the male representative of the house of Scrope, and the Barony of Scrope of Bolton appears to belong to Henry James Jones, Esq., heir-general of the same illustrious race; Mr. Lowndes, of Chesham, and Mr. Selby Lowndes, of Whaddon, are co-heirs to the Baronies of Montacute and Monthermer; Sir Brooke W. Bridges, Bart., is, in all probability, entitled to the Barony of Fitz-Walter; Lord Dufferin is undoubtedly the senior heir of the Earls of Clanbrassill; Colonel Kemeys-Tynte has established his co-heirship to the Barony of Wharton; Mr. Anstruther-Thomson, of Charleton, co. Fife, is heir-general of the St. Clairs, Earls of Orkney, and Lords Sinclair; a Dillon is, unquestionably, in existence, the rightful Earl of Roscommon; and a FitzPatrick, who ought to be Lord Upper Ossory; Mr. O'Neill, of Shanes Castle, is the heir-general of the Lords O'Neill, as well as the possessor of their widespread estate; and many other heirs and representatives of dormant honours will be found named in the following pages. It is also possible that heirs to some of our old titles might be discovered in foreign countries: most certainly there are, in Spain, France, Italy, and Germany, descendants of several of those noble families which preferred exile to disloyalty; and very probably there are in America other scions of our British nobility besides the Fairfaxes, the Aylmers, and the Livingstones. It is only within these last few days that I have ascertained that the Baronetcy of Boreel, which has heretofore been always considered an extinct dignity, still exists in the person of His Excellency WILLIAM BOREEL de Hogelanden, Minister of State in Holland, To the perfecting of this book I have devoted the most laborious revision-the most anxious and unremitting attention. Public Documents and Records, Heralds' Visitations, Post Mortem Inquisitions, Patent Rolls, Lords' Entries, and Funeral Certificates have been referred to; printed authorities, especially Dugdale's "Baronage," Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's "Peerage of Scotland," Archdale's "Lodge," Sir Harris Nicolas's "Synopsis" (so ably and learnedly edited, under the title of "The Historic Peerage," by Mr. Courthope, Somerset Herald), Milles, Brooke, Collins, Jacob, Banks, and Heylin have been consulted and largely drawn on, as well as many privately printed family memoirs. In fact, no available source of information has been neglected which I thought would improve my work, and no trouble or research has been spared. In this, as in my other literary productions, I have received most valuable aid from many friends and correspondents-a co-operation demanding my most grateful acknowledgments. Thousands and thousands of communications have been made to me in furtherance of my "History of the Landed Gentry," and my "Extant Peerage and Baronetage," as well as of this, my present work, and an amount of knowledge has been thus acquired which could not otherwise be obtained. The gentlemen of England did for "The History of the Landed Gentry" in the 19th century what their ancestors did for the Heralds' Visitations of the 16th and 17th: they submitted freely and courteously their pedigrees and family documents, thus enabling me to produce a work which has, for a long series of years, been most favourably received. In my "Landed Gentry," as in the Heralds' Visitations, and indeed in every similar undertaking, errors must creep in. In some few, very few instances, has false information been imposed on me; even when it has, the recurrence of editions enables me to detect and erase incorrect statements. For myself, this much I will add, that I have endeavoured, during the whole of my arduous genealogical labours, the chief occupation of my past life, to perform my task conscientiously, and that it is a source of infinite gratification to me now to remember that my works have met the approval and encouragement of many of the most distinguished genealogists of my time; of such men as Nicolas and Ormerod, John Riddell and Alexander Sinclair, Lords Farnham, Lindsay, Kildare, and Gort, the Comte de Montalembert, D. O'Callaghan Fisher, and the Rev. John Hamilton Gray, Sir Harris Nicolas, whose genealogical ability, accuracy, and erudition have never been surpassed, took, for years before his early and lamented death, a lively interest in my works, and rendered me the most valuable assistance and very recently, Montalembert, the enlightened spirit and faithful echo of both the byegone and the happily still existing chivalry of France, referred kindly to my books, and more especially to "the Dormant and Extinct Peerage," which he considered the most valuable, in this that it illustrates and brings back to light the great personages and great families who have figured in every age of English history. With these few remarks, and with the consciousness that, amid many difficulties, I have sought the truth alone, and have done "all in honour," I submit my "History of the Dormant and Extinct Peerage" to the favourable judgment of the public, with some confidence and much hope. My readers, I am convinced, will take into account the toilsome nature of my undertaking, the countless dates, and names, and facts, that the following pages comprise, and will make allowance for mistakes and errors which may, despite of the most sedulous care and minute revision, have been overlooked. Their indulgence thus accorded to me, I feel safe as to the general correctness of the whole. ATON, BARONS ATON; BURKE, Baron Leitrim; DE DREUX, Earls of Richmond; FITZ JAMES, Duke of Berwick; FLEMING, Earls of Wigton; GENEVILL, Barons Genevill: LIVINGSTONE, of the United States; MAGENNIS, Viscounts Iveagh; MARTIN, Barons Martin; MASSUE DE RUVIGNY, Earl of Galway; PALMER, Earl of Castlemaine; PRESTON, VISCOUNT TARRA; UFFORD, BARONS PEERAGES arranged alphabetically according to TITLES : " 615 621 PEERAGES: EXTINCT, DORMANT, AND IN ABEYANCE. ABERCROMBY-LORD GLASFORD. By Letters Patent, dated 5 July, 1685. Lineage. ALEXANDER ABERCROMBY, of Fetterneir, younger brother of James Abercromby, of Birkenbog, in Banffshire (ancestor of the ABERCROMBYS, Baronets of Birkenbog), m. Jean, dau. of John Seton, of Newark, and had three sons, FRANCIS, John, and Patrick a physician, author of the "Martial Achievements of the Scottish Nation," as well as of "Memoirs of the Family of Abercromby." The eldest son and heir, FRANCIS ABERCROMBY, of Fetterneir, having married Anne, Baroness Sempill in her own right, was created a peer of Scotland, for life only, 5 July, 1685, as LORD GLASFORD. He had several children (of whom Francis, 9th Lord Sempill, was the eldest, and Hugh, 11th Lord Sempill (great grandfather of the present BARONESS SEMPILL), the 4th son), but the dignity of Glasford became, of course, EXTINCT at Lord Glasford's decease. (See SEMPILL, BURKE'S Extant Peerage.) Arms Arg., a chev., gu., between three boars' heads, erased, az., langued of the second. ABRINCIS-EARLS OF CHESTER. Upon the detention, a prisoner in Flanders, of GHERBOD, a Fleming who first held the Earldom of Chester, that dignity was conferred, A.D. 1070, by the CONQUEROR, upon (his halfsister's son) HUGH DE ABRINCIS,* surnamed LUPUS, and called by the Welch, Vras, or "the Fat." "Which Hugh," says Dugdale, "being a person of great note at that time amongst the Norman nobility, and an expert soldier, was, for that respect, chiefly placed so near those unconquered Britains, the better to restrain their bold incursions: for it was, 'consilio prudentium, by the advice of his council, that King WILLIAM thus advanced him to that government; his power being, also, not ordinary; having royal jurisdiction within the precincts of his earldom-which honor he received to hold as freely by the sword as the King himself held England by the crown. But, though the time of his advancement was not till the year 1070, certain it is, that he came into England with the CONQUEROR, and thereupon had a grant of Whitby, in Yorkshire, which lordship he soon afterwards disposed of to William de Percy, his associate in that famous expedition." In the contest between WILLIAM RUFUS, and his brother ROBERt Curthose, this powerful nobleman sided with the former, and remained faithful to him during the whole of his reign. He was subsequently in the confidence of HENRY I., and one of that monarch's chief councillors. "In his youth and flourishing age," continueth the author above quoted, "he was a great lover of worldly pleasures and secular pomp; profuse in giving, and much delighted with interludes, jesters, horses, dogs, and * Or Avranches, in Normandy. other like vanities; having a large attendance of such persons, of all sorts, as were disposed to those sports: but he had also in his family both clerks and soldiers, who were men of great honor, the venerable Anselme (abbot of Bec, and afterwards archbishop of Canterbury) being his confessor; nay, so devout he grew before his death, that sickness hanging long upon him, he caused himself to be shorn a monk in the abbey of St. Werburge, where, within three days after, he died, 27 July, 1101." His lordship m. Ermentrude, dau. of Hugh de Claremont, Earl of Bevois, in France, by whom he had an only son, RICHARD, his successor. Of his illegitimate issue were Ottiwell, tutor to those children of King HENRY I. who perished at sea; Robert, originally a monk in the abbey of St. Ebrulf, in Normandy, and afterwards abbot of St. Edmundsbury, in Suffolk; and Geva,* the wife of Geffery Riddell, to whom the earl gave Drayton Basset, in Staffordshire. That this powerful nobleman enjoyed immense wealth in England is evident, from the many lordships he held at the general survey; for, besides the whole of Cheshire, excepting the small part which at that time belonged to the bishop, he had nine lordships in Berkshire, two in Devonshire, seven in Yorkshire, six in Wiltshire, ten in Dorsetshire, four in Somersetshire, thirty-two in Suffolk, twelve in Norfolk, one in Hampshire, five in Oxfordshire, three in Buckinghamshire, four in Gloucestershire, two in Huntingdonshire, four in Nottinghamshire, one in Warwickshire, and twenty-two in Leicestershire. It appears too, by the charter of foundation to the abbey of the rank of baron under him. The charter runs thus :St. Werburge, at Chester, that several eminent persons held "Hæc sunt itaque dona data Abhatiæ S. Werburge, quæ omnia ego Comes HUGO et RICHARDUS filius meus et Ermentrudis Comitissa, et mei Barones, et mei homines dedimus, &c.," which Barones et Homines mentioned therein, were the following: 1 William Malbanc; 2 Robert, son of Hugo; 3 Hugo, son of Norman; 4 Richard de Vernun; 5 Richard de Rullos; 6 Ranulph Venator; 7 Hugo de Mara; 8 Ranulph, son of Ermiwin; 9 Robert de Fremouz; 10 Walkelinus, nephew of Walter de Vernon; 11 Seward; 12 Gislebert de Venables; 13 Gaufridus de Sartes; 14 Richard de Mesnilwarin; 15 Walter de Vernun. The charter concludes-"Et ut hæc omnia essent rata et stabilia in perpetuum, ego Comes Hugo et mei Barones confirmavimus (&c.), ita quod singuli nostrum propriâ manu, in is signed by the earl himself, testimonium posteris signum in modum Crucis facerunt:"-and Richard, his son; Hervey, bishop of Bangor; Ranulph de Meschines, his nephew, who eventually inherited the earldom; Roger Bigod; Alan de Perci; William Constabular; Ranulph Dapifer; William Malbanc; Robert Fitz Hugh; Hugh FitzNorman; Hamo de Masci; and Bigod de Loges. The legitimacy of this lady is maintained from the circumstance of her father having bestowed upon her the manor of Drayton, in free marriage, which the lawyers say could not be granted to a bastard; but had she been legitimate, she would surely have succeeded to the earldom before her aunt. |