In the Visitation of the county of Kent temp. JAMES, this family is designated "right worshipful and ancient" by John Philipot, rouge-dragon, marshal, and deputy for said county to William Camden, clarencieux king of arms.

JOHN BOTELER, high sheriff of Kent 22 RICHARD II. and knight of the shire 1 HENRY V. m. the daughter and heir of Richard Feversham, and from that marriage lineally descended

SIR OLIVER BOTELER, who, in the time of Queen ELIZABETH, upon his marriage with Anne, daughter and heir of Thomas Berham, esq. of Teston, in Kent, removed from Shernbroke, in Bedfordshire (where his grandfather came from Kent and settled), to that seat, and the family continued ever afterwards to reside there. He was subsequently knighted by King JAMES I. in 1604. He had issue

John (Sir), who wedded Alice, daughter of Sir Ed-
ward Apsley, knt. of Sussex, but died in his
father's lifetime s. p.

James, d. s. p. also in the life of his father.
WILLIAM, successor to the estate.

Anne, m. to Sir George Fane, of Buston, in Kent,
second son of Sir Thomas Fane by the Lady
Mary Neville, only daughter and heiress of
Henry, Lord Abergavenny. This lady was re-
stored, by letters patent, to the dignity of Ba-
roness Le Despencer, to which barony her eldest
son, Francis, Earl of Westmoreland, succeeded
at her decease. (See BURKE's Peerage and
Baronetage.)

Sir Oliver d. in 1632, and was s. by his third and only surviving son,

I. WILLIAM BOTELER, esq. of Teston, in the county of Kent, who inherited the estates at the decease of his father, and was created a BARONET by King CHARLES I. 3rd July, 1641. He m. in 1631, Joan, daughter of Sir Henry Fanshaw, knt. of Ware Park, Herts, and had an only son, OLIVER. At the breaking out of the

civil war, Sir William raised a regiment at his own expense for the service of the king, and was killed at its head in the battle of Cropedy Bridge, 29th June, 1644, when he was s. by his son,

II. SIR OLIVER BOTELER, of Teston, who wedded Anne, daughter of Sir Robert Austen, bart. of Bexley, and had issue,

PHILIP, his successor. John.

Elizabeth, d. unm.

Joane, m. to Christopher Rhodes, esq.

He d. about the year 1690, and was s. by his elder son,

III. SIR PHILIP BOTELER, of Teston, M.P. for Hythe temp. WILLIAM III. and Queen ANNE. He m. in 1690, Anne, daughter of Sir Edward Desbouverie, knt. of Cheshunt, and dying in April, 1719, was s. by his only

son,

IV. SIR PHILIP BOTELER, of Teston. This gentleman wedded, in May, 1720, Elizabeth, only daughter and heir of Thomas Williams, esq. of Cabalva, in Radnorshire, by whom he had an only daughter, Elizabeth, who predeceased him unmarried in 1737. He d. himself in 1772, when the title became EXTINCT. By his last will he bequeathed one moiety of all his estates, both real and personal, to Mrs. Elizabeth Bouverie, of Chart Sutton; and the other moiety to Elizabeth, Viscountess Dowager Folkstone, and her son, William, Earl of Radnor. Teston Manor became the property of Mrs. Elizabeth Bouverie.*

WILLIAM BOWYER, of Petworth, grandson of Thomas Bowyer, of Knipersley, in Staffordshire, m. Eliza Tredcroft, of Billinghurst, in Sussex, and had three sons and two daughters, namely,

THOMAS, his heir.

Robert, of Chichester, mayor in 1532, whose son, Alderman Francis Bowyer, was father of

SIR WILLIAM BOWYER, knt. who purchased the estate of Denham Court, Bucks, and was ancestor of the present

SIR GEORGE BOWYER, bart. of Denham
Court and Radley. (See BURKE's Peer-
age and Baronetage.)

John, of Petworth, whose granddaughter, Grace
Bowyer, m. Robert Badger, of Wimbell.
Elizabeth, m. to Thomas Norton.
Katherine, m. to John Calcot.

The eldest son,

THOMAS BOWYER, esq. of London, m. Jane, daughter and heir of Robert Merry, of Hatfield, and by her, who wedded, secondly, Alexander Nowell, deane of Paules, had, inter alios, a son,

THOMAS BOWYER, esq. of Leighthorne, in Sussex, who left by Jane, his second wife, daughter of John Birch, baron of the Exchequer, a son,

1. SIR THOMAS BOWYER, of Leighthorne, who was created a BARONET in 1627. He m. first, Ann, daughter and co-heir of Adrian Stoughton, esq. of Stoke; and secondly, Jane, daughter and heir of Emery Cranley, relict of Samuel Austen, of Stratford, and of Sir George Stoughton. By the former only did Sir Thomas leave issue,

THOMAS, aged upwards of twenty-four in 1634, who predeceased his father in 1634, leaving a son, JAMES, successor to his grandfather.

John, d. s. p.

ANNE, m. to Sir John Morley, knt. of Broomes and Chichester, and had an only daughter and heir,

CATHERINE, m. to Peter Bettesworth.

Sir Thomas was s. by his grandson,

II. SIR JAMES BOWYER, of Leighthorne, who surrendered his patent of Baronetcy, and procured a new one in 1678, with the precedency of the former, entailing the title on Henry Goring, esq. of Highden, in Sussex. Sir James Bowyer d. s. p., when the DIGNITY under the first patent became EXTINCT.

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⚫ She descended from Ormus le Guidon, who held in capite Biddulph and fifteen other manors. Ormus was son of Richard Forestarius, one of William the Conqueror's barons. Knipersley is a part of Biddulph which

Lineage.

The pedigree of the Bowyers, of Knipersley, is traced by Sir William Dugdale up to Aldred Bowyer, temp. HENRY II. and is to be found recorded at full length in the Visitations of Staffordshire, preserved in the British Museum. Aldred's descendant,

THOMAS BOWYER, living 2 RICHARD II. married Katharine de Knipersley, and thus acquired the estate of Knipersley. He was direct ancestor of

SIR JOHN BOWYER, knt. of Knipersley, living in 1598, whose grandson,

1. JOHN BOWYER, esq. of Knipersley, was created a BARONET in 1660, and the title remained with his children until the demise of SIR WILLIAM BOWYER, his youngest surviving son, the fourth baronet, in 1701. That gentleman had four daughters, his coheirs, viz.

1. MARY, m. Charles Adderley, esq. of Hams Hall, Warwickshire, and from this marriage descend the present CHARLES BOWYER AD DERLEY, esq. of Hams Hall, RALPH ADDERLEY, esq. of Barlaston Hall, &c. &c. (See BURKE'S Commoners, vol. ii. p. 279.)

II. DOROTHY, m. to Sir Thomas Gresley, bart. III. JANE, m. to Leftwich Oldfield, esq. of Leftwich, in Cheshire.

IV. Anne, m. first, to Sir John Bellot, bart. and secondly, to Rowland Port, esq. of Ilam, but dying s. p. left her share of the Knipersley estate to her nephew, Sir Nigel Gresley, bart. Arms-A lion rampant, between three crosses crosslet, fitchée gu.

SIR JOHN BRADSHAW, living in the 13th of HENRY I. m. a daughter of Sir John Molineux, knt. of Sephton, in Lancashire, and left a son and successor,

JOHN BRADSHAW, who was alive in the 8th of King STEPHEN, and marrying a daughter of Brackenbury, of Brackenbury, left a son and heir,

WILLIAM BRADSHAW, who wedded a daughter of Sir William Trollope, knt. of Thornley, his son,

SIR JOHN BRADSHAW, living in the 2nd of RICHARD I. took to wife the daughter of Sir Walter Harcourt knt. of Stanton, and left a son and heir,

SIR JOHN BRADSHAW, who m. a daughter of Sir Ralph Musgrave, knt. and had issue,

THOMAS BRADSHAW, living in the 23rd of HENRY III. whose wife was a daughter of Adam Hoghton, of Hoghton Tower, in Lancashire, and whose son and heir,

SIR JOHN BRADSHAW, m. in the 10th of EDWARD I. the daughter and heir of Sir John Bromley, knt. of Bromley, in the county of Stafford, by whom he had three sons, viz.

1. THOMAS, (Sir) progenitor of the Bradshaws, of Bradshaw.

11. William, (Sir) of whom presently. III. John, (Sir) who m. the daughter and heir of Langton, of Langton, but having no issue, settled his estate upon his elder brother,

The second son,

SIR WILLIAM BRADSHAW who is represented as a soldier and a traveller, assumed the Cross in the 8th of EDWARD II. and was absent from his lady ten years in the holy wars, which lady was Mabel, daughter and co-heir of Hugh Norris, Lord of Sutton, Raynhill, Whiston, Haigh, Black rode, and Westleigh, six manors. Sir William possessed as "his property" Haigh and Blackrode, by a twelfth part of a knight's fee, as Hugh le Norris held the same, and as Mabel Bradshaigh, his wife held the same as heir of Hugh, for which they paid 3s. 8d. aid, temp EDWARD III. for making the King's eldest son a knight, as appears by the accounts of John Cockayne" late sheriff of that county. At that time Sir William made an alteration in the spelling of his name, changing the last syllable from SHAW to SHAIGH," acquiring an addition of two martlets in his coat of arms, and a vine to his crest. During Sir William's protracted stay in Palestine, a report reached home that he had been slain, and on his return he found Mabel, his wife, acknowledging another lord, in the person of Sir Osmond Nevil, a Welch knight to whom she had been married. "Sir William returning," says an old writer, "came in a palmer's habit amongst the poor to Haigh, whom, as soon as his wife beheld, transported with the resembling idea of her former husband, fell a weeping, for which Sir Osmond gave her correction; Sir William thereupon

WILLIAM BRADSHAW, a younger son of this John Bradshaw, m. the daughter and heir of Bouler, of Bouler, in Gloucestershire, and settled there-whence the Bradshaws of Bouler, which line after four generations terminated in two daughters,

withdrew, and made himself known to his tenants, and upon intelligence of the discovery, Sir Osmund fled towards Wales, but near to Newton Park, in Lancashire, Sir William overtook and slew him. Mabel was enjoyned by her confessor to do penance while she lived, by going once every week bare-footed, and bare-legged from Haigh to a cross near Wigan, which from that occasion is called Mab's Cross to this day. They now both lie buried in Wigan Church, under a fair stone tomb adorned with two prostrate figures; the man in antique mail, cross-legged, unsheathing his sword, which hangs on his left side, and on his shoul der his shield, with two bends thereon; she is in a long robe, and veil'd, her hands elated, and conjoyned, in a praying posture; tho' they were formerly placed in a chapel on the south side of the chancel, belonging to the family, which chancel was in being in Mabel's time, as appears by ancient deeds. In the 19th of EDWARD II. Sir William, with John de Horneby, were returned knights of the shire for the county of Lancaster, to serve in the Parliament then to be held at Westminster, having allowance of £7. 14s. for twenty-two days attendance; to Sir William, at the rate of 4s. per day, and John de Horneby, 3s. Sir William served again for the said county, in the 2nd and 4th of Edward III. By Mabel, his wife, he had two sons,

RICHARD, his heir.

Thomas, who m. the daughter and heir of Sir John Twisden, of Twisden, in Kent, and founded the family of Bradshaigh, of Twisden.

The elder son and heir,

RICHARD BRADSHEIGH, esq. of Haigh, m. the daughter of Sir Robert Holcroft, kut. of Holcroft, in Cheshire, and was s. by his son,

ROGER BRADSHEIGH, esq. of Heigh, who wedded in the 6th of RICHARD II. the daughter of John Osbaldston, esq. of Osbaldston, in Lancashire, and had a son and heir,

SIR THOMAS BRADSHAIGH, knt. of Haigh, living in the 11th of HENRY IV. who m. a daughter of Sir William Sherburne, of Stonyhurst, in Lancashire, and had, with a daughter, the wife of Sir John, St. John, of Bletso, a son and successor,

JAMES BRADSHAIGH, Lord of Haigh, &c. in the 3rd of HENRY VI. who wedded a daughter of Sir Richard Prescott, knt. and left a son and heir,

WILLIAM BRADSHAIGH, living in the 1st of RICHARD III. and s. at his decease, by his son,

JAMES BRADSHAIGH, esq. of Haigh, who died in the 20th of HENRY VII. leaving three sons, Sir Roger and Sir Ralph, who both died without issue, and the continuator of the line,

WILLIAM BRADSHAIGH, esq. who m. Maud, daughter of Sir Christopher Standish, knt. of Duxbury, in Lancashire, and had a son and heir,

ROGER BRADSHAIGH, esq. of Haigh. This gentleman m. in 1567, Jane, daughter of Ralph Standish, of Standish in Lancashire, and had issue,

Anne, m. to Richard Royle, esq. of Hargrave. He (James) was s. at his decease by his eldest son, ROGER BRADSHAIGH, esq. of Haigh, who m. Anne, daughter of Christopher Anderton, esq. of Lostock, in the county of Lancaster, and died in 1641, having had nine sons and six daughters,

JAMES, his heir, who acquired the reputation of a
scholar and a poet.
He had travelled over Eu-
rope, and was familiar with its languages and
its letters. He died in the year 1631, before his
father, leaving by Anne his wife, daughter of
Sir William Norris, knt. of Speak, in the county
of Lancaster,

ROGER, (Sir) successor to his grandfather.
Eleanor, a nun at Graveline.

Anne, m. 1649, to Thomas Culcheth, esq. of
Culcheth, in Lancashire.

1. SIR ROGER BRADSHAIGH, of Haigh, b. in 1627, and knighted in the 12th of CHARLES II. by which monarch he was created a BARONET 17th November, 1679. He m. in 1647, Elizabeth, daughter of William Penington, esq. of Moncaster, in Cumberland, and had a son and daughter to survive, viz.

ROGER, his successor.

Elizabeth, m. to Thomas Preston, esq. of Holker, in Lancashire, and had an only daughter, CATHERINE PRESTON, heir of her father, who wedded Sir William Lowther, bart, of Marske. (See BURKE'S Commoners, vol. i. p. 479.) Sir Roger was the first of his family who embraced the Reformation, they had all previously been Catholics, and his conformation was attributable chiefly to his guardian, James, seventh Earl of Derby, under whom he had been educated. At the time, in the civil war, when that nobleman was beheaded at Bolton, Sir Roger fell into the hands of the Parliamentarians, and was consigned a prisoner to the castle of Chester, but nothing could induce him to swerve from his allegiance to his royal master. DoctorWroe, in his " Memorials and Characters of eminent Persons, describes him as "remarkable for the chasteness of his conjugal love,the goodness of a father's care, and the sweetness of a master's rule. Plenty and welcome (continues the same authority) were never wanting at his table; no man entertained both acquaintance and strangers, with greater freedom and affability. His charity was extended to all who stood in need of it, and he had not only a cheerful heart, but a liberal hand; which I never knew contracted or shut up when any just occasion called to stretch it out; but I have often been a witness of his forward bounty, that he might provoke others by the example of his own cheerful liberality. For two things he is to be honoured: his religion to God, and his unshaken loyalty to his Prince. His religion was true Protestant, in which he was happily educated, and instructed in his greener years, by the care and direction of James, Earl of Derby, to whom he was entrusted by his faithful guardian, John Fleetwood, of Penwortham, esq. to whose religious designs, and the joint endeavours of his virtuous consort, he owed the early impressions of piety and in that family first commenced protestant, and was thence sent to the Isle of Man, where the principles he had already imbibed, were soon cultivated and improved under the umbrage of that religious, loyal, and great man. Next to his religion, his loyalty was most dear to him. In him both commenced together, and he gave early proofs of his loyalty, in an age wherein it was judged a crime; when rebellion looked gay with success, and sacrilege bad providence to gild it over; yet even then, he judged not the cause by its success, but by the righteousness of it, and durst be honest spite of bad times. The king was well acquainted with his worth, and entrus ted him with those offices, which witnessed the esteem be had both of his faithfulness and ability. His country judged him a true patriot, no less than a good subject, and therefore made choice of him for their representative in Parliament, in which station he served many years with great diligence and fidelity; and in the recesses of that public employ was not less serviceable to his country at home, than faithful to their interest abroad."

This eminent person, who had served in parliament the greater part of his life, either for the county of Lancaster, or Borough of Wigan, died at Chester, 31st March, 1684; was buried in the family vault at Wigan (where his widow erected a marble monument to his memory) and s. by his son,

II. SIR ROGER BRADSHAIGH, of Haigh, who had received the honour of knighthood from King CHARLES II. in the lifetime of his father. He m. 7th April, 1673, Mary, daughter and co-heir of Henry Murray, esq. gentleman of the bed chamber to King CHARLES 1. by his wife, Anne, Viscountess Bayning, and had issue, ROGER, his successor.

Henry, a major in the army, and aid-de-camp to the Earl of Rivers, in Spain, afterwards M. P. for Wigan, d. in 1710, at Putney.

James, d. young.

William, captain in the army, d. in 1725, was buried in the chancel, the burial place of his family, in Wigan church.

Richard, d. young.

Thomas, in holy orders, rector of Stradford, in Suffolk, and Langham, Essex, m. Mary, daughter and sole heir of Robert Stephens, M. D. of Ardley-Week, in Essex, and had issue. Elizabeth, m. first to Job Yates, esq. and secondly, to Gabriel, Marquis Du Quesne.

Sir Roger was returned to parliament by the county palatine of Lancaster, in 1685, and dying 17th June, 1687, was s. by his eldest son,

III. SIR ROGER BRADSHAIGH, of Haigh, who was returned to parliament by the borough of Wigan, in 1695, and continued to sit for that place full half a century. He was colonel of a regiment of foot, in the beginning of the reign of Queen ANNE. Sir Roger wedded Rachel, second daughter of Sir John Guise, bart. of Ellmore, in Gloucestershire, and dying 25th February, 1746, left four sons and two daughters, viz.

ROGER, his heir.

Charles.

John.

Richard.

Elizabeth, m. to John Edwin, esq. son of Sir Humphrey Edwin.

Rachel.

The eldest son,

IV. SIR ROGER BRADSHAIGH, of Haigh, m. in April, 1731, Dorothy, daughter and co-heir of William Bellingham, esq. of Levens, in Westmoreland, but dying s. p. the BARONETCY became EXTINCT.

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knt. of Braham Hall, Suffolk; was created a BARONET 16th April, 1662. He m. first, Susan, daughter of Sir George Southcott; secondly, Susan Michel, daughter of Sir Robert Gawsell, knt. of Watlington; and thirdly, Jane, daughter of Thomas Devenish, esq. of Langham, in Dorsetshire, but dying without surviving issue the BARONETCY became EXTINCT.

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BRAITHWAITE.

CREATED 18th Dec. 1802.-EXTINCT 9th March, 1809. Lineage.

The family of Braithwaite has been for many years settled in the county of Westmoreland.

JOHN BRAITHWAITE, born in 1696, governor-in-chief of the African Company's factories on the south coast of Africa, was killed on board the Baltic merchantman in an engagement off Sicily with a Spanish privateer. He m. Silvia Cole, of Amsterdam, and had by her, who died in 1799, one son and two daughters, namely, JOHN.

Silvia, m. to Bonnel Thornton, esq. and was mo ther of the well known physician and botanist ROBERT JOHN THORNTON, M. D. Caroline, m. to Robert Armitage, esq. The only son,

1. SIR JOHN BRAITHWAITE, b. in 1739, a major-general in the army and commander-in-chief of the coast of Coromandel in 1793, was created a BARONET 18th December, 1802. He m. Elizabeth, daughter of John Brown, esq. by Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of Sir John Colleton, bart. and died in August, 1803, leaving a daughter, Silvia, wife of Charles Parkhurst, esq. and a son and successor,

II. SIR GEORGE-CHARLES BRAITHWAITE, b. in 1762, a colonel in the army, who m. in June, 1801, Eliza Davis, illegitimate daughter of Sir Edward Boughton, bart. of Poston Court, in the county of Hereford, but dying s. p. 9th March, 1809, the BARONETCY became

EXTINCT.

BRERETON, OF HONFORD.

Lineage.

1. SIR RICHARD BRAHAM, of New Windsor, in Berkshire, son of Richard Braham, esq. of Wandsworth, by Elizabeth, daughter of Nathaniel Giles, doctor of music, and great-great-grandson of Sir John Braham,

Lineage.

SIR URIAN BRERETON, ninth son of Sir Randle Brereton, of Malpas Escheator, of Cheshire, and one of the grooms of the king's chamber 32 HENRY VIII. died 19th March, 19 ELIZABETH, leaving by Margaret, his first wife, daughter and sole heir of William Honford, of Honford, in Cheshire, and relict of Sir John Stanley, knt, several sons and two daughters, Jane, m. to Edward Legh, esq. of Baggilegh, from whom she was divorced; and Sibilla, m. to Thomas Legh, esq. of Adlington. The second but eldest surviving son, WILLIAM BRERETON, esq. of Honford, m. in 1578,