ter of William Hugford, Esq., of Hugford and Middleton, in the county of Salop, sister and heiress of her brother, William Hugford, and widow of Sir Thomas Lucy, Knt., of Charlecote, by whom he had one son, JOHN, who m. in the 25th Henry VI., Christian, widow of Henry Sewal, of London, and only daughter and heiress of Ralph Blacklow, of the same city, and of his wife Joan, only daughter and heiress of Thomas Coke, alias Malling, of West Malling, Kent, by whom he had an only son, JOHN. King Henry VI. by his letters patent dated 12th May, in the eighth year of his reign, retained this John Archer, Esq., by his factors or attorneys, to convey in ships all manner of provisions for victualling the town and fortress of Calais. Mr. Archer fell in battle in 1463, on the side of the Earl of Warwick, against King Edward IV. His widow remarried in the 3rd of Edward IV., Henry Beech, Esq. RICHARD ARCHER, m. secondly, Margaret, relict of Thomas Newport, Esq., of Ercall, in Shropshire, ancestor of the Earls of Bradford, and thirdly, Joane, daughter and heiress of William Ley, of Stotford, in the county of Stafford. In the 7th of Henry VI. Mr. Archer had summons to attend the king in France, to be present at his coronation there; Sir Ralph Bruce, Knt., Sir Edward Dodingfell, and Nicholas Burdett, with others of the county of Warwick, being also summoned. In the 19th of the same monarch, he served the office of sheriff for the county of Salop, and the next year, that of sheriff for the county of Stafford, in which shire he resided at Stotford. He d. in the 85th year of his age, anno 1471, when his large estates in the counties of Salop, Stafford and Bedford, devolved upon his grandson, JOHN ARCHER, Esq., b. in 1449, m. Alice, daughter of Sir Baldwin Mountfort, Knt., of Coltshill, in the county of Warwick, and dying at Omberslade, 4th December, 1519, was s. by his only son, JOHN ARCHER, Esq., whom. Margaret, daughter of Humphrey Strafford, Esq., of Bletherwick in the county of Northampton, by whom he had four sons and a daughter. He d. in a year after his father, and was s. by his eldest son, RICHARD ARCHER, Esq., Escheator of the county of Warwick, in the 22nd of Henry VIII. and justice of the peace for that shire. This gentleman m. Maud, second daughter of Nicholas Delamere, Esq., of Little Hereford, in the county of Hereford, and co-heiress with her sister Susan, wife of John Dansey, Esq., of her brother Edmund Delamere, Esq., and had issue, Humphrey, b. in 1527. Miles, b. in 1530. Edward, b. in 1533, d. unm. Francis, b. in 1534. Anne, b, in 1526. Winifrede, b. in 1535. In the 32nd of Henry VIII. Mr. Archer was appointed steward of the manor of Knole, in the county of Warwick, being then, as recited in the letters patent, one of the esquires of the king's body, and in two years afterwards, he was commanded to take the muster of all able men, as well horsemen as foot, that he could furnish both of the king's tenants, inhabiting upon farms whereof he had the stewardship; as also his own servants and tenants dwelling on his own lands, &c. He d. 5th October, 1544, and was 8. by his eldest son, HUMPHREY ARCHER, Esq., who married in the 4th of Edward VI. (6th October) Anne, daughter of Sir Robert Townshend, Knt., chief justice of the marches of Wales and Chester, and granddaughter of Sir Roger Townshend, of Reynham, in the county of Norfolk, one of the justices of the court of common pleas, ancestor of the Viscounts Townshend, by whom he had surviving issue, ANDREW, his successor. John, m. Eleanor, daughter and heiress of Bridget, m. to John Bancroft, Esq., of Han- Elizabeth, m. to John Hereford, Esq., of Suf ton, in the county of Hertford. Mr. Archer d. at Omberslade, 24th October, 1562, and was s. by his eldest son, ANDREW ARCHER, Esq., who extended his territorial possessions by the purchase of large estates in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth, and King James I. In the 7th year of which latter reign, he was sheriff of the county of Warwick. He m. in 1580, Margaret, daughter of Simon Raleigh, Esq., of Farnborough, in the county of Warwick, and had issue, Thomas, who d. in his 24th year, before his father, unmarried. SIMON, Successor to the estates. Richard, m. Mary, daughter and sole heiress of Rowland Bull, Esq., of Neithropp, in the county of Oxford (with whom he acquired that estate), and had a son, Rowland. Mr. Archer d. 23rd of April, 1629, and was 8. by his eldest surviving son, SIR SIMON ARCHER, Knt., sheriff of Warwickshire, in the 3rd year of King Charles I. and member for Tamworth, in the parliament which assembled on the 30th April, 1640. This gentleman was distinguished as a man of letters and an antiquary, and Sir William Dugdale acknowledges himself greatly indebted to him in compiling his antiquities of Warwickshire. Sir Simon m. Anne, daughter of Sir John Ferrers, Knt., of Tamworth Castle, in the county of Warwick, by whom he had surviving issue, Thomas, his successor. Anne, m. to Philip Young, Esq., of Keneton, in the county of Salop. Elizabeth. Penelope, m. to Erasmus de Ligne, Esq., of Sir Simon Archer was s. at his decease, by his son, THOMAS ARCHER, Esq., who, at the commencement of the civil wars, was a colonel in the parliament army, and raised a troop of horse at his own expense; but, so soon as he discovered the de signs of the parliamentarians, he threw up his commission, and emigrating, remained abroad until the restoration of the monarchy when he represented the city of Warwick in parliament. He m. Anne, daughter of Richard Leigh, Esq., of London, and had issue, ANDREW, his successor. Thomas, groom-porter to Queen Anne, and to Elizabeth, m. to Sir Herbert Croft, Bart., of Croft Castle, in the county of Hereford. Frances, m. to Sir Frances Rous, Bart., of Rous-Lench, in the county of Worcester. Mr. Archer d.in 1685, and was 8. by his eldest son, ANDREW ARCHER, Esq., M.P. for the county of Warwick in the reigns of William and Mary, Queen Anne, and King George I., and one of the commissioners appointed in 1711 to inquire into the numbers and quality of the forces in Her Majesty's pay in Portugal, and to examine the accounts relating to the said forces, and to the garrisons of Portmahon and Gibraltar. Mr. Archer m. Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Samuel Dashwood, Lord Mayor of London in 1702, and had issue, THOMAS, his successor. Henry, M.P. for Warwick, m. Lady Elizabeth Montagu, sister of George, Earl of Halifax, and d. in 1768. Anne. Elizabeth. Sarah. Diana, m. to Thomas Chaplin, Esq., of Blankney Hall, in the county of Lincoln. Mr. Archer d. at Umberslade, which he had rebuilt, on the 31st of December, 1741, and was s. by his elder son, THOMAS ARCHER, Esq., M.P. for Warwick, and subsequently for Bamber, who was elevated to the peerage on the 14th July, 1747, by the title of BARON ARCHER, OF UMBERSLADE, IN THE COUNTY OF WARWICK. His lordship m. Catharine, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Thomas Tipping, Baronet, of Wheetfield, in the county of Oxford, and Anne, his wife, daughter and heiress of Thomas Cheke, Esq., by his wife, Letitia, daughter and eventually sole heiress of Edward Russell (brother of William, first Duke of Bedford) and sister and heiress of Edward Russell, Earl of Orford, by whom he had issue, ANDREW, his successor, M.P. for Coventry. Anne, m. 15th March, 1756, to Edward Garth His lordship d. in 1768, and was 8. by his only son, Catharine, m. first, to Other-Lewis, 4th Earl of 25 Ed. 1. Lineage. REGINALD DE ARGENTEON, left a widow, Maud, who had license to marry again in the 5th year of Stephen, upon giving a composition to the king for her dowry. This Reginald d. before the year 1139, and was 8. by his son, REGINALD DE ARGENTEON, who was sheriff of the counties of Cambridge and Huntingdon, from the 5th to the 8th years of Richard I., and in the next year executed the duties of the same office for the counties of Hertford and Essex, for one half of the year. This feudal lord adhering to the insurrectionary barons, had letters of safe conduct in the 17th year of John, to come to the king in order to treat for peace; nothing effectual however resulted from the mission: but in the 1st of Henry III., making his own composition, orders were given to the sheriff of Cambridgeshire, to restore to him all his lands in that county. He d. about the year 1223, and was s. by his son, RICHARD DE ARGENTINE, who being sheriff for the counties of Essex and Hertford, in the 8th of Henry III., was constituted governor of the Castle of Hertford. He was likewise sheriff of the counties of Cambridge and Huntingdon, and subsequently (11th Henry III.) one of the stewards of the king's household. In the 14th of Henry III., this Richard being, (in the words of M. Paris,) a noble knight and valiant in arms, went on a pilgrimage to the holy land, and dying there in the year 1246, was s. by his son, GILES DE ARGENTINE, a knight also of great valour, who, in the 16th of Henry III., being with the king in an expedition made that year into Wales, fell into the hands of the enemy in a sharp conflict near Montgomerie. In ten years afterwards this feudal lord had summons with other important personages to attend the king with horse and arms into Gascony, and the next year he was appointed governor of Windsor Castle; but soon after we find him joining the rebel barons, at the battle of Lewes (wherein the king was taken prisoner), and elected by them one of the nine counsellors to assume the government of the kingdom. The barons being however defeated at the subsequent battle of Evesham, his lordship's lands and those of his son Reginald were sequestered. He d. in the 11th of Edward I., seised of the manor of Great Wymondeley in the county of Cambridge, holden by grand Serjeantie, viz.-"to serve the king upon the day of his coronation with a silver cup," and was 8. by his son (then in minority), REGINALD DE ARGENTINE, who doing She espoused, secondly, William Pitt, first homage, had livery of all his father's lands in the ey counties of Cambridge, Norfolk, Suffolk, and Hertford. This nobleman was summoned to parliament in the 25th Edward I., 26th January, 1297. His lordship m. Lora, daughter of Robert de Vere, Earl of Oxford, and dying in 1307, was 8. by his son, JOHN DE ARGENTINE, second baron, who had livery of his father's lands, but was never summoned to parliament. This nobleman m. first Joane, and had issue, Joane, who m. John le Botiller. Elizabeth, m. William le Botiller. Dionyse. which ladies inherited as co-heiresses the property of their mother. His lordship m. secondly and dying in the 12th year of Edward II., was s. by his only son, then but six months old, JOHN DE ARGENTINE, third baron, who received the honour of knighthood in the 4th of Edward III., but was never summoned to parliament. He m. Margaret, and had issue, William, his successor. Maud, m. to Eudo or Ivo Fitz-Warren. Joane, m. to Sir Barth Naunton. Elizabeth, m. to Sir Baldwin St. George. He was 8. at his decease by his only son, WILLIAM DE ARGENTINE, 4th baron, but never summoned to parliament; who was s. by his only son, JOHN DE ARGENTINE, 5th baron, but not summoned to parliament. With this nobleman the male line of the Argentines ceased, and the manor of Wymondeley was carried by his only daughter and heiress Elizabeth into the family of Allington, upon her marriage with William Allington, Esq., ancestor of the Lords Allington. This manor of Wimley or Wymondeley, is said to have fallen to the Argentines by marriage, with the heiress of Fitz Tees, who derived themselves from David D'Argenton, a Norman, who came over with William the Conqueror. ARMS-Gu. three covered cups, Ar. Note: "Of this family," says Dugdale, "was Reginald de Argentine, who in 21 Henry III., being a knight-templar, was standard bearer of the Christian army, in a great battel against the Turks near Antioch, in the holy land, and carried it till his hands and legs being broken, he was there slain. So likewise was Sir Giles Argentine, Knt., slain in Scotland at the battel of Bannoksburne, near Strivelin, in 7th of Edward II. It is said, that the king himself being in that fatal battel, and seeing the danger, by the advice of this Sir Giles (who being then lately come from the wars of Henry de Luzemburgh, the Emperour, and reputed a stout warriour) fled to Dunbar; and that this Sir Giles saying he was not wont to fly, returned to the English host, and was slain." Michael Trerice, by whom he had two sons, Nicholas and Thomas, and a daughter Jane, m. to Robert Trevanion. The elder son, NICHOLAS ARUNDEL, m. Elizabeth, daughter of John Pellocer, and sister and co-heiress of Martin Pellocer, and was 8. by his son, SIR JOHN ARUNDEL, of Trerice, in the county of Cornwall, who m. Joan, daughter and heiress of John Durant, and was s. by his elder son, NICHOLAS ARUNDEL, who m. Jane, daughter of Edward St. John, Esq., by whom he had four sons and four daughters. He was s. by his eldest son, SIR JOHN ARUNDEL, Knt., Sheriff of Cornwall in 1471. "This gentleman being forewarned," says Carew in his survey of Cornwall, that he should be slain on the sands, forsook his house at Elford, as too maritime, and removed to Trerice, his more inland habitation in the same county; but he did not escape his fate, for being sheriff of Cornwall in that year, and the Earl of Oxford surprising Mount Michael, for the house of Lancaster, he had the king's commands, by his office, to endeavour the reducing of it, and lost his life in a skirmish on the sands thereabouts. Sir John Arundel, m. first, Margaret, daughter of Sir Hugh Courtenay, Knt., by whom he had two sons, who d. young; and secondly, Anne, daughter of Sir Walter Moyle, Knt., by whom he had also two sons, and was 8. by the elder, SIR JOHN ARUNDEL, Sheriff of Cornwall, anno 1524. This gentleman, m. Joan, daughter of Thomas Greenvil, Esq., and was 8. by his only son, JOHN ARUNDEL, Esq., who received the honour of knighthood at the battle of Spurs. This gallant person, who was Vice Admiral to Kings Henry VII. and VIII., acquired great renown by the defeat and capture of Duncan Campbell, the Scottish pirate, in a sea fight. Sir John Arundel, m. first, Mary, daughter and co-heiress of John Bevil, of Garnache, in the county of Cornwall, by whom he had a son Roger, and three daughters: namely, Elizabeth, m. to Robert Tridenham, Esq. Catherine, m. to Richard Prideux, Esq., of Thewborough. Jane, m. to William Wall, Esq. Sir John, m. secondly, Julian, daughter of James Ereby, and widow of — Gurlyn, by whom he had issue, John, who became his heir. Margaret, m. to Robert Breket, Esq. Grace, m. to John Nance, Esq. Margery, m, to John Dunham, Esq. Mary. Jane. He was 8. by his only surviving son, JOHN ARUNDEL, Esq., who m. first Catherine, daughter and co-heiress of John Cosworth, Esq., ARUNDEL-BARONS ARUNDEL OF by whom he had four daughters: viz. TRERICE. By Letters Patent, dated 23rd March, 1664. RANDELL ARUNDEL, m. Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of John Steward, and left a son, RALPH ARUNDEL, living in the 31st of Edward III., who m. Jane, daughter and heiress of Mary, m.to Oliver Dynham, Esq. in the county of Cornwall. Alice, m. to Henry Sothaster, Esq., of Painsford. Mr. Arundel, m. secondly, Gertrude, daughter of Robert Dennis, Esq., of Holcomb, by whom he had two sons, John and Thomas, and two daughters, Anne, m. to William Carnfew, Esq., of Bucclesly, and Catherine, m. to John St. Aubyn, Esq. He d. in 1580, and was 8. by his elder son, Lord Arundel d. 27th of September, 1697, and was 8. by his elder son, JOHN ARUNDEL, third Baron, who m. Elizabeth, daughter of the Right Rev. William Beaw,, D.D., Lord Bishop of Landaff, and dying 24th of September, 1706, was s. by his only surviving child, JOHN ARUNDEL, Esq., of Trerice, M.P. for the county of Cornwall, temp. Queen Elizabeth and King James I., and for Tregony in the reign of King Charles I. At the breaking out of the civil war, this eminent person, with his four sons, espoused the cause of royalty, and took up arms for the king. Of these sons, two, John and William, lost their lives in the service of their unfortunate master, while their gallant father hurled defiance to the rebels from the battlements of Pendennis, and maintained his position there, to the very end of those unhappy conflicts, although besieged both by sea and land, being as Lord Clarendon relates, then nearly fourscore years of age, and of one of ASTLEY-BARONS ASTLEY. the best estates and interests in the County of Cornwall. Whitlock states, that on the 31st of August, 1646, letters came to the parliament, of the surrender of Pendennis Castle, and in it were Colonel Arundel, the governor, four knights, five colonels, and divers others of quality. That they had store of arms, but little provision. Colonel Arundel m. Mary, daughter of George Carey, Esq., of Clovelley, in the county of Devon, by whom he had four sons and two daughters; viz. Richard, John, William, Francis, Agnes, and Mary. The latter was m. first, to Trevanion, Esq., and secondly, to Sir John Arundel of Langherne. He was s. at his decease by his eldest son, JOHN ARUNDEL, fourth Baron. This nobleman m. in 1722, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Wentworth, of Ashby Puerorum in the county of Lincoln, and sister of Thomas, Earl of Strafford, by whom, who d. in 1750, he had no issue. His lordship d. in 1768, when the barony EXPIRED. ARMS-Quarterly; first and fourth, sa. six swallows close, three, two, and one arg. second and third sa. three Chevronels of the second. Irfice This RICHARD ARUNDEL, Esq., member in the two last parliaments of King Charles I., for Lestwithiel, and in his military capacity, attached to the personal staff of that unhappy prince. gallant officer had a command in the battle of Kineton, in the County of Warwick, where he displayed the hereditary valour of his family, and he was subsequently actively engaged during the whole of the civil wars, in which disastrous contest he was despoiled of the entire of his landed property. On the re-establishment of the monarchy, however, that was restored to him, and in consideration of the devotedness of his father, his brothers, and himself, to the royal cause, he was elevated to the peerage by letters patent, dated 23rd March, 1664, as BARON ARUNDEL OF TRERICE in the county of Cornwall. His lordship m. Gertrude, daughter of Sir James Bagg, Knt., of Saltham, in the county of Devon, and widow of Sir Nicholas Slanning, Knt., of Bickley, and was 8., at his decease in 1688, by his only surviving child, JOHN ARUNDEL, second baron; this nobleman m. first, Margaret, daughter and sole heiress of Sir John Acland, Knt., of Columb-John in the county of Devon, by whom he had issue, JOHN, his successor. Gertrude, m. first, to Sir Peter Whitcomb of Essex; and secondly, to Sir Bennet Hoskins. His lordship m. secondly, Barbara, daughter of Sir Henry Slingsby of Scriven, in the county of York, Baronet-and relict of Sir Richard Maleverer of Aleston-Maleverer in the same shire, by whom he had an only son, Richard, M.P., m. 2nd September, 1732, Frances, daughter of John, second Duke of Rutland. By Writ of Summons, dated 23rd June, 1295, 23 Edward I. Lineage. THIS noble family derived its surname from the Manor of ASTLEY (or Estley, as formerly written), in the county of Warwick, which with other estates in that shire, belonged to the Astleys so far back as the reign of Henry I. PHILIP DE ESTLEY-grandson of the first possessor, was certified, upon the assessment of the aid towards the marriage portion of King Henry the Second's daughter, to hold three knights' fees of William Earl of Warwick, de veteri Feaffamentoby the service "of laying hands on the earl's stirrop when he did get upon, or alight from horseback." This feudal baron was s. by his son, THOMAS DE ASTLEY, who holding certain lands of the Honour of Leicester, became a kind of bailiff to Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, "as may be seen," says Dugdale, "by a fine of fourscore marks and a palfrey, to the king, in 9th John, to be discharged of the profits required of him for that earl's lands, during the time he had to do with them." In the 12th of King John, this Thomas Astley payed a hundred marks to the crown, to be excused going beyond the sea: Dugdale supposes, in an expedition to Ireland. In the 17th of the same reign, he was committed prisoner to Bedford Castle, and had his lands seized for his participation in the rebellion of the barons; but returning to his allegiance, he was reinstated in his territorial possessions, in the 1st year of Henry III. ; and in two years afterwards, he was constituted a commissioner for restoring to the crown all the demesnes of which King John was possessed at the beginning of his wars with the barons, &c. This feudal lord m. Maud, one of the sisters and coheirs of Roger de Camvill of Creeke in the county of Northampton, and was 8. by his son, WALTER DE ASTLEY. This nobleman had been concerned in the rebellion of the barons against John. He was 8. by his son, SIR THOMAS DE ASTLEY, Knt., who was constituted in the 26th of Henry III., one of the king's justices for the gaol delivery at Warwick, and again in the next year, when he paid to the king £15. for his relief. In the 32nd of Henry III., this Sir Thomas de Astley was sent with several | The period of this nobleman's decease is not ascer other persons of rank and power, into Gascoigne : but we afterwards find him, 47th Henry III., a leader amongst the rebellious barons, who seized upon the revenues of the crown in the counties of Warwick and Leicester; and when the king submitted to the PROVISIONS OF OXFORD, the following year, he was nominated CUSTOS PACIS for Leicestershire. Sir Thomas fell, however, soon after (49th Henry III., 1264,) with Montford Earl of Leicester, and other insurrectionary nobles, at the battle of Evesham, when his estates, valued at £151. 16. 11. per annum, being confiscated, were conferred upon Warine de Bessingburne, but the king compassionating his widow and children, reserved to them out of those estates, certain lands, valued at £34. 18. 1. per annum, subject to one mark yearly to the said Warine and his heirs. Sir Thomas de Astley, m. first, Joane, daughter of Ernald de Bois, a person of great power in the county of Leicester -and had issue, ANDREW-his successor. Isabel, m. to William de Bermingham, (son and heir of Robert de Bermingham, one of the companions in arms of Strongbow, Earl of Pembroke, in his expedition into Ireland, temp. Henry II.) and left a son, PETER DE BERMINGHAM, who was summoned to Parliament, in Ireland, as BARON ATHENRY, in the reigns of John and Henry III., and from his lordship descended twenty-one successive Barons of Athenry, when the dignity merged in the extinct Earldom of Louth. Sir Thomas m. secondly, Editha, daughter of Peter Constable, Esq., of Melton Constable, in the county of Norfolk, and sister of Sir Ralph Constable, Knt., by whom he had three sons and a daughter, of whom, THOMAS, settled at Hill Morton, but dying s. p. his estates devolved upon his brother, RALPH ASTLEY, from whom the extinct Barons Astley of Reading derived, and Sir Jacob Astley, Bart., of Hill Morton, in the county of Warwick, and of Melton Constable in the county of Norfolk, descends. (See Burke's Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage.) After the decease of Sir Thomas de Astley, his eldest son, THOMAS DE ASTLEY, by virtue of the decree called, Dictum de Kenilworth, was put into possession of his father's estates-paying as a compensation to Warine de Bassingbourne, three hundred and twenty marks, sterling, to raise which sum he sold his manor of Little Copston, to the monks of Combe. He was subsequently engaged in the Scottish wars of King Edward I., and participated in the Victory of Falkirk. Thomas de Astley was summoned to parliament as BARON ASTLEY, from 23rd of June, 1295, to 3rd November, 1306, and was 8. at his decease by his son, NICHOLAS DE ASTLEY, second Lord Astley, summoned to parliament, from 4th July, 1302, to 11th July, 1309. His lordship and his brother Sir Giles de Astley attending King Edward II. into Scotland, were taken prisoners at Bannocksburn. tained, but having outlived his brother above mentioned, and dying issueless, the title and estates devolved upon his nephew (Sir Giles de Astley's son and heir by Alice, second daughter and coheiress of Sir Thomas Wolvey, Knt.), THOMAS DE ASTLEY, third Lord Astley, summoned to parliament, from 25th February, 1342, to 10th March, 1349. This nobleman founded a chantry in the parish church of Astley, in the 11th year of Edward III., and afterwards obtaining permission to change his chantry priests into a dean and secular canons, he erected a fair and beautiful collegiate church in the form of a cross, with a tall spire, covered with lead, and dedicated it to the assumption of the blessed Virgin. His lordship m. Elizabeth, daughter of Guy de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, and left issue, William, (Sir) his successor. Thomas, (Sir) M.P. for the county of Warwick, m. Elizabeth, daughter of Richard, son of Sir William Harecourt, Knt., from - which union the ASTLEYS of Patstrull, in the county of Stafford, lineally derive. Of which family was JOHN DE ASTLEY, memorable for fighting a duel on horseback, upon the 29th August, 1438, with Peter de Massei, a Frenchman, in the street St. Antoine, at Paris, before Charles VII. King of France, where having pierced his antagonist through the head, he had the helmet, by agreement of the vanquished, to present to his lady. He subsequently fought Sir Philip Boyle, an Arragonian knight, in Smithfield, in the City of London, in the presence of King Henry VI., and his court, which combat, we are told, was gallantly performed on foot, with battle axes, spears, swords, and daggers, and at its conclusion, that John de Astley was knighted by the king, and rewarded with a pension of one hundred marks for his life. "Yea," (says Dugdale,)" so famous did Sir John de Astley grow for his valour, that he was elected a knight of the garter, and bore for his arms the coats of Astley and Harecourt, quarterly, with a label of three points ermine." Giles, ancestor of the Astleys of Wolvey. Thomas, third Lord Astley, was s. at his decease by his eldest son, WILLIAM DE ASTLEY, fourth Lord Astley, but never summoned to parliament. This nobleman was included in several commissions during the reigns of Henry IV. and Henry VI. His lordship m. Catherine, daughter of William, Lord Willoughby de Eresby, by whom he left an only daughter, JOANE, m. first, to Thomas Raleigh, Esq., of Farnborough, in the county of Warwick, by whom she had no issue, and secondly, to Reginald, Lord Grey de Ruthyn (being his lordship's second wife), by whom she had three sons, and a daughter: viz. Edward, of whom presently, John de Grey, of Barwell, in the county of Leicester. |