dred acres of land, &c. in Boney and Bradmere, and called to warranty John Smith. This Richard Parkyns, Esq. an apprentice of the law, of the Inner Temple, and a reverend man in his time for his learning and judgment, purchased * the entire manor of Boney, and with his posterity it still continues. This Richard lies buried in Bunny church †. 2, Sir George Parkyns, Knt. eldest son and heir, died 1626, leaving issue by Mary, daughter and heiress of Edward Isham, of Walmer-Castle, in Kent, Esq. seven children .. Isham Parkyns, his eldest son and heir, married Catharine, daughter of Henry Cave, of Barrow, in Leicestershire, Esq. and died in 1671, leaving two sons; Theophilus, who married Jane, daughter and coheiress of George Cotton, of Sussex, Esq. but died without issue; and, I. Sir THOMAS, who was advanced to the dignity of a Baronet, 32 Car. II. for his father, Colonel Isham Parkyns's, faithful services in the Civil Wars, who, being governor of the garrison called The Place, in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, held it out to the last for the King against Oliver Cromwell, and spent a good estate in his service. He married Anne, daughter and heiress of Thomas Cressey, of Berkyn, in Yorkshire, Esq. whose ancestors came in with William the Conqueror, (and Elizabeth, his wife, sole daughter of Sir Henry Glemham, of Glemham-hall, in Suffolk, by whom he had five children; 1, Cressey, who died without issue; 2, Sir Thomas, his successor; 3, Beaumont, who left eight children, all dead without issue; 4, Catharine; and 5, Anne, who died unmarried, and left land, to the value of two hundred pounds, for put * Thoroton's Nott, p. 46. † Where, on a handsome monument in the chancel north wall, is this inscription (a) : Here lieth Richard Parkins, Esq. justice of the Peace Sir George Parkyns, Knt. married, about the latter end of Eliz. to Mary, daughter and heiress of Edward Isham, of Walmer, in Kent, Esq. and had a daughter Mary, married to Sir Richard Minshull, of Cheshire, created Baron of Minshull 1642, descended from that eminent soldier, Michael de Minshull, who for his glorious services performed in the quarrel of Richrrd I. at the siege of Acon, had the assignment for ever of the crescent and star, for the coat-armour of this family.-Philpot's Kent, p. 351. Ex inf. Dom. Tho. Parkyns, Bar. 1741. (a) Thoroton's Nott. p. 47, 48. ting forth apprentices out of the towns of Bunny, Bradmore, and Cortlingstock. Sir Thomas died July 15, 1684, and his lady Jan. 1725-6, aged 96, and was succeeded by his son, II. Sir THOMAS PARKYNS, Bart. who married Elizabeth*, granddaughter and heiress of John Sampson, of Hewby, in Yorkshire, Esq. alderman of London, and daughter and heiress of Jolin Sampson, of Breason, in Derbyshire, Esq. Sir Thomas was educated at Westminster School, under Dr. Busby and Dr. Knypes t, was two years and a half of Trinity College, Cambridge, and afterwards of the inns of court, and constantly performed his mootings, as a student, for eight years. He had the perpetual advowsons of the rectories of Cortlingstock and Keyworth, and the vicarage of Bunny, he being impropriator of the latter. The first thing he did after his father's death (being then come of age), willing to begin with God's house ‡, he new roofed the chancel at Bunny, which is a very large one, being fifty-eight feet in length, and twenty-four feet within the walls. He built the free-school and four alns-houses, which cost four hundred pounds, and which his mother endowed with sixteen pounds per annum, he also built the vicarage-house §, and gave the two treble bells to the church, with this motto on them, Cantate domino novum canticum, which make the peal six; and, jointly with his mother, advanced two hundred pounds, to obtain as much more of the late Queen's bounty for augmenting the vicarage of Bunny, as is recorded on monuments erected by himself, to the memories of himself and mother in the said chancel, at the east end of which he hath built a large vault for himself and family. He also gave five pounds four shillings per annum to the poor widows, and widowers of Bunny, and Bradmore, to be distributed in bread, every Sunday, in Bunny church, to such only that constantly frequent the same, as long as able. He also erected the manor-houses, in Bunny, and East Leak; and a very large house, called, Ilighfield-Grange, in the parish of Cortlingstock. He built a park-wall of brick, three miles in compass, in three years, in the liberty of Bunny **, all on arches, being the first that was built in England, after that method; and since followed by most eminent builders of houses, and park-walls; but especially gardiners, for the advantage of trees, shooting, and spreading their roots under the said arches, and yielding the bigger head for the benefit of the fruit ; for it is observable the head is bigger, proportionable to the root. He built all the farm houses, &c. in Bunny and Bradmore. He was the first that brought that noble science of Wrestling into a method ††, as appears by a book he wrote on that subject. He also compiled a concise grammar, for the use of his two sons by his second lady. Likewise, for the good and benefit of his country, he wrote his queries and reasons, why the county hall, for the county of Nottingham, should be built on the county ground, which he purchased of Julius Hutchinson, Esq. for that purpose fi, and not in the market place in the town, and county of the town of Nottingham, and out of the county at large, and thereby prevented their spoiling the fine prospect of that large and spacious market place. He studied physic for the good and benefit of his neighbours; and had, not only a competent, but a perfect and complete knowledge of all parts of the mathematics, of which he was a great lover, especially of architecture and hydraulics, contriving and drawing all his plans without an architect. He acted as justice of the peace in King Charles II.'s reign, and ever since, till his death, for the counties of Nottingham and Leicester, being never out of commission, but one month in King James II.'s reign. He had issue by his first lady, Elizabeth, two sons, Sampson and Thomas †; Sampson married Alice, daughter and heiress of Middlemore, of Lusby, in Lincolnshire, Esq. by whom he had four children, 1, Thomas, who died an infant; 2, Thomas, who died June 1, 1735, aged twenty-five years: he left one daughter Jane, the first wife of the present Sir Thomas Parkyns, Bart.; Anne, dead; and Harriot, the wife of Richard, the eldest son of the most judicious Dr. Farrer, of Market-Harborough, in the county of Leicester; Sampson died in his father's life-time, and was buried April 1713, aged twenty-seven years; Thomas, his youngest son, died a bachelor, and was buried Sept. 21, 1706, aged nineteen years. Sir Thomas married, secondly, 1727 §, Jane, daughter of George Barnat, alderman and citizen of York, by whom he had two sons, Sir Thomas, his successor, and George, an officer in Gen. Elliot's light horse, and one daughter, Anne, wife of Colonel Miles. Lady Parkyns died August 1740; and Sir Thomas, in March 1740-1, and was buried under a handsome monument in Bunny church, which he had erected many years ago, whereon is his own statue, in a wrestling posture, with Time ||. He was succeeded in title and estate by his eldest son, † Ibid. Ibid. * Ex inf. Dom Tho. Parkyns, Bar. 1741. Ibid. Sir Thomas, some years before his death, sent some English verses to Dr. Friend, master of Westminster School, from which model the doctor wrote the epigram hereafter mentioned. On the top of the monument, between two flaming urns, are his arms, and those of Cressy, his mother, quartered, with the crest of a pineapple, and motto, Honeste audax. The monument is divided into two compartments: in the first of which stands Sir Thomas, in a wresting posture, in his waistcoat and cap, and this motto at the top of it, round his head, Artificis status ipse fuit; n the second compartment, at the bottom of it, is represented Time, with his scythe, wings, &c. and at his eet Sir Thomas, stretched along, in the same habit, in the posture of a man thrown on his back, and on the upper part of it these Latin lines: Quem modo stravisti longo in certamine tempus, Jam primum stratus, præter te vicerat omnes; Thus translated: Per R. Friend, pr. ludimagist. schol. Westmonast. Here, thrown by Time, Old Parkyn's laid, Nor Time, without the aid of Death, All else he threw, and will those twain, His Faith. Και ξὸς ὁ Πανδαμαλως. Tempus edax rerum. III. Sir THOMAS PARKYNS, Bart. born Dec. 8, 1728, he married April 7, 1747, Jane, daughter and heiress of Thomas Parkyns, son of Sampson, and grandson of Sir Thomas, the second Baronet of this family, by whom he had one son and two daughters, 1, Thomas-Boothby, born Jan. 24, 1755, created Lord Rancliffe, in Ireland, in 1795, F. R. S. and Vice-president of the Society for encouraging arts and manufactures, representative, in the two last parliaments for the borough of Leicester. He married, Dec. 16, 1788, ElizabethAnne, daughter and heiress of Sir William James, of Park-Farm-place, in Eltham, Kent, Bart. so created July 25, 1778, by his third lady, Miss Goddard, cousin to the late General Goddard. She died Jan. 18, 1797, leaving one son George, and five daughters, 1, Eliza; 2, Salina; 3, Harriott; 4, Anne; 5, Maria. Jane, the eldest daughter of Sir Thomas, born Nov. 11, 1752, was wife of Clement Winstanley, Esq. of Branston House, Leicestershire, by whom she has four sons, 1, Clement; 2, James; 3, Thomas; 4, George; and two daughters, Anne and Mary. Elizabeth, the second daughter, born Jan. 3, 1757, wife of Charlesworth, Esq. of Thringston, in Leicestershire. Sir Thomas' first lady dying in Dec. 1760, he married secondly, Sarah, daughter of Daniel Smith, of Bunny, Esq. born July 3, 1746, by whom he has had four sons and six daughters, 1, Frederick-Cressey, born Aug. 26, 1767; 2, Sampson, born Dec. 25, 1769. He was rector of Costock and Keyworth, in Nottinghamshire, and LL.B. and died at Burlington-Quay, Yorkshire, aged 32, Sept. 5, 1801; 3, Richard, born June 24, 1771; 4, Anne, born May 9, 1774, died young; 5, Charlotte, born Oct. 6, 1775; 6, Sarah, born Dec. 18, 1776; 7, Francis, born Feb. 20, 1779, died 1787; 8, Penelope, born Oct. 5, 1780; 9, Catharine, born Nov. 26, 1781; 10, Sophia, born Aug. 3, 1783, died April 7, 1791. Lady Sarah died Mar. 22, 1796, aged 50. Sir Thomas mai ried, thirdly, daughter of Boultbie, by whom he has -, a daughter, born 1799. ARMS-Argent, an eagle displayed, sable, on a canton, or, a fess, dancette, sable, between seven billets, ermines*. CREST-In a ducal coronet, or, a pine, proper, leaved vert. MOTTO-Honestè audax. SEATS--Bunny, East-Leake, and Highfield-Grange, Nottinghamshire. At the bottom of the monument, on a broad square, is this inscription: Here lies the Body of Sir Thomas Parkyns, of Bunny, Baronet, one of He bears quarterly, first, as above; second, argent, a bear sejant, sable, chained, or; third, argent, a lion rampant, double queed; fourth, gules, three piles, issuing from a fess-way, argent. SUPPORTERS.-Two pegasus's, argent, and winged, argent, spotted with billets ermines, the same as in the coat of arms, each gorged with a ducal coronet, or, fastened each with a chain to the coronet, or, cross the body and loins. THE family of Bunbury, originally called St. Pierre, a Norman commander came over at the time of the conquest, and shared the fortune of Hugh Lupus, first Norman Earl of Chester, and was by him rewarded, for his merit and valour, with divers goodly lands and possessions, and amongst them the manor or lordship of Bonebury (a contraction of Boniface Bury, to which saint the church of * Ex inf. Dom. Hen. Bunbury, Bar. 1727. |