ATON-BARONS DE ATON.

By Writ of Summons, dated 30 December, 1324.

Lineage.

The paternal surname of this family arose from the feudal barony of ATON, in the co. of York, of which its members were lords from the Conquest; for we find that

GILBERT, son of LAGI, assumed the surname of ATON so far back as the reign of King HENRY I. from those lands; but the importance of the family was founded by the marriage of this Gilbert de Aton's great grandson,

GILBERT DE ATON, with Margerie, dau. and heiress of WABINE DE VESCI, a younger son of William de Vesci, Lord of Alnwick, co. Northumberland, through which alliance the Aross inherited, eventually, the extensive possessions of the great Barons de Vesci: thus

EUSTACE DE VESCI, one of the twenty-five barons appointed to enforce the observance of MAGNA CHARTA, elder brother of the above WARINE, Succeeded his father; m. Margaret. dau. of WILLIAM and sister of ALEXANDER, kings of Scotland; and, dying about 1216, was 8. by his son,

WILLIAM DE VESCI, to whom 8. in 1253, his son,

JOHN DE VESCI, who had summons to parliament, as a baron, in 1264, but dying 8. p., was 8. by his brother, WILLIAM DE VESCI, summoned to parliament in the reign of EDWARD I., and one of the competitors for the Scottish throne in the same era. He d. about the year 1297, without legitimate issue, when the BARONY EXPIRED; but the estates devolved upon his natural son,

WILLIAM DE VESCI, who was summoned to parliament in 1313; but dying in two years afterwards, s.p., that BARONY also EXPIRED, while the estates reverted to the greatgrandson of the above Gilbert de Aton and Margerie de Vesci, his wife.

Gilbert de Aton d. in the 19th of HENRY III., and was s. by his son,

WILLIAM DE ATON, who was 8. by his son,

SIB GILBERT DE ATON, one of the knights of the Bath, created by Prince EDWARD, in the 34th of EDWARD I. Sir Gilbert dying a. p., was 8. by his brother,

WILLIAM DE ATON, who m. Isabel de Vere, and had a son and heir,

GILBERT DE ATON, inherited, in the 9th of EDWARD II., the estates of the BARONS DE VESCI, as deduced above. This Gilbert had command, the year before, to fit himself with horse and arms, and to be at NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE on the feast-day of the Blessed Virgin, to restrain the hostilities of the Scots. In the 13th of EDWARD II. he was in the expedition to Scotland; and in the 17th of the same monarch, he confirmed (in consideration of receiving 700 marks sterling) as heir of William de Vesci, to Henry Lord Percie, the castle and lands of Alnwick, which Anthony Beke, bishop of Durham and patriarch of Jerusalem, had sold to the said Henry, although but confided to the bishop by William Lord de Vesci in trust for his bastard son, the last William de Vesci. In the following year (30 December, 1324) Gilbert de Aton was summoned to parliament as a baron of the realm, and he was so summoned during the remainder of his life. His lordship d. in 1342, and was 8. by his son, WILLIAM DE ATON, 2nd BARON ATON, who was summoned to parliament on 8 January, 1371. His lordship m. in 1340 Isabel, dan of Henry, 3rd Lord Percy, by whom (who was dead in 1368) he had an only son, William, who died vita patris, and three daus, his co-heiresses, namely

Anastasia, m. to Sir Edward de St. John, and left a dau. and heiress. Margaret de St. John, who m. Thomas de Bromflete, king's butler, temp. RICHARD II. (See BROMFLETE.) Katherine, m. to Sir Ralph de Eure.

Elizabeth, m. 1st, to Sir William Playtz, and, 2ndly, to John Conyers, Esq., of Sokebourne, co Durham, ancestor, by her, of the families of CONYERS of Sokebourne and CONYERS of Horden: the Sokebourne line ended in a dau. and heiress, Anne, wife of Francis, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury, and mother of an only dau. and heiress, Mary, m. to John Stonor, Esq., of Stonor, co. Oxford; the male line of CONYERS of Horden (raised to a baronetcy in 1628), expired with SIR THOMAS CONYERS, Bart., of Horden, who died in the deepest poverty at Chester-le-Street, 15 April, 1810. (See "BURKE's Vicissitudes of Families.")

William, Lord Aton, was engaged in the French wars of King EDWARD III. He was sheriff of Yorkshire in the 42nd of that monarch, and governor of the castle of rk, and again in the 43rd and 46th of the same reign. At h ordship's decease his estates were divided amongst his daughvers, and the BARONY fell into ABEYANCE, as it still continues. (See ADDENDA.) Arm-Or, three bars, az., on a canton,gu., a cross patonce, arg.

AUDLEY-BARONS AUDLEY, OF

HELEIGH.

By Writ of Summons, dated 8 January, 1313.

Lineage.

"That this family of Alditheley, vulgarly called Aulley," says Dugdale, "came to be great and eminent, the ensuing discourse will sufficiently manifest: but that the rise thereof was no higher than King JOHN's time, and that the first who assumed this surname was a branch of that ancient and noble family of VERDON, whose chief seat was at Alton Castle, in the northern part of Staffordshire, I am very inclined to believe; partly by reason that Henry had the inheritance of Alditheley given him by Nicholas de Verdon, who d. in the 16th HENRY III., or near that time; and partly for that he bore for his arms the same ordinary as Vernon did, viz. fretté, but distinguished with a large canton in the dexter part of the shield, and thereon a cross paté; so that probably the ancestor of this Henry first seated himself at Alditheley: for that there hath been an antient mansion there, the large moat, northwards from the parish church there (somewhat less than a furlong, and upon the chief part of a fair ascent), do sufficiently manifest."

HENRY DE ALDITHELEY, to whom Dugdale alludes above, being in great favour with Ranulph, Earl of Chester and Lincoln (the most powerful subject of England in his time), obtained from that nobleman a grant of Newhall in Cheshire, with manors in Staffordshire and other parts-and for his adhesion to King JOHN, in that monarch's struggle with the insurrectionary barons, a royal grant of the lordship of Storton, in Warwickshire, part of the possessions of Roger de Summerville. In the four first years of King HENRY III. he executed the office of sheriff for the counties of Salop and Stafford, as deputy for his patron, the great Earl Ranulph. In the 10th of HENRY III. this Henry de Alditheley was appointed governor of the castles of Carmarthen and Cardigan, and made sheriff the next year of the counties of Salop and Stafford and con stable of the castles of Salop and Bridgenorth, which sheriffalty he held for five years. Upon his retirement from office, he had a confirmation of all such lands, whereof he was then possessed, as well those granted to him by Ranulph, Earl of Chester, and Nicholas de Verdon, as those in Ireland, given him by Hugh de Lacy, EARL OF ULSTER, whose constable he was in that province. He subsequently obtained divers other territorial grants from the crown, but, notwithstanding, when Richard Mareschal, EARL OF PEMBROKE, rebelled, and made an incursion into Wales, the king, HENRY III., thought it prudent to secure the persons of this Henry, and all the other barons-marchers. He was afterwards, however, constituted governor of Shrewsbury, in place of John de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, and on the death of John, Earl of Chester, governor of the castle of Chester, and also of that of Beeston, then called the "Castle on the Rock," and soon after made governor of Newcastle-under-Lyne. This powerful feudal baron m. Bertred, dau. of Ralph de Meisnilwarin, of Cheshire, and had a son, JAMES, and a dau., Emme, who m. Griffin ap Madoc, Lord of Bromefield, a person of great power in Wales. He d. in 1236, having founded and endowed the Abbey of Hilton, near to his castle at Heleigh, in Staffordshire, for Cistercian monks, and was 8. by his son,

JAMES DE ALDITHELEY, a great favourite of Richard, Earl of Cornwall, at whose coronation as king of Almaigne he assisted. This nobleman had livery of his lands in the 31st HENRY III, and was constituted in two years afterwards constable of Newcastle-under-Lyne. Being one of the lords-marchers he was actively employed for some years against the Welsh, and was appointed governor of the castles of Salop and Bridgenorth, and sheriff for the counties of Salop and Stafford. In the 47th of HENRY III. he was made justice of Ireland; and in the same year, upon the misunderstanding between the king ad the barons, regarding the provisions of Oxford, being referred to the arbitration of the monarch of France, he was one of the noblemen who undertook for the king therein. The next year we find him with Roger de Mortimer and the other barons-marchers, giving battle to Lewelin, Prince of Wales, and afterwards joining the Earl of Gloucester at Evesham in res cuing the king, who had become captive to the Earl of Leicester at the battle of Lewes. In the 52nd of HENRY III. his lordship performed a pilgrimage to the shrine of St. James in Galicia, and the following year embarked in the Crusade. His death, occasioned by breaking his neck, occurred soon afterwards (1271). He had a dau., Joan, who m. John, son of Robert de Beauchamp, to whose child, prior to its birth, the said John being then deceased, his lordship was appointed guardian. He had also five sons, the youngest of whom, Hugh, is supposed to have been the Hugh Alditheley, who had summons to parlia

in the quire of his abbey at Hilton, before the high altar, in case he should depart this life in the marches; but if in Devon or Somersetshire, then in the quire of the Fryers Preachers at Fxeter, before the high altar there; and appointed that there should be about his corpse, five great tapers, and five morters of wax. burning on the day of his funeral, as also £40 sterling, then distributed to poor people, to pray for his soul. To Nicholas, his son, he gave £100 in money, and one dozen of silver vessels, with all the armour for his own body. To Fouke FitzWarine and Philip his uncle, all his other armour of plate and mail. To Margaret Hillary, his dau., £10 in money; and to the monks of Hilton Abbey, to pray for his soul, £10. This great soldier d. at Heleigh, 1 April, 1386, and was s. by his eldest son,

NICHOLAS AUDLEY, Lord Audley, who was summoned to parliament from 17 December, 1387, to 12 September, 1390. His lordship m. Elizabeth, dau. of Adelice de Beaumont, by whom he had no issue; he d. in 1392, and his half-brothers having predeceased him, without issue, the male line of this branch of the family of ALDITHELEY OF AUDLEY Expired, while the "Barony of Audley" devolved upon the grandson of his lordship's sister, Joane Touchet, his other sister, Margaret Hillary, having also died without issue,

Arms-Gules, a fret, or.

AUDLEY, OR DE ALDITHELEY-BARONS AUDLEY, AND SUBSEQUENTLY EARL OF GLOUCESTER.

Barony, by Writ of Summons, dated 15 May, 1321.

Lineage.

HUGH DE ALDITHELEY OR AUDLEY, brother it is presumed of Nicholas, Lord Audley of Heleigh, was summoned to parliament as "Hugh de Audley, Seniori," on 15 May, 1321, 14th EDWARD II. His lordship had been engaged during the reign of EDWARD I. in the king's service, and was called "Senior," to distinguish him from his son. Being concerned in the insurrection of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, 15th EDWARD II., the baron was committed a close prisoner to Wallingford Castle, but making his peace with the king he obtained his release, and suffered nothing further. His lordship sat in the parliament of the 11th and 14th of EDWARD II. He m. Isolda, widow of Walter Balim, and left two sons, by the elder of whom he was succeeded,

HUGH DE AUDLEY, who had been summoned to parliament in the life-time of his father as "HUGH DE AUDLEY, JUNIORI," from 20 November, 1317, to 15 May, 1321, and after that nobleman's decease as "HUGH DE AUDLIE," from 3 December, 1326, 20th EDWARD II., to 10th EDWARD III. His lordship m. Margaret, sister and co-heiress of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, and widow of Piers Gavestone, by whom he left an only dau. and heiress,

Margaret, who m. Ralph, Lord Stafford, and carried the Barony of Audley into that family: it EXPIRED upon the attainder of Edward, Duke of Buckingham, with that nobleman's other bonours, in 1521.

Hugh, Lord Audley, was created Earl of Gloucester, 23 April, 1337, and under that title a further account of his lordship will be found. He d. in 1347.

AUDLEY-BARON AUDLEY OF WALDEN.

By Letters Patent, dated 29 November, 1538.
Lineage.

The old genealogists were quite at a loss to ascertain anything about the family of Lord Chancellor Audley; it was reserved for the late Lord Braybrooke to discover that eminent lawyer's parentage and ancestry.

"It seems extraordinary," says his lordship, "that neither Camden, who lived so much nearer those times, nor Dugdale could with all their industry satisfy themselves as to the birthplace or extraction of Thomas Audley; for they state only in general terms that he was of a good family; but that his arms differed entirely from those of the ancient lords of the same name, to whom, in fact he was no way related. All doubt upon the subject has, however, been removed, by the discovery of the following entry, copied from the Burgesses Oath Book at Colchester :

***A.D. 1516, Thomas Audley, Gen, natus in Colne-Comitis, in Com. Essex, Burgeus.'

"One of his ancestors, indeed, Ralph Audley, appears to have been seated at Earls' Colne as far back as the 28th of HENRY

VI., and in the 35th of that king, became possessed of the Hay House, an ancient mansion previously in the tenure of the prior of Colne, in the same parish, demolished a few years ago; and in which, we may presume, the chancellor was born; Geoffrey Audley, his father, subsequently made a subsequent addition to his property at Earls' Colne."

THOMAS AUDLEY, to whom these remarks refer, was an eminent lawyer in the reign of HENRY VIII., who, having attracted royal favour by his zeal in the spoliation of religious houses, as speaker of the parliament which originated that measure, attained within a short period the highest honours which royalty could bestow. In the 22nd of HENRY VIII. he was nominated attorney for the duchy of Lancaster, raised to the degree of serjeant-at-law, and appointed king's serjeant. In two years afterwards Mr. Serjeant Audley succeeded Sir Thomas More in the custody of the great seal, as lord keeper, when he received the honour of knighthood, and before the close of the year he was elevated to the dignity of lord chancellor of England. In addition to those lucra tive honours, Sir Thomas had a grant of the site and precinct, with all the lands and plate thereunto belonging, of the suppressed priory of Christchurch, "near Aldgate, in the city of London," where he erected a mansion-house for his residence. In the 30th of the same reign his lordship sat as high steward upon the trial of Henry Courtenay, Marquis of Exeter, for conspiring to raise Reginald Pole (the subsequently eminent Cardinal Pole) to the throne. And in that year he obtained a grant of the great Abbey of Walden, in Essex, in compensation, as he alleged, "for having in this world sustained great damage and infamy for serving the king." Having acquired this last possession he was raised to the peerage by letters patent, dated 29 November, 1538, as BARON AUDLEY, OF WALDEN, and installed a knight of the most noble order of the Garter. His lordship m. Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Grey, Marquess of Dorset, and had two daus., viz.

Margaret, m. 1st, to Lord Henry Dudley, son of John, Duke of Northumberland, who fell at St. Quintin in 1557, dying s.p.; and 2ndly, to Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, who was beheaded 2 July, 1572: by whom, by her second husband, she had issue

THOMAS, Summoned to parliament as LORD HOWARD OF WALDEN, and afterwards created EARL OF SUFFOLK, lord high treasurer, temp. JAMES I. and K.G. From this nobleman descend LORD HOWARD de WALDEN and the EARL OF SUFFOLK AND BERKSHIRE.

Lord Audley d. 19 April, 1544, and the title became EXTINCT. According to a desire expressed in his will, he was buried in a chapel he had erected at Saffron Walden, where a splendid monument was raised to him with the following epitaph, which there is some reason to suppose that, in imitation of his immediate predecessor, he had himself composed:

"The stroke of death's inevitable dart,
Hath now (alas!) of life bereft the hart
Of Sir Thomas Audley of the Garter Knight,
Late Chancellor of England, under our Prince of might,
Henry the Eighth, worthy of high renown,
And made him Lord Audley of this town."

His lordship appointed, by his last testament, that his executors should, upon the next new year's day after his decease, deliver a legacy of £100 to the king, "from whom he had received all his reputations and benefits." Of this nobleman Rapin says, "Chancellor Audley was a person of good sense. He served the reformers when he could without danger: but he was too much a courtier to insist upon what he judged reasonable, if the king was against it."

Arms-Quarterly: per pale, indented, or and az.: in the second and third quarters an eagle displayed of the first, on a bend of the second a fret between two martlets of gold.

NOTE. In the feast of Abbey Lands, King HENRY VIII. carved unto him (Thomas Audley), the first cut (and that, I assure you, was a dainty morsel), viz., the Priory of the Trinity in AldgateWard, London, dissolved 1531, which as a van courier fore-ran other abbeys by two years and foretold their dissolution. This I may call (afterwards called Duke's Place) the Covent-Garden Within London, as the greatest empty space within the walls, though since filled, not to say pestered with houses. He had ties.-FULLER'S Worthies, I., 507 and 508. afterwards a large partage in the Abbey Lands in several coun

service of one knight's fee. He m. the heiress of Ralph FitzBernard, Lord of Kingsdowne, and was s. by his son, then twenty-six years of age,

BARTHOLOMEW DE BADLESMERE, who in the life-time of his father (22nd EDWARD I.) received command to attend the king at Portsmouth, upon the 1st day of September, with horse and arms, to embark with him for Gascony, and in the year that he succeeded to his paternal property was in the wars of Scotland. He was afterwards in the retinue of Robert de Clifford in the Welsh wars, and in the 1st year of EDWARD I. was appointed governor of the castle of Bristol. In two years afterwards he was summoned to parliament as Badlesmere, and had a grant from the king, through the especial influence of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, and Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, of the castle and manor of Chelham, in Kent, for his own and his wife's life, which castle had been possessed by Alexander de Baliol in right of his wife Isabel, and ought to have escheated to the crown upon the decease of the said Alexander, by reason of the felony of John de Strabolgi, Earl of Athol (Isabel's son and heir), who was hanged. In the 5th of EDWARD II., Lord Badlesmere was constituted governor of the castle of Ledes, and obtained at the same time grants of divers extensive manors. In the next year but one, his lordship was deputed, with Otto de Grandison and others, ambassador to the court of Rome, and the next year, upon the death of Robert de Clifford, he obtained a grant of the custody of the castle of Skypton in Yorkshire, as of all other castles in that county and Westmorland, whereof the said Robert died possessed, to hold during the minority of Roger de Clifford, his son and heir.

His lordship was further indebted to the crown for numerous charters for fairs and marts throughout his extensive manors; and he held the high office of steward of the household for a great number of years; but notwithstanding his thus basking in the sunshine of royal favour, his allegiance was not trustworthy, for joining the banner of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, and other discontented nobles of that period, he went into Kent without the king's permission; where, being well received, he put himself at the head of some soldiers from his castle at Ledes, and thence proceeded to Canterbury, with 19 knights, having linen jackets under their surcoats, all his esquires being in plate armour, and thus repaired to the shrine of St. Thomas, to the great amazement of the good citizens. While Lord Badlesmere remained at Canterbury, John de Crumwell and his wife sought his lordship's aid, and, pledging himself to afford it, he hasted to Oxford, where the barons of his party had been then assembled. In the meantime the king being apprised of the baron's proceedings, despatched the queen to Ledes, and upon admission being denied to her, the castle was regularly invested by Adomere de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, and John de Britannia, Earl of Richmond, to whom it eventually surrendered, when Lord Badlesmere's wife, young son, and daughters, all falling into the hands of the besiegers, were sent prisoners to the Tower of London. The baron and his accomplices afterwards were pursued by Edmund, Earl of Kent, and John de Warren, Earl of Surrey, and being defeated and taken prisoners at the battle of Borough-bridge, his lordship was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Canterbury, and his head set upon a pole at Burgate. At the time of the baron's execution upwards of ninty lords, knights, and others concerned in the same insurrection, suffered a similar fate in various parts of the kingdom. Margaret, his lordship's widow (one c the daus. and co-heiresses of Thomas, 3rd son of Thomas, 2nd son of Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester), continued prisoner in the Tower, until, through the influence of William Lord Roos, of Hamlake, and others, she obtained her freedom. Whereupon betaking herself to the Bunnery of Minoresses, without Aldgate, in the suburbs of London, she had 28. a-day for her maintenance, to be paid by the sheriff of Essex; she subsequently, however, obtained a large proportion of the deceased lord's manors for her dowry. By this lady, Lord Badlesmere left issue,

1. GILES, his heir.

1. Margery, m. to William, Lord de Ros, of Hamlake, and had a son, THOMAS, LORD DE Ros, from whoin descended the LORDS DE ROS, whose heir general, THOMAS MANNERS, Lord de Ros, was created EARL OF RUTLAND, 18 June, 1525. His lordship's grandson, HENRY, 2nd Earl of Rutland, and 14th Lord de Ros, m. Margaret, dau. of Ralph Nevil, Earl of Westmorland, and had issue: I. EDWARD, who s. as 3rd Earl of Rutland, whose issue became EXTINCT. II. JOHN, who becarne 4th Earl of Rutland. His lordship m. Elizabeth, dau. of Francis Charlton, Esq., of Apley Castle, Salop, and had Roger, Francis, and Sir George, successively Earls of Rutland, and two daus., 1 LADY BRIDGET MANNERS, m. Robert Tyrwhitt, Esq., of Kettleby, Lincolnshire, and had a son and heir, WILLIAM TYRWHITT, of Kettleby, who m. Katherine, dau of Anthony Browne, 2nd Viscount Montagu, and d. 1642, leaving ROBERT TYRWHITT, who s. his father at

Kettleby, d. 8. p. in 1648, and was s. by his brother, FRANCIS TYRWHITT, b. about 1623, m. Elizabeth, dau. and heir of Robert Lloyd, M.D., and d. 1673. His only child and heiress, KATHERINE TYRWHITT, m. Sir HENRY HUNLOKE, Bart., of Wingerworth, near Chesterfield. co. Derby. 2 LADY FRANCES MANNERS, m. William, 3rd Lord Willoughby of Parham, and had, with other issue, ELIZABETH, m. to Richard Jones, Earl of Ranelagh, and had four daus., of whom LADY FRANCES JONES, m. Thomas, Earl Coningsby, and had, with other issue, LADY FRANCES CONINGSBY, who m. Sir Charles Hanbury-Williams, and had two daus. co-heirs, viz., 1 FRANCES HANBURY-WILLIAMS, m. 1754, William-Anne, Earl of Essex, and had issue, George, Earl of Essex, d. 8. p. 1839, and Elizabeth, who m. John, 3rd Lord Monson, and their issue is EXTINCT. 2 CHARLOTTE HANBURY-WILLIAMS, m Admiral the Hon. Robert Boyle, who assumed the name of WALSINGHAM, and their dau. was CHARLOTTE, late BARONESS DE Ros, whose son, the present Lord de Ros, is one of the co-heirs of the Barons of Badlesmere. 11. Maud, m. 1st, to Robert, FitzPayn, and 2ndly, to John de Vere, Earl of Oxford. (See VERE, Earl of Oxford.) Of this 2nd dau, and co-heiress of Badlesmere, the co-heirs are, THE DUKE OF ATHOLE (descended from Katherine Neville, grand-dau. of Sir John Neville, Lord Latimer, and Dorothea Vere, his wife, sister and co-heir of John, 14th Earl of Oxford), WINCHCOMBE-HENRY-HOWARD HARTLEY, Esq., of Bucklebury, Berks; and SIR RAINALd Knightley, Bart., of Fawsley, co. Northampton (descended from Dorothy Neville, Countess of Exeter, Katherine's sister), SIR ROBERT BURDETT, Bart., JOHN, LORD ROLLO, SIR CHARLESROBERT TEMPEST, Bart., CHARLES STANDISH, Esq, of Standish, co. LANCASTER, and JOHN WRIGHT, Esq., of Kelvedon, co. Essex (all descended from Lucy Neville, Lady Cornwallis, another of Katherine's sisters), GEORGE-WILLIAM VILLIERS and MONTAGU, EARL OF ABINGDON (descended from Elizabeth Neville, Lady Danvers, the youngest of Katherine's sisters), and ADRIEN, MARQUESS DE CONRONNELL, and SIR WILLIAM HENRY DILLON (descended from Elizabeth Vere, wife of Sir Anthony Wingfield, K.G., and sister of Dorothea, wife of John Neville, Lord Latimer).

II. Elizabeth, m. 1st to Edmund Mortimer, and 2ndly, to William Bohun, Earl of Northampton. (See BOHUN.) IV. Margaret, m. to Sir John Tiptoft, 2nd baron of that name: (See TIPTOFT.) HENRY-JAMES JONES, Esq., Ralph-Gordon Noel, LORD WENTWORTH, and EMMA-PHIPPS, wife of GEORGEPOULETT SCROPE, Esq., are the co-representatives of this coheiress.

His lordship had been summoned to parliament from 26 October, 1309, to 5 August, 1320. His unhappy fate occurred in 1322,; but notwithstanding that, his son,

GILES DE BADLESMERE, 2nd baron, found such favour from the king, that he had a special precept to the keeper of the wardrobe, in the Tower, to deliver unto him all his father's harneys, as well coat-armours as others. This nobleman doing homage in the 7th of EDWARD III., although not then at majority, had livery of his lands, and the next year attended the king in an expedition into Scotland, in which service he was engaged the three ensuing years. His lordship was summoned to parliament from 22 January, 1336, to 18 August, 1337. He m. Elizabeth, dau. of William de Montacute, Earl of Salisbury; but dying without issue, in 1388, the barony of Badlesmere fell into ABEYANCE* between his sisters and co-heiresses, and it so continues amongst their descendants and representatives. Arms -Arg, a fesse between two bars gemelles, gules.

BALFOUR-BARON BALFOUR, OF

GLENAWLEY.

By Letters Patent, dated 8 November, 1619.
Lineage.

SIR JAMES BALFOUR, Knt., 2nd son of Sir James Balfour of Pittendreich, in Fifeshire, by Margaret his wife, only child and heir of Michael Balfour, Esq., of Burleigh, having risen high in favour with JAMES I., was created by that monarch a peer of Ireland, as LORD BALFOUR, Baron of Glenawley, co. Fermanagh, 8 November, 1619. His lordship m. three times (his last wife, by whom he had no issue, having been Anne, eldest dau. of Edward, 1st Lord Blayney): he d. in London, 18 October, 1634, and was buried at St. Anne's, Blackfriars, 24 October in that year. His lordship left issue (with a dau., Anna, m. to

The Barony of Badlesmere was assumed, without any legal right by the deceased lord's eldest sister, Maud, Countess of Oxford, and the earl her husband, and was retained in that family until the demise of John de Vere, 14th earl, without male issue, in the reign of HENRY VIII., when it was certified, 5 April, 1626, to have fallen into ABEYANCE between that nobleman four sisters.