A compendious PEERAGE of ENGLAND, continued from Page 317 of our Magazine for December laft; containing a GENEALOGICAL ACCOUNT of the Noble Family of WYNDHAM Earl of EGREMONT; with an accurate Engraving of the ARMS. HIS Peer derives his defcent from Tiers, en eminent Saxon, in the county of Norfolk, who foon after the Norman conqueft, being poffeffed of lands in Wymondham, now wrote Wyndham, affumed his furname from thence and the faid Ailwardus de Wymondham, with Richard his fon, Hugh, Pagan,, and Edmund de Wymondham, were witneffes to a Charter of William de Albini, butler to Henry I, whereby he gave the Church of Wymondham to the Prior and Convent of Wyndham. Wichlewood and Crownthorpe, in the county of Norfolk, were their principal feats for many generations; and fill make part of the poffeffions of a branch of the family. In 44 Henry III, Thomas de Wymondham, Chanter of Litchfield, was a Baron of the Exchequer; and, in 1266, was conftituted Treasurer of England: the year after, bearing the title of Chanter of Litchfield, he had his patent renewed. In 52 Henry III, he had a yearly grant of fifty marks for the better maintaining himself in the office of Treasurer, wherein he continued till the 54 Henry III. Sir John Wyndham, in 1487, was in the battle of Stoke near Newark, against the Earl of Lincoln, Lambert Simnel, and their adherents; and was knighted immediately after the victory, for his gallant behaviour. But engaging afterwards in the intrigues of the Houfe of York, he was apprehended in the 17 Henry VII, arraigned in Guildhall, London, of Hightreafon, as an accomplice of Edmund de Pole, Earl of Suffolk; and was, with mes Tyrrel, Lieutenant of Guifnesaded on Tower-hill, nas Wyndham of Felbrigge, n of the before mentioned Sir a Commander in the Royal attending Sir Edward Howard, ral, in the expedition to Bifcay, enry VIII, was knighted by him 1 bay in France. He was with iral when he was drowned in the pon Breft; and being one of the of the King's body, attended e fieges of Therouenne and Tourere he did good fervice, as well as places. In the 12 Henry VIII, he attended the King at his conferences with the French King between Guinnes and Ardres, having, in his retinue, a Chaplain, eleven fervants, and eight horfes. Sir Edmund Wyndham, his eldest fon, was knighted in 28 Henry VIII, at the creation of Edward Seymour Lord Viscount Beauchamp. The year following he was Sheriff of Norfolk; and in 2 Edward VI. was much and defervedly trusted on the infurrection of Ket the tanner, in that coun ty. He left three fons, who all died with out iffue; by which means the manors of Crownthorpe, and Fellbrigge, with the reft of the ancient patrimony of the family, by the entail of Sir Thomas Wyndham, defcended to the issue of his second son Sir John Wyndham, who now becomes the object of our attention. This Sir John fettled on his marriage at Orchard in the county of Somerfet; which eftate now retains the name of Orchard Wyndham. He was knighted at the coronation of Edward VI, and lived to a great age, dying in the 16 Elifabeth. John Wyndham, Esq; his eldest son, was Sheriff of Somerfet hire in the James I, and dying in his father's life-time, was fucceeded by his only fon Sir John Wyndham of Orchard aforesaid. Sir John Wyndham had nine fons and fix daughters; of whom, John his eldest fon, who fucceeded him, died in 1649. and was father of Sir William Wyndham, Baronet, created fo in 13 Charles II. The three elder fons of this Gentlemau dying unmarried, he was fucceeded by his fourth fon, Sir Edward Wyndham; who, by the infcription on his tomb at St. Deccumane's in Somersetshire, appears to have had five fons and fix daughters. Sir Edward Wyndham was fucceeded by his only fon, Sir William Wyndham, Mafter of the buck-hounds, Secretary at War, and Chancellor of the Exchequer to Queen Anne. He was amiable in perfon, accomplished in breeding, well read in learning, of happy memory, great honour and integrity, and striЯly attached to the intereft of his country. He was efteemed one of the beft fpeakers in the Houfe of Commons, where his eloquence always com commanded attention. He died in 1740, and was fucceeded, in dignity and estate, by his eldest son, Sir Charles Wyndham, Baronet; who became Earl of Egremont, and Baron of Cockermouth, in the county of Cumberland, by the death of Algernoon, Duke of Somerfet, without heir male: this Duke having received thofe titles by letters patent, 13 George II, with limitation to his faid nephew, and his heirs male; and, in default of fuch iffue, to his brother Percy Wyndham O'Brien, Efq, His Lordship on April 24, 1761, was nominated the first of the three Plenipotentiaries, on the part of Great Britain, to the intended Congrefs at Augfburg for a general pacification; he was fworn of the Privy-council on July 8, and conftituted Secretary of State on October 9, that year, on the refignation of William Pitt, Efq. He died fuddenly on August 29, 1763; and his furviving Lady Alicia Maria, daughter of George Lord Carpenter, remarried in 1767 to Count Bruhl, a Saxon Nobleman. George, the prefent Earl of Egremont, was born December 7, 1751, fucceeded to the title and estate on the death of his father, and is unmarried. TITLES.] George Earl of Egremont, Lord and Baron of Cockermouth, and Baronet. ARMS] Azure, a Chevron, between three Lions heads erazed, Or. CREST.] A Lion's head erazed, within a fetter-lock, Or: but whether granted by the House of York, whofe cognizance was a fetter-lock, or in allusion to the family of Fellbrigge, who bore it, is not known. SUPPORTERS.] On the dexter fide, a Lion rampant, Azure, winged invertedly, Or. On the finifter fide, a Griffin Argent, gutté de fang. MOTTO.] AU BON DROIT. CHIEF SEATS.] Orchard-Wyndham, and Witham, in Somerfetfhire, Petworth, in Suflex, and Wrefil-caftle, in Yorkshire. FOREIGN ADVICES. Extract from the EDICTS lately publifhed by the KING of FRANCE, on the Subject of national Oeconomy, quoted by Mr. BURKE, in his Speech on the Neceffity of Reformation in the Adminiftration of the public Finances. LOUIS, &c.. Being wholly occupied in establishing order and economy in the expences of our household, in as great a degree as confifts with the dignity of our Crown, we have confidered, that it will be conducive to this end to re-unite to us all the offices of our private household, part of which had been alienated by the Kings our predecessors, under the titles of casual revenues, and had thereby become a heavy charge to the Crown; as we shall therefore become alone interested in the number and value of thefe offices, we shall be more at liberty to abolish such as appear to be useless, to determine the emolument, to confult only, in thefe arrangements, our general views of Adminiftration. We fhall refer to ourselves to examine in our justice what difadvantages may enfue to our Chief Officers, and thofe of the Queen, our dearest wife and companion, from the deprivation of those casual revenues, which add nothing in fplendor equal to their immenfe charge. We will befides preferve to them their various privileges, and they always fhall be, as they at prefent are, eminently diftinguished by the rank and For thefe caufes, &c.' Extract from the King's Edict for the Given at Versailles, in the Month of LOUIS, &c. Having reflected, that, without effential alterations in the direction of the expences of our household, we should hardly be able to establish a permanent improvement in the conducting of them, we have begun by reducing the great number of coffers and treafu: ies to one only. We have, by our Edict of this day, united all the offices of our household with the cafual revenues; revenues; and now, to render the plan we immediately from us, tranfmitting them, and watching that they are put into execution.-But they being called out on our service in our provinces and armies, and not having time to fpare in infpecting the particulars of finance and economy, which require continual affiduity and watchfulnefs, we imagine they will behold, without pain, this part of our Administration feparated from their noble offices near our perfon; and we have too much experienced their zeal and attachment not to be convinced that they will eagerly fecond the general plan for the estab ishment of regularity in our finances, and to prove more and more to our faithful subjects, how much it is our desire to avoid having recourse to new taxes, till we have estimated all the refources arifing from this fyllem of order and economy. For thefe caufes, &c.' This Edict confits of 16 articles. Warfaw, Jan. 15. Eight days ago a The melancholy event happened here. clothes of the Princefs, eldest daughter of Prince Adam Zartoryski, unfortunately took fire, and before it could be extinguithed fhe was fo much burnt that she died yesterday in inexpreffible agonies. Breft, Jan. 26. It is now certain, that M. Guichen will fail the end of this month, with 17 fail of the line. Berlin, Jan. 25. Since the decifion which his Majefty pronounced in the well-known affair of the miller Arnold, a great number of petitions have been daily prefented to him, complaining of abuses, real or imaginary, in the adminiftration of justice: fornetimes the King himself receives them, and talks with the complainants, who are moftly country people. At other times they are taken by two perfons of the Court appointed by the King for that purpose, and fent to the Grand Chancellor, who examines into the complaints immediately. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS to our CORRESPONDENT S. HE Occafional Letter Omega writes about is in the month of October 1778, page 173. TH Depictor has much truth in the outlines of his defcription, but is not altogether happy in claffing his fubjects: three of his diftinctions appearing to be without difference. The Prologue, written for a private reprefentation of the DifreJed Mother, is well enough fuited to a temporary occafion, and might be heard without difguft: its imperfections are more obvious upon paper; for which reason it is better not to circulate them. The Peruvian Tale is well related, but contains very little; and the incident on which it turns has been hackneyed before in a variety of shapes. Hiftorical 104 Hiftorical Chronicle for February. February 1. "HIS day in the forenoon fome of Sir and as a reformation was begun, he thought Fielding's very houfe in a court in Fenchurch-ftreet, two men and a woman, charged with coining. In their apartment was found a large quan fity of utenfits for coining half-crowns, hillings, and fixpences, which were car ried away in a cart to Bow-fireet, as were the prifoners for examination. February 2. The inhabitants of Westminster, to the number of 4000, met in Westminster-hall, pursuant to public advertisement, to agree on a petition to Parliament, to control the fhameful wafte of the public money, &c. The Hon. Charles Fox being called to the chair, Mr. Sawbridge made a fpeech, intimating, that our complaints are well grounded, and reprefented the neceffity there was for the prefenting a petition fimilar to that of York. It was then read by the Chairman, and carried without one diffenting hand. Mr. Wilkes came forward, and flated the fhameful abuse of the public money; faid we had been promised a navy fuperior to that of France and Spain; but it was not long fince it had been infer or to that of France only. He faid a number of pointed things against the people in power, and expreffed his happiness at that spirit of affociation, which, at this period, pervades the kingdom. A motion was then made, that a Committee should be appointed to correspond with the other Committees through the kingdom; and the Duke of Portland, the Earls Egremont and Temple; the Lords John and George Cavendith; the Hon. Thomas Townshend; Mellrs. Sawbridge and Wilkes, and feveral other Noblemen and Gentlemen, were appointed of the Committee. Mr. Fox then addreffed the meeting, in a moft animated speech, which was received with great applause. Dr. Jebb then expressed his approbation of the measures adopted by the meeting in a very fpirited harangue; he lamented the many ill confequences that daily arofe to the City of Westminster, by being reprefented by a Gentleman, who had fcarce ever been in England fince his election; and by another, who coafidered himself as the Reprefentative of a certain noble Peer, and not the Representative of the electors; therefore begged leave to recommend the February 3. Tuesday evening Mr. Rowley, a riding Officer in the fervice of the Cuftoms, by virtue of a warrant from Richard Carpenter Smith, Efq; feized at Walworth in the parim of Newington in a vault (solely contrived for the purpofe) a very large quan tity of British fpirits; as alfo a fill, which contained near 200 gallons, berides tome hundred gallons of wath prepared for diftillation. The fmugglers were very busy at work at the time of the Officer's entering the vault. February 10. A Court of Common-council was held at Guildhall, when the vacancies in the feveral Committees were filled up. Letters from the following Noblemen, who received the thanks of the Court for their conduct in Parliament (un the motion of the Duke of Richmond on the 7th of of December last) were read-one directed to the Lord Mayor from the Duke of Manchester, the reft directed to the TownCerk and Remembrancer, from his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, Dukes of Richmond, Grafton, Portland, Bolton, and Devonshire; Marquis of Rockingham; Lords Cholmondeley, Spencer, Coventry, Harcourt, Jerfey, Derby, Tankerville, Suffolk, Shelburne, Say and Sele, Beaulieu, Befborough, Kaver fworth, Fitzs william, Radnor, Ferrers, Craven, Abingdon, and Effingham; and the Bishops of St. Asaph and Peterborough. The motion was then made and carried, that the faid letters fhould be printed, and a copy fent to every Member of the Court. The The bufinefs for which the Court was called was next proceeded on, viz. To take into confideration the expenditure of public monies, and other grievances. Upon which a motion was made and seconded, that a Petition be prefented to the honourable the House of Commons from that Court; when Alderman Kirkman rofe to fupport the motion, and read as his fpeech a paper, the purport of which was, a re. capitulation of the numerous grievances and oppreffions, which he stated this country to have laboured under for a long time, but which were more particularly burthenfome at prefent. Mr. Sheriff Pugh, in a fhort and wellfounded argument recommended the Court first to pull out the mote from their own eye, and to be more frugal of the City's cafh, before they took upon them to find fault with Minifters fquandering away the public money. The worthy Alderman faid, all men had their hobby horfes; that 400l. was one day given for a box of heart of oak, 3000l. for a fculpture another, and that the complaint of profufion and extravagance in the public expenditure was at least as relevant against the City Minifters, as against the King's, &c. Large fums were expended from time to time in eating and drinking, by those above the bar, as well as those below it; he therefore recommended it to the feveral perfons who devote their time to the fervice of the City, to be more frugal in their expences; he did not wish them to be mean, or difgrace the City by an illiberal narrowmindedness, but to adhere to that fort of oeconomy, which was equally ufeful and noble; by fuch conduct confiderable favings might be made. The Alderman concluded his fpeech, which had much fterling fenfe in it, with advising the Court to amend themselves, before they undertook to fuggeft a reformation to others. Mr. Alderman Newnham faid, the Citizens of London were particularly oppressed; and in respect to the City cash, whatever was spent for the fervice of the city or country in general, did not hurt the people at large, as it proceeded from the eftates, &c. of the city; but railing public monies oppreffed the people in general, by loading them with taxes, which always bore more heavily on the City of London than any part of the kingdom; therefore he certainly fhould fupport the Petition. After many more arguments from Mr. Alderman Townend, and others, the question was put, and carried unanimoully, That this Court doth now agree to petition the Honourable Houfe of Commons on the expenditure of public money, and the increafing influence of the Crown. Whereupon this Court doth nominate and appoint Brafs Crosby, James Townfend, John Wilkes, John Sawbridge, John Kirkman, William Plomer, George Hayley, and Nathaniel Newnham, Efquires, Aldermen; Mr. Deputy Jeremiah Percy, Mr. Samuel Thorp, Mr. Deputy William Saxby, Mr. William Anderson, Mr. William Hurford, Mr. Nicholas Forster, Mr. Deputy Luke Young, Mr. Laurence Walker, Mr. Robert Holder, Mr. James Sharp, Mr. Charles Lincoln, Mr. Thomas William Prefton, Mr. John Withers, Mr George Bodley, Mr. Anthony Facer Kemp, and Mr. Jofiah Dornford, Commoners, to be a Committee, affifted by Mr. Recorder and Mr. Common Serjeant, to withdraw immediately, and prepare a petition pursuant to the faid refolution : And the said Committee withdrew accordingly, and returning again into this Court, prefented the draught of a petition by them prepared, which being twice read, was unanimously agreed to, in the following words: To the Honourable the Commons of The humble petition of the Lord May- That this nation hath been engaged for feveral years in a moft extenfive and unfortunate war; that many of our valuable colonies having actually declared themfelves independent, have formed a strict confederacy with France and Spain, the inveterate enemies of Great Britain: that the confequence of those combined misfortunes hath been a large addition to the na tional debt, a heavy accumulation of taxes, a rapid decline of the trade, manufactures, and land rents of the kingdom. Alarmed at the diminished resources and growing burthens of this country, and convinced that rigid frugality is now indifpenfably neceffary in every department of the State, your petitioners oblerve with grief, that notwithstanding the calamities and impoverished condition of the nation, much money has been fquandered, and that many individuals enjoy finecure places, efficient places with exorbitant emoluments, and penfions unmerited by public fervices, to a large and ftill encreafing amount, whence the Clown has acquired a great |