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274. BAYNTUN-ROLT, of SACOMBE-PARK, Hert

fordshire.

Created Baronet, July 9, 1762.

SIDNEY, in his Treatise on Government, mentions this family to be of great antiquity; that in name and ancient possessions it equals most, and is far superior to many of the nobility, whose names he enumerates; and indeed, it appears from a very curious pedigree of this family, preserved in the Royal Museum, that in the time of Henry II. they were knights of St. John of Jerusalem. Sir Henry Bayntun was knight-marshal to the king, an office of high authority in those days; whose second son, Henry, a knight of St. John of Jerusalem, was slain at Bretagne, 1201. Their descents and marriages are well preserved in this parchment, so as to be regularly brought down to Sir Henry Bayntun, Knt. temp.

Jac. I. 1616. This Sir Henry was great-grandfather to John Bayntun, of SpyePark, Esq. who died 1717, without issue, leaving his estate to his nephew, Edward-Bayntun Rolt, second son of Edward Rolt, of Sacombe-Park, in Hertfordshire, Esq. whom he made his heir, directing him to take the name and bear the arms of Bayntun.

We find that Sir Henry Bayntun, Knt. temp. Henry IV. took part with the Earl of Northumberland, and was beheaded at Berwick. Sir Robert Bayntun, in 1471, was in arms against the king at the battle of Tewksbury, where he was made prisoner, and attainted; but his life was granted him among the very few that were spared, but by what intercession is not known.

The Bayntuns were long settled at Falston, alias Fallersdown, in Wiltshire, where they built a chapel, of which a very elegant gothic window is said to be still remaining.

Upon the death of Richard Beauchamp, Lord St. Amand, John Bayntun, Esq. who was his cousin and heir, removed to Bromham, anciently the seat of the Roches, and from them to the Beauchamps, where the family continued till the year 1652, when, at the defeat of Sir William Waller by Lord Wilmot, their house, situated near the field of battle, was burnt; they then removed to SpyePark, and having improved and converted the lodge into a mansion-house, have made it their chief residence to this 'time.

2, Sir Edward, son of the said John, was in great favour with Henry VIII. He was vice-chamberlain to three of his queens, and was employed by the king to use his private friendship with Cardinal Pole (who was his cousin), to bring him to the king's views; but his endeavours had not the desired effect. He attended the king in his expedition to France, and is supposed to have died there.

3, Sir Edward, his son, succeeded him, and married Agnes, daughter of Sir Griffith Rees, or Ryce, of Cary Castle, in Pembrokeshire, and grand-daughter of Sir Rees ap Thomas, knight of the Garter, so created by Henry VII. by Catharine, daughter of Thomas Howard, second Duke of Norfolk, by whom he had several children; he was succeeded by his son,

4, Sir Henry Bayntun, who was succeeded by. his eldest son,

5, Sir Edward, K. B. who married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Henry Maynard, of Easton, in Essex, by whom he had issue,

6, Bayntun, K. B. his eldest son, was engaged very early in those troubles which then distracted the kingdom. He was commissioner of parliament, residing in the Scotch army, and seems to have taken a very active part in those times, and to have had the confidence of the presbyterian party. At the restoration, he was made knight of the Bath, and was also a member of the Long Parliament. He married Stuarta Thynne, eldest sister of Thomas Thynne, of Long Seat, Esq. by whom he had two sons, Henry, and Thomas, and several other children. Thomas was the father of Rachael, mother of the late Duke of King7, Henry Bayntun was contracted, during his infancy, to Lady Sophia Os

ston.

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burne, daughter of the lord-treasurer Danby; but his father dying while he was on his travels, this marriage never took effect. Upon his return to England, he married Anne, eldest daughter of John, and sister and coheiress of Charles Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, (her mother was the heiress of the ancient and noble family. of the Mallets, one of whom was a subscribing baron to the Magna Charta), by whom he had one son, John, and one daughter, Anne. Lady Bayntun, after the decease of the said Henry, intermarried with Francis Greville, Esq. and was mother of the late William, Lord Brooke, of Warwick Castle, father of Francis, Earl Brooke, Earl of Warwick. Anne was wife of Edward Rolt, of Sacombe Park, in the county of Hereford, Esq. aforesaid, by whom she had two sons; 1, Thomas, who died Dec. 1776; and 2, Edward, of whom hereafter.

John Bayntun, Esq. son of Henry and Anne Wilmot, was of Spye Park, and died in 1717, without issue, leaving his estate to his nephew, Edward-Bayntun Rolt, second son of Edward Rolt, of Sacombe Park, in the county of Hereford, Esq. whom he made his heir, directing him to take the name and arms of Bayntun.

Í. EDWARD-BAYNTUN ROLT, Esq. second son of Edward Rolt, of Sacombe Park, in the county of Hertford aforesaid, by the aforesaid Anne, was chosen member of parliament for Chippenham in 1737, which he represented several years. In 1746, he was made groom of the bed-chamber to the late Prince of Wales; and, in 1751, he was, upon the death of Lord Baltimore, made surveyor of the duchy of Cornwall; and July 9, created a Baronet; in 1783, surveyor-general; and, in 1787, he was one of the honourable council to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. He married Mrs. Mary Poynter, of Herriard, in Hampshire, by whom he had issue, 1, Constantia, wife, in 1779, of Andrew Stone, Esq.; 2, Sir Andrew; 3, Elizabeth, wife, Feb. 7, 1773, of Richard Foster, Esq. Sir Edward died Jan. 1800, aged 90, and was succeeded by his son, II. Sir ANDREW BAYNTUN-ROLT, Bart. who married, June 25, 1777, Mary-Alicia, eldest surviving daughter of the Earl of Coventry, by whom he has issue, wife of the Rev. J. Starkey, of Eveleigh.

ARMS-Sable, a bend, lozengy, argent.

CREST-A griffin's head erased, sable, beaked, or, being the arms and crest of the Bayntun family.

SEAT-At Spye Park, near Colne, in the county of Wilts.

THE REV. ONESIPHORUS PAUL, of Warnborough, in the county of Wilts, had two sons, Nicholas, and George, who died unmarried; and one daughter Elizabeth, wife of the Rev. Thomas Prance, of Easingwood, in the county of York.

1, Nicholas Paul, the eldest son, married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Dean, of Woodchester, in the county of Gloucester, by whom he had two sons; 1, Dean Paul, of Stroud, in the said county, who married first, Elizabeth, daughter of John Andrews, of Stonehouse, in the same county, who died Aug. 4, 1741, without issue he married seondly, Anne-Gastrell, daughter of John Selfe, of Cirencester, in the same county, who died Sept. 7, 1746, leaving one son; he married thirdly, Margaret, daughter of Philip Hampton, of Westbury, in the same county, who died Mar. 11, 1764, without issue.

By Anne, his second wife, he had issue, John Paul, M. D. who married Frances, youngest daughter of Robert Snow, of Hendon, in the county of Middlesex, and of London, banker, (by Valentine, daughter of George Paul, LL.D. vicar-general and king's advocate in the Commons), by whom he had issue, 1, JohnDean Paul, of London, banker; and 2, Robert, a captain in the royal navy. John-Dean married Frances-Eleanor Simpson, youngest daughter of John Simpson, of Bradley, in the bishopric of Durham, by the Right Honourable Lady Lyon, daughter of the Earl of Strathmore, by whom he hath issue, Anne-Frances, and John-Dean. Dean Paul died March 11, 1764, and, together with his three wives above-mentioned, lie buried at Woodchester.

I. ONESIPHORUS, second son of Nicholas, resided at Woodchester, where he was extensively engaged in the manufacture of the fine woollen cloths, for which that neighbourhood is distinguished, and which owe much of their present unrivalled excellence to his ingenious and spirited improvements.

In the month of August, 1750, he had the honour to receive and entertain at his house, his late Royal Highness Frederick, Prince of Wales. In 1760, he was high-sheriff of the county of Gloucester; and, on presenting an address from the said county to his present Majesty, on his accession to the throne of these realms, he received the honour of knighthood. In the second year of his present Majesty's reign, he was advanced to the dignity of a Baronet of Great Britain, by patent, bearing date Sept. 3, 1762, to him and his heirs male. He married first, Jane, daughter of Francis Blackburn, of Richmond, in the county of York, by Alice, his wife, daughter of Thomas Comber, D. D. and dean of Durham, and of Alice, daughter of William Thornton, of East Newton, in the same county, by Alice, his wife, daughter of the Right Honourable Christopher Wandesford, lord-deputy of Ireland, and sister to the Rev. Francis Blackburn, rector of Rich-mond, archdeacon of Cleveland, and author of the Confessional, and many other polemical works. This lady died May 26, 1748, and was buried at Woodchester, and by her he had one son and two daughters, of whom hereafter.

He married secondly, Catharine, daughter and coheiress of Francis Freeman, of Norton Male-reward, in the county of Somerset, by whom he had one son Francis, who died an infant; she died Oct. 20, 1766, without surviving issue, and was also buried at Woodchester.

He married thirdly, Sarah, daughter of John Peach, of Woodchester, and widow of John Turner, of Kingstanley, in the same county. This lady died April, 1801, and was buried at Little Ilford, in Essex.

By Jane, his first wife, he had one son, George-Onesiphorus, the present Ba