5. Coulson Wallop, born September 19th, 1774; a Captain in the South Hants Militia, 1794; M. P. for Andover, 1796; married, April 2d, 1802, Miss Catharine Townly Keatinge, daughter of Maurice Keatinge, Esq. and died without issue at Verdun, in France, August 31, 1807.

6. Lady Henrietta Dorothea, born May 6th, 1780.

7. Lady Emma Maria, born August 13th, 1781, died May 22d, 1798.

8. William Fellowes Wallop, born May 20th, 1784, died at school November 20th, 1790.

His Lordship died May 16th, 1797; and was succeeded by his eldest son and heir,

JOHN CHARLES, present and THIRD EARL, born December 18th, 1767, married November 19th, 1799, the Hon. Grace Norton, sister to William, present Lord Grantley but has no issue.

Titles. John Charles Wallop, Earl of Portsmouth, Viscount Lymington, and Baron Wallop of Farley-Wallop.

Creations. Baron Wallop of Farley-Wallop, and Viscount Lymington, in com. Southamp. June 11th, 1720, 6 George I.; and Earl of Portsmouth, April 11th, 1743, 16 George II.

Arms. Argent, a bend wavey, Sable.

Crest. On a wreath, a mermaid, holding in her dexter hand a comb, in the other a mirror, all proper.

Supporters. Two chamois, or wild goats, Sable.

Motto. EN SUIVANT LA VERITE.

Chief-Seats. At Hursbourne, near Andover (rebuilt about thirty years ago); and at Farley-Wallop, near Basingstoke, in the county of Southampton.

THE

HE name of this family was anciently wrote Graville, or Greville (with or without the final e), and sometimes Grevel. The learned Leland, in his Itinerary of England, which he wrote in the reign of Henry VIII. in the frequent mention he makes of this family, uses the two first of those names promiscuously. He says, a Sum hold opinion that the Gravilles cam originally in at the Conquest. The veri ancient house of the Gravilles, is at Draiton, by Banburi, in Oxfordshire. But there is an nother manor place of the chief Stok of the Gravilles, caullid Milcot, yn Warwickshire, where a late, as at a newer, fairer, and more com. modious house thei used to ly at. And court rolls remayne yet at Draiton, that the Grevilles (had) lands ons by yere 3300 marks.

'And Gravilles had Knap Castel, and Bewbusch Parke, and other landes in Southsax, by descents of their name.

<d Grevill, an ancient Gent. dwelleth at Milcote, scant a mile lower than Stratford, towards Avon ripa dextra.'e

a Itin. Vol. IV. Part 1. fol. 16.

c Ibid. Vol. IV. Part 1. fol. 16.

b Ibid. Vol. VI. fol. 19.

d Ibid. Part ii. fol. 167.

e These and other authorities, together with the name itself, which plainly appears to be Norman, sufficiently evince the great antiquity of this family in England: yet the first of them I meet with on record, is in 1294, when WILLIAM Grevill died seised of the manors of Inglethwait and Awldtoftes, in the county of York; and of the office of chief forester of Galteres, with the jurisdiction there.

Esc. 23 Edw. I. n. 69.

But whatever be the antiquity of this rame, it stands on authority too notorious to make the mention of it indelicate, that the present very honourable, and it may be added, illustrious house, took their rise, like many others, whose wealth and titles have now been for ages sanctioned by time, from commmerce; and in that line which has ever been the staple commodity of the coun. try, the woollen trade.

WILLIAM GREVILE, a citizen of London, and the flower of the wool-staplers there, was latterly seated at Campden, where he lies buried, with his first wife, under a large blue flat stone, with brass figures; and the following inscription:

"Hic jacet Willielmus Grevil, de Campeden, quondam Civis London. et flos mercatorum Lanar. totius Angliæ, qui obiit primo die mensis Octobris, Anno Domini Milesimo CCCCI.

"Hic jacet Mariana uxor prædicti Willielmi, quæ obiit decimo die mensis Septembris Anno Dom. Milesimo CCCLXXXVI. quorum animabus propicietur Deus Amen." 1

This WILLIAM, and his father, William, were both living in 21 Richard II. and the father being wrote William Grevil, of Campeden, lent the King 300 marks (a great sum in those days); and August 10th, 1397, the King acknowledges the receipt of the said loan from him, and promises payment thereof in the Quindens of Easter next.

The year after, WILLIAM, the son, having purchased the manor of Milcote, in com. Warwick, of Sir Walter Beauchamp, Knt. he, to strengthen his title, obtained a release, bearing date at Milcote, November 5th, 1398,h from William de Peto, cousin and heir to Geffery de Langly, whose right it was in the reign of Edward III. And being so possessed thereof, entailed it by fine,

After him was JOHN Grevill, with whom the learned Camden begins his curious and accurate pedigree of the family (the original roll of which is in the possession of the present Earl of Warwick.) This John Grevill died before 33 Edward III. when there was a plea between Margaret, the wife of the said John, and Richard de Caurs, and Jabel his wife, concerning the Wardship of William Grevill, the son and heir of the said John.

f See it engraved in Bigland's Gloucestershire, I. 283.

Rymer's Fœdera, Tom. VIII. p. 9 and 80.

h Dugdale's Antiq. of Warwickshire, first Edit. p 526, 520.
1 Rot. Fin. 2 Henry IV. m. 5.

• Placita 33 Edward III. Rot. 85.

on the issue male of his body by Joan, then his wife, and for want of such issue male, upon his sons, by a former wife, Mariana, who died 1386, John, and LODOWICK, and the issue male of their bodies successively, with remainder to his right beirs. He died in 3 Henry IV. as appears by his monument beforementioned, and by the probate of his last will and testament, which bears date at Campeden, April 2d, 1401. He therein orders his body to be buried in the church of the blessed Virgin Mary of Campeden, and bequeaths 100 marks to the repairs of it: also 2001. to maintain four Chaplains to say Mass in the said church for ten years following, for his soul, and the souls of his ancestors. He bequeaths his manors, lands, &c. to Joan his wife, John Grevill, his son, and Richard Brothell, his Executors; and appoints Sir Roger Hatton, Abbot of Evesham, and Sir William Bradley, Supervisors. The said Joan, his second wife,' was sister and heir of Sir Philip Thornbury, Knt. and lived a long time after him. But this Lady having brought him no sons, the entail beforementioned took place, with regard to John, his son and heir, and Lodowick, that he had by Margaret, his first wife, by whom he likewise had issue Mary, the wife of John Gifford, of Harpre, Esq. and Alice, of Edmond Ludlow, Esq.

Which JOHN Grevill resided also "at Campeden, and being • Sheriff of Gloucestershire, and the Marches of Wales, in 6 Henry IV. bore for his arms, Or, on a cross engrailed, within the like border Sable, ten annulets of the first, with a mullet of five points in the dexter quarter. And I presume he was the same John Grevill, who, in 8 Henry V. had the King's pardon for all transgressions, in that he, and Sibil his wife, daughter and heir of Sir Robert Corbet, deceased, entered on the lands and tenements, which Joan, the wife of the said Sir Robert, held in dower. But he had another wife, Joyce, daughter of Sir Walter Cokesey, Knt. and sister and heir to Hugh, and widow of Beauchamp, by whom he had issue,

JOHN, his son and heir, who resided at Cherlton Regis, in com. Gloucester; and by the death of Joan, his grandfather's second wife, in 28 Henry VI. came to possess the manor of Milcote (which she held during life), and thereupon made that seat his

residence. But before this he was "chosen one of the Knights for Gloucestershire, in 2 Henry V. and in four other Parliaments, viz. from the last of Henry V. to the thirteenth of Henry VI. And after residing in Warwickshire, he was in the commission of the peace for the said county, and y Sheriff of that and Leicestershire in 1 Edward IV. In 5 Edward IV.2 he had the honour of Knighthood conferred on him; and in 13th Edward IV.a had livery of the lands descended to him by the death of his mother. The same year he was Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire, as also a third time, in 17 Edward IV. He bore the same Arms as his father did, excepting the Annulets upon the Cross, as appears by his picture, together with his wife, both kneeling in their Surcoats of Arms, in the east window of the parish church at Binton, in Warwickshire. He departed this life August 6th, 1480, and by his last will, desired to be buried in St. Ann's Chapel, in the church of Weston super Avon.

THOMAS, his only son and heir, was twenty-six years of age at the decease of his father; and in respect of the inheritance he enjoyed by descent from his grandmother, assumed the surname of Cokesey; and having livery of his father's lands, was the same year, 20 Edward IV.e constituted Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire. His chief residence was at Milcote; and at the coronation of Henry VII. he was one of the Knights of the Bath then created. In 1487, he was made a Knight Banneret, for his valiant behaviour in the battle of Stoke, June 16th. 4 Henry VII. he was one of the Commissioners of Array in the county of Warwick, for sending archers, &c. into Britany, in relief of that Duchy; and the year after was constituted one of the Justices for jail delivery in Warwickshire; also in 6 Hen. VII. * Commissioner for arraying of men in defence of this realm, then in danger of an invasion from Charles IX. king of France. This Sir Thomas died in 14 Henry VII.' leaving no issue by Elizabeth

u Pryn's Brevia Parl. Part 1. p. 113. and Part IV. p. 503.
x Pat. ab an. 39 Henry VI. usq. 7 Edward IV. in d.

In

y Rot. 1 Fin. Edward IV. m. 32. z Pat. 5 Edward IV. p. 1. in d. m. 30. a Rot. Fin. 13 Edward IV. m. 3.

b Ibid. m. 30. and 17 Edward IV. m. 11.

c Lib. 3. Test. in Regist. Episc. Wigorn, fol. 24.

d Esc. 20 Edward IV. n. 72.

e Rot. Fin. 20 Edward IV. m. 3.

f MS. Nom. Equit. in Bibl. Cotton Claudius, C. 3. p. 21.

g Ibid. f. 14.

1 Pat. 5 Henry VII. p. 1. m. 18.

h Pat: 4 Henry VII. m. 20.

k Pat. 6 Henry VII. m. 5.

I Pat. 15 Henry VII. p. 1. m. 4.