K WATEEirCUSm, LORDS LIEUTENANT AND HIGH SHERIFFS OF OXFORDSHIRE. 1086— 1868. ^'JpHE following Lists have been compiled by one long connected by official ties with the County of Oxford, in the hope that the Roll of Names may be interesting to many Houses and Families whose Ancestors in blood, or Predecessors in Estates, have done good service to the Crown, but who have passed from their ranks in sad succession to the grave. COUNTY OF OXFORD. LORDS LIEUTENANT AND CUSTODES ROTULORUM. It was formerly usual for the Crown, from time to time, to issue commissions of array, requiring certain experienced persons to muster and array the inhabitants of the counties to which such commissioners were sent. They were directed to put into military order those who were capable of performing military service, and to distrain such as were not qualified to serve, but were possessed of real or personal property, to furnish armour to their more vigorous countrymen ; and they were to erecc beacons where necessary. The form of these commissions, after much complaint, was settled by statute, and may be seen at length in the Parliament- rolls of 5 Hen. IV. 1403-4. In the 1 6th century these commissions appear to have given place to commissions of lieutenancy, by which nearly the same powers were conferred on certain persons as standing representatives of the Crown. In 1545 a commission " de arraiatione et capitaneo generali contra Francos " issued to the duke of Norfolk, constituting him the king's lieutenant, and captain-general of all captains, vice-captains, men-at- arms, armed men, archers, and all others retained or to be retained against the French, in the counties of Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Hertford, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Lincoln, Rutland, Warwick, Northampton, Leicester, and Bedford. A similar commission issued to the Duke of Suffolk for the counties of Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Hants, Wilts, Berks, Oxford, Middlesex, Bucks, Worcester, and Hereford, and London ; and to John Russell, knight. Lord Russell, keeper of the privy seal, for the counties of Dorset, Somerset, Devon, Cornwall, and Gloucester. (Rymer). These officers are however, spoken of by Camden, in the reign of Elizabeth, as extraordinary magistrates, constituted only in times of difficulty and danger, which was the case with commissioners of array, as appears from the recitals in their commission. The right of the Crown to issue commissions of lieutenancy was denied by the Long Parliament, and formed a proximate cause of the rupture between Charles I. and his subjects. Upon the Restoration, the right of the crown to issue such commissions was established by a declaratory Act, 14 Charles II., cap. 3. Charles 6 Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, was appointed Lord Lieutenant in 1545. Henry, Lord Norreys of Rycot, was, by Commission dated October 1596, appointed Lieutenant of the County of Oxford, with authority to make letters of deputation under his hand and seal unto Sir Richard Fiennes, Sir William Spencer, Sir Anthony Cope, Knights ; John Doyley, and RafFe Warcoppe, Esquires, to execute the place of Lieutenant of the said Shire in his (Lord Norreys') absence. William Knollys, Earl of Banbury, Viscount Wallingford, was appointed Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum before March 1612, when his commission was renewed. William, ist Viscount Saye and Sele, appointed by the Parliament in August 1642. Died April 1662, and buried at Broughton Castle. Henry, 4TH Viscount Falkland, appointed July 1660, died 1663. Edward, Earl of Clarendon, appointed June 1663. James, 2nd Viscount Saye and Sele, (Eldest Son of William) appointed March 1667, died in 1674. James 7 James, Lord Norreys,*^^) appointed in 1674. Edward, ist Earl of Lichfield, appointed October 1688. Thomas, Lord Wharton, appointed May 1697, his former commission being revoked. Montagu, 2nd Earl of Abingdon,^^) appointed June loth 1702, succeeded Thomas Lord Wharton whose letters patent were revoked. Francis, Earl of Godolphin, appointed October 17 15, in the room of Montagu Earl of Abingdon, whose letters patent for the same were determined. Lord Godolphin married Henrietta eldest Daughter of John, ist Duke of Marlborough, and she succeeded, under a special Act of Parliament, to the Title of Duchess of Marlborough. Charles, 2nd Duke of Marlborough, K.G., appointed January 1739. Died in 1758. (a) James, Lord Norreys was first appointed Lord Lieutenant A.D. 1674, and, upon the accession of King James the 2nd, having been previously created Earl of Abingdon 1682, was re-appointed to the same post. But finding the measures of that Prince unconstitutional and tending to subvert, not only the liberty, but also the religion of his country, he strenuously joined in opposition and was dis- charged from the Lieutenancy in 1687. Upon the accession of William and Mary, although opposed to them, it was thought advisable to retain him in the Lieutenancy, and his commission is dated April i68g, which post he enjoyed till 1697. He died May 22, 1699. (b) He enjoyed the post of Lord Lieutenant until September 1705, when his commission was revoked. He was re-appointed May 17 12. Upon the accession of George the first, his services were retained until 1715, when he was succeeded by the Earl of Godolphin. He died July 16, 1743. George 8 George, jrd Duke of Marlborough, K.G., appointed April 1760, died 30th January 1817; and was succeeded by George, 4TH Earl of Macclesfield, appointed 27 March . 1 8 17, and died 20th March 1842, in the 88th year of his age. He was succeeded by George, 5TH Duke of Marlborough, who died ist July 1857, in the 64th year of his age, and was succeeded by John Winston, 6th Duke of Marlborough/O appointed August 1857. (c). Lord President of Her Majesty's Privy Council (1868). HIGH HIGH SHERIFFS OF OXFORDSHIRE. Sheriff (shireve) in Saxon is scirgerefa, from sciran, to share or di'vide^ for that the whole Realm is parted and divided into shires ; and gerefa, the comes^ earl, or governor, in the Belgic called graef or grave. The word comes or count came first into Europe out of the Eastern countries, and the word county^ in Latin comitatus^ seemeth to be nothing else but the division or allotment over which the comes or count had jurisdiction. And when the counts or earls left the custody of the counties, then was the custody thereof committed to the viscounts, or vicecomites (which is the Latin name for sheriffs) ; so called, because they supply the place of the comes or earl. The earl was otherwise called by the Saxons, eorl, ecddor, ealdorman (elder or alderman), because they were usually men of age and experience j by a like derivation as that of senators among tlae Romans. At this day the Sheriff has all the authority, for the administration and execution of justice (excepting so far as it has been abridged by Statutes), which the earl or comes had j the Queen committing to the Sheriff tlie charge or custody of the county j commisimus vobis custodiam comitatus nostri de, &c. He is the Keeper of the Queen's peace within the County, both by the common law and by special commission j and, as such, he is the first Man in the County. Although Oxfordshire and Berks are divided by the River Thames, (and, in the Saxon Heptarchy, were under two different Kingdoms, Oxfordshire belonging to Mercia, and Berkshire to the West Saxons), — yet, after the Norman Conquest, the two Counties were, at intervals, united under one Sheriff, until the 30th year of Henry the 3rd, and thence uniformly till the 9th year of Queen Elizabeth ; since which period, for the more effectual discharge of the Office and the greater ease of the Subjects, each County has had its own Sheriff. The Sheriffs appointed for the two Counties in common, down to the 30th year of Henry the Third, are indicated by an asterisk. William lO WILLIAM THE FIRST. 1066-1087. 1086. Svain.(a) HENRY THE FIRST. 1 1 00- 1 1 35. "William. Peter. Before 1131. Restoldus. 1 131. Robert [D'Oilli].(b) STEPHEN. 1135-1154. Henry de Oxenford. HENRY THE SECOND. Henry D'Oilli.(c) Idem. Idem. Idem.iA) Idem. Manasser Arsick,(e) and Henry D'Oilli. (a) . Svain the Sheriff' holds of the King six hides of Land in Baldendon (Baldonj, and Hugh, of him, Land for five Ploughs, now in demesne one Plough and two Serfs, and seven Villeins, with two Bordmen having one Plough. It was valued and is valued at sixty shillings. — Domesday Book, Oxfordshire, No. 42. (b) . The first Robert D'Oilli came in with the Conqueror, and had granted to him for his services the Baronies of Hooknorton and St. Walery, with the Constableship of the County of Oxford, but having entered into an agreement with Roger D'lvery that he would share with him his fortune and rewards, he gave to him the Barony of St. Walery and retained that of Hooknorton for himself. Dying withont Issue, his estates, &c., came to his Brother Nigel, also Constable of Oxford, and father of Robert D'Oilli the second, who founded Oseney Abbey and served the office of Sheriff for this year. It will be seen throughout the present list that many members of this ancient family were chosen by the Crown to fill the office of Sheriff. (c) . Eldest son of Robert D'Oilli, the Founder of Oseney Abbey, and Baron of Hooknorton. (d) This year the Sheriff accounted to the Exchequer for a hundred and seventeen marks, as the donum or tallage of the Burgh of Oxford : xiv /. from the Moneyers of Oxford, and 20 marks from the Jews of Oxford. (e) . The head of the Barony of Arsick was at Cogges. 8. Manasser 1 1 o o. Manasser Arsick. 9- Idem. lO. Thomas Basset.W 1 1. *Adam de Catmera. 12. *Idem. 13- *Idem. 14- ^ Idem. ^5- Idem. 1 u. ^Idemy half-year. Alardus Banastre, half-year. 17- Alardus Banastre. Idem. Idem. Idem . Rohprf fif* TTiirpvIll** 23. Idem. OA Idem. ^5' Idem. oft Geoffrey Hose.(^) 27. Idem. 28. j.u,ciiiy iittii yctti. Robert de M^itefeld, half-year. 29. rvODeri uc wiieieia. Idem. 31- Idem, half of year. Alanus de Furnell, halt or year. 32. Alanus de Furnell. 33- Idem^ half of year. Robert de la Mare, half of year 34. Robert De la Mare.(c) 35. Idem. (a) . He had the Lordship of Headington with the Hundred of Bolendon, and likewise the Hundred without the North Gate of Oxford given him in Fee Farm, for the rent of twenty pounds per annum, for special services rendered to King Henry the Second in divers wars. (b) . He was son of Henry Hose, and held a Barony in the County of Wilts, In the 25th Henry H., he was selected by the Council of Windsor to act as one of the Justices Itinerant. He died ist John, when his Wife, Gundred de Warenne, gave two hundred marks for the custody of Geoffrey his heir, and all his lands until he was of age ; but by a writ from the Chief Justiciary, the fine is directed to be demanded from Robert de Tresgoz because he had the custody of the heir and land j and in the third of John the said Robert accounts for the scutage thereon both in Herefordshire and Wiltshire. — Fo5s' Judges, Vol. i, p. 257. (c) . The son of Robert De la Mare had summons to Parliament as Baron of Garsington for services in the wars of Scotland. Richard 12 RICHARD THE FIRST. (1189). I. Robert de la Mare. 2. *Idem. 3. *William Briewere.(a) 4. ^'Idem. 6. ^Idem, half of yearX^) Henry de Oilli, half of year. Henry the son of Simon, and William de Clanville, UndersherifFs.CO 7. Henry de Oilli. William the son of Ralph, Undersheriff. 8. Henry de Oilli. Pagan de Chaderinton, Undersheriff. 9. Hugh de Nevill. Geoffrey le Salvage, Undersheriff. 10. Idem. JOHN. ANNO. (1199). I. Idem. 2. Gilbert Basset. Richard de Caverton, Undersheriff. 3. Gilbert Basset, half-year. Roger de Cofle, Undersheriff. William Briwere, half-year. *Richard de Parco, Undersheriff. (a) . Founder of the Abbey of Dunkeswell, county Devon, died in the eleventh year of Henry the Third, and was buried before the high altar of that Abbey. (b) . This year Alexander Arsick, son of Manasser Arsick, Baron of Cogges, accounted to the Sheriff xx /. for 20 Knights' fees as Scutage, for the redemption of Richard the First from captivity. (c) . "Be it here observed that the place of Under Sheriffs in this Age was very honorable, not hackned out for profit. And, although some uncharitable people (unjustly I hope), have now a days fixed an ill character on those who twice together discharged the place, yet anciently the Office befitted the best persons, little difference betwixt the High Sheriffe and Under Sheriffe, save that he was under him, being otherwise a man of great credit and estate." — Fuller, fol. i66z p. 104. 4. William 13 (i202). 4. ^William Briwere, half-year. Richard de Parco, UndersherifF. Thomas Basset, half-year. Richard de Turri, UndersherifF. 5. Thomas Basset. Richard le Tus, UndersherifF. 6. Thomas Basset. Richard le Tus, UndersherifF. 7. Thomas Basset. Richard le Tus, UndersherifF. 8. Thomas Basset. Richard le Tus, UndersherifF. 9. Thomas Basset. Robert de Aumari, UndersherifF. 10. Thomas Basset. Richard le Tus, UndersherifF. 11. Thomas Basset. Robert le Megre, UndersherifF. 12. Idem. 13. Idem. 14. Idem. 15. Idem. 16. Thomas Basset, fourth part of year. Richard le Tus, UndersherifF Ralph de Normanville, remainder of year. Hugh de Ripple, UndersherifF for him. 1 7. (a) HENRY THE THIRD. ANNO. (1216). I. 2. Falco de Breautee.(b) Ralph de Bray, UndersherifF. (a) The Pipe Roll for this year being lost, no record of the SherifTs name has been discovered. (b) . Falco de Breautee was a Native of Middlesex, and a valiant soldier, who gained the battle of Lincoln for Henry the Third. Being slighted when the land was settled in peace, he endeavoured to embroil the nation in another civil war. It was said of him that he was too bad to live, and yet too good to be put to death, therefore, as an expedient between both, was condemned to perpetual banishment. He went to Rome, lived obscurely, and died 1226. 3. Falco (1218). 3. Falco de Breautee. Ralph de Bray, UndersherifF. 4. Idem. 5. Falco de Breautee. Vivian the son of Ralph, UndersherifF. 6. Idem. 7. Falco de Breautee. Richard de Brackele, UndersherifF. 8. Falco de Breautee, quarter of year. Richard de Ripariis (Rivers), three quarters of year. Richard de Brackele, UndersherifF. 9. Richard de Ripariis, half of year. Richard de Brackele, UndersherifF. Walter Foliot as Custos,(a) half of year. 10. Walter Foliot, quarter of year. Godfrey de Crawcumbe, three quarters of year. Robert de Haia, UndersherifF. 11. Godfrey de Crawcumbe. Robert de Haia, UndersherifF. 12. Idem. 13. Idem. 14. Idem. 15. Idem. 1 6. Idem.i^) 17. John de Hulecote, three quarters of year. Engelard de Ciconiaco, quarter of year. Peter de Cancell, UndersherifF. 18. Engelard de Ciconiaco, three quarters of year. Peter de Cancell, UndersherifF. John le Brunn as custos, quarter of year. (a) There were in ancient time two ways of committing a County to the Sheriff ; namely, either at Ferm or in Custody. This difference in committing the County made a difference in some particulars in the Sheriffs accompt. The Sheriff that was Fermer was charged absolutely with the Ferm of his County and with the Crementum, if there was any j and, if he accepted the County upon those terms, and with a Ferm for the proficuum of the County. But the Sheriff that was Custos was not absolutely charged to answer in the same manner. For he was but a kind of Proficuarius or Bailiff. — Madox''s Exchequer y p. 653. (b) . King Henry the Third, by his letters patent, conceded to Godfrey de Crawcombe the custody of the County and Castle of Oxford, with the meadow and the mill belonging to the Castle and with other things pertaining to the Sherivalty — To have and to hold of the King and his heirs during Godfrey's life, rendering yearly the ancient and due Ferm, which was wont to be rendered in the time of King John, and xx marks more every year as proficuum. The said Godfrey paid xx marks as proficuum this year. — Madox, p. 636. 19. John 15 ('234). T n Tohn Rriinii^ 20. Ideniy first half of year. John de Tiwe, last half of year. 2 I. John de Tiwe. 2 2. 2Q. IdeiTij first half of year. Richard Suhard, quarter of year. Paul Peyure, last quarter of year. 24. John de Plessitis.(^) AVilliam Hay, Undersheriff. William Hay. 26. Idem. Idem. 28. Idem. 2Q W^illiam Hay,(^) first quarter of year. Alanus de Farnham, three quarters of year QO. *Alanus de Farnham. Idem. Q 9 Alanus de Farnham first half vear. Wydo the son of Robert, last half year. 33- Wydo the son of Robert. 34. Idem. 35- Nicholas de Henred.(c) 36. Idem. (a) . He was a Norman by birth, and domestic servant in the King's Court, and married Christian, Daughter and heir of Hugh de Sandford, upon whose death, by the King's earnest intercession, he obtained in marriage Margery the widow of John Mareschal, sister and heir of Thomas, Earl of Warwick, whose mother was Margery, eldest daughter and heir of Henry de Oily the elder. Baron of Hooknorton ; by which means he came into possession of the Manors of Hooknorton and Kidlington, held from the King by barony, and afterwards had the title of the Earl of Warwick. His son, Hugh de Plessitis, succeeded to the Barony of Hook- norton, lately held by the D'Oilli family. (b) . William de Hay was this year committed to the Marshall for arrerages in his account, amounting to lx li., and was liberated upon the payment of that sum into the Exchequer. (c) . Peshall (History City of Oxford^ p. 356J, quoting from Wood, has placed this Sheriff, as also Wydo the son of Robert, in the position of Mayors for the Town of Oxford. The Charters, bearing their names as witnesses, in every instance place them in the same position, the duties of Mayor during the 34, 35, and 36 years of Henry HI. being transacted by the Sheriff. It is probable that the entry in the Pipe Roll of the 19th of King Edward 11. may throw some light upon this unusual occurrence ; — where it is stated that the Burgesses of Oxford owe 500 marks as a fine for receiving pardon for an indignity to King Henry, which fine the King granted to Edward his son, and in another paragraph the Burgesses of Oxford owe 40s. for a fine for having again their Town, which was taken into the hands of the King. What the indignity was, remains a mystery. 37. Nicholas i6 1252). 37. Nicholas de Henred.(a) 38. Idem, first half year. John de Turbervill, last half year. 39- Nicholas de Henred. 40. Idem. 41- Idem. 42. Idem. 43- Idem, first quarter of year. Peter Foliot, three quarters of year. 44. Walter de la Ryvere. 45- Idem. 46. Idem. 47- Fulco de Rucote, (Rycot). 48. Idemy(y) three quarters of year. John de St. Walery, last quarter of year. 49. John de St. Walery. Nicholas de SyfFrewast. 51- Idem. 52. Idem, first quarter of year. Sampson Foliot,(c) three parts of the year <53- Thomas de St. Vigorc. 54- Idem, first half of year. William D'Lisle, last half of year. 55- William D'Lisle, three parts of the year. Roger, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield,(d) last part of year. Gilbert de Kirkeby,(e) UndersherifF. ^6. Roger, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield. Gilbert de Kirkeby, UndersherifF. (a) . The Return to an Inquisition taken this year, was Quod nihil pertinet ad Custod. Castri Oxen quia nunquam fuit separata a Comitatu. (b) . In the Pipe Rolls for this year and the next he is called " Firmarius." Vide note a p- 14. (c) . Also constituted Governor of Oxford Castle. (d) . It may seem strange that the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield should have been appointed Sheriff, Berkshire being in the Diocese of Sarum, and Oxford- shire in the Diocese of Lincoln, but he being Nephew to the King will account for his being placed in that position. (e) . He was appointed UndersherifF by the King's Letters Patent, and was connected with the Courts of Law, being mentioned in the loth Edward I. as Attorney to Roger de Longspee, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, in a proceeding he had before the Parliament. In the 21st Edward I. he was selected one of the Judges of Assize. Edw^ard 17 EDWARD THE FIRST. (1272). I. Roger, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield. 2. Gilbert de Kirkeby. 3. Henry de Shottebrok. 4. Idem, ^, Idem. James de Padbury, UndersherifF, appointed by the King's writ. 6. Henry de Shottebrok. 7. Alan the son of Roaldi. 8. Idem. 9. Idem, first part of year. John de Tydemers, second part of year. James Cok, UndersherifF. 10. John de Tydemers. 11. Idem. 12. Idem. 13. Idem, three parts of year. Ralph de Berners, last quarter of year. 14. Ralph de Berners, first part of year. Thomas D'Anvers, last part of year. 15. Thomas D'Anvers. 1 6. Idem. 1 7. Idem. 18. William de Greynvylle. 19. Sir Richard de Williamscote(a) of Kiddington, first half of year. John de St. John, last half of year. 20. William de Bremmeschete. 2 1 . Idem. 22. Idem. 23. Idem, (a). By the marriage of Richard de Williamscote (Grandfather of the Sheriff) with Sibil de Saucey, the Manors and Advowsons of Kiddington and Asterley became the inheritance of the De Williamscote Family, but he dying before, or in the yeai" 1232, was succeeded by Thomas, his son and heir, who, in 1273, presented Hugh of Williamscote to the Rectory of Kiddington. Sir Richard de Williamscote, son of Thomas, (Sheriff this year,) presented to Asterley Church in 1288. He married Joan Foliot, daughter of Robert Foliot, Lord of Bickmarsh, in Warwickshire, and died during his Sherivalty, the account being rendered to the Exchequer by his executors, Robert Basset, and Robert de Derby, for the first half of this year. The family of Williamscote ceased to have connection with Kiddington about the year 1373. 24. Henry ( 1 OCtc\ 9 A. Henry de Xhistelden. Idem. 26. Idem. 27 Idem, 28. Idem. 20. Adam de Brymtone. 0^ Nicholas de Sperschete 31. Idem. Idem. . Idem. 34. Idem. 3<5- Idem. EDWARD THE SECOND. ANNO. (1307). I. Thomas Danvers, first half cf year. Richard D'Amary of Bletchingdon, last half of year 2. Richard D'Amary. 3. Idem. 4. Thomas Danvers 5. Idem. 6. Idem-, first half of year. Philip de la BeachW of Aldworth, last half of year. 7. Philip de la Beach. 8. Richard de Windsor. (a). Their Seat was at Aldworth in the County of Berks, where their Statues on their tombs are extant at this day, but of stature surely exceeding their due dimensions. It seems the Grecian officers have not been here, who had it in their charge to order tombs, and proportion monuments to the persons represented. I confess corpses do stretch and extend after their death j but these figures extend beyond their corpse j and the people there living extend their fame beyond their figures, fancying them giants, and fitting them with proportionable performances. They were indeed most valiant men, and their male issue was extinct in the next King's reign, whose heir general was married to the ancient family of Whitlock. — Fuller. o. Richard '9 ('3'5)* 9- Richard de Polhampton. I o. Idem.i^) 11. Otvelus Purcel, first half of year. Richard de la Bere, last half of year. 12. Richard de la Bere, first half of year. John de Brumpton, last part of year. 13. John de Brumpton. 14. Idem, 15. Idem, first half of year. Drogo Barentyne, second half of year. 16. Drogo Barentyne. 1 7. Idem. 18. Idem. 1 9. Idem. 20. Idem, EDWARD THE THIRD. ANNO. (1327). I. John de Brumpton. 2. Idem. 3- John de Bockland. 4. Philip de la Beach of Aldworth. 5' Richard de Colshull. 6. Idem. 7- John de Brumpton. 8. William de Spershete. 9- John de Alveton. 10. William de Spershete. John de Alveton. 12. Idem. 13- Idem. 14. Idem. (a). Richard de Polhampton, having died during his year of office, Margaret his wife, as Executrix of his last will, rendered the account to the Exchequer, by her attorneys, Roger de Neubury, and Richard de Pubbesbury. 15. Edward 20 (i34i]- 15- Edvv^ard de Malyns. 1 6. Robert Fitz Ellis, (a) I 7. John de Alveton. 1 8. I 0. Idem, 20. Idem. 2 I . Idem. 22. John Laundeles, 2Q. Idem. 24. Idem. Idem. 26. Idem, 27. Idem. 28. John de Alveton, and Richard de Nowers. 20. John de ^V^illiamscote. John Laundeles. Q I . Idem. Q2. Idem, 00 Idem. Robert de Moreton. Roger de Elmerugg. q6. 0 • Idem. Roger de Cottesford. q8. Idem. QQ. Idem. 40. Roger de Elmerugg. 41. Idem* 42. Idem. TO Roger de Cottesford, 44. Thomas de la Mare of Aldermaston. Idem, (a). The Family of Fitz Ellis, soon after the Conquest, settled at Waterperry and Ledhall, and partly owned those Manors ; but, failing issue in the 15th Cen- tury, the Estates passed to the Ingletons, Lords of Thornton, Bucks. 46. Gilbert 21 1372). ^6. Gilbert WaceC^) of Ewelme. 47. Roger de Elmerugg. 48. John James of Wallingford. 49. Gilbert Wace of Ewelme. ^o. Sir Reginald de Malyns of Chinnor, Knight. 51. John de Rothwell. (a). The arms of William Wace, whose daughter Helen married Richard de Louches, are recorded by Lee in the Visitation of Oxfordshire 1574, to have been in one of the windows of Milton Church. The following document of the reign of Henry VI. will shew the connection of Gilbert Wace with several Oxford- shire families, and also with the parish of Great Milton : "Linea Ricardi Camoys militis quomodo sit rectus heres Gilberti Wace, Chr. Memorandum quod anno Domini millesimo cclxiiij*" (Willielmus) Wace armiger et Elena uxor ejus fuerunt seisiti de omnibus terris vocatis Waceslondes in com. Oxon. Qui quidem (Willielmus) et Elena habuerunt exitum inter se, viz. Hugonem, Willielmum, Johannem, Humfridum, Thomam, Johannem, Isabellam, Elenam, Radulfum, et Thomam. Et predictus Willielmus filius predicti Willielmi supervixit. Et predicta Elena maritata fuit Ricardo Louches militi, de Milton. Et predicti Hugo, Johannes, Humfridus, Thomas, Johannes, Isabella, Radulfus, et Thomas obierunt sine heredibus de corporibus suis procreatis. Et predictus Willielmus filius Willielmi et Cecilia uxor ejus habuerunt exitum inter se, viz. Gilbertum Wace militem, Agnetam, Matildam, Sibillam, et Margaretam. Et predicte Agn. Mat. Sib. et Marg. obierunt sine heredibus de corporibus procreatis, et predictus Gilbertus supervixit. Et predictus Gilbertus, et Nicholaa uxor ejus fuerunt seisiti de terris predictis, et nullum habuerunt exitum, et dictus Gilbertus supervixit predictam Nicholaam, et obiit, seisitus de terris predictis, cujus propinquior heres est Ricardus Camoys miles filius Thome Camoys militis, et Elisabeth uxoris ejus filie et heredis Willielmi Louches, de Milton, filii et heredis Johannis Louches de Milton filii et heredis predicti Ricardi Louches militis, de Milton, et predicte Elene, filie predicti Willielmi Wace militis, uxoris predicti Ricardi Louches." [Boarstall Chartulary^ At the entrance of the Choir of Dorchester Church a large stone had the brass figure of a knight and four shields, supposed to be that which Leland calls Way. This, says Antony a "Wood, " I take to be the same with Sir Gilbert Wace who was living at Ewelme 51 Edw. III. and 9 Hen. IV." Indeed, one of the manors of Ewelme was distinguished by the name of Wace's Court. The following extract from his will is interesting, as shewing a special connection with the Abbot and Canons of Dorchester, so as to account for his having the privilege of sepulture in the choir of their church, and also as fixing the date of his decease. In Dei nomine Amen, In crastino sancti Martini Confessoris, anno domini millesimo ccccvij""" Gilbertus Wace, miles condo testamentum meum, in hunc modum etc. Item, volo quod advocacio seu jus patronatus Ecclesie de Chakynden, cum omnibus suis juribus, et pertinenciis universis, per executores vendantur, et quod pecunia inde recepta inveniatur unus capellanus, pro anima mea et animabus parentum meo- rum celebraturus durante pecunia predicta in loco per abbatem Dorkacestrensem qui pro tempore fuerit limitando, etc. Sir Gilbert Wace survived the making of this will a few months, but no notice of him occurs later than May 1408. — Addingtori's History of Dorchester. F. J. Baigent Esquire (in the "Herald and Genealogist," part 21, p. 215), notices the finding of Gilbert Wace's official Seal at Sunningwell, Berks, it being one of the earliest examples in existence of a SherifPs Seal. The Arms are Barry of 6, argent and gules, on a quarter of the last, a mullet of the first, inserted upon the centre of the seal j while a Castle, and the well-known device of the Ox crossing a Ford, which would indicate his being keeper of the Royal Castle of Oxford, forms the back ground. Richard 22 RICHARD THE SECOND. ANNO. I. Edmund Stonor of Stonor. 2. Thomas Barentyne of Little Haselev. 3- Gilbert Wace of Ewelme. 4- John James of Wallingford. (5- Richard Brines. 6. Thomas Barentyne of Little Haselev. 7- John Hulcote of Barcot, Biickland. 8. Robert Bullock of Arborfield. 9- John Hulcote of Barcot, Buckland. lO. Thomas Barentyne of Little Haseley. 1 1. Sir Gilbert Wace of Ewelme, Knight. 12. Sir Thomas de la Poyle of Hampton Poyle, Knight. 13- William Attwood. 14. Hugh Wolfes. Robert Bullock of Arborfield. 16. William Wilcote(a) of Wilcote. 17- Thomas FaryngtonX^) 18. Thomas Barentyne of Little Haseley. 19. Edward Spersholt. 20. William Attwood. 21. John GolafreCc) of Fyfield. 22. Idem. (a) . Within a chapel on the north side of the Chancel of North Leigh Church, called the "Wilcote Chapel, are two beautiful alabaster effigies of William Wilcote and his wife Elizabeth, called Blacket, daughter and heiress of John Tyrlowe, of Castleton, Warwickshire. He lived at Wilcote, and died in the 12th of Henry IV. a.d. 141 i. (b) . The following monument, described by Ashmole as being in the middle of the aisle called Unton's Aisle in Faringdon Church, contained three figures en- graved in brass of a man armed, and two women holding up their hands in a devotional posture, and under their feet this inscription : Orate pro animabus Thome Ffaryndon, armigeri, quondam Domini de Farneham, et de Luteshall, qui obiit secundo die Feb. an" Domini mcccxcvi. Margarete uxoris ejus que obiit secundo die Mali anno Domini mccccii. et Margarete Pynchpole, filie et her. predictorum Thome et Margarete, qui obiit XI. die Decemb. an" Dom. mccccxliii. Quorum animabus propicietur Deus. We pray you for the W orchip of the Trinity, for our Sowles say Pater, and Ave. (c) . In the north aisle of the parish church of Fyfield is the monument of Sir John Golafre, who died in 1442. His effigy in armour lies on an open altar tomb, beneath which is the figure of a skeleton in a shroud. A licence was granted by the Crown, pursuant to the Will of Sir John Golafre, who is stiled in the charter Servant to King Henry V. and King Henry VI., to found a Chantry dedicated to St. John the Baptist at Fyfield. It was endowed with Fyfield Grove and the Manors of Baldwin's Court and Wyke in Charlton. The Manor and Advowson were purchased by Sir Thomas White, of the representatives of Lady Gordon, about the year 1527, and by him given to the President and Fellows of St. John's College, Oxford, in 1555. Henry 23 HENRY THE FOURTH. (1399)- 1. William Wilcote of Wilcote. 2. Thomas Chaucer(a) of Ewelme. 3. John Wilcote of Great Tewe. 4. Robert James of Wallingford, Esquire. 5. Thomas Chaucer of Ewelme. 6. Sir William Langford(b) of Bradfield, Knight. 7. Sir Robert Corbett, Knight. 8. John Wilcote of Great Tewe. 9. Sir Thomas Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt, Knight. 10. Sir Peter Resiles, of Bessels Leigh, (0 Knight. 11. Sir Robert Corbett, Knight. 12. Sir William Lisle, Knight. 13- (a) . He was son and sole heir of Geoffrey Chaucer, the Poet, and held lands at Ewelme. He married Maud the daughter of Sir John Burghersh, by whom he had an only daughter, Alice, married to William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk and founder of Ewelme Hospital. He lieth buried in Saint John's Chapel, in Ewelme Church, at the West end of the beautiful alabaster monument of his daughter. He died 28 April 1436. The following restored inscription is on a brass enamelled scrowl, let into the sunk moulding of the outer edge of the ledge on the south side of a table monument of Purbreck marble : Hie jacet Thomas Chaucer armig. quondam Dns. isti. ville et patronus isti. ecclie. qui obiit xviii. die mensis Novembris anno dni. mccccxxxiiii. et Matildis uxor ejus que obiit xxvii die mens. Aprilis an. dni. mccccxxxvi." The upper surface of the slab is inlaid with brass figures of a knight and his lady. (b) . The Manor of Bradfield antiently belonged to a Family of the name of Sutton. John Sutton sold it to Sir Nicholas de la Beche for an annuity of 50 marks. When John Dalton forcibly carried away Margaret, Lady de la Beche, and married her, the King seized on the Manor, and granted a Lease of it to Michael le Poyning. It reverted to the Langfords as representatives of the De la Beches. Sir William Langford, the Sheriff this year, resided at Bradfield, and the Manor continued in that family until 1509, when it descended to the Staffords. (c) . The original name of this village was Legh, and gave the name to a family early in the 13th century, the last of whom (John de Lee) presented to the church in 1342. With him ended the male line of the family, Catherine his daughter and heir becoming wife to Sir Thomas Besils, Knight, the representative of an antient family, who held estates in Somersetshire, and Wiltshire, as well as in the county of Berks. He presented to the church in right of his wife, in 1353, and died 1378, leaving John his eldest son and heir then 19 years of age. The said John Besils left a son of the same name, on whose death u'ithout issue, the inheritance reverted to Sir Peter Besils his uncle, (sheriff this year) younger son of Sir Thomas. Sir Peter died in 1424, having by his will dated the 23rd of October in that year, bequeathed lands for the maintenance and repairs of Burford, and Culham Bridges, near Abingdon, to the building of which he had been a principal contributor. He also gave to his executors £600 to make restitution for any wrong that he or his ancestors had done to any man, and if nothing were required, then the same was to be given to the poor, and to repair Highways. He also appointed his body to be buried in the Church of the Preaching Friars at Oxford, to whom he gave ;^I20, to make six windows, in the north aisle of the said church. Sir Thomas Besils, son and heir of Sir Peter, died in 1457, leaving issue by his wife Clemence, William Besils Esq. who married Alice, daughter of Sir Richard Harcourt, of Stanton Harcourt, Knight. He died May 5th 151 5, leaving an only child Elizabeth, wife of Richard Fetiplace Esquire, of East Shefford, in whose posterity this estate remained vested for several ages. [Clarke''s M.SS.] Henry 24 HENRY THE FIFTH. Thomas Wykham(a) of Broughton. John Golafre of Fyfield. John Wilcote of Great Tewe. Robert James(b) of Wallingford, Esquire. Sir Thomas Wykham, of Broughton, Knight. Robert Andrews. John Wilcote of Great Tewe. Sir William Lisle, Knight. Idem. HENRY THE SIXTH. ANNO. (1422). I. Sir William Lisle, Knight. 2. Sir Thomas Stonor of Stonor, Knight. 3. John Golafre of Fyfield. 4. Sir Richard Walkested, Knight. ^. Sir Thomas Wykham of Broughton, Knight. 6. Sir Thomas Stonor of Stonor, Knight. (a) . He was Kinsman and next heir to William of "Wykham, Bishop of Winchester, and Founder of New College. (b) . Son and heir of John James, (Sheriff, 48 of Edward III. and 4th of Richard II). He married Catherine daughter of Sir Edmund de la Pole, whose wife, Elizabeth, was daughter and co-heir of Sir Edmund Handle, Lord of Borstall. Upon the death of Sir Edmund De la Pole, in 141 7, the large Estate and Lordship of Borstall, together with the custody of the forests of Stow Wood, and Shotover, passed to Catherine, the wife of Robert James Esquire, who at that time was tenant to his father-in-law. The daughter of the said Robert James, and Catherine, married Edmund Rede, of Borstall, son of John Rede, and Cecily, his wife. The following curious custom was registered in a court held at Chakenden by Robert James Esquire, Lord of that Manor, a.d. 1423. "That the servile tenants, for the wonted service of reaping in the time of harvest, should receive from the Lord one ram, price at least eightpence, and every reaper, should have one loaf of bread, price a halfpenny. And they should all together have one load of wood, and one cheese, price fourpence. And every virgate of land should have sex toddas herba (six tods of grass), and every half virgate three tods." The Lordship of Borstall, and custody of the forests of Stow Wood, and Shotover, after the death of Robert James, (which happened i6th of February, lo Henry VI.), came to Christiana, his daughter, from whom they descended to Edmund Rede, her son. Maud, the widow of Robert James, 1434, obtained a mandate for the delivery of as many oaks and thorns, as should be of the value of forty shillings, due upon custom to the Forester, detained for one year, during the life of her late husband. Edmund Rede, 19th February 1438, gave the sum of twenty pounds, to the Abbot and Convent of Dorchester, who in consideration of the said money, sold him the benefit of their prayers, and the privilege of inserting the names of him, Robert James, Catherine and Matilda his wives, John James, and Christiana his wife, and all their Benefactors, in the Martyrology, keeping their anniversaries, and paying threepence, to the canon, who should say mass for their souls. 7. Robert 25 7- Robert James of Wallingford, Esquire. 8. Philip Englefield of Englefield, Esquire. 9. Sir Thomas Wykham of Broughton, Knight. 10. William Fynderne(a) of Childrey, Esquire. 11. William Darrell. 12. Stephen Haytfeld. 13. Richard Restwold. 14. Sir Thomas FetiplaceCt^) of Childrey, Knight. (a) . In the middle of the Chancel of Childrey Church is a large marble stone adorned with the portraitures of a man in armour treading on a lion, and his wife near him ; both holding up their hands in a devotional posture j at the bottom of the said gravestone is this inscription : ** Hie jacent Willielmus Ffynderne, Armiger et Domina Elizabetha uxor ejus, et quondam uxor Domini Johannis Kyngeston Militis. Qui quidem Willielmus obiit 13° die Mensis, Marcii An° Domini 1444, et dicta Domina Elizabetha obiit die Mens. . . . A" Domini 14 . . quorum animabus propicietur Deus. Amen." (b) . This Family of Fetiplace was of long standing and good account in Berkshire and Oxfordshire, having seats at Letcombe Regis, Childrey, and Besils Lee, near Abingdon ; as also at Swincombe, and Swinbroke, in Oxfordshire. It is said that the first of them came into England with William the Conqueror, to whom he was Gentleman Usher 5 and in the reign of King Henry the Sixth the family received a great addition of blood and honour, by marrying Beatrix, daughter of the King of Portugal ; which match is mentioned, and allowed of, in the pedigree of the Kings of Portugal. The Fetiplace that married the Daughter of Portugal, was Thomas Fetiplace Esquire, of Childrey, in Berks, the Sheriff, who was the Father of James, the Father of Richard, who married Friswide the heiress of Sir John Kentwood, knight J and by her was father of William, who was father of Nicholas Fetiplace, whose daughter and heir, Anne, was married to Edmund Dunch Esq., who died in 1627, in the seventy-first year of her age, and lieth buried in Little Wittenham Church, Berks, where, against the north wall, is a fair monument erected to her memory ; from the inscription on which, this part of the account is taken. In the reign of Henry the Sixth, anno 14th, Thomas Fetiplace, of Childrey, was Sheriff of Berks, and Oxon. and in the 20th, Peter Fetiplace j as in 13 Henry VII. was Anthony Fetiplace; and in 15 Henry VIII., John Fetiplace; and in 10 Elizabeth, John Fetiplace was Sheriff of Berks, alone, and in 19; as was Besil Fetiplace Esq. in the 26th ; who took his name ftom the Besiles, who lived in great regard at Besils Lee {locus, or seat of the Besiles,) till Elizabeth, daughter and heir of William Besile, last of that name, was married unto Richard Fetiplace, whose great great grandchild was named Besile, to continue the remembrance of their female ancestor. In the manor house of Childrey were several coats of arms and memorials of the family, and some monuments of them in the church. In the 1st, 3rd, and 15th Car. I. John Fetiplace Esq., was one of the Representatives of the County of Berks, in the parliament then held. This gentleman became afterwards a Colonel in the Parliament Army; and in 1642, made Cirencester, in Gloucestershire, a garrison for the cause, and became the Governor there ; but it was taken by Prince Rupert on the first approach. On March 30, 1661, John Fetiplace of Childrey, in Berks. Esq., was created a Baronet of England. Descended from, or related to him, (I presume,) was Edward Fetiplace of Swinbroke, Oxon. Esquire, from whom was descended Sir John Fetiplace, of Swinbroke, Baronet, who, by his first Lady, Anne, daughter of Sir Francis Wenman, of Carswell, in Oxford- shire, had four sons, who all succeeded to the honour of Baronets in order, and all died unmarried ; viz. Sir Edmund, Sir Charles, Sir Lorenzo, and Sir George ; which last died at London on Wednesday, in Easter week, April 6, 1743 (much about the time of the death of Sir John Aubrey of Borstal,) and left the estate to be divided between two nephews, the sons of two sisters ; viz. John Lacy Esq., of Pudlicot, soon after Sheriff of Oxfordshire ; and Thomas Bushel Esq. But Mr. Lacy dying without issue on October 22nd, 1746, the whole Fetiplace estate fell to Mr. Bushel, who, in 1747, assumed, by Act of Parliament, the name of Fetiplace, and resides at the ancient seat of Swinbroke. — \_Delafield's M.SS.'[ (r428). 15. Richard 26 143^)' 15- Richard Qiiartermayns(a) of Rycote, Esquire. i6. John NorreysCb) of Ockholt, Esquire. 17- Edward Rede. 1 8. Walter Skull. 19. John Stokes. 20. Peter Fetiplace of North Denchworth, Esquire. 21. John Norreys of Ockholt, Esquire. 22. Sir John Chalers(c) of Ashampstead, Knight. 23- John Lidyard of Benham. 24. John Rogers junior, of Benham, Esquire. 25- Edward Langford of Bradfield, Esquire. 26. Idem. 27. John Pennycock. 28. William Wykham of Broughton Castle. 29. Edward Rede. 30- Sir John Chalers of Ashampstead, Knight. 31- John Rogers of Benham, Esquire. 32. Thomas Stonor of Stonor. 33- Richard Quartermayns of Rycote, Esquire. (a) . He was descended from a Family settled at Rycote and Thame, and possessed of large Estates in this county, having seats at North Weston and Shirburn Castle. During the reign of Henry VI. Leland mentions that, through great mortality, all the Lands descended to Richard, the youngest son, a merchant of London ; who, dying without issue, adopted his Godson, Sir Richard Fowler, as his heir. He lies buried in Thame Church, with the following Inscription upon a line marble table monument, surmounted by the brasses of himself and wife : — O certeyn deth that now hast overthrow Richard Quatremayns Squyer and Sibil his wife, that lie here full lowe. That with rial Princes of Counsel was true and wise famed To Richard Duke of York, and after with his sone Kyng Edward the 4th named That foundid in the Churche of Thame a chantrie vi pore men and a fraternytie In the worship of Seynt Cristofere to be releved in perpetuyte. They that of her almys for ther soulis a Paternoster and Ave devoutly wul sey Of holy fFadurs is grantid they pardon of dayes forty alwey. Wiche Richard and Sibil oute of this Worlde passid in the yere of oure Lord mcccclx. Upon theyr Soules Jesu have mercy : Amen. (b) . The family of Norreys, ancestors of the Lords Norreys of Rycote, were, from a very early period, possessed of the manor of Ockholt, in the parish of Bray. Richard de Norreys, Cook to Eleanor, Queen of Henry III,, had a grant of Ockholt from that Monarch in 1267, subject to a fee-farm rent of forty shillings. John Norreys Esquire, of the Body to King Henry VI. married Milicent, daughter and heir of Ravenscroft, of Colton-end, Hardingstone, Northamptonshire. He was suc- ceeded in the manor and estates at Bray, by his Grandson Sir John Norreys. (c) . In 1451, Sir John Chalers, Knight, and Matilda his wife, and John Lang, and Mary his wife, sisters and co-heirs of Thomas Wayte, held jointly the Manor of Herbrigge, in the Parish of Ashampstead. In 1471 Matilda, widow of of Sir John Chalers, died seized of this Manor. 34. Sir 27 (1455)- 34- Sir Robert HarcourtCa) of Stanton Harcourt, Knight, K.G. (a). The Harcourt Family (represented, at the date of this List (i868), by the Reverend William Vernon Harcourt of Nuneham Park), have been located in Oxfordshire for a period exceeding seven hundred years. Their original Ancestor is said to have been a younger Brother of a Saxon King, and second in command to RoUo when the band of northern Adventurers, in the year 876, invaded France and got possession of the Province to vi^hich they gave the name of Normandy. For the services of this Chief there was assigned to him the signory of Harcourt, on the banks of the Seine, from which the Family took their name. Here they were seated in the middle of the eleventh century, when a younger Son of the then Chief (Robert de Harcourt, surnamed the strong), accompanied Duke William in his memorable expedition to claim the Crown of England j fought with him at Hastings, and, having many Manors granted to him for his bravery, became the founder of the English Harcourts. Robert, his great Grandson, by marriage with Isabel de Camvile, obtained the Estate of Stanton in Oxfordshire, which thenceforth received the name of Stanton Harcourt. And the Manor of Stanton Harcourt was confirmed to this Robert de Harcourt and Isabel, and their heirs, by King Stephen and King Henry the Second. It was held of the Crown by the following service : That the Lord of Stanton Harcourt should find four Browsers in Woodstock parke in Winter time, when the snow shall happen to fall, and tarrye, lie and abide, be the space of two days j and so to find the said Browsers there browsing, so long as the snow doth lye ; every Browser to have to his lodging every night one billet of Wood the length of his ax helve, and that to carry to his lodgings upon the edge of his ax. And the King's Bailiff of the demesnes, or of the Hundred of Wootton, coming to give warning for the said Browsers, shall blow his horn at the Gate of the Mannor of Stanton Harcourt aforesaid, and then the said Bailiff to have a cast of Bread, a gallon of Ale, and a piece of Beef, of the said Lord of Stanton Harcourt aforesaid j and the said Lord or other for the time being, to have of custom yearly out of the said parke, one Buck in Summer, and one Doe in Winter. And also the Lord of Stanton Harcourt must fell, make, rear and carry all the grasse growing in one Meadow within the parke of Woodstock, called Stanton and Southly mead ; and the fellers and the makers thereof have used to have of custom, of the King's Majesty's charge, sixpence in money, and two Gallons of Ale. Many chivalrous and heroic deeds are recorded of successive Harcourts ; but we here pass them by to notice that Sir Thomas Harcourt represented the County of Oxford in Parliament in the fourteenth century : — that the Sir Robert to whose name this note is appended, was appointed High Steward of the University of Oxford, in 1446 ; made a Knight of the Garter in 1463, and signalised himself in the Wars of Henry the Sixth and Edward the Fourth, and lost his life in the service of the latter, being slain by the Staffords, of the Lancastrian Party, 14th November 1470. His Remains were buried in Stanton Harcourt Church, where is a Monument (on the south side of the Harcourt Chapel), surmounted by the Effigies of himself and Wife. He is represented in his hair, a gorget of mail, and plated armour strapped at the elbows and wrists ; a large hiked sword on the left, and a dagger on the right j belt charged with oak leaves, and hands bare, and a kind of ruffle turned back at the wrists ; shoes of scaled armour j order of the garter on the left leg, and over all the mantle of the order, with a rich cape and cordon ; his head reclined on a helmet, with his crest, a peacock ; at his feet a lion. His lady is in the veiled head-dress falling back j has a mantle and surcoat, and cordon ; long sleeves, fastened in a singular manner at the wrists, and the garter with the motto in embossed letters, above the elbow of the left arm, emblazoned upon it ; her feet partly wrapped up in her mantle. On the front four spread six foils, containing shields with the following arms : Harcourt impaling Byron twice, and twice Marmion j which Maud Grey his Grandmother, bore in right of her mother, heiress of the Marmions. At the head of the monument two shields j on one, Harcourt and Byron encircled with the garter j on the other, Harcourt single. The figure of this lady is extremely curious, from her being represented with the garter, and is one of the only three known examples of female sepulchral effigies having been decorated with the insignia of that order. According to Mr. Ashmole, Constance, Daughter of John Holland, Duke of Exeter, first married to Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, and secondly to Sir John Grey, Knight of the Garter, and Earl of Tankerville in Normandy, was thus represented on her tomb. The other similar example is the Effigy of Alice, daughter of Thomas Chaucer 35. Walter 28 (1456). 3<3' Walter Mantell. 36. Sir John Norreys of Ockholt, Esquire. 37. William Brocas of Cookham, Esquire. 38. Thomas de la Mare of Aldermaston, Esquire. Chaucer, Wife of William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, on her beautiful monument at Ewelme, in the County of Oxford, still in perfect preservation, but on the last named figure the Garter is worn above the wrist, and has no motto. His Grandson (Sir Robert), was Standard Bearer to Henry VII. at the Battle of Bosworth ; and was Sheriff of Oxfordshire in the 8th year of that Reign : Sir Simon Harcourt served the office of Sheriff of Oxfordshire and Berkshire, and was Knighted by King Henry VIII. — Sir Robert Harcourt (born in 1574), was one of the most considerable Adventurers with Sir Walter Raleigh in his voyage to Wiassero, Guyana, &c:, in America : — Sir Philip Harcourt represented Oxfordshire in Parliament in the seven- teenth century j and his Son, Simon Harcourt, was constituted Lord Chancellor in 171 3, and raised to the Peerage as Baron and Viscount Harcourt. He had previously been Lord Keeper, and, on his elevation to the Chancellorship, a con- gratulatory Poem was addressed to him, embodying the following lines : "Th' enraptured Muse to a glad Nation sings. First the great race from which our Harcourt springs, Noble his blood, and ancient his descent. E'er since to Norman yoke Britannia bent." He died, aged 66, In July 1727, immediately after the Recession of George II. and was buried in the Family Cemetery at Stanton Harcourt. ** There are twenty of Harcourts Barons bold Lie buried within that proud Chapelle." The Chancellor's Son (a most accomplished and promising young man) died pre- maturely, and the following lines upon his Tomb are from the Pen of Pope, who — as it is unnecessary to record, — was for years a Visitor at Stanton Harcourt and an attached Friend of the Family. To this sad shrine, whoe'er thou art ! draw near. Here lies the Friend most lov'd, the Son most dear j Who ne'er knew Joy, but Friendship might divide, Or gave his Father Grief, but when he died. How vain is Reason, Eloquence how weak ! If Pope must tell what Harcourt cannot speak, Oh ! let thy once lov'd Friend inscribe thy stone, And, with a Father's sorrows, mix his own !" Lord Chancellor Harcourt purchased the Nuneham Courtenay Estate of the Earl of Wemys, in 1710 ; and the elegant mansion there has been the Oxfordshire resi- dence of the Harcourts ever since. The Chancellor's Grandson (Simon) was created an Earl by George II. j and he was succeeded by his son Simon, who, dying in 1809, was succeeded in the Earldom by his Brother, Genera] William Harcourt, who was long honoured with the intimacy of King George III. — a not unfrequent visitor at Nuneham Park. Upon the death of William Earl Harcourt in 1830, the Title became extinct, and the Oxfordshire Estates passed to the Most Reverend Edward Vernon, Archbishop of York, maternal nephew of the first Earl of Harcourt, who assumed the name of Harcourt. His Grace was succeeded by his eldest son, George Granville Harcourt, Esquire, M.P. for Oxfordshire from 1831 to his death in 1861, a man distinguished both as a polished Gentleman and a Scholar. His only child (by his first Wife, Elizabeth, Daughter of the Earl of Lucan) was married to the present Earl of Abingdon, and the Reverend William Vernon Harcourt (next surviving brother to George Granville), succeeded to the Estates. Edward 29 EDWARD THE FOURTH. (1460). I. sir Richard Harcourt(a) of Wytham, Knight. 2. Richard Restwold Esquire. 3. Idem. 4. Thomas Rogers of Benham, Esquire. 5. John Barentyne of Little Haseley, Esquire. 6. Thomas Stonor of Stonor, Esquire. 7. Sir Richard Harcourt of Wytham, Knight. 8. Sir John Howard,(b) Knight. 9. Sir William Norreys(c) of Yattenden, Knight. 10. Thomas Prout Esquire. (i47o)t II. Edward Langford of Aldworth, Esquire. 12. William Staverton of Staverton, Esquire. 13. William Beckinham Esquire. * In Edward the Fourth's Reign Statutes were passed abridging the ancient jurisdiction of Sheriffs, and transferring part of their powers to the Courts of Quarter Sessions. (a) . The Manor of Wytham belonged to Alice Denton, Widow, who died in 1479. I' ^5 most probable that she was the Heiress of Richard Wightham, and died without issue ; for this Estate then passed to her next of Kin and Heir, (as it is said), Sir Richard Harcourt, Knight. But there seems a difficulty in this, for Sir Richard was second Son of Thomas Harcourt, Esquire, and his elder Brother, Sir Robert Harcourt K.G., who was slain in 1470, left a Son John, who of course would have inherited before his Uncle Sir Richard. However this may be, Sir Richard Harcourt certainly possessed the Wytham Estate, and is supposed to have built the present Manor House. By his Will, dated 15th of September i486, he bequeathed £zo to the Church of Wytham, and directed his Body to be buried in the Abbey of Abingdon. About 1539 the Estate and Manor of Wytham were alienated by its ancient Possessers and became the property of John, Lord Williams of Thame. — [Clarke s M.SS.I (b) . He was son to Sir Robert Howard, and created a Baron by this King, and Duke of Norfolk by King Richard III. as kinsman and one of the heirs of Anne, Duchess of York and Norfolk, whose mother was one of the daughters of Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk. Soon after, he lost his life in his quarrel who gave him his honour in Bosworth field. — Fuller. (c) Son and heir of John Norreys of Ockholt, and one of the Knights for the Body to King Edward the Fourth. In the second Henry VII. he was a Com- mander in the King's army at the Battle of Stoke, near Newark, against John Earl of Lincoln, and his adherents. This Sir William was a person learned in the Laws, as it seems ; for, in the 2nd Henry VII., he had an annuity of twenty marks out of the Manor of Swerford, granted to him by John, Duke of Suffolk pro bono comilio impenso et impendendo and in 19 Henry VII., for the like consideration of his counsel, obtained a grant from the King, of the custody of the Manor of Langley; as also the Stewardship of the Manors of Boreford (Burford), Shipton, Spellesbury, and the Hundred of Chadlington. •f- Anno ab incohatione regni nostri quadragesimo nono, et readeptionis nostrae regiae potestatis anno primo. The Battle of Barnet on Easter Day, 14 April 1 471, drove Henry the Sixth again from the throne. 14. John 3° (1474)- H- John Langston(3) of Caversfieldv Esquire, 15. Humphrey Forster(b) of Harpsden, Esquire. 16. Sir Thomas de la MareCO of Aldermaston, Knight. 17. Thomas Restwold Esquire. 18. James Viall Esquire. 19. John Norreys of Ockholt, Esquire. 20. Sir Humphry Talbot, Knight. 21. Sir Thomas de la Mare of Aldermaston, Knight. 22. Sir William Norreys of Yattenden, Knight. EDWARD THE FIFTH. Sir William Norreys continued Sheriff during this short Reign of 42 days. (a) . The Manor of Caversfield was holden of" the Prior and Convent of Bicester by the family of Langston who were afterwards possessed of the estate in their own right. In 147 1 John Langston was Sheriff" of Bucks, and died seized of a moiety, holden in his own right. In 1490 John Langston senior was Sheriff of Bucks and designated of Caversfield. In 1496 Thomas Langston also held the same office as did another Thomas Langston, in 1523, and in 1526 it was re- turned by an Inquisition, that Richard Langston died seized of the Manor of Caversfield held of the Prior of Bicester at a rent of Four Marks. This Manor passed by Amye, daughter and heir of Langston, to Thomas Moyle, and having regularly descended became vested in James Davenport Esquire, son and heir of Lord Chief Baron Davenport of Sutton. The Langstons formerly possessed the patronage of the Church of Tusmore, to which they presented for upwards of 100 years. In Caversfield Church, within the Chancel, is a brass fixed to a gravestone of grey marble having the portraiture of a man in armour, and his wife engraven upon it, with the following inscription : O, pater excelse, miserere precor miserere Johis : Langstone et conjugis Amisie Atque sue sobolis qui te in terra coluere Hosce velis ore jungere celi colis. Under it 12 sons and 10 daughters. Round the verge this : Orate pro animabus Johis : Langstone armigeri et Amisie consortis sue qui quidem Johes : obiit nono die Septemb. Anno Dni. Millesimo cccccvi. quorum animabus etc. (b) . This must be he (consent of times avowing it) who was afterwards knighted, and lieth buried in St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, London, with the following inscription : " Of your charity, pray for the soul of Sir Humphrey Foster, Knight, whose body lieth buried here in earth under this marble stone : which deceased the 1 8th day of the month of September 1500, on whose soul Jesu have mercy. Amen." — Fuller. (c) . The Manor of Aldermaston is said to have been given to Richard Achard, by King Henry I., in whose Family it continued till about the year 1358, when it passed by marriage to the De la Mares. KiCHARD 3^ RICHARD THE THIRD. ANNO. (1483). I. Thomas Kingeston of Childrey, Esquire. 2. John Barentyne(a) of Little Haseley, Esquire. 3. Edward Franke Esquire. HENRY THE SEVENTH. (1485). I. sir Edward Mountford, Knight. 2. Sir William Norreys of Yattenden, Knight. 3. Thomas Say of Bletchingdon, Esquire. 4. William Besilles of Bessels Leigh, Esquire. 5. Sir Thomas de la Mare(b) of Aldermaston, Knight. 6. John Home Esquire. 7. William Harcourt of Cornbury Park, Esquire. 8. Robert Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt, Esquire. 9. George GaynsfordW of Hampton Poyle, Esquire. 10. Idem. (a) . This Family of Barentyne of Chalgrove and Little Haseley, was of long standing and good repute in this county. In the catalogue of Sheriffs, in a little more than 220 years, the Heads of that family have borne that office 14 times, the first that discharged it, being Drogo Barentyne, without any addition to his name, for 5 years together, toward the end of the reign of Edward the II., and the last. Sir William Barentyne Knight, in 1543. They bore for their arms Sable 3 Eagles, displayed, argent, armed Or. On the North side of the Chancel of Great Haseley Church is a fine table monument belonging to some Member of this family. Leland, Itin. vol. viii., fol. 114, has the following notice : "One Barentyne, a younger brother of the chefe house of the Barentines, was a Goldsmithe of London, and becam wonderful riche, and purchased fayre lands, and dyenge, as it is sayde, without heires, gave parte of his land to a yonger brother of the Barentyns, called Drew, and he had many children, but in continuance they dyed, and it came then to the chefe house of the Barentynes. The parcell of lands that Drew left to his name was Little Haseley in Oxfordshire, wher Sir William Barentyne now dwellethe." Leland was presented to the Rectory of Haseley by King Henry VIII., in 1 542. (b) . Hugh Hope, Administrator of the goods of Sir Thomas de la Mare, rendered the account to the Exchequer for this year. (c) . He married, first, Isabel, daughter and sole heir of Thomas Croxford of Kidlington-on-the-Green. Secondly, to Annie, widow of Sir William Rede, of Borstall, Knt. Thirdly, to Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt. In 1502 the Manor of Hampton Poyle, with the advowson of the church, was sold by him for the sum of 6s. 8d. to Richard Hungerford Esquire. The family afterwards settled at Idbury, being mentioned in the Herald's Visitation of Oxfordshire, 1574. II. John 32 1495)- II- John Ashefeld(a) of Heythrop, Esquire. 12. Hugh Shirley Esquire. 13- Anthony Fetiplace of North Denchworth, Esquire. 14. George Gaynsford of Hampton Poyle, Esquire. 15- John Basket(b) Esquire. 1 6. William Besilles of Bessels Leigh, Esquire. 17- Sir Richard Fowler(c) of Rycote, Knight. 1 8. Sir John Williams(d) of Burghfield, Knight. 19. William Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt, Esquire. 20. Edward Greville Esquire. 21. Sir Edward Chamberleyne of Shirburn Castle^ Knight. 22. John Horne Esquire. 23- Idem, 24. Sir John Langford(e) of Bradfield, Knight. (a) . He was buried in the Chancel of Heythrop, where on brass were en- graven the effigies of himself and wife, and this inscription : Of your charity pray for the souls of John Ashefield Esquire and Elinour his wife, the which John deceased the 25 th day of December 1 521, on whose soulcs &c. underneath are brasses of 4. sons and 4 daughters. The window immediately over his monument also contained the proportion of himself, wife, and children with this inscription : Orate pro animabus Johannis Ashlield et Elinora uxoris ejus qui istam fenestram fieri fecerunt A° Dni 1522 de quibus animabus propitietur Deus. (b) . He was an esquire of remark and martial activity in his younger days, who in some years after removed to Devenish, in Dorsetshire, to whom King Henry the Eighth, going over into France, committed the care of that county. — Fuller. (c) . Sir Richard Fowler was created Knight of the Bath at the marriage of Prince Arthur, eldest son of King Henry VII., with Catherine of Spain, Nov. 17 1 501. In a List published of the names of the Knights then made, Sir Richard Fowler is in order the 49th. He died in 1528, and was buried in Trinity Church, (^ueenhithe Ward, London. His Father, Thomas Fowler, was Clerke to Richard Quartermayns, and was afterwards appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Richard Quartermayns adopted Sir Richard Fowler as his heir, who, by his extra- vagance, ran through his lands, leaving his children but small livings. Sir Giles Heron, Treasurer of the Chamber to Henrys the 7th and 8th, bought the reversion of the Lordship of Rycote, which afterwards came to Giles his son ; but he being wise in words and foolish in deeds," as Sir Richard Fowler was, sold Rycote to John Williams, afterwards John, Lord Williams, of Thame. In Great Haseley Church, in the North aisle, is the following inscription engraven on a brass plate : *' Here lieth buryed the body of dame Julian Ffowler sometime Wyfe of Sir Richard Ffowler of Rycote, knighte y° which decessed y° 12 dai of August in y° yere of our Lorde God M.v'^xxvii. on whos' soule Ihu. have Mercy. Amen." Issuing from the mouth of the figure, on a scroll, is the following prayer t Delicta juventut. mee et ignorantias meas ne memineris Sed libera me Dne. de morte eterna in die ilia tremenda. (d) . Father of John, Lord Williams of Thame, by Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of Richard More of Burghfield Esq. (e) . The Account was rendered to the Exchequer this year by Thomas Ward, Administrator of the goods of Sir John Langford, Knight. Henry 33 HENRY THE EIGHTH. ANNO. (1509). I. William Essex,(a) of Lamboiirne, Esquire. 2. William Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt, Esquire. 3. William Barentyne of Little Haseley, Esquire. 4. Thomas Haydok Esquire. 5. Sir Walter Rodney(b) of Chippingnorton, Knight. 6. Sir Simon Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt, Knight. 7. Sir John Daunce of Brightwell, Berks, Knight. 8. Sir George Forster(c) of Aldermaston, Knight. (a) . He was a worthy man in his generation, of great command in the County of Berks (whereof he was four times Sheriff), and the first of his Family who fixed at Lambourne therein on this welcome occasion. He had married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Rogers of Benham, whose Grandfather, John Rogers, had married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of John Shottesbroke of Bercote, (whose ancestors had been Sheriffs of Oxon. and Berks, in the 4th, 5th, and 6th of King Edward HI.), by whom he received a large inheritance. — Fuller. Leland has the following {Itinerary , Vol. 4 p. 19) : " Mastar Estsax of Barkeshir cummith oute of the house of Estsaxis long sins Knighttes of Fame of Estsax. The Landes of Estsax were disparkelid, and the glorie of that Familie was almost extinctid. One William Estsax that died a 60 yeres ago was a politike Felaw, and in favor of the King, and was Under Trea- sorer of the Exchequer, the which office Mr. Weston a late had. This Estsax pur- chacid Landes aboute London, and is buried in an Isle of the Church of the late Priory of S. Barptolomes in Smithefeld in London. This William Estsax Sun and Heire married the Daughter and Heire of Babthorpe of Warwikeshir, and by her had a Hunderith Markes by yere of Landes. Estsax, now lyving sun to the Doughter of Babthorpe, toke to wife the Doughter and sole Heire of Rogers of Barkeshir, and by her he had 300 Markes of Landes by the Yere in Barkeshir and theraboute. Rogers of Barkeshir came out of Rogers of Dorsetshir and three of them dwelt by descent in Barkeshir." Ibidy Vol. 7 p. 65. — "Thens {j..e. from Wantage) a 6 myls to Chepinge Lam- bourne, a poore Friday market, by hills well cornyd, and some wodds, and passinge the better Parte of the way, I sawe a greate warren of conies longginge unto Mastar Estsax, who is Lorde of the Towne by his Mother, the sole Doughter anc. Heyre of Mastar Rogers, by whom he hath hettar than 300 marks of Lands b*- the yere. Lambourne Water risithe a litle by Northe above the Towne, leving it on the righte Ripe, and goinge thens a 10 Myles to Dunington and a little lower into Kenet Ryver." (b) . He married Ann, the daughter of Richard Croft Esquire, Lord of the Manor of Chipping Norton, by which alliance, after his wife's father's decease, he became Lord of that Manor. (c) . He married Elizabeth the daughter and heir of John de la Mare Esquire, by which marriage he became possessed of the Manor of Aldermaston. His Father, Humphrey Forster, who served the office of Sheriff in 1475, described by Fuller to be of Aldermaston j but it appears more probable that he was of Harpsden in Oxfordshire, which was the Family seat before they became connected with Alder- maston. The Forster Family did not wholly withdraw themselves from Oxfordshire until about the year 1645, when Bartholomew Hall Esquire purchased the Harpsden Estate of Sir Humphrey Forster j and the Hall Family continuously resided at Harpsden until a recent date, when the Estate passed to its present Possessor, John Fowden Hodges Esquire of Bolney Court. The Mansion (Harpsden Court), formerly had seven Halls, one of them being called the Beggars' Hall j that name arising from the indiscrimate bounty of a former Occupant, who exercised hospitality to all Wayfarers. Queen Mary was once entertained for a few days at Harpsden Court. In a Wood near the House, is a small circumvallation, near which Roman coins have been found. 9. Sir 34 I5I7)- 9- lO, I T 12, 1,5 16 17- 18 19 20 21 22 Sir Edward ChamberleyneCa) of Shirburn Castle, Knight. Sir William Essex(b) of Lambourne, Knight. Thomas Englefield of Englefield, Esquire. Henry Brygges Esquire. John Osbaldeston of Chadlington, Esquire. Sir Simon Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt, Knight. John Fetiplace of East Shefford, Esquire. Sir William Essex of Lambourne, Knight. Sir William Barentyne of Little Haseley, Knight. Thomas Denton of Appleton, Esquire. Thomas Elyott Esquire. Sir Simon Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt, Knight. William Stafford of Bradfield, Esquire. Henry Bridges Esquire. (a) . On a stone in the Chancel of Woodstock. Church, under the proportion ot a man and a woman engraven on brass, is the following : Edwardus Chamberleynus jacet ecce sepultus, Ordinis aurati ad sydera notus eques Annis clarus erat, virtutis clarior, ubi Antistes morum et nobilitatis honos Non tantam verbis vitam laudavit honestam, Sed laus ni factis integritatis erat Pre cunctis leges justi servabat et equi, Et coluit pura relligione Deum, At quod divitias nunquam congestit egenus, In causa fuerat mors inimica bonis. Scilicet hie mos est fortunae semper iniquae. Parcius ut daret maxima pro meritis, Insuper et sortis contemptu munera prudens Quod dixit remoras ad pietatis opes, Hostibus hie nunquam vitiis nec victus ab ullis, Succubuit tandem mors violenta sibi. Heu quod pellendae morti non sufficiebat, Ars que tarn multis profuit ante viris, Heu quod non licuit natis superesse nepotum, Et valde annosi nomen habere secus. Sed quando cunctis mors est communis, et ipsum Extinctum lachrymis non revocare potes, Fas non lugere est Edwardi funera nobis, Sed pro illo preculas fundere quemque decet, Orandum exutus mortali ut corpore dignum Inter caelicolas possit habere locum. Underneath are the pictures of six sons and six daughters. Round the verge this : " Here lyeth buryed, the bodyes of Sir Edward Chamberleyne, Knyght, yt was Lievtenant of the Queens monnor of Woodstock in the xxii. yeare of Hen. vii. . . . . memory King Henry vii dame Cecely his wife, the whych Sr Edward dyed the x of Sept. an mdxliii. aged lxiii. On whose, &c." " This Sr. Edw. Chamberleyne who was of Sherburne, neare Watlington, in com. Oxon, and of Cotes, in Northamptonshire, was Kt of the Bath, and by Cicilie his wife, daughter of John Verney of Penley, Kt, had more than six children yt lived to mans and womans estate, of whom was Leonard Chamberleyne of Sherburne, who being a captaine at Guernsey, died there 3rd Elizabeth." — Wood's M.SS. EJ. (b) . Knighted at Tournay, after the King came from Mass, under his banner In the Church, 25th December 151 3. 23. Thomas 35 Thomas Umpton, Esquire. Sir Humphrey Forster of Aldermaston, Knight. William FermorW of Somerton, Esquire. Sir Walter Stonor of Stonor, Knight. Thomas Carter Esquire. Sir Anthony Hungerford of Blackbourton, Knight. Sir Simon Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt, Knight. Sir John Williams of Burghfield, Knight. Richard Bridges of West ShefFord, Esquire. Sir William Essex of Lambourne, Knight. Sir Walter Stonor of Stonor, Knight. Sir William Barentyne(b) of Little Haseley, Knight. William Fermor of Somerton, Esquire. John Williams of Thame, Esquire. Sir Humphrey Forster of Aldermaston, Knight. Sir Leonard Chamberleyne of Shirburn Castle, Knight, (a). The earliest notice of the Fermor Family in connection with Oxfordshire, occurs about the time of Edward IV., when Thomas Richards, alias Ffermor, of Witney, married Emmotte, the widow of Henry Wenman. His will was proved 9th September 1485, in which "he leaves his body to be buried in Witney Church, and remembers his sons, William, John, Laurence, and Richard, as also Alice Wayneman, John Wayneman, and Elizabeth Wayneman, daughters of Emmotte, his wife, by Henry Wayneman her first husband." Their connection with the Wenman Family is recorded by Richard Leigh, portcullis. Pursuivant of arms, in his Visitation of Oxfordshire 1 574, at which time some remains of inscriptions of each of these families were in existence in the aisle known as ' Wenman's Aisle ' in Witney Church. The Wenmans were great clothiers and merchants at Witney and are reported to derive their name from the circumstance either that they were the first that used wains or carts with four wheels to carry their cloth to London, or that the first of them was the driver of a wain. Richard Fermor, eldest son of Thomas, was the original master of Will. Somers, the celebrated jester of Henry VIH. Dr. Doran, in his History of Court Fools, mentions the favour shown by the King to Richard Fermor, through the intercession of his former servant. His son. Sir John Fermor, was the ancestor of the Earls of Pomfret. WilUiam Fermor, the Sheriff for this year, was second son of Thomas, and had a grant of Somerton, but, dying without issue in 1552., he left it to his nephew, Thomas, son of Richard. The Chapel on the south side of Somerton Church has, for many generations, been used as the burial-place of this Family, to whom several handsome monuments have been erected. The inscription to William Fermor is as follows : Here lyeth buried Mr. Wylliam Fermour Esquyre which was Lord of this towne and patrone of this church, and also Clark of the crowne in the Kings Bench by Kyng Henry the vii. and Kyng Henry y° vni. days, whych dyed y° xxix daye of September in y" yere of our Lord God McccccLii. and also here lyeth Mestres Elisabeth Fermoure hys last wyfe, whyche was the dawghter of Syre Wylliam Norryshe Knyght, Upon whose souUs and all chrysten souUs Jesu have mercy. Sir Richard Fermor, Knight, son of Thomas, and grandson of Richard, served the office of Sheriff, 44th of Queen Elizabeth. (b). His wife Anne was buryed in a church at London with a tombstone on which was this inscription : Here lieth Anne Barentine wyf to Syr William Barentine, who dyed 27 December l$zz. On whose soule Jesu have mercy. This Sir William was possessed of Little Haseley in the days of Leland, but dying with- out male issue, his daughter Mary, married Anthony Huddleston Esquire, by which match this inheritance was transferred to that Family. — See note (d) to 22 of Elizabeth. (1530- 23. 24. 25- 26. 27. 28. 29. 30- 3^- 32. 33- 34. 3<5- 36. 37. 3^. Edward 36 EDWARD THE SIXTH. ANNO. (1547). I. Sir Francis EnglefielcK^) of Englefield, Knight. 2. Sir Anthony Cope(b) of Hanwell, Knight. 3. Sir William Rainsford of Great Tew, Knight. 4. Richard Fiennes of Broiighton Castle, Esquire. 5. William Hyde(c) of South Denchworth, Esquire. 6. Sir Leonard Chamberleyne of Shirburn Castle, Esquire. (a) . The ancient family of Englefield settled at Englefield, Berks, during the reign of Henry III. Roger de Englefield was Knight of the Shire in 1307. His descendants frequently filled the same situation, and served the Office of Sheriff. Sir Thomas Englefield, who died in 151 3, was Speaker of the House of Commons, and Justice of Chester. His Son, Sir Thomas, was one of the Justices of the Common Pleas. Sir Francis, his grandson, was Privy Councillor to Queen Mary, and so zealous a Romanist, that after her death he left the land, with a most large inheritance, and lived for the most part in Spain. He was a most industrious agent to solicit the cause of the Queen of Scots, both to his Holiness and the Catholic King 5 as also he was a great promoter of, and benefactor to, the English College at Valladolid, in Spain, where he lieth interred. The Manor was granted by Queen Elizabeth to her Secretary, Sir Francis Walsingham, from whom it passed by the marriage of his daughter to the Earl of Clanrickard, and after- wards to John, Marquis of Winchester, who married Lady Honora Burg, the Earl's daughter. After the demolition of Basinghouse, Englefield became the seat of the Marquis of Winchester. Anne, daughter and sole heir of Lord Francis Pawlet, only surviving son of the Marquis by his second wife, brought this estate to the Rev. Nathan Wright, a younger son of the Lord Keeper. On the death of his son, Nathan, in 1789, Englefield devolved to the late Richard Benyon Esquire, son of Governor Benyon, by the Widow of Pawlet Wright, elder brother of the last mentioned Nathan. It is now (1868) the property and seat of Richard Benyon Esquire, M.P. for the County of Berks, and Chairman of Quarter Sessions. (b) . He was Vice-Chamberlain to Catherine Parr, and Knighted in the first year of King Edward the Sixth. (c). At the entrance to the South Aisle of South Denchworth Church is a gravestone containing the following inscription on a brass plate : Here lye we two enclosed now in erth not far apart. Husband and wife, whiles we had lyfe, whom only death could parte. My name William, her's Margery, by surname called Hyde, Which name accord to us live and dead whom now the earth doth hyde ; Whyle we dyd lyve, God gave us grace to harbour clothe and hyde The naked poor folkes : Injuries we did defend and hyde ; Now being dead we crave mercy of God, that he will hyde Hys face from our synnes, and with his arme he from the Devyll us hyde : And that with saints and happy soules our sely soules may byde In heaven with God : good folkes we pray, to pray to God, for Hyde. On a plate of brass fixed to a pillar within a pew near the said gravestone are the figures of a m.an and his wife kneeling at a desk. Out of his mouth proceeds a scroll, with this inscription : " Miserere mei Deus secdm. magnam miserecordiam tuam." Out of the Woman's mouth, Heal my Soul O Lorde, for I have sinned against Thee." Underneath, Quisquis transieris pro nostris, ora aiabus. Et Junctos tumulo tu prece junge Deo. The whiche William Hyde, Esquyer, decessyd the seconde day of Maye in the yere of oure Lorde God mccccclvii. And the sayde Margery hys wyfe decessyd the 27 day of June in the yere of oure Lorde God mccccclxii. Mary 37 MARY. >\NNO. 1553. I. Sir John Williams(a) of Thame, Knight, and Sir John Brome(b) of Holton, Knight. (a) . Second son of Sir John Williams of Burghfield, Berkshire, was servant to King Henfy VIII. and had in the i8th of that monarch a patent of ^^lo per annum for the keeping of a greyhound. He was clerk of the King's Jewell Office, and on Christmas Eve 1541, at seven at night, a great fire took place in his house when many of the jewels were burnt and more imbezzled. On May 10, 1545, Sir John Williams, with John D'Oiley, gent., and others, was appointed Commissioner for the suppressing St. Frideswide's College, now Christ Church in Oxford, and the Cathedral Church of Osney, by receiving the sur- render of them into the King's hands. Sir John Williams was amongst the foremost in supporting Queen Mary, for which, in April 1553, he was honoured with the title of Lord Williams of Thame. The next year, with Sir Henry Bedingfield, he was appointed Keeper of the Princess, afterwards Queen Elizabeth ; and in May that year gave her a noble entertainment at his house at Rycote, and was much more gentle to his charge than Sir Henry Bedingfield, whom Oueen Elizabeth afterwards used to call her Gaoler. Lord Williams was the bearer of a request to (^ueen Mary from Bishop Ridley, before his martyrdom, regarding the continuance of the Leases he had made to his poor Tenants. He married, first, Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Bledlow Esquire, and widow of Andrew Edmunds Esquire of Cressing Temple, Essex, and secondly, Margery, daughter of Baron Went- worth. He died 14th October 1559, and was buried in the midst of the chancel of Thame Church, where on a white marble tomb lie the effigies of himself and one of his wives, with their heads towards the East, and on one side a plate of brass, with this inscription : — Parva tegit cineres Gulielmidis urna Joannis : Nulla tegent tanti secula facta viri. Quem dotes animi, fortunae dotibus ultro Ornarunt, sortis muncre plus meritum ; Nam potuit virtus meritis si acquirere fortis, Munera, divitias, vir bonus ecce tulit, Tam bonus, ut merito cunctis clarissimus esset Ordinibus, titulis major et ille suis. Si quaeris ? de stirpe satus non vilis j Equestri, Factus eques j Procerum, post procer unus erat. Regum aeri questor ; Regali exinde cubili 5 Postremum Cambro praefuit et populo. Lord Williams purchased the Manors of Great and Little Rycot, Oxon. and afterwards a grant from the Crown of the manors of Wytham, and Botley, Berks, and Weston-on-the-Green, Oxon. He left issue Isabel married to Sir Richard Wenman, knight, and Margery married to Sir Henry Norris, knight, afterwards Baron Norris of Rycote. Upon his death the Barony fell into abeyance. Of Margery, the younger sister, the present Earl of Abingdon, is now heir general. (b) . The monument lately standing on the North side of the Chancel of Holton Church, to the memories of Sir John Brome, Knight, Sheriff this year, and Sir Christopher Brome, Knight, Sheriff 8th of Queen Elizabeth, has, through the liberality of William Earle Biscoe Esquire (the present Patron, and possessor of the Holton Estate), been carefully restored, and placed within the small Chapel on the South side of the Church, built by William Brome, who died in 146 1. The inscription is as follows : — Hoc Monumentum D. Johanni Brome de Halton in Comita. Oxon. Militi, Mortuo 24" die mensis Julii Anno Domini 1558 et D. Margaretae conjugi suae sorori et Haeredi Thomae Rous de Racley in Comitatu Warwici qui reliquerunt unum filium et octo filias. Necnon D. Christofero Brome Militi filio eorundem mortuo 23'° die mensis Aprilis A, Dom. 1589 et D. Alienorae conjugi suas filiae Gulielmi Baronis Windesore de Bradenham qui reliquerunt duos fiiios et quinq filias. Charissimis, Avis et parentibus posuit Georgius Brome armiger. George Brome, son of the above Christopher, was Sheriff in the 39th year of Queen Elizabeth's reign. See note to 39th Elizabeth. Phjlii' 38 PHILIP AND MARY. ANNO. (i5(54)« 1-2- Sir Richard Bridges, Knight. 2- 3. Sir William RainsfordW of Great Tew, Knight. 3- 4. Thomas Bridges Esquire. 4- 5. John Denton of Appleton, Esquire. 5- 6. Richard Fiennes of Broughton Castle, Esquire. ELIZABETH. ANNO. 1. Edward Ashefeld of Heythrop, Esquire. 2. Edward Fabian of Compton, Esquire. 3. John D'Oyley(b) of Merton, Esquire. 4. Henry NorreysW of Rycot, Esquire. 5. Richard Wenman of Thame Park, Esquire. 6. John Croker of Hooknorton, Esquire. 7. Thomas Stafford of Bradfield, Esquire. 8. Sir Christopher Brome of Holion, Knight, From this date, the List consists of Sheriffs of the County of Oxford only. (a) . The Account to the Exchequer was rendered by Hercules Rainsford, Executor of the Will of Sir William Rainsford, Knight. (b) . His monument is in Merton Church, bearing this Inscription : Here lyeth buried John Doyley of Merton, Esquier, who has been Shrieve and Justice of the Peace in Oxfordshire. Hee lived with great reputation in his Countrye, for his sincerity in his religion, integrity of life, equity in justice, and hospitality. He died the 17 of June An. Dom. 1 593, of the reign of Queen Elizabeth 35. This John Doyley was descended of the Doyleys who were Barons, in the Conqueror's time, of Hooknorton in the County of Oxford, Founders of the Abbey of Oseney and of the Castle of Oxford, and were also the Lords of Wallingford Castle. Anne Bernard, who made for him this monument, being the daughter of Francis Bernard of Northamptonshire, Esquire, was his onlie wife, by whom he had issue these 4 daughters and heirs, Margerie, Katherine, Anne, and Eliza. (c) . Son-in-law to the Lord Williams of Thame. He was by Queen Elizabeth created Baron NTorreys, of Rycot, in Oxfordshire. It is hard to say, whether this tree of honour was more remarkable for the root from whence it sprang, or for the branches that sprung from him. He was son to Sir Henry Norreys, who suffered in the cause of Queen Anne BuUen, grandchild to Sir Edward Norreys, who married Friswide, sister and co-heir to the last Lord Lovell. He was father (though himself of a meek and mild disposition) to the martial brood of the Norreys. Elizabeth, his great grandchild, sole daughter and heir unto Francis Norreys, Earl of Berkshire, and Baroness Norreys, was married unto Edward Wray Esquire, whose only daughter, Elizabeth Wray, Baroness Norreys, was married unto Montague Bertie, Earl of Lindsey. — Fuller. (1558). 9. Sir 39 (1566) 9- Sir Richard Fiennes of Broiighton Castle, Knight. 10. Humphrey Ashefeld of Heythrop, Esquire. It. Richard TavernerC^) of Wood Eaton, Esquire. 12. Thomas Gibbons of Ditchley, Esquire. 13. Sir Richard Wenman of Thame Park, Knight. 14. John Danvers Esquire. 15. Hercules Raynesforde of Great Tew, Esquire. 16. Sir William Babington(b) of Kiddington, Knight. 17. Michael Mullins Esquire. ^g^^^rsir Robert D'Oyley of Merton, Knight; and (^John Cowper Esquire. 19. William Hawtry Esquire. 20. Richard Corbet Esquire. 21. Edmund Bray Esquire. 22. Richard Huddleston(d) of Litile Haseley, Esquire. 23. Thomas Denton Esquire. (a) . It is related of this Sherift that in the year of his Sherivalty he came to Oxford, and went up into the pulpit at St. Marie's with a sword by his side and a gold chain about his neck, where he made an oration to the University beginning thus, "Arriving at the Mount of S. Marie's in the stony stage wherein I now stand, I have brot you som fyne biskets baked in y^ oven of charity, carefully conserved for the chickens of y" Church, the sparrows of the Spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation," &c. (b) . Knighted by Queen Elizabeth during the year of his Sherivalty. He lived at Kiddington, where his ancestors had resided since the time of Henry VI., having previously settled at Chilwell in Nottinghamshire. Sir William Babington was one of the victims of the Black Assize in 1576. The Manors of Upper and Lower Kiddington, and Asterley, as also the advowson of the Church of Kiddington, were purchased in 161 3, by Sir Henry Browne, Knight, third son of Antony Browne, the first Lord Viscount Montague, from the representative of the Babington Family. (c) . This was the year of the Black Assize at Oxford, when the High Sheriff (D'Oyley), one of the Judges (Lord Chief Baron Bell), a Sergeant at Law, several Magistrates, and about 300 other Persons, died within two days. At the Trial of Rowland Jenks, a Bookseller at Oxford, for seditious words, a Disease was communicated, by a poisonous stench brought with the Prisoners from the Gaol, to almost all that were present at the Trial, except Women and Children. It has been remarked that Stow, Camden, and Dr. Ethryg, a Physician who then practised at Oxford, difTer in their accounts of the number that died, though they agree that, among them, there was neither woman nor child. An event of the same kind happened at Cambridge in 1522; and at the Old Bailey in May 1750. Katherine D'Oyley, Executrix of the Will of Sir John D'Oyley, returned his Account to the Exchequer. (d) . He was heir to the Barentynes, Lords of Little Haseley, by the marriage of his Father Anthony Huidleston Esquire, with Marie Barentyne. She died 1581, when the noble family of Barentyne lost their last representative in this County. The said Marie lies buried in the Chancel of Haseley Church with the following inscription under her portraiture, in Brass : Here lieth the body of Mary Huddleston, Daughter of Sir William Barentyne, Knight, and Wief of Anthony Huddleston Esquire, A Gentlewoman of such virtue, wisdom, and Godliness, as we have great cause to thank God for her ; and to have sure hope, that she is exalted to a Crown of Glory. She dyed the 15 day of May i^^i.—Delafiekrs M.SS. 24. Anthony 4° (i^Si) 24. Anthony Cope(a) of Hanwcll Castle, Esquire. 25. Richard Fiennes of Broughton Castle, Esquire. 26. Owyne Oglethorp(b) of Newington, Esquire. 27. John D'Oyley of Merton, Esquire. 28. Idem. 29. Michael Blount(c) of Mapledurham, Esquire. 30. John Danvers Esquire. 3r. William Clerke Esquire. 32. William SpencerC^) of Yarnton, Esquire. 33. Anthony Cope of Hanwell Castle, Esquire. (a) . He married first Frances, daughter of Rowland Lytton Esquire, of Knebworth, and secondly Anne, daughter of Sir William Paston, Knight, of Paston in Norfolk. Died July 16 14, and was buried in the Chancel of Hanwell Church. He represented Banbury in seven Parliaments during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and the County of Oxford, in that of her successor. He was one of the leaders of the early Puritans, and having on February 27, 1587, in Parliament, moved a petition " That all laws then in force touching ecclesiastical government should be void," and that " no other form of common prayer should be used other than what was contained in a book he presented to the House," he, with others, was com- mitted to the Tower by the Queen, where he remained until the dissolution of the Parliament on the 23rd of March. The Queen's displeasure however, towards Mr, Cope, does not appear to have been lasting, for she knighted him in 1590 ; and in 1601 she intended to visit him at Hanwell; which visit does not seem to have taken place. In September of that year, when the Queen was at Caversham, at the seat of her Minister, Sir Francis Knollis, Sir Anthony Cope went there to wait upon her, " with a great show and train of retainers." He is said to have kept " a hospitable house in the old English style." On the 20th of August 1606, he entertained King James and his Queen, at Hanwell, for a day and a night ; and again on the occasion of a second visit on the 27th of August 1612. He was created a baronet on the first institution of that order in 161 1. (b) . The Family of Oglethorp (formerly of Oglethorp in Yorkshire), settled at Newington in Oxfordshire at the commencement of the sixteenth century. Owen Oglethorp, the Sheriff, was Son of John Oglethorp of Newington, and Nephew of Owen Oglethorp, President of Magdalen College, Oxford, and Bishop of Carlisle. (c) . The ancient Family of Blount is traced from the Counts of Guisnes in Picardy, a race of Nobles themselves descended from the Scandinavian Rulers of Denmark. Sir William Le Blount accompanied William the Conqueror to England, and was a General of foot at the Battle of Hastings. The first connexion of this Family with Oxfordshire was upon Richard Blount purchasing, in the fifteenth century, the Manor of Mapledurham Gurney ; and in 1581 Sir Michael Blount purchased the Manor of Mapledurham Chawsey, and soon after erected the fine Elizabethan Mansion which is still the Family residence. On the death of Charles Blount, Earl of Devonshire and Lord Mountioy, Sir Michael Blount, in 1606, claimed the Barony of Mountjoy, but unsuccessfully. Of this Familv was Martha Blount to whom Pope's attachment has given such celebrity. The present re- spected Representative of the Family (Michael Henry Blount Esquire) was High Sheriff of Oxfordshire in 1832. (d) . In a Chapel on the South side of the Chancel of Yarnton Church, built by Sir Thomas Spencer, Baronet, is a fair monument, whereon is the proportion of a man in alabaster, armed, lying on his back, with his Helmet and Crest under his head, and Gauntlets at his feet. His wife also lying by his left side. At the side of the monument is this inscription, on a black marble tablet : Sir William Spencer Knight, Lord of this Mannour, third Son of Sir John Spencer of Althorp in the Countie of Northampton Knight, here resteth with Margaret his wife daughter of Francis Bowver of Middlesex Esquire, leaving issue two sons and 5 daughters. They both as they lived vertuouslie and laudably, so in assured hope to live eternally in Christ, ended this transitory life, Ilee the 18 of December 1609 She the 19 of June 1608. 34. Robert 41 Robert ChamberlayneCO of Shirburn Castle, Esquire. Francis Stonor of Stonor Park, Esquire. Sir Richard Fiennes(b) of Broughton Castlo, Knight. Owyne Oglethorpe of Newington, Esquire. William Frere(c) of Watereaton, Esquire. George Brome(d) of Holton Castle, Esquire. Sir Michael Blount of Mapledurham, Knight. Francis Curson of Waterperry, Esquire. William Greene Esquire. William Pope of Wilcot, Esquire. Sir Richard Fermor of Somerton, Knight. (a) . In the Parish Church of Shirburn, Oxfordshire, is the following inscription on a mural monument : Sub hoc tumulo resurrectionem in Christo expectat Robertus Chamberlain de Sherborn in Comitatu Oxon. armiger, qui cum ex charissima uxore Alicia filia et una haeredum Henrici Codenham de London armigeri 4 liberos Richardum, Robertum, Annane, et Anthonium, suscepisset, et pietate, virtutibus se Deo, patrize et bonis viris egregie probasset, in ccelesem patriam demigravit xxi November 1602. Cui moestisima conjux cum luctu et lachrimis in mutui amoris et conjugalis fidei testimonium hoc monumentum posuit. Ad marmor sepulchrale dilectissimi patris sui ROBERTI ChAMBERLAYNE, Marmor, quod pretiosa mei tegis ossa parentis Futum hunc thesaurum dum licet (oro) tegas Multi ilium (multi ut memorant) dum virit, amarunt Dignus ut a multis diligeretur, erat, Tu, tam dilecti quamvis solum ossa recondos, Da tamen iis requiem dant decus ilia tibi, Pars ejus melior mecum est, pars optima cslo, Pars tua si pereat, nostra perennis erit. Roberti filius et haeres. (b) . By the marriage of William Fiennes, 2nd Lord Saye and Sele, with Margaret, daughter and heiress of Sir William Wykeham, son and heir of Sir Thomas Wykeham, Knight, (Sheriff" 5th Hen. V. and 5th and 9th of Hen. VI.), he became possessed of the Lordship of Broughton, and had summons to Parliament from the 29th Hen. VI. until 9th of Ed. VI. inclusive. Lord Saye and Sele suffered much during the wars, being twice taken prisoner, which necessitated him to mortgage the greatest part of his lands : and upon his death the Barony became extinct, the heirs male of the family being only called Fiennes. King James, in the first year of his reign, recognised and confirmed the stile, title, degree, dignitie and honor of the Baron Saye and Sele, upon Sir Richard Fiennes, lineally descended from Sir James Fiennes, Baron Saye and Sele, and Lord High Treasurer of England, who was cruelly beheaded by a rabble of Rebels, in the time of Henry VI. (c) . The following entry occurs in the Council Book of the City of Oxford, July 6th 1596 (39 Queen Elizabeth). *' It is agreed at this Counsell that Mr. Ffrere, nowe High Sheriff^e of this Countie of Oxon, shall have a hoggeshead of Claret Wyne bestowed on him against the next Assizes, at the Citie's charge." (d) . Upon the dispersion of the estates of the Quartermaynes, through the prodigality of Sir Richard Fowler, his heir, the Manor of Holton came into the possession of Sir William Brome, who had married the daughter and heiress of Baldington of Albury. It remained in this Family until the marriage of Sir Thomas Whorwood with Ursula, daughter and sole heiress of George Brome, and continued in his family until 1 801, when Henry Mayne Whorwood Esquire, of Headington» sold the Estate. James 42 JAMES THE FIRST. ANNO. (1603). 6. 7. 8. Sir Anthony Cope of Hanwell Castle, Knight. George Tipping of Wheatfield, Esquire. Sir James Harrington of Merton, Knight. Sir Thomas Temple, Knight. Sir Rowland Lacy of Shipton under Whichwood, Knight. Henry Samborne Esquire. Sir Michael Dormer(a) of Ascot, Knight. Benedict Winchcombe(b) of Noke, Esquire. (a) . Grandson of Ambrose Dormer Esquire, Lord Mayor of London, 1541- He served under Robert Earl of Leicester and Sir Francis Vere, in the Low- Countries, and, A. D. 1618, erected for himself, his wife, and his father, the monu- ment in the south aisle of Milton Church. He sold the Manors of Milton and its hamlets to Sir Michael Greene, about 1588. (b) . The manor and advowson of Noke were purchased from the Termors, by Benedict "Winchcombe, who was buried in the small chapel (now destroyed) attached to the north-east side of Noke Church, in 1623. The estate passed to his sister Mary, the wife of Benedict Hall Esquire, heiress to him. Plis effigy (removed from the chapel) is Jiow within th-e Chancel of Noke Church, broken off at the knees. His Ancestor w-as a rich Clothier living at Newbury, Berks, in the time of Henry VHL, noted for a generous and public-spirited man, as also for his riches, and was commonly called Jack of Newbury. The great number of hands employed by him is curiously related in verse, in an old black letter book, entitled " The life and ghests of Jack of Newbury." Within one room, being large and long. There stood two hundred looms full strong ; Two hundred men, the truth is so. Wrought in these Looms all in a row. By every one a pretty boy. Sate making quills with mickle joy. And in another place hard by. An hundred Women merrily Were carding hard with joyful cheer. Who singing, sat with voyces cleer j And in a chamber close beside Two hundred Maidens did abide, In petticoats of stammel red. In milk-white kerchers on their head 5 Their smock sleeves like to winter-snow That on the western mountains flow. And each sleeve, with a silken band, Was fairly tied at the hand. These pretty maids did never lin But in that place all day did spin. And spinning so with voices meet. Like nightingales they sung full sweet. Then to another room came they. Where children were in poor array, And every one sat picking wool The finest from the coarse to cull. The number w^as seven score and ten, The children of poor silly men : And these their labors to requite, Had every one a penny at night Beside their meat and drink all day. Which was to them a wondrous stay. Within another place likewise. Full fifty proper men he spies. And these were Shearmen every one. Whose skill and cunning there was shown. And hard by them there did remain Full fourscore Rowers taking pain. A Dyhouse likewise had he then, Wherein he kept full forty men, And likewise in his fulling mill, Full twenty persons kept he still. Each week ten good fat oxen he Spent in his house for certainty : Besides good butter, cheese, and fish. And many another wholesome dish. He kept a Butcher all the year, A Brewer eke for ale and beer, A Baker for to bake his bread, Which stood his household in good stead. Five cooks within his kitchlng great Were all the year to dress his meat. Six scullion boys unto their hands. To make clean dishes, pots and pans. Beside poor children that did stay To turn the Broaches every day. The old man that did see this sight Was much amazed, as well he might. This was a gallant Clothier sure. Whose Fame for ever shall endure. 9. Thomas 43 (i6ii). 9. Thomas MoyleCa) of Caversficld, Esqutre. 10. Sir Wiiliam Clerke(^) of North Weston, Kniglu. 11. Sir Henry Lee(c) of Ditchley, Baronet. 12. Edward Dunch of Newington, Esquire. 13. Thomas Read Esquire. 14. Sir Thomas Spencer(^) of Yarnion, Knight and Baronet. 15. Sir John Curson of Waterperry, Knight. 16. Edward Fenner Esquire. (a) . On an alabaster stone on the ground in Caversfield Church is the fol- lowing inscription : Here lyeth Thomas Moyle of Caversfeild in the countie of Bucks Esquire, second son to Thomas Moyle (of Bucknell in the countie of Oxon) Esquire and Mercy his wife, who married Mary North daughter of Sr Henry North of PJillner in the countie of Suffblke. Hee departed this life the 10 of June an. dom. 1649. Some men desire rich monuments to frame, Onelie a stone I leave in memory of my name. There is little happiness in monuments of stone, My happiness in Heaven's, in Christ alone. (b) . His Ancestor was the famous Sir John Clerke who lies buried in the Chancel of Thame Church j upon whose monument is the following inscription, engraven on a brass plate : Here lyeth Sir John Clerke of Northe Weston Knyght, wyche toke Lovys of Orleans Duk of Longueville and Marquis of Rotuelm prysoner at the Torney of Borny by Terovane, y" xvi''' day of August in v"' year of the reigne of the noble and victorious Kyng Henry y" viii''', which John decessyd the v"' day of April, a"' dni. 1539 : whose soule God pardon. (c) . Made a Baronet by James I. 22nd May 161 1. He was great grandson of Sir Edward Henry Lee, and raised to the peerage as Earl of Litchfield, Viscount ^uariendon, and Baron Lee of Spelsbury, July 5 th 1674. This peerage became extinct on the death of Robert, fourth Earl in 1776, when the estates in Oxfordshire passed to Henry, second Viscount Dillon, of Ireland, who had married, 20th October 1745, Lady Charlotte Lee, eldest daughter of George Henry, second Earl of Litchfield. The following lines are placed upon his monument immediately under the Latin inscription : To the happie msmorie of Sir Henry Lee, Knight and Baronett. They whose inglorious undeserving dayes Of life deserve noe memorie nor prayse Of future and succeeding ages, these Have need of marble Tombes, Pyramides To keep alive their names, and fame, but he Whose sacred ashes here entombed be, Needes no such Oratours to speak his praise, No lying epitaphes, aeternal bayes, Which nere shall wither, are the just desert Of his rare vertues, which transcend the art Of all expression, this tombe's sole intent Shewes he deserves, but needes no monument. Sleep then sweet Soule, we'l not injure thee soe, As wish thee here again with us in woe. (d) . Son and heir of Sir William Spencer, Knight. He married Margaret, daughter of Richard Branthwayte, serjeant-at law, and died 17th of August 1622, and was buried the next day in a chapel he had erected on the South side of" the chancel of Yarnton Church. On the failure of Heirs male of the body of Sir Thomas Spencer the third baronet, the reversion of the estate, manor, and three- fourths of the advowson were purchased by Sir Robert Dashwood of Kirtlington in 1695, after the death of Lady Spencer, for which he gave the sum of thirty-one thousand pounds, and in the year 1711 or thereabouts came into possession of it. 17. Sir 44 (i6i9)- 17- Sir William Cope of Hanwell Castle, Knight and Baronet. 18. Sir Richard Baker(a), Knight. 19. Sir Francis Stonor of Stonor Park, Knight. 20. Rowland Lacy of Pudlicot, Esquire. 21. Sir William Aishcombe of Alvescot, Knight. 22. Walter Dunch of Newington, Esquire. CHARLES THE FIRST. ANNO. 1625. Sir Richard Blount of Mapledurham, Knight. 1626. Richard, Lord Lovelace of Watereaton, and Sir Cope D'Oyley(b) of Chiselhampton, Knight, (a) . Sir Richard Baker, Knight, was a native of Oxfordshire. His youth he spent in learning, the benefit whereof he reaped in his old age, when his estate, through surety-ship (as I have heard him complain), was very much impaired. But God may smile on them on whom the world doth frown j whereof his pious old age was a memorable instance, when the storm on his estate forced him to fly for shelter to his studies and devotions. He wrote an " Exposition on the Lord's Prayer" which is co-rival with the best comments which professed Divines have written on that subject. He wrote a chronicle on our English Kings, embracing a method peculiar to himself, digesting observables under several heads, very useful for the reader. The Reverend Knight left this troublesome world about the beginning of our Civil Wars. — Fuller. (b) . He was son and heir of Sir Robert D'Oyley of Greenlands, Hambleden, a place celebrated for the remarkable events which happened in the time of the Civil Wars, when the House was garrisoned for the King in 1644, with the intention of commanding the passage over the Thames from Reading and Henley to London. The siege of Greenland House is described in Whitelock's Memorials as follows : In May 1644 the Earl of Essex, Lord General, whose forces were quartered at Henley, reconnoitred Greenland House and certified the Parliament that it was very prejudicial to the cause, but unsafe for him to make an attack upon it without a reinforcement of troops 5 and Major-General Skippon approaching the works had his horse shot under him. In June, the House of Lords sent a mes- sage to the House of Commons, desiring that a Regiment of Foot, at least, might be sent to join the Forces before Greenland House, to batter it from the opposite side of the Thames ; but the King being again at Oxford, the siege was discontinued until the arrival of Major-General Brown, with additional forces, the better to ensure its reduction ; and the Major-General having planted batteries on the opposite bank of the Thames, battered the House, and sent for some petards and two more pieces of ordnance, so that in the month of July the besiegers had nearly de- stroyed the House ; but a party being sent from Oxford and Wallingford to the relief of the besieged, the Parliamentary forces at that time being but few in number, drew off to Henley. However, the King's forces brought but little relief, only carrying away in safety twenty-nine women, with some plunder, and so re- turning, the besiegers renewed the attack; and, in a few dajs, Major-General Brown, with his whole brigade, having joined the assailants, the Governor of Greenland, Colonel Hawkins, demanded a parley, and surrendered the House to Major-General Brown upon conditions. The mansion being destroyed. Sir John D'Oyley sold 1627. Sir 45 1627. Sir Richard Wenman(a) of Thame Park, Knight. sold this estate, in 1651, to Bulstrode Whitlock Esq., who transferred it to Penning Alstone Esquire, from whonm it passed to Robert Chandler Esquire, Alderman of London, in 1669 ; from him it was conveyed to John Green Esquire who was Lord of this Manor in 1687. Mr. Green bequeathed this Estate to his two daughters; and, by an agree- ment. Mill-end passed to the eldest, who was married, from whom it descended to Richard Lane Esquire, who was High Sheriff of Bucks in 1756. His Widow, Anne, was subsequently married to the Rev. Thomas Hinde, and, surviving him, possessed that part of the estate called Mill-end, or Ewden ; but Greenland became the property of Elizabeth the second daughter, who was married to Mr. Baker, by whom that property was sold in 17 19 to Mr. Robert Ayre ; and passing in marriage by Elizabeth, his sole daughter and heiress, to Henry Stevens Esquire, Proctor in Doctors' Commons, his son, the Reverend Henry Stevens, Rector of Bradfield, Berks, was Lord of the Manor in 1797 j but he sold the Estate about the year 18 10, to Mr. Coventry. The present mansion called Greenlands is the property and residence of Edward Majoribanks Esquire. Sir Cope D'Oyley married the sister of Francis Quarles, the author of The Emblems," and Sir Cope and his wife lie buried in Hambleden Church, where is a fine monument composed of alabaster and black marble, with the effigy of him occupying the dexter side and that of his wife the sinister. On the tablet under the dexter arch is this inscription : To the Memory of that Noble Knight Sr Cope D'Oyley, late Deputy Lieut, of Oxfordshire, and Justice of Oyer and Terminer, Heir of the Antient and famous Family of the D'Oyleys in Oxfordshire, Founders of Osney and Missenden and the Castle of Oxford, who put on Immortality the 4th of August 1663. Under the other arch on the other tablet, this inscription : To the Memory of that rare example of undistayned Vertue Martha, wife to the said Sr Cope D'Oyley, eldest daughter of James Quarles of Romford, in Essex, Esq ; who received the Crown of Glory, in the year of Grace 161 8. On the verge of the tomb this : Who lived together in inviolated bands of holy wedlock 22 years and multiplied themselves into five sonnes and five daughters, viz. John, James, Robert, Charles, Francis, Martha, Mary, Dorothy, Elizabeth, and Joanna. His descendants are the Doylys of Chiselton, Oxfordshire. Under this last inscription are two black marble tablets, the dexter one con- taining the following lines : Ask me not who's buried here, Goe ask the Commons, ask the Shiere, Goe ask the Church, They'l tell thee who, As well as blubber'd eyes can doe ; Goe ask the Heralds, ask the Poore, Thine ears shall hear enough to ask no more. Then if thine Eye bedew this sacred Urne Each drop a Pearle will turne T' adorne his Tombe, or if thou canst not vent, Thou bringest more marble to this Monument. On the other tablet this : Wouldst thou (Reader) draw to life The perfect copy of a Wife, Read on, and then redeeme from shame. That lost, that Honorable name. This Dust was once in Spirit a Jael, Rebecca in Grace, in Heart an Abigail, In Works a Dorcas, to the Church a Hanna, And to her spouse, Susanna. Prudently simple, providently warie, To th' World a Martha, and to Heaven, a Mary, (a). He received the honour of Knighthood for his gallant conduct at the taking of Cadiz, in 1596, where he served as a Volunteer. In 1628 he was created Baron Wenman of Kilmainham, and Viscount Wenman of Tuam. His Lordship zealously promoted the Royal cause during the Civil War, and at his house. Dr. Seth Ward, afterwards Bishop of Salisbury, found an asylum, when persecuted for his fidelity to the King. By his wife Agnes, eldest daughter of Sir George Fermor, of Easton Neston in Northamptonshire, he had issue a daughter, the wife of Greville Verney Esquire, and a son who succeeded him. 1628. Sir 46 1628. Sir Robert Dormer of Ascot, Knight. 1629. Sir William Cobb(a) of Adderbury, Knight. 1630. Sir John Lacy of Pudlicot, Knight. 1 63 1. John HarborneCb) of Tackley, Esquire. 1632. Sir Thomas Coghill of Blechingdon, Knight. 1633. Sir John Meller, Knight. 1634. Sir Peter Wentworth of Lillingston Lovell, Baronet. 1635. Sir Francis Norreys(c) of Weston-on-the-Green, Knight. (a) . Knighted June 15th, 1624. He married Susan, daughter and co-heir of Noah Floyd, Esquire, of Gloucestershire, by whom he had twenty-one children, but few attained maturity. Thomas, his son and heir, was created a Baronet by King Charles the II. 9th December 1662, died February 1699. After the decease of Sir Edward, eldest son of Sir Thomas Cobb in 1744, without issue, the estates and title descended to George the second son, who falling accidentally into a Moat at the seat of John Blagrave Esquire, near Reading, was drowned, at the advanced age of ninety, when the Baronetcy became extinct. (b) . In a chapel on the North side of Tackley Church is a marble monument of two arches with the effigies of a man and woman praying before a table whereon are two books open, under them is a table between the effigies of live sons and nine daughters in alabaster praying. Behind the man's head is this inscription : To the pious memory of John Harborne Esquire whose name and vertues need no other elogy than their owne. He married into an antient and honorable family viz. Francis the onlie daughter of Sir Francis Eure, Kt. of Upper Heyford in this county, whom he left a sad Widow having by her 5 sons and 9 daughters whereof 6 of them were dead when he changed this life the 9th day of Jany 1651 aged 69 years. John Harborne his son and heire in commemoration of his deare father erected this monument. His widow lived in Holywell Parish, Oxford, in a sad and distracted condition occa- sioned by the ill courses of her sons. John, the eldest, was a sot, and, after he had sold the Tackley Estate, died at Cassington, 21st February 1654. William, sometime a commoner of Gloucester Hall, was such a notorious drunkard that he could not speak common sense. Frances, their mother died 27th July 1663, and was buried at 'lackley by her husband. — Wood'i MSS. (c) . He was the reputed son of Francis, Lord Norreys, of Weston-on-the-Green, begotten on the body of Sarah Rose, afterwards the wife of Samuel Haywarde and known by the name of Francis Rose alias Norreys. By an Indenture dated ist June, 16 James ist, his father settled upon him the Manors of Weston-on-the-Green, and Yattenuen, as also lands at Cherrington, Chilswell, &c., which upon the unfortunate suicide of his father he succeeded to, January 28, 1621. Being a young gentleman of property and talent, he speedily distinguished himself, and in 1656 was elected one of the members of the County of Oxford. On the accession of Richard Cromwell to the protectorate, A. D. 1658, he again offered himself for the same honour and stood a contest with Robert Jenkinson Esquire, and Lord Falkland, and was actually returned with the other candidates, but his election was nullified by a vote of the House of Commons. The following extracts will show the particulars of this unusual occurrence : Mercurius Politicus, No. 548, p. 135, Dec. 29, 1658. — Extract of a letter from Oxford : "Yesterday our election was for the County: My Lord Falkland and Mr. Jenkinson stood, and upon the poll Mr. Jenkinson carried it by thirteen voices. This day the competition stands between the said Lord and Sir Francis Norreys, and tis thought my Lord will carry it." lb. No. 555, p. 222. — " Monday, Feb. 7, Mr. Sergeant Waller reports from the Committee of Jilections and Priviledges, the state of the case concernmg the double returne made of the elections of the Knights for the County of Oxford. That the Indentures whereby Robert Jenkinson Esquire and Henry Carey, Viscount Falkland, are returned, is the true returne, and that the said Lord Falkland ought to sit in the house, and that the Indenture whereby the said Robert Jenkinson and Sir Francis Norreys are returned, ought to be withdrawn ; thereupon the house resolved accordingly, directing that the latter Indenture be taken off the file. Sir Francis Norreys died A. D. 1669, aged sixty. 47 1636. William Walter of Sarsden, Esquire. 1637. Sir Thomas Peniston(a) of Cornwell, Baronet. 1638. John D'Oyley of Chislehampton, Esquire. 1639. Ralph Warcoppe of English (near Henley), Esquire. 1640. Richard LybbcC^) of Hardwick, Esquire. 1641. Thomas Tipping of Wheatfield, Esquire. 1642. SirThomasChamberlayneCO of Wickham, Baronet. 1643. Sir Robert Jenkinson of . Walcot (Charlbury), Knight. 1644. Sir William Walter of Sarsden, Baronet. 1645. Edward ClerkeW Esquire. 1646. William Cope(e) of Hanwell Castle, Esquire. (a) . Sir Thomas Peniston was created a Baronet by King James I., 25'^'^ November 161 2. He married first, Anne, 4th daughter of Sir William Stonehouse, and secondly, Martha, 4th daughter of Sir Thomas Temple, Baronet, of Stowe j but by those ladies he had no surviving issue. Sir Thomas married Elizabeth, daughter and sole heir of Sir Thomas Watson of Halstead, in Kent, vi'idow of Sir William Pope, and by her had two daughters and two sons. He was succeeded in the Baronetcy by his son Thomas, who married Elizabeth, only daughter and heir of Sir Cornelius Fairmedow, Knight, of London. Upon the death of his son. Sir Fairmedow Peniston (who had married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Compton Reade, Baronet, of Shipton Court, and secondly Mary, daughter of — Powney Esquire, of Old Windsor, Berks, without issue), died December 24th, 1705, and the Baronetcy became extinct. (b) . Buried in Whitchurch Church, with this inscription on a white marble tablet with black Ionic pilasters : Richard Lybbe of Hardwick, Esquire, and Anne Blagrave, united in sacred wedlock 50 years, are here again made one by death. She yielded to the chance January 17, 1651, which he embraced July 14, 1658. He whose renowne for what compleateth man Speakes lowder, better things than marble can, Shee, whose religious deeds makes Hardwick's fame. Breathe as the balm of Lybbe's immortal name. Are once more joyned within this peaceful bed, Where honour (not Arabian gummes) is spread. Then judge not. Friends, who next succeed them must, Y' are happy that shall mingle with such dust. (c) . Created a Baronet 4th February 1642 ; and died, during his year of office as High Sheriff, 6th October 1643. He was succeeded in the title by his son Sir Thomas Chamberlayne, whose daughter Penelope, married Sir Robert Dashwood, of Northbrook, Baronet, by which alliance the Dashwood family became possessed of the Chamberlayne Estates in Oxfordshire. On the death of Sir Thomas Chamberlayne, the King granted a Patent to Sir Robert Jenkinson to hold the office of Sheriff during pleasure. (d) . Appointed by the Parliament ist December 1645. "Upon the humble petition of Edward Clerke Esquire, High Sheriff of the County of Oxford, in regard the said County is almost wholly under the power of the enemy, and the said Edward Clerke hath no habitation or place of residence within the said County, but hath a dwelling-house in Reading in the County of Berks, near adjoining to the said County of Oxford ; the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament do hereby give leave unto and authorise the said Edward Clerke to make his residence and usual place of abode in Reading during the time of his being High Sheriff of Oxfordshire." — Lords' Journal, 6th February 1645. (e) . " Ordered by the Lords and Commons, &c., that William Cope Esquire be Sheriff of the County of Oxford, and that the Commissioners of the Great Seal of England do issue a Commission to him to be Sheriff of the said County accordingly." — Lords" Journal, 1st December 1646. 1647. George 48 1 647- George ChamberlayneCa) of Bishop's Land, (Wardington), Esquire. 1648. Nicholas Herman(b) of Middleton Stoney, Esquire. THE COMMONWEALTH. 1649. Robert Jenkinson(c) of Walcot, Esquire. 1650. William Boseville Esquire. 165 1. Robert Loggin(d) of Idbury, Esquire. 1652. John Keate of Stoke Talmage, Esquire. 1653. Charnell Pettie(e) of Tetsworth, Esquire. 1654. John Cartwright of Aynhoe, Esquire. 1655. William Draper of Netherworton, Esquire. 1656. Francis Martin of Ewelme, Esquire. 1657. William Draper of Netherworton, Esquire. (a) . John Ellis rendered the Account to the Exchequer, for Mr. Chamberlayne, who died at the end of his year of ofHce. (b) . The following entry occurs in the Register of Middleton Stoney, " 1668 lith April, obiit et Sepult. Nich : Herman Dom. Man." (c) . He was son and heir of Sir Robert Jenkinson of Walcot (Sheriff in 1643), and the heir of the celebrated Anthony Jenkinson employed by Queen Elizabeth on many delicate missions, and twice Her Ambassador in Russia. He represented the County of Oxford in the first and other Parliaments of Charles the First, and was created a Baronet 1 8th May 1661, the first year of the Restoration ; he continued to represent the County in Charles the Second's reign until his (Sir Robert Jenkinson's) death in 1677. His only son and successor, Sir Robert Jenkinson, was also M.P. for the County of Oxford ; an honor which was also enjoyed by the third, fourth, and fifth Baronets down to 1766. Upon the decease of Sir Bankes Jenkinson, unmarried, in 1789, the Baronetcy passed to Charles Jenkinson, created in 1786, Lord Hawkesbury, and in 1796 Earl of Liverpool. (d) . In the North Aisle of Idbury Church is a marble monument erected to the memory of John Loggin and Robert his son. The inscription to Robert runs thus : " Hie etiam obdormit Robertus natu maximus predicti Johis. quondam Vice- com. com. Oxon, qui ccelebs obiit 30 June 1654, aetat. 63. (e) . He was buried in the Church of Stoke Lyne ; the following inscription is on a white free-stone gravestone in capitals : February the 14th 1661. Here lyes the body of Charnell Pettie, Esq., aged 82. The Righteous shall bee in everlasting Remembrance. — Ps. 112 V. 6. They who full threescore years in one bed lay Doe here rest sweetly in one bed of clay. This family were owners for a long time of the Manor of Tetsworth, and were related by marriage with Anthony a Wood, the Oxford Antiquary. In Delafield's manuscript account of Great Milton is the following : — " Christopher Pettie, who left his name on one of the bells in Tetsworth Church, a lasting memorial of his unthriftiness, folly, and extravagance. For being much addicted to ringing, he carried about with him a set of silken ropes (as I have heard it often affirmed) and a train of idle fellows for his accommodation of that exercise, till he had rung away a good estate and dyed very old, and extremely reduced, at Thame, in the year 17 " 1658. Unton 49 1658. Unton CrokeCO of Marston, Esquire. 1659. William Gore(b) of Southleigh, Esquire. 1660. Robert VeseyCO of Chimney, Esquire. CHARLES THE SECOND. ANNO. 1661. 1662. Thomas Cobb of Adderbury, Esquire. John Taverner(d) of Soundess, (Nettlebed), Esquire. 1663. 1664. Sir George Croke(e) of Waterstock, Baronet. (a) . Fourth son of Sir John Croke, the Judge ; and who, in the first of King Charles I., was one of the Burgesses for Wallingford. He was a Counsellor at Law, and had a seat at Marston, Oxfordshire, which he acquired by his marriage with Anne, daughter and heiress of Richard Hore Esquire. In May 1646, his house was made use of by the Commissioners for the King and the Parliament army, for the surrender of Oxford. He was also Deputy Steward of the University of Oxford, and on 21st June 1654 was called to the bar as one of Oliver's Serjeants at Law. In 1658 he, and Richard Croke Esquire, were returned as Members for the City of Oxford in the Parliament then called by Richard the Protector. He died at Marston, 28th January 1670. (b) . The following occurs in Wood's M.SS., E. i, p. 55 : " Most of this Lordship (Southleigh) was sometime in the Harcourts possession. Now, — Gore, Alderman of London, hath, by report, here land worth ^1,000 per annum. He was High Sheriff' of Oxfordshire 1659-60. The said Gore hath been Lord of this place about 16 years. Since my writing this I have been informed that the Harcourts of Stanton Harcourt sold this manor to one Skinner, and from him it came to Sir Henry Marten, Knight, Judge of the Prerogative Court, whose son, Henry Marten, the Regicide, sold it to the said Gore about 1643." (c) . One of the Vesey family, who were seated at Chimney, founded the Free Grammar School at Bampton, in Charles the First's reign. (d) . On the south side of the east window of the chancel of Nettlebed Church, is an alabaster monument containing the following inscription : Neare to this place rest the bodies of John Taverner of Soundess, Esquire, sometime High Sheriff of this countie, and Judeth his wife, one of the daughters and co-heirs of John Smithes of Wrington in Somersetshire, Esquire, by whome he had issue Edward, buried June 25 an. 1648, in the great church at the Hague in Holland, in the 19 yeare of his age. John of Greys Inne, who dying 1657, aged 25 years, was buried in St, Andrew's Church in Holborne, London. Richard buried May 9, 1642, neare this place, aged one yeare and half. Lucy buried June 16, 1648, neare this place, aged 17 years, and Mary, who being married to John Harrys of Silkstede in Hampshire, Esquire, became at length heir to her Father's lands. The said John died Jan. 19, 1674, aged 84 years, and his wife followed him May 17, 1676, in the 68 yeare of her age. (e) . He was the eldest son of the Reverend Henry Croke, D.D., Rector of Waterstock, upon whose death he became possessed of that estate. By virtue of a dispensation from Oliver Cromwell, the Chancellor of the University, he was created M.A. February 27, 1651, having been previously made Fellow of All Souls' College, by the Parliamentary visitors. Upon the Restoration he was knighted, and chosen Fellow of the Royal Society on February 8th, 1676. He died November 17, 1680, and was buried in Waterstock Church, having left only two daughters, Elizabeth and Sarah, as heiresses to his estate, which was afterwards sold to Sir Henry Ashhurst, Baronet. 1665. Thomas 5° i66^. Thomas WheateC^) of Glympton Park, Esquire. 1666. William Dormer(b) of Ascot, Esquire. 1667. Edmund Dance Esquire. 1668. Sir William GlynneW of Ambrosden, Baronet. 1669. Sir Samuel Jones, Knight. 1670. John Cartwright(d) of Aynho, Esquire. 167 1. Henry Hall of Harpsden, Esquire. 1672. John Lenthall(e) of Burford Priory, Esquire. (a) . On a black marble gravestone before the pulpit in the body of the Church at Glympton, is the following inscription : Memoriae Sacrum Thomae Wheate armigeri qui obiit decimo secundo die Maii, 1668. Et memoriae sacrum Franciscae Wheate, viduae quae obiit decimo tertio die Decembris anno Domini 1706. (b) . " He married a daughter of Edmund Waller of Beaconsfield. In September 1683, he went to Uxbridge Fair, and upon his return died at Great Wycombe, 25th of the same month, having then and before taken too much of the creature. Whereupon his body was brought to Ascot and buried soon after at Milton by the side of his ancestors. — Wood, MS., E. i. (c) . Sir William Glynne, who was created a Baronet the 13th of Charles II., was the son and heir of Lord Chief Justice Glynne, who distinguished himself in the reign of Charles I. Sir William erected a noble mansion at Ambrosden, and was a considerable benefactor to Bicester Church. (d) . This gentleman, espousing the cause of the Parliament, suffered deeply at the commencement of the Civil War. In 1645 his mansion house at Aynho was burnt to the ground by the King's troops, who forced him at that time to pay the sum of ;^8oo ; and in two years afterwards, when the Earl of Northampton was summoned to compound for delinquency, Mr. Cartwright petitioned for ^Ti 0,000 out of that nobleman's estate, in compensation for the losses he had sustained while the Earl commanded the Royalists in his vicinity. In that year (1647) he was appointed one of the Parliamentary Visitors of the University of Oxford, but, dis- approving the proceedings of the Committee, he refused to act. Mr. Cartwright was a learned man, and an encourager of learning, as attested, amongst other acts of liberality, by the rent charges of ;^io annually out of lands in Bloxham, which he conferred upon Brasenose College, to found two scholarships for natives of Cheshire, Northamptonshire, or Oxfordshire, but more especially to be chosen from the Free Grammar School of Aynho, or the parishes of Budworth, or Wrenbury, in Cheshire. He married Catherine, daughter of William Noy Esquire, Attorney-General to King Charles I. In pursuance of the Will of his Mother he built a school-house in Aynho, for the education of twenty-five free scholars, and endowed it with a yearly rent of ^^20 out of an estate at Milcomb, in Oxfordshire. He died 17th April 1676, and was succeeded by his Grandson, Thomas Cartwright Esquire, born in 1671, who married 30th March 1699, the Hon. Airmine Crewe, one of the daughters and co-heirs of Thomas, second Lord Crewe, of Stene, and had one son and two daughters. Mr. Cartwright, who served the office of Sheriff for North- amptonshire, 1694, and for the County of Oxford in 1699, and represented the former county several years in Parliament, died iith March 1747-8. (e) . This family was originally seated at Leynthall Earls, Leynthall Starkes, and Hampton Court in the county of Hereford. Sir Rowland Lenthall, or Lentall, of Hampton Court, was high in favour with King Henry IV., to whom he was Master of the Robes. He was one of the Lords Marchers for South Wales, and for sometime ambassador either to the Court of France or Spain. Sir Rowland accompanied Henry V. to France, and, having a command at the Battle of Agincourt, made 1673. William 5' 1673. William Draper of Nether Worton, Esquire. made so many prisoners in that celebrated contest that he completed with the produce of their ransom the new buildings at Hampton Court (Herefordshire), and Henry V., in reward for his bravery, conferred upon him a moiety of the estate of Monkland Abbey. In the Mansion at Hampton Court was preserved a picture of Henry IV. Pendant from the neck is a chain and medallion on which are depicted the arms of the Fitz Alans, Earls of Arundel, and underneath, the following inscription : " Henry the Fourth, King of England, who laid the first stone of this house and left this picture in it, when he gave it to Lenthall." Sir Rowland married Lady Margaret Fitz Alan, daughter and eventually co-heiress of Richard Fitz Alanj Earl of Arundel, beheaded in the reign of Richard II., upon which marriage. Lady Margaret, being nearly related to the King (her mother or grandmother being Eleanor of Lancaster), Sir Rowland had' given to him a thousand by the year "for the maintenance of them and their heirs," of which grant, says Leland, the town of Ludlow forms a part. Some years afterwards, the Lenthalls sold their estate in Herefordshire to the Cornwalls, Barons of Burford, and settled at Lachford and Great Haseley in Oxfordshire (which manors and estates they acquired in the reign of Edward IV. by the marriage of William Lenthall of Herefordshire, — who died 28th June 1497, — with the heiress of the Pypards, a very antient and rich family, one of whom had been created a Baron in the Scotch wars. This William was buried in the church of Great Haseley, in the chapel belonging to them. His brass, still remaining in the south aisle, represents a man in his winding sheet, with a scroll at his mouth, with the words *' O bone Jesu . . . Jesu miserere mei 5" and, under, this inscription : guisquis eris qui transieris sta prospice plora Sum quod eris fueram quod sis pro me precor ora. Hie jacet Willm. Leynthall de quondam dominus de Lachforde qui obiit 28° die mensis Junii, An" Dni. mcccclxxxxvii. Cuj. aie. propiciet. Deus. Lachford Manor (in Haseley parish) belonged for more than 200 years to the family of Lenthall, and was the usual place of residence of William Lenthall, the father of the famous Speaker of the House of Commons. The following occurs in the Register of Henley-on-Thames : " 4 July 1591. William Lenthall, filius Joh'is gens, bapts." He (the Speaker) was the second son of William Lenthall of L.achford (in Haseley Parish) and is believed to have been born at Henley, where his father had a residence. It is presumed that he is incorrectly described in the Register, as Filius Johannis. Edmund Lenthall, eldest brother of the Speaker, married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Wade, Lieutenant of the Tower of London, and had issue two sons and a daughter. The elder son married late in life, and, selling the old family estates at Lachford and Great Haseley, terminated this branch of the family. The prosperous career of Speaker Lenthall enabled him to purchase con- siderable estates both in Oxfordshire aad Berkshire. In 1634 he gave to Lucius, Lord Falkland, ^7,000 for the mansion at Burford called the Priory, with the annexed estate. He also purchased, in 1647, another manor in Burford from William Eyston Esquire, of East Hendred in the county of Berks, which estates were sold in 1828 to Mr. Greenaway of Little Barrington in Gloucestershire. In 163^9 William Lenthall was returned member for Woodstock, and when the Long Parliament met, on the 3rd November 1640, he was chosen Speaker j which office he continued to hold after the King's death. In Cromwell's second Parliament he was returned as member for both the city of Gloucester and the county of Oxford, and was again elected Speaker. In the Parliament of Richard Cromwell he sat in. the upper house by the title of William, Lord Lenthall. He sent King Charles II. to assist his Restoration, — a piece of generosity which savours strongly of a bribe for indemnity, notwithstanding the assurance of General Monk that he could not have brought about the Restoration of King Charles II. without Mr. Lenthall's concurrence. The estate, manor, and appendant advowson at Bessels Leigh were purchased of Sir Richard Fetteplace, or his son, in the year 1630. Speaker Lenthall died at his seat, the Priory, Burford, ist September 1661, and was privately buried at Burford. " Such Bulstrode was, and Lenthall yet more great j Both raised to highest offices of state ; Their acts of mercy let the shades attest, Of Strafford — Goring — long consigned to rest.. The former fell, for Whitelock could not save, But Lenthall turn'd the latter from his grave. Their natures gentle, generous, and bland, Each bore the impress of his native Land." The Speaker's only surviving son John (the above Sheriff) was member for Gloucester 1674. Sir 52 1674. Sir Thomas Curzon(a) of Waterperry, Baronet. 1675. Sir Edmund Fettiplace of Swinbrook, Baronet. 1676. John Gower of Bampton, Esquire. 1677. John Parsons of Nether Worton, Esquire. 1678. Ralph Holt(b) of Stoke Lyne, Esquire. 1679. Sir Jacob Parret(c) junior, Baronet. 1680. Edmund Gregory of Cuxham, Esquire. 168 1. Robert Mayot of Fawler, Esquire. 1682. John Wickham of Garsington, Esquire. 1683. Sir Robert Dashwood of Northbrook, Baronet. 1684. Sir John D'Oyley(d) of Chislehampton, Baronet. Gloucester in the Long Parliament, and, dying 9th Nov. 1681, was buried in the chancel of Bessels Leigh Church. His grandson John also was Sheriff for Oxfordshire, as was William Lenthall, son of the last-named John who, dying unmarried, was succeeded by his brother, John Lenthall Esquire, who likewise supplied a Sheriff in 1787, in the person of his eldest son John, who died in 1820 and was buried at Burford. His son, William, sold the Burford Priory Estate in 1828, and thus termi- nated all connexion of the family with Oxfordshire. The present representative of the family (Kyffin John William Lenthall Esquire) succeeded to the Bessels Leigh Estate, upon the death of his father (William John Lenthall Esquire) in 1835. (a) . Created a Baronet by King Charles IL 30th April 1661. He married Elizabeth, daughter of William Burrow Esquire, of Burrow in Leicestershire, and, dying about 1681, was succeeded by his son, Sir John Curzon. The Baronetcy became extinct upon the death of Sir Francis, the third Baronet, 28th May 1750, and the Waterperry estate came eventually to Lord Teynham, of whom the late Joseph Henley Esquire purchased it. The name of William Wright Esquire is printed in the List of Sheriffs for this year in the London Gazette^ as Sheriff for Oxford- shire, but in Antony a Wood's copy of the Gazette in the Bodleian Library, his name is erased, and Sir Thomas Curzon, Baronet, substituted. (b) . He was son of Thomas Holt of Stoke Lyne, Esquire, and married Susan, daughter of John Risley Esquire, of Chetwode, Buckinghamshire. His monument on the south side of the altar of Stoke Lyne Church, bears the following inscription : To the memory of Ralph Holt Esquire, Lord of this Manor, who died August the 22, 1702, in the 65th year of his age. By his first wife, Susanna, daughter of John Risley Esquire, he had one daughter, Susanna, By his second wife, Susanna, daughter of Francis Dodsvvorth Esquire, he had seven children, Charles (who erected this monument), Elizabeth, Mary, William, Susanna, Thomas, and Francis. (c) . This is correctly copied from the Gazette of 1679, but I doubt its accuracy ; for there is no mention in " Wotton's English Baronets," or " Burke's Extinct Baronetage," of any early Baronetcy of Parret, or Perrot. I apprehend that the above Sheriff was the James Perrott (not Jacob Parret) who was buried at Northleigh in July 17 10. The family lived, for many generations, in a mansion at Northleigh, and were Lords of the Manor ; but they became extinct (at least in a lineal succession) about a hundred years ago; when the estate was purchased by the Duke of Marlborough. J. M. D. (d) . This branch of the D'Oyley family settled at Chislehampton, during the 1 6th, 17th, and i8th Centuries, and sold their manor, estate, and advowson to Charles Peers Esquire. The following curious entry in the Parish Registry of Chisle- hampton, will shew the period when the property changed hands through the altered circumstances of its proprietor : "Mem. March 20, 1743. — I enter this to acquaint my successors that the stipend for Chisleton and Stadham Curacy was ever till this day ten shillings a Sunday and a dinner for myself and care of my horse. But now Sir John D'Oyley being obliged to sell the Chisleton estate, in order to make more of it, has refused to give any more than twenty pounds a year, and obliges me to take care of myself and horse. This is Sir John's own declaration. " This I attest to be literally true. "John Bilstonc, Curate of Chisleton." James 53 JAMES THE SECOND. ANNO. 1685. Sir Edward Reade(a) of Shipton Court, Baronet. 1686. Sir Rowland LacyW of Pudlicot, Knight. 1687. Sir Henry Browne of Kiddington, Baronet. WILLIAM THE THIRD. ANNO. 1688. Sir William Glynne of Bicester, Baronet. 1689. William Blake of Coggs, Esquire. 1690. Simon Whorwood of Dean, Esquire. 1691. Thomas Rowney(c) junior of Oxford, Esquire. (a) . Buried in the Church of Shipton under W ychwood j and the following inscription is on his monument : Here lyeth the body of Sr. Edward Reade, Bart., who departed this life the 4th of September Anno Domini mdclxxxxi., aged 32 years and 2 months. (b) On a white marble gravestone in Shipton under Whychwood Church, was the following inscription : Here lyeth the body of Sr. Rowland Lacy, who espoused Arabella second daughter of Sir John Fettyplace of Swinbrooke, in the County of Oxon, Bart., who departed this life the 28th of September Anno Dni. mdcxc. aged 26 years and 3 months. (c) . The Rowney family was long and beneficially connected with the City of Oxford. Thomas Rowney practised there as an attorney at law in the days of Anthony Wood, with whom he was on intimate terms. His son, Thomas Rowney (the above Sheriff) was M.P. for the city of Oxford from the 7th of William III. to the 8th of George I. (1721), when "young Tom Rowney" (the High Sheriff's son) — his father desiring to be excused from any longer being elected — was chosen M.P. for the City, in conjunction with Sir John Walter j an honor he retained until his decease. He was also for some time High Steward of the city of Oxford j and he was, in various ways, its benefactor, having, in 1751, built (nearly at his own expense) the present Town Hall in Oxford; and in 1758 he presented to the Radcliffe Trustees five acres of ground, upon part of which the Radcliffe Infirmary is built — a ward in which is still dedicated to his name. He erected, and resided in the mansion in St. Giles' Street now occupied by Mrs. Herbert (as lessee of St. John's College), and used at each Assizes for the Judges' lodgings. He was buried in St. Giles' Church, on Sunday, November 4th, 1759, upon which day the Rev. John Bilston, Chaplain of All Souls' College, preached before the city authorities in St. Martin's Church a commemorative sermon. The following extract will shew the character of this worthy man and the great loss the city of Oxford sustained upon his death : " A man cannot be perfect as his Maker ; and the most shining character may be sullied with some small blemishes. But this will never justify human censure : correction of ourselves is a more commendable discipline, and cleansing our own cor- ruption, before we throw a stone at our neighbour, would be an effectual cure of all malevolence and abuse. But the conversation and conduct of our lost friend is the best armour against scandal in every shape. In his public worship of the Deity he was remarkably constant and serious j to his Sovereign dutiful, and to his country 1692. Thomas 54 1692. Thomas Crispe of Dornford, Esquire. 1693. Sir Sebastian Smythe(a) of Cuddesdon, and of Oxford, Knight. 1694. Robert Jennings Esquire. 1695. William Newell of Adwell, Esquire. 1696. Sir Thomas Wheate of Glympton Park, Baronet. 1697. Robert Barber of Adderbury, Esquire. 1698. William Hinde Esquire. 1699. Thomas Cartwright of Aynhoe, Esquire. 1700. Sir James Reade of Shipton Court, Baronet. 1 701. Sir John Thornicroft(b) of Milcomb, Baronet. 1702. Francis Keck of Great Tew, Esquire. faithful. If undissembled friendship, and unrivalled hospitality, can claim any share of human affection, the members of this loyal City may reasonably clothe themselves in sable and bow down heavily as one that mourneth for a parent. If public spiritedness deserves human applause, and the love of our country be either a com- mendable or distinguishing character, the whole country concern must be great and exemplary for the loss of a patriot who had no clandestine views to gratify, and the magnificent monuments of whose generosity cannot be concealed from the eyes of mankind. If extensive charity, not proclaimed by the Pharisaical trumpet of vanity and ostentation, be any mark of a Christian spirit, or Christian beneficence, pour out your lamentations, ye sons and daughters of poverty and affliction ! Let the widow's head be a fountain of waters, and the poor orphan's cheek swim in tears, and their hearts be clothed in real sorrow. The poor had no occasion to cry unto him, and the fatherless could not say he had none to help him. His studied secrecy was no mean part of his beneficence, and numbers were cherished without knowing their benefactor. To the friendless he was a father, and, like the good Samaritan, he poured in his oil and wine, and drew forth his soul to satisfy the miserable. In short, if good nature and good manners can merit esteem, and giving to the poor be lending to the Lord, though our loss be great and sorrow unavoidable, yet this may administer some comfort unto us, that we have reasonable hope, such exemplary virtues must meet .with divine approbation and " Well done, good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord " be the happy sentence pro- nounced on him hereafter by a God of infinite justice and mercy." (a) . His Oxford residence was in Cornmarket Street (called Northgate Street, until the removal of the Gate or Bocardo in 1771), on the site of the house in which Messrs. Grimbly, Hughes, and Dewe conduct their extensive business. The house, as occupied by Sir Sebastian Smythe, was burned down in September 1863 (upon a conflagration which occurred in the shop adjoining Messrs. Grimbly and Co.'s new establishment), and on that occasion perished the fine rooms, carvings, and decorative work which adorned this old city mansion. (b) . He was created a Baronet 12th August 1701, and married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Josiah Key, gentleman, of Milcomb. He died 8th December 1725. Soon after his creation Sir John Thornicroft delivered the following petition to the Lords of the Treasury, whereby he obtained a privy seal pursuant to his request : " To the Rt. Hon. the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury. The humble petition of Sir John Thornicroft, of Milcomb, in the county of " Oxon, Bart. " Sheweth : That His Majesty having been graciously pleased to confer the dignity of a Baronet of this Kingdom upon your petitioner, and the heirs male of his body, by letters patent dated 12th day of August last past ; and there being the sum of one thousand nine-five pounds payable to His Majesty, in respect of that dignity. Your petitioner humbly prays your Lordships that a privy seal may be granted to him, in order to his being discharged from the said sum of one thousand nine-five pounds, as is usual in the like cases, and your petitioner shall ever pray, &c." 1703. Thomas 55 1703. Thomas Whorwood of Headington, Esquire. 1704. Humphrey Smith of Kidlington, Esquire. 1705. Carlton Stone(a) of Brightwell, Esquire. 1706. Sir William Glynne of Bicester, Baronet. 1707. Borlase Warren(b) of Stratton Audley, Esquire. 1708. Edward Carter Esquire. 1709. John Lenthall Esquire, appointed ist December, and William Lenthall Esquire, appointed i8th December. 1 7 10. Sir William OsbaldestonW of Chadlington, Baronet. (a) . His monument, at the east end of Brightwell Baldwin Church, contains the following inscription : To the memory of Carleton Stone Esquire, eldest son of John Stone Esquire (Lord of this Mannour), who departed this life August 21st, anno Domini 1768, aetatis 54. Winifred, his relict and sole executrix, putt up this in a grateful remembrance of his kindness to her. (b) . John Borlase Esquire, a descendant of a Cornish gentleman of that name, purchased, in or about 1540, of the representatives of Lord Berners, the manor and estate of Stratton Audley, which he settled upon Ann his wife as her dowry. And in 1560 he purchased the manors of Little Marlow and Medmenham in Bucking- hamshire, and resided at Bockmer Manor House. His great grandson, John Borlase Esquire, was appointed one of the Justices of Ireland, and greatly distinguished himself by his attempts to suppress the rebellion in that country in 1641. In the following May he was created a Baronet, and in the civil calamities which followed, evincing a devout attachment to the Royal cause, the Parliament voted him a delinquent, and caused his person to be secured. A composition, amounting to £2,4.00, was at first refused ; but at length accepted, and appropriated for the garrison at Abingdon. He lived to see the government of his country happily settled on its ancient basis, and he was honored with a visit of King Charles II. accompanied by the cele- brated Nell Gwynne. He died August 1672, and was succeeded in the Baronetcy by his son. Sir John Borlase, who settled at Stratton Audley, and left issue a daughter, Anne, who married Arthur Warren Esquire, of Stapleford, Nottinghamshire, to whom Sir John left all his estates, and, dying 8th August 1688, was buried in the south aisle of Stratton Audley Church. The Baronetcy then became extinct, and on the death of Anne Warren, August 1703, the Stratton Audley estate descended to the eldest of her seven sons, Borlase Warren Esquire, the above Sheriff, He died in May 1 747, when the estate devolved upon his son, John Borlase Warren Esquire, who was M.P. for Nottingham, and died in 1763. Old Squire Warren, as the countrymen called him (the Sheriff in ijoj), latterly kept the meanest equipage of any man in his neighbourhood. His harness was tied together with string, his coachman had but one eye, two of his horses were equally unfortunate, and the other four were quite blind. Both the Squire and his brother John were martyrs to the gout. The lastly-mentioned John Borlase Warren was succeeded by his eldest son. Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren, G.C.B., who sat in Parliament for Marlow, and was in 1775 created a Baronet. He married Caroline, daughter of General Sir John Clavering, and had (with a son killed at the landing of the British troops in Egypt) an only surviving daughter and heir, Frances Mary, married to George Charles, fourth Lord Vernon. The estate remained in the Vernon family till a recent date, when it was purchased by the present owner, George Glen Esquire, who has built a new mansion upon a well-selected spot, called Stratton Audley Park. Mr. Glen served the office of High Sheriff in 1864. (c) . Son of Sir Lacy Osbaldeston. He married Catherine, eldest daughter of Richard, Viscount Wenman of Thame, and widow of the Honorable Robert Bertie, son of the Earl of Abingdon, by whom Sir William had one son and three daughters, who all pre-deceased him but one daughter, Catherine. He died i8th September I736, and was succeeded by his brother Charles, when, upon his dying issueless 7th April 1749, the Baronetcy expired. 171 1. Charles 56 lyii. Charles Holt of Stoke Lyne, Esquire. 1 7 12. Richard Lybbe of Hardwick, Esquire. 1 7 13. Sir Charles Fettiplace of Swinbrook, Baronet. Sir Lorenzo Fettiplace of Swinbrook, Baronet. GEORGE THE FIRST. ANNO. 1 7 14. James Norreys of Weston on the Green, Esquire. 1715. Charles Crispe of Dornford, Esquire. 17 16. William Tipping of Draycot, Esquire. 171 7. John Travell of Swerford, Esquire. 1 71 8. Thomas Whorwood of Headington, Esquire. 1 71 9. Francis Nourse of Woodeaton, Esquire. 1720. Daniel Blake of Coggs, Esquire. 1721. John Dew of Bampton, Esquire. 1722. Benjamin Sweet Esquire. 1723. John Blewitt of Salford, Esquire. 1724. Allan Horde(a) of Cote, Esquire. 1725. James Croke of Studley Priory, Esquire. 1726. John Sanders of Mongewell, Esquire. GEORGE THE SECOND. ANNO. 1727. Richard Wickham of Garsington, Esquire. 1728. Edward Barber of Adderbury, Esquire. 1729. Joseph Taylor of Sandford, Esquire. 1730. Thomas Greenwood of Chastleton, Esquire. 1 731. Henry Smith of Caversham, Esquire. (a). His father (Thomas Horde Esquire), by deed of 15th January 1712, granted a perpetual benefaction for criminal prisoners and debtors in the common ward of Oxford Castle. The present income is about £,z^ a year, which is paid half-yearly by the President of Trinity College, Oxford, and is appropriated in common with the other charities of the prison. 1732. Edward 57 1732. Edward Turner(a) of Ambrosden, Esquire. 1733. Francis Heywood the younger(b) of Forest Hill, Esquire. 1734. Sebastian SmytheC^) of Cuddesdon, Esquire. ^73<5* S^'' Edward CobbC^) of Adderbury, Baronet. 1736. Samuel Greenhill(e) of Swyncombe, Esquire. 1737. John ClerkeCO of North Weston, Esquire. (a). He was the second son of John Turner Esquire, an eminent and opulent merchant of London, and was created a Baronet, 24th August 1733. He married, in 17 1 8, Mary, eldest daughter of Sir Gregory Page, Baronet, of Blaclcheath. Sir Edward was, in 1733, chosen Chairman of the Court of Directors of the Honorable East India Company. He died 19th June 1735. north aisle of Forest Hill Church, is the Franciscus et Theede provectiori fuerunt aetate uterque maritali prius inita societate subtus requiescat. Hie tamen ATEKNOS obiit 5 ille, quern unicum suscepit gnatum aliquot post menses Abreptum deflevit, Quod de Anna factum est adversi doceant Parietes Dorothea Catherina Josepho Crewe, S.T.P., conjuncta unicum peperit Joannem, Gulielmo coelibatum agenti et nuper defuncto superstites fuere Maria uxor Joannis Wright, arm' et Elizabetha Abelis Fonnereau arm' vidua qua; ex lege cohaeredes institutae Una cum Joanne Crewe arm" itidem [cohaerede Marmor hoc omnium memoriae sacrum esse voluerunt anno mdcclxii. (b) . On the north wall of the following inscription : H. S. E. Franciscus Heywood, arm' Francisci filius Foederis mariti Sociam habuit Mariam E Thoma et Alicia Smith de Harnell in agro Glocestrix (Dein de Kidlington in agro Oxoniensi), oriundam, Franciscus sexaginta et sex annos natus obiit Octobris die xviij" mdccxxxix. Maria sexaginta et septem annos nata obiit Julii die xviij" mdccxlii. ab his suscepta est quo recensita est ordine Dena proles : viz. Franciscus, Thomas, Maria, Dorothea, Anna, Gulielmus, Elizabetha, Theede, Susanna, et Dorothea Catherina, ex iis Thomas et Susanna Biennes, Dorothea cum quatuor lustra vix jam implenerat, ncc dum uUi connubio devincta vita emigrarunt. (c) . On a marble monument, in Cuddesdon Church, is the ' following Epitaph : Sacred to the memory of Barbara Smythe, daughter of Sebastian Smythe Esquire, who, after a life spent in the most unremitted attention to every religious, moral, and social duty, died on the 27th January 1787, of a paralytic complaint, at her house in this place, long the residence of her numerous and respectable ancestry, in the 76th year of her age. (d) . See note (a) p. 46. (e) . The manor and estate of Swyncombe were purchased by Samuel Greenhill of Warfield, Berks, Esquire (the above Sheriff), of Charles, fifth Lord Dormer, in 1732 } and Mr. Greenhill's son (the Rev. John Russell Greenhill) sold the estate, in 1758, to George Ruck Esquire, whose only daughter and heiress, Mary, married Benjamin Keene of Westoe Lodge, Cambridgeshire, Esquire (only son of Edmund, Lord Bishop of Ely), and his second son, the Rev. Charles Edmund Ruck Keene, is the present owner of the estate. The old mansion was burnt down in 1 8 14, consequent upon which the present splendid house was built by Mr. Ruck Keene. (f) . The several Clerkes of North Weston, mentioned in this List, are Ancestors of the present Venerable Archdeacon Charles Carr Clerke, D.D., Canon of Christ Church, son of the Reverend Sir William Henry Clerke, the eighth Baronet. They were long seated at North Weston, near Thame, in the Church of which Town are several elaborate monuments to their memory. 1738. Sir 58 173^' Sir James Dashwood of Northbrook, Baronet. 1739. Philip Powys of Hardvvick, Esquire. 1740. John Duncomb of Watlington, Esquire. 1 74 1. John Nourse of Woodeaton, Esquire. 1742. Joseph Taylor of Sandford, Esquire. 1743. Rowland Lacy of Pudlicot, Esquire. 1744. Thomas WhorwoodW of Holton Park, Esquire. 1745. John Raine of Badge more, Esquire. 1746. Thomas Plorde of Cote, Esquire. 1747. Edward Metcalf of Drayton, Esquire. 1748. John Pollard of Finmere, Esquire. 1749. John Coker(b) of Bicester, Esquire. 1750. Francis Gierke of North Weston, Esquire. 1751. (c) (a) . On the south wall of the Chancel of Holton Church is the following inscription : Near this place are deposited the Remains of Thomas Whorwood Esquire and of Penelope his wife. He was born on 29 April 171 8, she on 24 June 1719. They intermarried on 23 Nov. 174-6. He departed this life 3 September 1771. She died the 6 day of October 1779. "They were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided." 2nd Sam. i. 23. (b) . The family of the Cokers derive their origin from Coker, a town in Somersetshire j but, in the reign of Henry IV., John Coker, a member of that family, having married an heiress of the name of Veale, became possessed of a very considerable estate at Mapouder, in Dorsetshire, where he settled. John Coker, a descendant and younger son who was born at Mapouder in the reign of Henry Vni., married a wife at Pollicot in Oxfordshire, and resided there a short time 5 but afterwards purchasing the Manor of Nun's Place, Bicester, of John Denton Esquire, of Blackthorn, in the year 1582, he adopted the Mansion for the residence of him.self and his posterity, which, together with the Estate, still remains in their possession. The Manor House seems to have had its name changed to Burchester Hall, during the time it was the residence of his son Cadwallader Coker, and to have been re-built by Mr. John Coker, his son, in 1682. John Coker Esquire, Grandson of the above John, and SlierifF this year (1749) died in 1766, and was succeeded by his Nephew, John Coker Esquire, who was unanimously elected Chairman of Quarter Sessions of Oxfordshire in 1808. This gentleman was highly respected in Oxfordshire, and, to his exertions, the prevalent amusement at Bicester of bull baiting, was put an end to. Mr. Coker married, in 1792, the Honorable Charlotte Marsham, the youngest daughter of Robert, Lord Romney. In the year 1798 Mr. Coker was appointed Colonel of the Oxford University Volunteers. Upon the visit of the Prince Regent in 1 8 14, at a numerous and respectable meeting of the nobility, gentry, clergy, and freeholders of the County of Oxford, convened by the High Sheriff to consider of the propriety of addressing the Prince Regent on the occasion of his visit to the County in company with the Emperor of Russia and King of Prussia, Mr. Coker, after an eloquent and impressive speech, moved an address, which was received with unbounded applause and carried unanimously. On the following Wednesday it was presented to His Royal Highness, at Christ Chur|ch, by the Earl of Abingdon, Earl Harcourt, the Bishop of Oxford, John Fane Esquire, and numbers of the most respectable gentlemen of the County. Mr. Coker died 1816, leaving a daughter. (c) . In 1 75 1, (being the year in which the Julian Calendar, or old style^ was abolished), no Sheriff was appointed. George, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, LL.D. and President of the Royal Society, was the Author of the Act of Parliament (24th George the 2nd, c. 23), for altering the style. 17,52. Francis 59 1752. Francis Page(a) of Middle Astcn, Esquire. 1753. Thomas Horde of Cote, Esquire. 17^4. Thomas BlackalK^) of Haseley, Esquire. 1755. Sir William Burnaby of Broughion Poggs, Knight. 17^6. Charles Peers of Chislehampton, Esquire. 1757. Sir Francis Knollys(c) of Thame, Baronet. (a) . On a marble tablet over the arch leading to the east, (or Page's) Chapel in Steeple Aston Church, is the following inscription : In the vault beneath are deposited the remains of Francis Page Esquire, LL.D., of Middle Aston in this parish, and of Acton Hall in the county of Worcester. He had the honour of representing the University of Oxford in the 13th, 14th, 15th, 1 6th, 17th, and 18th Parliaments of Great Britain, and in the 1st of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He died on the 25th day of November 1803, in the 78th year of his age. The Sheriff (Francis Page) v^'as originally Francis Bourne Esquire, but changed his name on the death of his relative Mr. Justice Page, famous in history for his severity to (amongst others) Savage the Poet, the neglected son of Ann, Countess of Macclesfield ; (a Lady, the Reader will understand, of a different Family from the noble House which now bears that title). See Johnson's Lives of the Poets. (b) . This was the year of the renowned Oxfordshire Election, when the Candidates for the two seats were Viscount Wenman, Sir James Dashwood, Baronet, Viscount Parker, and Sir Edward Turner, Baronet. The polling lasted six days, in the month of April 1754. The Sheriff made a double return. And, after 40 days' discussion and scrutiny in Parliament, the House of Commons voted Lord Parker and Sir Edward Turner duly elected. On the day of the double return, the excitement was so great in Oxford, that, amongst other affrays, a mob, on Mag- dalen Bridge, surrounded a postchaise in which Captain Turton and another were returning home, when the Captain shot dead a sweep who was pelting flints at the carriage. Captain Turton was tried for murder at the next assizes, and acquitted. The representation of the county was not again contested until 1826, when one freeholder voted who had polled in 1754. (c) . This family was founded by Sir Robert KnoUys, K.G. the celebrated general in the martial times of Edward III. the companion in arms of the Black Prince, and the most renowned warrior of his day. In i Richard II. Sir Robert was governor of the castle of Brest, and in the 3rd of the same reign he went with Thomas Plantagenet (of Woodstock), Earl of Buckingham, to assist the Duke of Brittany against the French, when they marched quite through France without resistance. The next year, on the outbreak of Jack Straw's insurrection, he led the citizens of London against the rebels, and thus terminated, at an advanced age, his military career. Independently of those high deeds which rendered his name famous all over the world. Sir Robert left other noble memorials behind him. He erected a stately bridge over the river Medway, near Rochester, known as Rochester Bridge. He enlarged the house of Friars Carmelites, commonly called White Friars, in the city of London, and he founded a college at Pontefract, in Yorkshire, where his wife, the Lady Constance, was boi-n, endowing it with an estate of ;^i8o per annum. He died at the manor of Sconethorp, in Norfolk, full of honour and years, being at least ninety years of age, 15th August 1407, and was buried with his lady in the church of the White Friars. He left issue, a daughter, Emma, the wife of Anthony Babington, and a son and heir, Thomas Knollys, who was seated at North Mymms, in Hertfordshire, and who had two sons. From the younger son, Thomas Knollys, descended Robert Knollys, who married Margaret D'Oyley, and was father of Robert Knollys, gentleman of the privy chamber to King Henry VIII. who had from that monarch a lease for a certain number of years of the manor of Rotherfield Greys, in the County of Oxford. He married Lettice, daughter of Sir Thomas Penyston, Lord of Haurage and Marshall, in Bucks, and by her (who married secondly. Sir Robert Lee, of Quarendon, Bucks, and thirdly, Sir Thomas Tresham, lord prior of St. John), had a daughter, Jane, married to Sir Richard Wingficld, of Kimbolton Castle, and a son and Robert 6o 1758. Robert Fettiplace of Pudlicot, Esquire. 1759. Anthony Hodges of Bolney Court, Harpsden, Esquire. and heir, Sir Francis KnoUys, upon whom Henry VIII. conferred the lordship of Rotherfield Greys, in fee, and made him one of the gentlemen pensioners. He was afterwards high in favour with Queen Elizabeth, was sworn of Her Majesty's privy council, constituted vice-chamberlain of the household, and employed on several important negociations abroad. In the 29th of Elizabeth he was appointed one of the judges to sit in judgment on the unhappy Queen of Scotland, and was subsequently made treasurer of the household, and installed a knight of the Garter. He married Catherine, daughter of William Carey, esquire of the body to Henry VIII. by his wife. Lady Mary Boleyne, sister of Queen Anne Boleyne, and had issue six sons and four daughters, i. Henry, 2. William (Sir), treasurer of the household in the reign of Qiieen Elizabeth and advanced to the Peerage by King James I., by letters patent dated 13 May 1603, in the dignity of Lord KnoUys of Greys in the county of Oxford (his chief seat). In 1614, his Lordship was appointed Master of the Wards, and within a short time installed a Knight of the Garter. In 1616, he was created Viscount Wallingford, and advanced by King Charles I., on the i8th August 1626, to the Earldom of Banbury, with precedency of all Earls who were created before him. The inquisition taken upon his death, which happened 25th May 1632, found that he died without issue, leaving a widow, Elizabeth, his last wife. His honors were then deemed extinct, and his estates passed to his collateral heirs, ex- cepting such as he devised to his wife. The subsequent history of the claimants to this title, is the most curious in the whole history of Peerage claims. The limits of these notes prevent the particulars being here recorded, but a most full and interesting account is to be found in " Burke's Extinct Peerage." The claim to the Earldom of Banbury was decided between 1808-1813 against William KnoUys. The third son of Sir Francis KnoUys {temp. Hen. VIII.) Robert (Sir), K.B. left by his wife, Sir Robert Knollys, who married Joanna, daughter of Sir John Wolstenholme and had a son Robert, who married Mary Saunders, of Mongewell, in Oxfordshire, and left a son, Robert, M.P. for the county of Oxford, with whom this branch expired. 4. Richard, 5. Francis (Sir). 6. Thomas (Sir), i. Lettice, married first, to Walter Devereux, Earl of Essex, and was mother of Robert, Earl of Essex, the iU-fated favourite of Queen Elizabeth. She married secondly, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and thirdly^ Sir Christopher Blount. This lady lived to see the grandchildren of her grandchUdren. 2. Anne, married to Thomas, Lord de la War. 3. Cecilia, maid of honour to Queen Elizabeth, married Sir Thomas Leighton, of Feckenham, Wilts. 4. Catherine, married first, to Gerard Fitzgerald, Lord Ophaly, son and heir of the Earl of Kildare, and secondly, to Sir Philip Boteler, of Watton, Woodhall. The fifth son. Sir Francis Knollys knt., inherited, under his father's will, the manor of Battel, and other estates in the vicinity of Reading Abbey. He represented the city of Oxford in Parliament, and afterwards the county of Berks. He married Lettice, daughter of John Barret Esq., of Hanham, in Gloucestershire, and was succeeded by his son. Sir Francis KnoUys knt., who married Ellen, daughter and heir of Richard Milles Esq., of Lower Winchendon, Bucks, and left a son and heir, Richard Knollys Esq., who married Mary Bellingham, of Everingham, in Sussex, sister and heir of Henry Bellingham, and was succeeded by his son, Francis KnoUys Esq., who married Anne, daughter and co-heir of — Bateman Esq., of Berkshire, and had, with a daughter, Elizabeth, wife of Sir Francis Curzon, of Waterperry, in Oxfordshire, a son and heir, Francis Knollys Esq., M.P. for Reading, who married Elizabeth, youngest daughter and co-heir of John Striblehill Esq., of Thame, in the county of Oxford, and dying, of the small-pox, in 1 701, was succeeded by his son, Francis Knollys Esq., of Thame, M.P. for the city of Oxford, who died a bachelor, 24th June 1754, and was succeeded by his brother, Richard Knollys Esq., who married first, Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of Humphrey Thayer Esq., secondly, Hannah, daughter of Theophilus Salivey Esq., of Woodford, and thirdly, Anne, daughter of John Taylor Esq. By the two last he had no issue, by the first, an only son, the above Sheriff, who was created a Baronet 1st April 1754. Sir Francis was elected to parliament for Reading in 1 761. He married in 1756, Mary, daughter and heiress of Sir Robert Kendall Carter, of Kempston, in the county of Bedford, third son of John Kendall Esq., of Basingbourn Hall, in Essex, but dying without issue, 29th June 1772, the Baronetcy expired. The present Representative of the Family is, as so many of his ancestors were, associated with Royalty, being General Sir William Thomas Knollys, K.C.B., of Blount's Court, Oxfordshire, Comptroller and Treasurer of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales' Household. George 6i GEORGE THE THIRD, ANNO. 1760. Samuel Trotman(a) of Bucknell, Esquire. 1761. Charles Price of Rotherfield, Esquire. 1762. William Vanderstegen(b) of Cane End, Caversham, Esquire. (a). The family of Trotman settled at Bucknell in 1638, having purchased the estate of Edward Ewere Esquire, The Eweres afterwards fell into great decay, and are said to have been reduced to the position of drovers, or cattle dealers. Samuel Trotman Esquire resided in the Manor House' from the beginning of Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate until his (Trotman's) death in 1684. From him the estate descended to Lenthall Trotman Esquire, and, on his decease, it passed to Samuel Trotman, a gentleman so much distinguished for eccentricity that he was usually denominated the mad Trotman. He was succeeded, in 1748, by his nephew Samuel (the Sheriff in 1760), who, for many years, kept a pack of hounds at Bucknell. He (the Sheriff) was great grandson of Samuel Trotman of Bucknell, 1638. He also in- herited another family estate, Siston Court, Gloucestershire. This gentleman was so much aflicted with lethargy that he was frequently known to sit more than two hours at dinner, and sometimes fell asleep on horseback while hunting ; so that it became dangerous to trust him alone. This disease terminated fatally on 13th January 1775, when both the Bucknell and the Siston Court Estates devolved upon his first cousin Fiennes Trotman of Shelswell Park, Esquire (Sheriff in 1769). He was the eldest son of Edward Trotman Esquire, by Mary, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Filmer Esquire, of Amwellbury, Herts, who married Susannah, daughter of the Honorable John Fiennes, and sister and co-heiress of Laurence, fifth Viscount Saye and Sele, through whom he inherited Shelswell, part of the ancient Saye and Sele property. This Fiennes Trotman was distinguished for his improvement in agriculture, and the planting of his estate. He died s.p. 1782, and was buried at Shelswell. His nephew Samuel lost, at play, the reversion of" the Shelswell Estate, which, in consequence, was sold to the Harrison family, the present owners. The sale of the Shelswell Estate so ofiended Fiennes Trotman, that he, and his cousin Samuel, settled the Bucknell and Siston Court Estates on the nephews of Fiennes Trotman, and their issue ; and Fiennes, on the death of his uncle in 1782, suc- ceeded to both estates ; and, after the death of his relative Richard, sixth Viscount Saye and Sele, in 178 1, the Government offered to revive that title in his favour, an honor which he declined. A short time before the death of the Viscount, the Barony of Saye and Sele (being in abeyance) was recovered by another kinsman. Colonel Twisleton. Thus, there were at the same time two Peers, one Viscount, the other. Baron Saye and Sele. Siston Court, in Gloucestershire, is one of the finest Elizabethan mansions in the country. The Reverend Edward Fiennes Trotman of Burcombe, near Salisbury, is the present representative of the Trotman family. The estate of Bucknell is possessed by Frederick Drummond Hibbert Esquire, in right of his wife, Louisa, daughter and co-heiress of the late Fiennes Trotman Esquire. On the south wall, in Bucknell Church, on a scroll nicely designed, is the following inscription : Near this place lieth the body of Thomas Trotman Esquire, second son of Lenthall Trotman Esquire. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Haynes Esquire, of Wick in Gloucestershire, by whom he had several children, who died in their infancy, and one son, Samuel, who survived him. He died May 26, 1751, aged 65. Samuel Trotman Esq., his son, married Ann, daughter of Arthur Plomer, merchant of Bristol, who died June 10, 1763, and is interred in this church. He afterwards married Mary, daughter of John Stanton Esq. of Longbridge, near Warwick, who survived him. He died without issue Jan. 13, 1775, aged 54, and is here buried with his ancestors. This monument is erected by Fiennes Trotman Esq. of Shelswell. 1777. (b). The hamlet and manor of Cane End (or Canon End) derived its name from the Canons of Nottley, Bucks, to whom it formerly belonged. At the Dis- solution of the Monasteries, the estate was sold by the Crown to the Brigham family ; an heiress of that family brought the estate in marriage to the Van- derstegens in 1750, and it has ever since remained in that family, William Henry Vanderstegen Esquire, (Sheriff in 1843), being the present owner. 1763. Edward 62 1763. Edward Horn of Pyrton, Esquire. 1764. Abel Dotting of Newnham Murren, Esquire. 176,5. Arthur Annesley of Bletchingdon, Esquire. 1766. Thomas RoUinsonC^) of Chadlington, Esquire. 1767. William Ledvvell of Cowley, Esquire. 1768. Stukeley Bayntun of Chadlington, Esquire. 1769. Fiennes Trotman(b) of Shelswell Park, Esquire. 1770. Francis Wastie(c) of Cowley, Esquire. 1771. William Draper of Nether Worton, Esquire. 1772. Thomas Willatts of Caversham, Esquire. 1773. John Bush of Burcot, Esquire. 1774. William Nedham of Hobury, Esquire. 1775. Henry Barber of Adderbury, Esquire. 1776. Oldfield Bowles(d) of North Aston, Esquire. 1777. John Weyland of Woodeaton, Esquire. 1778. Charles Burrell Massingberd of Braisiers, Esquire. (a) . This name was subsequently converted into Rawlinson, a family long seated at Chadlington, and now represented by Abram Lindow Rawlinson Esquire of Chipping Norton, and his distinguished brothers Sir Henry Rawlinson, K.C.B., and the Reverend George Rawlinson, Camden Professor of Ancient History in the University of Oxford. (b) . On a mural monument on the north wall of Newton Purcell Church, under Fiennes Trotman's arms and crest, is the following inscription : In a vault near this place rest the remains of Fiennes Trotman of Shelswell, in the county of Oxford, Esquire, who departed this life December 2nd, 1782, in the 6oth year of his age. He was the eldest son of Edward Trotman Esq. by Mary, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Filmer Esq. of Amwellbury in Herts, who married Susannah, daughter of the Honorable John Fiennes. (c) . On the north side of the chancel of Cowley Church, on a marble monu- ment, is the following inscription : " Francis Wastie Esquire, High Sheriff of the county of Oxon for the year 1770. Died May 16, 1775, aged 59 years." The following anecdote occurs in the life of Mr. Justice Buller : " There is a tradition on the Oxford Circuit that he (Mr. Justice Buller) once met at Oxford with a very unsophisticated Sheriff, (Mr. Wastie) who bluntly demanded of his lordship, as he was stepping into his Carriage, ' whether he was a bona fide Judge ?' (the worthy Functionary made but one syllable of the word fide) * as they had been so often fobbed off with Serjeants in these parts.' When satisfied on this important particular, he took his seat aside the Judge. A grave severity on the countenance of Mr. Justice Buller, occasioned some misgiving in the mind of the Sheriff, who expressed his fear that he had unwittingly done something wrong. * It is certainly' (said his Lordship with a smile) ' against etiquette on these occasions, for the Sheriff to take his seat fronting the Horses, unless' (here he put his hand on the Gentleman who was starting up) 'invited by the Judge, as I now invite you.'" (d) . 1 8 10, October i8th. Died, of a paralytic stroke, at the seat of his Son-in-law (Sturges Bourne, Esq.) Oldfield Bowles Esquire, of North Aston, aged 72. The Patron and example of excellence in the Fine Arts, and equally distinguished by his amiable qualities in civil and domestic life. He was an active Magistrate, a vigilant Officer, an affectionate Husband, a tender Father, a sincere Friend, and a social Neighbour. The North Wootton Troop, which he commanded, as the last tribute of respect, met his Remains at the Turnpike on the Abingdon Road, and followed the Hearse 5 his Sumpter Horse, with his Boots and Spurs, being led by two of the Troop, in solemn funeral procession through Oxford, on their road to North Aston, where his remains were deposited in the Family Vault. 1779. Edward 63 1779- Edward Witts of Swerford Park, Esquire. 1780. Robert Langford of Ensham, Esquire. 1 78 1. Richard Paul Joddrell of Lewknor, Esquire. 1782. William Phillips of Culham, Esquire. 1783. Sir Gregory Page Turner of Ambrosden, Baronet. 1784. Arthur Annesley of Bletchingdon, Esquire. 1785. John Lenthall the younger, of Burford Priory, Esquire. 1786. Joseph Grote of Badgemore, Esquire. 1787. Charles Marsack(a) of Caversham Park, Esquire. 1788. Thomas Jemmett of Little Milton, Esquire. 1789. John Blackall junior, of Haseley, Esquire. 1790. David Fell of Caversham, Esquire, 1 791. James Peter Auriol of Woodcot, Esquire. 1792. Thomas Willats of Caversham, Esquire. 1793. General John Caillaud, of Aston Rowant. 1794. Samuel Gardiner of Coombe Lodge, Whitchurch, Esquire. 1795. Strickland Freeman of Fav^^ley Court, Esquire. 1796. William Lov^ndes Stone of Bright well. Esquire 1797. James Jones of Adwell, Esquire. 1798. John Atkyns Wright(b) of Crowsley Park, and of Oxford, Esquire. 1799. George Stratton of Great Tew, Esquire. 1800. Richard Williams, of Neithrop ; and formerly of Oxford, Esquire. (a) . The splendid Domain of Caversham Park was originally possessed by the Craven Family, and afterwards passed, by purchase, to Lord Cadogan, the friend and Companion-in-arms of the great Duke of Marlborough. From the Cadogans, the Estate came into the hands of Colonel Marsack, and, after the mansion had for some time remained untenanted, was purchased by the late William Crawshay Esquire. The original mansion stood nearer the River than the present one. It was here that Anne of Denmark, Queen of James I., was so splendidly entertained by Lord KnoUys, when, on her journey to Bath, in 161 3 5 and, here too, it was that Charles I. and his children had their last interview. The King was a prisoner at Windsor, and the Parliament, through the mediation of General Fairfax, permitted him to visit his children here, where they resided in the custody of the Earl of Northumberland. In the reign of George I., the late princely mansion was erected by Lord Cadogan. It was a large square building, with two wings ; and its front was embellished, by the late Colonel Marsack, with a magnificent Corinthian colonnade, which was copied from the Portico of the Pantheon at Rome. An Ionic colonnade, which formed the wings, was added by Mr. Crawshay. In 1850 however, the house was burned down. And Mr. Crawshay erected, upon its site, the present noble mansion. The Estate and Manor are possessed, in their entirety, by his family. (b) . Was Chairman of Quarter Sessions from January 1819, to March 1822 ; and was, with Francis Burton Esquire, returned M.P. for the City of Oxford in 1802, an honor he retained till 1818. 1 80 1. George 64 1801. George Clarke(a) of Chesterton Lodge, Esquire. 1802. Thomas Toovey of Joyce Grove, Netlebed, Esquire. 1803. James Taylor of Sandford, Esquire. 1804. John Langston of Sarsden, Esquire. 1805. Elisha Biscoe(b) of Holton Park, Esquire. 1806. George Frederick Stratton of Great Tew, Esquire. 1807. William Elodges of Bolney Court, Esquire. 1808. The Honorable Thomas Parker(c) of Ensham Hall, (afterwards 5th Earl of Macclesfield). 1809. John Harrison of Shelswell, Esquire. 1 8 10. William Henry Ashhurst(d) of Waterstock, Esquire. 181 1. Sir John Chandos Reade of Shipton Court, Baronet. 1 8 12. Francis Sackville Lloyd Wheate of Glympton Park, Esquire, one part, and Thomas Darby Coventry Esquire, other part of year. (a) . Chesterton Lodge was the residence of a family of the name of Lander, who demised it to the Honorable Mrs. Weaver. The estate was afterwards the property of Mr. Penrose, who investigated the ruins of Alchester in 1766. He sold the property to John Hayley Esquire, from whom it passed to Mr. Clarke, the above Sheriff, The Clarkes are an ancient family descended from Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, and George Rochfort Clarke Esquire, son of the above Sheriff, is the present owner of Chesterton Lodge. (b) . He purchased in 1801, from Henry Mayne Whorwood Esquire, of Headington, the Estate, Manor, and Advowson of Holton. After this sale the Family of Whorwood, which had many times supplied a Representative to the Crown, ceased to be enrolled in the List of High Sheriffs, though still maintaining its ancient prestige in the County. The Rev. Thomas Henry Whorwood D.D.y late Fellow of Magdalen College, and Vicar of Willoughby in Warwickshire, is the present Representative of this old family. (c) . The Earls of Macclesfield have been seated at Shirburn Castle, in Oxford- shire, from the time of the first Earl, Lord Chancellor Macclesfield, in the Reign of George L For a view of the Judicial character of the first Earl, suffice it to record the following quotation from his recent Biographer, Lord Campbell : " The decisions of Lord Macclesfield in the Court of Chancery have ever since commanded an authority second only to that of the most illustrious Judges who have filled the seat of Equity, — of a Hardwicke or an Eldon." The second Earl (already alluded to as the author of the Act of Parliament which altered the style) was, on account of his great learning, complimented by admission as a member of several Universities; and in 1752 he was elected President of the Royal Society. The third Earl was the Lord Parker referred to in a foregoing Note with reference to the great Oxfordshire Election in 1754. Previously to that date he sat in Parliament as Member for Newcastle under Lyne; and subsequently he was M. P. for Rochester until his accession to the Earldom. His son (the fourth Earl) is numbered in the above List of Lords Lieutenant of Oxfordshire. To him, and his successors, the Compiler is under obligations which can never be cancelled. (d) . Was M.P. for the County from 1815 to 1830. And Chairman of Quarter Sessions from 1822 to 1846. 1813. W^illiam 65 1 813. William Wilson of Lower Worton, Esquire. 1 8 14. James King of Wickham Park, Esquire. 181^. Edward Francis Colston of Filkins Hall, Esquire. 1 816. John Phillips of Culham, Esquire. 1817. Joseph Henley(a) of Waterperry, Esquire. 1 8 18. Philip Lybbe Powys(b) of Hardwick House, Esquire. 1819. James Haughton Langston(c) of Sarsden, Esquire. GEORGE THE FOURTH. ANNO. 1820. Thomas Fraser of Woodcot House, Esquire. 1 82 1. Charles Peers of Chislehampton Lodge, Esquire. 1822. John Blackall of Haseley, Esquire. 1823. Daniel Stuart of Wickham Park, Esquire. 1824. Stanlake Batson of Mixbury, Esquire. 1825. Francis Desanges of Aston Rowant, Knight. 1826. William Peere Williams Freeman of Fawley Court, Esquire. (a) . It is a matter of regret that the name of Mr. Henley's son — the Right Honorable Joseph Warner Henley M.P. — is not recorded in the Roll of High Sheriffs of his county ; but he was excused from the office by reason of his duties during a long series of years, first as Vice, and afterwards as Chairman of Quarter Sessions. However, his name, though absent from this List, will leave *' footprints on the sands of time." (b) . Hardwick House, the seat of Philip Lybbe Powys Lybbe Esquire, is a large, antiquated mansion. So early as the reign of Richard IL this mansion be- longed to the Hardwick Family. From the Hardwicks it passed by purchase to the Lybbes ; and, in 1730, it was carried in marriage by Isabella, daughter and heiress of Richard Lybbe Esquire, to Philip Powys Esquire, youngest son of Sir Thomas Powys of Lilford, Salop. The south front was erected by Anthony Lybbe Esquire, soon after the restoration of Charles II. The mansion was frequently attacked and pillaged by the Parliamentarian Forces during the Civil Wars. Tradition asserts that it was visited by Queen Elizabeth during one of her progresses. In 1839 the house underwent considerable repairs and alterations, and the general appearance of the Mansion was restored to its original character. (c) . He was M.P. for Woodstock for several years till 1826 j and for the City of Oxford from 1826 to 1863. He was the son of John Langston Esquire, the Sheriff in 1804, who, in the last century, purchased of Sir William Walter, Baronet, the Sarsden and Churchill Estates j and died in 18 12, leaving an only son, James Haughton Langston Esquire (Sheriff in 18 19), and five daughters, of whom four married severally, the Reverend Charles Barter, Rector of Sarsden, Sir Sandford Graham, Baronet, Samuel Trehawke Kekewich Esquire, and the Venerable Archdeacon Hux- table. The remaining sister died unmarried. Upon attaining his majority in 181 8 Mr. Langston rebuilt Churchill Parish Church, as a pious offering, copying exactly Magdalen College Tower, with its pinnacles, only reduced throughout one-third, so as to consist with the proportions of the Church. Mr. Langston married in 1824, Lady Julia Moreton, daughter of the second Earl of Ducie, and their issue were a son (who died in his youth) and a daughter, married to her cousin the present Earl of Ducie, who succeeded to the Oxfordshire and other estates, upon Mr. Langston's decease in October 1863. 1827. Joseph 66 1827. Joseph Wilson of "Lower Worton, Esquire. 1828. Charles Cottrell Dormer(a) of Rousham, Esquire. 1829. Thomas Cobb of Neithrop, Esquire. WILLIAM THE FOURTH. ANNO. 1830. Richard WeylancK^) of Woodeaton, Esquire. 183 1. Sir Henry John Lambert of Aston Rowant, Baronet. 1832. Michael Henry Blount(c) of Mapledurham, Esquire. 1833. Sir George Dashwood of Kirtlington Park, Baronet. 1834. William Francis Lowndes Stone of Brightwell Park, Esquire. 183". John Fane(d) of Wormsley, Esquire. 1836. Thomas Stonor(e) of Stonor Park, Esquire, (now Baron Camoys), (a) . He married Frances Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Walter Strickland Esquire, of Cokethorpe Park, Oxfordshire. The Family of Cottrell held the hereditary office of Master of the Ceremonies from 1641 till 1796. Upon the demise of Lieutenant- General James Dormer (who had married Anne Cottrell) the Family assumed the additional surname of Dormer. We should dilate upon the history and antiquity of this family, but that it would involve a plagiarism in quoting from the best me- morials of it recently written by Miss Dormer in an "Account of Rousham, Oxfordshire." (b) . Mr. Weyland was a Major in the Army, and a soldier of the finest type. His regiment was the i6th Light Dragoons, with which he served during the Pen- insular War, and at Waterloo. The Woodeaton Estate came to the Weylands upon the marriage of the Major's father to the heiress of John Nourse Esquire,— an old Oxfordshire Family. The Major represented the County of Oxford in Parliament from 1831 to 1837. He died on 14th October 1864, at his seat, Woodrising Hall, Norfolk, being succeeded by his elder son John Weyland Esquire, of Woodeaton, who married Lady Catherine De Burgh, daughter of the Marquess of Clanricarde. (c) . See Note (c) page 40. (d) . He was M.P. for the County from 1824 to 1831. (e) . Few names adorn this County Roll which can boast their descent from more remote antiquity than that of Stonor, which so often occurs in the present List ; and the continuous residence of the Family for so many centuries in their ancient mansion at Stonor, is without a parallel in the County. The Family derive their territorial patronymic from the Manor of Stonor in Oxfordshire. The first of them who served the office of High Sheriff, was Edmund Stonor, in 1377, w-ho was grandson of the celebrated Judge, Sir John Stonor, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, in the Reigns of Edward 11. and Edward HL, whose monument and effigy in Dorchester Church are still in good preservation. In the second and sixth years of Henry VI., Sir Thomas Stonor filled the office of FFigh Sheriff, and represented the city of Oxford in Parliament in the seventh year of that reign ; and, dying in the following year, he was succeeded by his son, Thomas Stonor, who was also High Sheriff in the 32nd of Henry VL, and the sixth of Edward IV. His eldest son. Sir William Stonor, was High Steward of Oxford in 1492. Leland visited him at Stonor, and thus described it: " Ther is a fayre parke, and a warren of conies, and fayre wood. The mansion place standyth on Victoria. 67 VICTORIA. ANNO. 1837. Philip Thomas Herbert Wykeham of Tyihrop House, Esquire. 1838. William Peere Williams Freeman of Fawley Court, Esquire. 1839. John Harrison Slater Harrison of Shelswell, Esquire. 1840. Hugh Hamersley(a) (of Pyrton Manor), Great Haseley House, Esquire. 1 841. John Loveday(b) of Williamscot, Esquire. 1842. John Shawe Phillips of Culham House, Esquire. "on a hill and hath two courtes buildyed with tymbre, brilce, and flynte. Sir William Stonor, now possessor of it, hath augmented and strengthened the house. The Stonors hathe longe had it in possession." Upon Sir William's death he was succeeded by his nephew. Sir Walter Stonor, Sherift" in the 26th and 33rd years of Henry VIII. He was Lieutenant of the Tower, and on his death the estates devolved upon John Stonor, whose son married Cecily, daughter of Sir Leonard Chamberlain of Shirburn Castle. Sir Francis Stonor, grandson of John Stonor, was High Sheriff in the 35th year of Queen Elizabeth, and in the 19th of James I. Sir Francis built and endowed an almshouse at As- sendon for ten poor persons. From this period (James I.) the Stonor Family, re- taining the ancient Faith, do not appear again in the List of Sheriffs till the appointment of Thomas Stonor Esquire in 1836. With regard to the ancient Barony of Camoys (now vested in the above Thomas Stonor Esquire), it may be stated that Thomas, Lord Camoys, son of Ralph, Lord Camoys, was included in most of the military services of Edward III., but was not summoned to Parliament j and, dying without issue, his estates passed to Sir Thomas de Camoys, an eminent warrior in the reigns of Richard II., Henry IV., and Henry V., and commanded the left wing of the English army at Agin- court, and was there made a Knight of the Garter. He was summoned to Par- liament from the seventh year of Richard II. to the eighth of Henry V. He was succeeded by his grandson Hugh, second Baron Camoys, upon whose death in the fourth year of Henry VI. the Barony fell into abeyance, and so continued until 1839, when the present Thomas^ Lord Camoys (upon the death of John Biddulph Esquire) became the senior co-heir of Hugh, Baron Camoys, and was summoned by Her Majesty to Parliament accordingly, taking his place in the House of Lords as a Baron of the Reign of Richard II. (See also Note (a) p. 21). (a) . Pyrton Manor is interesting in history as the house from which John Hampden, in 16 19, married his first wife, Elizabeth, only daughter of Edmund Simeon Esquire, the then Lord of the Manor ; and, in the Hall of the Mansion, Mr. Hamersley has placed a fine bust of Hampden, with the following inscription copied from that on the medal which Hampden wore round his neck, and which is preserved in the Bodleian Library : 'Tis not against my King I fight, But for my King and Country's right. After Hampden's mortal wound at Charlgrove Field, he with difficulty rode to Pyrton Manor House, where he was ministered to before continuing his journey to Thame, where he lingered and died. (b) . The Lovedays were seated at Caversham in Oxfordshire from the seventeenth to the latter part of the eighteenth century, when John Loveday Esquire, D.C.L., acquired the Williamscot Estate by his marriage, in 1777, with Anne, daughter and heiress of William Taylor Loder Esquire, of Williamscot, and upon the death of Dr. Loveday, the estate passed to his eldest son, John Loveday Esquire, the above Sheriff, who died a bachelor in 1864, and was succeeded by his brother the Rev. Thomas Loveday. 1843. William 68 1843- William Henry Vanderstegen(a) of Cane End House, Esquire. 1844. Walter Strickland of Cokethorpe Park, Esquire. 1845. Lieutenant Colonel John Sidney North(b) of Wroxton Abbey. 1846. Mortimer Ricardo of Kiddington Hall, Esquire. 1847. Henry Baskerville(c) of Crowsley Park, Esquire. (a) . See Note (b) page 61. (b) . Wroxton Abbey was founded by an Ecclesiastic named Michael Belet, in the year 1200. He endowed it with the Manor of Wroxton, and all his property in Wroxton and Balscot, &c. He was the friend of Grostete or Greathead, Bishop of Lincoln, and is mentioned in connection with him in 1235. The priory, and lands belonging to it, afterwards became the property of Sir Thomas Pope, founder of Trinity College, Oxford, and by him given to that foundation. Of that society it was held by the Earls of Guilford, and it is now in the possession of Colonel and Baroness North, who was the second daughter of the third Earl of Guilford. The ancient buildings of the Priory are said to have been in great part destroyed by fire, but Sir William Pope, afterwards Earl of Downe, to whom the property be- longed in the reign of James I., erected on its site the present splendid mansion, which was completed in 161 8. The Lord Keeper Guilford, who became possessed of Wroxton by his marriage with the Lady Frances Pope, daughter of Thomas, third Earl of Downe, made some additions to it in the reign of Charles IL The Mansion contains a good collection of ancient portraits of the Families of Pope and North. Among the former is an original of Sir Thomas Pope, Founder of Trinity College, Oxford. The gardens and pleasure grounds still retain most of their monastic features. This noble Mansion has been more than once honoured by the presence of royalty. James I. paid a visit here to Sir William Pope, " and was diverted with the amusements of hawking and bear-baiting." Charles I. and his Queen, together with Prince Charles and the Duke of York, visited Sir Thomas Pope, and slept here on the night of July 13th, 1643, and the next day proceeded to Woodstock Castle. George, Prince of Wales, afterwards George IV., paid visits to the Earl of Guilford at Wroxton in 1805, in 1806, and again in 1808. On the occasion of the Prince's second visit he was accompanied by his brother, the Duke of Clarence, afterwards King William IV. The obelisk at Wroxton bears the following inscription with reference to the first visit of the Prince of Wales : Georgius Walliae Princeps Frederici Nepos avi virtutibus ornatus hospitium sibi a Francisco Comite De Guilford Francisci Nepote Wroxtoniae renovatum huic obelisco inscribi voluit mense Junii mdcccv. The Baroness North is the second daughter of the third Earl of Guilford, by his second wife, daughter of the late Thomas Coutts Esquire. The Baroness married in 1835 John Sidney Doyle Esquire, (Son of General Doyle), the above Sheriff, who in 1838 assumed the surname of North 5 and her Ladyship succeeded to the barony in 1841. This peerage, which was created by writ of summons, fell in abeyance in 1802, on the death of the ninth Baron, who was third Earl of Guilford. That earldom descending to the heir male, the barony became divided among the three daughters of the Earl. The youngest of them died in 1835 j and the eldest (who was Marchioness of Bute) in 1841, when the abeyance naturally terminated in favor of the present peeress. Her grandfather, the second Earl of Guilford, was long known as Lord North, the Prime Minister from 1770 to 1782. (c) . Mr. Baskerville is the representative of a branch of the great Hereford- shire Family of Baskerville, derived from Philip Baskerville, son, by his second wife, of Sir Walter Baskerville of Eidesley, Sheriff of Herefordshire, 9th Edward IV., Created a Knight of the Bath on the marriage of Prince Arthur in 1501. Mr. Henry Baskerville (the above Sheriff), was formerly a Civilian at Madras j and, in 1838, succeeded to the estates, and the representation of the family on the death of his cousin, the late John Baskerville Esquire, of WooUey House, Wilts, when he assumed, by Royal Licence, his present surname and arms in lieu of those of Viveash. He is second, but eldest surviving son of Oriel Viveash Esquire, of Calne, by Sarah his wife, youngest daughter of Thomas Baskerville Esquire, of Woolley, and grandson of Simeon Viveash Esquire, of Calne, and Mary Bailey his wife. 1848. Matthew 69 1848. Matthew Piers Watt Boulton of Great Tew Park, Esquire. 1849. Samuel Weare Gardiner of Combe Lodge, Whitchurch, Esquire. 1850. Henry Hall, of Barton Abbey^ Esquire. 1851. John Brown of Kingston Blount, Esquire. 1852. John Henry Ashhurst(a) of Waterstock, ^^squire. 1853. James Morrell(b) junior of Oxford, Esquire. 1854. Lieutenant Colonel John William Fane(c) of Wormsley. 1855. Benjamin John Whippy of Lee Place, Esquire. (a) . The Waterstock Estate anciently belonged to the Danvers Family, and passed to the Cave Family by the marriage of Sir Thomas Cave to the daughter and heiress of Sir John Danvers. In the early part of the seventeenth century Sir George Croke purchased the estate of Sir William Cave ; and, shortly after Sir George Croke's death in 1680, the estate was sold to Sir Henry Ashhurst, Baronet. The Ashhursts had, from the time of the Conquest, been seated at a place bearing their own name, in Lancashire. But, in Charles II. 's reign a younger son (Henry Ashhurst Esquire) settled in the city of London as a merchant, and was eminent for his benevolence, and as the chief person in founding the Corporation for propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts. He was likewise a promoter of translating the Bible into Hindostanee. His second son, Sir William Ashhurst, Knight, was Lord Mayor of London in 1693, and represented the city of London in several Parliaments ; whilst the eldest son (Henry) was created a Baronet by James II. in 1688 ; and he married a daughter of William, fifth Lord Paget. Sir Henry sat in Parliament in the reigns of Charles II. and William III. for Truro and Wilton. He was succeeded by his son, Sir Henry Ashhurst, M.P. for Windsor, in 1714, and he, dying in 1732 without issue, the Baronetcy expired. The Waterstock Estate then passed to Thomas Henry Ashhurst Esquire, of Ashhurst in Lancashire, from his marriage with Diana, daughter of Sir Richard AUin, Baronet, by Frances his wife, who was the only daughter of the first Sir Henry Ashhurst, Baronet. Thomas Henry Ashhurst died in 1744, and was suc- ceeded by Sir William Henry Ashhurst, Knight, one of the Judges of the King's Bench from 1770 to 1800, and twice one of the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal. He died at Waterstock in 1807, and was succeeded by his eldest son William Henry Ashhurst Esquire (Sheriff-' in 1810, M.P. for Oxfordshire, and Chairman of Quarter Sessions), whose high qualities as a Christian gentleman endeared him to every one — rich and poor alike — who came within his sphere. He died 3rd June 1846, and was succeeded by his eldest surviving son, John Henry Ashhurst Esquire, the above Sheriff. (b) . Mr. Morrell died in 1863, at Headington Hill, at the early age of 53. His character may be collected from the following quotations in a Memorial of him written shortly after his death. " Mr. Morrell (the kind friend in distress, the benefactor of so many), is no more j and both the City and County of Oxford mourn the loss of a man whose like, — for kindness of heart, for true benevolence, and for unbounded hospitality, — we shall probably never see again. His means were great, and his heart to dispense those means was commensurately large." *' In all his feelings and actions he appears to have been mindful of the succinct old saying, Prastat Vir sine fecumoy quant pecunia sine Viro. (Better a man without money, than money without a man)." (c) . Genealogists trace the Fane Family up to Howel ap Vane, seated in Mon- mouthshire before the Conquest. Passing to Sir Henry Vane, the eighth person in the descent, he was, on the 19th of December 1356, knighted at the Battle of Poictiers, by Edward the Black Prince ; and, nearly two hundred years afterwards, Sir John Vane was knighted at the Siege of Bologne in 1544, and made a Knight Banneret at the great Battle of Musselborough, in the first year of Edward VI. 's reign. He was afterwards executed, on the 25th of February 1552, for adhering to the unfortunate Duke of Somerset. And at this date the name appears to have been changed to Fane. Sir Francis Fane was created Earl of Westmoreland in 1624. One of his descendants, Henry Fane, married Anne, daughter of Thomas Scrope Esquire 1856. William 70 1856. William Evetts of Tackley Park, Esquire. 1857. The Right Honorable Charles Henry, 14th Viscount Dillon(a), of Dytchley. 1858. Henry Lomax Gaskell of Kiddington Hall, Esquire. 1859. George Gammie(b) (now Gammie-Maitland), of Shotover House, Esquire. Esquire (a descendant of the Regicide), and by her acquired the Estate of Wormsley in Oxfordshire, where the family have ever since been seated. This Henry Fane was the father of Thomas, the eighth Earl of Westmoreland, and was succeeded at Wormsley by the Earl's younger brother, the Honorable Henry Fane, M.P. for Lyme Regis, who married, first, Charlotte, daughter of Nicholas Rowe, Poet Lau- reate ; secondly, Anne, daughter of John Wynn, D.D., Bishop of Bath and Wells ; and, thirdly, in 1743, Charlotte, daughter of Richard Luther Esquire, of Myles's in Essex, by which alliance the Fanes acquired their Essex estate. Lieutenant-Colonel John William Fane (the present representative of his family), the above Sheriff, is the third in the generations of the House who has represented the county of Oxford in Parliament. He commands the Oxfordshire Regiment of Militia, having, whilst Major, succeeded to the Colonelcy upon the death of Colonel Bowles in 1862 ; and, as Major Fane, he accompanied service companies of the Regi- ment to Corfu, and commanded them during the Crimean War in 1855. (a) . In the Visitation of Oxfordshire by Lee, in 1574, the name of Gibbons is recorded as living at Dytchley, and Thomas Gibbons Esquire was High Sheriff of Oxfordshire in the 12th year of Queen Elizabeth (-vide p. 39 ante). From the Gibbons Family Dytchley passed, by purchase, to Sir Henry Lee K.G. of Quarren- don, Bucks, the celebrated Courtier and Knight in Queen Elizabeth's Reign. Upon his decease, in 161 1, the Estate passed to his Nephew, Sir Henry Lee, Knight and Baronet, High Sheriff in the nth year of James the First. (See note (c) p. 43). In 1674 Sir Edward Henry Lee, the 5th Baronet, was raised to the Peerage as Baron of Spelsbury, Viscount Quarrendon, and Earl of Lichfield, who married Lady Charlotte Fitzroy, natural Daughter of King Charles the Second, by Barbara Villiers Duchess of Cleveland. He died in 1716, and was succeeded by his fourth Son George Henry Lee, second Earl, whose eldest Son, Sir George Henry Lee (third Earl), was Chancellor of the University of Oxford, from 1762 to 1772, and was a great Benefactor both to the University and City. Amongst other en- dowments the four City Lectureships were founded, 1778, with money left by him, and invested in Oxford Canal Shares. He died in 1775, and was succeeded by his Uncle, Sir Robert Lee, previously M.P. for the City of Oxford. Sir Robert (fourth Earl of Lichfield) married Katherine, Daughter of Sir John Stonehouse of Radley, and died, issueless, in 1776, when all his honours (including the Baronetcy), expired. The Dytchley Estate devolved upon his Niece, Charlotte Viscountess Dillon, and has since remained in that noble Family. Her Grandson, Henry Augustus 13th Viscount Dillon, assumed the additional Surname and Arms of Lee, and, upon his decease, in 1832, he was succeeded by his eldest Son, the above Sheriff, who died in 1865, leaving, as his successor in the Peerage and Estates, his next Brother, Theobald Dominick Geoffrey, the 15th and present Viscount Dillon. The mansion of Dytchley (designed by Gibbs), is a grand house, and, with its ex- tensive Park, ranks high amongst the noble Seats of the County. (b) . Shotover is historically an interesting place. The mansion (to which wings have, in good taste, been recently added by Mr. Gammie-Maitland), was built by Sir Timothy Tyrrell Baronet, in the Reign of James the First, upon the site of the ancient house, celebrated as being selected by Queen Elizabeth for her reception of the Authorities of Oxford at the close of Her Majesty's visit, in 1566, to the classic City. It is recorded that on the Queen's arrival at Shotover, upon leaving Oxford, the Earl of Leicester (Chancellor of the University) told Her that the University Liberties reached no farther that way ; whereupon Mr. Roger Marbeck delivered an eloquent oration to the Queen, containing many passages relating to learning, and the encouragement of it by Her Majesty 5 which, being concluded, the Queen gave him Her hand to kiss, with many thanks to the whole University, speaking in these words, with her face towards Oxford : *' Farewell the learned University of Oxford, farewell my good subjects there, farewell my dear scholars i860. John 71 1860. John Fowden Hodges of Bolney Court, Esquire. 1861. Henry Birch Reynardson(^) of Adwell House, Esquire. 1862. Edward MackenzieC^) of Fawley Court, Esquire. 1863. Thomas Taylor of Aston House, Esquire. scholars ; and pray God prosper your studies ; farewell, farewell." The Obelisk in view of the mansion was built to commemorate Queen Elizabeth's visit, and to mark the site of the former house. There are several traditions as to the origin of " Shotover but the one most accredited is " Chateau Vert.'"'' The estate belonged to the Crown, and was granted to the Tyrrells in recognition of the following incident. Sir Timothy Tyrrell, being Master of the Buckhounds to Henry, . Prince of Wales (son of James the First), was hunting with the Prince in Shotover Forest, and, on holding the buck's head for the Prince to cut it off, the Prince cut Sir Timothy's hand in such a way as permanently to deprive him of the use of it. On Sir Timothy's next appearance at Court, the Prince granted him the Rangership of the Forests of Shotover and Stow Wood, and King James the First confirmed the grant (after the death of Prince Henry in 1612), by Letters Patent dated 161 3, for the lives of Sir Timothy Tyrrell and his two sons, Timothy and William. Sir Timothy was also Master of the Buckhounds to Prince Charles (afterwards Charles the First) and, in the Civil War, Timothy Tyrrell, the son, raised a regiment at his own expense, and was dangerously wounded in two engagements j whilst William Tyrrell was killed in the King's service at the siege of Chester. The last of the Tyrrell family left the Domain of Shotover (then become a freehold estate), to Baron Augustus Schutz, in the reign of George the First, and his descendants consecutively resided there till the last of the family (Thomas James Schutz Esq.) died in 1839, when the property devolved upon George Vandeput Drury Esquire, after whose death it was purchased by George Gammie-Maitland Esquire, the present owner. The following inscription upon a monument in Forest Hill Church records the decease of the last of the Schutz family : Sacred to the memory of Thomas James Schutz Esquire, of Shotover House in this county, who departed this life the vii. of December a. d. MDCccxxxix. aged lxxix years. He was the last of a long line of an- cestors distinguished for their public acts and emplo,yments as well as for their private virtues. The recollection of the charitable, humane, and honourable character of the deceased will never be forgotten by those who knew him, and by the Poor who have reason to deplore his loss. In the same vault rest the remains of Ann, wife of the above Thomas James Schutz Esquire, daughter and co-heiress of Samuel Sheppard Esquire, of Minchin Hampton, Gloucestershire. After an union of forty years she died the xviii. of March a.d. mdcccxxxvii., sincerely lamented by her husband. This tablet is erected by George Vandeput Drury Esquire, cousin and suc- cessor of the late Thomas James Schutz Esquire, as a tribute of his gratitude and esteem. (a) . James Jones Esquire, the Sheriff in 1797, was one of Mr. Reynardson's predecessors at Adwell. Mr. Jones acquired the estate by his marriage with Miss Elizabeth Newell, and through her it came to her cousin, John William Newell Birch Esquire, late of Henley Park, for life, and he, having purchased the reversion, presented the estate to his nephew, Henry Birch Reynardson Esquire, the above Sheriff. (See Plot's History of Oxfordshire as to Antiquities of Adwell Cop, &c.) (b) . Mr. Mackenzie, in 1853, purchased the Fawley Court estate of Mr. William Peere Williams Freeman, the Sheriff in 1838. It had belonged to the Freeman family for several generations, they having acquired it, by purchase, of the Whitelocks, who were related to John Hampden, and took a prominent part in the Civil War, on Hampden's side. There are three Mansions on the estate, Fawley Court, Henley Park, and Phillis Court. Of these Fawley Court (designed by Sir Christopher Wren, and built in 1684), is by far the most important, and it has historical interest attached to it. The former Court House was sacked by the Royalists during the Civil War ; the Court Rolls and Title Deeds burned j and the deer in the park killed. The present Mansion abounds with treasures of art, and, amongst other paintings, is the celebrated one, by Salter, of the Waterloo Banquet. This picture adorns one of the rooms ; whilst the grand staircase is lined with Salter's individual portraits of the Heroes. 1864. George 72 1864. George Glen(a) of Stratton AuJley Park, Esquire. 1865. William Melliar Foster-Melliar of North Aston, Esquire. 1866. Sir Henry William Dashwood(b) of Kirtlington Park, Baronet. 1867. Alexander William Hall, (of Barton Abbey), Dun's Tew Esquire. (a) . See Note (b) page 55. (b) . The Dashwood Family was originally seated in Dorsetshire, whence it re- moved into the County of Somerset, and settled at Vallow Wood, in the parish of Stogumber, towards the latter part of the reign of Elizabeth. Over the porch of the house of Vallow Wood, was a stone with the carved initials R, D., for Robert Dashwood, and the date 1606. This property remained in the elder branch of the Dashwood family, until sold to Sir John Trevelyan, of Nettlecomb, by Robert Dashwood Esquire, father of Admiral Sir Charles Dashwood K. C. B., who died in 1847. Samuel Dashwood Esquire, of Rowdon, in the parish of Stogumber, County Somerset, married first, 2nd September 1600, Elizabeth Sweetinge, and by her had issue, John, Francis, and William j and by his second wife he had one son, George, Alderman of London, whose son Robert, (Sheriff in 1683), — having married Penelope, daughter and coheir of Sir Thomas Chamberlayne Baronet, of Wickham Park, Oxfordshire, — was created a Baronet the i6th of September 1684. He was M.P. for Banbury in several Parliaments in the Reign of William the Third. On the occasion of his return in the second year of William and Mary, John Hawles Esquire, the other Candidate, petitioned against the return, on the ground that Sir Robert had been elected by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Capital Burgesses, whereas Mr. Hawles had been chosen by the votes of the Freemen and Burgesses at large. After an inquiry in the House of Commons, it was resolved that Sir Robert Dashwood had been duly elected, thus maintaining the electoral privileges of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Capital Burgesses. He was succeeded by his grandson, Sir James Dash- wood (Sheriff' in 1738), for some time M.P. for the County of Oxford, but who in 1754 was (after a scrutiny) one of the unsuccessful candidates at the great Oxfordshire Election in that year. (See note (b) p. 59). He died loth November 1779, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Sir Henry Watkin Dashwood, who sat as one of the Representatives of Woodstock in eight successive Parliaments, but retired on account of his advanced age at the general Election in 1820. He died June loth 1828, and was succeeded by his eldest son. Sir George Dashwood, (Sheriff in 1833). In early life Sir George was page of honor to King George the Third, and was afterwards in the Third Regiment of Guards ; and he was for a short time in Parliament as Member for Truro. Upon his death, on the 20th of September 1 86 1, he was succeeded by his eldest son, the above Sheriff, and the fifth Baronet. Sir James Dashwood built the house at Kirtlington Park, which is the finest Mansion in the County, with the exception of Blenheim Palace. The concurrent expenses of building this mansion, and contesting the County in 1754, were extremely large. The following incidents of that election were accidentally omitted from a former note. Sir Edward Turner, to propitiate Magdalen College, presented to the Society the Iron Gates which stood at the entrance to the Water Walks, and which have on them the initials of his name. Afterwards, meeting Dr. Bacon, Sir Edward asked him how the College liked his present ? " Why, Sir Edward, the gates are very handsome, but all in College say that they can see through them." These gates now form the entrance from the Court Yard of the President's Lodgings to his private garden. Also, after the contest, Dr. Bacon being at his estate at Baldon, his neighbour Mr. Blackall, the High Sheriff, (to whom credit was generally given for making a double return on account of his partiality for Lord Parker and Sir Edward Turner), happened to be hunting with his harriers over the Doctor's land ; and, thinking an apology necessary, Mr. Blackall sent his servant to Dr. Bacon to say that he hoped the trespass would be excused. "Tell Mr. Blackall" (said the Dr.), " that I will excuse him, provided he makes no double return on my Turnips." 1868. William 73 1 868. William Earle Biscoe(a) of Holton Park, Esquire. NON, SI H^C EXQUIRERE VELIS, VACUA TANTUM NOMINA INVENIES. JOHN M. DAVENPORT F. S. A. County Hall, July 1868. The Compiler of the foregoing List desires to acknowledge that he has re- ceived much assistance from Mr. William Henry Turner of Turl Street, Oxford, and to that assistance are to be ascribed many of the historic notes by which the pages are relieved. (a). The old Manor House of Holton was a large stone edifice, surrounded by a moat. This was taken down, and' the present mansion built by Elisha Biscoe Esquire, on another site, in 1815. The daughter of Oliver Cromwell was married in the old house. The following entry of the marriage occurs in the parish register : "Weddinges. Henry Ireton, Commissary General to Sir Thomas Fairfax, and Bridget, daughter to Oliver Cromwell, Lieutenant-General of the Horse to the said Sir Thomas Fairfax, were married by Dr. Dell, in the Lady Whorwood her house, in Holton, June 15, 1646. "Alban Eales, Rector." Holton Park is one of the eleven ancient Deer Parks of the County, which consist of Blenheim Park, — formerly the Royal Park of Woodstock, and one of, if not the oldest of the Deer Parks in England. It contains 2,800 acres, and was granted by Queen Anne to John, Duke of Marlborough, in 1705, the name being changed to Blenheim. Cornbury Park, — another ancient Royal Park till the reign of Charles the Second, who granted it to the Lord Chancellor Clarendon, who took his second title of Viscount Cornbury from this Park. Crowsley Park, — inclosed in the time of James the Second, when the present Mansion was built. Dytchley Park. Glympton Park. Grey's Court Park,— described by Leland, and long the seat of the House of KnoUys. Holton Park, — of great antiquity, and once the seat of the Bardolfs. Magdalen College Park, or "Grove," Oxford. — Deer have been kept here for a little more than a hundred years. They attracted the attention of George III. upon his visiting the College in 1786. NUNEHAM 74 NuNEHAM Park. — Inclosed by Simon, Lord Harcourt, about 1720. It contains 1,200 acres. Stonor Park. — Of great antiquity, and is noticed by Leland as a fayre Parke." Thame Park. — This Park can also lay claim to great antiquity, being connected with the Abbey refounded by Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln, in 1 138. There were formerly Deer Parks at Beckley. — A Charter for a Park was obtained by Hugh de Spencer In 13 12. It afterwards reverted to the Crown, and in 1457 Henry VI. presented Archbishop Chichele with twelve trees from his Park at Beckley towards building All Souls' College. Benson. Bletchingdon. — The Annesleys, Earls of Anglesea. Broughton Castle. — Lord Saye and Sele. Caversham. — It belonged to the Craven family in 1676. Elsfield. — Licence to inclose a Park here was granted to Gilbert de Elsfield in the first year of Edward III. EwELME. — A Royal Manor and "a right fair Parke." In 1609 Lord William Knollys was Keeper of this Park, and Master of the wild beasts in the same. Hanwell. — The seat of the Copes. Hooknorton. — It belonged to Chaucer, then to the Poles, Dukes of Suffolk, by marriage. Langley. — A royal seat in Whichwood Forest. Mapledurham. — The ancient seat of the Blounts. Minster Lovel. — Sir "William Lovel, temp. Henry VI. Rycot. — Disparked within the present century. Watlington. — Belonged to the Stonor family. Yarnton. — The Spencers. Note. The Reader is requested to add " K.G." to the Title of John Winston, Duke of Marlborough, at page 8 ; the honor of the Garter having been conferred by Her Majesty upon his Grace subsequently to the printing of that page. Corrections. Page 22, note (a), line 4, for "Castleton, Warwickshire," read "Chastleton, Oxfordshire." Page 23, note (a), line 8, for " Purbreck," read Purbeck." Page 43, note (c), line 21, for "and raised," read "who was raised." Index 75 INDEX TO THE NAMES OF THE LORDS LIEUTENANT. Page. Abingdon, Montagu, 2nd Earl of - - - - 7 Banbury, "William Knollys, Earl of - - - - 6 Clarendon, Edward, Earl of - - - - - 6 Falkland, Henry, 4th Viscount - - - - 6 Godolphin, Francis, Earl of - - - - - 7 Lichfield, Edward, ist Earl of- - - - - 7 Macclesfield, George, 4th Earl of - - - - 8 Marlborough, Charles, 2nd Duke of - - - - 7 Marlborough, George, 3rd Duke of - - - - 8 Marlborough, George, 5th Duke of - - - - 8 Marlborough, John Winston, 6th Duke of - - - 8 Norreys, Henry, Lord - - - - - - 6 Norreys, James, Lord - - - - - - 7 Say and Sele, William, ist Viscount - - - - 6 Say and Sele, James, 2nd Viscount - - - - 6 Suffolk, Charles Brandon, Duke of - - - - 6 Wharton, Thomas, Lord - - - - - 7 INDEX TO THE HIGH SHERIFFS' NAMES. An Asterisk against a Name indicates that a Note is attached to it. A. Alan, the son of Roaldi, 17. Alveton, John de, 19, 20. Aishcombe, Sir William, 44. Andrews, Robert, 24. Annesley, Arthur, 62, 63. Ashefeld, Edward, 38. Ashefeld, Humphrey, 39. Ashefeld*, John, 32. Ashhurst*, John Henry, 69. Ashhurst*, William Henry, 64. Arsick*, Manasser, 10, 11. Attwood, William, 22. Aumari, Robert de, 13. Auriol, James Peter, 63. B. Babington*, Sir William, 39, Baker*, Sir Richard, 44. Banastre, Alardus, 11. Barber, Edward, 56. Barber, Henry, 62. Barber, Robert, 54. Barentyne, Drogo, 19. Barentyne*, John, 29, 31. Barentyne, Thomas, 22. Barentyne*, William, 33, 34, 35. Baskerville*, Henry, 68. Basket*, John, 32. Basset, Gilbert, 12. Basset*, Thomas, 11, 13. 76 Batson, Stanlake, 65. Baynton, Stukeley, 62. Beach*, Philip de la, 18, 19. Beckinham, William, 29. Bere, Richard de la, 19. Berners, Ralph de, 17. Besiles*, Sir Peter, 23. Besilles, William, 31, 32. Biscoe*, Elisha, 64. Biscoe*, William Earle, 73. Blackall, John, 63, 65. Blackall*, Thomas, 59. Blake, Daniel, 56. Blake, William, 53. Blewitt, John, 56. Blount*, Michael, 40, 41. Blount*, Michael Henry, 66. Blount, Sir Richard, 44. Bockland, John de, 19. Boseville, William, 48. Boulton, Matthew P. W., 69. Bowles*, Oldfield, 62. Brackele, Richard de, 14. Bray, Edmund, 39. Bray, Ralph, de, 13, 14. Breautee*, Falco de, 13, 14. Bremmeschete, William de, 17. Bridges, Henry, 34. Bridges, Richard, 35, 38. Bridges, Thomas, 38. Briewere*, William, 12, 13. Brines, Richard, 22. Brocas, William, 28. Brome*, Sir John, 37. Brome, Sir Christopher, 38. Brome*, George, 41. Brown, John, 69. Browne, Sir Henry, 53. Brumpton, John de, 19. Brun, John le, 14. Brunus, John, 15. Brygges, Henry, 34. Brymtone, Adam de, 18. Bullock, Robert, 22. Burnaby, Sir William, 59. Bush, John, 62. c. Caillaud, John, 63. Cancell, Peter de, 14. Carter, Edward, 55. Carter, Thomas, 35. Cartwright*, John, 48, 50. Cartwright, Thomas, 54. Catmera, Adam de, 11. Caverton, Richard de, 12. Chaderinton, Pagan de, 12. Chalers*, Sir John, 26. Chamberlayne*, Sir Edward, 32, 34. Chamberlayne*, George, 48. Chamberlayne, Sir Leonard, 35, 36. Chamberlayne*, Sir Thomas, 47. Chamberlayne*, Robert, 41. Chaucer*, Thomas, 23. Ciconiaco, Engelard de, 14. Clanville*, William de, 12. Clarke*, George, 64. Clerke*, Edward, 47. Clerke, Francis, 58. Clerke*, John, 57. Clerke, William, 40. Clerke*, Sir William, 43. Cobb*, Sir Edward, 57. Cobb, Thomas, 49, 66. Cobb*, Sir William, 46. Cofle, Roger de, 12. Coghill, Sir Thomas, 46. Cok, James, 17. Colshull, Richard de, 19. Colston, Edward F. 65. Coker*, John, 58. Cope*, Anthony, 40. Cope*, Sir Anthony, 36, 42. Cope, Sir William, 44. Cope*, William, 47. Corbet, Richard, 39. Corbett, Sir Robert, 23. Cottesford, Roger de, 20. Coventry and Lichfield*, Roger, Bishop of, 16, 17. Coventry, Thomas Darby, 64. Cowper, John, 39. Crawcumbe*, Godfrey de, 14. Crispe, Charles, 56. Crispe, Thomas, 54, Croke*, Sir George, 49. Croke, James, 56. Croke*, Unton, 49. Croker, John, 38. Curson, Sir John, 43. Curson, Francis, 41. Curzon*, Sir Thomas, 52. D. D'Amary, Richard, 18. Dance, Edmund, 50. D'Anvers, Thomas, 17, 18. Danvers, John, 39, 40. Darrell, William, 25. Dashwood, Sir George, 66. Dashwood*, Sir Henry W., 72. Dashwood, Sir James, 58. Dashwood, Sir Robert, 52. Daunce, Sir John, 33. Denton, Thomas, 34, 39. Denton, John, 38. Desanges, Sir Francis, 65. Dew, John, 56. Dillon*, Viscount, 70. D' Lisle, William, 16. D'Oilli*, Robert, 10. D'Oilli*, Henry, 10, 12. Dormer*, Charles Cottrell, 66. Dormer*, Sir Michael, 42. Dormer, Sir Robert, 46. Dormer*, William, 50. Dotting, Abel, 62. D'Oyley*, Sir Cope, 44. D'Oyley*, John, 38, 40, 47. D'Oyley* Sir John, 52. D'Oyley*, Sir Robert, 39'. I Draper, William, 48, 51, 62. Du 77 Dunch, Edward, 43. Dunch, Walter, 44. Duncombe, John, 58. E. Elmerugg, Roger de, 20, 21. Elyott, Thomas, 34. Englefield*, Sir Francis, 36. Englefield, Philip, 25. Englefield, Thomas, 34. Essex*, Sir William, 33, 34, 35. Evetts, William, 70. F. Fabian, Edward, 38. Fane*, John, 66. Fane*, John William, 69. Farnham, Alanus de, 15. Faryngton*, Thomas, 22. Fell, David, 63. Fenner, Edward, 43. Fermor, Sir Richard, 41. Fermor*, William, 35. Feteplace*, Sir Thomas, 25. Fetiplace, Anthony, 32. Fetiplace, Sir Edmund, 52. Fetiplace, John, 34. Fetiplace, Peter, 26. Fettiplace, Sir Charles, 56. Fettiplace, Sir Lorenzo, 56. Fettiplace, Robert, 60. Fiennes*, Sir Richard, 39, 41. Fiennes, Richard, 36, 38, 40. Fitz Ellis*, Robert, 20. Foliot, Peter, 16. Foliot*, Sampson, 16. Foliot*, Walter, 14. Forster*, Sir George, 33, Forster*, Humphrey, 30. Forster, Sir Humphrey, 35. Foster-Melliar, William M., 72. Fowler*, Sir Richard, 32. Franke, Edward, 31. Eraser, Thomas, 65. Freeman, Strickland, 63. Freeman, William P. W., 65, 67. Frere*, William, 41. Furnell, Alanus de, il. Fynderne*, William, 25. G. Gammie*, George, 70. Gardiner, Samuel, 63. Gardiner, Samuel Weare, 69. Gaskell, Henry Lomax, 70. Gaynsford*, George, 31, 32. Gibbons, Thomas, 39. Glen*, George, 72. Glynne*, Sir William, 50, 53, 55. Golafre*, John, 22, 24. Gore*, William, 49. Gower, John, 52. Greenhill*, Samuel, 57. Greenwood, Thomas, 56. Gregory, Edmund, 52. Greene, William, 41. Greville, Edward, 32. Greynvylle, William de, 17. Grote, Joseph, 63. H. Haia, Robert de, 14. Hall, Henry, 50, 69. Hall, Alexander W., 72. Hamersley*, Hugh, 67. Harborne*, John, 46. Harcourt*, Sir Richard, 29. Harcourt*, Sir Robert, 27. Harcourt, Robert, 31. Harcourt, Sir Simon, 33, 34, 35. Harcourt, Sir Thomas, 23. Harcourt, William, 31, 32, 33. Harrington, Sir James, 42. Harrison, John, 64. Harrison, John H. Slater, 67. Hawtry, William, 39. Hay*, William, 15. Haydok, Thomas, 33. Haytfeld, Stephen, 25. Henley*, Joseph, 65. Henred*, Nicholas de, 15, 16. Henry, the son of Simeon, 12. Herman*, Nicholas, 48. Heywood*, Francis, 57. Hinde, William, 54. Hodges, Anthony, 60. Hodges, John Fowden, 71. Hodges, William, 64. Holt, Charles, 56. Holt*, Ralph, 52. Horde*, Allan, 56. Horde, Thomas, 58, 59. Horn, Edward, 62. Home, John, 31, 32. Hose*, Geoffrey, 11. Howard*, Sir John, 29. Huddleston*, Richard, 39. Hulcote, John, 22. Hulecote, John de, 14. Hungerford, Sir Anthony, 35. Hyde*, William, 36. J. [ames, John, 21, 22. [ames*, Robert, 23, 24, 25. [emmett, Thomas, 63. fenkinson*, Robert, 48. fenkinson. Sir Robert, 47. fennings, Robert, 54. foddrell, Richard Paul, 63. [ones, James, 63. [ones, Sir Samuel, 50. K. 78 Keate, John, 48. Keck, Francis, 54. King, James, 65. Kingeston, Thomas, 31. Kirkeby*, Gilbert de, 16, 17. KnoUys*, Sir Francis, 59. L. Lacy, Sir John, 46. Lacy*, Sir Rowland, 42, 53. Lacy, Rowland, 44, 58. Lambert, Sir Henry John, 66. Langford*, Sir John, 32. Langford, Edward, 26, 29. Langford, Robert, 63. Langford*, Sir "William, 23. Langston*, John, 30, 64. Langston*, James Haughton, 65. Laundeles, John, 20. Ledwell, William, 62. Lee*, Sir Henry, 43. Lenthall*, John, 50, 55, 63. Lenthall, William, 55. Lidyard, John, 26. Lisle, Sir William, 23, 24. Loggin*, Kobert, 48. Loveday*, John, 67. Lovelace, Kichard, Lord, 44, Lybbe*, Richard, 47, 56. M. Mackenzie*, Edward, 71. Malyns, Edward de, 20. Malyns, Sir Reginald, 21. Mantell, Walter, 28. Mare*, Robert de la, 11, 12. Mare, Thomas de la, 20, 28. Mare*, Sir Thomas de la, 30, 31. Marsack*, Charles, 63. Martin, Francis, 48. Massingberd, Charles Burrell, 6z. Mayot, Robert, 52. Megre, Robert le, 13. Meller, Sir John, 46. Metcalf, Edward, 58. Moreton, Robert de, 20. Morrell*, James, 69. Mounfford, Sir Edward, 31. Moyle*, Thomas, 43. Mullins, Michael, 39. N. Nedham, William, 62. Nevill, Hugh de, 12. Newell, William, 54. Normanville, Ralph de, 13. Norreys*, Henry, 38. Norreys, James, 56. Norreys*, John, 26, 30. Norreys, Sir John, 28. Norreys*, Sir William, 29, 30, 3 1. Norris*, Sir Francis, 46. North*, John Sidney, 68. Nourse, Francis, 56. Nourse, John, 58. Nowers, Richard de, 20. o. Oglethorp*, Owyne, 40, 41. Osbaldeston, John, 34. Osbaldeston*, Sir William, 55. Oxenford, Henry de, 10. P. Padbury, James de, 17. Page*, Francis, 59. Parco, Richard de, 12, 13. Parker*, The Hon. Thomas, 64. Parret*, Sir Jacob, 52. Parsons, John, 52. Peers, Charles, 59, 65. Peniston*, Sir Thomas, 47. Pennycock, John, 26, Peter, 10. Petty*, Charnell, 48. Peyure, Paul, 15. Phillips, John, 65. Phillips, John Shawe, 67. Phillips, William, 63. Plessitis*, John de, 15. Polhampton*, Richard de, 19. Pollard, John, 58. Pope, William, 41. Powys, Philip, 58. Powys*, Philip Lybbe, 65. Poyle, Sir Thomas de la, 22. Price, Charles, 61. Prout, Thomas, 29. Parcel, Otvelus, 19. Quartermayns*, Richard, 26. R. Raine, John, 58. Rainsford*, Sir William, 36, 38. Raynesforde, Hercules, 39. Read, Thomas, 43. Reade*, Sir Edward, 53. Reade, Sir James, 54. Reade, Sir John Chandos, 64. Rede, Edward, 26. Restoldus, 10. Restwold, Richard, 25, 29. Restwold, Thomas, 30. Reynardson*, Henry Birch, 71. Ricardo, Mortimer, 68. Eipariis, Richard de, 14. Ripple, Hugh de, 13. Rodney*, 79 Rodney*, Sir Walter, 33. llogers, John, 26. Rogers, Thomas, 29. RoUinson*, Thomas, 62. Rothwell, John de, 21. Rowney*, Thomas, 53. Rucote*, Fulco de, 16. Ryvere, Walter de la, 16. s. Salvage, Geoffrey le, 12. Sam borne, Henry, 42. Sanders, John, 56. Say, Thomas, 31. Shirley, Hugh, 32. Shottebrok, Henry de, 17. Skull, Walter, 26. Smith, Henry, 56. Smith, Humphrey, 55. Smythe*, Sir Sebastian, 54. Smythe*, Sebastian, 57, Spencer*, Sir Thomas, 43. Spencer*, William, 40. Sperschete, Nicholas de, 18. Spershete, William de, 19. Spersholt, Edward, 22. Stafford, Thomas, 38. Stafford, William, 34. Staverton, William, 29. St. John, John de, 17. St. Vigorc, Thomas de, 16. St. Walery, John de, 16. Stokes, John, 26. Stone*, Carlton, 55. Stone, William Lowndes, 63. Stone, William Francis Lowndes, 65. Stonor, Edmund, 22. Stonor, Francis, 41, 44. Stonor, Sir Thomas, 24. Stonor*, Thomas, 26, 29, 66. Stonor, Sir Walter, 35. Stratton, George, 63. Stratton, George Frederick, 64. Strickland, Walter, 68. Stuart, Daniel, 65. Suhard, Richard, 15. Svain*, 10. Sweet, Benjamin, 56. Syffrewast, Nicholas de, 16. T. Talbot, Sir Humphry, 30. Taverner*, John, 49. Taverner*, Richard, 39. Taylor, James, 64. Taylor, Joseph, 56, 58. Taylor, Thomas, 71. Temple, Sir Thomas, 42. Thistelden, Henry de, 18. Thornicroft*, Sir John, 54. Tipping, George, 42. Tipping, Thomas, 47. Tipping, William, 56. Tiwe, John de, 15. Toovey, Thomas, 64. Travell, John, 56. Trotman*, Fiennes, 62. Trotman*, Samuel, 61. Turberville, John de, 16. Tureville, Robert de, 11. Turner*, Edward, 57. Turner, Sir Gregory Page, 63. Turri, Richard de, 13. Tus, Richard le, 13. Tydemers, John de, 17. u. Umpton, Thomas, 35. V. Vanderstegen*, William, 61. Vanderstegen*, William Henry, 68. Vesey*, Robert, 49. Viall, James, 30. Vivian, the Son of Ralph, 14. w. Wace*, Gilbert, 21, 22. Walkested, Sir Richard, 24. Walter, William, 47. Warcoppe, Ralph, 47. Warren*, Borlase, 55. Wastie*, Francis, 62. Wenman, Richard, 38, 59, 45. Wentworth, Sir Peter, 46. Weyland, John, 62. Weyland*, Richard, 66. Wheate, Francis Sackville Lloyd, 64. Wheate*, Thomas, 50, 54. Whippy, Benjamin John, 69. Whorwood, Simon, 53. Whorwood*, Thomas, 55, 56, 58. Wickham, John, 52. Wickham, Richard, 56. Wilcote, John, 23, 24. Wilcote*, William, 22, 23. Willats, Thomas, 62, 63. William, 10. William, the Son of Ralph, 12. Williams, John, 35. Williams*, Sir John, 32, 35, 37. Williams, Richard, 63. Williamscote, John de, 20. Williamscote, Sir Richard, 17. Wilson, Joseph, 66. Wilson, William, 65. Winchcombe*, Benedict, 42. Windsor, Richard de, 18. Witefeld, Robert de, n. Witts, Edward, 63. Wolfes, Hugh, 22. Wright*, John Atkyns, 63. Wydo, the Son of Robert, 15. Wykeham, Philip Thomas Herbert, 67. Wykham*, Thomas, 24. Wykham, Sir Thomas, 24, 25. Wykham, William, 26. The 8o The Compiler Is sensible of having Imperfectly performed his task ; and he is especially anxious that no Descendant of a late, nor any present Ex-Sheriff, not amplified in a Note, though numbered on the Roll, — should regard the omission as slighting or discourteous. With this concluding remark he would launch his little Offering to the County, with the abiding sentiment that " Things done well And with a care, exempt themselves from fear j Things done without example, In their issue Are to be feared." King Henry VIII. Act I. sc. 2. GETTY RESEARCH INSTITUTE 3 3125 01451 4067