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SIR THOMAS SAVILE, knt. of Thornhill, one of the gentry of the county of York returned by the commissioners 12 HENRY VI. and knight of the shire in the 20th of the same king. He m. Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Pilkington, knt. and was s. by his son,

SIR JOHN SAVILE, knt. of Thornhill, who was twice sheriff of Yorkshire, 33 HENRY VI. and I EDWARD I. and knight of the shire in the 29th of the former king. He m. Alice, daughter of Sir William Gascoigne, knt. of Gawthorp, in the same county, and had three sons, viz.

1. JOHN (Sir), whose grandson,

SIR HENRY SAVILE, was made a knight of the Bath at the coronation of Queen ANNE BOLEYN. He m. Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Sothill, esq. of Sothill, and had issue,*

EDWARD, who married the daughter of Sir Richard Leigh, knt. of St. Albans, and died issueless in 1562.

DOROTHY, m. to John Kay, esq. of Woodsome, in Yorkshire.

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I. GEORGE, his heir.

II. Francis, m. Catherine, daughter and co-heir of William, Lord Conyers.

III. Cordell, m. Mary, daughter and heir of William Welbeck, esq. of Sutton, Notts.

1. Bridget, m. to Henry Nevil, esq. of Grove, Notts.

Mr. Savile was sheriff of Yorkshire 9 ELIZABETH, receiver-general for the same county, and one of the honourable council established in the north. He was s. by his eldest son,

I. SIR GEORGE SAVILE, knt. of Thornhill, in the county of York, who was created a BARONET by King JAMES I. 29th June, 1611, and was sheriff of Yorkshire in two years after. He m. first, Lady Mary Talbot, daughter of George, sixth Earl of Shrewsbury, and by her ladyship had an only son,

GEORGE (Sir), who died before his father in 1618,
leaving by Anne, his second wife, the daughter
of Sir W. Wentworth, bart. of Wentworth
Woodhouse, two sons,

GEORGE, heir to his grandfather.
WILLIAM, successor to his brother.

Sir George m. secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Edward Ayscough, knt. of South-Kelsey, in Lincolnshire, and widow of George Savile, esq. of Wakefield, and by her had

JOHN (Sir), of Lupset, in Yorkshire, who m. first,
Elizabeth, daughter of John Armitage, esq. of
Kirklees, and by her had an only daughter, the

wife of William Hirstler, of Cleveland. Hem. secondly, Anne, daughter of Sir John Soame, knt. by whom he had one son and two daugh

ters, viz.

JOHN, of Lupset, who inherited as sixth baronet.

MARY, m. to- Jennison, esq. of Newcastle.

ANNE, M. to John Harris, esq. of London. Richard, d. s. p.

HENRY, of Bowling, in Yorkshire, m. Anne, daughter of Robert Crewse, of London, merchant, and had (with three daughters, Elizabeth, m. to Count Montfelto; Anne, to Sir Robert Forbes ; and Mary;) an only surviving son,

John, in holy orders, rector of Thornhill, who left by his second wife (he had no issue by the first), Barbara, daughter of Thomas Jennison, esq. of Newcastle-upon-Tyne,

GEORGE, who s. as seventh baronet.

ANNE, m. to Sir Nicholas Cole, bart. of
Brancepeth, in Durham.

GERTRUDE.

Mary, m. to John Archer, esq. of Gray's Inn. Sir George was s. by his grandson,

II. SIR GEORGE SAVILE, who died unmarried in his minority, and was s. by his brother,

III. SIR WILLIAM SAVILE, who m. Anne, daughter of Thomas, Lord Coventry, lord keeper, a lady remarkable for her zeal and attachment to the royal cause, from the support of which no difficulties nor dangers, nor even the fear of death itself, could deter her. By her ladyship he had issue,

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IV. SIR GEORGE SAVILE, who, in consideration of his father's and his own eminent services in the civil wars, was advanced to the peerage by CHARLES II. (in 1668) as Viscount Halifax, and afterwards created Earl and Marquess of Halifax. His lordship m. first, Lady Dorothy Spencer, daughter of Henry, Earl of Sunderland, by whom he had

Henry, who d. s. p. in his father's lifetime.
WILLIAM, Lord Savile, heir to his father.
George, who fell at the siege of Buda, in 1688, and
died unmarried.

Anne, m. to John, Lord Vaughan.

He m. secondly, Gertrude, daughter of the Hon. William Pierrepoint, of Thoresby, second son of Robert, first Earl of Kingston, and by her had another daugh

ter,

Elizabeth, m. to Philip, Earl of Chesterfield. Lord Halifax was lord privy seal and some time president of the council temp. CHARLES I. and Burnet describes him "as a man of great and ready wit; full of life and very pleasant, but much turned to satire; his imagination was too hard for his judgment; and a severe jest took more with him than all arguments whatever. He let his wit run much on matters of religion, which got him the reputation of a confirmed atheist; but he denied the charge." He died in 1695, and was s. by his eldest surviving son,

SIR HENRY SAVILE had a bastard son by Margaret Barkston,

SIR ROBERT SAVILE, from whom descended the Saviles, EARLS OF SUSSEX. (See BURKE'S Extinct Peerage) By his first wife, Sarah, daughter and co-heir of John Rede, esq. of Cotesbrooke, in Northamptonshire, he had

no issue.

V. SIR WILLIAM SAVILE, Second Marquess of Halifax, who m. first, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Samuel Grimston, bart. by whom he had a daughter,

LADY ANNE SAVILE, who m. Charles, third Earl.

of Ailesbury.

He m. secondly, Lady Mary Finch, daughter of Daniel, Earl of Nottingham, by Lady Essex Rich, daughter and co-heir of Richard, Earl of Warwick and Holland, and by her ladyship had two sons and a daughter who died young, with two other daughters to survive, viz.

LADY DOROTHY SAVILE, M. to Richard Boyle, third

Earl of Burlington.

LADY MARY SAVILE, m. in 1722, to Sackvile Tufton, esq. who inherited in 1729 the earldom of Thanet as seventh earl.

His lordship d. 31st August, 1700,* when his honours in the peerage became extinct, his daughters inherited his estates as co-heirs, and the BARONETCY reverted to (refer to JOHN SAVILE, eldest son by his second wife of the first baronet,) his kinsman,

VI. SIR JOHN SAVILE, of Lupset, in the county of York, who died unmarried in 1704, when his sisters became his co-heirs, and the Baronetcy devolved upon his cousin (refer to HENRY SAVILE, third son of the first baronet by his second wife),

VII. SIR GEORGE SAVILE, of Rufford, in Nottinghamshire, F.R.S. M.P. for the county of York in the first parliament of GEORGE II. He married in 1722, Mary, daughter of John Pratt, esq. of the city of Dublin (by Honoretta, daughter of Sir John Brooke, bart. of Ellenthorpe, in Yorkshire), and had issue,

GEORGE, his successor.

Arabella, m. to

Hewett, esq. and d. in Sep

tember, 1767. BARBARA, m. in 1752, to Richard, fourth Earl of Scarborough, and was grandmother of the present (1837) earl.

He d. 16th September, 1743, and was s. by his son, VIII. SIR GEORGE SAVILE, F.R.S. vice-president of the Society of Arts and Sciences, M.P. for the county of York, and colonel of the 1st battalion of West Riding militia. This gentleman died unmarried in his fifty-eighth year, 10th January, 1784, when his only surviving sister, BARBARA, COUNTESS OF SCARBOROUGH, became his heir, and the BARONETCY EX

PIRED.

Arms Arg. on a bend sa. three owls engrailed of the field.

SAVILE, OF METHLEY.

CREATED 29th June, 1611.-EXTINCT 23rd June, 1632.

Lineage.

This was a branch from the same stock as the family of SAVILE of Thornbill.

THOMAS SAVILE, of Newsted, grandson of Sir John Savile, of Savile Hall, in the county of York, m. the daughter and heiress of Sir Richard Tankersley, knt. and had two sons, John (Sir), from whom the Saviles of Thornhill, and

HENRY SAVILE, esq. who, about the year 1300, m. ELLEN, daughter and heir of THOMAS COPLEY, of Copley, in the county of York, and thus acquired that estate, a fine having been levied thereon 4 HENRY IV. He had issue,

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Thomas, m. Jennet, daughter of Nicholas Boothroyd, and from him descended the Saviles of Watergate, near Halifax.

Agnes, m. to Thomas Harrison, of Woodhouse. Alice, m. to Robert Holt, esq. of Stubley, in Lancashire.

Jane, m. to Thomas Gleadhill, of Barksland. Elizabeth, m. to John Blythe, esq. of Quarnby. The third son,

HENRY SAVILE, esq. seated himself at Bradley, near Halifax, and marrying Ellen, daughter of Robert Ramsden, esq. had three sons,

1. JOHN (Sir), his heir.

11. HENRY (Sir), a person of note in the times of ELIZABETH and JAMES I.: to the former he was tutor for the Greek tongue, and from the latter he received the honour of knighthood, at Windsor, 21st September, 1604. He was born in 1549, and entered the university of Oxford in 1561, where he took the degree of bachelor of arts in 1565, and afterwards grew famous as a Greek scholar and mathematician. Through Queen ELIZABETH's influence he was elected warden of Merton College, and in 1596, provost of Eton. He was subsequently employed by her majesty as resident in the Low Countries. On the accession of JAMES I. he still retained the royal favour, and received the honour of knighthood, as stated above. His only son, Henry, dying soon after, leaving him no hope of founding a family, he devoted much of his wealth to publishing books. He collected the best copies of St. Chrysostom, and employed learned men to transcribe, and annotate them, which he fairly set forth at his own cost, computed at £8000, in a superb edition; but the papists at Paris (writes an old author) had their emissaries in England, who surreptitiously procured this knight's learned labours, and sent them over weekly by the post into France, sheet by sheet as here they passed the press; and Fronto Duceus, a French cardinal, printed them, as received out of England, only joyning thereunto a Latin translation, and some

* His widow m. John, first Duke of Roxburghe, and was mother of Robert, the second duke.

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other inconsiderable additions, inasmuch that there were two editions of St. Chrysostom at the same time." Sir Henry, whose learned reputation spread abroad as well as at home, died at Eton College, 19th February, 1621, and was buried in the chapel there, under a black marble, and the university of Oxford erected in Merton College a sumptuous monument to his memory. Elizabeth, his daughter and sole heir, m. Sir John Sidley, bart. of Ailesford, in Kent.

III. John, student in the university of Oxford, where he was elected proctor, in 1529, but d.

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The judge m. thirdly, Dorothy, daughter of the Lord Wentworth of the South, and widow of Sir William Widmerpool, knt. and of Sir Martin Forbisher, knt. of Altofts. His fourth wife was Margery, daughter of Ambrose Peate, citizen of London, and widow of Sir Jerome Weston: by those latter ladies he had no issue. His eldest son and heir,

1. SIR HENRY SAVILE, of Methley, in the county of York, received the honour of knighthood at the coronation of King JAMES I. and was created a BARONET 29th June, 1611. Sir Henry was several times vicepresident of the council of the North, deputy lieutenant, colonel of a militia regiment, and one of the knights of the shire for the county of York. He m. Mary, daughter and co-heir of John Dent, citizen of London, by whom, who survived him, and re-married Sir William Sheffield, knt. he had, with several children who all died young, a son, JOHN, who died just as he had attained maturity, in France, during the lifetime of his father. Sir Henry died 23rd June, 1632, in the fifty-third year of his age, when the BARONETCY EXPIRED, and the estates devolved upon his half brother,

JOHN SAVILE, esq. ancestor of the EARLS OF MEXBOROUGH. (See BURKE's Peerage and Baronetage.)

Arms-As SAVILE OF THORNHILL.

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1. THOMAS SCLATER, esq. of Catley Park, in the county of Cambridge, who acquired by purchase considerable estates in that shire, and served the office of sheriff in 1686, was created a BARONET in 1600. He m. Susan, daughter of Mr. Freeston, of Norwich, and relict, first, of Mr. Cotton, and secondly, of Dr. Com. ber, D.D. of Trinity College, Cambridge, but had no issue. He died 10th December, 1684, when the BARONETCY became EXTINCT. The estates, Sir Thomas bequeathed to his great nephew, THOMAS SCLATER, then a student at Trinity College. That gentleman afterwards assumed the additional surname of BACON, and was at the time of his death, in 1734, M.P. for Cambridge. In 1768, Thomas Sclater King, esq. to whose family the estates had been devised by Mr. Bacon, sold them to Lord Montfort, from whom they were purchased, three years after, by Dr. Keene, Bishop of Ely.

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SAVILE, OF COPLEY.

CREATED 24th July, 1662.—EXTINCT in 1689.

Lineage.

HENRY SAVILE married about the year 1300 ELLEN, daughter and heir of Thomas Copley, of Copley, in the county of York, and acquired that estate, a fine having been levied thereon 4 HENRY IV. He had three sons, JOHN, his heir, THOMAS, ancestor of the

Lineage.

This was a branch of the ancient and ennobled family of Scrope, of Bolton.

SIR RICHARD LE SCROPE, first Lord Scrope, of Bolton, was summoned to parliament continuously du

He m. Elizabeth, sister of Peter Standley, esq. of Paxton Place, Hants, which lady died in 1726, and was interred at Linton, under a handsome monument designed by Wilton.

ring the reigns of EDWARD III. and RICHARD II. He was renowned in arms, and received the honour of knighthood from the former monarch at the battle of Durham, where the Scotch sustained a defeat in 1346, and he was present the same year at the siege of Calais. "Without attempting to follow this nobleman through all his martial exploits, which, however, stand recorded by these eye-witnesses, the several royal, noble, and knightly deponents in the celebrated controversy sustained by him with Sir Richard Grosvenor, for the right of bearing his family coat of arms, it is enough to say, that between 1346 and 1385, a period of forty years, there was scarcely a battle of note in England, France, or Scotland, where the English forces were engaged, in which Scrope did not gain honour. But as a statesman he was still more distinguished. He was lord high treasurer to EDWARD III. and twice lord chancellor of England in the reign of RICHARD II. by both which sovereigns he was entrusted with many other employments of honour and confidence. Walsingham states him to have been remarkable for his extraordinary wisdom and integrity, and records his firmness in refusing to put the great seal," as chancellor, to the profuse grants made by RICHARD II. to his favourites. When, RICHARD, incensed by this, sent messenger after messenger to Scrope," desiring him forthwith to return the great seal," he refused to deliver it to any other person than to the king himself. Lord Scrope erected the stately castle of Bolton, in Richmondshire, and died full of honours at the age of seventy-three, in 1403, 4 HENRY IV. By Blanch, daughter of Sir William de la Pole, he had four sons, viz.

WILLIAM, (Sir), K.G. created Earl of Wiltshire,
beheaded in 1399, his father then living.
ROGER, successor to his father.

Richard, Archbishop of York, beheaded temp.
HENRY IV.

STEPHEN (Sir), Lord of Bentley, in Yorkshire, and of Castle Combe, in Wilts, ancestor of the present (1838) William Scrope, esq. of Castle Combe, and of Cockerington, in Lincolnshire. (Refer to BURKE's Commoners, vol. iii. p. 693.) William, Earl of Wiltshire, dying before his father, the barony of Scrope devolved upon the second son, ROGER, Second Lord Scrope, of Bolton, from whom we pass to

HENRY, sixth Lord Scrope, who married the Lady Elizabeth Percy, daughter of Henry, Earl of Northumberland, and had two sons, HENRY, his heir, seventh lord, and

JOHN SCROPE, of Spennithorne, in the county of York, and of Hambledon, Bucks. This gentleman m. Phillis, danghter of Ralph Rokeby, esq. of Rokeby and Morton, in the same county, and had with other issue,

HENRY, of Spennithorne and Danby, m. Marga-
ret, daughter and heir of Simon Conyers, esq. of
Danby, and thus sprang the SCROPES of Danby.
RALPH (fourth son).

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John, b. in 1632.

III. Richard, d. s. p.

He was s. by his eldest son,

SIR ADRIAN SCROPE, knt. of Cockerington, in the county of Lincoln, who m. Ursula, daughter of Sir John Clifton, of Barrington, in the county of Somerset (by Anne, youngest daughter of Thomas Stanley, second Lord Monteagle,) and had issue,

GERVASE (Sir), his successor.

Adrian, believed to be the regicide, Col. Adrian
Scrope, whose signature is on the death warrant
of King CHARLES.
Edwyn.
Robert.
William.
John.
Elizabeth.
Jane.

Sir Adrian died 10th December, 1623, and was buried at Cockerington. His monument is in Cockerington Church, in white marble of excellent Italian workmanship. The knight's full size figure reclines at length on an altar tomb, represented in armour leaning on one arm, full of spirit and dignity. On a tablet adjoining is carved his coat of arms, crest, &c. with two falcons as supporters, and the following inscription. "The thrice noble Sir Adrian Scrope, knt. deceased the 10th December, 1623."

"Tombes are but dull log-bookes, they onely keep,
Their names alive who in their wombes do sleep,
But, who would pen the virtues of this Knight,
A story not an epitaph must write."

He was s. by his eldest son,

SIR GERVASE SCROPE, knt. high sheriff of Lincoln in 1631, m. Catherine, daughter of John Hungerford, esq. of Hungerford, in the county of Wilts, and had two sons, viz,

ADRIAN (Sir), his heir.

St. Leger, who left Carr, and other issue. He d. in 1667, and was s. by his elder son,

SIR ADRIAN SCROPE, of Cockerington, K.B. who m. Mary, daughter of Sir John Carr, and had issue,

CARR, his heir.

Gervase, d. in the lifetime of his father, s. p.
ROBERT, heir to his elder brother.

Sir Adrian was buried at Cockerington in 1667, and s. by his eldest son,

1. SIR CARR SCROPE, of Cockerington, M.A. of Wadham College, Oxford, who was created a BARONET, 16th January, 1667-8. Sir Carr was one of those literary men about the court of CHARLES II, whom Pope calls, "The Mob of Gentlemen, who write with ease." He made several translations from Ovid, Virgil, and Horace, with some love songs and lampoons, to be found in the volumes of Dryden's Miscellanies. His name occurs frequently among the wits and poetasters of that day, and he appears to have been, in love as well as verse, a rival of Rochester, who addresses a bitter lampoon to him. (See ROCHESTER's Works.) He d. unm. in 1680, when the BARONETCY EXPIRED, and the estates devolved upon his only surviving brother,

ROBERT SCROPE, esq. of Cockerington, who m. Lucy, daughter of Sir John Newton, of Ganwarby, and had issue,

GEORGE, his heir.

Catherine, d. young.

Elizabeth, m. to William Pownall, esq. and d. s. p. in 1717.

Lucy, d. unm. in 1719.

Mr. Scrope d. in 1718, and was s. by his son,

BURKE'S Commoners.

GEORGE SCROPE, esq. of Cockerington, who m.
first, Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Cresswell,
esq. of Sedbury, in the county of Salop, and by
that lady had,

Adrian, who d. aged ten, in 1720.
GERVASE, heir to his father.

Carr, capt. R.N. d. s. p. in 1762.
FREDERICK-JAMES, heir to his brother.
Elizabeth, m. to Lancelot Lee, esq. and d. s.p.
in 1751.

MARY, m. first to Francis, Earl of Deloraine,
by whom she had no issue, and secondly,
Thomas Vivian, esq. recorder of Lincoln.
By that gentleman she had an only daugh-

ter,

MARY VIVIAN, m. to JOHN PEART, esq.
who assumed the name of SCROPE.
He m. secondly, Frances, fourth daughter and
co-heir of Thomas Lister, esq. of Coleby, in the
county of Lincoln, and by her had another son,
THOMAS, who s. his half-brother, FREDERICK-
JAMES.

George Scrope d. in July, 1741, was buried in
Lincoln Cathedral, and s. by his eldest surviving

son,

GERVASE SCROPE, esq. of Eastcot Park, Middlesex,

and Cockerington, Lincolnshire, who d. unm. aged sixty-five, in 1776, and was s. by his brother, FREDERICK-JAMES SCROPE, esq. who entailed the estates upon the Scropes of Castle Combe, on the failure of his own line. He d. unm. aged sixty-two, in 1780, and was s. by his half-brother,

THOMAS SCROPE, esq. of Coleby and Cockerington,
who m. Eliza Maria, daughter of William Clay,
esq. but had no issue. He d. in 1792, aged sixty-
nine, and his widow m. in 1794, Gen. Albe-
marle Bertie, who became ninth Earl of Lindsey
on the decease of the Duke of Ancaster in 1809.
At Mr. Scrope's death the estates devolved upon
his niece MARY VIVIAN and her husband, JOHN
PEART, who in consequence assumed the name
of SCROPE; but that lady dying s. p. in 1795, the
estates of North and South Cockerington passed
then in virtue of the entail created by Fcederick-
James Scrope, to

WILLIAM SCROPE, esq. of Castle Combe, in the
county of Wilts. (Refer to BURKE'S Com-
moners, vol. iii. p. 693.)

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The SCUDAMORES, one of the most eminent families in the West of England, was established at a remote era, in Herefordshire.

more.

The name is variously written in records de Eskide more, Esquidmore, Escuedmore, Schidemore, and SkydThat the family was anciently of plentiful estate and good esteem, appears evident from their early benefactions to the Abbey of Dore, and other religious houses.

RALPH DE ESKIDEMORE gave some of his demesne lands to the Abbey of Dore, which

WALTER DE ESKIDEMORE augmented in the 14th of King STEPHEN. His son,

WALTER DE ESKIDEMORE is mentioned in the time of HENRY II. In lineal descent from him comes

SIR GODFREY De Scudamore, knt. who in the 42nd of HENRY III. was one of the four knights returned for the county of Wilts, who, by order of parliament, were to enquire into all transgressions and injuries, committed as well by justices, sheriffs, bailiffs, or other persons; the inquisitions so made, to be sealed with their own seals, and the seals of the jurors; to be delivered in their own proper persons to the king's counsel, at Westminster, eight days after Michaelmas. In the 48th of the same monarch, he was appointed by the king, conservator of the peace for the county of Wilts. He was s. by his son,

SIR PETER DE SCUDAMORE, knt, who was likewise in great power, as appears by a writ directed to him, in the 15th EDWARD I. to put the statute of Winton in execution, and preserve the peace. He had no issue, and was s. by his brother,

SIR WALTER DE SCUDAMORE, who was summoned amongst the knights to attend EDWARD I. in his expe dition against the Scots, having been knighted in the 34th of that monarch, when the king to augment the splendour of his projected enterprise, “begirt Edward, Earl of Carnarvon, his eldest son, with the military belt, and the young prince immediately after, conferred the same honour at the high altar in Westminster Abbey, on nearly three hundred gentlemen, sons of earls, barons, and knights;" he sealed with a cross patee fitchee, as appears from a charter of his to Dore Abbey. His son and heir,

SIR PETER DE SCUDAMORE, who flourished in the beginning of EDWARD III.'s reign, had two sons, WALTER and THOMAS. The younger son,

THOMAS DE SCUDAMORE, married the eldest daughter and heir of Clara de Ewyas, by Ivan Whelan, her husband, upon which he assumed the arms of the stirrups and the surname of Ewyas. Their son and heir,

PHILIP DE ESCUDAMORE, alias DE EwYAS, was s. by his son,

SIR JOHN SCUDAMORE, knt. of Ewyas and Holme Lacy, who was escheator of Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, and the Marches of Wales, in the 13th RICHARD II. and was constituted in the 20th of the same reign, constable of Goderick Castle, during the minority of the Lord Talbot. He m. Alice, daughter, and one of the co-heirs, of Owen Glendower, and left a son,

PHILIP SCUDAMORE, esq. father, by Agnes, his wife, daughter and co-heir of John Huntercombe, of GEORGE SCUDAMORE, esq. who m. a daughter of the old family of Brughill, and was s. by his son,

PHILIP SCUDAMORE, esq. who wedded one of the daughters and heirs of Osborne, of London, and had a son and heir,

WILLIAM SCUDAMORE, esq. of Holme Lacy, who m. Alice, daughter of Sir Richard Mynors, and was s. by

his son,

JOHN SCUDAMORE, esq. of Holme Lacy, who m Sybell, daughter of Watkyn Vaughan, of Hergest, and in the 22nd HENRY VIII. being styled by the king, Generosorum Hostiariorum Camere sue, was constituted steward of the lordships of Usk, Caerlyon, and Crillocke, in Wales, and constable of Uske Castle for life, after the demise or surrender of William Mor

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