two sons and one daughter; Albany, a merchant in London, who died without issue; and Susanna, wife of Michael Stockoe, of Heddon Bridge, in Northumberland; and

10, John Ridley, of Hardriding, Esq. one of his Majesty's justices of the peace in the county of Northumberland. He was aged 51 years, Sept. 1666, and major of a regiment in the army of William, Marquis of Newcastle, for Charles I. as also major in the garrison at Carlisle, Sir Philip Musgrave being then governor, and afterwards major to Sir Marmaduke Langdale, Knt. afterwards Lord Langdale. He married first, Anne, daughter of Sir Ralph Fetherstonhalge, of Stanhope, in the county of Durham, Esq. by whom he had two sons, John, who died unmarried, and Nicholas, of whom hereafter; and one daughter, Barbara, wife of John Bradwood, of Carlisle. By his second wife, Mary, daughter of Edward Lawson, of Brunton, in the county of Northumberland, Esq. he had five sons and four daughters, 1, Elizabeth, wife of Edward Stockoe, of Carlisle; 2, Mary, of Thomas Pate, clerk, vicar of Haltwissle; 3, Jane; 4, Anne, of Christopher Barrow, of Shankfoot, in Northumberland, Gent. The sons were, 1, Nevile; 2, Wilfred; 3, Godfrey; 4, John; 5, Edward, of Lincolnshire, Esq. who was fourteen years old in 1666; he married Dorothy, daughter of Chamberlayne, Esq. by whom he had Richard Ridley, Esq. a colonel of the guards, who died unmarried, and was buried at St. Margaret's Church, Westminster; and four daughters, Mary, Eleanor, Dorothy, and Anne.

11, Nicholas Ridley, of Hardriding, Esq. before-mentioned, was of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and also of Heaton, in Northumberland; he died Jan. 22, 1710, and by Martha, his wife, daughter of Richard March, of Newcastleupon-Tyne, merchant, who died April 13, 1728, he had five sons; 1, John, died young, April, 1686, and was buried in St. Nicholas Church, in Newcastleupon-Tyne; 2, Richard, of whom hereafter; 3, Nicholas; 4, Edward; and 5, John: and four daughters, 1, Mary, wife of Gawen Ansley, of Little Harle, in Northumberland, Esq.; 2, Anne; 3, Anne, wife of Joshua Douglas, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Esq; 4, Martha, who died unmarried.

12, Richard Ridley, Esq. eldest surviving son, was of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and also of Heaton, in Northumberland, and died Nov. 2, 1739, and was buried in St. Nicholas Church aforesaid; and by Margaret, his wife, daughter of Matthew White, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and of Blagdon, in Northumberland, Esq. had four sons and five daughters, 1, Matthew, of whom hereafter; 2, Richard, was a captain of foot, and married Anne, daughter of George Roach, of Portsmouth, merchant, and died without issue; 3, Nicholas; and 4, Nicholas, died infants: 1, Margaret, was wife of the Rev. Hugh Moyer, M. A. lecturer of All Saints Church, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne; 2, Jane, of Matthew Bell, of Newcastle aforesaid, and of Woolsington, in Northumberland, Esq.; another Jane, Martha, and Mary, died infants.

13, Matthew Ridley (eldest son and heir of Richard Ridley, Esq. aforesaid), of Heaton, in the county of Northumberland, Esq. and member of parliament

for the town and county of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, married first, Hannah, daughter of Joseph Barnes, of Newcastle aforesaid, who died Nov. 7, 1741, and was buried in the church of St. Nicholas, in that town, and left an only son, Richard Ridley, Esq. a major of foot, who was born in the parish of St. George the Martyr, Queen-square, London, July 5, 1736.

Matthew Ridley, Esq. married secondly, Elizabeth, eldest daughter, and at length heiress, of Matthew White, of Blagdon, Esq. (which Matthew was brother of Margaret, the wife of Richard Ridley, Esq. aforesaid), they were married at Stannington, in Northumberland, Nov. 18, 1742, by whom he had seven sons and four daughters, 1, Matthew-White Ridley, the present Baronet; 2, Edward, died an infant; 3, Nicholas, of Gray's-Inn, Esq. who married, 1790, Letitia, daughter of Atkins; 4, John, a lieutenant in the Welch Fuzileers; 5, Henry, of University-College, Oxford; 6, Edward, died an infant ; 7, Charles. The daughters were, Elizabeth-Christiana, probably so called as being born on Christmas-Day; 2, Margaret; 3, Jane; 4, Mary, who died Oct. 1797.

II. Sir MATTHEW-WHITE RIDLEY, Bart. succeeded his uncle, Sir Matthew White, Bart. in title and estate, and is member of parliament for Newcastle; he married, 1777, -, daughter of Cockburne, of Pall Mall, by whom he has issue.

ARMS-Quarterly first and fourth, gules, on a cheveron, between three falcons, argent, as many pellets, for Ridley; second and third, argent, three cock's heads erased, sable, for White, combed and wattled, gules.

CREST-On a wreath, a bull, passant, the tail turned over the back, gules. MOTTO on the Crest-Constans fidei.

SEAT-At Blagdon, in the county of Northumberland.

Vide the following references to this pedigree in the Herald's Office: Vincent. Northumber. No. 149, fo. 55. Dugdal. Dit. fol. 24. Regist. Howard. fo. 100, and 1. 23, fo. 25.

264. LADE, of WARBLETON, Sussex.

Created Baronet, March 17, 1753.

THIS family is of considerable antiquity in the county of Kent, in several parts of which they had possessions, which still bear their names. In Snodland, near Rochester, and in Acris, there are estates still called Lads, which had owners of that name, temp. Edw. I; and in Eleham, where they were resident at least as early as Edw. IV. as appears by the register of their wills, which begins at that æra; there is one still called Ladwood.

The name was, according to the custom of the times, spelt Le Lad, and afterwards Lad, Ladd, Ladde, and Lade.

1, John Ladd, of Eleham, died 1527, leaving several sons.

2, Thomas Ladd, the youngest, settled at Barham, and married Elizabeth, daughter of Mumbray, sister and heiress of Thomas Mumbray, of Sutton, near Dover, by whom he had Vincent, and Silvester, wife of Vincent Nethersole, of Wiming would, in Kent; and died March 15, 1626.

3, Vincent Lade, of Barham, in Kent, Gent. son and heir, died Aug. 27, 1626. He married Elizabeth, or Agnes, daughter of Vincent Denne, of Denhill, in Kent, Esq. by whom he had four sons, 1, Robert; 2, Thomas; 8, John; and 4, Vincent. The two last left no issue.

Robert Lade, Esq. son and heir, was of Gray's-Inn, barrister at law, and recorder of Canterbury, to whom Sir William Segar, Garter, confirms the arms of the family, viz. Argent, a fess wavy, between three escallops, sable-Crest, on a wreath, a panther's head guardant, sable, bezantee; quartering Mumbray, gules,

Ex stem. penes Dom. Joh. Lade, Bar. 1739-40, though in an old Bible, late in the possession of Sig John Lade, Bart. are the following entries:

Born

Died Aged

1490

On a tomb stone in Barham. Married Margaret, daughter of Wm. Denwood, of Ebbsfleet, Esq. Thomas Lade, of Warbleton, in Sussex

1620

1668

48

Married Mary, daughter of John Nutt, D. D.

Which said Thomas and Mary were father and mother of Sir John Lade, born 1662, the present Baronet.

Ex inf. Dom. Jo. Lade, Bar. 1739-40.

a lion rampant, argent, collared and chained, sable. This Robert married Mary, daughter of William Lovelace, of the Friars, in Canterbury, and was the ancestor of the Lades, of Canterbury and Barham.

4, Thomas Lade, of Barham, second son of Vincent before-mentioned, married Margaret, daughter of William Denwood, of Ebbsfleet, in Kent, by whom he had three sons, and four daughters, 1, Vincent Lade, of Barham, who, by Elizabeth, daughter of Knowler, of Canterbury, left Thomas, Vincent, Elizabeth, and Mary; 2, Thomas Lade, of Warbleton, in Sussex, Gent. of whom hereafter; 3, John, of Adsam, in Kent, who married Hannah, daughter of Walter Cloak, of Winchop, near Canterbury, and left issue. Of the four daughters, Mary was wife of Denne, of Canterbury; Sarah, of William Cullen; Anne, of John Roberts, of Warbleton, Gent.; and Margaret, who died unmarried.

5, Thomas Lade, of Warbleton, second son, died Dec. 1669. He married Mary, daughter of John Nutt, of Mayes, in the parish of Selmiston, in Sussex, Gent. by whom he had three sons, and two daughters, 1, Vincent Lade, of Warbleton, who married, and had issue one son Vincent, who died S. P. and four daughters, 1, Anne, wife, first, of Thomas Wandell, of Southwark, druggist; and secondly, of William Nutt, of Marshalls, in Maresfield, in Sussex, Gent. only son of John Nutt, of the same place, Gent. by Philadelphia, his wife, eldest daughter of Sir William Wilson, of East-Bourne Place, in the same county, Bart. a descendant from a collateral branch of the family of Sir Thomas Nutt, formerly of Mays, in the parish of Selmiston, in Sussex, Knt.; 2, Elizabeth, wife of John Whithorne, of Jamaica, by whom she had three sons, 1, Lade Whithorne, who died S. P.; 2, Charles; 3, John Whithorne, who took the name of Lade, and on whom the title of Baronet was entailed by the patent; 3, Mary, wife of John Price, of Richmond, in Surry; and 4, Philadelphia, of John Inskip, of Uckfield, in Sussex, to whose son John, Sir John Lade bequeathed the chief part of his estate; 2, Thomas Lade, who died unmarried 1681; 3, John, of whom hereafter. The daughters of Thomas were Anne, and Catharine, wife of Mr. Hugh Offley, of Possingworth, near Waldron parish, in Sussex.

I. JOHN LADE, Esq. the third and youngest son of Thomas, was brought up to trade, which he carried on many years in the borough of Southwark, whereby he raised a very considerable fortune, which, by his prudent management, he greatly increased. He represented the said borough in the last parliament of Queen Anne, and in the first parliament of King George I.; and was again elected in the second parliament of King George I. on the death of George Meggot, Esq. He acted many years as justice of the peace for the county of Surry with great reputation, being esteemed a very able magistrate. In 3 Geo. II. he was advanced to the dignity of a Baronet, with remainder, for want of issue male of his body lawfully begotten, to his great-nephew John, third and youngest son of John Whitmore and Elizabeth his wife before-mentioned, then called John Lade, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten.

+ Ex inf. Dom. Jo. Lade, Bar. 1739-40.