JAMES PENNYMAN, esq. of Ormsby, in the county of York, from whose eldest son and heir, COLONEL SIR JAMES PENNYMAN, knt. of Ormsby, created a baronet in 1663-4, the extant baronets of Ormsby derive (see BURKE'S Peerage and Baronetage), had an illegitimate son, WILLIAM PENNYMAN, one of the masters in chancery, father of 1. WILLIAM PENNYMAN, esq. of Marske, in the county of York, who was created a BARONET 6th May, 1628. Sir William was a zealous supporter of the royal cause, and in high favour with the king, who made him governor of Oxford and colonel of a regiment of foot. He m. Anne, daughter and heir of William Atterton, esq. but died issueless 22nd August, 1643, and was buried in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, when the BARONETCY became EXTINCT. Arms-Gu, a chev. erm. between three half-spears, broken staves, or, headed arg. I. WILLIAM PEPPERELL, descended from a Cornish family, but a native by birth of New England, his great-grandfather having settled there, was bred a merchant, and attained high reputation and wealth in the mercantile world; but his private affairs, although numerous and weighty, not entirely engrossing his attention, he devoted the remainder of his time to the service of the public. He was early in life chosen to represent his town in the great and general court, and sooner than customary had a seat at the board as one of his majesty's council, to which place of honour he was ever afterwards elected until the time of his decease. He was also a colonel in the militia of New England, and so highly did he stand in public estimation, that when the project was formed by the New England government for the reduction of Louisbourgh, he was made choice of and commissioned by the governors of the several provinces to command the troops upon the important occasion. It was the united voice of the province" that his appointment to the chief command gave them great satisfaction and hopes;" and those hopes were not disappointed, for Louisbourgh, after sustaining a siege of forty-nine days, surrendered to the arms of Lieutenant-General Pepperell, with the fortresses and territory thereunto belonging, thus crowning the expedition with triumph. For this signal service he was created a BARONET 15th November, 1746, " as SIR WILLIAM PEPPERELL, of the province of Massachusetts, in North America,” and had a grant of arms conferred upon him at the same time to perpetuate the memory of the event. Sir William m. Mary, daughter of Samuel Hirst, esq. of Boston, in New England, and died, aged sixty-three, 22nd August, 1759, leaving an only daughter and heir, ELIZABETH, who m. Nathaniel Sparhawk, merchant, of New England, and had issue, Nathaniel Sparhawk, whose son was recently residing in America. WILLIAM SPARHAWK, who succeeded to the property of his maternal grandfather, and took the name of PEPPERELL. Samuel Sparhawk. Andrew Sparhawk. Mary Sparhawk, m. to Charles Jervis, M.D. of Boston. At the decease of Sir William, the BARONETCY EX PIRED. Arms Arg. a chevron gu. between three pine-cones vert, with the augmentation of a canton of the second, charged with a fleur-de-lis of the first. PEPPERELL, OF BOSTON, IN THE PROVINCE OF MASSACHUSETTS. CREATED 9th Nov. 1774.-EXTINCT 18th Dec. 1816. Lineage. 1. WILLIAM SPARHAWK, esq. son of Nathaniel Sparhawk, of New England, merchant, by ELIZABETH PEPPERELL, only daughter and heir of LieutenantGeneral Sir William Pepperell, bart. having become heir to his grandfather at the decease of that distinguished officer in 1759, assumed the surname of PEPPERELL, and was created a BARONET 9th November, 1774. He m. 12th November, 1767, Elizabeth, daughter of the Hon. Isaac Royall, of his majesty's council in Massachusetts' Bay, and had issue, WILLIAM-ROYALL, 6. 5th July, 1775; d. 27th Sep- ters. MARY, m. to William Congreve, esq. of Congreve, in Staffordshire, and of Aldermanston, in Berkshire. HARRIET, relict of Sir Charles Thomas Palmer, bart. of Wanlip Hall, in Leicestersaire. Sir William d. 18th December, 1816, when the BARONETCY EXPIRED, and his daughters became his heirs. The American estates were confiscated during the war of the Independence. Arms-As PEPPERELL OF MASSACHUSETTS. RICHARD DR PERSHALL, son of Sir Richard Peshall by Alice Swinnerton, his wife, was a knight and a person of great power in Staffordshire, having been high sheriff, an office in those days of great authority, 7 EDWARD Ill. and from the lith to the 15th of the same king. He m. Margaret, daughter and heir of Hugh, lord of Knighton, and thus added that manor to his possessions. He was s. by his son, SIR ADAM DE PESHALL, who was sheriff 15 EDWARD III. and made a similar accession to his estate by marriage with two heiresses, the daughters of John Weston, lord of Weston Lizard, in the county of Salop, and John de Caverswall, of Bishop's Offley. By the former he had a son and heir, SIR ADAM DE PESHALL, of Weston Lizard, whose grandson and heir, another SIR ADAM PESHALL, left two daughters, his MARGARET PESHALL, who m. Sir Richard JOHANNA PESHALL, M. to W. de Birming- By the latter he had a son, SIR RICHARD DE PESHALL, who acquired a considerable fortune with his wife, Johanna, daughter and heir of Reginald Chetwynde, of Chetwynde, and left a son and heir, SIR THOMAS PESHALL, knt. living 4 RICHARD II. who, by his first wife, Philippa, had two sons, RICHARD, who m. temp.HENRY IV. two sisters, NICHOLAS, J the daughters of Hugh Malpas, of Checkley, and thus brought great estates into the family. RICHARD, the elder son, left two daughters, m. in the time of HENRY VII; the elder, Isabella, to SIR THOMAS GROSVENOR; and the younger, Jocosa, to W. PIGOTT, of Cheshire. Of NICHOLAS, more presently. Sir Thomas, by his second wife, Alice, daughter of Roger HUMPHRY, of Over Tayne, father of HUGH PESHALL, who, by his wife, Isa- CATHERINE, m. to Sir John Blount, knt. of Kinlett, in Salop. HUGH MALPAS, of Checkley, m. the daughter and heir of ADAM DE PRAYERS, who m. Helen, daughter and heir of RICHARD BLACKENHALL, of Blackenhall, in ISABELLA, m. to Richard Fane, of Tun- Jocosa, m. to Humphrey Wolrych, of The second son of the first marriage, NICHOLAS PESHALL, by Helen, his wife, daughter and co-heir of Hugh Malpas, left a son and heir, HUGH PESHALL, esq. the first of the family who resided at Horsley, in the county of Stafford. He was sheriff 4 HENRY VII. and by Julian, his wife, daughter of Sir Robert Corbet of Morton Corbet, had a son and heir, HUMPHREY PESHALL, esq. of Horsley, who m. Helen, daughter of Humphrey Swinnerton, esq. of Swinner ton Castle, and widow of Henry Delves, esq. and had issue, JOHN, of Checkley. RICHARD, whose son, HENRY, d. s. p. William, from whom descended Jobn Peshall, of Naples. The eldest son and continuator of the family, JOHN PESHALL, esq. of Checkley, m. Hellena, daugh ter of John Harcourt, esq. of Ranton, in the county of Stafford, and left a son and heir, RICHARD PESHALL, esq. who m. Isabel, daughter and heir of Thomas Rolleston, esq. of Derbyshire, and had seven sons and two daughters. The eldest son, THOMAS PESHALL, esq. succeeding to the family estates, resided at Horsley. He m. Joanna, daughter of Sir Edmund Fettiplace, of Berkshire, and was s. by his son, 1. JOHN PESHALL, esq. of Horsley, in Staffordshire, who was created a BARONET by King JAMES 1. 25th November, 1612, and in four years afterwards was sheriff of the county. He m. Anne, daughter of Ralph Sheldon, esq. of Beoly, in the county of Worcester, and had issue, THOMAS, his heir, b. in 1596, who m. Bridget, daughter of Sir William Stafford, knt. of Blatherwick, and dying in the lifetime of his father, 11. SIR JOHN PESHALL, who m. in 1660, Frances, daughter of Colonel Thomas Legh, of Adlington, in Cheshire, and dying in 1701, was s. by his son, III. SIR THOMAS PESHALL. This gentleman m. Miss Medcalf, and had a son, JOHN, who m. Charlotte, daughter of Thomas, ARABELLA, baptized in 1702, m, to John, third Sir Thomas d. in February, 1712, and since that time the BARONETCY has lain DORMANT. Arms-A cross forme flourette sa. on a canton gu. a wolf's head of the first. JOHN (Sir), his heir. Thomas, mayor of Norwich in 1614, died in 1620, leaving by Cecily, his wife, daughter of William King, of Hempstead, in Norfolk, William, of London, who m. Mary, daughter Alexander, who left issue. Elizabeth, m. to Augustine Whale, gent. of Norwich. Cicely, m. to Humphrey Camden, of London. Anne, m. to Mr. Alderman, Robert Debny, of Norwich. The eldest son, SIR JOHN PETTUS, knt. m. Bridget, daughter and co heir of Augustine Curtis, esq. of Honuington, in Suffolk, and had one son and four daughters, viz. AUGUSTINE, his heir. Anne, m. to Robert Knightly, esq. of Offchurch, Christian, m. to Sir Peter Saltingstall, knt. of Bridget, m. to Martin Sidley, esq. of Morley, in Elizabeth, d. s. p. Sir John, who left a benefaction to the preachers of the Cathedral Church at Norwich, which is commemorated by an annual sermon, d. 9th April, 1613, and was s. by his son, SIR AUGUSTINE PETTUS, who, like his father, re ceived the honour of knighthood. He m. first, Mary, daughter of Henry Vylett, esq. of Lynn, and had a son, THOMAS, his heir. Sir Augustine m. secondly, Abigail, daughter of Sir Arthur Heveningham, knt. of Heveningham, in Suffolk, and by that lady had two other sons, viz. Thomas, (bearing the same name as his half-brother,) m. Anne, daughter of Calibut Walpole, esq. of Houghton, which lady surviving him. m. secondly, Sir Henry Hungate, knt. of Bradenham, in Norfolk. John. The eldest son, 1. THOMAS PETTUS, esq. of Rackheath, in the county of Norfolk, for his zeal and fidelity to the royal cause, was created a BARONET by King CHARLES I. 23rd September, 1641. Sir Thomas m. first, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Knyvet, knt. of Ashwellthorpe, in Norfolk, and had issue, THOMAS, his heir. JOHN, successor to his elder brother. His first wife dying in 1653, Sir Thomas m. secondly, Anne, daughter of Arthur Everard, esq. of Stow Park, Suffolk, who surviving him, m. secondly, Edward Warner, esq. of Parham, in the same county. Sir Thomas d. 21st November, 1654, and was s. by his eldest son, 11. SIR THOMAS PETTUS, who m. Elizabeth, daughter of Walter Overbury, esq. of Barton, in Warwickshire, and had one son, who died in minority, and a daughter, Elizabeth, his sole heir, who m. Rowland Okeover, esq. of Okeover, in Derbyshire. Sir Thomas was sheriff of Norfolk in 1664. He d. in 1671, and was s. by his brother, III. SIR JOHN PETTUS, F.R.S. who m. Mary, daughter and co-heir of Nicholas Burwell, esq. of Gray's Inn, and niece of Sir John Burwell, knt. of Rongham, in Suffolk, by whom he had issue, HORATIO, his heir. John. Robert. Charles. Frances, m. to the Rev. Mr. Faucett, rector of Sir John, who was cupbearer to King CHARLES II. King JAMES II. and King WILLIAM, and one of the commissioners of appeals, died 25th October, 1698, aged fiftyeight, and was s. by his eldest son, IV. SIR HORATIO PETTUS. This gentleman m. Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Sir Thomas Meers, knt. of Kirton, in the county of Lincoln, and had issue, Thomas, who died in the twenty-first year of his Mary, m. to Leonard Batchelor, esq. of Norwich. He d. 9th March, 1731, and was s. by his eldest surviving son, V. SIR JOHN PETTUS, who m. Rebecca, daughter of Edmund Prideaux, esq. of Prideaux Place, in Cornwall, and grandaughter of Dr. Humphrey Prideaux, dean of Norwich, but died without male issue in May, 1743, and was s. by his brother, VI. SIR HORATIO PETTUS, who d. s. p. 31st July, 1772, when the BARONETCY EXPIRED. or. Arms-Gules, a fesse argent between three annulets The PEYTONS, Camden observes, have had a common progenitor with the UFFORDS, who became Earls of Suffolk, the founder of both being William Mallet, a Norman baron, who was sheriff of Yorkshire in the 3rd of WILLIAM I. and obtained grants of sundry lordships and manors from the crown, amongst which were Sibton and Peyton Hall, which he possessed at the time of the survey. "Iselham (says the same author) formerly belonged to the Bernards, which came to the family of the Peytons by marriage. Which knightly family of Peyton, flowed out of the same male stock, when the Uffords, Earls of Suffolk, descended; albeit they assumed the surname of Peyton, according to the use of that age, from their manor of Peyton Hall, in Boxford, in the county of Suffolk." The first of the family by the name of PEYTON upon record, was REGINALD DE PEYTON, second son of Walter, Lord of Sibton, younger brother of Mallet, sheriff of Yorkshire. This Reginald held the lordships of Peyton Hall, in Ramshold and Boxford, in Suffolk, of Hugh de Bigod; he was sewer to Roger Bigod, Earl of Nor folk, and gave lands to the monks of Thetford, to pray for the soul of Hugh Bigod. He had two sons, WILLIAM, who held certain lands in Boxford, of the fee of the abbey of St. Edmundsbury, as appears by charter of his nephew John, and JOHN DE PEYTON, to whom King STEPHEN and his cousin german, William de Cassineto, Lord of Horsford, granted all his lands in Peyton, to hold, as his ancestors before held the same. This John had four sons, viz. 1. JOHN (Sir), the elder. 11. Robert, who was lord justice of Ireland, temp. HENRY III. and EDWARD I. He was Lord of Ufford, in Suffolk, and assumed the surname of Ufford therefrom. III. Peter, Lord of Peyton Hall, who held lands in Ramshot and Peyton, in the time of King JOHN. He was father of Robert, who was s. by his son, Sir John de Peyton, knt. whose male line seemed to fail, temp. EDWARD III. Iv. John, the younger, who sold to John his eldest brother, all the lands which he had in Boxford, of the fee of the abbey of St. Edmond's and Stoke Neyland, which their father, John Of this family, says Sir William Dugdale, which afterwards arrived to great honour, I have not seen any thing memorable, until the 53rd of HENRY II. when Robert, a younger son of John de Peyton, of Peyton, in Suffolk, assuming his surname from the lordship of Ufford, in that county, became ROBERT DE UFFORD, his son, SIR ROBERT DE UFFORD, was summoned to parliament as a baron in 1308, and his son and successor, de Peyton, and William, their uncle, formerly possessed. The eldest son, SIR JOHN DE PEYTON, Succeeded his father, and was Lord of Peyton Hall, in Boxford, while he possessed lands beside in Stoke Neyland, in Suffolk. He flou. rished under HENRY III. as appears by a catalogue of knights in that reign. His wife was Matilda de Bueriis, by her he had three sons and one daughter, viz. JOHN, his heir. William. James. Agnes. His eldest son, SIR JOHN DE PEYTON, knt. who served in the parliament held at Westminster, 29th EDWARD I. as one of the knights of the shire for Suffolk, soon after which he died. He had three wives, Agnes, Agnes, and Clementia, and was s. by his son, SIR ROBERT DE PEYTON, who in many of his evidences is styled Chevalier and Monsieur. He had two wives, first, the Lady Christiana de Apleton, widow of Wil liam de Apleton, and heir to lands in Haxwell and Boxford, who died 19th EDWARD II. leaving no children, and was buried at Stoke Neyland, with great pomp, the funeral expenses being thus set down: "fifty quarter of wheat £4. 10s. one hogshead of wine £53. 4s. four muttons 5s. each, eight bacon hogs 24s. ten calves," &c. His second wife was Joan de Marney, of the noble family of the Marneys, of Layor Marney, in Essex, by whom there was issue, JOHN (Sir), his heir. William, from whom there was a release to bis father, Robert, dated 13 EDWARD III. John, jun. to whom William Castelayne, John de Rikell, &c. granted the manor of Beedles, in Waldingfield, 5 EDWARD III. The eldest son, SIR JOHN DE PEYTON, m. Margaret, daughter and co heir of Sir John Gernon, knt. of Lees, in Essex, Lord of Wicken, in Cambridgeshire, and of Bankwell, in the county of Derby, and in her right possessed the manor of Wicken, as in the 17th RICHARD II. he jointly, with her, held part of the manor of Esthorpe, by the service of one knight's fee. He d. in RICHARD'S reign, his wife in the 2nd of HENRY V. Their son and heir, JOHN DE PEYTON, esq. wedded Joan, daughter and heir of Sir Hammon Sutton, of Wickesho, in the county of Suffolk, and thus that estate came into the family. By her (who m. secondly, Sir Roger Drury) he had JOHN, his heir. Thomas. Robert. Margery, m. to Thomas Daubeny, esq. of Sherrington, in Norfolk. He died about the 5th of HENRY IV. and was s. by his son, JOHN DE PEYTON, then in minority. He m. Grace, daughter of John Burgoyne, esq. of Drayton, in the county of Cambridge, and had issue, ROBERT DE UFFORD, second baron, was created EARL OF SUFFOLK in 1337. The earldom expired in 1382. The BARONY is still in abeyance. BURKE'S Extinct and Dormant Peerage. + LE NEVE calls her Matilda, sister and heir of Symond de Notelle. JOHN, his heir. THOMAS. Anne, m. to Jeffry Lockton, esq. He died in the flower of his age, the 6th October, 4 HENRY V. and was s. by his elder son, JOHN DE PEYTON, who died a minor, 29th October, 11 HENRY VI. and was s. by his brother, THOMAS DE PEYTON, then seventeen years of age, and seised of the manor of Esthorp. His mother, Grace, dying the 6th May, he was found her heir to the manor of Messing, which was held of the crown, as of the honour of Keynes, by the service of one knight's fee, also of the manor of Binchall, and the castle. Upon the feast of All Saints, 18 HENRY VI. his age was proved at Cambridge, viz. twenty-two years, at which time it was sworn by John Welford, that he was born and baptized at Dry-Drayton, in that county, A. D. 1418, many agreeing in the ver dict; among whom Robert Chapman alleged, that the day on which he was born being the feast of St. Valentine, there was a great storm; one knew it by the great wind; another broke his leg by a fall from his horse; another, for that his wife was buried; another, for then his lease was burnt; another, for then his daughter Margaret was burnt; another fell from a tree and broke his arm, as the several jurors deposed upon their oaths. This Thomas was sheriff of Cambridge and Huntingdon, 21st and 31st of HENRY VI. and about the 17th of EDWARD IV, he began to rebuild the church at Iselham, agreeing then with John Waltham, alias Sudbury, free-mason for the same. In the chancel of which church he lies interred, having a monument erected there to his me mory. He m. first, Margaret, daughter and co-heir of Sir John Bernard, knt. of Iselham, by that lady he acquired the estate of Iselham, and had issue, THOMAS, who m. Joan, daughter of Calthorpe, of ROBERT (Sir), heir to his grandfather. Edward. He 1. THOMAS, of St. Edmundsbury, customer of Plymouth, who by Lady Cecilia Bourchier, danghter of John, second Earl of Bath, left a son, Sir Henry Peyton, "who followed long the wars in the Low Countries, and was knighted by JAMES I. He m. Lady Mary Rogers, widow of Andrew Rogers, esq. of He m. secondly, Margaret, daughter and co-heir of Sir Hugh Francis, of Giffords, in the county of Suffolk, widow of Thomas Garnish, esq. of Kenton, in the same shire, and by her had two other sons, namely, Christopher, who had great possessions in Wickhambrook and Bury. In the 12th of HENRY VII. he was sheriff of the counties of Cam. bridge and Huntingdon. He m. a daughter of Leonard Hide, esq. of Hide Hall, in Hertfordshire, but died in the 15th HENRY VII. without issue. Francis, of St. Edmundsbury, heir was also of Coggeshall, in Essex. He m. Elizabeth, daughter of Reginald Brook, esq. of Aspallstoneham, in Suffolk, and had two sons, Edmund, the younger, who was customer of Calais, left no issue. The elder son, Christopher, of St. Edmundsbury, m. Jane, daughter of Thomas Mildmay, esq. and had issue.t Thomas Peyton d. 30th July, 1484, and was s. by his grandson, SIR ROBERT PEYTON, of Iselham, who was sheriff of the counties of Cambridge and Huntingdon, in the 14th HENRY VII. He m. Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Clere, of Ormesby, in Norfolk, and had issue, ROBERT (Sir), his heir. John (Sir), m. Dorothy, daughter of Sir John Margaret, m. to Francis Jenney, esq. of Knotshall, Elizabeth, m. to Sir William Wigston, knt. of He d. in the 9th of HENRY VIII. and was s. by his elder son, SIR ROFERT PEYTON, knt. who was sheriff of the counties of Cambridge and Huntingdon in 17th and 27th HENRY VIII. and accompanied that king to the siege of Balleyne. He was again sheriff in the 1st of Queen MARY. He m. Frances, daughter and heir of Francis Hassylden, esq. of Little Chesterford, in Essex, and of Steeple Marden, in Cambridgeshire, and in her right acquired these estates, with other lands in the county of Rutland. By this lady (who founded the famous hospital at Iselham) he had six sons and two daughters, viz. 1. ROBERT (Sir), his heir. 11. William. III. Richard, of Little Chesterfield, in Essex, m. Mary, daughter of Leonard Hyde, esq. of Brianston, in Dorsetshire, and daughter of 11. Christopher (Sir), knighted by JAMES I. was auditor of Ireland. He m. Anne, daughter of William Palmer, esq. of Warwickshire, and left three daughters, his co-heirs, viz. ELIZABETH PEYTON, m. to Richard Cooke, CECILY, m. to Henry Rookwood, esq. of THOMAZIN, m. first to Captain Baptist Cas- III. Henry, of London, m. Mary, daughter of William Pickering, also of London, and left posterity. |