Sir John died July 30, 1740, unmarried, near 80, and left his estate to his grand-nephew John, son of John Inskip beforementioned, but he was succeeded in title by his grand-nephew,

II. Sir JOHN LADE (according to the patent), who was a lieutenant of marines, and died unmarried 1747, his grand-uncle only left him fifty-two pounds a year, on whose death the title was extinct.

I. JOHN LADE, of Warbleton, Esq. was created a Baronet, Mar. 17, 1758. (I suppose this to be the person that the first Baronet left his fortune to.) He married Mary, daughter of Ralph, and sister of Henry Thrale, Esq. member for the borough of Southwark, who died his widow, April 22, 1802. Sir John died April 21, 1759, of a mortification, arising from the amputation of his leg, which

had been broken by a fall from his horse in hunting, leaving lier with child of a

son,

II. Sir JOHN LADE, Bart. who married Mrs. Smith, by whom he has no issue.

ARMS-Quarterly: 1st and 4th, argent, a fess wavy, between three escallops, sable; 2d and 3d, gules, a lion rampant, or, ducally collared and chained, sable. CREST-In a coronet, or, a leopard's head, regardant, sable, bezantée. SEAT-At Warbleton, Sussex.

265. WILMOT, of CHADDESDEN, Derbyshire.

Created Baronet, Feb. 15, 1759.

THE name of Wilmot, or Wylimot, for variously hath it been written, is originally Saxon, and very ancient in England. Speed mentions Wilmot, a nobleman of Sussex, in the reign of King Ethelred.

The family, as we find by deeds now in their possession, settled soon after the conquest at Sutton-upon-Soar, and Bonyngton, adjoining thereto, and since called Sutton Bonyngton, in Nottinghamshire, and about fourteen miles from the town of Derby.

1, Ralph Wylimot is one of the witnesses to a grant of lands in Bonyngton aforesaid, before the custom of dating deeds began. His descendant was,

2, Ralph Wylimot, of Sutton aforesaid, who was witness to a grant of lands there in 1282.

3, Ralph Wylimot.

4, Ralph Wylimot is one of the witnesses to a grant of lands made by William, son of John Chaddesden, in 13—.

5, Robert Wilmot, of Bonyngton, is one of the witnesses to a grant of lands there in 1380.

6, Robert Wilmot, of Bonyngton, is one of the witnesses of a grant of lands there 21 Rich. II. and to another grant of lands 4 Hen. IV. *

7, Richard Wylymot, of Bonyngton, 30th of June, 9 Hen. IV. grants to John Bonyngton and others, a certain messuage and lands in Bonyngton, part of which lands lay adjoining to lands of William Wylymot: another part adjoining to lands of John Wylymot; and, on the 6th of July, 9 Hen. IV. John Bonyngton and others, grant certain messuages and lands to the said Richard Wylymot. 8, Robert Wylymot marrying

-, daughter and heiress of

Bonyng

* See a letter of attorney from Ralph Wyllymot, of Bonyngton, to John Bonyngton, Esq. dated July 4, 9 Hen. IV.

aforesaid; Eliza, of Francis Bradshaw, of Holbrooke, Derbyshire, Esq. Sir Robert died Sept. 9, 1793, and was succeeded by his eldest son,

III. Sir ROBERT WILMOT, Bart. born July 5, 1765, who, in March, 1796, married Lucy, eldest daughter of the late Robert Grimston, of Neswich, in Yorkshire, by whom he has two daughters, Lucy-Maria, born April, 1797, and Harriet, born June, 1798.

ARMS-Sable, on a fess, or, between three eagles' heads, couped, argent, as many escallops, gules, a canton, vaire, ermine, and gules.

CREST-An eagle's head, couped, argent, gorged with a mural coronet, sable, in the beak, an escallop, gules.

SEAT-At Chaddesden, in the county of Derby.

266. CUNLIFFE, of LIVERPOOL, Lancashire.

Created Baronet, March 26, 1759.

THIS family is undoubtedly of very great antiquity, and it is probable they were among the first Saxons who settled themselves in the north of England. Their name seems to corroborate this conjecture, as the word Cunlive, or Cunliffe, in the Saxon language, imports a gift or grant for life, or a competent maintenance, according to the military customs of those times; and certain it is, that a house and lands, bearing the name of Cunlive, or Cunliffe, were granted them, in the early times we are speaking of, at Billington, near Whalley, in Lancashire. This became afterwards the surname of the family; for, in the year 1282, being the eleventh of the reign of Edward I. a writ of inquisition was issued, concerning the extent of the manor of Manchester, in which a jury of twelve principal persons were sworn, among whom was Adam de Cunlive.

The family of Cunliffe continued in the possession of the lands and hall of Cunliffe, till the civil wars between the houses of York and Lancaster; but it appears that, in the reign of Henry VII. they had lost their possessions there, and were seated either at Wicollar or at Hastings, in the same county

They are still possessed of Wicollar, but the civil wars between Charles I. and his parliament, like the civil wars of earlier date, were again prejudicial to, and lessened their possessions.

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* Vide 5th D. 14, folio 92.-Herald's College.

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1, Nicholas Cunliffe, of Hollings, and Robert, his brother, were at first engaged on the side of the parliament; and it appears, from the journals of the House of Commons, that they were employed in 1643 by the parliament, to execute an important trust in Lancashire.

Robert Cunliffe was summoned to parliament in 1653, as one of the representatives of the county of Lancaster; but, as this parliament was not sufficiently subservient to the views of Cromwell, they were hastily dissolved.

2, John Cunliffe, son of the before-mentioned Nicholas, very soon after was active in opposing the ruling power; for which his house at Hollings was plundered, and a garrison put into it, by those who acted under the arbitrary and despotic government that succeeded the protectorship. He also suffered much by sequestration, as appears by written evidences now in being, which obliged him to mortgage his estate at Hollings, and settle his residence at Wi

collar.

This John Cunliffe had several daughters and two sons, Nicholas and Ellis; from Nicholas, the elder, are descended the Cunliffes, of Wicollar, near Colne, in Lancashire.

3, Ellis, the second son, was bachelor of divinity, and fellow of Jesus Col. lege, Cambridge. He was several years rector of Newmarket, which he resigned for that of Etwall, in Derbyshire; and was so much in favour with Charles II. that he did him the honour of standing sponsor to his son Foster. He married, daughter and coheiress of ——— Foster, of Airton, in Yorkshire, by whom he had two daughters and one son,

4, Foster, who was a merchant at Liverpool, whose honesty, diligence, and knowledge in mercantile affairs, procured wealth and credit to himself and his country. His life was a scene of business; he sought after no personal honour, but had the pleasure to see his son unanimously returned member of parliament for Liverpool, and died lamented by the wise and good, April 11, 1738. Foster Cunliffe left two sons, Sir Ellis, Bart. and Sir Robert, successor to his brother; and two daughters, wife of William Shaw, of Preston, Esq. and Mary.

In the church of St. Peter, in Liverpool, is erected a handsome marble monument, with suitable enrichments of mathematical instruments, and other decorations adapted to his mercantile employ, with this inscription, for the said Foster Cunliffe: