SIR JOHN RUDSTON, knt. lord of the manor of Hayton, in the east riding of the county of York, living 6 King Jous, left a son and successor,

WALTER RUDSTON, of Haytou, who married Oswyn, daughter of Stephen Shalleros, and was s. by his son, JOHN RUDSTON, of Hayton, who m. a daughter of Thomas Wilberforce, and left a son and heir,

GREGORY RUDSTON, of Hayton, from whom we pass to his lineal descendant towards the close of the fifteenth century,

MATTHEW RUDSTON, esq. of Hayton, who married a daughter of Thomas Studham, esq. of Pocklington, and had issue,

WALTER, his heir.

John (Sir), lord mayor of London in 1528, who left a son and heir,

Robert Rudston, who purchased from Sir
Thomas Wyatt the manor of Boughton
Monchensie, in Kent. His second son and
eventual heir,

Belnap Rudston, of Boughton Monchensie, dying s. p. devised his estate, by will dated in 1613, to Sir Francis Barnham, knt. and it is now in the possession of that gentleman's representative, THOMAS RYDER, esq. of Boughton. Anne, m. to William Wensley, esq. of Brians Burton.

Faith.

Barbara.

Margaret.

Elizabeth.

He died about 1655, and was s. by his elder son, 11. SIR THOMAS RUDSTON, baptized 8th August, 1639, m. Katherine, daughter and co-heir of George Mountayne, esq. of Westow, in Yorkshire, and had issue, THOMAS, his heir. Walter, d. s. p.

ELIZABETH, heir to her elder brother.

He died about the year 1682, and was s. by his elder

son,

III. SIR THOMAS RUDSTON, at whose decease the BARONETCY became EXTINCT, and the estates devolved upon his sister,

ELIZABETH RUDSTON, of Hayton, who m. Henry Cutler, esq. eldest son of Sir Gervais Cutler, knt. of Stainborough Hall (now Wentworth Castle), in the West Riding, but had no issue. Mrs. Cutler survived her husband, and at her decease devised her property at Hayton and elsewhere to her cousin and heir general, RUDSTON CALVERLEY, esq. who assumed, in consequence, the surname and arms of RUDSTON. He m. in 1761, Anne, daughter of William Stockdale, esq. and dying in 1806, was s. by his eldest son,

The Rev. Thomas Cutler Rudston-Read, now of Hayton. (Refer to BURKE'S Commoners, vol. iv. p. 362.)

Arms-Arg. three bulls' heads erased.

The first member of this family recorded is THOMAS RUSSELL, of Yaverland, in the Isle of Wight, who held the manors and advowsons of Yaverland and Wathe, the manor of Rouburgh, in the Isle of Wight, and Carisbroke Castle, in capite, and died 16 HENRY VI.

1. SIR WILLIAM RUSSELL, knt. of Chippenham, in the county of Cambridge (son of William Russell, esq. of Surrey, and grandson of Maurice Russell, of Yaverland), having been many years treasurer of the navy, was created a BARONET by King CHARLES I. 19th January, 1628-9. Sir William m. first, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Francis Cherry, knt. but by that lady had no issue. He wedded, secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Gerard, esq. of Burnell, in Cambridgeshire, and had seven sons and three daughters, viz.

1. FRANCIS, his heir.

II. William (Sir), some time of St. Edmund's Bury, commonly called the black Sir William, and styled the cream of the Russells, on account of his loyalty. He m. Anne Bendish, an heiress, but left no issue.

III. Gerard, of Fordham, in Suffolk, m. first, Mary, daughter of - Cherry, esq. of Surrey, and had three sons; Gerard and John, the two younger, died issueless; the eldest,

WILLIAM, of Fordham, m. Elizabeth, daugh. ter of HENRY CROMWELL, son of the PROTECTOR, and bad, with other issue, FRANCIS, baptized at Fordham Abbey 19th January, 1691, and buried in the city of London. He married, and left to survive childhood,

THOMAS, a military officer, b. 27th February, 1724, who had two children, a son and daughter, viz. WILLIAM RUSSELL, who died abroad. This gentleman, if he had survived Sir George Russell, bart. of Chippenham, would have succeeded to that ancient title.

REBECCA RUSSELL, who m. first, James Harley, esq. but by that gentleman had no issue. She m. secondly, William Dyer, esq. of Ilford, a magistrate and deputy-lieutenant for the county of Essex, and by him (who d. 17th January, 1824,) left at her decease 17th January, 1832, three sons and two daughters, viz.

WILLIAM-ANDREW DYER, of

Harley Street, London.
Charles Adams Dyer, of
Canewdon Hall, Essex.
Thomas-John Dyer, of the
Hon. East India Com-
pany's service.
Mary-Eliza Dyer.
Louisa Dyer.

Mr. Gerard Russell m. secondly, a daughter
Lloyd, esq. and by her had one daugh-

of

ter,

Mabell, m. to Richard Russell, esq.

IV. Edward, buried at Chippenham 10th July, 1647. v. Robert, buried at Chippenham 17th February,

1640.

VI. John, baptized 31st January, 1623, and died an infant.

VII. John, baptized 29th November, 1624, d. s. p.
1. Elizabeth, m. first, to Edward Lewknor, esq. of
Denham, in Suffolk, and had a daughter,

Mary Lewknor, m. to Horatio, first Viscount
Townshend.

Mrs. Lewknor having survived her first hus-
band, wedded, secondly, John Gauden, D.D.
afterwards Bishop of Worcester.

H. Anne, m. to John Bodvile, of Bodvile Castle, in Carnarvonshire, and had a daughter,

his widow was raised by patent to the rank

of an earl's wife.

III. Sarah, m. to Sir Thomas Chichley, knt. of Wimpole, in Cambridgeshire.

Sir William m. thirdly, Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of Michael Smallpage, gent. of Chichester, and relict of John Wheatly, esq. of Catesfield, in Sussex; by this lady he had two other sons, namely,

VIII. William, baptized 7th December, 1621; died young.

IX. WILLIAM (Sir), of Langherne, in Carmarthenshire, created a BARONET in 1660. (See RusSELL OF LANGHERNE.)

He was s. by his eldest son,

II. SIR FRANCIS RUSSELL, who m. at Chippenham, 19th September, 1631, Catherine, daughter and heir of John Wheatley, esq. of Catesfield, by Elizabeth Smallpage (which Elizabeth, as stated above, married for her second husband Sir William Russell), by which lady he had issue,

1. JOHN, his successor.

11. Robert, b. 21st October, 1644, of Mildenhall, in Suffolk, m. the daughter and co-heir of Thomas Soame, esq. of Thurlow, a captain of foot in the service of King CHARLES I. III. Gerard, b. 2nd January, 1645, a Hamburgh merchant, m. Miss Yonker, of Hamburgh. IV. Killephet, b. in 1647, d. in 1650.

v. Killephet, b. 11th March, 1652, left a son, Francis, who d. an infant..

vi. Edward, baptized at Chippenham 12th October,

1654.

1. Elizabeth, m. to HENRY CROMWELL, lord-deputy of Ireland, younger son of the PROTECTOR, and had issue,

OLIVER CROMWELL, his heir, d. s. p.
HENRY CROMWELL, of Spinney Abbey, an-
cestor of the Cromwells of Cheshunt Park.
(See BURKE's Commoners, vol. i. p. 428.)
ELIZABETH CROMWELL, M. to William Rus-
sell, esq. of Fordham.

11. Sarah, d. an infant in 1637.
III. Sarah, baptized 24th August, 1639; m. first, to
- Reynolds, esq. of Cambridgeshire; and se-
condly, to Henry, Earl of Thomond.
IV. Catharine, baptized 23rd December, 1641; m.
Sheers, of Hertfordshire.

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v. Frances, baptized 18th November, 1649; m. to John Hagar, esq. of Bourn, in Cambridgeshire.

VI. Anne, m. to Henry Underwood, esq. of Wittlesey, in the Isle of Ely.

Sir Francis was s. at his decease by his eldest son,

111. SIR JOHN RUSSELL, baptized at Chippenham 6th October, 1640; m. ELIZABETH, daughter of OLIVER CROMWELL, and widow of Robert Rich, esq. son of Robert, third Earl of Warwick, and had issue,

1. WILLIAM, his heir.

11. Rich, captain in King WILLIAM's Guards, m. Mabell, daughter of Gerard Russell, esq. of Fordham, and d. s. p.

III. John, b. 14th October, 1670, governor of Fort William, Bengal; m. first, Rebecca, sister of Sir Charles Eyre, of Kew; and secondly, Johanna, widow of Colonel Rivett: by the latter he had one daughter, who died young;

estate, but by whom he had no issue, was one of the three daughters and co-heiresses of Sir Robert Croke, of Checkers, to whom it descended, through the Hawtreys, from Sir Ralph de Checkers.

by the former he left at his decease, 5th December, 1735, a son and three daughters, viz. Charles, an officer of rank in the army, m. in 1737, Mary-Johanna-Cutts, daughter of the aforesaid Colonel Rivett, and had issue,

JOHN, who inherited as eighth baronet. MARY, bedchamber woman to the Princess AMELIA, d. unm.

Frances, bedchamber-woman to H.R.H. the Princess AMELIA, m. to John Rivett, esq. of Checkers, and d. s. p.

Mary, m. to- Holmes, esq, and d. s. p. ELIZABETH, M. to Samuel Greenhill, esq. of Swincombe, in the county of Oxford, and had a son,

JOHN RUSSELL GREENHILL, LL.D. of whom hereafter.

1. Christian, buried at Chippenham 28th August,

1669.

II. ELIZABETH, m. to SIR THOMAS FRANKLAND, bart. of Thirkelby, in the county of York, and was great-great-grandmother of the present SIR ROBERT FRANKLAND RUSSELL, bart. of Thirkelby.

Sir John was s. by his eldest son,

IV. SIR WILLIAM RUSSELL, who m. Miss Gore, of Ireland, and had two sons and a daughter, namely,

WILLIAM, his heir.

FRANCIS, successor to his brother.

Mary, d. unm. in December, 1735.

Sir William having spent the remainder of a considerable fortune in raising troops at the Revolution, sold his estate at Chippenham, and dying in September, 1707, was s. by his elder son,

V. SIR WILLIAM RUSSELL, who died in Ireland s. p. in May, 1738, and was s. by his brother,

VI. SIR FRANCIS RUSSELL, one of the council at Fort William, in Bengal, who m. in 1725, Miss Gee, and was s. by his only son,

VII. SIR WILLIAM RUSSELL, lieutenant in the 1st regiment of Foot Guards, who d. unmarried in 1735, and was s. by his kinsman (refer to John, third son of the third baronet),

VIII. SIR JOHN RUSSELL, of Checkers, in the county of Bucks, b. 31st October, 1741. This gentleman was a student of Christ Church, Oxford, and barrister-atlaw. He m. Catherine, daughter of General George Carey, second son of Viscount Falkland, and had two

sons,

JOHN, his successor.

GEORGE, heir to his brother.

Sir John d. in 1783, and was s. by his elder son, IX. SIR JOHN RUSSELL, who d. unmarried in 1802, and was s. by his brother,

X. SIR GEORGE RUSSELL, who died without issue 25th April, 1804, when the BARONETCY EXPIRED, and the estate of CHECQUERS devolved upon his aunt,

MARY RUSSELL, bedchamber-woman to H. R. H. the Princess AMELIA, at whose decease unmarried the property of the Russells passed to her cousin,

THE REV. JOHN-RUSSELL GREENHILL, LL.D. (Refer to RUSSELL OF CHECQUERS COURT.)

The BARONETCY OF CHIPPENHAM Would have devolved, at the decease of Sir George Russell, upon the Fordham Abbey branch, which descended from Gerard Russell, of Fordham, the third son of Sir

William, the first baronet, if a male heir of that line had then appeared; but WILLIAM RUSSELL, of Fordham, the last male, who was residing abroad, died issueless; whether before or after Sir George is not ascertained. His only sister,

REBECCA RUSSELL, married, as stated above, for her second husband, William Dyer, esq. of Ilford, in Essex, and left, with other issue, a son and heir,

WILLIAM-ANDREW DYER, esq. of Harley Street, in the county of Middlesex, who now represents the Fordham branch, and through that the Baronets of Chippenham.

Arms Arg. a lion rampant gu. on a chief sa. three roses of the first.

RUSSELL, OF LANGHERNE. CREATED 8th Nov. 1660.-EXTINCT about 1714.

Lineage.

I. SIR WILLIAM RUSSELL, knt. of Langherne, in the county of Carmarthen, youngest son of Sir William Russell, bart. of Chippenham, was created a BARONET 8th November, 1660, and was commonly called the white Sir William. He m. Hesther, daughter of Sir Thomas Rouse, bart. of Rouse Lench, and had an only daughter, his heir,

MARY RUSSELL, m. first, to Hugh-Calverley Cotton, esq. elder son of Sir Robert Cotton, bart, of Combermere, by whom (who died before his father) she had an only child,

CATHERINE COTTON, m. to Thomas Lewis, esq. of St. Pierre.

Mrs. Cotton m. secondly, Lord Arthur Somerset, son of the Duke of Beaufort.

Sir William d. about the year 1714, when the BARON

ETCY EXPIRED.

Arms-As RUSSELL OF CHIPPENHAM,

RUSSELL, OF CHECQUERS COURT.

CREATED 15th Sept. 1831.-EXTINCT in 1837.

Lineage.

THE REV. SAMUEL GREENHILL, of Swincombe, in the county of Oxford, m. Elizabeth, youngest daugh. ter of John Russell, esq. governor of Fort William, Bengal, youngest son of Sir John Russell, third bart. of Chippenham, and left a son and heir,

JOHN RUSSELL GREENHILL, LL. D. of Cotisford House, in the county of Oxford, who, on the decease of his cousin, MARY RUSSELL (see RUSSELL of ChIPPENHAM), inherited the estate of Checkers or Chec quers, in the county of Bucks. He m. Elizabeth, only child of M. Noble, esq. of the county of Durham, and had an only son,

1. ROBERT GREENHILL, esq. of Checquers Court, in Buckinghamshire, who assumed, by sign manual, in 1815, the surname and arms of RUSSELL, and was created a BARONET 15th September, 1831. Sir Robert Greenhill-Russell was bred to the bar, and represented the borough of Thirsk for some time in parlia ment. He died unmarried in 1837, when the BARO

The Russells of Strensham, in Worcestershire, established in England at the Conquest, were possessed of Strensham so far back as the close of the thirteenth century, for at that period, SIR JAMES RUSSELL, lord of Strensham, presented to the living; a date which agrees with the inscription on the monument of Sir Francis Russell, buried in 1705, which states that the Russells had flourished in Strensham about 400 years. By the marriage of Sir William Russell, knt. with Agnes, daughter and co-heir of Thomas Hodington, the Russells inherited half the lands of Cassey and Cookesey. In the civil war,

I. SIR WILLIAM RUSSELL,+ of Strensham (who was created a BARONET in 1626-7), acted a conspicuous part in support of the royal cause, and devoted a considerable portion of his fortune to the service of the king; yet, notwithstanding that diminution, his estate was valued at £3000 a-year when the order of the Royal Oak was projected. "In the propositions (we quote Dr. Nash's Worcestershire) offered by Mr. Henry Washington, governor of Worcester, for the surrender of that town to Mr. Edward Whalley, commander of the parliament forces, who lay at Mr. Fleet's, of Hollow, in the year 1646, the thirty-first article was, that the several garrisons of Worcester, Evesham, Strensham, Hartlebury, and Madresfield, should be disgarrisoned, and the Bishop of Worcester, Sir William Russell, and Colonel Lygon, be restored to the

In the treaty negotiated soon after concerning the surrender of Worcester between Mr. Washington and Major-General Raynesborough, it was insisted upon by the latter that Sir William Russell should be exempted from the benefit of the treaty. This caused a long delay: Sir William was much pressed to escape in disguise, which he refused, saying he would willingly sur render himself for the public good, he had but a life to lose, and it could not be better spent. Upon his resolute refusal to escape or stop the treaty any longer, the noblemen and gentlemen, thinking themselves bound in honour, signed a letter to Sir Thomas Fairfax, desiring that Sir William Russell might have the benefit of the treaty, and that he could not by any other means so much oblige the county. Sir Thomas replied that Sir William Russell should be used as a gentleman and be prisoner to Major-General Raynesborough. He afterwards compounded with the parliament committee for £1800 and £50 a-year settled upon his estate."

Sir William m. Frances, daughter of Sir Thomas Reade, of Barton, in Berkshire, and had, with other issue,

FRANCIS, his heir.

Mary, m. first, to Wingfield, Earl of Ardglass;

and secondly, to Charles Cotton, the poet.

Sir William d. in 1669, and was buried at Strensham, with this inscription, "Corpus Gulielmi Russell baronetti manerii de Strensham dom. hic in spe quiescit. Vir fuit ingenio natalibus suis digno, egregia erga regem temporibus iniquissimis fide, nec capitis periculo nec magna rei familiaris jactura unquam concussus." Sir William was s. by his son,

II. SIR FRANCIS RUSSELL, of Strensham, who . Anne, daughter of Sir Rowland Lytton, knt. of Knebworth, in Herts, and had three daughters, his coheirs,

ANNE, m. first, to Sir Harry Every, bart. of Eggington, in Derbyshire; secondly, to' Richard Lygon, esq. of Beauchamp's Court, Worcestershire; and thirdly, to Sir John Guise, bart. of Rendcombe, in Gloucestershire; but d. s. p. 22nd February, 1734.

MARY, m. to Thomas Jones, esq. of Shropshire. ELIZABETH, lady of the manor of Strensham, who m. William Dansey, esq. of Brinsop, in the county of Hereford, and had a daughter, CATHERINE DANSEY, lady of the maner of Strensham, who m. John Ravenhill, esq. of the county of Hereford, and had an only daughter and heir,

middle of the sixteenth century, died 15th August, 1556.

Sir Thomas Russell, knt. 1569 married secondly, Margaret, daughter of William Lygon, esq.

1562.

Frances, daughter and heir of Sir Roger Chomley.

Sir William Russell,

first baronet.

Elizabeth, m. to John Horny hold, esq. of Blakemore Park.

Margaret, m. to John Winter, esq. of Hodington.

Anne, m. to John Cocks, esq. of Crowle.

FRANCES RAVENHILL, who m. first, Richard Nash, D.D. of Clerkenleap, in Worcestershire; and secondly, to Charles Trubshaw Withers, esq. of Sansomfields, near Worcester.

Sir Francis Russell died 24th January, 1705, aged sixty-eight, when the BARONETCY became EXTINCT, and was buried on the 2nd February following at Strensham, under a large marble monument, with the figure of a widow weeping over her husband, and this inscription: " M. S. Francisci Russell, baronetti, perillustri majorum stirpe oriundi, qui per 400 plus minus annos amplissimarum in hac vicinia ditionum et ædium dominus erat, quas ipse ornavit, et in melius promovit, ingenio felicissimo propensissimâque omni. bus benefaciendi voluntate, nominis et patriæ decus uxorem duxit Annam, filiam Rowlandi Lytton, militis, de Knebworth, in agro Hertfordiensi, cum quâ per 43 annos vitam egit, affectu mortuo et verè conjugali, utrique gratam. Hæc autem, ægre jam superstes, marito optimo monumentum hoc extrui voluit; suas etiam cum ejus exuviis hic reponi cupiens, plena fide et spe læta resurrectionis obtinendæ. Ex illâ tres suscepit filias, quas superstites reliquit, Annam, Mariam, et Elizabetham. Ipse mortem obiit, 24 Jan. A.D. 1705, æt. suæ 68."

Sir Francis's estates were equally divided between his three daughters. Two shares were soon re-united by the death of one of the sisters; the third, after passing through different proprietors, was purchased in 1775 by Dr. Treadway Nash, brother of Dr. Richard Nash, who acquired the other two portions in marriage with Frances Ravenhill, lady of the manor of Strensham.

1. JOHN SABINE, esq. eldest son of John Sabine, D.D. of Patricksbourne, in Kent, who died in 1658, married the only daughter and heir of William Allayne, esq. (who had purchased Ion House, in the parish of Upper Gravenhurst, Bedfordshire, from William Whitbread, esq. in 1639,) and being described of Ion House, was created a BARONET in 1671. He died however without issue in 1705, when the title became EXTINCT. The estate at Gravenhurst he had sold to Morgan Hinde, esq. from whose family the Duke of Kent bought it in 1724.

Arms Arg. an escallop sa, on a chief of the last, two mullets pierced of the first.

His younger brother, Philip Sabine, of Patricksbourne, m. Mary, daughter and heir of Richard Chilborne, esq. son of Sir Charles Chilborne, serjeant-at-law, and had an only son, Chilborne Sabine, esq. of Patricksbourne.

SIR RALPH SADLEIR, knt. the distinguished statesman of HENRY the Eighth's, of EDWARD the Sixth's, and Queen ELIZABETH'S reign, m. Margaret Mitchell, a laundress in the family of his first patron, the Earl of Essex, and had several children; but it being discovered that Margaret's former husband, Matthew Barré, was alive, although supposed to have died abroad, the issue of Sir Ralph and Margaret were obliged to be legitimized by act of parliament. Those children were

1. THOMAS (Sir), of Standon, sheriff of Hertfordshire 29 and 37 ELIZABETH. (See BURKE'S Commoners, vol. ii. p. 561.)

11. EDWARD.

11. Henry, of Everley, in the county of Wilts.

1. Anne, m. to Sir George Horsey, knt. of Diggswell, in Hertfordshire.

11. Mary, m. to Thomas Bowles, esq. of Wallington, in the same county.

11. Jane, m. to Edward Bashe, esq. of Stanstedbury, also in Hertfordshire,

IV. Dorothy, m. to Edward Elrington, esq. of Borstall, in Essex.

Sir Ralph Sadleir was of the privy council more than forty years, and during the greater part of that time one of the knights of the shire for the county of Hertford. He died at Standon 30th March, 1587, in the eightieth year of his age, leaving behind him twentytwo manors, several parsonages, and other great estates in the counties of Hertford, Gloucester, Warwick, Buckingham, and Worcester; of which, he had settled the manor of Temple Dinsley, in Herts, upon his second son,

EDWARD SADLEIR, esq. who m. Anne, daughter and co-heir of Sir Richard Leigh, knt. of Sopwell,+ near St. Albans, and dying in the lifetime of his father, 26 ELIZABETH, left issue,

LEIGH, his heir.

Richard, who inherited Sopwell, m. Joyce, daughter of Robert Honywood, esq. of Charing, in Kent, and had (with issue from whom descended the Sadleirs of Sopwell Hall, in the county of Tipperary,) a son and heir,

Robert, of Sopwell, Herts, who left an only daughter and heir,

ELLEN SADLEIR, of Sopwell, who m. in 1662, Thomas Saunders, esq. of Beechwood, and by him (who sold the estate of Sopwell to Sir Harbottle Grimston) she had an only daughter and heiress,

+ HENRY VIII. granted to Sir Richard Leigh, knt. in the thirtieth year of his reign, the site of the priory of Sopwell, in the county of Hertford.