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jesty, declaring in council his intention of going over to Holland, the 31st of the same month, he was declared one of the lords justices for the administration of the government. And before the end of the year, being sent for by his Majesty to attend him at Loo, he arrived there from England, October 4th, 1699. That year he was appointed one of the plenipotentiaries for the second treaty of partition; and on June 24th, 1700, made lord chamberlain of his Majesty's household.

On the accession of Queen Anne, he was sworn of her privycouncil, and April 14th, 1702, constituted lord chamberlain of her household, and created doctor of the civil laws in August that year, when the Queen was at Oxford. His Lordship continued in his post of lord chamberlain till April, 1704; and after had no public employment, dying in the fifty-sixth year of his age, on August 26th, 1711, the day he was to have been named lord privy seal, being likewise designed one of the plenipotentiaries to the congress at Utrecht; and was buried on September 4th following, in St. Michael's chapel in Westminster abbey.

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His Lordship married Barbara, danghter to William Chiffinch, Esq. closet-keeper to Charles II. by whom he left issue

two sons,

First, William, his successor.

Second, Henry, who died without issue in May, 1743.

Also a daughter, Mary, married to Thomas Thynne, of Old Windsor in Berks, Esq. by whom she was mother of Thomas, second Lord Viscount Weymouth, and was secondly the wife of George Granville, Lord Lansdown, and died on January 17th, 1734-5.

WILLIAM, SECOND EARL OF JERSEY, was elected one of the knights for Kent to the parliament in 1705, his father being then alive; and married Judith, only daughter to Frederic Hern, of the city of London, Esq. by whom he had two sons,

First, William, late Earl of Jersey.

Second, Thomas, created Earl of Clarendon, 1776, under which title he will be treated of.

Also an only daughter, Lady Barbara, married, in 1725, to Sir William Blacket, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in com. Northumb. Bart.; but he dying on August 27th, 1728, she was married, on March 13th, 1728-9, to Bussy Mansel, Esq. uncle to Thomas,

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-ast Lord Mansel, and on July 16th, 1757, to George Venables Vernon, Esq. since Lord Vernon.

The Countess, their mother, survived her Lord several years; and departing this life, was buried in St. Bridget's church, London, on July 31st, 1735.

His Lordship died on July 13th, 1721, and was buried at Westerham in Kent.

William, THIRD EARL OF JERSEY, succeeded his father. His Lordship was one of the gentlemen of the bed-chamber to Frederic, Prince of Wales (at whose funeral, April 13th, 1751, he was one of the six supporters of the pall), and on May 12th, 1740, was appointed lord chief justice in Eyre of all his Majesty's forests, chases, parks, &c. on this side Trent, and afterwards sworn one of the lords of his Majesty's most honourable privy-council. His Lordship married, on June 23d, 1733, the Lady Anne Egerton, daughter to Scroop, first Duke of Bridgewater, and relict of Wriothesley, Duke of Bedford; and by her, who died on June 16th, 1762, had issue,

First, Frederic William, Lord Viscount Villiers, who was born on March 25th, 1734, and died in October, 1742.

Second, George Bussy, late Earl of Jersey.

His Lordship died August 28th, 1769, and was succeeded in the family, honour, titles, &c. by his only surviving son,

GEORGE BUSSY, FOURTH EARL OF JERSEY, who was born on June 9th, 1735, and on his uncle's being created Lord Hyde, in 1756, elected member for Tamworth in Staffordshire in his room; was again chosen for the same place at the general election in 1761. His Lordship, on March 21st, 1761, was declared one of the lords of the admiralty; but resigned in April, 1763. On his appointment to the admiralty board, his seat in parliament becoming vacant, he was afterwards elected to represent the borough of Aldborough in Yorkshire; at the general election in 1768, he was chosen for Dover in Kent; on July 6th, 1765, he was appointed lord chamberlain of his Majesty's household, which he resigned on September 9, 1769, and was the same day appointed lord of the bed-chamber, in which post he continued till December, 1777. On March 30th, 1782, he was appointed master of his Majesty's buck-hounds; which resigning in May, 1783, he was made captain of his Majesty's band of gentlemen pensioners, which he resigned in December, 1790.

He was afterwards master of the horse to the Prince of Wales.

His Lordship married Frances, sole daughter and heir of Dr. Philip Twysden, bishop of Raphoe in Ireland, younger son of Sir William Twysden, of Royden-Hall in Kent, Bart. by whom he had issue,

First, Lady Charlotte, born May 2d, 1771, married, July 11th, 1789, to Lord William Russell, younger brother of the Duke of Bedford, and died August 31st, 1808, leaving issue by him.

Second, Lady Anna Barbara Frances, born March 22d, 1772 ; married, first, William Henry Lambton, Esq. and by him (who died November 30th, 1797), had issue; and, secondly, the Honourable Charles Wyndham, brother of the present Earl of Egremont.

Third, George, present Earl.

Fourth, Lady Caroline Elizabeth, born in 1774, married lieutenant-general Lord Paget, son of Henry, Earl of Uxbridge, and has issue; divorced from him by the laws of Scotland, and remarried to the Duke of Argyle.

Fifth, Lady Georgiana, died young.

Sixth, Lady Sarah, born November 17th, 1779; married, September 12th, 1799, Charles Nathaniel Bayley, Esq.

Seventh, William Augustus Henry, born November 15th, 1780, who, by his Majesty's permission, June 4th, 1802, assumed the surname of Mansel, pursuant to the will and testament of Louisa Barbara, Baroness Vernon.

Eighth, Lady Elizabeth Frances, married, January 13th, 1803, John, Lord Ponsonby, of Imokilly.

Ninth, Lady Harriet, married, December 21st, 1806, the Hon. and Rev. Richard Bagot, brother to William, Lord Bagot. Tenth, a son, born July 29th, 1796.

The Earl deceasing August 22d, 1805, was succeeded by his eldest son,

GEORGE, the present and FIFTH EARL OF JERSEY.

His Lordship married, May 23d, 1804, Sarah Sophia, eldest daughter of John, Earl of Westmoreland, who possesses the very large property of her maternal grandfather, Mr. Child, of Osterly, the banker. By her he has issue,

First, Viscount Villiers, born April 5th, 1808.
Second, another son, born July 10th, 1810.

Titles. George Villiers, Earl of Jersey, Viscount Villiers of Dartford, and Baron of Hoo, English honours: also Viscount Grandison, of Limerick in Ireland.

Creations. Baron of Hoo, and Viscount Villiers of Dartford

in Kent, by patent March 20th, 1690-1, 3 William and Mary; and Earl of the island of Jersey, October 13th, 1697, 9 Wil. III. ; also Viscount Grandison of Limerick, January 3d, 1620, 18 James I.

or.

Arms. Argent, on a cross, gules, five escallops, or.

Crest. On a wreath a lion rampant, argent, ducally crowned,

Supporters. Two lions, argent, crowned with ducal coronets, or, each having a plain collar, gules, charged with three escallop shells of the second.

Motto. FIDEI COTICULA CRUX.

Chief Seats. At Middleton Stoney, Oxfordshire; and Osterley, Middlesex.

END OF VOL. III.

T. Bensley, Printer,

Bolt Court, Fleet Street, London.

ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA.

EARL OF SIIREWSBURY.-P. 1.

P. 47. The Hon. Mary Talbot, mother of the present Earl, died February 19th, 1812.

P. 48. Elizabeth, Countess Dowager of Shrewsbury, widow of the late Earl, died at Lacock-Abbey, æt. 86, August 11th, 1809, universally and deservedly lamented. Her unbounded munificence will be long and gratefully remembered; and her liberality of sentiment and general philanthropy were excelled by none, and equalled by few.

The present Countess of Shrewsbury is eldest daughter of James Hoey of Dublin, Gent.

STANLEY, EARL OF DERBY.-P. 50.

P. 81. For the contemporary notice of Ferdinando, Earl of Derby, as a poet, see also Polimanteia, a curious tract on the Elizabethan literature, reprinted in the first volume of The British Bibliographer.

P. 102. One of the daughters of the Rev. Jeffery Hornby, by Lucy, sister to the present Earl of Derby, married the Rev. William Henry (Burt) Champneys, Vicar of St. Mary Bredin, Canterbury, (representative by his mother of the old and respectable Kentish family of Champneys, whose estates at Ostenhanger, near Hythe, &c. he owns): by her he has several children. Lord Stanley has issue;

Sixth, Eleanor Mary, born May 3d, 1807.

Seventh, Charles James Fox, born April 25th, 1808.

EARL OF PEMBROKE.-P. 104.

P. 145. The EARL OF PEMBROKE has issue by the present Countess,

A daughter, born in December, 1808.

A son, born September 15th, 1810.

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