIGnr:E,22. Bupplement pa.~8ilU; pedigree, 138·141; their BRYCE, SIB IIUOH (LORD MAYOIl, UH5J, 17. Royal descent, 140. Bryce, Hugh, 7, 19; James, 17. JOHN LORD BOTELER OF Bru.NTFIELD, 148. Buckhurst, Lord, 388. BOTELER, Sm HENRY, 141·148; A.,(NE, COUNTESS Buckingham, Countess of, 591; George Duke of, OF NEWPORT, 151; AUDREY, COUNTESS OF CIIl' 574. CHESTER, 144; HELEN, LADY DRAKE, 145; JANE, BUCKLEY (rectius) BUCKDY, REV. WlLLI.ur, 23(;, v. COUNTESS OF MARLBOROUGH, 146; MAnY, LADY Buller, Jane, John, 626. HOWARD OF ESCRIcn, 149; OLIVE, WIn: OF ENDY· BULLINOHAH, NICIIOUS, BISHOP OF LINCOLN, 659, lIIION PORTER, 146. G60. Boteler, Anno, Oliver, 570; Sir WJliam, 287, 479, Bullisdon, Joan, Thomas, G, 7, 12. 482. BULLOCK OF MAPLESTE.l.D, PEDIGREE, 285. Botolph Bridge, IInnts, 45, 58. Bullock, Francis, 275; Rev. Richard, 28.3. Boughton, Sir Thomas de, 47; Thomas, 75. Burges, Alico, William, 560; Sir John, 701 ; J oscpll, Bonncher, Rev. William, 133. Alice, Ynyr, 700. Boutcshall, Matilda, 585, 586. Burgh, John do, 335; Sir TholUa~, 213; William, Bowater, Thomas, 283. Earl of Ulster, 321. BOWES OF JENKINS, 21; PEDIGREE, 22. Burghley, Lord, 77, 268, 395. Bowett, Elizabeth, Richard, Sir William, 339. Burgoyne, Grace, John, Thomas, 201, 2·16. Bowyer, Elizabeth, Francis, 818; Sir Henry, Jane, Bumell, Isabella de, 254; John, Thomas, 56B, 879. 569. Boyle, Hon. Robert, 151. BURRELL OF DawSDY, 481. Boys, Roger de, 884. Burtchall, Elizabeth, Thomas, 316, 317. Braeebridge, Margaret, 514; Mary, Samuel, 536, Burton,Anne, Benjamin, 650; Henry, 551; Marion, 514. Ralph, 28; Thomas, 628. Bradbury, Sir Thomas, Joan, 227. BURY OF O:UORDSHIRE, 63·66. Bradshawe, Obadiah, Susan, 275. BURY, JOHN (AUTHOR, 1571), 35, 66. Brecknock, Elizabeth, 680, 648. Busaco, Battle of, 741. Brent, Anne, 318. Bustard, Christian, John, 65. Breouse', Giles de, 384; Sir John, Sir Richard, 197. BUSWELL BARTS., I'F!DIOREF. OF, 531, 534. BroBsey, Bethin, 512; Gracc, 509; William, 514, Bute, Marquess of, 727, 733. 518. Butler, Jamos, Earl of Ormondl!, Petronilla, :'i!)lj; BBI~SSEY, PEDlGnEE OF, 517. James, of Barbadoes, 171. Breton, Mary, Robert, 56, 126. Butts, Dr., 383; William, Heury, 2:;!). Brettle, Elizabeth, John, 403. Byfield, John, Mary, ·171. Bretts Manor, 561. Bygot, Alice, Isabella, John, 196". Brews, Lady Catherine, 333; Cecily, 835; Sir Byron, Lady, 420; Richard (Lorll), 3RO; tho Pl)('~., John, 327. 759. Bristow, Bridget, Jane, G67 j Thomas, 630, G3l, 667. Briwere, Richard de, William de, 192. Cailli, Alice, Sir Will1am, 335. Brocas, Bernard, Margaret, 42. Caldecott, Robert, 361; Thomas, William, 215, Brokesby, Elizabeth, Everett, Francis, Robert, 216. Thomas, 379, 881. Calthorpo, Joan, 2M, 205; Jano, Sir James (Kt.), Brome, Bartholomew, 398. 240 j Anne, Sir Martin, 248; Thomllsinc, William, BROlllLEY, WILLLUI (SPBAKER, 1710), Clobery, 419. 273, 277; Elizabeth, Sir William, 209, 216. Brooke also Cobham, Thomas of Ford and Chislet, CALmORPB 01' BURNHAlII, PBDIGREB OF, 140. 878. Calva, Van, Anne, John, 40·. Brooke, Lord, 455 ; John, Thomas, 44, 45. Calverley, Walter, 117. 5G

Digitized by Coogle 776 INDEX.

Calvert, Hannah, Robert, G69. Richard, 474; Elizabeth, Sir John, Sir ThomaB, Cambell, Sir Henry, of Clay Hall, Mary, 348, 858, 214. 354. Chenovi:t, Melcsina, Rev. Philip, Bishop, 686. CAlIPDELL BARTS., PEDIGREE OF, 780. Chemocko, John, 589 ; Anne, Sir Pynsont, 349. CAMPDELL, PEDIOnDE OF, 285. CHESTER: Campboll, errors of Lord, 54, 79. ClIESTEB OF BARDADOES, 171-178. Campo, Lawrence, 40'. CUESTER OF CmCIlELEY, chaplel'S vi. ix. :til. xvi. Canning, Mr., at Lisbon, 760. xix. and xxi. passim. CanterbUl"y, Archbishops of, official seals of, 427; CHEBTEROF EAST HADDON, 126-127, 857-858, 619· John do Offord, 330; Charles Longley, 758. 621. Calle, Anne, 299; Benjamin, 182, 353; Catherine, CHESTER OF LONDON, chapters ii. iii. iv. and vi. Heury, Dr. Lawson, 353. passilll, 359-363. CAPE, PEDIOREES OF, 182, 442. CHESTER OF STow,oN-mE-WoLD, chapters i. and CARD, ANDREW, SOLICIroR·GE~ER.l.L, 461. ii.pal8im. Carpenter, Anne, John, 400. CHEaTER, SIR ANTlloNr, 1ST BART., chapter iL Carsley, Priscilla, 625, 627. passim; SIB ANTHONY, 2D BART., chapter :tiL Cartwright, Rose, 40. pal8im; SIB ANTHONY, 8D BART., chapter xvi. CARTWRIGHT OF OSSINGTO~, 871. passim; SIR ANTHONY, 9m BART., 619-621; Cary, Walter, 573; Henry George, 758. CATnARINE, WIFE OF JOHN TOLLER OF BILLING· CARYLL, JOSEPH, rHE PREACHER, 553, 554. BOROUGH, ehallter x:til. passim; SIR CIL\RLES Castlereagh, Viscount, 735, 751, 760. BAGOT, 7TH BART., 615, 616; CHARLES, FOR­ Cateline, Jeremy, Rev. JOllathan, 631, 648. MERLY BAGOT, 617; SIR FRANCIS, 8TH BART., Catesby, Sir William, 597; Wibllrga, Michael, 96, 618-619; SIR HENRY K.B., 128-183; HENRY 108. OF EAST HADDON, 857·858; JOHN OF LONDON CAVE, challtcrs vii. and viii. passim. (1518), chaptcr iii.paBlim; JOHN OF SNELSON, CAVE OF CHICHELEY, 82-88; pedigrecs, 49, 108. 188-185; SIR JOHN, 4TH BART., chapter xix. CAVE OF INOARSDY, 80-82; pedigrees, 51, 597. pculim; SIR JOHN, 6TH BART., 612-615; PEY­ CAVE OF STANFORD-ON-Avo~. 73-80. TON, EQUERRY OF THE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, CAVE, SIR AMBROSE, KT. OF RHODES, 77; AN' 168, 169; RICIlARD, ALDER:IIAN AND SHERIFF THONY OF CHICIlELEY, 82; HIS COIlEIRS, chap. OF LONDON (148'1), 4-8; ROBERT OF STOW ST. viii. passim; BRYAN OF INOARSBY, 80; FRANCIS EDWARD (HA5), 8-4; THOMAS, BISIlOP OF OF BROOKSBY, 82, 590; JOIlN (RIlV.) OF COLD ELPHIN (1580-4), 88; THOlllAB, LIEUT.· OVERTOll, 576, 577 ; JUDITIl, nEIRESS OF Cm­ COLONEL, 535; TnoMAs OF ST. PAUL'S, CIlELEY, 68; ANNE, WIFE OF GRIFFITH HAMP' COVENT GARDEN, 859-8G8; WILLIAM OF LON­ DEN, AND HEB ISSUE, 89-92; MARTIlA, WIFE OF DON (1467), chapter ii. passim; SIR WILLIAM, JOHN NEWDIOATB, 92, 93; MARY, WIFE OF SIR LORD MAYOR (15GO), chapter iv. palSil1l; JEROME WESTO~, AND IlER ISSUE, 93·107,110; WILLIAlIl CONSTABLE OF 'VISBECH CASTI.E MARGARET, WIFE OF THOMAS SAUNDERS, 75; (1605), chapter vi. passim; WILLIAM OF EAST PRUDENCE, WIFE OF JOHN CROKE, 79; RICHUD HADDON AND GRAY'S INN, 126-127; WILLIAlIl OF STANFORD, 74. OF BARDADOES, 171-173; SIR WILLIAlIl, 5TH Cave, Right Hon. Stephen, 853. BART., 604-612. CAVENDISH, FAlIlILY OF, ORIGIN OF, 186-187. Chevrolcourt, De, Sibyl, Thorold, 584. Cavendish, Hon. Richard, 587. Chicheley Hall, 83, 343, 526·528. Cawdrey als Cooke, Lewis, William, I, 455. (,'hild, Dorothy, 126; Lady Dorothy, 700. CAY, PEDIGREE OF, 285. Childe, Rebecca, 476,478. Cecil, Lord, letter to, 294; l\Iargaret, 77. Cholmeley, Edward, 249 ; John, 572, 576, 587, 596 ; Chamberlen, Middleton, 172. Anne, Nathaniel, 587,588; Sir Roger, 227. Chaplin, Charlcs, Elizabeth, 650. Chris~ian Names taken from Surnames, 281; ex· CHAPMAN OF LONDON BARTS., 509·512, 515·518; amples of brothers with the same, 802-803. PEDIGREE OF, 517. CHURCHILL, JOHN, DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH; 146. CHAPMAN, SIR JOHN, LORD MAYOR (1688),509. Clanwilliam, John Earl of, Lady Theodosia, Chapman, Margaret, 230, 287. 681. Charlton, Catherine, 567. CLARE, DE, EARLS OF GLOUCESTER, PEDIGREES OF, Chamock, the priest, 297. 140,597,762. Chasteleyn, Rosia, Thomas, 185. Clarence, Lionel Duke of, 808. Chauntrell, Robert, 78. Clarendon, George Earl of, 688. Cheam School, 758. Clarke, Sir Franois (Kt.), 2~; Sir Robert, 280. Cheke's translation of the Bible, Sir John, 628. Clarkson, Mary, Thomas, 658. Chelmshoe House, Maplestead, 278, 284. Clavering, Sir JameB,88; Grace, Jane, Sir James, Cheney, Alexander de, 828; Lawrence, 156, 157 ; 488,489; Eve, John (Lord), 887.

Digitized by Coogle I~"DEX. 777

CLEBE, ELIZABETH, WIFE OF SIB ROBERT, 206. CRANMER ALS. WOOD, SIR C.ESAB, EQUERRY TO CLEVELAND, DUCIIBSS OF, 486, 487; her portrait, JUIBS n., 457·464; CHARLES OF LOUDHAM, 465- 849. 467. Clinton, Lady Elizabeth, 688. CRAWLBY BOBVEY BARTS., PEDIGREE OF, 450. CLOBURY, PEDIGREE OF, 4,19. Cremer, John, 288. CLOBURY, SIR JOHN OF WINOHESTER, 418-420. Cressie, Everingham, Gervase, 128. Cobham, George (Lord), Thomas Brooke als., 878, Creswell, Dorothy, Richard, 544, 562. 874. Crewe, Dr. Nathaniel (Lord Crewe), 493. Cocksedgc, Henry, 467. Croft, Anne, Sir Richard, 761. COGGESHALL OF ESSEX, PEDlaREE OF, 800. CROKE, PEDIGREE OF, 79. COGGESHALL DE, SIB WILLI.UI, 808. Cromwell Honse, Kensington, 697. Cokayne, Mr., 893; Jano, William, 277. Cromwell, Elizabeth, Sir Henry, Oliver, 91. COKAYNE, JOlIN, LoRD CIIlEF BARON (1899), 156. Crooke, Sir Thomas, Sarali, 282. COLEVILLE, LORDS, PEDIGBEE OF, 197. Cuffe, Henry, 292. Colson, Mary, 697; Edward, 698. Curson, Isabella, Francis, 453. CONANT, PEDIOREE OF, 666-667. COlUNGSDY OF HAMPTON, 259-263. Dacre, Catherine, 21; Joan, Sir Thomas, 340. CONINOSBY, SIB HUMPHREY, JUDOE OF K.B., 260. Dacres, Frances, Sir Thomas, 879. Cony, Edward, Elizabeth, John Sutton, 170; Ru- Dale, Elizabeth, Matthew, 51. perta, 170, 360,529. Dallas, Millicent, Sir Robert, liSS. Cooke als. Cawdrey, Lewis, William, 451,455. Dallyson, Maude, William, 374. Cope, Anne, Edward, 56; Sir Jonathan, 415. D'AlIORY, LOBDS, PEDIGREE OF, 140. Coppin, Anne, Sir George, 893. Danvers, Anne, Sir John, 61. Copuldyke, Johu, 246. DARCY, LORDS, PEDIGREE OF, 664. Corbett, Agnes, 31. DarclI, Sir Robert, 248. Cordell, John, 116; Sir William, 345. Darnell, Sir Thomas, 272, 278. CORDELL (BARTS.), FAMILY OF, AdditiOIl8, iv. Dashwood, Anne, George, Colonel George, 288; Cornwall, Edmnnd, Baron of Burford, Eleanor, Rev. G. H., 240; Anne, James, 822. 761. Davenant, Dr. John, Bishop of Salisbury, 266, Cornnna, Battle of, 786. 270. Cotton, Jerome, Nicholas, Richard, 97; Sir Robert Davison, Francis, 402; Mary, 703; William, 400. the antiquary,lettcrs to, 8ll, 812; William, 42. Day, Richard, Thomasine, 899. Courteen, Mary, Sir William, 457. Deane, Anne, William, 278; Anthony, Elizabeth, Courtenay, Egeline, Hugh dc, 254. Sil' Drne, Sil' John, 284. Cox, Sir Richard, 219; Rev. Richard, 594. De~er, Rev. Robert, 667. ~ I Coxey, Amy, Humphrey, Ursula, 269, 272,274. Deene, Catharine, Clement dd, Henry de, 251, Coxon, Mary, John, 698. 276. ClUDOCE, LORDS HOWDEN, PEDIOREE OF, 680. Degge, Simon, 411; Sir Simon, 541. CRAnOCE, DR. JOHN, ARCHBISIIOP OF DUBLIN, 674. Delahay, Robert, William, 588. CRANMER, chapters xvii. aud xviii. pcusim. Digby, Sir Everard, Sir Kenelm, Dame Mary, 128 ; CRANMER OF ASLACTON, 867-381; PEDIGREE,444, of Gayhurst, 852, 528. 445. DILLINGHAM, DB., MASTER OF EMANUEL, 637-li-17. CRANMER OF ASTWOODDURY AND LOUDHAU, 451- Dixon, Esther Maria, Captain Richard, 420--122. 467; PEDIGREE, 446. Docwra, Catherine, James, Jolm, Thomas, 216. CRANMER OF CANTERBURY AND ROTTERDAU, 898- D'Odingsells, Sir Edmond, 156. 420; PEDIGREE,448-449. Dodsworth, Edmund Henry, 670. CRANUER OF CHEVENING, 876-879; PEDIGREE, 447. Dolben, Sir John English, 671. CRANlIER OF KIBESTALL, 394-396; PEDIGREE, 443. Dolphin Inn, Cambridge, 381. ClIA..'1lIER OF LONDON, 451-457; PEDIGREE,454. Doreward, Margaret, Sir John, William, 309. CRANliER OF MrIClIAM AND QUENDON, 420·425 ; DOBEWARD, PEDIGREE OF, 800. PEDIGREE,447. Dormer, Ambrose, 6S; Peter, 88, 89, 58. CRANMBR, EDlIUND, ARCHDEACON OF CANTEBBURY, Dorset, Duke of, 759. 396·398; RODERT OF CHIPSTED PARE, 376-378. Dottin, Henry, 126. THOMAS, FATHER OF THE ARCHBISUOP, SU8·369; Douglas, Sir James Dawes, 285. THOMAS, AnCIIDlSHOP OF CANTERBURY, 381-387, Dom'o, Passage of the, 738·739. 42G-43-1; TUOlIAS, REGISTRAR OF CANTEIIIJURY, Downes, Elizabeth, 565. 898·400; WILL1AlII, DEPUTY OF TUE MERCHANT D'Oyley, Edmnnd, Sir William, 142. ADVENTURERS AT ROTTERDAM, 408-409; SIR WIL­ Drake, Sir Charles, 680; Francis, Colonel John, LIAM, GOVERNOR OF TUE MEROHANT ADVENTURERS 593; Elizabeth, Sir John, 145, 1·16. or LONDOlf, 416-417. Draycote, Philip, 101; Brillget, 102.

Digitized by Coogle 778 INDEX.

DlI.\YTOX OF STRIXTO!', 45, 46-51; PEDIGREE 01', Ficnnes, Sir Richard, Lord Dacre, 340. 4tl-50. Finborough. Manor of, 571. Dromahaire, barony of, 589, 591. Finch, John, 179; Lord Keeper, 177 ; Sir Heneage, DRURY OF HAWSTED, PEDIGREE OF, 140. 120 j Elizabeth, Sir Henry, 587. Drury, Mary, Sir William, 269. Finnet, Sir William, 663. Drydon, Frances, Sir Erasmus, 81. Fish, Elizabeth, 481. Duilley, Fl'Ilnces (Baroness), 530. FISHEll OF WISBECH, PEDIGREE OF, 182 j COLONEL Duke, Sir Henry, Jane, 271. JOHN, 168. DUNCOlID, FlIL"ICIS, OF BROUGIITON, 350, 351. FISHER OF ISLL"IOTON BUTS., PEDIGBEB 01',278. Duncomb, Richard, 123; Thomas, 61. Fishers, Waltham Abbey, 560. DUNSlIOllI::, FRANCIS LElon (LORD), lB, 145; PEDI- Fitz-Ansculf, William, 69. GREE,145. Fitz-Herbcrt, Sir Anthony, 261; Basil, 598. Dupuy, Monsienr, 459. FITZ-HuOH, LORDS, PEDIOREE OF, 80,:58·1, 597, 761. Dnrand, Jane, William, ·lSU. Fitz-Jamcs, Sir 'John, Chief Justice, 261, 262; Dnras, Lewis, Earl of Fovcrsham, 590. Richard, Bishop of Lonaon, 262. Dyt'r, ClIthcriue, Jall1c~, 316. Fitzwilliam, Margaret, John, 372. DYllham, lIIargaret, Sir John, 5UI. Flacke, John, 170. DYllne, Henry. 21)7; Robert, 25l1. Fleetwood, Joyce, Thomas, Bridget, 231 j Mar­ garet, Thomas, 58. Eilen, Dorothea, Sir John, 702. Floud also Fludd, Rachel, Robert, Susannah, Wil­ E,Uyn, Sarah, William, 562. liam, 406, 407. E(lwarues, Adam, 5Iit!. FLUDD ALS. LLOYD OF CIIEVE."IINO, PEDIGREE OF, Effigies of Anthony Cave and wife, 81; of Richard 450 j SusaD, William, 448. Chester of Leigh, 2. Fludd, Robert, the Rosicrucian, 406. Egerton, Auno, Thomas, Sarah, Stephen, 278, 279, FODERINOIIAY, PEDIGREE OF, 800. 281,2tl:l. Fmleringhay, Elizabeth, Mal'garct, 309, 810. Egerton of Wl'inchill, 27A, 571. Folvyle, Mary, 42. Egginton, John, Sarah, Elizabeth. 173. Forster, Richard, Susan, 711. E~glcsclifi'c Manor, 496,507. Fortescue, Francis, Sir Nicholas, 817. Ellis, Dorothy, Jane, Thomas, 880. Foster, Daniel, Mary, 636; Richard, 626; Thomas, ELLIS OF KIDDALL, 113, 125. 681,635. ELI'HIN, BISHOP OF, TIIOMAS CIIESri:R, 38. FOSTER OF DOWSBY, PEDIGREE OF, 637. Elwes, Amy, Sir Gervase, 352. Fothergill, Dr. Anthony, 729. Emerson, Sir Wharton, 652. Foulis, Sir David, 297. Ellg('ham, Francis, Thomas, 2·18. Fonlkes, John, Philippa, 671. England, Lonisa, Sir Richard, 73. Fourueaux, Richard, Robert, William, 584. El'lisman, John, Consul at Algiers, 418, 419. Fowke. John, Susannah, Walter, 1)44. Evesham Abbey, 3. Fowler, Sarah, Sir Thomas, 272, 278. Eyans, Mary, Susan, Thomas, 413, 416. Fox, Dorothy, Dr. Edward Long, 666; John, 272; EYNYON OF HO!l!INGHAU, 451, 452. Dr. Samuel, Ursula, 568. EYRE, CIIAllLES, NICHOLAS, 851, 529; CIIABLBS Foxley, Thomas, 56. CIIESTER, 352. Francis, Colonel, Isabella, 678. Eythorue Manor, 246. FraUDcis, Mary, William, 262. FREERE OF THE BLANKBTR, PEDIGmn: OF, 72. Falconer, Elizabeth, Thomas, 586. Fretcheville, Joan, John, 872; Lord John, Sir Peter, Falkland, Lora, 79. 238. Faunt, Arthnr, the Jesuit, 231. Freville, Robert, 215; George, Robert, 203. FELDRIGGF., PEDIGlIEE OF, 255; SIR SmoN (K.G.), Funeral certificate of Mrs. Cranmer, 458. Standard-bearer of England, 252, 287. Furuival, William ae, 192. Felton, Sir Henry, 486; Eleanor, Sir Thomas, 889. Fydell, Richard, Samuel, 667. FCI'IllCl:', Amy, Sir Henry, 268; Sir George, 111 ; Sir Henry, Winifre(l, 257, 276. Gage, Thomas (Viscount), 467 j Sir William, 459. FElIIIF.IlS (n' WI::)DlE, LonDS, PEDIGREE OF, G64. Gainsborongh, Baptist, Earl of, 730. FC1'l'crs, Williaw, lienry, LorJs of Groby, 331. Gamache, l'crc Cypl'iall, lJlellloil's of, 98. FC1Tiby, Alice, 260. GARDE, DE LA, 0)' PARIS, 458; LELIS, LADY CRAN­ Fetherston, Thomas, 506. lIER,464. FEVERR".\~!, SONDES EAnLS OF, 590. Gardiner, Rev. Dr., 679; Georgiana, Rev. Fred. FIELI', DR. R!CITARD, DEAN OF GLOUCESTER, 405. Picrepoint, 758; Humphrey, 271; John, 40; ficlilin;{, Basil (LorJ), Earl of Denbigh, 101; Bar- Richard, 97, 108; Thomas, 114. bara, Sir William, 78. GUDINER OF CUDDESDON, 476-482; I'EDIOREB OF,

Digitized by Coogle INDEX. 779

478-479; Sm THolas, SOLICrrOR' GENERAL OF Groos, Oliver, 287. CH.ulLES 1.,476-477. . Gyll, Leonard, 382. Garland, Frances, John, Mary, 649; Richard,63l. Gllteshead Ironworks, 760. Hackett, Sir Andrew, Dr. (Bishop of Liohileld), GAUNT, JOIl1ll OF, DESCENT mOM, 596, 664. 497-501. Gawsell, Richard, Ursnla, 258, 276. Hackney, Monuments at, 469, 619,760. Gayhnrst Hall, 528. Haggar, John, 219. Gell, Sir John (Bart.), 360. HaggiU, Rev. George, 760. GERNON OF BAKEWELL, 186-299; PEDIGREE OF, Hales, Thomas, 248. 199. Hall, Charles, 652, 662; Thomas, 628, 652. GERNOlll OF IRELAND, 195-196; PEDIGREE OF, 196; Hallberg, Ingri Christina, 680. SIR Jomr, CHIEF-JusncE OF InEL.\ND (1338-1344), Halstead', Succinct Genealogie., errors in, 46. 195-196. HAMILTON BARTS. OF SILVEll HILL, 678; PEDIGREB GlmNoN, RODERT, DOMESDAY BARON, 187-190. of,680. Gemon, Sir Nicholas, 325, 335. Hammond, Colonel Robert, Letitia, Elizabeth, Gibbon, Anne, 282, 552; Dr. Richard, 552. Robert, 91·. Gibbs, George, Henry, 427, ·150. Hamond, Elizabeth, Thomas, 413. Gibraltar, Mutiny at, 734. Hampden, Sir Edmond, Miles, 45. Gifford, Isabella, Katharine, Roger, 42, 52-55. HAMPDEN OF GREAT HAMPDEN, 89-92; PEDIGDEE GIFFORD a}' ASTWELL, PEDIGREE Ol', 42. OF,92. Gittins, Mary, Roger, 378, 424. HAMPDEN, ANNE, WIFE OF RODERT WALLER, 90; Glanville, Rannlph de, 192. JOHN THE PATRIOT, 91. Glascock, Andrew, 96, 108. Hancock, Henry, 562. Glemham, Sir Sackville, Sir Thomas, 4112. Hanger, Frances, George, John, 562. Glover, Mary Anne, Serjeant, 669. Harbie, Sara, Thomas, 41. VODAUD OF RIPPINGALE, PEDIGREE OF, 197. Harding, Cornelia Maria, James, 416,417; Nicho- GonION OF HERr:rOllDSHInE,153-155; PEDIGREE OF, las, 581; Ruth, 393. 155. Hardinge, Viscount, 738. Gohle, James Holmell, James Methold, 702. Hardy, Anne, 633; Rev. John, 649. GaFFE, DR. STEPHEN, 484. Hareby, Elizabeth, William, 627, 628. Golding, Amy, George, Mary, Thomas, 592. Hal'ewell, Edmond, 63. Gcodeere, Elizabeth, Sir Henry, 586. Harflete, Samuel, 219; Winifred, 24.3. Goodhall, Robert, William, 655, 656. Haringay Park, 553. Goodman, John, 71. Harper, Sir William, 86. Gorboduc, drama of, 389. Harrington, Sir John, Isabella, 394., 395; Nugez Gorges, Sir Arthnr, 633; Sir Ferdinand, 550; AntiquCl!, 496. Henry, 633, 672. Harrison, Frances, 534; Richard, 490, 491. Goring, George, Earl of Norwich, 100, 148. Harrow School, 706, 759. Gosnold, Henry, George, 90·, 221. Hart, Mary, Rebecca, 480. GOUGE, WILLIAM, D.D., 282,283. Hartley, Robert, Thomas, William, 416. Gower, William, 355; Earl,674. Harvey, Elizabeth, Sir Francis, 126; Franccs, Grantham, Frances, 650; Thomas, 629; Sir Tho- James, 236. mas, 650, 662; William, 5. HASELDEN OF GILDEN MORDEN, 213 et seq.; ROYAL Gl'avashale, John de, 302. DESCENT OF, 140; PEDIGREE OF, 217. Gravenor, Anne, 375, 424; Henry, 423. Hastings, Cmsar, Elizabeth, 474; Sir Edward, 80 ; Gray, Richard, 563; Henry, Jane, 377. Henry (Lord), 296 • . Great Bealings Manor, 507. Hatch, Dorothy, John, Thomas, 406. Greek sonnet, 566. Hatfteld, Agnes, Henry, Lanrenee, Stephen, 368. Green, Elizabeth, John, Mary, 631, 648, 649. Hatton, Sir Christopher, 391; Lady, 818, 346. Greene, Anne, Edward, 548, 551; Eleanor, 547; Haugh, John the Judge, Stephen, 52. John, 452 ; Joshua, 548, 551 ; Rebecca, Sara, G48. Hawes, Rev. Henry, 667. Gregory, George, 411. Hawks, Anne, John, Sir Robert, 760; William, Gresbrook, Alvered, Anne, G81. George, 760 n. Gresham, Jane, John, 277. Hawkslow, William, Clarenceux, 9. Greville, Sir Falke, 144, 455. HAWKWOOD, PEDIGREE OF, 300. Grey, Lord (of Groby), 571; Ida, Reginald, Ruthyn HAWKWOOD, SIR JOIl1ll, Life of, 301 et seq. (Lord), 156; William, 62. Hawtrey, Bridget, 59; John, 58; William, 63. GREYSTOClt, PEDIGREE OF LORDS, 664. Haywarcl, Mary, Michael, 478. GritJin, Anne, Sir Edward, 589. Hazard, Hannah, Peter, Rebecca, 544. GriBlth, Rev. George, 554; General Darby, 730. Heanor Hall, 582.

Digitized by Coogle 780 INDEX.

Heard, Sir Isaac, letter from, 421. Hubert Ie Sueur's Statue oj Charles I., 103. Hearne, Basil, 611. Hudson, James, 297. Hederset, Edmond, 335; Margaret, Sir John de, HUGHES, PEDIGIIEE OF, 442. Sir Simon de, 337. Hughes, Mary, Charles, 698,798 j Catherine, Rev. Helmos, Major Thomas, 171. Edmund, 182, 353. Henley, Lord, 702. lIumbert's, General, Invasion oj Ireland, 687. Herbert, Lady Anne, Lady Catherine, Lady Re· Humbershoe, Manor of, 755. becca, 592. Hunt, Anne, 274. HERBERT, THOMAS, EAIIL OF PEMBROKE, 535. Hunte, Sir George Ie, 222. Hercy, Alice, Sir John, 369. HuntiDgfield, Willinm (Lord), 333, 334. HERIIYS OF CUEVEIIING, 378. Hunwith, Aune, 281. Herrys, Sir Arthur, 378, 447. Hurst, Mary, Rev. Thomas, 656. HETON OF WISBECU, 71; I'EDIGIlr:E OF, 72. Hussey, Sir Edward (Bart.), 628. Hewett, Anne, Sir William, Edmund, 227; Gardi· Hutchinson, Elizabcth, Thomas, 379, ·114. ner, 511; Penelolle, George, 532, u83, 595, 605, Hyde, Anne, Duchess of York, 316; Bernard, 40· ; 606. Lady Frances, uH; Leonard, 203, 210 j Anne, HEWETT OF WALES AND PAIISLOES, 226·230; PEDI· Rev. William, 669, 672. GREE OF,237. HBWETT, SIR WILLIAM, LOIID MAYOR (1059), 227. Ingilby, Sir John, 652. HEWETT OF STRETTON AND GREAT GLEN, 606·608; Ingleton, Sibyl, 42. PEDIGREE OF, 595. Inglose, Joan, Sir Henry, 339. HEWETT, COLONEL WILLIAlI, the Demonstrator, Ingoldsby, Richard, 129. 608; GEOIlGE, the Beau, 608; PENELOPE, LADy Intylsam, Thomas, 54. CIIESTER, 606·608. Irby, Thomas, 6HO. Heywood, Jasper, poem of, 388. IIIllY, Sm ANTllONY, 222, 243. Hick, Amy, Rev. William, 274. Ironside, Charles (Lieut.·Colonel), Edward, Gilbert Highgate Lodge, 760; School, 227,4.76,5,18, 554. (Colonel), Mary Anne, 699. Hildel'sham, Arthur, 281. Irton, Cecilia, 156. Hildyard, Sir Christopher, 262. IsAAC OF BIIOOKllEATH, 730·731. HILL, JOHN, OF LONDON, 23, 31 j JOAN, LADy MIL· Isbell, Dorothy, William, 272. BORN, 25·31. ISIIAM OF PYTOHLEY, PEDIGlIEES OF, 51, 597. HILL OF HAlII'TON, PEDIGREE OF, 22. Isham, Elizabeth, Gregory, 81, 58U, 597; Euseby, HILL, SIR WILLIAM, OF WALTUAliSTOW, 15·17. 46,81 j Gregory, 67. Hobart, Aune, 480; Dorothy, 239 j Sir Henry, Ixworth, Barony of, 323. Chief Justice, 122 j Sir John (Bart.), 314 j Sir Henry, Miles, 223. Jacobite (the six aldermen), 699. HOBART, SIR MILES, M.P. FOR MARLOW, 223. James, Alice, 700 j Bridget, ·110. Hobbs, Lady, 7. Jason also Jackson, Robert, Susannah, 563. Hohenlohe, Count Philip of, 291. Jay, Jane, Henry, 271. HOLAND, E.l.llLS OF KENT, PEDIGREE of,697. Jenkin, Margaret, Morgan, 713. Holford, Martha, Dauiel, 378. JENKINSON BARTS. OF WALCOT, 414·415. HOLT (BAIlTS.) OF ASTON, 419; PEDIGREE OF, 449. Jenney, Francis, Margaret, 209. Honeywood, Antony, 399. Jermy Rectius, St. Germain, Additions, vi. j Anne, Hoo, Sir Thomas (Kt.), Thomas, Lord Hoo of Hast· Henry, 276. ings,339. Jermyn, Sir Ambrose, Anne, 264., 267 j Henry, 484; Hook's Life of AJ'chbiallOp Cranmer, 397. Henriette, Thomas (Lord), 467 j Sir Thomas Hooker, Dr. Richard, 398, 401, 408. (Kt.),202. Hopton, Anne, Sir William, 206. Jemingham, Sir George, 467. Horneby, Richard, 219, 243. Jenis, Captain W. P., 731. Horsey, Hannibal, James, 452 j Sir Jel'ome, 90. JESSON OF LOUGHBOROUOB, 694·595; PEDIGREB OF, Horton, Dr., 640; Mary, William of Coley, 361. 695. HORTON OP CATTON, 531, 534. Jewell, Bishop, 974,398. Hosmer, Andrew, 382. JOAN OF ACRE, DAU. OF EDWARD I., PEDIGREB OF IlIl:R How.\lID, DUKES O~· NOllFOI.K, 380; I'EDIGllEEOF,255. DESCENDANTS, 140, 597. HCJW.l.lID, LOIlD~ HOWAIID OF ESCIIICK, 149·151. Jodl'ell, Paul, 465. How,ulD, EDWARD, LORD, 149, 150. Johnson, Ezekiel, 408. Howard, Anne, 458; Sir John, Mm'garet, Sir Joseph, the Capuchin Father, of Paris, 98. Robert, 255; Sir William, 323. Jurden, Humphrey, Jane, Thomas, 543,644. HOWDEN, JOBN FlIANCIij, 1sT LORD, 681·684 j JOHN HOBAllT, 2D LORD, 684·689. Kaye, Sir Richard (Bart.), Dean of Lincoln, 650.

Digitized by Coogle INDEX. 781

Keightley, Elizabeth, Henry, Thomas, 572, 678. Lincoln, Henry Earl of, 295, 514·515, 688. KEYRICK OF ROTTERDAM, 409·,118; PEDIOREE OF, Lindsoy, Earl of, 628. 448. Lister, Samnel, 657; Thomas, 629. Kent, H.R.H. Duke of, Letters from, 784, 735. Livesay, Martha, Robert, 238, 239. KENT, EARLS OF, PEDIOREE OF, 597. Lloyd, William, 406; Robert, 407. Kerdeston, Lady, Sir William, 835. LLOYD OF CnEVENING, PEDIGREE OF, 450. KE!lTFlVEN, TRor.LoPE LOUDS, 420 i PEDIGREE OF, Lock, Elizabeth, Sir William, 660. 448. Lockton, Aune, Jeffrey, 201. KILMORE, DR. CRADOCK, Blsnop OF, 711·718. Locock, Sir Charles (M.D.), 353. KING OF MAPLESTEAD, PEDIGREE Ol', 285. Lodington, Samuel, 118. King, Dr. Henry, Bishop of Chichester, 899. Londonderry, Marquess of, 735, 787, 750, 754. Kirke, Mary, Thomas, 463, 470, 47-1, 475. Long, John, 159; Sir Robert, 486; Walter, 13. KIRKSULL AnnEY, 883, 384, 894, 8\15. Longueville, Sir Thomas (Bart.), William, 250. Knightley, Anne, Sir Hobert, 509, 511, 517 jEd· Lonsdale, Christopher, 168. ward,l71. Loudham Hall, 505; Park, 368, 462. Knollys, Henry, Sir Francis (K.G.), 78; Anne, Lougher, Catharine, David, 712; Elizabeth, Janc, Nicholas, 152; Lettice, Sir Francis, 91·. John, Robert, Watkin, 714. KYOWLTON MANOR, DESCENT OF, 245, 247. Loveday, John, William, 96,108. LOVETT OF ASTWELL, chaptcr v.pll8.im; PEDIGREES Lacy, Alice, John, 879, 444; Mary, Thomas, 42. OF, 42, 49, 51. Lake, General, 681; Lord, 682; Lady, 312; Sir LOWE, EDWARD, PROFESSOR OF MUSIC, 315·817. Thomas, 818. Lowc, Edward, 2::9, 816. Lambert, Edward, 548, 551; Edward, 442. Lownde, Sir Alexander de, 78. Lambton, Mr. (Earl of Durham), 702. Luke, Sir Samuel, 161. Lancaster, Henry Earl of, Matilda, 324,826, 762. Lumley, Lord, 885, 418. Lane, Sir George, 591 i Ralph, 215, 216 i Sir LYLLING OF ABINGTON, PEDIGREE OF, 202. Richard, Lord·Keeper, 79. Lynd, Katherine, 42. Langham, George, 214. Lyngen, Edward, 310, 811. LANGLEY OF KNOWLTON, 245·247 i PEDIGREE OJ', Lynne, William, 142. 204. Lys, Frances, Henry, Mary Magdalene, 700. Lant, Rev. Thomas, 553. Lauy, Anne, Rev. Benjamin, 517. Maigno, Lancelot del, Florentinc, 300. Lascclles, Alice, John, Margaret, 625 i Valentine, MAINWARING OF GOLTnO, PEDIGREE OF, 650. 624. Maitland, Charles Barclay, 671. Latham, Ralph, 158. Malet, William, 188. Latimer, Dorothea (Lady), 256; William (Lord), 829. MALLORY OF WELTON, PEDIGREE OF, 202. Lauderdale, Charles Earl of, 669. Mallory, Margery, Nicholas, 77; Dorothy, Nicholas, Lawless, Mr. (Lord Cloncnrry), trial of, 671. 75. Lawley, Sir Edward (Kt.), Susan, 273. Maltravers, John (Lord), 824. LAWRENCE, HENRY, PRESIDENT OF CROXWELL'S Manett, Joan, Richard, 659, 664. COUliOIL OF STATE, 248 i Additions, v. Manisty, Lucy, 565, 678. Lawson, Thomas, 631, 653; Vincent, 658. Manningham, John, 899; Richard, 408. Layer, Francis, 124 i Additio7l8, iv. Manny, Lady Margaret, 832. Lee of Bucks, Charles, Benjamin, 650; Robert, Mansell of Margam, Jenkin, 714; Sir Edward, 715, 610; Francia, 57; Dr. Timothy, 609. 768. Leeson, Robert, 62. Mansel of Chicheley, John, 112. Leigh, Henry, of Rushall, 90. Marci, Ralph de, 191. LEIGH, EARLS OF CHICHESTER, PEDIGREE OF, 144. Mare, De la, Sir Richard, 596. Le Hunte, Sir George, 596. Margam Abbey, 714, 767. Lennox, Esme Duke of, Lady Frances, 102, 106. Markham, Anthony, Katherine, 854; Sir John Le Strange, Aukaret, 596, 762. (Kt.), Isabella, 894. Leventhorpe, Edward, 97, 109. Marley, Lady Jane, 506. Leveson, Grisell, 568; Nicholas, Denis, 226, 237. Marriage Licenses, 126, 287, 864, 865, 878, 40i, Levington, Ralph de, 192. 411, 412, 428, 464, 607, 609·611, 614, 618, LEWYN OF LoNDON, 411·412; SIR JUSTINIAN, 620, 695, 751, 766. MASTER OF CHANCERY, 411. Marshall, Anne, 868; Alice, 444. LEy, SIR JAMES, EARL OF MARLBOROUGH, 146. Martin, WIlliam, Master of the Drapers' Company, LIOHPIELD, DR. WOOD, BISHOP OF, 488·506. 6,12. Lidlington Park, 118, 132, 841, 846, 583, 617. MASON, CAPTAIN JOHN, PBOPRIETOB OF NEW lIAKp. Light, William, Sir Henry, 781, 782. SBIBB, 549·552.

Digitized by Coogle 782 INDEX.

Massingberd, Drayner, 851, 629; Burrell, letters NAlO'AN, CAPTAIN JOHN, GoVEBNOR OF NEW YORK, to and from, 851, 529,581,604,605; Henry, 629. 172·178. Matthew, John, of Bradden, 56. Napleton, Elizabeth, John, 403. Mauleverer, William, 205. Navarino, BatUe of, 685. Maynard, Joan, 451, 451; Margaret, 281; Hon. NETHERCOTES OF NETTLElIAM, 061·663; PEDIGBEE William, 415,416. OF, 664; TlIEIB RoYAl. DESCENT, 664. Meade, La.dy Rose, (j138; Lady Theodosia, 681. NEWDEG.\TE, JOlIN, M.P. FOR MIDDLESEX, 92. Meeres, Edward, John, Roger, 223, 243. NEWPORT, EARLS OF, 151·152; MOUNTJOY EARL OF, Merchant Adventurers, 408. 151. Merley, Roger de, William de, 154. NEVILLE, ALICE, RICHARD, EARL OF SALISBURY, 8{1 ; Mervyn, Eliza.beth, 74. PEDIGREE OF, 597; R\LPH, EARL OF WESTlIIORE - METHOLD OF LONDON AND NORFOLK, 696·711 ; PEDI· L.\ND, PElJIGIlEP.S OF, 5!16; SIB TIlOlrlA~, OF MERE' GREE OF, 708·709. WORTH,20. MUlIOLD, WILLIAM, OF LONDON, 697·699; FRANCIS Nevynson, Dr. Christopher, 370, 385. OF BATH, 699·702; HENRY OF DURlIAM, 702·703; Nicolas, Sir Harris, 400. TlIOMAS OF KEW, 703·706; REV. THOMAS, CANON Noble, Thomas, 594. OF NORWICIl, 706·711. Noel, Frances, Sir William, 530. Methwold, William, Francos, 212. Noel of Hilcote, 571; Sir John, 420, 4·10. Middlemore, Henry, Samuel, 562, 567. NORFOLK, DUKES OF, PEDIGREE OF, 255. MILBOURNE, SIB JOHN, LORD MAYOR (1521), 26·28; Norfolk, Mary Countess of, 332; Thomas Duke of, DAME JOAN, 28·3!. 384; Dukes of, 380. Milbourne, Joan, John, Robert, 95, !l6. North, Sir Henry, 571; E,lward,211. Mildmay, Charles, Martha, 378; Amy, Sir Henry, NORTllUMBERLAND, ELIZABETIl WBIOTHESLEY, COI1N' 652. TESS OF, PEDIGREE OF, 145. Milman, Major·General Egerton, 650. Northwood, Joan, Sir Robert, 254. Minchard, Henry, 423. NORTON OF SlIAIlPENIIO, 388·394. Mitcham Manor, 420. Norton, Anthony, Anne, 653. Mold, Anne, Samuel, 586. NORTON, THOM.\S, TIlE POET, 387·393, and vi.; R~· MOLDER, PEDIGREE OF,22. RERT TilE AUTHOR, 393, 394. Molineux, John, Thomas, 380, 381; Sir Richard, Norwich, Sir Thomas de, 333; Margaret, Sir Walter 570; Sir Thomas, 368. de, 328. Mondeford, Elizabeth, Sir Edmund, 224; Mary, NORWOOD, ALEXANDER, OF ST. JOHN'S, 403. Osbert, 256, 276. Norwood, Bridget, Charles, 143,680, 667. MONINS, JOlIN, LIEUT. OF DOVER CASTLE, 872,4(4. Nott, Elizabeth, 762; William, 586, 596. Monins, Peyton, Thomas, 247; Jane, Sir William Nyclas, Catherine, 398, 449. (Bart.), 249. Monkton, John, 697, 698. OFFLEY OF LONDON, 234·285. MONTACUTE LORDS MONTACUTE OF BUNGAY, 882. Offiey, Richard, Sir Thomas, SIl, 38, ·10, 234; Wil· MONTACUTE, EARLS OF SALISBURY, PEDIOREE OF, 597. liam, S6. MONTFICHET, BARONS OF, 187·190. OFFORD, JOHN DE, AnOlIDIBIlOP ELECT OF CANTER· Montgomery, AinIeria de, 93. BURY (1349), 880,381. MONTlIERMER, LORDS, PEDIGREE OF, 597. Offord, Andrew, Archdeacon of Mi,ldlcscx, 830. Moore, Elizabeth, Robert, 235; Sir John, 510; Ogle, Margaret, Sir Robert, 151; Thomas, Anne, John, 412, 415. Valentine, 632. MOORE, SIB JOlIN'S MARCil TO CORUNNA, 735·787. Oglethorpe, Edward, 90. More, Sir Thomns, S91, 714. Oldlleld, Anthony, 630. Moresby, Anne, Clnistopher, 260. Oliver, Thomas, the Condottiere, 808. Morgan, Anne, Jenkin, 712, 71S. Oncote Gl'Bnge, 560, 570. Morton, Charles, Isabel, Nicholas, Robert, 874. ONEBY, MAJOR JOlIN, TlIE DUELLIST, 855, 704. MOIITON, DR. NICHOLAS, PENITENTIARY OF POPE ONEBY OF D.\RWELL, 355·356; PEDIGREE OF, 516. PIUS V., 374·375. ONEBY OF LOUDHAH, 513·514. Morvill, Joan, Hugh de. 192. OSBORNE OF P.\BSLOES, AFTERWARDS DUDS OF Moryson, Sir Richard (Kt.), 659. LEEDS, 225·234; PEDIGREE OF, 237. Moseley, Richard, William, 544. OSBORNE, Sm EDWAIlD, LoRD MAYOR (1588), 225· Mulcaster, Dr., 401. 280; SIB HEWITT OF PARSLOES, 281·233; Sm Multon, Thomas de, 192. EDWARD (BART.), 233·234. OSBORNE OF NORTHILL, 235·236, and v.; PEDIORED Nail, Anne, George, Herman, 699. OF,237. NALSON, REv. JOHN (D.D.), TIm HISTORIAN,820·821. Osiandt'r, Andrew Hosmer als., 882. NANCE OF TRENGOII'F, PEDIGREE OF, 127. Oxbnrgh, Henry, 820; Dorothy, Lawrence, 317.

Digitized by Coogle INDEX. 783

Oxenden, Henry, Richard, 2!(I. Lichfield, (',03. Lincoln, St. Margaret's, (',94; St. Martin's, St. Padbury Lodge, 537. Mary Magdalene's, St. Peter's, Eastgllte, 6(13. Page, Henry, 273, 277. London: St. Andrew'S, Holborn, 396; All Hal­ Palady, John, 55. . lows, Staining, 765; St. Annc's, Blackfriars, Palmer, Alan, 882; Elizabeth, Gamaliel, 418, 415; 282,564; St. Anne's, Westminster, 522; St. Lord George, 486; Mary, 478, 481; Margaret, Augnstine's, 424; St. Bartholomew-tho-Less, 593; William, 56; Sir William, 481, and vii. 411, 523; St. Benet's, Gracechurch-street, PALMER, CWRLES, LORD LIMDRICRE, AFTERWARDS 234, 364; St. Bride's, Fleet-street, 287, 023; DUKE OF SOUTlIAlfPTON AND CLEVELAND, 487. St. Dionis, 72; St. Dionis Backchurch, 220, P.,uUSII REOISTERS, EXTR.\CTS FROY : 230, 234, 236; St. George's, 8outhwark, Ackworth, Yorkshire, 609. 81(1 ; St. Giles's-in-the-Fields, 99; St. Helen's, Acton, Middlesex, 175, 178. Bishopsgate, 275; St. Lawrence Pountncy, All Hallows Barking, 72. 36; St. Martin Orgar's, 561; St. Mary Aldcl'­ Ashburnham, Sussex, 146. manbnry, '396, 441; St. Margaret's, West­ Athlone, St. Mary's, 695. minster, 468, 522; St. l\lartin's·in-thc-Fieltls, Barking, Essex, 36!. 148, 156, 157; St. Martin's, Ironmonger-lanl', Bath, SS. Peter and Panl's, 695. 522; Mercers' Chapel, (',21; l\larylebone, 71!!- Boalings, Great, Snffolk, 524. 721; St. Mildred's in the Poultry, 259; St. Bicester, Oxon, 540. Paul's, Covent Garden, 364, 603, 764; St. Billingborough, Lincolnshire, 6(1]. Olave's, Hart-street, 76!; St. Pancras, 76G ; Blithfield, Staffordshire, 622. St. Peter ad Vincula, 118; St. Peter-Ie-Poor, Boars tall, Bucks, 603. 248, 441; St. Peter's, Cheapside, 364. Brighton, Snssex, 316. Longhborough, 364. Bromley, Middlesex, 441. Measham, Derbyshire, 577. Burton, Lincolnshire, 694. Nettleham, Lincolnshire, 694. Bury St. Edmunds, St. James's, 4-11. Northaw, Hertfordshire, 765. Cambridge, St. Botolph's, 269. Ontwell, Norfolk, 289. Canterbury, St. Mildred's, 403, 441. Padbury, Bucks, 540. Chelsea, 524. Penn, Staffordshire, 543, 600. Chevening, Kent, 441. Poslingford, Suffolk, 603. Chicheley, Bncks, 72,.87,138,863,539,621. Putney, Surrey, 102. Christ Church, Oxford, 315, 316. Pyle and Ken1ig, Glamorganshire, 713, 714,716, Clifton, Bristol, 695. 765. Codsall, Staffordshire, 601. Ravenstone, Leicestershire, 60'J. Coxwell Magna, Berks, 717, 726, 765. Ryhall, Rutland, 692. Dagenham, Essex, 284. Sempringham, Lincolnshire, 691. Derby, St. Peter's, 602. 8evenoaks, Kent, 601. Dorrington, Staffordshire, 695. Shenton, Leicestershire, 539, G03, 631. Dublin, St. Anne's; St. Michan's; St. Patrick's; Slinfold, Sussex, 316. St. Peter's, 695. Stamford, St. George's; St. Martin's Baron; St. East Haddon, Nol"thants, 632. Michael'S, 693. Easton Maudit, Northants, 364. Stonham Aspall, Suffolk, 711. Goadby-Marwood, Leicestershire, 603. Strettop Magna, Leicestershire, (',21. Greenford Magna, Middlesex, 523. Tallington, Lincolnshire, 692. Hackney, 171, 471, 522, 523, 622. Tajlworth, Warwickshire, 422. "- / Harrowden Magna, Northants, 152. Tettenhall, Staffordshire, 601. Heckington, Lincolnshire, 468. Tottenham, Middlesex, 564. Highgate, Middlesex, 364, 555, 557, 601, 621. Tythegston, Glamorganshire, 714, 716,727, 728, Horbling, Lincolnshire, 691. 730,765. Hornchurch, Essex, 694. Ufford, Suffolk, 522. Homingsherth, Suffolk, 267. Walcot, Lincolnshire, 692, 765. Iselham, Cambridgeshire, 222. Waltham Abbey, 601. Kensal Green Cemetery, 695. Walton-on-Thames, 100. Kilmore, Cavan, 695. Westminster Abbey, 551. Kiltoghart, Leitrim, 695. Whatton, Notts, 439, 522. Kilworth, North Leicestershirc, 408. Winchester Cathedral, 441. Kingsbury, Middlesex, 719, 720. Wisbech, St. Paul's, 72. King's Lynn, St. Margaret'p, 549. York Cathedral, 147. Leominster, 121. 5J1

Digitized by Coogle 784 INDEX.

Pm'kel', Archbishop, 25, 3Mi>; Elizabeth, 376, 447. 105; THOMA.S, 4TH EARL OF, 105-106; FRANCES, 1)arlet, Gregory, 288, 311l. COUNTESS OF, 106-107 •. Parry, Henry (Bishop of Worcester), 407; Sidney Potter, Dr., 710 ; Jane, Richa.rd, ro". (Major, R.A.), 753;.Sa.rah, 407; Richa.rd,Ed­ Powell, Edmond, Sir Edward, Susannah, 408, 409 ; wa.rd,731. Rachel, 714. Parsons, Allen, Frances, 537. Powlett, John Ea.rl of, Ma.rgaret Conntess of, 700. Partridge of King's Bromley, 585. Prestley, William, 379. Paston, Anne, Sir William, 263; Clement, Sir Price, Mary, 348, 349,354; Cambell, Thomas, 354. William, 261. Pulton, Anne, Ferdinand, Giles, 46, 51. Pnuncefort, El1wnrd, 5G!. Penke, Benjamin, Sir John, Sir William (Lord Qundring, Cecily, 374; Alexander, Lionel, Richa.rd, Mayors), 410. 53,54. Peckham, Elizabeth, Reginald, 371. QUINCEY O!' ASLACKBl', 649-651; l'EDIGIlEE 01',650. Pedder, Toby, 162. Quinny, Daniel, John, 345. PEDIOREES. (See separate Index.) Peel, Emily, Jonathan, Sir Robert, 7.;2, 76~. Radclifl'c, Sir Francis, 466; Ralph, 393. Peletoyt, Endo Ie, 155; Katherine, Sir Philip, 156. Raleigh, George, 261, 263; Sir Walter, 294, 548. PElIIBROKE, TIIOMAS 8TH EARL OF (K.G.), VICEROY Randall, Cathorine, 396. OF IRELAND, 535. Randolph, Dr. John, 359 •. Pembroke, Cathllline Countess of, 526. Rands, Christopher, 630,662. Pen, Sir William, 484. RANDS ALB. l!OLBECB', HENRY, BISHOP OF LINCOLN, Perkins, Anne, 547, &54; Hutton, 284. 660et seq. Perry, Thomas, 546; William, 554. RANDS OF NETTLEHAM, l'EDIGREE OF, 664. Petre, Sir William, 33, 105. Ranfield, Anne, Richard, 19. PEYTON, FAMILIES OF, chapters xiii. xiv. xv. pa$sim. Rastell, Elizabeth, John, 714. PEYTON OF PEYTON HALL, 183-186; l'EDIOREE OF, Rasyn, Mary, William, 43. 244. RAVENSTONE HOSPITAL, FOUNDATION OF, 580·582. PEYTON OF EASTHORl'E AND ISELliAM (BARTS.), 201- Raynsford, Ga.rrett, Miles, Robert, 393. 212, 218·225, 238-243. Reade, Anne, Thomas, 628, 633. PEYTON, RODERT, VICAR OF BROADCIIALI{, 221 andiv. Records, the study of the, 176. PEYTON OF KNOWLTON (BARTS.), 245-250; PEDIGREE Redmayne, Frances, Dr. Robert, 481. OF, 288. REMINGTON, REV. JOlIN, OF LUND, 352,353. PEYTON OF DODDINGTON (BARTS.),288-299, 310-322; Rempston, Sir Thomas (K.G.), 2H. PEDIGREE OF, 288; Sm EDWARD PEYTON BART., Reyna.rdson, Rose, Colonel Birch, 729. TIIE PURlTA_~ AUTIIOR, 238, 239; Sm JOlIN PEY­ Reynolds, Archbishop, seal of, 427. TON, LIEUT. O!' TIIE TOWER AlW GOVERNOR OF Rhamanie, battle of, 682. JERSEY, 288, 21l1l. Rhuddlan, Robort de, 188. Phillip, Emmet, William, 626. RICH, RICHARD, LORD ClIANCEl,LOR, 20, 218. Pickering, Anne, Sir Christopher, 260; Elizabeth, Rich, Sir Henry, Earl of Holland, 312; Lady, 7 ; Sir Gilbert (Bart.), Major, 648. Robert, Elizabeth, Lord Chancellor, 218. Pierrepoint, Godfrey, Sibyl, Sir Simon, 338. Richers, Elizabeth, 318, i3-15, 349, 536; John, 318. Pinchpole, Jane, John, 57, 63. Ricka.rds, Hester, Robert, Lily, 729. PITT, EARL 01' CHA.THAII, l'EDIGREE OF, 145. RINGELEY, Sm EDWARD, HIGH MABSHAL OF CALAIS, Pitt, Isabella, John, Laura, 509; Mr., nO. 204,205. PLANTAGEliET, JOAN (MAID OF KENT), PEDIGREE OF, Rivers, Sir Anthony-Woodville, 255. 597; ELEANOR, COUNTESS OF AnUliDEL, PEDIGREE Rivett, Johu, the brasier, 103. OF, 762. Robbi, Martin de, Chancellor of Sir John Hawk­ Plantagenet, Alice, 331; Blanche, 664; Maud,324. wood,300. Plumptre, Amando, Dorothea, Dr. Henry, 262. Roberts, Josiah, 514, 519. POINTZ, TUOMAS, TUE DEI'OIlMER AND FRIEND OF Robinson, Sir George, 363, 595, 610; Francis, 40' ; Tnw.l.LE THE )IADTYlI, 'to". Sir James, 595; John of Cransley. 350, 611; Pole, De la, Sir l\1ichael, 333, 336. Catharine, Sir John, 352. Poore, Dorothy, Vincent, 66. Robson, George, 124. Port of llam, John, 581. Roeester, Alice dc, Sir Peter, 254. PonTER, Eliflnnol'l, TllE POET, H6-UIl; George, Rochdale, Richard, 455. James, 106. RoellE OF WIXLEY, PEDIUREE OF, 160. PUI'TUND, E.l.m.~ 01', !J3-107; PEDIGREE Ot" 108 RoellE, Bm WILL1.I.M, LOI:D MAYOR (1010), HI, 109. 108. P'HtTLA.ND, RlclLulD, 1ST E.lltJ. OF, !J7 -II!J; J]:;ROllE, Rodes, Francis. 226. 2liD E.\IIL OF, 102-1U·1 i CnAIILE~, 3D E,IlII. OF, Rogers, Richard, Bishop of Dover, 396.

Digitized by Coogle INDEX. 'itt,

Rogers, Deburah, ·107; Cuthcl'in(', Sir EJwm'J, Sl·.\l,F.~, F.li.~:lhl'lh, Lady, 2,j;3; Lor.1, 3~2; !':':DWl:I:i: Ralph,395. OF XIIE LORDS SCAI.EB, 253-255. Rolfe, Thomas, 308. Scott, Bartholomew, 3tl7; John, ·10". ROPER, S.ll1UEL, THE ANTIQUARY, 82, 572, 584. SCROl'1l 01' C.\~TLE COlIIIE AND B.mKIxfl, I'Er.rc.ra:r. RoPER OF HE.INOR, 584-58!J ; PEDIOREES OF, 51l6, OF,22. 595,596; QUARTEROOOS OF, 584. Scrope, Eleanor, John (Lord), 6fH; Richal·.1,21. Rose, Dorothea France8, John Capel, Rev. Zacha­ Scndamore, Sir Philip, !JO. riah, 611, 711. Seals: Archbishop Cranmer's, 382, 428 ..tiH; Archil" Rosell, Harold, Thomas, John, 370, 380; Nicholas, piscopal, ·127. 379. Seddon, Daniel, Lieut.-General, 702. Rosewell, William, Solicitor-General of Queen Segar, Sir William, 73, 93. Elizabeth, 51. Sellar, Elizabeth, Rev. John, John the hydrogrnpl1!'r Rowlan(lson, J., 728. to Chal'ies II., 401. RoYAL DERCENT OF ANNE WOLus'roN, LADY CHES­ SEW.illD, WILLl.IM, TIlE METUODIBT,518; A,ltiWOIIS, TER, 596; ELIZ,\DETH BOTELER, WIFE OF Sm vii. ANTHONY CHESTER I., 140; ELIZABETH PEYTON, SEWARD, PEDIGREE OF, 517. WIFE O~· Sm AX'rnoxy CHESTER II., 140; ELIZA­ Sewster, Frances, Sir nobert, 303, 321. BETH NETHEr-COTES, WIFE OF JOHN TOLLER II., Seymour, Sir Edward, 30:1. 664; THOlfAS METHOLD WATERS, 761-762. Shan, Anna Maria, Dorothea, Ruv. John, Lawson, Russell, Jane, Robert, 269. 353,357; John,168. Ryder, Richard, 355. Sheffield, John, 653, 662; Robert, 354; William, RYLEY, WILLIAlII, CURENCEUX, 174-17!i; WILLLUI, 652. KEEPER OP THE RECORDS, 176-17t' ; Sm PHILIP, Shelton, Colonel John, 321, 322. SEROEANT-AT-ARlIIfI, 178-179. SHENTON HALL, 570, 57-1, 583. Ryley, William, W9, 174, 181. Shepey, Isabel, Lady, 372. Ryngewode, Mrs., of Wymondham, 272. Shc}lpard, Thomas, Sir Thomas Cotton, Elizabeth, 537; William, 90. SACKVILr.E OF ESSEX, PEDIGREE OF, 200. SHERIFFS, LICENSE OF XOS·RESIDENCE TO, 12~, 571. St. Albans, HClll'y Earl of, 486. Shinton, Alexander, 517, 51H. ST. GEORGE OF HATLEY ST. GEORGE, 6H-681 i Shit'ley, John, Elizabeth, 62; George, 6:1. PEDIGREE OF, 680. SHInLEIAN.\ STElIIM,\TA, 41'. St. Germain, Sir Hcnry, AdditiOIlS, v. Sidney, Sir Henry, Sir Philip, 28tl; Francis, 378. ST. GERu\IN, CHRISTOpmm, AUTHOR OF ' TIlE Doc­ SILVIUH, Sm GABRIEL, 4';8. TOR AND STUDENT,' Additiom, v. Simonds, Margaret, ·152, 4'::;·1. St. John, Anne, Johu, 577 ; Elizabcth, Lady Alston, Simpson, Mr., of Mitcham, 423, ,11ll. 648; Margaret, 331; Monsieur John, 198'. Sisson, Anne, Henry, 631, 648. St. Philibert, John Lord, 330. Skelton, Anne, i6!. Salamanca, Battle of, 744. Skinners' Company, 12. • SALISBURY, E.IRLS OP, PEDIOREE OF, 597. Skipwith, Bridget, Sir William (Rt.), 80. Salloway, Martha, 661. SrmursmRE OF AQUALATE, PEDIGREE 01', 53l. Salter, Jane, Sir Nicholas, 379. Skrimshire, Sir Charles, Thomas, 157. Saltingstall, Elizabeth, Sir Richard, 41, 418. Slnde, Joan, John, Mary, 95. Salway, Cecily, John, 260, 261. Slane, Anne, ·il7. Sancroft, William, Archbishop, 48!1, 495-503, 638, Slavatta, Baron of, 267. 610; letters to and from, 495, 4!16, 498, 499, Slye, Rev. Walter, 631. 501-503,639,643-647. Smart, Rev. Ithiel, 555. Sandes, Alice, 397. SUITH OF PADDURY, 537-538, 540. Sandwich, Earl of, 483. Smith, Erasmus, 77; George Robert, of Selsdon, Sandye, Sir Edward, 401; Thomas, 250. 688; Harris, 537; Henry, 78; Sir John, 700 ; Sapington Manor, 390, 409. William, 78; Rev. William, 381, 3!J0. SAUNDERS OP SIBBERTOFT, 75. SUYTH OF LINFORD, PEDIOREE OF, 'H2. S.\UNDERS, SIR EDWARD, CHIEPJUSTICE (1557), 75; SllYTH OF Tn.\UES DITTOS, PEDI(lREE OP, 596. LAWRENCE THE PROTESTANT llARTYll, 3-1. Smyth, Alice, 5-13, 545, 560; Rev. Edmund, nc,·. Saunders, Margaret, 480; Mary, 47!1, 480, William, 353, 442, 615; Sir William, Sir Thoma~, 482. 231. Savage, Sir Arnold, 254. ~neyd, Edward, Honora, Ralph, 531,53·1. I3AXDY OF NORTlllUPTON, PEDIGREE OF, 76; Ad­ SNEY» OF KEELE, PEDIGREE OF, 531. ditiom, iii. Solley, Thomas, of Hindlip, 260, 2li1. Say, De, Agnes, Mary, William, 323. Solmes, Count, 311. Scala, De la, Lady Regina, 305. Somerset, Lord Charles, 707; Protector, 388.

Digitized by Coogle 786 INDEX.

Sm.>nEs E.mLS OF FEVED~n.\lr, 590. Tempest, Sir Charles Robert (Bart.), 256; Sir Sonlt, Marshal, 683. Henry Vane, 702; Dowsllbel, Sir Richard, 654. South, Nathaniol, 417. Temple, Sir William, 458. SOUTHAMPTON, Cn.IDLER DUKE OF, 487; M.IDY Terry, Sir William, 563. Woon, DUCHESS OF, 486·487. Theed, John, Thomas, 698; Thomas, 5S6. Southcote, Sir Edward, 100. Thellusson's trustees, 505. Southwell, Sir Robert (Kt.), 21. Theydon, William dc, 193. Spelman, Sir Henry, 266. Thimelthorpe, Barbara, Sir Edward (Kt.), 240. SPENCER, DR. JOUN, PIIESIDENT OF C.C.C. OXON., . Thistlethwaite, Lettice, 91". AND EDITOIl OF HooKEn, 403·405. Thome, Edmund, 42; John, Thomas, H, 52. Spencer, Dr. John, 346; Mary, Robert (Lord), Thornhill, Jane, Sir Timothy, 249, 287. 318. Thornton, Richard, 118, 124. Stables, Joseph, Tempt'rancc, 361. Thorold, Anthony, 890; Sir Anthony, 880; Sir Stanford Court, the library at, 527. John, 877, 380; Mal'garet, William, 632. Stanley, Thomas, 261; Rev. Thomas, 287. TUOIlOUOHGOOD, SlII DI,:NJAlIIIN, THE TORY DRAPED, Staper, Richard, 237. 360. St!\pclton, Master, 370; Elizllheth, 216. Thorpe, Anne, William, 261. Stnpilton', Brian dc, 33·1, 335; Sir l\Iiles, 337. Throckmorton, Sir John, 313; Sir George, Mar- STAPYL'roN (n' I:wILlll, PEDIOItE,: O~', 140. !(arct, 80. Stapyltoll, Silo Richard, 21. TUlIOCK:IIOIlTON, PEDIGREE OF, 597. Stcpham, Richard, 12. Tichbome, Sir Benjamin, 95, 96; Robert, 91. Stephens, John, Mary, 544. Tilswol'th Manor, 116, 130, 131,844,617. STEWADT, LADy FR.INCES, COUSTE8R OF PORTL.IND, TINDAL OF ESSEX, DESCENT OF, 280. 102, 106-107_ Tiptoft, Elizabeth, Lord John, 214_ Stewkeley, John, Isabella, Katherine, Ursnla, 480. Tivoli, Register of, 769. STOCKE, Dn. RICH.IRD, TUE pm~.\CIIER, 282. Toke, George, 247. Stokes, John, 401. Toll, Anne, Dorothy, Richard, 461. Stormyfawr, 715, 71)7, 7fi8. TOLLER OF BILI.INODOROUGH, chaptcl' xxii. plIssim ; STR,\SOE, LE, OF HUSST.\NTON, 110, 122; Addi­ PEDIGREE OF, 672-673. tion8, iv_ TOLLEIl OF STAMFORD, PEDIGREE OF, 656. STR.ISGE, ANKARET LE, LADY TALDOT, PEDIGREE TOMKINS, NATUANIEL, OF'VALLER'S PLOT, 90",91, OF, 596, 762. 92,102. Strange, Eleanor Ie, 156; Isabella, John (Lord), TOMLINS OF S·f. LEONARD'S, BROlrLEY, 413 ..U5. 332, 333, 35·1. Tooke, Thomas, 40·. Stranley, Dc, Sir Hugh, 332_ Tooley, Elizabeth, Francis, Susan, G63. Sttickla.nd, Alice, Sil' Thomas, ·16·J. Towal'S, John, William, 626, 627; Richard, 636. Strugnell, John, 272; Rebecca, 27;;. Towers, Anne, Nicholas, 360; Theodosia, Eliza- HTl:Yl'E, HEV. JOHN, TUE IIIBTORIAN, 316. beth, Thomas, 357, 620. STl:ItDS, HENRY, TUE pnYSICIAN A,'W AUTHOR, 345; Townsend, James, 452. Additions, vi. Townshend, Sir Horace, 640. STunDR, MilS. MARY, 132, 3-15; Adclitions, Til. Trescot Grange, 543. SUFFOLK, DE UnoRD EARLS OF, 322-336; RODEDT Trcsham, Richard, Rose, 42. E.\nT. OF (K.G.), 327-331; WILLIAlII E.\DL OF TROLLOPE (BAlITS.) OF C.\SEWICK, 4.20; PEDIOREE (K.G.), 252, 331-336. OF,449. Sutterton, l\Iatil

Digitized by Coogle INDEX. 787

TYNDALL, DR. HUMPHREY, DEAN OF ELY, 268·270.• 'VALLER OF COLESIlILL, 90·91 ; PEDIGIIEE 01', 92. TYNDALL OJ!' MAPLESTEAD, 278·284. Walpole, Sir Edward, Mary, 356. TYNDALL, SIR JOHN, MASTER IN CHANCEBY, 278- Walsingham, Sir Francis, 402. 280. Wlliter, Sir William, witicism of, 278. TYRELL OF HERONS, 300. Walton's Polyglot Bible, 343. 'l'yrell, Sir Charles, 378; Margery, Thomas, 546; WALTON, Is.uc, 406, 407. Sir Peter (Bart.), 350; Sir Thomas (Bart.), 537 j Wandesford, Alice, Christopher, 233; Additions, iv. William, Dorothy, 130. Warburton's, Bishop, criticism of Dr. Nalson, 320. Tyringham, Elizabeth, Sir William, 358. Ward, Dorothea, John, 861 j Francis, Humble Tyvry, Glamorganshire, 716. (Lord),530. Warham, Archbishop, Archdeacon, 397. UFFORD EARLS 01' SUFFOLK, 322·336. Warmstrey, Gervase, poem of, 146. UFFORD, SIR RoDERT, VICEllOY OF IRELAND, 322, Warren, Thomas, Charles, Mary, 318. 323. Wase, Christophel', Margery, 546, 578. t;FI"ORD, RODERT LoRD (1270·1316), 323, 324; SIR Wl\tel'loo, Bnttle of, 7-18. RALPIl, Jt;STlCI.\RY OF bEUND, 324·326. WATERS OF GLA~fORGAN8HIRE, 711·762; PEDIGREES UFFOllD LORDS UFFORD OF' LANGLEY, 337·340. OF, 722·723,752·753,761·762. Ufford, Loudham Park in, 483. WATERS, EDMUISD, DEPUTY PAYMASTER OF TIIE llistOl', Maud Countess of, 324. MAlIlNE8, 717·720; GENERAL EDMUND (C.B,), Upchcl', Edward, 270, 274. 720·726; MORGAN III. OF TyVRY, 726, 727; GENER.\L SIR JOHN, 732·750; EDMOND THOMAS Vaehell, Sir Thomas, Dame Lettice, 01·. OF TYVIIY, 750, 756; TIlOMAS METHOLD OF LON­ Valoines, Adolicia de, 191; Cecily, Robert de, 323; DON, 758·761; ROBERT EDldOND CHESTER, 752, Peter de, 155; Theobald de, 325. 761, 768·769. Vanderlanem, Elizabeth, 416, 417. Watersfield, Thomas, 479. Van Sterrevelt, Adrian, 417. WATSON EARLS OF RoCKINGHAM, 591. Vaughan, Sir Hugh, 374; Rev. Griffith (B.D.), Wawton, Alana, Sir Thomas, 252, 276, 287. 413, 415; Hugh, 395, 443. WEBB OF KE~SINGTON, 506·519; PEDIGREE of,516· VAUX OF H.\IlROWDEN (LoRDS), PEDIGREE OF,597. 517. Vaux, Catharine, Lord Nicholas, 80. WEBB ALB. WOOD OF GREAT DEALINGS, 507·509; Ven, John (M.P.), 553. PEDIGIIEE OF, 517. VERE OF ADDINGTON, 46·51; PEDIGREE OF, 50·51. Wcbbcrley, Helen, Anthony, 652, 663; Elizabeth, VERE EARLS OF OXFORD, .L'ICESTOBS OF THE DRAY' Anthony, 663, 664. TONS, 46·49; PEDIGREES OF, 48·49, 255. Welby, John, Anne, 236; Additio7l8, v. Vere, Constance, 157; Sir Horace, 311; John de, Welles, Anthony, Richard, 23, 31. Earl of Oxford, 253, 255, 300; Thomas de, 326; Wesley, John, Charles, 518; Additio1ls, vii. Thomas, Eal'l of Oxford, 303. Wessenham, Robert de, 42. Verney, Sir Edmund, Cary, 480; Sir Greville, 349, West, Charles, 655, 658; Clarkson, 658. 455. Westmoreland, Brownlow Toller, William, 672. Vernon, Humphrey, 55·1; Richard de, 192; John, WESTON OF SEREENES, AFTERWARDS EARLS OF 38. PORTLAND, 93·107; PEDIGREE OJ!', 108·109. VILLIERS OF BROOKSBY (BARTS.), 588·595; PEDI· WESTON, Sm RICHARD, JUDOE OF COMMON PLEA9, GREES OF, 595, 597. 87,05. VILLIERS VISCOUNTS GRANDISON, PEDIGREE OF, 145. WESTON, E.\RLS OF POIlTLAND, 97-107. Villiers, Christopher, Earl of Anglesea, 100,109; Weston, Sir Richard, 260; Robert, of Prested Hnll, George, Duke of Bucks, 112, 143; Sir George . Amy, 283. (Bart.), 572; Lady Rebecca, 82, 525, 572, 574, Wheldall, MI·S., 275. 588. Whethall, James, 273. Vincent, Clement, Elizabeth, 70; John, Philadel· Whethill, Elizabeth, John, 260. phia, 563, 564. Whepsted Manor, 483. Visconti, Barnabo, Donnina, 305; Galcazzo, Vio· Whickham, 488, 506. lante, 3()'1; John Galeazzo, 306, 307. Whitchurch, Edward, the pI'inter, 887, 304. White, Anne, 544; Sir John (Kt.), Lord Mayor, Wake, Margaret, 47; Isabella, 44; Sil' John, 165. John, Bishop of Winchester, 302 j Sir Stephen, WAKE, TIlOldAS LOllDS, PEDIGREE OF, 507. 474,544; Richard, of Hutton, Thomas, of Douay, Waldegrave, Frances, Nicholas, 100, 108. 101. Waldyft', Catherine, 260. Whitgreve, Charles, 582; Humphrey, Anne, 570, Walesborough, Emma, John, 254. 572; Lucretia, 544. WALLER, EDMUND, TilE POET'S RUNAWAY MARRIAGE, Whorwood, Katherine, Sir William, 354. 90,91. WIGFALL OF RENISHAW, 360·361 Jlote.

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Anno, James, 6ni! ; 209. :121. l\f"r!':llre:t. Bir John, G1. Alice. Franci~, 651;. 647, Robert, 171). 57; Petal' (1583), UJ,;IlliCCA, ~'uU~[)nES:; (1622), 282, HOSPITAL, 580·581. Eynyon, Jl1mcs (lG22). note. Wilkins, Elizabeth, 547,5-18,555; John, Willi!\lll, Felbrigge, Sir Simon, K.G. (1442),287, 548, 555; John of Ravenstone. 581-582. Field, Dorothy (W;n), 40;3. WILKI~S OF RAVENSTONE, 580-582. Fitz·Jo.mes, Dame Elizabeth (15!;;), 262. Wilkinson, Thomas, Abbot of Welbeck, 36n. FludJ, SusanM (16a::;). ,107, 'VII.LS: Francis, ISllbella Frunccs (1834), G78. Alford also Enyon, Philip (1612), ,152. Ga.rdiner, l\Iargllrct (Hi!18), ·i:;O; Da.me Rebecca George (1583), 3n. Sir Thomas (llli>l).l77. Robert (1531), Green, 516; John (lG8S), Bll.nkworth, Robert (lfl17), Hllmp:lcll. (1:;;11), 8:1; William (lGUlil, Barncby, John (1731), 6:,,1. 91'; LeUice (16G,j), 91'. Bedingfield, Sir Philip (Hi:!2), Hawkweod, (1310). 301. Bir Robert (1577), 121; (1(78), Hl1sildcn, (1:')2G). 215; Fruncis ; Sir Edmund (1607). 216. Blaydwin, William (171:1),6':;7; William (1739), Hawtrey, .John (lG!.l:i), 58; Dridget (1598), .em. 667. Hewett, William (15na), 226; Sir William (15G6). Blythman, Elizabeth (1738), 281. 228. Boteler, Bir Henry (1608), 142; John (1513), HowJon. John LorJ (11'158).6'38, 157; Sir John (1575), 158. Hill, John (15!!), a1; Sir Willi!\lll (1487). 15. Brooke, Thomas, als. Cobham (1544),373. Holbcche als. RanJs, Bishop of Lincoln, Henry Brown, Nathaniel (1701), (j:)l. (15;'1), G;;!). Bryce. Sir Hugh (1496), 18; Dame Elizabeth Howard of Escriek. Lor<1 E,lward (167:j). 150. (1504), 19. Isham, 117 note. Bnrt:,lis, William (1593), Kenrick, ·111:1. Bury, William (15G1), 65 ; Gi. Kirke, lII,try Camhell, Sir Harry (16\1\1), L!lRsels, Vnlcntinc 6:!i. Cartwri;::ht, EJmnnd (151;:1). Levcson, 2~7. Anthony (1555), Hi (1590), AO; Lovett, ·l li; Jane (155H), "'H~UU~.U (1626-7), 81; (1:;:IIl), 76. Thomas (11:12), ; Thomas (1;;10), ; Chapman, Dame Elizabeth (1711), 511; Sir Thomas IV. (1512), 5!); Thomlls V_ (15R3). John (lG8G), 510_ G2. Chester, Dame Alice (1501), 7; Dumc Agnes Lowe. EtlwarJ (W82), 317. (U8,!). 13; Sir Anthony (Hi:l,;), lU ; Catharine Markham, Sir John (155n), 394. (1671), 135; Sir Charlcs Bagot (1755), GIG; Mathewe, John (15;j7), 5G. Elizabeth (1728), 536; Francis (1 HU). 619; Mason. Captain John (W35), 5;;1. Dllmc Frances (1747). 5:1-.1; Damo Frances }lilbonrne, Damo Joan (1515), 29; Sir John G13; Sir Henry (1I3I1fl), ; John (15:11;), ' 23; John(1580),tlfl .Jolm(11liO).:)G2; Millicent, (1676), 133; IIIary (IG!)2), Dame Mary (1710), (lG86) ; Richar<1 (U84), Ii (11.76). 10; William (HiOa). 70; (Wel7), 171; Nalson, William (lG!)tl). 173. Nethercotcs, Clobury, Sir John (1687), Anne 662; (W70),; Walter (1706),419. Nevyle, Sir Thomas (1542),21. Cokayne, John (1-128). 15G. Norton, Thomas (Ui'll), 392. Coningsby, Sir Humphrey (1531), 260. Norwootl, Alexander (1609), 403. Cordell, Dame Mary (1581), a45. Oneby. Robert (1H:3), 514, CraJock, Mary (18U), G77. Osborne, Edwllrd (1625), 235; Sir Howet (1599), Cranmer, AIme (1617), 400; Anno 464; 232. Elizabeth (15!)!)), 381; Richard 372 ; Parry. Henry, Bishop of Woroester (16U). 407 Hobert (IG16). a77; 4,;;; ; note. Thomas (MOl), 369;" 379 ; Peyton, (1Il2,j). 224; Elizabeth Thomo.s (IGO·i), 400 376 ; 219 ; (11);)9), 318; Frances. William (W(0), 40!); 4IG. (15141), (lG80), 322 j Sir

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(1317), 185; John (1577),210; Sir John, Bart. West, Charles (1749), 658. (1615), 220; Sir John, Bart. (1634), 314; Sir Wells, Richard (1505), 23. Robert (1340), 186; Sir Robert (1517), 207; Weston, Elizabeth (1577). 87; James (158!), 94; Sir Robert (1550), 209; Robert (1590), 218; Sir Jerome (1603),96; John (1521), !)5;Richard Roger (1617), 220; Thomas (1439), 20; (1572), 87; Robert, Lord Chancellor of Ireland Thomas (1490), 205; Sir Thomas (1610), (1573),94 note; William (1514), !)4. 218. Wilkins, John (1719), 581; Rebecca (1712),581. Pope, Hngh (1562), 141. Wilson, Dorothy (1749), 356. Portland, Charles Weston, 3d Earl of (166;», Wingate, John (16-12), 123. 105; Frances Countess of (16H), 102 ; Wogan, Thomas (1566), 57. Frances Countess of (1692), 106; Jeromo, 2d Wollastou, Eleanor (1673), 547; Hcnry (1616), Earl of (1657), 1O!; Richard, 1st Earl of 561; Henry (1660),573; Hugh (16O!J), 543; Sir (1631),90. John (1658,) 554; Dame Rebecca (lIi59), 556; Procter, Elizabeth (1624), 71. Richard (1600), 546; Richard (lff41!), 544; Quadryng, Alexander (1504), 53. Richnra (16!)0), 55~; William (11i2t1), 547; Ringeley, Dame Jane (1551), 20.;. William (lfj~), 572; William (1688),576. Roche, Bryan (15H), 159; Margaret, Dame Wood, Anno (167;;), 47-1; Elizabeth (1674), 471; (1558), 159; Sir Willianl (1540), 158. Sir Henry (1671), 486; Thomas (1640),469; Rogers, Richard, Bishop of Dover (1597), 396; Thomas (1668),471; Thomas, Bishop of Coven­ Ralph (1559), 395. try and Lichfield (1690), 505. Roper, Robert (1598), 587; Robert (1616), 587. Wood als. Cranmer, Charles (1742),467; Dame Ryley, Sir Phi,lip (1732), 179. Lelis (1723), 465. Ryngewood, Margaret (1604), 272. Saxby, William (1517), 75. Willesby, Thomas, 555. Say and Sele, Richard Lord (1612),589 note; 'VILLIAMS, JOHN, AUTHOR OF' BllLAlI'S Ass,' 97. Elizabeth Lady (1632), 589 note. Williams, Robert, John, 97,108; Sir John (Bart.), Scales, Anthony Lord (1-162), 255. 592; Rev. Philip, 320, 321; Selina, Snsannah, Spenser, Dr. John (16U), 40!. • William, 410, 413, 415. Suffolk, Robert Earl of (1368), 328; William Williamson, Sir Joseph, 178. Earl of (1381), 334. WILLIlIIOTT OF KELSHULL, 471. St. Germain, Cluistopher (1540), .A.dditiom, v. WILLOUGHBY, D'EnESDY (LORDS), 331, 333. Tempest, Robert (1551), 3!). Willoughby, Peregrine Lord, 232. Toller; Anne (1738),656; Bartholomew (160!), Willson, Catharine, John, 346. 625 ; Henry (1560), 624; John (1669), 634; Wilson, Dr., 413; Edward, John, Dorothea, SS6, John (1726),651; John (1732), 665; Richard 357; Rev. Mr., 400. (1659), 623; Rev. Richard (1739),655; Wil­ Wingate, John, 123. . liam (1621), 626. Winnington, Wollaston, 576. 'romlins, Susanna (1679), 413; Thomas (1676), Winstanley, Anne, John, Roger, 471. 413; Thomas (1686), 415. Winston, Dr. Thomas, 103. Trott, John (1601),40·. WINTHROP, JOHN, GoVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTtI. Tyndall, Dame Anne (1620), 281; Drue (1663), 280,281. 283; Francis (1626), 272; Dr. Humphrey Winthrop, Adam, John, Stephen, 280-281. (16H), 270; Sir John (1538), 258 ; Sir John Winwood, Sir Ralph, 311. (1616), 279; Sir Thomas· (1583), 264; Wil­ Wiseman, John, 509; Margery, Sir John, 299, 300; liam (1591),268. Samuel, 168. Uft"ord, William de (1381), 334. Wolfe, Thomas, 3. U}lCher, Ursula (1628),274. WOLLASTON FAMILY, chapter xx. pUllin/. Vachell, Lettice (1665), 91·. WOLLASTON OP PEnTON AND TRESCOT GRANGE, 541- Van Sterrevelt, Adrian, 417. 545; PEDIGREE OF, 545. Villiel's, Dame Mary (1699), 592; Mary (1684), WOLLASTON OF PERTON AND LONDON, 546-559; 5!)3; Rebecca (!GSil), 592; Sil' William, Bart. PEDIGREES OF, 549, 559. (IH2!l) , 5119; Sir William, Bart. (1711), 5!)3. WOLLASTON O}' LONDON AND W.U.TIIAM AnDEY, 560- Waller, Anne (lfj52). 90·; Robert (1615), 90. 570; PEDIGREES OF, 569, 578. Waters, Administrations of, at Llandaft', 767; WOLLASTON OF SHENTON AND FINBOnOUGH, 51, 570- Evan (1724), 767; Joan (1673), 767; John 582; PEDIGREES OF 578-679, 5!)6-597, 761-762. (1515), 7G8; Thomas (1680), 767. WOLLASTON, ANNE, LADY CllESTER, RoYAL DESCENT Webb, Anthony (16i3), 507; Elizabeth (1685), OF, 5!)6·597; SIn JOHN, LORD MAYOR (1644),5·18- 507; Francis (1727), 512; John (1711), 513. 556. Webb also Wooil, Henry (1713), 508; Thomas WOLLASTON, WILLIAM, AUTHOR OF 'THE RRLIGION (1709), 513; Elizabet~ (1721), 509. OF NATURE,' 565·567, 575; WILLIAM I., THE

Digitized by Coogle 790 INDEX.

PURCHASBR OF SHENTON AND FINROROUOH, 570- ard, of Brent House, 730; Sir Nathan, Lord 572; WILLIAM, II. OF SHENTON, 574·576. Keeper, 528, 581, 593. Wollaston, origin of ~me, 542; places called, 5,12; WRIOTHESLEY EARLS OF SOUTII.UIPTON, PEDIGREE William, Anne, 82, 761. 01',145. WOOD OJ' HACKNEY, 468-476, 482-506; PEDIGREE Wyatt, Thomas, the poet, 41. OF, 472-473. Wyatt's rebellion, 371. WOOD, TIIOMAs, SERGEANT OF THE PASTRY TO Wyburd of Enfield, 471, 474. CIIARLES I., 468-469; Sm HENRY (BAIIT.), Wyche, Mary, Richard, 056; Nathaniel, Sir Poter. TREASURER OF QUEEN HENRIETTA M.UIIA, 475· 417,418. 486; MARY, DUCHESS OF SOUTIIAMPTON, 486· Wyke, John, 197" .. 487 j DR. THOMAS, BISIIOP OF LICHFIELD, 488- Wynfteld, George, James, Joseph, 474. 500. Yates, Samuel, [,28. WOOD ALB. CIIANMER OF LOUDH.Uf, 457·467. Yelverton, Sir Christopher, 388; Anne, Sir William, WOOD ALS. CRANMER, Sm C.1:S.\II,· EQUERRY TO 2[,2. JAMES II., 4[,7·464; CU.!.RLES, ·165·467. Woodroft'e, David, Sheriff of Lonton, lli. Yerde, Joan, Thomas, 205. Woodvile, Elizabeth, Sir Anthony, 259. Yonge, Anne, Ellis, 236, 237; Mrs., ·US. Worthington, Dr., 707. York, Anne Hyde, Duchcss of, deathbed of, 569. Wren, Thomas, 211. YORKE OF ASUIIY, PEDl

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