ARMS-Or, on a bend, engrailed, azure, a mullet, argent. 1, The Rev. JOHN ROGERS*, the first martyr in Queen Mary's reign, is the first we find of this family; he is supposed to be the father of, 2, Vincent Rogers, minister of Stratford-le-Bow, Middlesex, who married Dorcas, relict of Young, by whom he had, Ex inf. Dom. Jo. Rogers, Bar. 1726. 3, Nehemiah Rogers, prebendary of Ely, and rector of Bishopsgate, who was buried at Messing, in Essex, 1660: he was a great loyalist, and had two sons, 1, Nehemiah Rogers, of London, who belonged to the Custom-House, and married Mary †, daughter of Edmund Porter, D. D. sister to Sir Charles Porter, Knt. lord-chancellor of Ireland, and had issue Edmund Rogers, of London, living 1701, and John, who was imprisoned in Carisbrook-Castle, in the Isle of Wight, and suffered much for his loyalty to King Charles I. and II.; he married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Payne, of Midlow, in Huntingdonshire, by whom he had two sons, Sir John, and Prisonborn (so called from being born in prison), who had a commission in King Charles the Second's army, and was killed in a duel in France. I. Sir JOHN ROGERS, Bart. the eldest §, was bred a merchant, and lived as such many years in the town of Plymouth, in the said county of Devon, near which place he purchased a considerable estate, and about the year 1698, was chosen a representative in parliament for that town; during which parliament, his Majesty King William was pleased to confer the dignity of a Baronet on him, in the eleventh year of his reign. He was appointed high-sheriff of the county of Devon, 1701, and married Mary||, daughter of Mr. William Vincent, of London, (who, after his decease, became wife of Sir Edmund Prideaux, of Netherton, in the said county, Bart.) and died in the year 1710, leaving issue one son, II. Sir JOHN ROGERS, Bart. who, after his father's decease, was by the said town of Plymouth, chosen representative in parliament, and also their recorder, snd for which corporation he was again chosen the last parliament of Queen Anne, and the first of King George I. He married Mary ¶, daughter of Sir Robert Henley, of the Grainge, in the county of Southampton, Knt. by whom he had seseveral sons and daughters, and dying in Jan. 1743-4, was succeeded by his eld est son, III. Sir JOHN ROGERS, Bart. who served the office of high-sheriff for the county of Devon in 1755, and in 1759, was appointed colonel of the Devonshire militia. He married daughter of Trefusis, and was succeeded in title and estate by his brother, IV. Sir FREDERICK-LEMON ROGERS, Bart. who was recorder of Plymouth, and a commissioner of the navy; he died in June, 1797, and was succeed ed by V. Sir JOHN LEMON ROGERS, Bart. Nehemiah Rogers, vicar of Messing, in Essex, 1620, and rector of Tay Magna, in Essex, 1632; where, in 1647, as rector of that church, he presented to the vicarage (which is a sinecure), was rector of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, 1642; and, after the rebellion broke out in 1642, he was sequestered of his church of St. Botolph, and, I suppose, of such other church preferments as he then had.-Newcourt's Repertorium, vol. i. p. 313. + Le Neve's MSS. vol. iii. p. 302. Ex inf. Dom. Jo. Rogers, Bar. 1741. Ibid. | Ibid. Ibid. ARMS-Argent, a cheveron, gules, between three roebucks current, sable, attired and gorged with ducal coronets, or. CREST-On a mount, vert, a roebuck current, proper, attired and gorged with a ducal coronet, or, between two branches of laurel, vert. MOTTO-Nos nostraque Deo. SEAT-At Wisdome and Blachford, both in Devonshire. 219. WESCOMBE, CONSUL, at Cadiz. Created Baronet, March 19, 1699. I. Sir MARTIN WESCOMBE, the first Baronet of this family, was agent and consul at Cadiz, in the reign of King William III. and resided many years in Spain. His daughter Mary was wife of Bernard Granville, Esq. brother to George, Lord Lansdown. II. Sir ANTHONY WESCOMBE, Bart. his son, was deputy-commissary general and deputy-judge advocate, commissary of the musters at Minorca, and finally, deputy-muster-master-general of the forces, which he enjoyed till his death. He married, in April 1736, —, daughter and heiress of Calmady, Esq. by his second wife Jane, daughter of Sir John Rolt, of Milton, in Bedfordshire, Knt. He died Dec. 6, 1752, and was succeeded by his son, III. Sir ANTHONY WESCOMBE, who perhaps is the present Baronet. ARMS-Sable, two bars, or, and a canton, ermine. CREST-Out of a mural coronet, or, a griffin's head of the last, 220. CHETWODE, of OAKLEY, Staffordshire. Created Baronet, April 6, 1700. THIS family was seated at Chetwode, in Buckinghamshire, long before th conquest. 1, John Chetwode, from whom this pedigree is clearly deduced, was a person of note, being a knight, and lord of the manor of Chetwode. This John had one son, 2, Robert Chetwode, lord of Chetwode, who founded the priory of Chetwode*, in the lifetime of his father; and the said John, and Robert, with his wife, lie buried in the church, belonging to the said priory, as appeared by an ancient monument †, which was defaced after the suppression of the said priory. 3, Sir Raufe Chetwode, Knt. § his son and heir, had issue, • Dugdale's Monast. Angl. Vol. II. fo. 339. † Deposition taken by virtue of a Com. in Chancery, 25 Eliz. 4, Robert Chetwode, Lord of Chetwode, who lived 5 Hen. I, and married Sibell, daughter of Thomas Strange. He attended king Richard I. into Syria, and for his atchievement in arms, received the honour of knighthood, from that prince, in Palestine*, and on his return from the holy wars, received other marks of that monarch's favour. He had two sons, John and William, who was seized of lands in Horton, in Kent †. 5, Sir John Chetwode, Knt. the eldest son, had one son, 6, Sir Robert de Chetwode, Knt. lord of Chetwode, who lived 10, Ed. I. and 14 Ed. I. he married Lucie, lady of Hockliffe, and had a grant from William his uncle, of forty shillings per annum, to be issuing out of lands in Horton, in Kent. He exchanged his manor of Paddleworth, in Kent, with Sir Hamond Gatton, Knt. for the manor of Hockliffe, and certain lands and tenements in Battlesdon and Cotesgrave, in Bedfordshire, and a wood called Linwood. 7, John Chetwode, Knt. his son and heir, was lord of the manors of Chetwode and Hockliffe, who lived 10 Ed. I. and 6 Ed. II. and was knight of the shire for the county of Bucks §, in the parliament then held at York; and 30 Ed. I. he served in parliament, as knight of the shire for the same county, then held at London. He married, first Johanne, daughter of; secondly, Amicia de Cugentio, by whom he had no issue. 8, John Chetwode, his son and heir, by his first wife, lived 27 Ed. I. and 10 Ed. II. and married Lucia, daughter of who was living 15 Ed. II. by whom he had, 9, John, who lived 6 Ed. III. and married Johanne, daughter of — by whom he had two sons, John, and Robert, of whom hereafter. Sir John Chetwode, Knt. who lived 19 and 22 Ed. III. left one son, Sir Nicholas Chetwode, Knt. lord of Chetwode and Hockliffe, living 20 and 30 Ed. III. who married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Sir John Lyons, by whom he had Sir John Chetwode, Knt. lord of Warkworth, Chetwode, and Hockliffe, who married, first, Mary, daughter of , who was living 45, Ed. III. and * Cart. sans date, penes J. Chetwode, Bar. † He assumed for his arms, quarterly, argent and gules, four crosses, formée, counterchanged; and for his motto, Corona mea Christus, and released from him and his heirs, to the prior and canons of Chetwode, and their successors (a), in free alms, all rents, duties, and service-customs, due to the said Robert and his heirs, which they held of his fee, and had in the town and field of Chetwode; for which release, the prior and convent did grant yearly, to pay to the said Robert, and to his heirs, a mark of silver, in the parish church of Chetwode. Sibell, who survived her husband, did, in her widowhood, grant in free alms, two yard land, with the appurtenances, to the hermitage of Chetwode, and to the brethren there abiding. Cart. penes J. Chetwode, Bar. § Willis's Not. Parl. in Bucks. (a) Cart. temp. Hen. I. penes J. Chetwode, Bar. |