Mr. Drake d. 17th March, 1633, and was s. by his eldest son,

1. WILLIAM DRAKE, esq. of Shardeloes, in the county of Buckingham, b. in 1606. This gentleman, who was chirographer to the Court of Common Pleas, was created a BARONET 17th July, 1641. He d. unm. in 1669, when the BARONETCY became EXTINCT, and the estates devolved upon his nephew, SIR WILLIAM DRAKE, knt. ancestor of the present THOMAS TYRWHITT DRAKE, esq. of Shardeloes. (Refer to BURKE'S Commoners, vol. i. p. 580.)

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DRAKE, OF PROSPECT.

This was a branch of the family founded by the celebrated circumnavigator Admiral SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, so renowned in the time of ELIZABETH.

SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, bart. of Buckland, in the county of Devon, nephew and godson of the immortal seaman, married for his second wife, Joan, daughter of Sir William Strode, knt. and was s. by his elder son,

SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, bart, who dying s. p. was s. by his nephew,

SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, bart. M.P. for Tavistock, temp. CHARLES II. who was s. by his only son (by his third wife, a daughter of lord chief justice, Sir Henry Pollexfen),

SIR FRANCIS HENRY DRAKE, bart. M. P. for Tavistock, who m. Anne, daughter of Samuel Heathcote, esq. of Hurseley, and had three sons and a daughter,* of whom, the youngest son,

I. FRANCIS SAMUEL DRAKE, esq. a distinguished seaman, was created a BARONET 12th April, 1782, for the gallant services he had rendered as rear-admiral, in the glorious victory achieved by admiral Rodney, in the West Indies. Sir Francis married first, Miss Elizabeth Hayman, of Kent, and secondly, Miss Onslow, daughter of George Onslow, esq. M. P. but died s. p. 19th November, 1789, when the BARONETCY became EXTINCT.

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ANNE-POLLEXFEN DRAKE, whom. the celebrated defender of Gibraltar, GENERAL ELLIOT, created in 1787, BARON HEATHFIELD, now represented by SIR THOMASTRAYTON FULLER-ELLIOT-DRAKE, baronet. (Refer to BURKE'S Peerage and Baronetage.)

Lineage.

SIR ROBERT DRURY, of Egerley, Bucks, younger son of Sir Robert Drury, knt. of Hawsted, in Suffolk, died about 1575, leaving by Elizabeth, his wife, only daughter and heir of Edmund Brudenell, esq. four sons and four daughters, viz.

I. ROBERT, of Egerly, who m. Anne Bourman, and
had a son, Sir Henry Drury, knt. of Egerly,
and three daughters, of whom the eldest, Eli-
zabeth, married John Banks, of Lower Shel-
ford, Cambridgeshire.

II. WILLIAM (Sir), lord justice and governor of
Ireland, m. Margaret, daughter of Thomas,
Lord Wentworth, and widow of John, Lord
Williams, of Thame, and dying in Dublin in
1579, left two daughters,

Jane, m. to Richard Chetwood, esq. of Ox-
fordshire.

Anne, m. to Robert Hartwell, esq. of Northamptonshire.

III. DRUE (Sir), of whom presently.

IV. Edmund, m. and had issue.

1. Anne, m. to Robert Woodlese, of Peterley, Bucks. 11. Margaret, m. to Henry Trenchard, esq. III. Lucy, m. to Robert Tesh, gent.

IV. Elizabeth, m. to Rowland Hinde, of Hedsworth, Bucks.

The third son,

SIR DRUE DRURY, of Lyndsted, gentleman usher of the privy chamber to Queen ELIZABETH, and one of the keepers of Queen Mary, of Scotland; married first, Elizabeth,+ daughter of Sir Philip Calthorpe, by Amata Boleyn, his wife, aunt to Queen Anne Boleyn, and secondly, Catherine, only daughter and heir of William Finch, esq. of Lynsted, in Kent; by the latter, he had issue,

+ She had been married twice previously, first to Sir Henry Parker, K. B. eldest son of Henry, Lord Morley, and secondly, to Sir William Woodhouse.

1. DRUE, his heir.

1. Elizabeth,m. to Sir Thomas Wingfield, of Letheringham.

11. Frances, m. to Sir Robert Botiler, of Wotton,

Herts.

III. Anne, m. to Sir John Deane, of Maplested, Essex. Sir Drue Drury, died in 1617, aged ninety-nine, and was s. by his son,

1. DRUE DRURY, esq. of Riddlesworth, in Norfolk, b. in 1588, who was created a BARONET in 1627. He m. Anne, daughter of Edward Wallgrave, esq. of Canfield, in Essex, and dying in 1632, was s. by his son,

11. SIR DRUE DRURY, who m. Susan, daughter of Isaac Jones, esq. of London, and had issue,

ROBERT, his heir.

Drue, died s. p.

DIANA, m. to Sir William Wake, bart. and from this marriage descends the present

SIR WILLIAM WAKE, bart. who inherits Riddlesworth Hall from the DRURYS.

The elder son,

III. SIR ROBERT DRURY, of Riddlesworth, married first, Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Edward Dunstan, of Waldingfield, Suffolk; secondly, Eleanor, daughter of Samuel Harsnet, esq. of Great Fransham, relict of William Marsham, esq. of Stratton, in Norfolk; and thirdly, Diana, daughter of George Vilet, of Pinkney Hall, but died s. p. 27th April, 1712, aged seventy-eight, when the BARONETCY became EXTINCT.

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* The family of DRURY came into England at the Conquest, and at an early period separated into three distinct branches; the first seated at Rougham; the second at Welberden; and the third at HAWSTED.

By his wife, Agas, daughter and, after the death of her brother, heir of Sir Richard Fryssell, by his wife, Catherine, eldest daughter and co-heir (with her sister Joan, wife of Thomas Ickworth, esq. of Ickworth in Suffolk,) of Sir John Geedinge, of Geedinge, also in Suffolk.

m. Joane, daughter and heir of Sir Simon Saxham, knt. by whom he had three sons, viz.

ROGER (Sir), who m. Margery, daughter and
sole heir of Sir Thomas Naunton, of Rougham,§
and left at his decease, in 1405, a son and heir,
WILLIAM (Sir), who m. Katherine, daughter
of Sir Ottes Swynford, || and was ancestor
of the DRURYS of Rougham.
NICHOLAS, m. Joane, daughter of Thomas Heath,
of Mildenhead, in Suffolk, and went with John
of Gaunt into Spain, and thence to the Holy
Land, at which time he added the golden tau
to his arms, which his descendants afterwards
always bore.

JOHN, of Wetherden, in Suffolk.

In the visitation of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, Anno 1684, the descents of the branch before us was entered, and thence the details following are derived.

RICHARD DRURY, citizen of London, of the Drurys of Rougham, died about the year 1606, aged forty-five. He m. Catherine, daughter of William Beswick, of Spelmonden and Horsmonden, in Kent, and had issue, WILLIAM, his heir.

Etheldred, m. to Robert Corbet, citizen of London.
Rachel, m, to-
Tulle, gent. of Kent.

This Richard bore for arms-argent, on a chief vert, a tau, between two mullets pierced, or, with an annulet for distinction, denoting his being the fifth son. His son and heir,

WILLIAM DRURY, esq. of Earith, in Huntingdonshire,

was lord of the manor of Cole, in that county, about 1632. He was at the visitation in 1684, and died aged eighty-two about 1690; having had two wives, first, Mary Brown, of Stow, in Huntingdonshire, by whom he had several children, who all died in infancy; second, Catherine, daughter, and at length heir, of Richard Winde, of Earith, and by that lady he had four sons and five daughters, viz.

The eldest son and heir,

RICHARD DRURY, esq. of Colne and Cambridge Town, high sheriff of the counties of Cambridge and Huntingdon in 1676, m. Priscilla, daughter and heir of Robert Glapthorne, esq. of Wittlesea, and grandaughter of George Glapthorne, esq. one of the gentlemen of the privy chamber, and providers of the army to King CHARLES I. and by that lady had issue,

RICHARD, his heir. Glapthorne.

James.

Robert.

George, in holy orders, rector of Claydon, Suffolk, m. a daughter of John Clarke, esq. of Ipswich, and had a son,

GEORGE, A.M. rector of Overstone and Claydon, who m. Miss Cavell, only child of the late Rev. Richard Cavell, and dying in 1807, left (with three daughters, Elizabeth, m. to Samuel Montgomery, esq. lieutenant-colonel in the army; Miriam, m, to Samuel Duke, esq.; and Amy, m. to the Rev. William Butts;) three sons,

Thomas, admiral R. N. who left two sons
both deceased.

George, succeeded his father to the ad-
vowson of Claydon and Akenham. His
son George died at Bruges, leaving one
son, George, and one daughter.
Richard-Vere, an officer in the army, who
m. first, Frances, only daughter of Sir
George Vandeput, bart. by Mary, his
wife, daughter of BaronAugustus Schutz,
of Shotover House, near Oxford, and
had by her three sons and one daugh-
ter, viz.

1. GEORGE-VANDEPUT, who m. Char-
lotte-Jane, eldest daughter of Hen-
ry Thompson, esq. of Kirby Hall,
Yorkshire.

2. Augustus-Vere, captain R. N. who
m. Maria, daughter of Captain
Smyth, brother of Sir William
Smyth, bart. of Hill Hall, Essex.
3. Richard-Vere, d. at Woolwich.
4. Frances-Schutz, m. to Captain Haw-

kins, of the East India Company's
military service, and had one son,
deceased, and three daughters, two
of whom still survive, and are both
married in India.

He m. secondly, Susannah, daughter of
the Rev. John Gibson, and granddaugh-
ter of Dr. Gibson, bishop of London, by
whom he had issue,

5. Robert, now residing at Corfu.
6. Anna, m. to Captain Agnew.

7. Caroline, m. to the Rev. J. Stewart,
rector of Gilston.

Elizabeth, m. to Thomas Skeeles, gent. of Bluntsham, in Huntingdonshire.

Priscilla, m. to the Rev. Robert Beaumont, rector of Witnesham, Suffolk.

He d. in 1692, and was s. by his eldest son,

RICHARD DRURY, esq. of Colne, who m. Joyce, daughter and sole heiress, at the death of her brother, of Thomas Beacon, esq. of Ilford, in Essex, and dying, aged sixty-five, 1st November, 1738, was s. by his only

daughter of Sir John Tyrell, bart. of Heron, in Essex, and had issue,

Thomas-James-Joseph, b. 4th September, 1738, d.
unm. in the lifetime of his father, 1746.
MARY-ANNE, m. 15th July, 1761, to John, second
Earl of Buckinghamshire, and had three daugh-
ters and co-heirs,

HENRIETTA, m. first, to Armar, Earl of Belmore,
and secondly, to William, Marquis of Lo-
thian.

CAROLINE, m. to William, second Lord Suffield.
Sophia, m. to Richard, second Earl of Mount
Edgcumbe.

JOCOSA-CATHERINE, m. in 1770, to Sir Brownlow
Cust, Lord Brownlow, and had an only child,
Ethelred-Anne, d. unm. 1788.

Sir Thomas Drury died 20th January, 1759, when the BARONETCY EXPIRED, but his estates descended to his daughters in undivided moieties. In August, 1770, the younger of those ladies purchased from the Earl of Buckinghamshire, her late sister's moiety, and in the following October married Sir Brownlow Cust, bart. afterwards Lord Brownlow, who eventually became possessed of the whole Drury estate, in Northamptonshire, which his Lordship sold in 1791, to John Kipling, esq. one of the six clerks in Chancery.

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Of this family the first we find mentioned WILLIAM DREYDEN or DRIDEN, father of DAVID DRYDEN, esq. who m. Isabel, daughter and heir of William Nicholson, esq. of Staffehill, in Cumberland, and was s. by his son,

JOHN DRYDEN, esq. who m. Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Cope, knt. of Canons Ashby, and had eight sons and four daughters. He d. 30th September, 1584, and was s. by his eldest son,

1. ERASMUS DRYDEN, esq. of Canons Ashby, in the county of Northampton, who took the degree of bachelor of arts in the university of Oxford 17th June, 1577, levied a fine of the manor on his father's decease, served the office of sheriff of his county in the 40th of ELIZABETH, and again in the 17th of the succeeding reign, in which he was raised to the rank of BARONET, by patent dated 16th November, 1619. Sir Erasmus m. Frances, second daughter and co-heir of William Wilkes, esq. of Hodnel, in Warwickshire, and had issue,

I. JOHN, his successor.

II. William, of Farndon, Notts, who m. first, a daughter of Cave, esq. of the county of

Leicester, and had a son and two daughters,
JOHN, who succeeded as fourth baronet.
Elizabeth, m. to Ambrose Mayhew, of Grims-
bury.

Susanna, m, to John Spicer.

By his second wife he also had issue.

III. Erasmus, of Tichmarsh, in Northamptonshire, m. Mary, daughter of the Rev. Henry Pickering, D.D. and dying in 1654, had issue, 1. JOHN DRYDEN, the poet, who m. Lady Elizabeth Howard, daughter of Thomas, Earl of Berkshire, and had three sons, Charles, unfortunately drowned at Datchet Ferry, near Windsor, died unmarried.*

John, resided at Rome and was in the service of the Pope. He wrote a play called "The Husband his own Cuckold."

ERASMUS-HENRY, who inherited as fifth baronet.

Dryden d. 1st May, 1701.+

2. ERASMUS, who succeeded his nephew, and
became sixth baronet.

3. Henry, d. at Jamaica, but left a son,
Richard, living in 1708.

4. James, m. Elizabeth, daughter of Mr.
Dunch, of London, merchant, and d. in
1694, leaving two daughters.

5. Agnes, m. to Silvester Emelyn, esq. of Stamford, Lincolnshire.

6. Rose, m. to Dr. Laughton, D. D. of Catworth, Huntingdonshire.

7. Martha, m. to Mr. Bletso, of Northamp

ton.

8. Frances, m. to Mr. Joseph Sandwell, of London, merchant. She d. 10th October, 1736, aged nearly ninety.

1. Elizabeth. m. to Sir Richard Phillipps, bart. of Picton Castle.

11. Mary, m. to Sir Edward Hartopp, bart. of Freathby, in Leicestershire.

111. Dorothy, m. to Edward Salway, esq. of Stanford, in the county of Worcester, M. P. for Droitwich in 1658. (See BURKE'S ('ommoners, vol. i. p. 153.)

IV. Susan, m. to Sir John Pickering, bart. of Tichmarsh.

Sir Erasmus d. 22nd May, 1632, and was s. by his eldest son,

II. SIR JOHN DRYDEN, sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1634, and elected its knight to serve in parliament in 1640, m. first, Priscilla, daughter of James Quarles, esq. of Rumford, in Essex; and secondly, Anne, daughter of Henry Parvis, esq. of Ruckholts, in the same county; but those ladies died both without issue. Sir John m. thirdly, Honor, daughter of Sir Robert Bevile, knt, of Chesterton, in the county of Huntingdon, and had by her,

1. ROBERT, his successor.

11. John, of Chesterton, M. P. for the county of Huntingdon temp. WILLIAM III. and d. unm. in January, 1707.

11. Erasmus, who lived a bachelor at Canons Ashby.

Iv. Richard, d. unm. in the twenty-fourth year of

his age.

v. Bevile, d. unm.

vi. Benjamin, a citizen of London, d. issueless. 1. Frances, m. to Ralph Sneyd, esq. eldest son of William Sneyd, esq. of Keel Hall, Staffordshire.

11. Anne, m. to Walter Pigot, esq. of Chetwynd, Salop, and had a son,

CHARLES DRYDEN was usher of the palace to his Holiness CLEMENT XI., and, upon his return to England, left his brother John to officiate in his stead, and was drowned in swimming across the Thames, near Windsor,

Robert Pigot, M.P. for the county of Huntingdon, who inherited the estate of Chesterton from his uncles.

Sir John d. about the year 1658, and was s. by his eldest son,

III. SIR ROBERT DRYDEN, who died unmarried in the seventy-sixth year of his age, having outlived all his brothers, 19th August, 1708, and was buried on the 30th of the same month in the church of Canons Ashby. He left his estate at Canons Ashby to Edward Dryden, the second son of Erasmus Dryden, of Tichmarsh, but the Baronetcy devolved upon his cousin (refer to William, second son of the first baronet),

IV. SIR JOHN DRYDEN, of Farndon, Notts, who m Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Luck, of Northamptonshire, and had issue,

John, killed by a fall from his horse in his father's
lifetime, d. unm.

Honor, m. to Mr. Joseph Bateman, a surgeon in
London.

Elizabeth, d. unm.

He was s. at his decease by his cousin,

V. SIR ERASMUS-HENRY DRYDEN (only surviving son of THE POET), who died unmarried in 1711, when the Baronetcy devolved upon his uncle,

VI. SIR ERASMUS DRYDEN, who m. Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Edward Martyn, of the city of Westminster, and had issue,

EDWARD, who, at the decease of Sir Robert Dry-
den in 1708, inherited the estate of Canons
Ashby, m. Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Allen,
son of Sir Thomas Allen, knt. a Turkey mer-
chant, of London, and dying before his father,
3rd November, 1717, left issue,

1. JOHN, successor to his grandfather.
2. Robert.

3. Erasmus, in holy orders, rector of Hamp-
stead, Berks, m. in 1747, Miss Blegrave,
and d. s. p.

4. Edward, of Oporto, merchant.

5. Bevile, of Ore, in Berkshire, m. Mary,
daughter of Dubber, esq. of Cirencester,
in the county of Gloucester, and had four
daughters, viz.

ELIZABETH, heir to her uncle.
Maria, m. to William Ramsay, esq. of
Inveresk, and died in 1830, leaving,
with three daughters, a son, John
Turner Ramsay, esq. of Tusmore, in
Oxfordshire.

Philippa, m. to Thomas Steele, esq.
Anne, d. unm.

6. Elizabeth.

7. Mary, m. to Allen Puleston, esq.

8. Anne.

Elizabeth, m.to Richard Martyn, D.D. prebendary
of Westminster.

Mary, m. to John Shaw, esq. of the Board of
Green Cloth.

He d. 3rd November, 1718, aged eighty-two, and was s. by his grandson,

VII. SIR JOHN DRYDEN, of Canons Ashby, who m. first, Frances, daughter and heir of Thomas Ingram, esq. of Barraby, in the county of York; and secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of John Roper, esq. of Berkhampstead, Herts, but dying s. p. 21st March, 1770, the BARONETCY EXPIRED; the estates devolved upon Sir John's niece,

in 1704. He wrote several pieces, and translated the Sixth Satire of Juvenal.

+ And was buried in Westminster Abbey, where the Duke of Buckingham ordered a noble and sumptuous monument to be erected to his memory.

ELIZABETH DRYDEN, who m. in 1781, John Turner, esq. brother of Sir Gregory Page Turner. This gentleman assumed the surname of DRYDEN only in 1791, and was created a BARONET in 1795. Their grandson is the present REV. SIR JOHN DRYDEN, of Canons Ashby.

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Note. In Canons Ashby, says Mr. Bridges (Hist. of Northamptonshire), there is one room of thirty feet long upon twenty feet wide, which is reported to be entired, floored and wainscoted with the timber of a single oak which grew in that lordship.

DUCIE, OF LONDON.

WILLIAM,

ROBERT,

fourth and fifth baronets.

Robert, whose only daughter,

ELIZABETH DUCIE, heir of her uncle, Lord
Downe, m. Edward Moreton, esq. of More-
ton, in Staffordshire, and was mother of
Matthew-Ducie Moreton, created in 1720
Lord Ducie. (See BURKE's Peerage and
Baronetage.)

Sir Robert Ducie accumulated immense wealth in trade. He was banker to King CHARLES I., and notwithstanding losing eighty thousand pounds by his majesty, died, it was said, worth more than four hundred thousand pounds. He was s. at his decease, about the year 1634, by his eldest son,

11. SIR RICHARD DUCIE, bart. who died unmarried in 1656, and was s. by his brother,

III. SIR WILLIAM DUCIE, bart. who was made a knight of the Bath at the coronation of King CHARLES II. and raised to the peerage of Ireland as VISCOUNT DOWNE. He m. Frances, daughter of Francis, Lord Seymour, of Troubridge, but died without issue 9th September, 1679, when his estates devolved upon his niece, ELIZABETH DUCIE (from whom the extant LORDS DUCIE), and he was s. in the Baronetcy by his nephew,

IV. SIR WILLIAM DUCIE, bart. who d. s. p. and was s. by his brother,

V. SIR ROBERT DUCIE, bart. who died unmarried in May, 1703, when the BARONETCY became EXTINCT.

gu.

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Lineage.

1. SIR JOHN DUCK, of Haswell-on-the-Hill, created a BARONET in 1687, was the wealthiest burgess on the His birth, pacivic annals of the city of Durham. rentage, &c. remain in impenetrable obscurity. He was bred a butcher, under John Heslop, in defiance of the whole craft, in whose books there still exists a gentle reprimand to Heslop "to forbear to set John Ducke on worke in the trade of a butcher on paine of 39s. 11d." John Duck, however, was born to greatness, and grew rich in despite of the butchers, and married the daughter of his benefactor. He built a splendid mansion in Silver Street, Durham, and endowed an hospital at Lumley, in the palatinate. In the former, a pannel still remains recording his happy rise to fortune. The baronet, then humble Duck, cust out by the butchers, stands near a bridge in an attitude of despondency, and in the air a raven is seen bearing in his bill a piece of money, which, according to tradition, fell at his feet, and which," being put out to use," was the nucleus on which he wound a splendid fortune. On the right is a view of the mansion house in Silver Street, and on the left the hospital at Lumley. He died without issue, and was buried in St. Margaret's 31st August, 1691, where his wife, "pia, prudens, felix," lies buried beside him. Sir John's large property seems to have gone to Lady Duck's nieces, viz. Elizabeth Heslop, who married George Tweddell, alderman of Durham; and Jane Heslop, who married, first, James Nicholson, of Durham, cordwainer (father of James Nicholson, esq. of West Rainton, in the county palatine, M. P. for the city of Durham in 1708, who died in 1727, leaving three daughters and co-heirs, viz. Jane, m. to Thomas, Earl of Strathmore, grandfather to the present earl; Anne, who m. the Hon. Patrick Lyon, brother to the earl; and Mary, who died a spinster); and secondly, Richard Wharton, attorney-at-law. Sir John Duck mentions, in his will, Anne, the daughter and only child of his late brother, Robert Duck, who died before 1691, but appears to have been uncertain of her exist. ence; "if she be alive" are the words used.

At the demise of Sir John Duck the BARONETCY became EXTINCT.

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DUDDLESTONE, OF BRISTOL.

CREATED 11th Jan. 1691-2.-EXTINCT (date unknown).

Lineage.

1. SIR JOHN DUDDLESTON, a merchant at Bristol, was the first who invited to his house Prince GEORGE