Feria, in Spain; Mary, a nun at Sion, in Middlesex; Dorothy, wife of Leonard Chamberlayn, of Shireborne, Oxfordshire, Esq.; and Sybil, a nun at Holywell, Midddlesex*. 15, John Newdegate, of Harefild, Esq. born sixth Hen. VII. suceedeed. He married Anne, daughter and heiress of Nicholas Hylton, of Cambridge, Esq. in the thirty-fourth of Hen. VIII. by deed of R. Tyrwhitt, he obtained the manor of Moor-Hall, in Harefield, with the rectory and peculiar Jurisdiction, which by the gift of his ancestors belonged to the Knights-Hospitallers of St. John's, in Jerusalem, and on the dissolution of monasteries, by Hen. VIII. was in the same year, granted by the king to the said R. Tyrwitt. He died in 37 Hen. VIII. leaving issue by the said Anne, 1, John, born fifth Hen. VII.; 2, George, who was a monk at Chertsey; 3, Anthony, of Hawnes, in Bedfordshire, born eight Hen. VIII. and died 1568, as appears by his monument in the church of Hawnes; 4, Francis, of Hanworth, in Middlesex, born eleventh Hen. VIII. who was one of the gentlemen of the household to the Duke of Somerset, protector of the realm, and uncle to Edw. VI. who being taken off by the arts of a faction, Francis married his dowager, Dutchess of Somerset, who was daughter of Sir Edward Stanhope, of Shelford, Knt.; 5, Thomas; and 6, Nicholas, of London, born twelve Hen. VIII.; and 7, Robert, born twentieth Hen. VIII. The daughters were, Amphilicia and Johanna, who died young, Amphielicia, and Anne, who was the wife of William Gardiner, of Grove, and Rosa †. 16, John Newdegate, his eldest son, succeeded to the manor of Harefield and Moor-Hall, in Harefield, now united, and with his brother Francis Newdegate, in 1571, thirteen Elizabeth, was chosen knight of the shire for the county of Middlesex. In 1573, and again in 1574, John was chosen to represent the said county. He married, first, Mary, daughter of Sir Robert Cheney, of Chesham-Boys, Bucks, Knt. thirty-four of Hen. VIII. by whom he had one son, John; his second wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Lovett, of Astwell, Northamptonshire, relict of Anthony Cave, of Chichley, Bucks. He died seventh of Elizabeth 1565. 17, John Newdegate, his son, succceeded to the manors of Harefild and MoorHall, and his other possessions of Hanworth, in Middlesex, Ashted, &c. in Surry, * In the aforesaid chapel is a plain altar tomb of grey marble with the figure, in brass, of him in his serjeant's robes, and his wife, ten sons, and 7 daughters; out of his mouth a scroll Sancta Trinita un' Deus, out of hers, Miserere nobis miseris, with this inscription : Hic jacent humata corpa. Johannis Newdegate, fuien ad Legem, et Amphilicie In the wall of the chancel of Harfield, is an altar tomb of grey marble, with a canopy of the same, and beneath is his effigy in brass kneeling, with eight sons kneeling behind him, and of his wife, also kneeling, with five daughters, with this inscription underneath :- Off yo' charitie, pray for the soules of John Newdigate, Esquyer, and Anne, hundred day of On whose soules and all Christen soules Jhu have mercy. Amen. Lathbury, &c. in Bucks, &c, to which he added by marriage with Martha Cave, daughter and heiress of Anthony Cave, of Chichely, in Bucks: by her he had seven sons, 1, John; 2, Francis; 3, Henry; 4, Robert; 5, Charles; 6, Carew; 7, Robert; and three daughters, 1, Elizabeth; 2, Griselda; and 3, Mary. Upon her decease, he married Mary, the daughter of Smith, by whom he had issue Henry, to whom he gave the manor of little Ashted, in Surry*. He had a third wife, Winifred, daughter of Wells, of in Staffordshire, who survived him ; and lived in her jointure-house, called Brackenbury, a capital messuage in Harefield, with about four hundred acres annexed, which at her death descended to his son, Sir John Newdegate, Knt. not being included in the exchange; which in the † twentyeighth of Eliz. Nov. 20, 1586, was made between Sir Edmond Anderson, Knt. chief-justice of the common-pleas, and John Newdegate, who conveyed his manors and lands in Harefield, (with the ancient seat of the family, a large quadrangular edifice, situated where is now the garden of the house, called HarefieldPlace, and which was then only two lodges; with the iron gates leading into the court, but since, joined by a hall built by the last Sir Richard Newdegate, Bart.) to the said Sir Edmond, who conveyed to him in exchange, the fair quadranguler edifice of stone, which he had just completed, upon the site of the dissolved priory of Erdbury, in Warwickshire, which he had obtained of the heirs of the Duke of Suffolk; who upon their dissolution had the grant of this, and many other religious houses by the favour of King Henry VIII‡. John Newdigate died John 1592. 18, Sir John Newdegate, of Arbury, in Warwickshire, and of Brackenbury, in Harefield, Knt. succeeded; he was born in 1570, and married Anne, eldest daughter of Sir Edward Fitton, of Gawsworth, Cheshire, Knt. by whom he had two sons, John, and Richard; and two daughters, Maria-Lettitia, wife of — - Bolton; and Anne, wife of Sir Richard Skeffington, of Fisherwich, Staffordshire, and mother of John Skeffington, Viscount Mazareen, of the kingdom of Ireland: she survived her husband, and died 1618 §. He resided at Hampton, in Middlesex, of which, as appears by the following inscription on his tomb, in the church of Hampton, he had the manor:— M. S. Henrici Newdigate, Arm. quondam hujus Mancosi, Dom: Filii secundo geniti Qui quidem Henricus magnam hospitalitatem tenuit. Improlis ob. An. Æta- ↑ Sir Wm. Dugdale's Warwickshire. It is observed, by the historians of his time, that the civil wars of York and Lancaster being at an end, and peace firmly established, the nobility of the kingdom were no longer satisfied with the wooden mounted mansions of their ancestors, but procuring architects, from Italy, and other parts, they erected, in every part of the realm, many fair and solid quadrangular buildings of stone and brick.-Camden Annal. Elizab. An. 1574. Uná conviviorum luxuria insepsit et ædificorum splendor. Plures enim et nobilium et privatorum villa elegatiâ, laxitate, et cultu conspicuæ, jam passim in Anglia surgere cœperunt, quam alio quovis sæculo; magno sane regni oinamento, verum hospitalis gloriæ detrimento. In Brakenbury chapel, fixed to the south wall is a monument of white and purple marble with columns, at the top of which are the arms of Newdigate, with quarterings underneath, he is represented in white armour kneeling, and his lady opposite to him in the same posture, with a desk with books between them, over 19, John Newdigate, his eldest son, born in 1600, succeeded to his father's estates in Warwickshire and Middlesex, and married Susanna, daughter of Arnold Luls. In first of Charles the First, he was sheriff of the county of Warwick. He died in 1642, and was buried at Harefield *. He was the first of the family who wrote the the name with an i, probably to distinguish it from the elder branch still remaining in possession of Newdegate, in Surry, but in this he was not followed by his brother and heir. them a death's head with wings, and this inscription on black marble: Sir John Newdegate, Knyght, was Underneath him are two young men in cloaks kneeling, and three young women underneath her, and this inscription in gold on black marble: I. RICHARD NEWDEGATE, of Arbury and Harefield, Esq. and the first Baronet of the family, who had made the law his study, and and was at his brothers death in high practice at the bar, which he continued with much reputation for his learning and integrity, and was advanced to the dignity of Sergeant at law. In * 1653, Cromwell having beaten down all opposition, and arrived at the summit of power, on the twelfth of December, by proclamation, the government by a Lord Protector, and trienniel parliaments was established on the twenty-first, by another proclamation, the Lord Protector, "Lest the settled and ordinary course of justice in the commonwealth might receive interruption, ordains that all persons possesed of judicature shall proceed in the performance and execution thereof" t. Thus having with consummate policy,determined to re-establish the courts of justice, summoned the most eminent and respectable professors of law, who attended with the worthy and learned Sir Mathew Hale, at their head. He told them that his purpose was to rule according to the laws of the land, and had sent for them to make them judges; they all with one consent, begged to be excused; and being pressed, declared, that they could not act under his commission. Highly offended, he turned away in a rage, crying out, if you, gentlemen, of the red robe, will not execute the laws, my red coats shall. Upon this Mr. Hale, and his companions all exclamed: " Make us Judges! we will be Judges!" On the twenty-fifth of January, 1651, ‡ Mr. Hale, was by writ made Serjeant at law, and soon after one of the justices of the common bench. On the second of June, 1654 §. Three new Judges were made, Serjeant Pepys, Serjeant Newdegate, and Serjeant Windham. Nor was the new Judge, unworthy his situation, for on the question of the sale of the crown-lands; being put to the Judges, he hesitated not to declare that no title could be made to them, and upon the north circuit at the assizes at York, where many of the cavaliers where arraigned for high-treason, the Earls of Bellasis and Dumfries, Colonel Halsey, and others; he acquitted them all, declaring from the bench, that there was no law that made it high-treason, to levy war against a Lord-Protector, by this he drew upon himself Cromwell's indignation, and in May, 1655 ||, Baron Thorpe, and Judge Newdegate, were put out of their places, for not observing the protector's pleasure in all his commands. After the death of Cromwell, and his son Richard's degradation; Serjeant Newdegate, was again called to the bench, and on the seventeenth of January, 1659, chief-justice of the upper bench, soon after, his health being much impaired he retired from business. In 1677, at the instance of the Duke of Ormond, Lord Grandison, Colonel Halsey, one of those whose lives he had saved, and others, Serjeant Newdegate, was commanded to attend his Majesty, who received him very graciously, and thanked him for his kindness to his friends in the worst of times, and gave orders for a warrant to be issued for a grant of the dignity of Baronet, "which said dig † Ibid. * Whitlock's Memorial. Arthur Onslow, speaker of the House of Commons. Ibid. § From information of the Right Hon. Whitlock's Memorial. nity we are pleased to confer upon him, in consideration of several good services performed to us, and our faithful subjects in the time of usurpation." In this warrant, the king remits the services or sums usually paid in exchange, for them on granting the patent. In 1631, he married Juliana, daughter of Sir Francis Leigh, of Newnham-Regis, in the county of Warwick, K. B. and sister to Francis, Earl of Chichester. His surviving children were Sir Richard, his successor; Robert, of Hillingdon, who had two wives, Frances, daughter of Thomas Harrison Esq. and Juliana, daughter of Robert Beals, Esq. his third son was Thomas of Lewes, in Sussex, and Hawton, Nottinghamshire, who by his wife Charitie, daughter and heiress of Stephen French, of Lewes, had two sons, Richard Newdegate, of the Inner-Temple, who was his heir, born 1680, died 1745; and John, of the Six Clerks Office, who died in 1740. Two daughters only survived the serjeant: Anne, wife of German Pole, of Radborn, in the county of Derby, Esq.; and Mary, wife of Sir George Parker, of Willington, in Sussex, Baronet. Sir Edmond Anderson, had conveyed the manors of Harefield and Moor-Hall, to Alicia, Countess Dowager of Derby, who resided at the Place-House, in great splendour, where she was honoured with a visit, by Queen Elizabeth, and received her with the pomp and pageantry of her times. The large ancient seat of the family, of which the present Place-House, was then only two lodges since joined by a hall, where the iron gates of the court stood, was burned to the ground, whilst in possession of her heirs; she died and lies under a sumptuous monument in the chancel. Of her heirs, Sir Richard Newdegate, the serjeant, repurchased this ancient estate of his ancestors in 1674. He also added to his estates the castle and manor of Astley, and the manor of St. John's, in Jerusalem, both in Warwickshire. He died 1678 *. * Upon his monument, in Brakenbury Chapel, is this inscription: VOL. III. M. S. RICHARDI NEWDEGATE ET BARONETTI. Filii natu minimi IOHANNIS NEWDEGATE, in agro D |