So4 HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES DF LEICESTERSHIRE. to the dignity of a baron of the realm, by the title of Edmund Brudenell, esq. eldest son of Anthony, died XoxABrudenell ofStauntonWyvile. When the dissensions May 12, 1590, and is particularly commended on his broke out between the king and parliament, he was tomb for his skill in the canon and civil law 9. He a zealous Royalist, by raising of soldiers, and contribu- had two sons, Robert (who died young), and Thomas, j ting what else he could to the king's aid, in his gam- and two, daughters, Agnes, married in 1598 to John sons of Newark, Lincoln, and Hertford; for which as- Flacket, gent. (who settled at Staunton Wyvile, where terwards, on the prevailing of his adversaries, he suf- he had four sons and one daughter); and Frances, fered a tedious imprisonment in the Tower of London, married to Robert Hurt, of Castern, co. Stafford (se- vvhere he employed his leisure-hours in making ab- cond son of Nicholas10 Hurt and Eilen, daughter of slracts and collections from the records kept there. John Beresford, of Norton Grange, co. Derby), who After the Restoration, in consideration of his services was aged 71 in 1663, and died about 1667. Their and sufferings, he was creared by letters patent, dated eldest son Nicholas married Isabella, daughter of sir 20 April, i3°Charles 1L earl ot Cardigan. He married Henry Harpur, ban. of Calke, co. Derby ". Mary, fourth daughter of sir Thomai Tresham, of Rush- Thomas Brudenell, esq. of Staunton Wyvile, died ton, knt. who brought him three children, Robert, his Jan. 29, 1661, at a good old age, after having passed successor; Edmund, who diedv\vithout issue June 15, his life as a conscientious distributor of justice in his 1652'; and Mary, wife to John Constable, of Burton neighbourhood11. By Dorothy Smith his wife, who Constable in Holdernefs, viscount Dunbar in Scotland, lived happily with him more than 40 years, he had He died Sept. 16,1663,aged upwards of 80; his coun- fourteen children; and was succeeded by his eldest son, tess Oct. 23, 1664; and were both buried at Dene2. Thomas Brndenell, esq. who did not long survive Robert the second earl of Cardigan was twice his father, dying Feb. 1, 1661-2. He married Eli- married. His first wife was Mary, daughter of sir zabeth daughter of Nathanael Itenphrey, efq. of Henry Constable lord viscount Dunbar1, by whom he Barton Segrave ; by whom he had three sons and a had an only daughter, Mary, married to George Smith daughter, who all died infants. His next brother, earl of Kinnoul. His second wife was Anne, the Richard Brudenell, efq. (a major in the royal army) daughter of Thomas viscount Savage; by whom he was among the number of those who after the Resto- had issue Francis lord Brudenell; Joseph, who died an ration were nominated as intended knights of the Pioyal infant; and three daughters, Anna-Maria, married to Oak ; his estate at Staunton Wyvile being valued at Francis earl of Shrewsbury; Catharine, to John earl of more than £1000. a year '3. He married Elizabeths 4 Middleton in Scotland ; and Dorothy , the wife first of daughter of sir Walter Littleton ; died Aug. 29 i6oQi Charles earl of Westmorland, and afterwards of Robert aged 71 ; and his lady April 21, 168014. Their son, Constable, viscount Dunbar. He died, aged nearly 100, Thomas Brudenell, esq. after having distinguish^ July 6, 1703. ed himself nobly in the service of his country, • Francis loi'd.Brudenell, who died in his father's life- and acquiring the rank of major-general, died at time, by Frances, the only daughter of Thomas Savile Gibraltar, Aug. 30, 1707 i5; leaving an only child, earl of Suffix, had two sons, George and James ; and Thomas, then only four years and a half old '*. three daughters, Mary, married to Richard lord vis- In 1564, there were 15 families in Staunton Wyvile. count Molyneux; Anne, married first" to sir Henry Be- In 1655, there was collected in Staunton Wyvile, lasyse, and afterwards to Charles Lenox duke of Rich- for the relief of the poor Protestants in Piedmont, the mond (born 1669, died 1732 s) ; and Frances, married sum of £2. zs. 6d. first to Charles Levingjlon, second earl of Newburgh, by The only freeholder here and at Cranhoe in 16 jo whom she had one daughter Charlotte, and afterwards was Thomas lord Brudenell; in 1722, William Dun- to Richard earl of Bellow. more; and in 1775, we find only the Rev. Paul-George George, eldest son and heir, on the decease of Robert Snow, then rector, who resided at Clipfham in Rutland, his grandfather, succeeded to his honours and estates. The lordship is old inclosure; and the only land- He married rhe lady Elizabeth Bruce, eldest daughter owner (except the rector) is James earl of Cardigan, of Thomas earl of Aylejlury; and had issue four sons who is consequently lord of the manor. The greatest, and two daughters, George, James (now earl of Ayles- part of the old mansion-house of the Brudenells is bury), Robert, Thomas (now earl of Anglesey), Frances, standing, and inhabited by a tenant, though much out mnrried to Oliver Tilson, esq.; and Mary, married first of repair. ro Richard Powis, esq. and afterwards to Thomas When the lordship was inclosed, we do not learn; Bouldby, esq. He was succeeded in title and estates by but it must have been at least about the middle of George fourth earl of Cardigan, who married in the last century ; for there is an entry in the Register 1730 the lady Mary Montagu, youngest daughter and of a baptism from The woad-ground in this lordship so one of the coheirs of John duke of Montagu; and early as the year 1683; whence it may be inferred, Oct. 28, 17767 was advanced to the title of duke of that the inclosure took place 40 or 50 years before* Montagu; and dying in 1790 without issue male, the that time, or the land would not have been strong dukedom became extinct ; but the title of earl of Car- enough to have produced woad. digan, with all the settled landed property, devolved The arms in Plate CXXX. fig. g. are from painted on his next brother James lord Brudenell, who is now glass, exactly as they now stand in an East chamber-win- the owner of Staunton Wyvile. dow of the mansion-house at Staunton Wyvile. AU To return to the younger branch of the Brudenells. the upper part above the fess-point is gone, and modern Anthony, the second son of dv Robert the judge6, set- panes of common glass substituted; the whole border ap» tled at Glapthorne in Northamptonshire, which lord- pears perfect; and originally contained these six coatsll: ship was given to him by his father; but it seems pro- 1. Brudenell. 5. Taillard. bable that he exchanged it with his brother sir Tho- z. Grove. 6. Checque,OrandGuleM| mas 7 for the antient family feat at Staunton Wyvile, 3. Bu/strode* a canton Ermine. where we find his immediate descendants settled for 4. Entwysell. several successive generations. He had five sons, 1. In a North chamber-window are still ihe arms of' Edmund; a. Robert, who died young; 3. George; Brudenell impaling Entwysell; fig. 4. 4. Thomas; and 5. William, who lived and died at In a garret-window was the fame impalement, but Staunton unmarried8; and two daughters. Entwysell only now remains. I See his epitaph, p. 811. * See their epitaphs, p. 811. 3 Created viscount of Scotland by king. James in 1620 ; and slain in the service of king Charles at the battle of Shrewsbury. * By an epitaph in the North aile of Westminster Abbey, we find that " The Right Hon. Dorothy Brudenell, countess of YVestmoreland, departed this life Jan. 26, 1739, aged 91." 5 See her epitaph, p. 811. 6 Who died 1532, and is buried at Dene, where fee his epitaph, p 810. 7 Sir Thomas Brudenell was found, by the inquisition taken after his death in 3 Edward VI, to have died seised of Glapthorne ; and the Thomas Brtidenell of Glapthorne, and his brother John (mentioned in Bridges, vol. II. p. 459.), were the sons of fir Thomas, not of Edmund. See the pedigree, p. 807; and an epitaph for John, p, 811. 8 See his epitaph, p. 799. 9 gee his epitaph, p. 809. IO This Nicholas occurs in an epitaph printed in p. 81 J. II Rev. George Asliby, MS. 1753. lZ See his epitaph, p. 810. u See the Introductory Volume, p. xlvii. ** See their epitaphs, and those of their daughters Elizabeth and Mary, p. 810. 1S See his epitaph, p. 809, 16 See his father's epitaph, p. 809. 'f Mr, Smith of Woodsioa saw- them perfect in 1740. - - The.