Mr. Archer d. in 1685, and was 8. by his eldest son, ANDREW ARCHER, Esq., M.P. for the county of Warwick in the reigns of WILLIAM and MARY, Queen ANNE, and King GEORGE I., and one of the commissioners appointed in 1711 to inquire into the numbers and quality of the forces in her Majesty's pay in Portugal, and to examine the accounts relating to the said forces, and to the garrisons of Portmahon and Gibraltar. Mr. Archer m. Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Samuel Dashwood, lord mayor of London in 1702, and had issue, THOMAS, his successor. Elizabeth. SIR JOHN ARDERNE, Knt., whose grandson, JOHN ARDEN, Esq., of Arden, co. Chester, m. Mary, dan. of Cuthbert Pepper, Esq., of Pepper Hall, co. York, and heiress of her brother, Preston Pepper, Esq., and had two sons, viz., John, of Arden, and RICHARD-PEPPER ARDEN, Esq., b. in 1755, who was appointed solicitor-general in 1782, attorney-general in 1784, master of the rolls in 1788, and constituted lord chief justice of the court of Common Pleas in 1801, when he was elevated to the peerage, 22 May, 1801, in the dignity of BARON ALVANLEY, of eldest dau. of Richard Wilbraham Bootle, Esq., and sister of Henry, M.P. for Warwick, m. Lady Elizabeth Montagu, sister Alvanley, co. Chester.* His lordship m. in 1784, Anne-Dorothea, Mr. Archer d. at Umberslade, which he had rebuilt, on 31 THOMAS ARCHER, Esq., M.P. for Warwick, and subsequently for Bamber, who was elevated to the peerage, 14 July, 1747, by the title of BARON ARCHER, OF UMBERSLADE, IN THE COUNTY OF WARWICK. His lordship m. Catharine, dau. and co-heiress of Sir Thomas Tipping, Bart., of Wheetfield, co. Oxford, and Anne, his wife, dau. and heiress of Thomas Cheke, Esq., by his wife, Letitia, dau. and eventually sole heiress of Edward Russell (brother of William, 1st Duke of Bedford) and sister and heiress of Edward Russell, Earl of Orford, by whom he had issue, ANDREW, his successor, M.P. for Coventry. Catharine, m. 11 August, 1750, to Other-Lewis, 4th Earl of Anne, m. 15 March, 1756, to Edward-Garth Tournour, Esq., of His lordship d. in 1768, and was s. by his only son, ANDREW ARCHER, 2nd baron. This nobleman m. in 1761, Sarah, elder dau. of James West, Esq., M.P. for Alscot, co. Warwick, by whom he had three daus., his co-heirs, viz., 1. SARAH, m. 1st, 1788, to Other-Hickman, Earl of Plymouth, by whom she had issue, 1 Other-Hickman, 6th earl, d. s. p. 1833. 1 MARIA, m. 25 Oct. 1811, Arthur, 2nd Marquess of Down- 2 HARRIET, now BARONESS WINDSOR, m. 1819, to Hon. II. ELIZABETH-ANNE, m. Christopher Musgrave, Esq. (2nd son III. MARIA, m. 4 November 1788, Henry Howard, Esq., of ARDEN-BARON ALVANLEY, OF "The elder branch of the Ardernes," says Lysons, in his Cheshire, "whose chief seat was at Aldford, where they had a castle, became extinct in the principal line by the death of Walkeline Arderne, in or about the reign of RICHARD II. The present John Arden, Esq., for so the family have of late years spelt the name, is descended from Sir John Arderne, a younger brother of Walkeline before mentioned, whose posterity settled in the parish of Stockport in the 15th century; and he is also the representative of the Barons of Montalt, and of the ancient family of the Dones, of Utkington and Flaxyards. A younger branch of the Ardernes settled at Alderley about the beginning of the reign of EDWARD III., and ended, after a few descents, in a female heir, who married into the Weever family, whose heiress married the ancestor of Sir J.-T. Stanley, Bart. The Ardernes of Leicestershire were descended from a younger son of Ralph Arderne, of Harden, in the 15th century." SIR RALPH ARDERNE, of Harden, d. about 1420, leaving, by the dau. of Stanley of Hooton, two sons; the younger, Thomas, was the progenitor of the Ardernes of Leicestershire, and the elder, JOHN ARDERNE, inherited Harden. descended through several generations, 10 1. WILLIAM, his heir. II. RICHARD-PEPPER, 3rd lord. II. FRANCES-HENRIETTA, b. 1791; m. 21 June, 1831, Sir John Warrender. Bart., of Lochend, East Lothian; and d. 20 Feb. 1852, leaving an only child, HELEN-CATHERINE, m. 17 October, 1851, to George, Lord Binning, son and heir apparent of the present Earl of Haddington. III. CATHERINE. The baron d. 19 March, 1804, and was s. by his eldest son, RICHARD-PEPPER, as 3rd baron, b. 8 December, 1792; m. 30 April, 1831, Arabella, youngest dau. of William-Henry, 1st Duke lordship, who had been a lieutenant-colonel in the army, d. of Cleveland, by whom (who survived him) he had no issue. His 24 June, 1857, when the title became EXTINCT. Arms-Gu., three cross-crosslets, fitchée, or, on a chief, of the second, a crescent, of the first. ARGENTINE-BARONS DE ARGENTINE. By Writ of Summons, dated 26 January, 1297. REGINALD DE ARGENTINE, left a widow, Maud, who had license to marry again in the 5th year of STEPHEN, upon giving a composition to the king for her dowry. This Reginald d. before the year 1139, and was 8. by REGINALD DE ARGENTINE, sheriff of the counties of Cambridge and Huntingdon, from the 5th to the 8th years of RICHARD I., and in the next year for the counties of Hertford and Essex, for one half of the year. He d. about the year 1223, and was 8. by RICHARD DE ARGENTINE, who being sheriff for the counties of Essex and Hertford, in the 8th of HENRY III., was constituted governor of the castle of Hertford. He was likewise sheriff of the counties of Cambridge and Huntingdon, and subsequently (11th HENRY III.) one of the stewards of the king's household. In the 14th of HENRY III., this Richard being (in the words of M. Paris), a noble knight and valiant in arms, went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, and dying there in the year 1246, was 8. by his son, GILES DE ARGENTINE, a knight also of great valour, who, in the 16th of HENRY III., being with the king in an expedition made that year into Wales, fell into the hands of the enemy in a sharp conflict near Montgomery. In ten years afterwards he king with horse and arms into Gascony, and the next year he had summons with other important personages to attend the was appointed governor of Windsor Castle; but soon after we find him joining the rebel barons, at the battle of Lewes, and elected by them one of the nine councillors to assume the government of the kingdom. The barons being, however, defeated at the subsequent battle of Evesham, his lordship's lands and those of his son Reginald were sequestered. Margery, dau. and heir of Sir R. de Aiguillon, and d. in the 11th of EDWARD I, seised of the manor of Great Wymondeley, co. Cambridge, holden by grand serjea atie, viz., "to serve the king upon the day of his coronation with a silver cup." His son and successor (then in minority), Giles m. The manor of Alvanley, in the parish of Frodsham, was held under the Fitzalans, Earls of Arundel, at an early period, Sir Philip de Orreby, father of Philip, whose dau. and heir, by Richard de Pierpont and Robert de Alvanley, who sold it to Agnes, brought it and other possessions, in the reign of HENRY III., to Walkeline de Arderne, ancestor of John Arden, the present proprietor. A farm-house, called Alvanley Hall, From this gentleman family, called by Webb, in 1622, "a very fine house, belonging occupies the site of an ancient mansion belonging to the Arden to Henry Arderne, Esq. Lyscns, Che hire. REGINALD DE ARGENTINE, who doing homage, had livery of all his father's lands in the counties of Cambridge, Norfolk, Suffolk, and Hertford. This nobleman was summoned to parEsment in the 25th EDWARD I., 26 January, 1297. His lordship m. Lora, dau. of Robert de Vere, Earl of Oxford, and dying in 1307, was 8. by his son, JOHN DE ARGENTINE, 2nd baron, who had livery of his ther's lands, but was never summoned to parliament. This nobleman m. 1st, Joane, dau. and heir of Sir Roger Bryan, Knt., Lord of Throcking, Herts, and had issue, Joane, co-heir of her mother, who m. Sir John le Boteler, and was mother of Sir Edward Boteler. Elizabeth, m. Sir William le Botiller, brother of Sir John. His lordship m. 2ndly, Agnes, dau. and heir of William Bereford, of Burton, co. Leicester, and dying in the 12th year of EDWARD II., was s. by his only son, then but six months old, SIR JOHN DE ARGENTINE, 3rd baron, who was seised of the manors of Wymondeley, Herts, and Milburn, co. Cambridge; he received the honour of knighthood 4th of EDWARD III., but was never summoned to parliament. He m. Margaret, dau. and heir of Robert D'Arcy, of Stretton, and by her had issue, Maud, m. to Sir Eudo or Ivo FitzWarren. Joan, m. to Sir Bartholomew Naunton. Elizabeth, m. Sir Baldwin St. George, and was mother, by him, of SIR BALDWIN ST. GEORGE, Knt., who m., 4 RICHARD II., Johanna, a dau. and co-heir of Sir John Engaine, and was ancestor of the ST. GEORGES of Hatley St. George, co Cambridge, the ST. GEORGES of Dunmore, co. Galway, the ST. GEORGES, LORDS ST. GEORGE (whose heirgeneral is the DUKE OF LEINSTER), the ST. GEORGES of Tyrone, co. Galway, the ST. GEORGES, Barts., of Woodsgift, &c. John Lord de Argentine d. 1382-3, without legitimate male issue, when the barony fell into ABEYANCE amongst his daus. and co-heirs. Arms-Gu, three covered cups, arg. ARMINE-BARONESS BELASYSE, OF OSGODBY. By Letters Patent, dated 25 March, 1674. SIR WILLIAM ARMINE, Bart., of Osgodby, co. Lincoln, b. 1622, m. Anne, dau, and co-heiress of Sir Robert Crane, Bart., of Chilton, co. Suffolk, and by her (who m. 2ndly John, Lord Belasyse,) left two daus, his co-heirs, 1. SUSAN, created a peeress for life. II. ANNE, m. 1st, SIR THOMAS WODEHOUSE, Knt., by whom she had, with a dau., a son, Sir John Wodehouse, Bart., of Fimberley, grandfather of the 1st LORD WODEHOUSE. Her ladyship m. 2ndly, Thomas, 2nd Lord Crewe, of Stene, and by him had four daus., viz., 1 Jemima Crewe, m. to Henry de Grey, Duke of Kent, and had issue, ANTHONY, Earl of Harold, summoned to parliament as Baron Lucas, of Crudwell, in 1719. He m. Lady Mary Tufton, but d. s. p. in 1723. His death is mentioned as having arisen from an ear of barley which his lordship had inadvertently put into his mouth, by which he was choked. Henry, d. unm. * Sir William de Argentine, illegitimate son of the last Lord Argentine, was given the manor of Wymondeley. He 1st, Isabel, dan. of Sir Wm. Kerdeston; and 2ndly, Margaret. -By the former he left an only son, JOHN DE ARGENTINE, at whose decease the manor of Wymondeley was carried by his dau. and heiress, Elizabeth, into the family of Alington, upon her marriage with William Alingfon, Esq., ancestor of the Lords Alington. This manor of Wimley or Wymondeley is said to have fallen to the Argentines by marriage with the heiress of FitzTees, who derived themelves from Davil D'Argenton, a Norman, who came over with WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR. Note: "Of this family," says Dugdale, "was Reginald de Argentine, who, in 21 HENRY III., being a knight-templar, was standard bearer of the Christian army in a great battle against The Turks near Antioch, in the Holy Land, and carried it till iris hands and legs being broken, he was there slain. So likewise was Sir Giles Argentine, Knt., slain in Scotland at the battle of Bannoksburne, near Strivelin, in 7th EDWARD II. It is said, that the king himself, being in that fatal battle, and seeing the danger, by the advice of this Sir Giles (who being then lately come from the wars of Henry de Luzemburgh, the Emperour, and reputed a stout warrior), fled to Dunbar; and that this Sir Giles, saying that he was not wont to fly, returned to the English host, and was slain." Amabel, m. to John, Viscount Glenorchy, and hence descend the EARLS DE GREY AND RIPON. Jemima, m. to John, 3rd Lord Ashburnham, and was ancestor of the present peer. Anne, m. to Lord Charles Cavendish. Mary, m. to Dr. Gregory, dean of Christchurch. 2 Armine Crewe, m. to Thomas Cartwright, Esq., of Aynho. ancestor of the present WILLIAM CORNWALLIS CARTWRIGHT. Esq., of Aynho. 3 Catherine Crewe, m. to Sir John Harpur, Bart., of Calke Abbey; and the great-grandson of this marriage SIR HENRY HARPUR, Bart., of Calke Abbey, assumed by Royal License, in 1808, the surname and arms of CREWE. 4 Elizabeth Crewe, m. to Charles Butler, Earl of Arran. Anne, Lady Crewe, m. 3rdly, Arthur, Earl of Torrington. The elder dau. and co-heiress of Sir William Armine, SUSAN ARMINE, m. 1st, Hon. Sir Henry Belasyse, K.B., son and heir of John, Baron Belasyse, of Worlaby, and had a son, HENRY BELASYSE, who 8. to the title of Belasyse, of Worlaby, upon the decease of his grandfather, his father, Sir Henry, dying previously (see BELASYSE, of Worlaby). Lady Belasyse m. 2ndly, Fortrey, Esq., of Chequers, but by him had no issue. Her ladyship was created a peeress for life, by King CHARLES II.. by letters patent dated 25 March, 1674, as BARONESS BELASYSE OF OSGODBY. She d. 6 March, 1712-13, when the dignity EXPIRED. Arms-Erm., a saltire engr., gu., on a chief of the last a lion passant, or, armed and langued, az. By Letters Patent, dated 23 March, 1664. RANDEL ARUNDEL, m. Elizabeth, dau. and heiress of John Steward, and left a son, RALPH ARUNDEL, living in the 31st of EDWARD III., who m. Jane, dau. and heiress of Michael Trerice, by whom he had two sons, NICHOLAS and Thomas, and a dau. Jane, m. to Robert Trevanion. The elder son, NICHOLAS ARUNDEL, m. Elizabeth, dau. of John Pellocer, and sister and co-heiress of Martin Pellocer, and was 8. by his son, SIR JOHN ARUNDEL, of Trerice, co. Cornwall, who m. Joan, dau. and heiress of John Durant, and was 8. by his eldest son, NICHOLAS ARUNDEL, who m. Jane, dau. of Edward St. John, Esq., by whom he had four sons and four daus. He was s. by his eldest son, SIR JOHN ARUNDEL, Knt., sheriff of Cornwall in 1471. "This gentleman being forewarned," says Carew in his Survey of Cornwall, "that he should be slain on the sands, forsook his house at Elford, as too maritime, and removed to Trerice, his more inland habitation in the same county; but he did not escape his fate, for being sheriff of Cornwall in that year, and the Earl of Oxford surprising Mount Michael, for the house of Lancaster, he had the king's commands, by his office, to endeavour the reducing of it, and lost his life in a skirmish on the sands thereabouts." Sir John Arundel m. 1st, Margaret, dau. of Sir Hugh Courtenay, Knt., by whom he had two sons, who d. young; and 2ndly, Anne, dau. of Sir Walter Moyle, Knt., by whom he had also two sons, and was 8. by the elder, SIR JOHN ARUNDEL, sheriff of Cornwall, anno 1524. He m. Joan, dau. of Thomas Greenvil, Esq., and was s. by his only son, JOHN ARUNDEL, Esq., who received the honour of knighthood at the battle of Spurs. This gallant person, who was viceadmiral to Kings HENRY VII. and VIII., acquired great renown by the defeat and capture of Duncan Campbell, the Scottish pirate, in a sea fight. Sir John Arundel m. 1st, Mary, dau. and co-heiress of John Beville, of Gwarnick, Cornwall, by whom he had a son, Roger, and three daus., viz., Elizabeth, m. to Robert Tredenham, Esq. Catherine, m. to Richard Prideaux, Esq., of Thuborough. Sir John m. 2ndly, Julian, dau. of Jacob Erisey, Esq., by whom he had issue, JOHN, who became his heir. Margaret, m. to Robert Beckett, Esq. JOHN ARUNDEL, Esq., who m. 1st, Catherine, dau. and co-heiress of John Cosworth, Esq., and relict of Allan Hill, Esq., by whom he had four daus., viz., Mary, m.to Oliver Dynham, Esq. Dorothy, m. to Edward Cosworth, Esq. Julian, m. to Richard Carew, Esq., of Antony, Cornwall. Mr. Arundel m. 2ndly, Gertrude, dau. of Robert Dennis, Esq., of Holcomb, by whom he had two sons, JOHN and Thomas, and two daus., Anne, m. to William Cornfew, Esq., of Bucclesly, and Catherine, m. to John St. Aubyn, Esq. He d. in 1580, and was s. by his elder son, JOHN ARUNDEL, Esq., of Trerice, M.P. for Cornwall, temp. Queen ELIZABETH and King JAMES I., and for Tregony in the reign of King CHARLES I. At the breaking out of the civil war, this eminent person, with his four sons, espoused the cause of royalty, and took up arms for the king. Of these sons, two, John and William, lost their lives in the service of their unfortunate master, while their gallant father hurled defiance to the rebels from the battlements of Pendennis, and maintained his position there, to the very end of those unhappy conflicts, although besieged both by sea and land, being as Lord Clarendon relates, then nearly fourscore years of age, and of one of the best estates and interests in the county of Cornwall. Whitlock states, that on the 31st of August, 1646, letters came to the parliament, of the surrender of Pendennis Castle, and in it were Colonel Arundel, the governor, four knights, five colonels, and divers others of quality. That they had store of arms, but little provision. Colonel Arundel m. Mary, dau. of George Cary, Esq., of Clovelly, co. Devon, by whom he had four sons and two daus.; viz., RICHARD, John, William, Francis, Agnes, and Mary. The latter was m. 1st, to John Trevanion, Esq. (son and heir of Charles Trevanion, Esq., of Caerhayes), and 2ndly, to Sir John Arundel, of Lanherne. He was 8. at his decease by his eldest son, RICHARD ARUNDEL, Esq., member in the two last parliaments of King CHARLES I., for Lostwithiel, and in his military capacity, attached to the personal staff of that unhappy prince. This gallant officer had a command in the battle of Kineton, in the county of Warwick, where he displayed the hereditary valour of his family, and he was subsequently actively engaged during the whole of the civil wars, in which disastrous contest he was despoiled of the entire of his landed property. On the re-establishment of the monarchy, however, that was restored to him, and in consideration of the devotedness of his father, his brothers, and himself, to the royal cause, he was elevated to the peerage by letters patent, dated 23 March, 1664, as BARON ARUNDEL OF TRERICE, Co. Cornwall. His lordship m. Gertrude, dau. of Sir James Bagge, Knt., of Saltram, co. Devon, and widow of Sir Nicholas Slanning, Knt., of Bickley, and was s., at his decease in 1688, by his only surviving child, JOHN ARUNDEL, 2nd baron; this nobleman m. 1st, Margaret, dau. and sole heiress of Sir John Acland, Knt., of Colomb-John, co. Devon, by whom he had issue, JOHN, his successor. ASTLEY-BARONS ASTLEY. By Writ of Summons, dated 23 June, 1295. Lineage. This noble family derived its surname from the manor of Astley (or Estley, as formerly written), in the county of Warwick, which, with other estates in that shire, belonged to the Astleys so far back as the reign of HENRY I. PHILIP DE ESTLEY, grandson of the first possessor, was certified upon the assessment of the aid towards the marriage por tion of King HENRY II.'s daughter, to hold three knight's fees of William Earl of Warwick, de veteri Feoffamento-by the service "of laying hands on the earl's stirrop when he did get upon, or alight from horseback." This feudal baron was s. by his son, THOMAS DE ASTLEY, who holding certain lands of the Honour of Leicester, became a kind of bailiff to Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, "as may be seen," says Dugdale, "by a fine of four score marks and a palfrey, to the king, in 9th John, to be discharged of the profits required of him for that earl's lands, during the time he had to do with them." In the 12th of King JOHN, this Thomas Astley paid 100 marks to the crown, to be excused going beyond the sea: Dugdale supposes in an expedition to Ireland. In the 17th of the saine reign, he was committed prisoner to Bedford Castle, and had his lands seized for his participation in the rebellion of the barons; but returning to his allegiance, he was reinstated in his territorial possessions, in the 1st year of HENRY III., and in two years afterwards he was constituted a commissioner for restoring to the crown all the demesnes of which King JOHN was possessed at the beginning of his wars with the barons, &c. This feudal lord m. Maud, one of the sisters and co-heirs of Roger de Camvill, of Crecke, co. Northampton, and was s. by his son, SIR THOMAS DE ASTLEY, Knt., who was constituted in the 26th of HENRY III., one of the king's justices for the gaol delivery at Warwick, and again in the next year, when he paid to the king 15l. for his relief. In the 32nd of HENRY III., this Sir Thomas de Astley was sent with several other persons of rank and power into Gascoigne: but we afterwards find him (47th HENRY III.) a leader amongst the rebellious barons, who seized upon the revenues of the crown in the counties of Warwick and Leicester; and when the king submitted to the PROVISIONS of OXFORD, the following year, he was nominated CUSTOS PACIS HENRY III., 1264,) with Montford, Earl of Leicester, and other for Leicestershire. Sir Thomas fell, however, soon after (49th insurrectionary nobles, at the battle of Evesham, when his Gertrude, m. 1st, to Sir Peter Whitcomb, of Essex; and 2ndly, estates, valued at 1511. 168. 11d. per annum, being confiscated, to Sir Bennet Hoskins. His lordship m. 2ndly, Barbara, dau. of Sir Henry Slingsby, of Scriven, co. York, Baronet, and relict of Sir Richard Mauleverer, of Allerton Mauleverer, in the same shire, by whom (who m. 3rdly THOMAS, EARL OF PEMBROKE), he had an only son, Richard, M.P., clerk of the pipe, m. 2 Sept. 1732, Frances, dau. of John, 2nd Duke of Rutland, and d. 1759. Lord Arundel d. 7 September, 1697, and was 8. by his elder son, JOHN ARUNDEL, 3rd baron, who m. Elizabeth, dau. of the Right Rev. William Beaw, D.D., Lord Bishop of Landaff, and dying 24 September, 1706, was s. by his only surviving child, JOHN ARUNDEL, 4th baron, who m. in 1722, Elizabeth, dau. of Sir William Wentworth, of Ashby Puerorum, co. Lincoln, and sister of Thomas, Earl of Strafford, by whom, who d. in 1750, he had no issue. His lordship d. in 1773, when the barony EXPIRED. This nobleman, upon his marriage settled all his lands, in default of issue, on his wife's nephew, William Wentworth, Esq., of Hembury, co. Dorset, with remainder to Sir Thomas Acland, Bart., and his heirs. Mr. Wentworth, who succceded to the estates under this settlement, levied a fine, and re-settled the manor of Trerice and the other Arundel estates on his son Frederick Thomas (afterwards Earl of Strafford), with remainder, in failure of issue, to his dau., who m. into the family of Kaye, of Woodsome, co. York, and on failure of issue from both (which was eventually the case) to SIR THOMAS ACLAND, Bart. The manor of Trerice and the other estates so limited became ultimately the property of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, Bart., grandson of Sir Thomas, named in the settlement. Arms-Quarterly: first and fourth, sa., six swallows close, three, two, and one, arg.; second and third, sa., three chevronels arg. 12 were conferred upon Warine de Bassingbourne, but the king compassionating his widow and children, reserved to them out of those estates, certain lands, valued at 34l. 18s. 1d. per annum, subject to one mark yearly to the said Warine and his heirs. Sir Thomas de Astley m. 1st, Joane, dau. of Ernald de Bois, a person of great power in the county of Leicester-and had issue, ANDREW, his successor. Isabel, m. to William de Bermingham (son and heir of Robert Sir Thomas m. 2ndly, Editha, dau. of Peter Constable, Esq., of THOMAS, settled at Hill Morton, but dying s. p., his estates RALPH ASTLEY, from whom the extinct Barons Astley of After the decease of Sir Thomas de Astley, his eldest son, Kenilworth, was put into possession of his father's estatesANDREW DE ASTLEY, by virtue of the decree called Dictum de paying as a compensation to Warine de Bassingbourne, 320 marks sterling, to raise which sum he sold his manor of Little Copston to the monks of Combe. He was subsequently engaged in the Scottish wars of King EDWARD I., and participated in the victory of Falkirk. Andrew de Astley was summoned to parliament as BARON ASTLEY, from 23 June, 1295, to 3 November, 1306, and was 8. at his decease by his son, NICHOLAS DE ASTLEY, 2nd Lord Astley, summoned to parlament from 4 July, 1302, to 11 July, 1309. His lordship and his brother Sir Giles de Astley attending King EDWARD II. into Scotland, were taken prisoners at Bannockburn. The period of this nobleman's decease is not ascertained, but having outlived his brother above-mentioned, and dying without issue, the title and estates devolved upon his nephew (Sir Giles de Astley's son and heir by Alice, 2nd dau. and co-heiress of Sir Thomas Wolvey, Knt.), THOMAS DE ASTLEY, 3rd Lord Astley, summoned to parlinment from 25 February, 1342, to 10 March, 1349. This nobleman founded a chantry in the parish church of Astley, in the Ilth year of EDWARD III., and afterwards obtaining permission to change his chantry priests into a dean and secular canons, he erected a fair and beautiful collegiate church in the form of a cross, with a tall spire, covered with lead, and dedicated it to the assumption of the blessed Virgin. His lordship . Elizabeth, dau. of Guy de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, and left issue, with daus. (of whom Alice m. Sir Richard Champernoune of Modbury) three sons, viz., WILLIAM (Sir), his successor. THOMAS (Sir), M.P. for the co. of Warwick, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Richard, son of Sir William Harecourt, Knt., from which union the ASTLEYS of Patshull, co. Stafford, and the ASTLEYS of Everleigh, Wilts, lineally derived. Of the Patsbull family was JOHN DE ASTLEY, memorable for fighting a duel on horseback, upon the 29 August, 1438, with Peter de Massei, a Frenchman, in the street St. Antoine, at Paris, before Charles VII., King of France, where having pierced his antagonist through the head, he had the helmet, by agreement of the vanquished, to present to his lady. He subsequently fought Sir Philip Boyle, an Arragonian knight, in Smithfield, in the city of London, in the presence of King HENRY VI. and his court, which combat, we are told, was gallantly performed on foot, with battle axes, spears, swords, and daggers, and at its conclusion, that John de Astley was knighted by the king, and rewarded with a pension of one hundred marks for his life. "Yea," (says Dugdale), "so famous did Sir John de Astley grow for his valour, that he was elected a knight of the garter, and bore for his arms the coats of Astley and Harecourt, quarterly, with a label of three Points ermine." The present representative of the Astleys of Everleigh, is Sir FRANCIS DUGDALE ASTLEY, Bart.; and to the Everleigh line also belongs RICHARD GOUGH, Esq., of co. Warwick, who assumed the surname of Gough in lieu of that of Astley in 1818. Giles, ancester of the Astleys of Wolvey. Thomas, 3rd Lord Astley, was 8. at his decease by his eldest WILLIAM DE ASTLEY, 4th Lord Astley, who does not appear to have been summoned to parliament. This nobleman was included in several commissions during the reigns of HENRY IV. and HENRY VI. His lordship m. Joan, dau. of John, Lord Willoughby de Eresby, by whom he left an only dau., JOANE, m. 1st, to Thomas Raleigh, Esq., of Farnborough, co. Warwick, by whom she had a son, William d. a minor, 8 HESBY V., and a dau. Joan m. 1st, to Gerard Braybroke, and 2ndly, to Edward Bromflete. The heiress of Astley m. 2ndy, to Reginald, Lord Grey de Ruthyn (being his lordship's 2nd wife), by whom she had three sons, and a dau., viz.. EDWARD, of whom presently, John de Grey, of Barwell. co. Leicester. Robert de Grey, of Enville and Whittington, co. Stafford. Eleanor, m. to William Lucy, Esq., of Charlecote, co. Warwick. EDWARD DE GREY, the eldest son, marrying Elizabeth, only dau. and heiress of Henry son, and heir of William, Lord Ferrars, of Groby, by Isabel, 2nd dau. and co-heiress of Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, was summoned to parliament in 1446, as LORD FERRARS, of Groby, which barony, and that of ASTLEY, descended regularly to Henry Grey, ard marquess of Dorset, K.G. (who was created DUKE OF SUFFOLK 10 October, 155!), and became forfeited upon the decapitation and attainder of his grace in 1554, Arme-Az., a cinquefoil, ermine. ASTLEY-BARONS ASTLEY, OF READING By Letters Patent, dated 4 November, 1664. The Hon. RALPH DE ASTLEY, a younger son of Thomas, Lord Astley, of Astley, co. Warwick, by his 2nd wife, Editha, dau. of Peter Constable, Esq., of Melton-Constable, co. Norfolk, and sister and co-heiress of Sir Robert Constable, Knt., of the same place, was lineal ancestor of JOHN ASTLEY, Esq. of Hill-Morton and Melton-Constable, Elizabeth, m. to (her cousin) Sir Edward Astley, Knt., and left SIR JACOB ASTLEY, Knt., who inherited, upon the decease of his uncle, Sir Isaac Astley, Bart., 8. p., in 1659, the estates of Hill-Morton and Melton-Constable, and succeeded to the entailed property of Lord Astley. Of Jacob, Lord Astley, Clarendon says, "He was an honest, brave, plain man, as fit for the military posts he held as Christendom yielded, and was generally esteemed very discerning and prompt in giving orders, as occasion required; and most cheerful and pleasant in action. An enemy to long speeches, as usually made in council, he himself using only few, but very pertinent words." His lordship d. in 1651, and was s. by his eldest son, ISAAC ASTLEY, 2nd lord, who m. Anne, 4th dau. of Sir Francis Stydolfe, Knt., of Norbury, co. Surrey, and had issue, JACOB, his successor. Francis d. s. p. His lordship d. in 1662, and was 8. by his elder son, JACOB ASTLEY, 3rd lord. His lordship m. Frances, dau. and 20-heiress of Sir Richard Stydolfe, of Norbury, son of Sir Francis, but had no issue. Lord Astley d. in 1688, when the barony of Astley of Reading EXPIRED. Arms-Az., a cinquefoil erm. within a bordure, engrailed, or ASTON-BARON ASTON, OF FORFAR. By Letters Patent, dated 28 November, 1627. Lineage. Fuller, speaking of the Astons, says: "A more noble family measuring on the level of flat and inadvantaged antiquity, is not to be met with; they have ever borne a good respect to the church and learned men." RANDAL, OF RANDULPH DE ASTONA, the first on record, who lived in the reign of EDWARD I., was father of ROGER DE ASTON, who, in 1260, obtained from Roger de Moland, Bishop of Lichfield, the manors of Heywood and Longdon, and the keeping of the game in Caukwood, all in the co. Stafford. The 5th in descent from this Roger, SIR ROGER DE ASTON, Knt., served the office of sheriff for Staffordshire in the reign of HENRY VI., and was one of the prime gentry returned by the commissioners for that county in 1433. Sir Roger m. Joyce, sister and co-heir of Sir Baldwin de Trevile, and with her acquired large estates in the co. of Warwick, and by her he had, with a dau., Joan, m. to Sir Roger Draycot, of Paynesley, in Staffordshire, Knt., a son and heir, VI. Margaret, m. 1st, to Thomas Kynardesley, of Loxley; 2ndly, to Ralph Wolseley, Esq. VII. Alice, m. to John Dodd, of Chorley. VIII. m. Colwich, of Colwich, co. Stafford. IX. Rose, m. to Thomas Child, of Ormesley, in Shropshire. SIR JOHN DE ASTON, K.B., was a military character of great eminence in the reigns of the first two sovercigns of the house of Tudor. Sir John was with HENRY VIII. in the French war of 1513, and was made a banneret for his conduct at the battle of Spurs. He obtained renown likewise at the siege of Terouin and Tourney. He was sheriff of the counties of Leicester and Warwick, and thrice of Staffordshire. Sir John Aston m. Joan, only child of Sir William Littleton, of Frankley, co. Worcester, by whom he acquired the manors of Wanlip, in Leicestershire, and Tixall, co. Stafford, He was 8. by his eldest son, SIR EDWARD ASTON, of Tixall, who built a stately mansion at that place, the ruins of which are still remaining. Hem 1st, Joan, dau. of Sir Thomas Bowles, of Penho, co. Carnarvon, one of the barons of the exchequer, and by her (who d. 15 September, 1562) had issue, 1. WALTER, of whom presently. II. Leonard. III. Anthony. 1. Catherine, m. to Sir William Gresley, of Drakelow, in Derbyshire. II. Mary, m. to Simon Harcourt, of Stanton Harcourt, co. Oxford, ancestor of the Earl of Harcourt. III. Frances, m. to Robert Needham, of Shenton, in Leicestershire, ancestor of Viscount Kilmoney. Iv. Elizabeth, m. to Lawley, of Wenlock, co. Salop. Sir Edward m. 2ndly, Mary, dau. of Sir Henry Vernon, Knt., but had no issue. SIR WALTER ASTON, of Tixall, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Sir James Leveson, of Lilleshull, and left issue, 1. EDWARD, his heir. II. Robert, of Parkhall, m. Jocosa, 2nd dau. of William Dallyson, one of the judges of the King's Bench, and had three sons, William, Robert, and John, of whom the two latter d. infants, and the former left an only child, Frances, his sole heir, who, 28 April, 1647, m. John Whitehall, into whose family she carried the estate of Parkhall. III. Richard, who d. 8. p. 1610. Iv. William, of Millwich, ancestor of the present Lord Aston. v. Hastings, d. unm. VI. Devereux, d. unm. 1. Joan, wife of William Crompton, of Stone, in Staffordshire. II. Mary, m. to Thomas Astley, of Pattershull. 1. Eleanor, m. to William Portoe, of Chesterton, co. Warwick. IV. Elizabeth, m. to Basil Fielding, of Newnham, and was mother of the 1st Earl of Denbigh. v. Catherine, m. to Stephen, son and heir of Sir Stephen Slaney, alderman of London. SIR EDWARD ASTON, of Tixall. This gentleman possessed estates of the value of £10,000 annually, in the cos. of Stafford, Derby, Leicester, and Warwick. He m. Anne, only dau. of Sir Thomas Lucy, of Cherlecote, and dying in 1598, left issue, I. WALTER. II. Edward, m. Anne, only dau. of Leigh Sadler, of Temple Dinesley, Herts, grandson of Sir Ralph Sadler, of Standon, the able ambassador to Scotland. III. Thomas Banister, of the Middle Temple, London, d. unm. 1. Joyce, m. to Sir Martin Colepeper, of Deane, co. Oxford, Knt. II. Elizabeth, m. to Sandbech, of Broadway, co. Worcester. II. Anne, m. to Ambrose Elton, of Hansel, in Herefordshire. IV. Jane, m. to Thomas Elton, M.P. SIR WALTER ASTON, who, at the coronation of JAMES I., was honoured with the order of the Bait, and subsequently, in 1611, created a baronet. In 1622 he was employed to negotiate a marriage between Charles, Prince of Wales, and the Infanta of Spain; and, in requital for his service upon that occasion, was elevated to the peerage, 28 November, 1627, as LORD ASTON, of Foriar. His lordship m. 1st, Gertrude, only dau. of Sir Thomas Sadleir, of Standon (son of the celebrated Sir Ralph Sadleir-See BURKE's Landed Gentry), and dying in 1689, left issue, 1. Walter, d. an infant. II. WALTER, 2nd Lord Aston. III. Herbert, baptized at Chelsea, 16 January, 1614, m. Catherine, sister of Sir John Thimelby, of Irnham, co. Lincoln, Knt., and was buried at Colton, in Staffordshire, 9 January, 1689, æt. 75. IV. John, d. an infant. v. Thomas, d. an infant. 1. Gertrude, d. an infant. II. Honor, baptized at Tottenham, 17 July, 1610, d. at Vittoria, in Spain, during her father's embassy, and was buried at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, London. III. Frances, baptized at Chelsea, 16 April, 1612, m. to Sir William Peshall, of Canwell, in Staffordshire. IV. Gertrude, wife of Henry, brother of Sir John Thimesby. v. Constantia, m. to Walter Fowler, of St. Thomas, near Stafford. WALTER, 2nd baron, who, at the decease of his uncle, Ralph Sadleir, Esq., of Standon, 8. p. in 1660, inherited, under the will of that gentleman, the lordship of Standon, with other estates in Hertfordshire. This nobleman, a stanch and gallant supporter of the royal cause during the civil wars, m. 1629, Lady Mary Weston, 2nd dau. of Richard, Earl of Portland, K.G., lord high treasurer of England; and at his decease, 23 April, 1678, left issue, v. Anne, m. to Henry Somerset, of Pauntley Court, co. Gloucester, grandson of Henry, 1st Marquess of Worcester. WALTER, 3rd baron, b. 1633, m. 1st, Eleanor, dau. of Sir Walter Blount, Bart., of Soddington, co. Worcester, and relict of Robert Knightley, Esq.; and dying 10 November, 1714, left issue, 1. Edward-Walter, b. 1658, d. at Clermont Cottage, Paris. II. Francis, d. 8. p. 1694. III. WALTER, 4th Lord Aston. IV. Charles, b. 1664, killed at the battle of the Boyne, 1 July, 1690. v. William, d. an infant. 1. Mary, d. unm. II. Catharine, d. an infant. Walter, 3rd. Lord Aston, m. 2ndly, Catherine, youngest dau. of Sir Thomas Gage, of Firle, in Sussex, Bart., but by her had no issue. WALTER 4th baron, who m. Lady Mary Howard, only sister to Thomas, Duke of Norfolk. At his decease, 4 April, 1748, he left issue, 1. Walter, b. 16 February, 1711, d. 19 June, 1717. II. Edward, mentioned in COLLIN's Baronetage as alive 1714; d. young. III. JAMES, 5th Lord Aston. IV. Charles, b. 19 March, 1719, d. 12 April, 1730. 1. Mary, b. 27 October, 1703, d. 10 December, 1704. II. Anne, b. 4 April, 1705, d. 24 July following. III. Catherine, b. 7 March, 1706, m. Edward Weld, of Lulworth v. Eleanor, b. 22 May, 1717, d. 12 April, 1727. JAMES, 5th baron. This nobleman m. 30 June, 1742, Barbara, dau. of George, 14th Earl of Shrewsbury, and had two daus., his co-heirs, viz., 1. Mary, m. to Sir Walter Blount, Bart., of Sodington. This lady was accidentally burnt to death by her clothes catching fire, 6 February, 1805. II. Barbara, who inherited Tixall, m. to the Hon. Thoma Clifford, son of Hugh Clifford, of Chudleigh. She d. in 1786, leaving twelve children, of whom 1 THOMAS HUGH CLIFFORD, the eldest son, succeeded to netcy ceased, while the barony devolved upon PHILIP ASTON, Esq., as 6th baren, the great-great-grandson of the late lord's great-great-great-grand uncle, William Aston, of Milwich, in remainder to whose posterity the original patent was framed. His lordship d. unm. in 1755, when his brother, nobleman, without male issue, in 1763, the honours descended WALTER, inherited as 7th baron. At the decease of this to the son of his uncle Edward, WALTER, 8th baron. His lordship, b. 10 October, 1732, m. in 1766, Anne, dau. of Peter Hutchinson, Esq., by whom he left at his decease, 29 July, 1805, an only surviving son, WALTER-HUTCHINSON, 9th Baron Aston, OF FORFAR, a clergyman of the Church of England; b. 15 September, 1769, who m. 15 June, 1802, Elizabeth, dau. of the late Rev. Nathan Haines, D.D., but by her (who d. in 1833) had no issue. His lordship d. 21 January, 1845, when the title appears to have become EXTINCT. Arms.-Arg., a fesse, sa., in chief, three lozenges, of the las |