appointments, but on the landing of the Prince of Orange, joining the new king, he was constituted governor of Dover Castle and colonel of a regiment, with which he served for many years abroad. He m. first, Mary, daughter of Sir Halton Fermor, knt. of Easton Neston, in Northamptonshire, and relict of the Hon. Sir Charles Compton, knt.; and, secondly, Philipe, daughter of Sir Nicholas Carew, knt. of Beddington, in Surrey, but d. s. p. 3rd July, 1701. Elizabeth, m. to Sir John Hotham, bart. of Scarborough. The elder son, III. SIR THOMAS BEAUMONT, third viscount Beaumont, m. Mary, daughter of Sir Erasmus Fountain, knt. of Kerby Bellers, in Leicestershire, but had no issue. His lordship founded at Cole Orton an hospital for six widows and a free school, and endowed them bountifully, appointing for trustees his heir, the rector of the parish, and two others. Dying s. p. 11th June, 1702, the peerage, together with the BARONETCY, be came EXTINCT, while all the estates passed, under his will, to his lordship's heir male, SIR GEORGE BEAUMONT, bart. of Stoughton. Arms-Az. semée of fleurs-de-lys, a lion rampt. or. Vere, only daughter of Sir William Tufton, bart. of Vintners, in Kent, and by her (who m. secondly, George Lane) had issue, CICELY, m. to Robert Beaumont, esq. of Barrow upon Trent. VERE, m. to Sir John Rayney, bart. MARY, m. to George Morton, esq. of Sileby. Sir Thomas died without male issue 7th July, 1686, aged sixty-six, when the BARONETCY EXPIRED. The site of the priory of Grace-Dieu was inherited by Cicely, wife of Robert Beaumont, esq. of Barrow-onTrent, and from that gentleman was purchased by Sir Ambrose Phillipps, knt. of Garendon. Arms-As BEAUMONT, of Cole Orton. BEAUMONT, OF GRACE-DIEU. CREATED 29th Jan. 1627.-EXTINCT 7th July, 1680. Lineage. THOMAS BEAUMONT, of Tringston, a scion of the Cole Orton family, m. Anne Harcourt, and dying 22nd HENRY VIII. left two sons, viz. JOHN, his heir. Edward, who settled at Barrow upon Trent, and founded the branch of the family there seated, and now represented by JOHN BEAUMONT, esq. of Barrow upon Trent. (See BURKE'S Commoners, vol. iv.) The elder son, JOHN BEAUMONT, master of the Rolls in 1550, purchased the site of the priory of Grace-Dieu, in 1539, and by Elizabeth, his wife, eldest daughter and co-heir of Sir William Hastings, knt. left a son and heir, SIR FRANCIS BEAUMONT, knt. of Grace-Dieu, judge of the Common Pleas, who m. Anne, daughter of Sir George Pierrepoint, of Home Pierrepoint, in Nottingbamshire, and relict of Thomas Thorold, esq. and had three sons, viz. HENRY (Sir), of Grace-Dieu, whose only daughter and heir, BARBARA, m. first, John Harpur, esq.; and secondly, Sir Wolstan Dixie, bart. JOHN, of whom presently. FRANCIS, the celebrated DRAMATIC POET. The second son, 1. JOHN BEAUMONT, esq. of Grace-Dieu, was created a BARONET in 1627. He m. Elizabeth, daughter of John Fortescue, esq. and great-granddaughter of Sir Richard Pole, K.G. by whom he left at his decease, in 1628, a son and successor, 11. SIR JOHN BEAUMONT, of Grace-Dieu, colonel in the royal army, who gallantly distinguished himself in the cause of his ill-fated prince, and was slain at Gloucester in 1644. His brother and successor, III. SIR THOMAS BEAUMONT, of Grace-Dieu, married Lineage. 1. SIR RICHARD BEAUMONT, knt. of Whitley Beaumont, b. 2nd August, 1574, son of Edward Beaumont, esq. of Whitley, by Elizabeth his wife, daughter of John Ramsden, esq. was knighted by JAMES I. on the 23rd July, 1609, and in 1613 had a commission to command two hundred of the train-band soldiers. In 1625 Pontefract returned him to parliament, and in three years after he was created a BARONET. He d. unm. 28th October, 1631, when the BARONETCY became EXTINCT, and the estates devolved, under his will, his cousin, SIR THOMAS BEAUMONT. upon Arms-Gu. a lion rampant, arg. langued and armed az. between eight crescents. For details of the family of BEAUMONT OF WHITLEY, refer to BURKE'S Commoners, vol. ii. p. 321. This was a very ancient family, and it bore origi nally the name of MALBIE, or MALEYSSE. Its pedigree was entered in the visitation of Yorkshire by Sir William Dugdale at Doncaster, 9th April, 1666. SIR SYMON MALBIE, knt. lord of Cawton, in Craven, m. the daughter of John, lord of Methley, and had three sons, viz. I. JOHN, his heir, who wedded a daughter of Sir SIR JOHN MALBIE, knt. lord of Cowton, who Anne Fairfax, m. to- Maston. 11. Roger, m. the daughter of Sir Hugh Haigh, Ambrose Malbie, who wedded Timothea, Edward Malbie, who m. the daughter of This Sir William de Bruce appears to have inherited a considerable portion of the lands granted by WILLIAM the Conqueror to his ancestor, Sir Robert de Bruce, for we find that his daughter was heiress of Ugglebarby and Roxby, both of which places are mentioned amongst the possessions originally granted to Sir Robert de Bruce. Amongst those possessions are also named lands in "Leverton," or "Levinton," which must also have formed III. HERCULES. The youngest son, (in whose descendants the representation of the family eventually merged), HERCULES DE MALBIE, wedded a daughter of Sir John Ferrers, of Tamworth Castle, and had a son and heir, HERCULES DE MALBIE, who m. Beckwith, one of the daughters of Sir William Bruce,* lord of Uglebarby, descended from Sir Robert Brus, lord of Skelton Castle, in Cleveland, a noble Norman knight, ancestor of the BRUCES, of SCOTLAND, and had a son and heir, NICHOLAS BECKWITH, who changed his name in pursuance of the marriage contract between his father and Beckwith Bruce, wherein it was stipulated that he should do so, or adopt the coat armour of that family, and it appears by the following documents that he preferred the former. "Be it known to all nobles where this present writing shall come, be seen or heard: whereas Hammon Beckwith, esq. son and heir of Nicholas Beckwith, was warned by the Earl Marshal of England, by a process that was dated from the aforesaid Earl Marshal's manor of Ryseing Castle, in the county of Norfolk, January 18th, in the thirteenth year of the reign of our sovereign lord the king, in the year of our Lord 1339, that the said Hamon Beckwith should usurp, and take unto him, a coat of arms, which was appertaining unto John, Lord Malbie; for which better use, by virtue of this process, we charge you, that you will appear at the now mansion-house, and manor of Saymor, before us, and bring with you all such evidence and records of arms, that we may allow, grant, and set our hands, to your teste and posterity for ever. And also that your appearance shall be the 14th day of October next coming, in the aforesaid year above written. "And the said Orator did appear at the said day appointed, and did bring with him such evidence; whereof one piece, bearing date from the 10th year of HENRY III., which was in the year of our Lord 1226, from one Hercules Malbie, the third son of Sir Simon Malbie, knt. which married the Lady Dame Beckwith Browse, one of the daughters of Sir William Browse, lord of Uglebarby, and certain lands in Pickering, that the said Hercules should change his name, or else his coat, and his posterity for ever; and so it was that the said Hercules changed his name from Malbie to Beckwith, and did hold his coat: whereof I, the said Earl Marshal, Peter Mawlam, lord of de Luke, lord chamberlain to our sovereign lord King EDWARD III, and Henry, Lord Percy, Sir Robert Boynton, knt. and Sir William Acton, did see and allow of it in due proof, and the aforesaid coat to be his own, lineally descended; whereof we have set our hands and seals to the aforesaid teste, the day and year above written, in the presence of many." This Nicholas Beckwith m. the daughter of Sir John Chaworth, knt. and was s. by his son, HAMON BECKWITH, esq. who was seised of the lordship of Clint, bounding of the north side of Nid juxta Hampesthwait, and of Uglebarby, in Whitby-strand, certain lands in Pickering and Roxbie, with the manor of Beckwith and Beckwithshaw, 13th EDWARD III. A. D. 1339. He m. the daughter of Sir Philip Tilney, knt. and had, with a daughter Anne, the wife of William Frevile, esq. a son and successor, part of the inheritance of Sir William de Bruce which was conveyed by his daughter's marriage to Sir Hercules de Malbie, and is now possessed by the lineal descendant of Sir Hercules, the present Colonel BECKWITH, of Trimdon. This estate is held by a feudal tenure, viz. that the eldest son of the possessor should hold the king's stirrup whenever his majesty may come into the North Riding of Yorkshire. WILLIAM BECK WITH, esq. of Beckwith in 1364, who . a daughter of Sir Gerard Ufflet, and was s. by his son, THOMAS BECKWITH, esq. who was seised of Clint, the manor of Magna Otrington, and of Hornby juxta Thurske, which lands were holden of John, Lord Mowbray, of the manor of Thurske, 4 RICHARD II. He m. a daughter of John Sawley, esq. of Saxton, and had issue, WILLIAM, his heir. John, m. Amye, daughter of Arthur Chambers, esq. and d. s. p. m. Anne, m. to John Chancy, esq. and had Thomas Chancy. Julian Chancy. Ellen, m. to John Vavasour, esq. of Weston. This lady made her will in the 2nd HENRY VII. He was s. by his elder son, WILLIAM BECK WITH, esq. of Clint, who m. a daughter of Sir John Baskervile, knt. and was s. by his son, THOMAS BECKWITH, esq. of Clint, who m. the daughter and heir of Sir William Hasterton, knt. and in her right enjoyed the third part of the manors of Filey-Maston and Thorp. He had issue, THOMAS, his successor. WILLIAM (Sir), successor to his brother. John, m. the daughter of Thomas Ratcliff, of Mulgrave, and had a son, THOMAS, heir to his uncle SIR WILLIAM. Adam, m. Amy, daughter of William Redman, esq. of Harwood Castle, and d. s. p. Robert, m. Barbara, daughter of John Leventhorp, esq. of Leventhorp, and had, with a daughter Mary, an only son, John, from whom descended Sir Leonard Beckwith and Ambrose Beckwith, of Stillingfleet. Sir Leonard Beckwith was sheriff of Yorkshire in the 4th of EDWARD VI. He served King HENRY VIII. in his French wars, and was afterwards in the service of EDWARD VI., from which monarch he received a grant in the 4th year of the king's reign of the site of the Abbey of Selby. He m. Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of Sir Roger Cholmley, knt. and had issue, Elizabeth, m. to William Vavasour, of Weston, in the county of York. Frances, m. to George Harvey, esq. of Markes, in Essex. Thomas Beckwith was s. by his eldest son, THOMAS BECKWITH, esq. of Clint, who m. Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Ingleby, esq. of Ripley, in the county of York, but dying s. p. was s. by his brother, SIR WILLIAM BECKWITH, knt. of Clint. This gentleman m. first, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Plumpton, knt. of Plumpton; and secondly, the daughter of Sir John Ratcliffe, knt. but had no issue. His next brother, JOHN BECKWITH, married a daughter of Thomas Radcliffe, esq. of Mulgrave, and had two sons, viz. 1. THOMAS, heir to his uncle Sir William Beckwith, m. Maud, daughter of Henry Pudsey, esq. and was s. by his son, This MARMADUKE sold Clint, and purchased lands in Fetherston and Aikton, which were sold by his grandson, Thomas Beckwith, to Langdale Sunderland, esq. whose grandson, Peter Sunderland, sold the greater part with the royalty about 1715 to Edmund Wince, esq. + THOMAS BECKWITH is by another authority stated to have married three wives: first, Murioll, daughter of WILLIAM, of Clint, who m. first, Anne, daughter of Sir John Lancaster, knt. of Westmoreland; and secondly, a daughter of Sir John Mallory, knt. of Studley, but by that lady had no issue. Dying thus s. p. he was s. by his brother, THOMAS, of Clint, father, by Elizabeth Tyrrell, his wife, of THOMAS, of Clint, who m. first, Mand, daughter of Bryan Palmes, esq. of Linley; and secondly, Catherine, daughter of William Tancred, esq. of Boroughbridge. He d. in 1575, and was s. by his son (by his first wife), WILLIAM, of Clint, who m. first, Joanna, daughter of William Tancred, esq. of Boroughbridge, by whom he had a son, William, who died young. His second wife was Mary, daughter of Anthony Salmon, gent. of Ansley Woodhouse, Notts, and by her he had ROBERT BECKWITH, esq. of Broxholm, who was father of JOHN BECKWITH, esq. of Clint, who left a son and heir, ROBERT BECKWITH, esq. of Clint, father of MARMADUKE BECKWITH, esq. of Aikton, who m. Anne, daughter of Robert Dyneley, esq. of Bramhope, in the county of York, and had issue, I. THOMAS, of Aikton, living in 1612, m. Frances, daughter and heir of William Frost, esq. of Aikton, and had a son, THOMAS, of Aikton, who left by his wife, the daughter of Henry Hunt, esq. of Carlton, a son and heir, THOMAS, of Aikton, who wedded Barbara, daughter of John Milburne, esq. of Hinderskelf, and had (with a daughter, Mary, m. to Edward Ashton, of Methley) THOMAS, of Aikton, who m. Murioll, daughter of William Wandesford, esq. of Pickhill, in the county of York, and had two daughters, his co-heirs, viz. ISABEL, m. to Nicholas Fairfax, esq. second brother of Thomas, Viscount Fairfax of the kingdom of Ireland. BARBARA, M. to Matthew Lock- II. ROGER. there. He m. first, Dorothy, daughter of Mr. Currer, of Leeds, and had issue, THOMAS, of Beverley. Katherine, m. to Thomas Norton, of Elveston. Anne, m. to John Robinson, of Bolton upon Swale. He wedded, secondly, Susanna, daughter of Mr. Brakenbury, of Denton and Sellaby, in the county of Durham, and by that lady had ARTHUR, his successor. Matthew, of Tanfield, in the county of York, m. Susan, m. to John Anlaby, esq. of Anlaby, in the Susanna Anlaby, m. first, Arnold Colwell, esq.; and, secondly, Foot Onslow, esq. first commissioner of excise; by the latter she was mother of Mr. Speaker Onslow. Judith, m. to William Parker, M.D. of London. Hester, m. to Thomas Odingsells, esq. of Eperston, in Nottinghamshire. Roger Beckwith d. 19th January, 1634, and was buried at Masham, in the North Riding, where in the choir of the church there was a monument erected to his memory, thus inscribed: "In memory of Roger Beckwith, of Aldbrough, esq. who dyed on Monday the 19th of January, in the year 1634, and was buried near this place. He married Susanna, the daughter of Mr. Brakenbury, of Sellaby, in the county palatine of Durham, by whom he had Arthur, his successor, and seven other children, four sons and three daughters; she departed this life the 28th day of October, Anno Domini 1670, and lyes buried in the parish church of Skelborough. He was the son of Marmaduke Beckwith, of Acton, by Anne, daughter to Mr. Dynley, of Bramhope, which Marmaduke was the next in descent to Huntington Beckwith, of Clint, where the family had continued, from the tenth year of King Henry III. Anno Domini 1226, until the year 1597, when the aforesaid Roger Beckwith sold his lands in Clint, and purchased Aldbrough." He d. in the service of his country in 1642, and was s. by his only surviving son, 1. ROGER BECKWITH, esq. of Aldborough, who was created a BARONET by King CHARLES II. on the 15th April, 1681. He m. first, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Christopher Clapham, knt. of Beamsley, by whom he had a son, Arthur, who died beyond sea in 1700. Sir Roger wedded, secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Edmund Jenings, knt. of Ripon, and by that lady had ROGER, his heir. Marmaduke, a Virginia merchant. Sir Roger d. 6th December, 1700, and was s. by his son, II. SIR ROGER BECKWITH, of Aldborough, high sheriff of Yorkshire in 1706. This gentleman m. 10th October, 1705, Jane, daughter and sole heir of Benja min Waddington, esq. of Allerton Gledhow, and by her, who d. in 1713, had issue, Roger, Edmund, } both d. unm. JANE, eventual heiress, who m. Beilby Thompson, esq. of Micklethwaite Grange, in Yorkshire, and had a daughter, Jane Thompson, m. to Pere grine Wentworth, but d. s. p. Mr. Thompson, after the decease of his wife Jane Beckwith, espoused Sarah, widow of Sir Darcy Dawes, and daughter of Richard Roundell, esq. of Hutton Wandsley, and by her was grandfather of the present PAUL BEILBY THOMPSON, esq. of Escrick Park, M.P. for the East Riding of Yorkshire. Sir Roger d. in May, 1743, when the title became CREATED 20th June, 1611. EXTINCT in June, 1815. Lineage. 1. SIR HENRY BELASYSE, of Newborough, in the county of York, (for the early descent see BURKE'S EXTINCT PEERAGE), having received the honour of knighthood from King JAMES I. at York, in his majesty's journey to London, 17th April, 1603, was created a BARONET upon the institution of the order on the 29th June, 1611. Sir Henry m. Ursula, daughter of Sir Thomas Fairfax, of Denton, in the county of York, and had issue, BERG, of Yarum, in the county of York, on the 25th THOMAS, Successor to his grandfather. Rowland (Sir), K. B. m. Anne, eldest daugh- THOMAS, who s. as third Viscount Fauconberg. Henry, d. unmarried. John, d. s. p. Rowland, m. Frances, daughter of Christopher, Lord Teynham, by whom he had, with other issue, Anthony, who m. Susannah, daughter of John Clarvet, esq. and had issue, ROWLAND, who s. as sixth vis count. CHARLES, D. D. of Sorbonne, who Grace, m. to George, Viscount Castletown, in Frances, m. to Sir Henry Jones, knt. of As- Arabella, m. to Sir William Frankland, bart. John, created LORD BELASYSE, of Worlaby, whose ven, in the county of York, who was put to Ursula, m. to Sir Walter Vavasor, bart. of Haslewood. Frances, m. to Thomas Ingram, esq. eldest son of Sir Arthur Ingram, of Temple Newsom, Yorkshire. His lordship d. in 1652, and was s. by his grandson, 11. SIR THOMAS BELASYSE, second viscount, who m. first, Mildred, daughter of Nicholas, Viscount Castleton, by whom he had no issue; and, secondly, on the 18th of November, 1657, the LADY MARY CROMWELL, daughter of the PROTECTOR. Of this nobleman Lord Clarendon gives the following account :-" After Cromwell was declared protector, and in great power, he married his daughter to the Lord Fauconberg, the owner of a very great estate in Yorkshire, and descended of a family eminently loyal. There were many reasons to believe that this young gentleman, being then about three or four-and-twenty years of age, of great vigour and ambition, had many good purposes that he thought that alliance might qualify and enable him to perform. His marriage was celebrated at Whitehall (Wood has given the time at Hampton Court,) with all imaginable pomp and lustre. And it was observed, that, though it was performed in public, according to the rites and ceremonies then in use, they were presently afterwards, in private, married by ministers ordained by bishops, and according to the form in the book of Common Prayer, and this with the privity of Cromwell." In 1657, his lordship was made one of the council of state, and sent the next year, by his father-in-law, with a complimentary message to the court of Versailles. This was the only employment Lord Fauconberg had under the usurper; for, as the noble author before mentioned relates, "his domestic delights were lessened every day; he plainly discovered that his son Fauconberg's heart was set upon an interest destructive to his, and grew to hate him perfectly." Of Lady Fauconberg, Burnet writes: "She was a wise and worthy woman, more likely to have maintained the post (of protector) than either of her brothers; according to a saying that went of her, that those who wore breeches deserved petticoats better; but if those in petticoats had been in breeches, they would have held faster.'" That his lordship forwarded the restoration, is evident from his being appointed, by the restored monarch, in 1660, lord-lieutenant of the bishopric of Durham, and in the same year, lord-lieutenant and custus rotulorum of the North Riding of Yorkshire. He was soon afterwards accredited ambassador to the state of Venice and the princes of Italy, and constituted captain of the band of gentleman pensioners. In 1679, Lord Fauconberg was sworn of the privy council; and, again, in 1689, upon the accession of King WILLIAM and Queen MARY, when his lordship was created EARL FAUCONBERG, by letters patent, dated on the 9th of April, in that year. He d. on the 31st December, 1700, and leaving no issue, the EARLDOM EXPIRED, while his other honours reverted to his nephew (refer to Sir Rowland Belasyse, K. B. third son of the first lord), IV. SIR THOMAS BELASYSE, as fourth baronet, and third Viscount Fauconberg. His lordship m. Bridget, daughter of Sir John Gage, bart. of Firle, in the county of Sussex, and co-heiress of her mother, who was daughter of Thomas Middlesmore, esq. of Egbaston, in Warwickshire, by whom he had surviving issue, THOMAS, his successor. Rowland. Mary, m. 9th April, 1721, to John Pitt, esq. third son of Thomas Pitt, esq. governor of Fort St. George. His lordship d. 26th November, 1718, and was s. by his elder son, V. SIR THOMAS BELASYSE, fourth viscount, who was created EARL FAUCONBERG, of Newborough, in the county of York, on the 15th June, 1756. His lordship m. in 1726, Catherine, daughter and heiress of John Betham, esq. of Rowington, in the county of Warwick, and co-heiress of William Fowler, esq. of St. Thomas, in the county of Stafford, by whom he had surviving issue, |