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cester. After Lord Roos's death, she re-married Sir Richard Burley, Knight of the Garter, who died in 1386, in Galicia; and she was living in 1412.

By this Lady Lord Roos had issue three sons, and two daughters; viz.

First, John, Lord Roos.

Second, William, Lord Roos.

Third, Thomas, settled at Owersby, com. Linc. whose son died there, 1452.

Fourth, Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Lord Clifford, who died 15 Rich. II. (son of Roger Lord Clifford, by Maud, daughter of Thomas de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, and great grandfather of John Lord Clifford, whose grandson, Henry, was created Earl of Cumberland.)

Fifth, Margaret de Roos.

JOHN LORD Roos, eldest son, being as eminent for his piety, as for his military services, went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem; and dying at Paphos in the isle of Cyprus, in 1394, was buried at Rievaulx Abbey, 17 Rich. II. He married Mary, daughter of Henry Lord Percy, widow of ... ... Orreby, but had no issue : she died August 25th, 1395.

WILLIAM, LORD Roos, his brother and heir, succeeded him; and on September 29th, 4 Hen. IV. was constituted LORD TREASURER OF ENGLAND, in which office he continued till April 15, 7 Hen. IV. He had SUMMONS to all the parliaments from 18 Rich. II. to 1 Hen. V. inclusive. He died at Belvoir castle, September 1st, 1414, and was buried in the midst of the choir of that priory; and his monument being removed thence now remains in Bottesford church. He married Margaret, daughter of Sir John Arundel, by whom he had issue,

First, John, his heir.

Second, Thomas, successor to his brother.

Third, Robert; fourth, William; fifth, Richard; sixth, Beatrice; seventh, Alice; eighth, Margaret; ninth, Elizabeth.

JOHN, LORD Roos, eldest son, being in 1421 with the Duke of Clarence, and venturing too far upon the Dauphin's army at Bauge, about eighteen miles from Anjou, was with his brother William, unfortunately slain, together with the Dukes of Clarence

f See Gent. Mag. vol lvii. p. 220, 490.

* See an engraving of his sumptuous monument in Dugdale's St. Paul's, and in Nichols, ut supra.

and Exeter, and many more of the English cavalry, about four miles distant from the castle of Beaufort in France. He married Margaret, daughter and heir to Sir Philip Despenser, by Elizabeth, daughter and coheir to Sir Robert Tiptoft; who surviving him, remarried Roger Wentworth, who was ancestor by her to the Lords Wentworth, of Nettlested. But dying without issue, he was succeeded by

THOMAS, LORD Roos, his brother and heir, who was knighted in the wars of France, and had SUMMONS to parliament 7 Hen. VI. He died August 18th, 1431, having married Lady Eleanor, daughter of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, by whom he had issue,

First, Thomas, born September 9th, 1427.

Second, Richard, born March 8th, 1429.

Third, Edmund, who was an ideot: fourth and fifth, two daughters.

THOMAS, LORD Roos, eldest son, succeeded, and had SUMMONS to parliament from 27 to 38 Hen. VI. to whom he was a firm adherent. "The Lord Ros," says Leland, "toke King Henry the VI. parte agayn King Edwarde; whereupon the Lord Rose's landes stode as confiscate, King Edwarde prevailing; and Bellevoir castle was given in keeping to the Lord Hastings; the which cumming thither upon a tyme to peruse the ground, and to lye in the castel, was sodenly repellid by Mr. Harington, a man of poure thereabout, and friende to the Lord Rose; wherupon the Lorde Hastings cam thither another tyme with a strong poure, and upon a raging wylle spoilid the castelle, defacing the rofes, and taking the leades of them, wherwith they war al coverid. Then felle alle the castelle to ruine; and the tymbre of the rofes onkeverid rotted away; and the soile betwene the waulles at the last grue ful of elders; and no habitation was there tyl that of late dayes the Eyrle of Rutland hath made it fairer than ever it was."

He was attainted in parliament November 4th, in the 1st of Edw. IV. and his lands confiscated; and died at Newcastle the same year, leaving issue by Philippa his wife, sister to John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester, (and aunt and coheir to Earl Edward his son) two sons and three daughters, viz.

First, Edmund, his successor.

Second, John, who died young, without issue.

Third, Eleanor, wife of Sir Robert Manners, of Etal, Knight.

h Lel. Itin. vol. i. p. 114, 115.

Fourth, Isabel, wife, first, of Sir Thomas Everingham; and secondly, married to Sir Thomas Lovell, K. G.; and thirdly, to Sir Thomas Grey, a younger son of Sir Ralph Grey, of Werke.

EDMUND, LORD Roos, eldest son, was in consequence of his father's attainder, obliged in his tender years to go beyond the seas; but by the favour of King Henry VII. who united the two contending houses of York and Lancaster, he recovered the castle and estate, after being in the possession of the family of Hastings for more than twenty years. He had however returned privately to England, immediately after the accession of King Edward IV. for it appears that he with others joining himself to the Duke of Somerset in the month of May, 4 Edw. IV. made head in the north; and with him Sir Ralph Percy and others, to the number of two or three hundred, got into Bamburgh castle, but were soon defeated by the power which John Earl of Northumberland then raised.

In 1492, an act of parliament passed to vest," the guiding and governance of this Edmund Lord Roos and his estates, the said Edmund not being of sufficient discretion to guide himself and his livelihood," in Sir Thomas Lovell, Knight, who had married Isabel, one of his sisters. Edmund, Lord Roos, resided after this period at the manor house of Elsinges, in Enfield com. Middlesex, and was probably kept there under some degree of restraint. He died October 15th, 1508, and was buried in the church of that parish, on the north side of the altar, where his monument is an arch, erected over the tomb of Joyce Lady Tiptoft, his maternal grandmother. See it engraved in vol. ii. of Gough's Sepulchral Monuments, and in Nichols's Leicestershire, vol. ii. p 40.

ELEANOR, eldest sister and coheir of Edmund Lord Roos, married, as has been mentioned, Sir ROBERT MANNERS, of Ethale in Northumberland, who was sheriff of Northumberland in 1445, and 1465. By this marriage he acquired the property of Belvoir castle in Leicestershire, with that of Hamlake in Yorkshire, and the lordship of Orston in Nottinghamshire. He died about 1485.

GEORGE MANNERS, eldest son and heir, assumed the title of LORD Roos, in right of his mother. He married Anne, sole daughter and heir of Sir Thomas St. Leger, Knight, by Anne, sister to King Edward IV. He died October 27th, 1513, and was succeeded by his eldest son,

THOMAS Manners, LORD Roos, who was created EARL OF RUTLAND in the 17th of King Henry VIII. He died September

20th, 1543, leaving issue by his second wife, Eleanor, daughter of Sir William Paston, of Paston in Norfolk.

HENRY, Second Earl of Rutland and LORD Roos, who married to his first wife Margaret, daughter to Ralph Nevile, Earl of Westmoreland; and died September 17th, 1563, leaving a son and heir,

EDWARD, third Earl of Rutland, and LORD Roos. He died April 14th, 1587, leaving by Isabel, sole daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Holcroft, of Vale Royal in Cheshire.

ELIZABETH Manners, sole daughter and heir, married William Cecil, afterwards SECOND EARL OF EXETER. She died May 11th, 1591, leaving issue

WILLIAM CECIL, LORD Roos, in right of his mother, who, on February 12th, 1616, married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Lake; but died at Naples without issue, during the life of his father and grandfather, on June 27, 1618. See title EXETER, vol. ii.

JOHN Manners, who succeeded his brother Edward, as fourth Earl of Rutland, died February 24th, 1588, having married Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Charlton, of Apley in Shropshire, Esq. by whom he had issue, first, Edward, who died young; second, Roger; third, Francis; fourth, Sir George, successive Earls of Rutland; and fifth, Sir Oliver.

This Earl had also four daughters; first, Bridget, married to Robert Tirwhit, of Ketelby com. Lincoln, Esq. from whom is descended the present Sir Thomas Windsor Hunloke, Bart.

Second, Frances, married to William third Lord Willoughby, of Parham, who died October 28th, 1603, leaving issue by her, Henry, fourth Lord Willoughby, of Parham; who dying young was succeeded by his brother Francis, fifth Lord Willoughby, of Parham, (whose only child, William, died young); also three daughters; Diana, married to Heneage Finch, Earl of Winchelsea, who had several children by her, who all died infants; Frances, wife of William Lord Brereton, of Leighling in Ireland; and Elizabeth, wife of Richard Jones, Viscount Ranelagh; from which marriage is descended the present peeress.

Third, Elizabeth, married to Emanuel Scroope, Earl of Sunderland; but died without issue.

Fourth, Mary, who died unmarried in April, 1588.

ROGER Manners succeeded as fifth Earl of Rutland. He died 1612; and was succeeded by his brother

FRANCIS, sixth Earl of Rutland, who succeeded also as LoR

Roos, on the death of William Cecil, 1618. He died December 17th, 1632, leaving by his first wife, Frances, daughter and coheir of Sir Henry Knevit, of Charlton com. Wilts, an only surviving daughter and heir,

Lady CATHARINE Manners, BARONESS Roos, who by her first husband, George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham, had issue GEORGE VILLIERS, second Duke of Buckingham, and in right of his mother, LORD Roos.

On his death without issue, in 1687, the BARONY OF Roos lay dormant, till it was confirmed to the present peeress, who is descended from Frances, wife of William, third Lord Willoughby, of Parham, daughter of John, fourth Earl of Rutland, as already mentioned.

FRANCES Willoughby, daughter of the abovesaid Lady Frances Manners (by William Lord Willoughby, of Parham), married RICHARD JONES, Earl of Ranelagh, of Ireland, who died January 5th, 1711. By him she had two sons, who died young; and four daughters.

First, Elizabeth, who died young.

Second, Elizabeth, married John, eighteenth Earl of Kildare. Third, Frances, married to THOMAS CONINGSBY, EARL CONINGSBY, being his second wife, and died February 19th, 1719. He died May 1st, 1729.

Fourth, Catherine, died unmarried in April 1740, at Chelsea, at an advanced age.

Lady MARGARET Coningsby, eldest daughter of Thomas Earl Coningsby, was created Baroness and Viscountess Coningsby, November 16th, 1716; and afterwards succeeded her father as Countess Coningsby. She married Sir Michael Newton, K. B. but died without surviving issue about 1761.

Lady FRANCES Coningsby, her sister, married Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, K. B. by whom she left two daughters, her coheirs.

FRANCES WILLIAMS, daughter and coheir, married, August 1st, 1754, William Anne Holles Capel, late Earl of Essex, and dying July 19th, 1759, was mother of the present Earl of Essex, and of Lady Monson.

CHARLOTTE WILLIAMS, the other daughter and coheir, married, July 17th, 1759, the Hon. Admiral ROBERT BOYLE, who took the name of WALSINGHAM, a younger son of Henry Boyle, first Earl of Shannon. He was lost in the West Indies in 1779, leaving issue by her, who died in 1790.