that place was dedicated), and from thence this family have since taken their denomation. The first of which was *,

1, Henry de Bonebury, temp. K. Stephen, whose signature was a fleur de lis; he had a brother, called David, and was succeeded by his son,

2, William de Bonebury, who was succeeded by,

3, Humphrey de Bonebury, who having no male issue, left his inheritance to his two daughters, Ameria, and Joan, who during their minority, were in the custody of Robert Patrick, (probably their uncle) of whom this place was held, by knight's service; but when they came to age, they divided this manor and patronage between them. Ameria's moiety descended to the Patricks; the part of Joan, came to Alexander de Bonebury, her kinsman, by whom the family was continued, as son and heir to Patrick, and great grandson to David de Bonebury, or Bunbury, whose signature was, on an escutcheon, a lion passant.

4, Alexander de Bunbury, lord of Bunbury, and son of Patrick aforesaid, lived 15, K. Hen. III. and had four sons, 1, William; 2, Joseph, who married Margery, sole daughter and heiress of William de Beeston, who took that name, and by her had a son called Joseph, aged three years, temp. Ed. I.; 3, Henry ; 4, Robert de Bunbury, 27 Ed. I.

5, William de Bunbury, lord of Bunbury, son of Alexander, aforesaid, married Matilda, or Maud, by whom he had two sons, 1, Hugh; 2, Henry, called de-Beeston, ancestor to the Beestons, of Beeston, which must be inherited from his kinsman Joseph, or his father Joseph, and had a son of the same name. William, their father, died 16 Edw. I. Henry de Beeston bore for his signature, on an escutcheon, a lion rampant.

6, Hugh, Lord of Bunbury, son of William, temp. Edw. I. married Dame Christiana, daughter of David, Baron of Malpas, (by Margaret, his wife, daughter and heiress of Ralph ap Eynion, son of Griffith, Baron of Malpas, Lord of Bromfield and Malor, in Denbighshire and Flint, in right of Beatrix, his wife, legitimate daughter of Randle, third Earl of Chester.) This David de Malpas, commonly called Dan David, was secretary to the then Earl of Chester, and in right of his wife, had a moiety of the barony of Malpas. Hugh had issue, by Dame Christiana, 1, Richard; 2, Adam de Bunbury, clerk, chaplain to Rood-chapple, in Tarpoley, temp. 29 Edw. I; 3, David; 4, Mabell; 5, Robert.

7, Richard de Bunbury, Lord of Bunbury, temp. Edw. II. had two sons, David and Richard, and one daughter, Matilda.

8, David de Bunbury, Lord of Bunbury and Stannich, in right of his wife, the sole daughter and heiress of David de Stannich, or Stanny, (which fair lordship, near the city of Chester, is now in the possession of the family), by whom he had William, and David, prior of Bunbury, 4 Edw. II. as was afterwärds this David's son, David.

9, William de Bunbury, of Stanny, in Wirral, had two sons, Roger and Henry. 10, Roger de Bunbury, of Stanny, living 36 Edw. III. was the first, who, for his signature, gave the present coat of arms of his family, given him (as by tra

*Ex inf. Dom. Hen. Bunbury, Bar. 1727.

dition) for his great skill in martialing the troops of that warlike and victorious prinae, Edw. III. He died without issue, and was succeeded by his brother, Henry de Bunbury, of Stanny, who had one son,

11, Richard de Bunbury, Lord of Bunbury and Stanny, 6 Hen. V.__He married Alice †, daughter of Edward Dutton, by whom he had one son (1 Edw. IV.) John, and died 37 Hen. VI.

12, John Bunbury, of Stanny, Lord of Bunbury, living 24 Hen. VI. He married Catharine †, daughter of John Hooks, of Flint, (the Welch call her daughter of Jenkin Hollis ap Flint), by whom he had one son, John, his successor. He died 9 Edw. IV.

13, John Bunbury, of Stanny, Esq. his son and heir, lived 17 Hen. VII. He married (5 Edw. IV.) Agnes, daughter of William Norris, of Speake, Esq. and settled the manor of Bunbury for her jointure; he died 21 Hen. VII. and was succeeded by his son,

14, Richard Bunbury, of Stanny, Esq. living 12 Hen. VII. who married Blanch, daughter of Sir Thomas Poole, of Poole, in Cheshire, Knt. and sister of William Poole, Esq.; he died 32 Hen. VIII. and left one son,

15, Henry Bunbury, of Stanny, Esq. Lord of Bunbury, who married Margaret, daughter and heiress of Hugh Aldersey, of Chester, merchant, thrice mayor of the said city, 1528, 1541, 1516, (younger son of Henry Aldersey, of Aldersey and Spurstoe), by whom he had two sons and one daughter, Thomas, Edmund, and Elizabeth, wife of Henry Birkenhead, of Huxly, Esq.; he died 38 Hen. VIII. aged 31.

16, Thomas, the eldest, married Bridget ||, daughter of John Aston, of Aston, in Cheshire, Esq.; he died May 5, 1601, and left issue his only son,

17, Sir Henry Bunbury, of Stanny, knighted by Queen Elizabeth. He married, first, Anne, daughter of Jeffery Shackerley, of Shackerley, in Lancashire, and Holme, in Cheshire, Esq. by whom he had a son Henry. His second wife was Martha, daughter of Sir William Norris, of Speake, Knt. by whom he had a son Thomas, who married Elianor, daughter of Henry Birkenhead, of Backford, Esq. in Cheshire, by whom he had Diana, Dulcibella, Benjamin, and Joseph, who all

settled in Ireland.

18, Henry Bunbury, of Stanny, Esq. son and heir of Sir Henry aforesaid, married Ursula §, daughter of John Bayley, of Hoddesdon, in Hertfordshire, Esq. by whom he had six sons and three daughters, 1, Sir Thomas, of whom hereafter; 2, John, who died unmarried; 3, Henry; 4, William; 5, Joseph; and 6, Richard, for whom he made a handsome provision, notwithstanding the many hardships put upon him for his unshaken loyalty to King Charles I. and all the royal family.

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Henry, the third son, married Elianor Birch, relict of Holcroft, in Lancashire, Esq. but left no issue; William, the fourth, married Mary, daughter to Sir Richard Skevington, of Fisherwick, in Staffordshire,: Esq. (whose heir is now Lord Viscount Mazarine, in Ireland), by whom he † Ibid. § Ibid.

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had Charles, who died unmarried; and William, late fellow of BrazennoseCollege, Oxford, and rector of Great Catworth, in Huntingdonshire, who married Anne, daughter of Sir Villiers Chernock, of Hulcot, in Bedfordshire, Bart. (and by whom he had three sons and three daughters). Joseph, the fifth son, married Letitia, daughter of Sir William Neal, of Ireland, Bart. (by his wife, sister to major-general Randolph Egerton, of Betley, in Staffordshire), and by her had issue one son, Joseph, and two daughters, Helena, and Anne; Richard, the youngest, it is supposed, died unmarried. The three daughters of Henry were, Susan, wife, first, of William Davys, of Ashton, and secondly, of William Cowley, of Dodleston, in Cheshire; Elizabeth, and Ursula.

I. Sir THOMAS BUNBURY, son and heir of Henry, was created Baronet 33 Car. II. 1681, and Lord of Stanny and Bunbury: he married Sarah*, daughter of John Chetwood, of Oakley, in Staffordshire, Esq. by whom he had several children, of which only Sir Henry survived, and Ursula, the wife of Edward Green, of Pulton cum Spittle, in Cheshire, Esq. Sir Thomas married secondly †, Mary, daughter of Humphrey Kelsall, of Bradshaw, Esq. by whom he had two daughters, Priscilla and Lucy.

II. Sir HENRY BUNBURY, of Stanny, Bart. his successor, married Mary+, daughter of Sir Kendrick Eyton, or Eyton, Knt. in Denbighshire, and judge of North Wales: he died Dec. 20, 1687, and had seven sons, and one daughter, of whom only Sir Henry, his successor, and William, survived.

William Bunbury, Esq. was his late Majesty's attorney-general for the county palatine of Chester, and married Sarah, daughter of Sir James Eyton, by whom he had six daughters, three of which, Mary, Isabella, and Susanna, died young and unmarried; Sarah, the eldest, was wife of Edward Mainwaring, of Whitmore, in Staffordshire, Esq.; Elizabeth was wife of Edward Fleming, of the Inner Temple, Esq. barrister at law: she died in childbed, Nov. 12, 1735, aged twenty-five, and was buried at Mortlake, in Surry); and Eleanor, the youngest of George Wilson, of the Inner-Temple, Gent.

III. Sir HENRY BUNBURY, Bart. son and heir to Sir Henry, was Lord of Stanny and Bunbury, and married Susanna §, the only surviving daughter of William Hanmer, Esq, and sister to Sir Thomas Hanmer, of Hanmer and Bettisfield, in Flintshire, and Milden-hall, in Suffolk, Bart. who died Sept. 30, 1744, by whom he had four sons and five daughters; 1, Thomas, who died an infant; 2, Henry, who died in the 19th year of his age, at Catherine-hall, Cambridge, April 29, 1722, and lies buried at Milden-hall, Suffolk; 3, Sir Charles, his successor; and 4, Sir Win. Sir Henry's daughters were, 1, Susanna, wife of Colonel William Handasyd, third son of General Handasyd, of Gaines, in Huntingdonshire; 2, Isabella, of Col. John Lee, of Darnell, in Cheshire; 3, Mary; 4, Frances; and 5, Elizabeth. Sir Henry was chosen one of the representatives in parliament for the city of Chester in Jin. 1700, and continued to represent the said city in parliament till his death; and in the year 1711, was, by her late Majesty Queen

Anne, appointed one of the commissioners of the revenue in the kingdom of Ireland he died Feb. 12, 1732-3, and was succeeded in title and estate, and his seat in parliament, by his eldest surviving son,

IV. Sir CHARLES BUNBURY, Bart. who also represented the city of Chester in parliament, and died unmarried, after a long illness, April 10, 1742, and was succeeded by his brother,

,

V. Rev. Sir WILLIAM BUNBURY, Bart. vicar of Milden-hall, in Suffolk, who married Eleanor, daughter of Thomas Graham, of Howbrook-hall, in Suffolk, Esq. by his wife daughter and coheiress of Samuel Warner, of Howbrookhall, Esq. by whom he had, 1, Susanna, born 1737, wife of the Rev. Henry Soame, by whom he had one son Henry; 2, Sir Thomas-Charles, the present Baronet; 3, Anabella, born Feb. 1745, wife of Sir Patrick Blake, Bart. by whom he had Sir Patrick Blake, Bart.; 4, Henry-William, born July 1750, married Catharine,, daughter of Horneck, by whom he had two sons, Charles and Henry. Sir William died June 11, 1764, and was succeeded in title and estate by his eldest son,

VI. Sir THOMAS-CHARLES BUNBURY, Bart. born May, 1740, who is member of parliament for the county of Suffolk: he married, June 2, 1762, Sarah, daughter of Charles, Duke of Richmond, from whom he was divorced May 14, 1776.

ARMS-Argent, on a bend, sable, three chess rooks of the field.

CREST-On a wreath, two swords, saltirewise, through the mouth of a leopard's face, or, the blades, proper, hilted and pomiled, as the head. MOTTO-Firmum in vitâ nihil. SEAT-Barton, Suffolk.

203. PARKER, of LONDON.

Created Baronet, July 1, 1681.

THIS ancient family appears to have settled at Hoberton, in Devonshire, early in the fifteenth century; one branch of it removed from thence, about the year 1600, to Borrindon and Saltram, in the same county, the heir of which branch, was, in May 1784, created a peer of Great Britain, under the title of Baron Boringdon, in the county of Devon.

1, Thomas Parker, of Hoberton, Esq. left several sons, William, his second son, was of Hoberton, in Devonshire, and of Shoreditch, in Somersetshire. He married to his second wife, Dorothy, daughter of Muttlebury, of Jordain, in Somersetshire, by whom he had a numerous issue. Hugh Parker, of Shoreditch, his sixth son, living 1623, married Mary, only daughter of Thomas Hut