ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY ii niii II II III iiiiii II II mil II III II III Mill 3 1833 01401 1842 \ ( i.1 < / U V A MONOGEAPH WINDSOB FAMILY A MONOGRAPH '^ OF THE WINDSOR FAMILY. WITH A Jiull S.cc0unt of tijc Rejoicings ON THE COMING OF AGE OF ROBERT GEORGE WINDSOR- CLIVE, LOED WINDSOB, 27th August, 1878. W. P. WILLIAMS, Editor of " The Principality." WITH PORTRAIT OF LORD WINDSOR. (IDnrlJiff: DANIEL OWEN & COMPANY." 1879. DANIEL OWEJf AND CO. CARDIFF. 1600729 CONTENTS. P^OK Preface ... ... ... ... vii Dedication... ... ... ... ... .. ix Brief Memoir of Lord Wiudsor ... ... ... ... ... xi Genealosical Chart of the Windsor Family ... ... xii PAET I. MONOGRAPH OF THE WINDSOR FAMILY. Chap. I. The Prologue ... ... ... ... ... 1 ,, II. The Windsor and Bute FamiUes ... ... 4 in. The Windsor Descent: The Anglo-Saxon Period « „ lY. From the Conquest to Henry Yin.'s Beigu ... 14 ,, Y. From Henry VIII.'s Keigu to the Creation of Earldom of Plymouth ... I'J ,, YI. From the Creation of the Earldom of Plymouth to the present time ... ... ... ... '27 ,, YII. The Windsors' Welsh Ancestry : The Lewis of Yan Family ... ... ... 35 „ YIII. The Windsor-Clive Alhance 4G ,, IX. The Windsor-Bridgeman Alliance 49 ,, X. Extent of the Windsor Property 56 „ XI. HeweU Grange .. 57 ,, ., Oakly Park and the Clive Family 62 XII. Penarth 64 „ XIU. Bt. Pagans 6S Contents. PAET II. THE COMING OF AGE REJOICINGS. Festivities in Wokcestebshire. PAGE Eejoicings at Hewell Grange 93 Rejoicings at Bromsgrove 133 Eejoicings at Redditch ... 134 Festivities in Shropshire. Eejoicings at Bromfield ... 134 Eejoicings at Knowbury 135 Eej oicings at Ludlow 136 Further Eejoicings at Ludlow and Bromfield... 138 Festivities in North Wales. Eejoicings at Dyserth and Meliden, Flintshire 144 Festivities in Glamorganshire. Eejoicings at Caerphilly PREFACE This little voluoie owes its existence to the request of numerous well wishers and tenants of Lord Windsor, who desire to possess, in a more compact and durable form than a newspaper, some account of the Windsor Family, and of the rejoicings by which the coming of age of his Lordship, on the 27th of August last, was celebrated. As the last of these commemorative gatherings was not held until the 19th of October, and as it was de- sirable the celebration rejoicings should be all given, a slight but unavoidable delay has occurred in the publi- cation of the volume. Some doubt has been entertained by the writer as to the form the following " Monograph of the V/indsor Family " should assume. Clio, the grave and stately Muse who presides over History, would insist that the biography—which is history analysed—of an ancient family, the members of which have nobly pla^'cd their part in the grand national drama of the past, ought to be written in a grave historical style, and should illus- trate the famous maxim that biography, even more than history, is " philosophy teaching by examples." Had the writer undertaken at first to sketch a history of the Windsor Family, he would doubtless have adopted a different arrangement to the present, and would have endeavoured to preserve historical unity by throwing viii Preface. Lis matter iuto another shape. To do this now, how- ever, would be to frustrate the very object sought by those vyho desire the publication of this little volume. They wish to preserve in a portable form the sketch of the Windsor Family, and the reports of the coming of age rejoicings, " as they appeared in the newspapers." The identity and the vraisemhlance therefore must not be destroyed. After considerable hesitation, the writer resolved to gratify the wishes of these many friends and tenants of Lord Windsor, and to republish the accounts as they appeared, with such emendations and additions only as are necessary to make the little book more complete. He is conscious that by adopting this plan he exposes himself to the charge of occasionally reproducing a fact or a date. Better this, however, than that those who desire the publication of a specific account should have it presented to them in an altered form and under a different arrangement. The sketch of the Windsor Family, which was pub- lished on the day Lord Windsor attained his majority, was hurriedly written,—the exigencies of journalism necessitated this. It is published, however, as it then ajapeared, with only a few slight alterations and some corrections. The additional matter traces more fully the history of the Windsor family from the Anglo-Saxon period down to the present time. The genealogical Chart published in the volume has been carefully compared with that preserved in the Royal College of Arms ; and most of the principal speeches have been submitted to the speakers for revision. Cardiff, Decemher, 1878. DEDICATION. LADY MARY WINDSOR-CLIYE, WHOSE VIRTUES ADOKX AND WHOSE BENKFACTIOXS E.NXOBLE THE ORDER TO WHICH SHE BELONGS. THIS LITTLE VOLUME, CONTAINING A BRIEF MONOGEAPH OF THE ^VINDSOR FAMILY, TOGETHER WITH A REPORT OF THE REJOICINGS TO COM JIEMOUATK THE COMING OF AGE OF HER SON, LOKL) WINDSOE, is most rcspcctfulln bcbif.iltt). -*-^^r-. LORD WINDSOR. Robert Gteorge Windsor-Clive, Lord Windsor, is the only son, and the fourth and youngest child of the late Hon. Robert Windsor-Clive, and of Lady Mary Wiud.sor- Clive (youngest daughter of the late Earl of Bradford). His lordship was born at his parents' residence in John Street, Berkeley Square, London, on the 27th of August, 1857. When he was two years old his father died, leav- ing him to the guardian care of his widowed mother. At the age of twelve he was sent to Eton, and in this famous school he studied for six years. Shortly before commencing his studies at Eton, his grandmother, the Baroness Windsor, died, and he, as heir and next in succession, came into possession of the long-descended family title and estates. After completing his Eton course he entered St. John's College, Cambridge, where he pursued his studies with much credit and success. In December last, 1877, be obtained his B.A. degree from the Cambridge University. He is, as his father was before him, an olhcer in the Worcestershire Yeomanry—a fine regiment fii*st raised by his grand-uncle, Other Archer, sixth Earl of Ply- mouth. His lordship is the patron of seven livings. 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CO I 'H OJ ... ^^ .d tj'S OT 0^r--l CO rH o c3 tS o O d-H-»^-S^ ^ O O ti 53 tj d a> c3 o d '*-' 2> _; T'-t^t '^ -.2 S'.S r"§|^ u goo SidOj ^ cs H as .a "^ » -;i .'^'xs -pa " !sa«a25^ w w <U ;r O 00 S g o o bc.g o ^H o go g'g . a> J'r'^ "^ cq^a CO fH o a5 Q) o t, g^ -^^ § ^ 00 ° <M g P-<J '^- §3 rt ho eo j: a 2 ^ P CM s' 3 d ©GO S-S « >;?^ =^ S.2 E'^ .^ 9 &d °^ '^ . ^ - > !- 7^ t*I^ _C3 f^ f^ CHAPTER I. CIjc 'gr0lo0uc. OBERT GEORGE WINDSOR-CLIVE, the young lord whose coming of age on Tuesday, the 27th of August, 1878, was joyfully cele- brated by his numerous tenantry in places widely asunder—in the richly mineralised hill districts of Glamorgan as in its fertile lowlands ; amid the verdant and picturesque landscapes of Worcestershire and among the fat pastures of Salop —represents " lordly houses " and noble families which rank amongst the highest and most distinguished of our titled and untitled aristocracy. Through his veins courses the blood of the de Windsors, Barons of Windsor, and subsequently Earls of Plymouth ; the Olives of Shropshire and the Herberts of Powis ; the Bridgemans, Earls of Bradford ; the Herberts, Earls oi Pembroke and Montgomery, and once the potent lords of Glamorgan ; and, as patriotic Welshmen will think, of a race equal to either—of Madoc ap Owen Yelyn,* * The original newspaper report stated that Madoc ap Howel Velyn (or the Yellow) was Lord of St. Pagans iu right of his mother, Sarah, the daughter of Sir Mathew le Sore, of Peterstou, who possessed St. Pagans Manor. The statement was made mainly upon the authority of the " Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Pamilies of Wales," by Dr. Nicholas. The Monograph of the Windsor Family. whom some authorities aflB.rm was lord of St. Fagans, and who was sixth in lineal descent from the famous chieftain Ivor Bach, lord of Castell Coch.