infants. Alfo three daughters; Apollonia, Louifa, and Mary, who all died unmarried. He was fucceeded by his eldest fon,

Sir Edward Blount, Bart. who married Frances, daughter and fole heir of William Molyneux, of Mofsborough, in Lancafhire, Efq; by whom he had one fon, Edward, who died young; and Sir Edward dying in 1765, without iffue living, the title and eftate defcended to his brother,

Sir Walter Blount, the prefent Baronet, who is the twentyfirst in fucceffion from the Conqueft. He married, in 1766, the Hon. Mary Afton, eldeft daughter, and coheir, of the late Right Hon. James, Lord Afton, and Baron of Forfar, in Scotland; by whom he had a fon born Sept. 30, 1767, who died the 4th of October following; and another fon, Walter, born Sept. 3, 1768.

ARMS. Barry, Nebule of Six, Or and Sable.

CREST. An armed Foot in the Sun.

MOTTO. Lux tua, Via mea.

SEATS. At Sodington, in Worcestershire, and Mawly, in Shropshire.

120, CHAMBERLAYNE, of Wickham, Ox

TH

fordshire.

Created BARONET, Feb. 4, 1642.

HIS ancient family is defcended from William, Count Tankerville, of Tankerville-Castle, in Normandy, who came into England with William the Conqueror, but returned again into Normandy.

John de Tankerville was a younger fon of the former Earl, and was Lord Chamberlain to King Hen. I. Richard, his fon, was Lord Chamberlain to King Stephen, and thereupon affumed the firname of Chamberlain. William, his fon, Lord of North Rifton, was Lord Chamberlain to King Hen. II. and married the daughter of Clifton. He had taken prifoner Robert de Bellemont, Earl of Millain in Normandy, and Earl of Leicefter in England, commonly called Blanchmaines, who had taken part with young King Henry, against his father.

Robert Chamberlayne, his fon, was father of Sir Richard, who married Jane, daughter and heir of John Gateiden, by whom he had iffue Sir Robert, whofe wife was a daughter of Griffith, of Northamptonshire.

Sir John Chamberlayne, Knt. his fon, took to wife Jane, daughter and heir of John Mortein, fon and heir of Sir John Mortein, (of an ancient knightly family,) by the heir of Ekney, and had iffue Sir Richard, who by Jane, daughter of Sir John Reyns, of Clifton Reyns, Knt. was father of Sir Richard, John, of whom hereafter, and feveral other children; whereof Sir Richard fettled at Sherborne, in Oxfordshire, where his pofterity. continued till the reign of King James I. when John ChamberOlayne, Efq; the laft of that branch, died, leaving two daughters, his coheirs. The eldeft married, firft, Sir Thomas Gage, of Firle, in Suffex, Bart. fecondly, Sir William Goring, of Burton, in the fame county, Bart. The youngest daughter married the Lord Abergavenny.

Francis Chamberlayne, Efq; late Member of Parliament for New Shoreham, and Richard Chamberlayne, Efq; of Prince-thorpe, in Warwickshire, were defcended from this branch of the Chamberlaynes.

Which Rich. Chamberlayne, Efq; was late High-Sheriff of the county of Eflex; and married Sarah, daughter and heir of Jeffery Stanes, Efq; of Ryes, in Effex, by whom he has only one fon, Stanes Chamberlayne.

John Chamberlayne, of Hopton, in Derbyshire, Efq; (fecond fon of Sir Richard, before mentioned,) continued the line. He married Alice, the daughter of Benfted, and had iffue Thomas, whose wife was the daughter of Knifton. John, his fon, by the daughter of Elton, was father of John, who efpoufed Agnes, daughter of Keynes, and was father of William, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Fleming, of Dartmouth; by whom he had iflue

Sir Thomas Chamberlayne, of Prefbury, who married three wives; firft, Anne Vander-Zenney, of the houfe of Naffau, in the Low Countries. His fecond wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Ludington, (and relict of Machine,) from whom the Chamberlaynes, of Maugersbury, are defcended. His third wife was Anne, daughter of - Kirkeet, half fifter to Sir Monk, of Devonshire, grandfather to the Duke of Albemarle; from whom defcended the Chamberlaynes, of Oddington; which faid family is lately extinct.

This Sir Thomas Chamberlayne was eminent for his publick fervices: He was Ambaffador in the reigns of King Henry VIII, King Edward VI, Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth.

A younger brother to this Sir Thomas Chamberlayne, was William Chamberlayne, Efq; who fettled in Ireland, and left one fon, Thomas; who applying himfelf to the ftudy of the Laws of England, and being eminent in his profeffion, was firft

knighted

knighted by King James I. and foon after advanced by him to be Chief Juftice of Chefter: After which, viz. anno 1618, he was promoted to be one of the Juftices of his Majefty's Court of King's Bench; but being willing to retire from bufinefs, got leave to refign his office in 1622, and, by his Majefty's favour, reaffumed his place of Chief Juftice of Chefter, in which office he died. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir George Fermor, of Eafton Nefton, in Northamptonshire, Knt. relict of Sir William Stafford, of Blatherwick, in the fame county, Knt. by whom he had Thomas, his fon and heir, and George Chamberlayne, of Wardington, in Oxfordshire, Efq; who married Anne, daughter of Sir Richard Saltinstall, of South Okingdon, in Effex, Knt. and left iffue.

Thomas Chamberlayne, Efq; eldest fon and heir of the Judge, in confideration of his diftinguifhed loyalty to his Majefty, in the time of the great rebellion, and of his ancient defcent, was by him created a Baronet, in the 18th year of his reign. He married a daughter of the knightly family of the Aclands, in the county of Devon, by whom he had two fons, Sir Thomas, and Sir James, both fucceffively Baronets.

Sir Thomas, the eldeft fon, and fucceffor to his father, married Margaret, daughter of Edmund Prideaux, of the InnerTemple, Efq; by whom he had only two daughters, his coheirs. Catharine, the eldest daughter, was married, firft, to Richard, Vifcount Weninan, of the kingdom of Ireland, (by whom she had one fon, Thomas, Lord Viscount Wenman; and two daughters; one married, firft, to Capt. Bertie, of the Abingdon family, deceased; and, fecondly, Sir William Ofbaldeston, of Nethercot, Oxon, Bart. the other married John Wicksted, Efq;) The faid Catharine was afterwards fecond wife of James, Earl of Abingdon, who died in 1699, by whom fhe had no iffue; and fince married to her third husband, Francis Wroughton, of Hefkett, in the county of Wilts, Efq; Penelope, the fecond daughter of Sir Thomas, was married to Sir Robert Dashwood of Northbrooke, in the county of Oxford, Bart. by whom she had a numerous iffue. Sir Thomas, leaving no male issue, was fucceeded in the dignity, but not the eftate, by his brother,

Sir James Chamberlayne, Bart. a Gentleman of great learning, who married Margaret, daughter of Goodwin, of Bodicote, Oxon. Gent. and died Oct. 1699, leaving three fons, and one daughter; 1. Sir James, his fucceffor; 2. Henry; 3. Thomas, and the daughter, who both died unmarried.

Which Sir James Chamberlayne, Bart. in June, 1745, was appointed Major of the Royal Regiment of Horfe Guards Blue,

and

and promoted to be Lieutenant Colonel of the faid Regiment, Dec. 1750. He married a daughter of Walker, Efq;.formerly Clerk to the House of Commons, and had feveral children. He died in December, 1767, and was fucceeded by

Sir James Chamberlayne, his eldeft fon, who is the present Baronet.

P. S. Sir John Chamberlayne, of this family, was a great foldier, and eminent in the court of Edw. III. It appears by a record now in the Tower, that the King did grant to him, by the name of Count Chamberlain, Earl of Tankerville, Viscount de Millaine, and High Conftable of Normandy, a warrant to receive 10,000 marks, which he had lent to the King's fon, in the wars with France.

Of this family alfo was Sir Roger Chamberlayne, who, by the intrigues of the traiterous Duke of Suffolk, M. de la Poole, was condemned, and in part executed as a traitor, for his fidelity to his patron, Humphry, Duke of Gloucefter, Regent of England, during the minority of K. Henry VI. commonly called the Good Duke Humphry; but by great providence was preserved.

As was alfo Sir William Chamberlayne, of Gedding, in Suffolk, a great favourite and companion of Edw. IV. by whom he was made Knight of the Garter, in the first year of his reign. He was a man of great renown, an able governor, and expert foldier; for during his being Governor of Craill upon Oife, in France, which in 1436 was befieged by the French, immediately after they had taken Paris, he behaved fo bravely, that with two hundred Englishmen only, he iffued out of the town, discomfited his enemies, flew two hundred of them, and took a great many prifoners. His wife was Anne, daughter and fole heirefs of Sir Robert de Herling, Knt. who furviving him, married, fecondly, Sir Robert Wingfield, Knt. Comptroller of the Houshold to K. Edw. IV. and to her third husband, in 1492, John, Lord Scrope, of Bolton.

ARMS. Gules, an Inefcutcheon, Argent, between eight Mullets in Orle, Or. QUARTERING: Gules, a Chevron between three Escallops, Or.

CREST. Out of a Ducal Coronet, Or, an Afs's Head, Proper. MOTTO. Virtuti nihil invium.

SEAT. Duns-Tew, in Oxfordshire.

121. HUN

121. HUNLOKE, of Wingerworth, Derbyshire. Created BARONET, Feb. 28, 1642.

THAT this Baronet is defcended from an ancient family, plainly appears, from a certificate given to Sir Henry Hunloke, Dec. 14, 1674, by James, Earl of Suffolk, Deputy to the Right Hon. Henry, Earl of Norwich, Earl-Marshal of England, wherein he affirms, that his ancestors, for many defcents, have borne and used for their arms, Three Tigers Heads, &c. as appeareth by old records remaining in the College of Arms, which leaves no room to doubt of their ancient extraction.

And it is evident, from the deeds and writings of this family, that Nicholas Hunloke did, in the reign of King Henry VIII, poffefs a very confiderable eftate, not only at Hadley, in MiddleLex, but likewife near Bramcot, and Stapleford, in Nottinghamhire. He died at London, leaving iffue two fons, Nicholas, and Thomas, by his wife Alice, daughter of Bryche, of Bryche-hall, in Lancashire; who remarried to Allen Sutton, of Upper-Haddon, in Derbyshire.

Nicholas, the eldeft fon and heir, married Elizabeth, daughter of --Barlow, of Barlow, in the county of Derby, and had iffue, Nicholas, Henry, Joan, Margaret, and Chriftopher. He did not only enjoy the paternal eftate, but alfo the manor of Wingerworth, in Derbyfhire, which he purchased from Richard Curfon, Efq; and there the family has ever fince refided, excepting a fhort space, during the time of Oliver Cromwell, who banifhed them (as known loyalifts to their Sovereign) from their house, which being a large ftone building, he converted it into a garrison. But Lady Hunloke, relict of the first Baronet, hereafter mentioned, remarrying with Col. William Michell, one of Cromwell's officers, the Colonel proved a good friend to the family, and a happy inftrument of preferving both the manfion and eftate from any further damage or wafte. She had one daughter by the Colonel, who married Sir James Phelyppes, of Stoke Charity, in Hampshire, Knt. but died without iffue. This Nicholas died at Wingerworth, anno 1552, 5 Edw. VI. and lies buried in that parish church.

His eldest fon Nicholas, who married a Crafhaw, dying without iffue, his fecond fon, Henry, fucceeded to the eftate; who had by Margaret, his wife, (who was daughter of Nicholas Walker, Efq;) Henry his only fon and heir. He afterwards married Edith, daughter of William Rerefby, of Thisburgh, in Yorkshire, Efq; widow of George Markham, of Idlefton, alias Eaton, in the fame county, Efq; He was interred at Wingerworth, Oct. 20, 1612.