Hem. secondly, Mrs. Mary Kightley, and by her Mary, m. to Colonel Butler, of Ireland. Dorothy, m. to Sir Henry Heron, K. B. of Cressy Sir James d. in February, 1691-2, and was s. by his grandson, III. SIR ROBERT LONG, who d. of the small- pox, four days after his grandfather, and was s. by his brother, IV. SIR GILES LONG, who d. unm. about the year 1698, and was s. by his brother, V. SIR JAMES LONG, M.P. for the county of Wilts, temp. Queen ANNE, m. the Hon. Henrietta Greville, daughter of Fulke, Lord Brooke, and dying 16th March, 1729, was s. by his elder son, VI. SIR ROBERT LONG, M. P. for Wotton Basset, m. May, 1735, Lady Emma Child, daughter of Richard, Earl of Tilney, of Wanstead, in Essex, and Tilney Hall, Hants, and heir of her brother, John, second earl. By her ladyship, who d. 8th March, 1758, Sir Robert had issue, JAMES, his heir, who assumed the additional sur- Sir Robert d. 10th February, 1767, and was s. by his eldest son, VII. SIR JAMES TILNEY-LONG, b. in 1736, M. P. for Wilts, married first, Harriett, fourth daughter of Jacob Bouverie, Viscount Folkestone, but by that lady, who d. 13th November, 1777, had no issue. He m. secondly, Lady Catherine Sidney Windsor, daughter of Other Lewis, fourth Earl of Plymouth, and by her ladyship, who d. in 1823, had He d. 28th November, 1794, and was s. by his son, CATHERINE TILNEY-LONG, b. in 1789, who m. the * SIR RICHARD CHILD, bart. of Wanstead, in Essex, was created by GEORGE I. Baron Newton and Viscount Castlemain, in the peerage of Ireland, and by GEORGE II. Earl of Tilney. His lordship m. Dorothy, only surviving daughter and heir of John Glynne, esq. of Henley Park, in Surrey, by his wife, Dorothy, daughter of Francis Tilney, esq. of Rotherwick, in the county of SouthampIn 1734 an act of parliament passed, enabling his lordship's eldest son, JOHN, and his heirs to bear the surname of TILNEY, in consequence of an estate of £7000 a year, which devolved upon the Countess of Tilney, as heir of Anne, Lady Craven. The earl had issue, ton. liam, Lord Maryborough, and dying in 1826, left two sons and a daughter, viz. WILLIAM RICHARD - ARTHUR TILNEY - LONGWELLESLEY, b. in 1813, now of Draycote, in the county of Wilts. James-Fitzroy-Henry Tilney-Long-Wellesley, b. in 1815. Victoria-Catharine-Mary Tilney-Long-Welles ley. Arms-Sable, semée of cross-crosslets, a lion ram. pant arg. LORT, OF STACKPOOLE COURT. CREATED 15th July, 1662. Lineage. EXTINCT 19th Sept. 1698. I. ROGER LORT, esq. of Stackpoole Court, in the county of Pembroke, who was created a BARONET 15th July, 1662, m. first, Hester, sister of Arthur An nesley, Earl of Anglesea; and secondly, Anne, daughter of Humphrey Wyndham, esq. of Dunraven Castle, in the county of Glamorgan. Sir Roger died about the year 1664 (his widow wedded secondly Sir Edward Mansel), and was s. by his son, 11. SIR JOHN LORT, of Stackpoole Court, who m Lady Susan Holles, fourth daughter of John, second Earl of Clare, by Elizabeth his wife, daughter and co-heir of the celebrated General Sir Horatio Vere, Lord Vere of Tilbury, and had issue, GILBERT, his heir. ELIZABETH, M. to Sir Alexander Campbell, son of Sir Hugh Campbell, of Cawdor Castle, in the county of Nairn, and had a son, JOHN CAMPBELL, esq. of Cawdor, who inherited the estates of his maternal ancestors, the Lorts of Stackpoole Court. He m. Mary, eldest daughter and co-heir of Lewis Pryse, esq. of Gogerddan, and his great grandson is the present JOHN-FREDERICK CAMPBELL, EARL CAWDOR. (See BURKE'S Peerage.) Sir John died about 1673, and was s. by his son, III. SIR GILBERT LORT, who died unmarried 19th September, 1698, aged twenty-eight, when the BARONETCY became EXTINCT. The estates passed to the Campbells of Cawdor, and are now enjoyed by Earl Cawdor. Arms-Gu. a cross, or. JOHN, Viscount Castlemain. Josiah, m. in 1754, Henrietta, daughter of Robert EMMA, m in 1735, to SIR ROBERT LONG, bart. His lordship was s. by his elder son, JOHN, Second Earl of Tilney, who d. s. p. when all his honours EXPIRED, and his great fortune passed to his nephew, Sir James Tilney-Long, eldest son of his sister, Lady Emma Long. The family of LOUETH, LUUETH, DE LUVIEt, De LUVET, LOVET or LOVETT, as the name is variously written in Domesday, is of Norman extraction. RICHARDUS DE LOUET, de Normania, was living at the time of the Conquest, and was accompanied into England by his two sons, WILLIAM and Robert, from the latter descended the Lovets of Worcestershire. WILLIAM LOVETT, the eldest son, held considerable estates in the counties of Bedford, Berks, Leicester, and Northampton, in capite, by grant from the Conqueror. He was also appointed master of the wolf hounds, in consequence of which, he took for his arms argent, three wolves passant, in pale, sable. He made Northamptonshire his chief residence, as did his des cendants for several generations, until their removal to Liscombe, in Buckinghamshire, which subsequently continued their abode for five hundred years. This William, besides being represented as a man in high favour with the king for his military talents, is said to have been one of the strongest and stoutest men of the day, of which many feats are still recorded. He married a French lady, at whose death he was so deeply affected, that taking her remains over to Normandy to be buried, he retired himself into an adjacent monastery, and every day until the day of his death, payed a visit to her tomb, and on that day caused himself to be carried and laid upon the grave, where he expired. In his family this was long a nursery story, and gave rise to a nursery song. He lived to a great age, and was s. by his son, WILLIAM LOVETT, whose great-great grandson, SIR ROBERT LOVETT, knt. of Rushton and Newton, in the county of Warwick, left a daughter, Alicia, m. to William de Wever, of Cester Over, in the same county, and two sons, Robert and John. To the younger, JOHN LOVETT, he gave his estate at Newton, with his manor of Dodisthorp, near Peterborough, where he erected (by license from the Bishop of Lincoln), in consequence of the badness of the roads, a chantry chapel for the use of his family. This John purchased Cester Over from his nephew, Robert de Waver, and dying without issue, left all his estates to his great nephew (the grandson of his brother, and eldest son of Sir Richard Lovett, of Newton), This Richardus de Louet, who was one of the few who accompanied the Conqueror into England without receiving pay for his services, returned to die in his own country, and his tomb may be seen to this day in the cathedral at Rouen. + This THOMAS LOVETT, of Astwell, served the office of sheriff for Northamptonshire in 1482, and dying in 1491, was 8. by his son, THOMAS LOVETT, esq. of Astwell, who m. Anne, sister and sole heir of Richard Drayton, of Strixton, in Northamptonshire, was sheriff in 1491, and died in 1502, leaving a son, then seventeen years of age, THOMAS LOVETT, esq. of Astwell, who m. first, Eliza ROBERT LOVETT, who settled at Liscombe, in Buckinghamshire, of which, with Hollingdon and Soulbury, he levied a fine in 1304. These lordships remained in the family to the time that the male line became extinct, a period exceeding five centuries. He m. Sarah, daughter and heiress of Sir Nicholas De Turville, of Helmeden, in Northamptonshire, and was s. by his son, THOMAS LOVETT, who, upon making the king's son a knight in 1347, accounted for these manors with his other lordships, amounting to twenty-three knight's fees, and one half and one eighth. By his wife, Clementia, he had issue, WILLIAM, his heir. Richard, to whom he gave the manor of Welford in whose descendants it remained until it passed to the Temple family, by the intermarriage of Jocosa, daughter and co-heir of WILLIAM LOVETT, esq. of Welford, with Richard Temple, esq. of Temple Hall, in the county of Leicester. Nicholas, who got from his father the lordship of Richton. He m. the sister and co-heir of Richard Lions, of Oakley, which, from him, took the name of Lovett's manor, in Oakley. This branch of the family became extinct in the third generation. Maud, m. De Arches. He was s. by his eldest son, WILLIAM LOVETT, of Liscombe, who presented to Soulbury in 1376 and 1391. In 1359, he had inherited the estates of his great uncle, John Lovett, of Newton, but being an improvident person, he soon dissipated those, with a great part of his paternal property. In 1366, he conveyed the manor of Overbury to his sister, Maud de Arches; and in 1386, he sold to William Purefoy and his heirs (after the death of his mother Clementia, then the wife of John Parount), his lands at Cester Over, in Warwickshire; and having disposed of estates of large amount to several other people, he died in 1392, and was s. by his son, ROGER LOVETT, of Liscombe, who presented to Soulbury in 1435. In 1418, he appears again in possession of the manor of Helmeden, which he settled upon his son JOHN, who m. Margaret de Ingleton. John died soon after, in the lifetime of his father, leaving a 1. John, d. s. p. II. WILLIAM, of Liscombe. III. Thomas, of Astwell, in the county of Northampton, which house and estates, with others of great value in that county, as well as in the counties of Oxford and Gloucester, he acquired by his marriage with Joan, daughter and co-heir of Thomas Billinge, esq. son and heir of Sir Thomas Billinge, knt. chief justice of the Common Pleas. + He was s. by his elder surviving son, beth, daughter of John Butler, esq. of Woodhall, in the county of Bedford, and had issue, THOMAS, his heir. Elizabeth, m. to Alderman Sir William Chester, knt. of the city of London. Amye, m. to James Bury, esq. of Hampton Poyle, in Oxfordshire. Margaret, m. to Thomas Foxley, esq. of Blakesley, in Northamptonshire. Constance, m. to John Matthew, esq. of Bradden, in the same county. Anne, m. first, to John Heneage, esq. of Pendeston, WILLIAM LOVETT, esq. of Liscombe, who was s. by his son, ROGER LOVETT, esq. living in 1491, and s. at his decease by his brother, THOMAS LOVETT, esq. of Liscombe, who m. a daughter of Neville of Gothurst (son and heir of Sir Robert Neville, by Joan, daughter and heir of Sir John Nowers, of Gothurst), and sister of Michael Neville, whose daughter and heiress, Mary, m. Thomas Mulshoe, and was grandmother of Mary Mulshoe, who m. Sir Everard Digby, and thus conveyed the Gothurst estate to that family. They had issue, The second son, RICHARD LOVETT, esq. of Liscombe, m. Alice, daughter of Thomas Martin, of London, and had a daughter Alice, wife of John Taylor, of the same city, with a son and heir, LAURENCE LOVETT, esq. of Liscombe, who m. Elizabeth, daughter, and (on the death of her niece, Rawson Williams (only child of her only surviving brother, Nicholas Williams, of Burfield), without issue), coheiress of Sir Reginald Williams, of Burfield, in the county of Berks (elder brother of John, Lord Williams of Thame, and) son of Sir John Williams, of Thame Park (the maternal representative of the ancient family of Perceval, Lords of Corevill, in Somersetshire, a branch of the baronial house of Lovel and Holland), by Elizabeth, his wife, daughter and coheiress of Richard More, esq. of Burfield, by Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of William Brocas, esq. of Southampton, and was s. at his decease by his only surviving child, FRANCIS LOVETT, esq. of Liscombe, who m. Anne, daughter of Augustine Crispe, esq. of Boughton, in Northamptonshire, and left a son and heir, SIR ROBERT LOVETT, of Liscombe, sheriff of Bucks in 1608, and d. in 1643. He m. first, Susan, daughter of Richard Brookes, esq. and sole heir of her maternal grandfather, Richard Pate, of Matson, in Gloucestershire; she was the widow of Sir Ambrose Willoughby. By this lady he had two daughters, 1. Frances, m. to John Gareaway, nephew and heir of Sir William Gareaway, knt. 11. Susan, m. to Francis Saunders, esq. of Dinton, Bucks. He m. secondly, Anne, daughter of Richard Saunders, esq. of Dinton, by Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of in Lincolnshire; and secondly, to William Palmer, esq. of Carlton. Bridget, m. to Gabriel Dormer, esq. of Lee Grange. He m. secondly, Jane, daughter and co-heir of John Pinchpole, esq. of London, and by her had a son George, who d. unmarried. He was sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1506, and dying in 1543, was s. by his son, THOMAS LOVETT, esq. of Astwell, who m. Anne, daughter of Sir John Danvers, of Dantesey, in Wilts, and had issue, THOMAS, his heir. Anne, m. to Robert Leeson, esq. Elizabeth, m. first, to Anthony Cave, esq. of Chichley, Bucks; secondly, John Newdegate, esq. of Harefield, M. P. for Middlesex in 1571; and thirdly, Mr. Justice Weston. --, m. first, to Thomas Barker, esq. and, secondly, to Thomas Duncombe, esq. of Whitechurch, Bucks. Blount, of Blountshall, in the county of Leicester, and by her had issue, 1. ROBERT, his heir. II. EDWARD, successor to his brother. III. CHRISTOPHER, who, at the time of the Restoration, was settled in Turkey as a merchant, but removed, in 1660, to Dublin, of which city he became sheriff and lord mayor. He m. Frances O'More, and had issue, 1. CHRISTOPHER, who inherited the Lis- 2. JOHN (Colonel), heir to his brother. John, who m. Amelia, daughter of John, captain of horse, died un- Amelia, m. to Sir Gilfrid Lawson, bart. of 1. Anne, m. first, to William Tighe, esq. Rutland, in the county of Carlow; and secondly, to Thomas Coote, one of the judges of the court of King's Bench, in Ireland. 2. Frances, m. to Major-general Pearce, of Norfolk. 3. Mary, m. to Medhop Lloyd, esq. of Tomagh, in the King's County, ancestor of the Lloyds of Gloster, in the same county. (See BURKE'S Commoners, vol. ii. p. 550.) 4. Rebecca, m. to Jonathan Ashe, esq. of Ashe Grove, in Tipperary. IV. Laurence, of Eythorp, left two daughters, SARAH, m. to the Rev. William Butterfield. SUSANNAH, m. first, to - Horton, esq.; and, secondly, to Colonel JOHN LOVETT, and by the latter had issue, ROBERT LOVETT. Christopher Lovett, of Dublin, who m. Mrs. Wellington, daughter of -- Cosby, and had issue. 1. Elizabeth, m. to John Combes, esq. 11. Anne, m. first, Edward Bourchier, fourth Earl of Bath, but by his lordship (she was his second wife) had no issue. She wedded, secondly, Baptist Noel, third Viscount Campden, and had by him one still-born child only. III. Dorothy, m. to John Herne, esq. He served the office of sheriff in 1553, and 1561. He was s. at his decease by his son, THOMAS LOVETT, esq. of Astwell, who m. Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Fermor, esq. of Easton Neston, and by her (who m. secondly, William Grey, esq. of Donyland, in Essex) left a daughter, his heir, viz. Jane, m to John Shirley, esq. of Stanton Harold, in the county of Leicester, ancestor of the Earls Ferrers, and conveyed to her husband Astwell, and the greater portion of the estates in Oxford, Gloucester, and Northampton. Note-There was formerly in the great hall at Astwell, a table thirty-three feet long, three feet broad, and three inches deep, all of one plank of oak. Frances O'More was daughter and heiress of Roger O'More, the descendant and representative of the great family of the O'Mores, Princes of Leix, whose great estates had been forfeited in the reign of ELIZABETH. 324 IV. Mary, m. to the Rev. John Downe, D.D. v. Sarah, m. to Robert Herne, esq. VI. Rebecca. VII. Penelope. VIII. Arabella, m. to Charles Playdell, esq. The eldest son and heir, ROBERT LOVETT, esq. of Liscombe, was sheriff of Buckinghamshire in 1664, and died in 1699, aged seventy-four. He m. first, Penelope, daughter and heir of Thomas Aylet, esq. of Howells, in Essex, and had issue, ROBERT, who m. Theodosia, daughter of Sir John LETTICE, m. to Thomas Pigott, esq. of Doddeshall, PENELOPE, m. to Edward Bate, esq. of Maid's Morton, Bucks, and had a daughter, who m. first, Clifton Packe, esq. of Prestwould, in Leicestershire, and had a daughter, Penelope Packe, m. to Richard Verney, afterwards Lord Willoughby de Broke. Mrs. Packe m. secondly, Colonel James Pentlebury, of the artillery. Robert dying without surviving male issue, was s. by his brother, EDWARD LOVETT, esq. of Corfe, in the county of Devon, who m. Joan, daughter and heir of James Hearle, esq. of Tostock, and had two daughters, Penelope, wife of Sir Henry Northcote, bart. and Joan, of - Hatch, esq. with a son and heir, ROBERT LOVETT, esq. of Liscombe and Corfe, who d. unm. and was s. by his first cousin, CHRISTOPHER LOVETT, esq. eldest son of Christopher Lovett, lord mayor of Dublin, but this gentleman dying unm. was s. by his brother, JOHN LOVETT, esq. of Liscombe and Corfe, who m. first, Susannah, widow of - Horton, esq. and daughter and co-heiress of Laurence Lovett, esq. of Eythorp, and had issue, 1. ROBERT, his heir. 11. Christopher, of Dublin, who m. Mrs. Wellington, and had issue. • This lady died in her eighteenth year, 31st August, 1718, and the following lines compose her epitaph: Underneath this stone doth lie As much virtue as could die; You + In a pocket book of this lady's the following memorandum was found some years since. "Soon after my marriage, I rode over to see Liscombe, the ancient seat of my husband's family, being only about twelve miles from my father's. Mr. Lovett, to whom it belongs, not residing in it, allowed Mr. Sandby, a very respectable man, the clergyman of the parish, to live in the house, who received us with great politeness. The house is very old and very gloomy, surrounded with high walls and old trees, but it has a venerable appearance. enter through a great gateway into a court, round which the house and chapel are built. The windows, all of stone, give it more the look of a monastery than a mansion; but Mr. Sandby, to whom I made the remark, assured me I must not judge from appearances, for though it might have a gloomy outside, there were more joyful faces in it than in any house in the county, for there were more marriages in Liscombe chapel than in any three churches in the neighbourhood. From the court you enter the great hall, which is a large room, and is entirely covered with old armour. The gentleman assured me they were particularly curious, and endeavoured to explain to Ine their different uses; but I begged to be excused, as I did not intend murdering men. "Well, madam," says Mr. Sandby, "I will shew you something more in your own way presently." From thence we proceeded through a variety of long passages and little rooms, for except the Colonel Lovett m. secondly, the Hon. Mary Verney,t daughter of Ralph Verney, Viscount Fermanagh, of Middle Claydon, Bucks, and had further issue, 11. Verney, M. P. for Wendover. This gentleman was major in the 39th Foot, when that regiment went to India, the first of his majesty's regiments which served there. He d. unm. and was buried at Soulbury. IV. John, captain R. N. a distinguished officer, d. unmarried. 1. Mary, d. young. II. Elizabeth, d. unm. Colonel John Lovett died in 1710, and was succeeded by his eldest son by his first wife (Susannah, widow of Horton, and daughter of Laurence Lovett, of Eythorp), ROBERT LOVETT, esq. of Liscombe, in Bucks, and of Kingswell, in the county of Tipperary, who served the office of sheriff of the King's County, and married Sarah, daughter of Jonathan Ashe, esq. of Ashe Grove, in Tipperary, by whom he had surviving issue, Robert, who d. unm. JONATHAN, heir to his father. William, captain 1st regiment of horse, d. un- Susannah, m. to Jonathan Darby, esq. of Leap Lettice, m. to Damer Darby, esq. younger brother ter. He was s. by his son, JONATHAN LOVETT, esq. of Liscombe, in Bucks, and Kingswell, in the county of Tipperary, of which latter he served the office of sheriff. He m. Eleanor, daughter of Daniel Mansergh, esq. of Macrony, in the county of Cork, and had issue, I. JONATHAN, his heir. 11. Robert, d. young. III. Verney, inherited the Irish property, and was of Kingswell. He was in holy orders, D. D. and chaplain to the Prince of Wales. He m. hall and the drawing room over it, which is a large and very handsome room, they are all small, but from their numbers must have held a very large family; as Mr. Sandby assured me, of all sizes, there were more than fifty. But what with the old tapestry, and the dark gilt leather furniture, and black oak, (for I believe this family considered paint as great an abomination in their house as they would on the faces of their wives and daughters,) I never saw any place more calculated to induce one to change this world for another. We came at last to the nursery, and Mr. Sandby directed my attention to a something in a great old frame over the chimney, but which, being in the old black letter, like a church Bible, I could not read a word of. "That, madam," says he, "is the nursery song of this family, founded on the two characters of the warrior and the lover, which tradition represents as eminently united in William Lovett, the founder of this house. The song is as follows: May my child be as stout, May my child be as strong, And my brave boy live also as long, From the nursery we proceeded to a little closet with a thousand locks. Mr. Sandby shewed us a chest full of papers and parchments, which, he said, were the different grants and appointments for some centuries of this family; and in my lifetime I never saw anything more beautifully illumined than some of them were. He said the chest contained as curious a collection of letters as were in the possession of any private family in the kingdom. He said the letters were in general from some of the first people in the court of JAMES I. and CHARLES I. Frances-Mary, daughter and co heiress of Henry Gervais, of Lismore, D.D. archdeacon of Cashel, and had three sons and three daugh ters, viz. JONATHAN-HENRY, who went to India, a HENRY-WILLIAM, who inherited Kingswell, 1. Mary, m. to Richard Weekes, esq. of Limerick, and survived his widow, without issue. II. Eleanor, m. to Jonathan Darby, esq. of Leap Castle, in the King's County. 11. Jane, m, to John Bennet, one of the judges of the King's Bench, in Ireland, and d. leaving issue. IV. Elizabeth, d. young. v. Susanna, m. to William Henn, esq. master in chancery in Ireland, son of William Henn, one of the judges of the King's Bench, to Sir Robert Lovett; who, from them, appears to have been a man of distinguished abilities, as the letters are upon very important subjects, and those of CHARLES I. allude particularly to the times. One, the contents of which I wished my father to be informed of (I begged to take an account in writing): it was from the secretary of state, Sir Edward Nicholas, in the year 1642. He writes to Sir Robert Lovett as his old friend, wishing him to come to London, as he can assure him he will not have any difficulty to obtain what he long ago should have been in possession of. "I asked," said Mr. Sandby," the late Mr. Lovett, my patron, what that alluded to. He said, his father had told him, that upon the first creation of baronets, he had been promised to have been one. Why he had been omitted he could never learn, but that he attributes it to a disagreement he once had with Lord Salisbury upon some militia business; but of this he was not certain. However, thinking himself very ill used, he retired into the country, and never went to court again. That upon hearing from Sir Edward Nicholas, he wrote to thank him, but declined the honour on account of the largeness of his family, and that from the declining state of his health, he was unequal to undertake the journey, and which was really the case, for he died soon after. My patron, one of the best of men, never made any application for what I told him, many times, I thought he had such good pretensions. But his answer was always, I do not love obligations, and a refusal I should consider an insult; let things remain therefore as they are." Mrs. Lovett, in continuation, proceeds; "My father was so pleased with the account I gave him, that in a few days after, he went to Liscombe himself. Upon his return, he said he was highly entertained; that they were some of the most interesting letters he had ever read, and put many things in a different point of view from what he had before seen them in; that he had not time to go through the tenth part of them, but that he had promised to spend two or three days with Mr. Sandby to look over them all. I do not remember his ever mentioning whether he did so or not. Happening by accident, many years after, to find the above memorandum, and Mr. Lovett, to whom Liscombe then belonged, being in England, (for the family have long resided in Ireland,) I took the first opportunity of inquiring after my old friends the arms and papers at Liscombe, but sorry am I to record their fate. He said upon the death of his elder brother, who died a few months before he was of age, his IV. Elizabeth, m. to John Pigott, esq. of Capard, in the Queen's County. The eldest son and heir, 1. SIR JONATHAN LOVETT, of Liscombe, in the county of Buckingham, was created a BARONET+ 23rd October, 1781. Upon the death of his uncle Verney in 1770, he succeeded to the Irish estates, so that in him centred the remnant of the estates of the Lovett family in both kingdoms. In the year 1772 he enclosed the common field of Soulbury and Hollingdon, and expended large sums of money in the reparation of the old house at Liscombe, which, from the non-residence of the family for nearly a century, had fallen into decay. He m. Sarah, daughter of Jonathan Darby, esq. of Leap Castle, in the King's County, and had issue. ROBERT-TURVILLE-JONATHAN, died in 1807. Elizabeth. Letitia. Arabella, died unmarried. He died 12th January, 1812, when the BARONETCY EXPIRED, and the paternal estates, Liscombe, &c. devolved upon his daughter as co-heirs, whilst the estates at Soulbury and in Ireland, devised by Verney Lovet, in 1770, passed to his nephew, HENRY WILLIAM LOVET, esq. now heir male of this ancient family. Arms-Quarterly; first and fourth, sa. three wolves' heads or, for LOVETT of Normandy; second and third, arg. three wolves passant, in pale sa. for LOVETT of England. mother had ordered some new furniture, which had been put into the house (as he intended residing there) to be sold; but that by some unfortunate mistake, the agent had sold the whole, old and new, and that a trace was not remaining. That a blacksmith, who had purchased some of the old armour, declared he believed it had been made by the devil, for that he could make no use of it; that by an equal degree of inattention, the papers were all lost, that the chest was left open, and that the only account he could ever receive of them was, that the children had made kites of the letters, and that the tailor of the parish told him he had cut up many of the parchments for measures, and he believed others had done the same; that there were very pretty pictures at the tops of them, (alluding to the illumined letters,) which he had given his child. To the public probably the loss is not uninteresting, but to the family it is irreparable. This gentleman's grandmother, Madame St. Gervais, on the revocation of the edict of Nantes fled to Ireland with her youthful son, afterwards the celebrated Dean Gervais, who, on account of his great wit and talents, Dean Swift used to say was the only person he was afraid of in company. + The origin of the creation of the title is thus related: -In the summer of the year 1781, the Earl of Chesterfield having been some time absent from court, was asked by King GEORGE III. where he had been so long? "On a visit to Mr. Lovett, of Buckinghamshire," said the earl. "Ah!" said the king, "is that Lovett of Liscombe ! they are of the genuine old Norman breed; how happens it that they are not baronets? would he accept the title? Go tell him," continued the king, “that if he'll accept it, it's much at his service; they have ever been staunch to the crown at a pinch." The communication was accordingly made, and the baronetage accepted; and Sir Jonathan, on going to court, was not less gratified than astonished at the cordial reception he met with, his majesty not only shewing a perfect knowledge of his descent and of the loyalty of the family, but likewise making particnlar inquiries as to the contents of the curious letters mentioned in the note below, as having been at Liscombe. At a later period Sir Jonathan, who possessed great influence in the county of Bucks, was offered a peerage, but having lost his only surviving son, he declined the honour. |