in the 39th and 47th of EDWARD III. His son and heir,

WILLIAM COLEPEPER, of Preston Hall, in Aylesford, was father of

SIR JOHN COLEPEPER, knt. of Oxenheath, in Kent, one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas, in the reign of HENRY IV. By Katherine, his wife, he left a son,

SIR WILLIAM COLEPEPER, knt. of Oxenheath, who was sheriff of Kent 5th HENRY VI, and dying the following year, was interred in West Peckham Church, as was his wife Elizabeth, who died in 1460. His son and successor,

SIR JOHN COLEPEPER, knt. of Oxenheath, living temp. HENRY V. and HENRY VI. was father of

SIR WILLIAM COLEPEPER, knt. of Preston Hall, in Aylesford, who m. a daughter of Ferrers, of Groby, and had three sons,

1. RICHARD (Sir), knt. of Oxenheath, who m. Isabella, daughter and co-heir of Otwell Worceley, of Stamworth, and left three daughters, his co-heirs, viz.

MARGARET, M. to William Cotton, third son of Sir Thomas Cotton, knt. of Lanwade. JOYCE,m. to Lord Edmund Howard, younger son of Thomas, Duke of Norfolk. ELIZABETH, M. to Henry Barham, of Teston. Sir Richard, who was sheriff of Kent, 11th EDWARD IV. died 2 RICHARD III. leaving his daughters his co-heirs. To the eldest, Margaret, m. to William Cotton, was allotted the manor of Oxenheath, but her son, Sir Thomas Cotton, knt. alienated the estate to John Chowne, of Fairlane, whose great grandson, Sir George Chowne, sold Oxenheath to Nicholas Millar, esq. by whose descendant, Leonard Bartholomew, esq. it was bequeathed to his nephew, Sir WILLIAM GEARY, bart.

II. WILLIAM, of whom presently.

III. Jeffry.

The second son,

WILLIAM COLEPEPER, esq. of Preston Hall, m. Margaret Pedwarden, and was father of

EDWARD COLEPEPER, esq. of Preston Hall, whose son, by Jane, his wife, daughter of Sheldon, of Bedfordshire,

JOHN COLEPEPER, esq. of Preston Hall, living temp. EDWARD VI. who m. Jane Whetenhall, and had, with two daughters, the elder, Anne, m. to John Sedley, esq. of Southfleet, and the younger m. to Charles Blower, esq. of Silham, in the county of Rutland, a

THOMAS, his heir.

Anne, m. to Henry, younger son of Sir Henry
Crispe, knt.

Mary, m. to Henry Crispe, of St. John's, in Thanet. Thomas Colepeper died in 1587, aged seventy, and was s. by his son,

SIR THOMAS COLEPEPER, knt. of Preston Hall, who m. Mary, only daughter of Thomas Pynner, of Mitcham, in Surrey, chief clerk comptroller to Queen ELIZABETH, and dying 12th October, 1604, left, with other issue, a son and successor,

1. SIR WILLIAM COLEPEPER, of Preston Hall, who was created a BARONET 17th May, 1627. He m. the eldest daughter of Sir Richard Spencer, and had an only son and heir,

II. SIR RICHARD COLEPEPER, of Preston Hall, who m. Margaret Reynolds, and had issue,

THOMAS, his heir.

Alicia, m. first, to Robert Stapley, esq. of Sussex; secondly, to Sir Thomas Taylor, bart. of Maidstone; thirdly, to Thomas Culpeper, esq. barrister-at-law; and fourthly, to John Milner, M. D. She died in 1734, s. p.

Sir Richard was s. by his only son,

III. SIR THOMAS COLEPEPER, of Preston Hall, who was sheriff of Kent 2nd Queen ANNE, 1704. He died s. p. 18th May, 1723, (when the BARONETCY EXPIRED,) leaving his sister, ALICIA, then the widow of Thomas Culpeper, esq. his sole heir. That lady marrying in the October following, JOHN MILNER, M.D. of Pudsey, in Yorkshire, settled the manor and estate of Preston Hall on her husband and his heirs. Dr. Milner died in February, 1724, bequeathing his property to his brother, CHARLES MILNER, M. D., who resided at Preston Hall, until his demise in 1771, when he devised all his estates to his nephew, the Rev. JOSEPH BUTLER, who assumed the surname and arms of MILNER. They are now possessed by that gentleman's grand-nephew, CHARLES MILNER, esq. of Preston Hall. Arms-Arg. a bend eng. gu.

CULPEPER, OF WAKEHURST.

CREATED 29th Sept. 1628.-EXTINCT 28th March, 1740

Lineage.

The family of COLEPEPER, or CULPEPER, is of ancient date in the county of Kent; before the time of EDWARD III. it was divided into chief branches;-the Culpepers of Preston Hall, and the Culpepers of Bay Hall; from the latter descended those of Bedgebury, Wakehurst, Wigshill, and the Lords Colepeper of Thoresway, in the county of Lincoln. The elder line has not however been established, each claimed seniority, all bore the same coat armour without difference, and carried it in the field of battle; at Poictiers, one Colepeper is stated to have borne in a silver shield," a bloody bend engrailed."

SIR JOHN COLEPEPER, of Bay Hall, in the parish of Pepenbury, Kent, was father of

SIR THOMAS COLEPEPER, of Bay Hall, who is recorded in the Chronicles as a partisan of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, in 1321, against King EDWARD II., who was executed at Winchelsea. He left a son and heir,

JOHN COLEPEPER, esq. of Bay Hall, who was sheriff of Kent in the 43rd of EDWARD III. He m. Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of Sir John Hardrishall, knt. of Hardrishall, in the county of Warwick, by Maud Mussenden, an heiress, and thereby became possessed of 'divers manors. He was s. by his son,

SIR THOMAS COLEPEPER, knt. high sheriff of Kent in the 18th RICHARD II. who m. Joan, daughter and co-heir of Nicholas Green, esq. of Exton, in the county of Rutland, by Jane, daughter and co-heir of John Bruce, esq. of Exton, and thereby acquired that estate. He had issue,

1. THOMAS (Sir), who inherited Exton, and his daughter and heir,

CATHERINE COLEPEPER, marrying SIR JOHN HARRINGTON, conveyed the estate to that family, and her son and heir,

WALTER COLEPEPER, esq. who was sometime seated at Goudehurst, in Kent, but in his declining years, at Bedgebury, where he was buried in 1462, left issue,

I. JOHN (Sir), who m. Agnes, daughter and heir of
John Bedgebury, esq. of Bedgebury, in Kent,
and thereby acquired that estate, where he was
buried in 1480. He had two sons,

ALEXANDER (Sir), who continued the line of
Bedgebury.

Walter, from whom the Barons Colepeper,
the Colepepers, of Wiggshill and Folking-
ton, in Sussex, the Colepepers, of Holling-
born, &c.

11. Richard, m. the daughter and co-heir of Richard Wakehurst, of Wakehurst, in Sussex, but died without issue, when his property devolved upon his brother.

IN. NICHOLAS.

The third son,

NICHOLAS COLEPEPER, esq. inherited the estate of his brother Richard, without issue. He m. Elizabeth, the sister of Richard's wife, and daughter and co-heir of Richard Wakehurst, of Wakehurst, and had issue, five sons, of whom the eldest,

RICHARD COLEPEPER, esq. m. Joan, daughter of Richard Naylor, of London, and was father of

JOHN COLEPEPER, Lord of Wakehurst, who m. Emma, daughter and co-heir of Sir John Ernle, knt. and had three sons, THOMAS, William, and Edward; the eldest,

THOMAS COLEpeper, m. Phillipa, daughter of John Teacher, of Presthouse, in Suffolk, and was father

Catherine. Mary.

He was s. at his decease by his eldest son,

11. SIR BENJAMIN CULPEPER, of Wakehurst, who was five years of age at the visitation in 1634. He m. Catherine, daughter and co-heir of Goldsmith Hudson, esq. and had an only child, ELIZABETH. Dying without issue male, the baronetcy devolved, at his decease, upon his brother,

III. SIR EDWARD CULPEPER, who had a son,

BENJAMIN, who m. Judith, daughter of Sir William Wilson, bart. of Eastborne, in Sussex, and dying in the lifetime of his father, left

WILLIAM, who s. his grandfather. Sir Edward was s. by his grandson,

IV. SIR WILLIAM CULPEPER, of Wakehurst, who d. 28th March, 1740, when the BARONETCY became EX

This family, descended from a common ancestor with the existing noble house of Scarsdale, was very ancient, and its members were of rank from the Conquest to the time of its extinction.

ROBERT DE CURZON, living in the time of HENRY II. m. Alice, daughter of De Somervile, and left a son, RICHARD DE CURZON, who m. Patronel, daughter and

co-heir of Richard de Camvile, Baron of Creeth, and had a son,

ROBERT DE CURZON, of Croxhall, in the county of Derby, living temp. HENRY III. whose line ter. minated in an heir female,

MARY CURZON, daughter and sole heir of Sir George Curzon, knt. of Croxhall, who m. Edward Sackvile, Earl of Dorset, K. G. This Richard conferred, in the 10th of RICHARD I. the town of Kedleston, in the county of Derby, upon his kinsman,

THOMAS CURZON, who bore for his arms, " Vairy or and gules, on a bend sable, three popinjays, or." From which Thomas we pass to his descendant,

JOHN CURZON, of Kedleston, living in the time of HENRY IV. who m. Margaret, daughter of Sir Nicholas Montgomery, knt. and had three sons, viz.

1. RICHARD, Capt. of Sandgate Castle, 11 HENRY
VI. father of

JOHN, commonly called John with the White
Head, from whom the Lords Scarsdale.

II. WALTER, of whom presently.

III. HENRY, whose line terminated in the time of HENRY VIII.

The second son,

WALTER CURZON, esq. m. Isabell, daughter of Robert Saunders, esq. of Harrington, in the county of Northampton, and had issue,

RICHARD, his heir.

Thomas.

Gregory.

Mary, m. first, to John Power, esq. of Bletchington, in the county of Oxford, and secondly, to William Bowen, of Edgecote, Bucks.

Anne, m. to William Belson, esq. of Brill, in Buckinghamshire.

The eldest son,

RICHARD CURZON, esq. m. Anne, daughter of William Gifford, esq. of Cowley, Bucks, and had issue,

VINCENT, his heir.

Isabel, m. to Edmond Hampden, esq. of Bailes. Dorothy, m. to Ambrose Digby, esq. of Horton, Bucks.

Catherine, m. to Edmund Townley, esq. of Royle, in Lancashire.

He was s. by his son,

VINCENT CURZON, esq. who m. Elizabeth, daughter of Roger Corbet, esq. of Morton Corbet, and was s. by his son,

SIR FRANCIS CURZON, knt. who m. Anne, daughter of Judge Southcote, by whom he had three sons, JOHN, Francis, and Richard, and a daughter Mary, the wife of John Barney, esq. of London. His eldest son,

SIR JOHN CURZON, knt. m. Mary, daughter of Robert, Lord Dormer, and had issue,

Robert, who m. Lady Diana Tufton, daughter of
Nicholas, Earl of Thanet, but d. s. p. in the life
time of his father.
William, d. unmarried.
THOMAS, of whom presently.

Elizabeth, m. to Anthony Belson, esq. of Stoken-
church, Bucks.

Frances.

The only surviving son,

1. THOMAS CURSON, esq. of Water Perry, in the county of Oxford, was created a BARONET by King CHARLES II. 30th April, 1661. He m. Elizabeth, daughter of William Burrow, esq. of Burrow, in Leicestershire, and dying about 1681, (his widow died in 1687,) was s. by his only surviving child,

II. SIR JOHN CURSON, who m. first, Penelope, daugh

Catherine, m. to —

Vaughan, esq. of Courtfield. Mary, m. to John Brinkhurst, esq. of the Moor, in the county of Bucks.

He m. secondly, Anne, daughter of Robert Dormer, esq., sister of the fourth Lord Dormer, and widow of Edmund Powell, esq. of Sandford, in Oxfordshire, but by that lady had no issue. Sir John d. in December, 1727, and was s. by his eldest son,

III. SIR FRANCIS CURSON, who m. first, Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Knollys, esq. of Winchingdon, in Bucks, by whom he had one son, who died at the age of fourteen. He wedded, secondly, the daughter of Edmund Powell, esq. of Sandford, but dying s. p. 28th May, 1750, the title became EXTINCT. The estate of Water Perry devolved, eventually, on Francis, present Lord Teynham, who assumed, in consequence,

the surname of Curzon.

Unerigg Hall, and was mother of the pre

sent,

HENRY CURWEN, esq. of Workington, in Cumberland.

Arms-Arg. fretty gu. a chief az.

CUTLER, OF LONDON.

CREATED 9th Nov. 1660.-EXTINCT 15th April, 1693.

Lineage.

1. SIR JOHN CUTLER, of London, who was created a BARONET in 1660, m. first, Elisha, daughter of Sir Thomas Tipping, knt. of Wheatfield, in Oxfordshire; by whom he had a daughter,

ELIZABETH, m. to Charles Bodville Robartes, Earl of Radnor.

He m. secondly, Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of Sir Thomas Foot, bart. of London, by whom he had another daughter, m. to Sir William Portman, bart. of Orchard Portman. Sir John died without male issue in 1693, aged eighty-five, when the title EXPIRED.

CUTTS, OF CHILDERLEY.

CREATED 21st June, 1660.-EXTINCT in 1670.

Lineage.

SIR JOHN CUTTS, knt. of Thaxted, in Essex, living temp. HENRY VIII. settled at Childerley, in the county of Cambridge, before the year 1516, and served the office of sheriff of that county. He m. a daughter of Sir John Hinde, and was grandfather of

SIR JOHN CUTTS, knt. of Childerley, whose short name is said to have disgusted the Spanish Ambassador, whom Queen ELIZABETH had consigned to his care: his excellency found, however, as we are told, that what his host "lacked in length of name, he made up in the largeness of his entertainment." Sir John maintained a style of living more magnificent than prudent, and was obliged, in 1599, to alienate the manor of Thaxted to Thomas Kemp, esq. His son and suc

Richard, died unm.

JOHN, of Childerley, in Cambridgeshire, a gallant military officer under the Duke of Marlborough, created in 1690, BARON CUTTS, of Gowran. He married first, the sister of Sir George Treby; and secondly, a daughter of Sir Henry Pickering, of Whaddon, but died without issue in 1706-7, in Ireland, whither he had gone as one of the lords justices. The estate of Childerley was sold by his lordship in 1686 to FELIX CALVERT, esq. Anne, m. to John Withers, esq. of the Middle Temple.

m. to John Acton, esq. of Basingstoke, Joanna, died uum.

This family was originally of AETH, in Flanders, whence the surname, but was remotely settled at Charles Place, in Dartford.

WILLIAM DEATH or D'AETH, gent. of Dartford, married, in the time of EDWARD VI. Anne, daughter and heir of Vaughan of Erith, and had several children, of whom the third, but eldest surviving son,

THOMAS D'AETH, became his heir, and was living in 1615. This gentleman m. Joan, daughter of William Head, and was s. by his eldest son,

THOMAS D'AETH, who m. Mary, daughter of Mr. Serjeant Barton, and had three sons, Adrian, Abell, and THOMAS, of whom the first and second died without issue; the third,

THOMAS D'AETH, settled in the city of London, and was an eminent merchant there. He m. Elhanna, daughter of Sir John Rolt, knt. of Milton Earnest, in the county of Bedford, and was s. by his only surviving son,

1. THOMAS D'Aтн, esq. of Knowlton, in the county of Kent, who was created a BARONET on the 16th July, 1716. He m. first, Elizabeth, daughter of Admiral Sir John Narborough, knt. and sole heiress of her brother, Sir John Narborough, bart. of Knowlton. By this lady (who d. 24th June, 1721, in the thirtyninth year of her age,) he had issue,

1. NARBOROUGH, his successor.
11. Thomas.

1. Elizabeth, m. in 1740, to the Hon. and Rev.
Godfrey Dawney, one of the prebendaries of
Canterbury, son of Henry, second Viscount
Dawney, and d. s. p.

и. Elhanna, m. to Capt. Fitzgerald, of the French
service, and d. s. p.

III. Sophia, m. in 1749, to William Champneys, esq.
of Vintners, in Kent, and d. s. p. in 1772.

IV. Bethia, m. first, to Herbert Palmer, esq. of
Wingham, in Kent; and secondly, to John
Cosnan, esq. but d. s. p.

v. Harriet, a minor in 1735, m. Josiah Hardy, esq.
consul at Cadiz, and had five daughters, viz.
1. Harriet Hardy, m. to William Hughes,
esq. of Betshanger, in Kent (his second
wife), and by him, who d. in April, 1786,
had issue,

GEORGE-WILLIAM HUGHES, of whom
hereafter as inheritor of the D'AETH
estates.

Harriet Hughes, m. to George Leonard
Austen, esq. of Sevenoaks, in Kent.
Louisa Hughes.

Charlotte Hughes, d. unm.

2. Elizabeth-Sophia Hardy, m. to Edward Markland, esq. of Leeds.

3. Priscella Hardy, m. to John Godby, esq. of Greenwich.

4. Louisa Hardy, m. to John Cooke, esq. captain of the Bellerophon, killed at Trafalgar.

5. Charlotte Hardy, m. to Lieut.-Colonel George-John Hamilton, R.A.

Sir Thomas m. secondly, Jane, daughter of Walter Williams, esq. of Dingeston, in Monmouthshire, and by that lady had another son, Francis, in holy orders, rector of Knowlton, d. unmarried in 1784. The baronet, who represented Canterbury in parliament in 1708 and Sandwich in 1714, d. 4th January, 1745, and was s. by his eldest son,

II. SIR NARBOROUGH D'AETH, of Knowlton, in the county of Kent, who m. Anne, daughter and heir of John Clarke, esq. of Blake Hall, in Essex, and dying 8th October, 1773 (his will, dated 15th February, 1771, was proved 24th January, 1774), was s. by his only

The family of Dallison or Dalyson was one of considerable importance, and is stated to have derived from William D'Alanzon, one of the companions in arms of the CONQUEROR. The representative of the family in the sixteenth century,

WILLIAM DALYSON, esq. of Laughton, in the county of Lincoln, son of William Dallison and grandson of William Dalyson by a daughter of John Vavasour, of Spaldington, was sheriff and escheator of that county. He died 18th December, 1546, leaving by his wife, a daughter of George Wastneys, esq. of Haddon, in Notts, two sons and three daughters, viz.

1. GEORGE, his heir.

II. William, who represented the county of Lincoln in parliament in 1554, and became subsequently one of the judges of the Court of King's Bench. He m. Elizabeth, only daughter of Robert Dighton, esq. of Sturton Parva, in Lincolnshire, and by her, who wedded, secondly, Sir Francis Ascough, knt. left at his decease, 8th January, 1558, four sons and five daughters. Of the former, the eldest,

WILLIAM DALISON, esq. wedded, in 1574, Silvester, daughter of Robert Dean, of Halling, in Kent, and by her, who m. secondly, William Lambard, esq. left at his decease, 9th November, 1585, a son and successor,

WER MAXIMILIAN DALISON, knt. of Halling,

who m. first, Paulina, daughter of Sir Michael Sonds, knt. of Throwley, by whom he had no issue; and secondly, Mary, daughter of Sir William Spencer, knt. of Oxfordshire, by whom he was father of WILLIAM DALISON, esq. of Halling, who m. Elizabeth, daughter of Sir James Oxenden, knt. of Dean, and was s. at his decease in May, 1642, by his son, MAXIMILIAN DALISON, esq. of Halling, who m. Frances, only daughter and heir of Thomas Stanley, esq. of Hamptons, in Kent, and had issue,

liam Hammond, esq. of St. Albans Court, Kent, and their younger son,

MAXIMILIAN-DUDLEY-DIGGE HAMMOND, assumed the surname and arms of DALISON only in 1819. He m. in that year, AnnaMaria, daughter of Sir John Shaw, bart. and has issue.

Thomas Dalison d. 1st July, 1736, and was s. by his son,

THOMAS DALISON, esq. of Manton, in Lin. colnshire, and of Hamptons, in Kent, b. 5th October, 1684, who m. first, Jane, only daughter of Richard Etherington, of Essex, by whom he had two daughters, Jane, m. to Sir Jeffery Amherst, K.B. and d. s. p.; and Mary, who died unmarried. He m. secondly, in 1729, Isabella, daughter of Peter Burrell, esq. of Beckenham, and had