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Burke's Extinct and Dormant Peerage.)

2. ALAN, of whom we have to treat. 3. Isabella, m. to John de Sutton, lord of Dudley, from which alliance derived the earls of Warwick and Lei

cester.

The second son,

SIR ALAN CHARLTON, knt. of Appley Castle, marrying Ellen, one of the co-heirs of the Lord Zouch, acquired the lordship of Wisheford. In the 5th of EDWARD II. he was constituted governor of Montgomery and Wigmore Castles, and obtained permission from the king to embattle his own castle of Appley. His son and successor, THOMAS CHARLTON, was s. by his son, THOMAS CHARLTON, whose son, ROBERT CHARLTON, was father of RICHARD CHARLTON, who m. twice. By his first wife he had a son, WILLIAM, and by the second, (a daughter of Mainwaring, of Peover) a son,

RICHARD CHARLTON, of Tearne, who m. twice, and had issue,

ROBERT CHARLTON, who was father of ROBERT CHARLTON, who espoused Alice, daughter and co-heir of Richard Tyler, of Hardwicke, in the county of Salop, and had two sons,

ANDREW, Who m. first, Judith, daughter
of Edward Cludd, esq. and secondly,
Frances, only daughter of Sir Philip
Eyton, of Eyton, knt. Hence derived
the Charltons of Shropshire.
ROBERT.

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four daughters, who all d. unmarried, except Lettice, the wife of John Bright, esq. of Acton, in the county of Salop.

His only surviving son and successor,

SIR JOB CHARLTON, received the honor of knighthood, was appointed chief justice of Chester, and nominated one of the judges of the Common Pleas, temp. CHARLES II. In the 2nd of JAMES II. he was advanced to the dignity of a baronet, and was speaker of the House of Commons. He espoused, first, Dorothy, daughter and heiress of William Blunden, esq. of Bishop's Castle, by whom he had four sons, and three daughters, viz. FRANCIS, his successor. William, Job, Robert,

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Emma, m. first, to Thomas Cornwallis,

esq. of Abermarles, and secondly, to Dr. John Robinson, lord bishop of London.

Sir Job Charlton was s. at his decease, 27th May, 1697, by his eldest son,

SIR FRANCIS CHARLTON, bart. who m. first, Dorothy, daughter and co-heir of the Rev. Mr. Bromwych, by whom he had a son, BLUNDEL, his successor; and secondly, Miss Cam, by whom he left two sons, and a daughter, Emma, m. to John Lloyd, esq. of Aston, in Shropshire. Sir Francis d. 21st April, 1729, and was s. by his son,

SIR BLUNDEL CHARLTON, bart. who m. Mary, sister of Lord Foley, and had issue,

FRANCIS (Sir), his successor, as sixth baronet, who d. unmarried, in 1784, when the title expired.

Robert-Job, in holy orders, rector of Brampton, in the county of Hereford; and vicar of Kidderminster, Worcestershire, d. before his brother, unm. Emma, d. unmarried.

ELIZABETH, m. to Edmund Lechmere,*
esq. of Hanley Castle, in the county
of Worcester, knight in parliament
for that shire, in 1734, and had issue,
NICHOLAS LECHMERE, of Hanley
Castle, b. in 1733, who succeeded
to the Charlton estates upon the
demise of his uncle, Sir Francis
Charlton, in 1784, and assumed
that additional surname. He es-
poused Susanna, daughter of Jes-
son Case, esq. of Powyck, and
had issue,

1. EDMUND, present possessor.
2. Francis, b. in 1790.

Mr. Lechmere was representative of the ancient family of that name, for an account of which, see article PATESHALL, of Allensmore.

3. Emma, d. in 1809. Mr. Lechmere Charlton, was s. at his decease by his elder son,

EDMUND LECHMERE-CHARLTON, esq. now representative of the two families of Lechmere and Charlton. Arms Quarterly; first and fourth, or, a lion rampant, gu. for CHARLTON. Second and third, gu. a fess between three pelicans or, vulning their breasts ppr. for LECHMERE.

Crests-A leopard's head front faced, gu. for CHARLTON. Out of a ducal coronet, a pelican, vulning itself, ppr.

Estates-Hanley, Worcestershire; Wilton, Shropshire; and Ludford, in the county of Hereford.

Seats-Ludford, Herefordshire; Whitton Court, Shropshire; and Hanley Castle, in the county of Worcester.

PETER, OF HARLYN.

PETER, WILLIAM, esq. of Harlyn, in the county of Cornwall, b. 22nd March,

1785; m. 12th January, 1809, Frances, only daughter and

heiress of John Thomas, esq. of Chiverton, in the same
county, by whom he has issue,

John-Thomas-Henry, of Christ Church, Oxford, b. 23rd
January, 1810.

William-Rous, an ensign of the 67th foot, b. 15th May,

1812.

Robert-Godolphin, b. 31st July, 1818.

George-Carew, b. 3rd August, 1821.

Algernon, b. 9th May, 1823.

Granville-Carminow, b. 15th December, 1825.

Frances-Mary.

Anna-Maria.

Ellen-Jane.

Mr. Peter has been, for many years, a deputy warden and lieutenant, and one of the chairmen of the Court of Quarter Sessions, of the county of Cornwall.

Lineage.

This family has been for several centuries resident, and possessed of lands, in the west of England. According to Risdon and other antiquaries, the Lady Alice Pole, in the reign of Henry III. gave the manor and castle of Compton, in Devonshire, "to one of the family of Peter, whose posterity afterwards took the name of the place." Another branch settled at Torr-Newton, in the adjacent parish of Torr-Brian, of which was,

JOHN PEETER or PETRE, who lived in the reigns of Richard II. and Henry IV. By his wife Alice he left issue two sons,

1. JOHN, his successor.

2. Nicholas, who succeeded to his mother's estates in Dorsetshire, and residing at Bakebeare, in that county, was M. P. for Shaftesbury in the 28th of Henry VI. and d. s. p.

JOHN PETER, the elder brother, inherited

his father's estates in Devonshire, and left issue by his wife, a son named

WILLIAM PETER, who, as it appears from an inquisition taken in the 12th of Edward IV. was seised of Torr-Newton, Bakebeare, and other lands in the counties of Devon, Dorset, and Hants, and was at that time twenty-four years of age. By his wife Joan, he had several children, among whom

were

1. JOHN, who inherited Torr-Newton and other estates in Devon, and who, by Alice, daughter of John Collins, esq. of Woodlands, in the same county, was father of Sir William Peter or Petre, principal secretary of state in the reigns of HENRY VIII., EDWARD VI., MARY, and ELIZABETH, and ancestor of the Lords PETRE, of Writtle, in the county of Essex. 2. WILLIAM. WILLIAM PETER, the younger son, sucIceeded to his father's estates at Milton in Hampshire, and Bakebeare in Dorsetshire, and further increased his patrimony by his marriage with Joan, the only daughter of Sir Roger Arundel, of Calwoodley, in the county of Devon, by which lady he had

issue three sons,

1. Roger, who d. young.

2. William, who succeeded his father, but d. s. p. in the 37th Henry VIII. 3. JOHN. The third son,

JOHN PETER, resided at Bowhay, near Exeter, and was one of the representatives of that city in the first parliament of PHILIP and MARY. He married his cousin Wilmot, daughter of John Peter, esq. of Torr-Newton, and sister to Sir William Petre, and died in 1579, at a very advanced age, leaving a numerous progeny of sons and daughters, amongst whom were

1. John, who was M.P. for Dartmouth in the 1st of PHILIP and MARY (the same parliament in which his father represented Exeter), and d. s. p. in the life-time of his father.

2. Otho, who succeeded his father in his Devonshire estates, and was seated at Bowhay.*

Bowhay descended from father to son to JOHN PETER, esq. of Bowhay, who left an only daughter, FRANCES, who m. Sir Allen Apsley, governor of the Tower, and had issue,

3. THOMAS..

THOMAS PETER, the third son, to whom his father had made gift of divers lands in Cornwall (which lands had been acquired by William Peter in marriage with Joan Arundel), espoused Agnes, daughter of Thomas Godolphin, esq.† (by his second wife, a daughter of Granville), and was s. by his eldest son,

ROBERT PETER, esq. who was bred a soldier, and served with credit under Sir Edward Poynings at Havre, and in the Low Countries. In the 13th of Elizabeth he was M. P. for Fowey, in the 14th, for Penryn, and in the 28th of the same reign, for Dartmouth. Hem. Thomasine, daughter of John Kestell, of Kestell, in the county of Cornwall, esq. and left issue,

HENRY PETER, esq. who was M. P. for Fowey in the first parliament of James I. and who m. in 1609, Deborah, daughter of John Treffry, esq. of Place. Henry Peter d. in 1619, leaving issue, a son,

THOMAS PETER, esq. b. in 1610, who m. in 1632, Elizabeth, only daughter and heiress of Henry Michell, esq. of Harlyn, in the county of Cornwall, which place had been acquired by the Michells, in the reign of Henry VII. in marriage with an heiress of the Tregoyes, a family, which, according to Carew, ranked amongst the English nobility, in the time of WILLIAM the Conqueror. Having been an active royalist in the civil wars, between Charles and his Parliament,

ter and heiress, Catherine, m. her cousin Allen, first Earl Bathurst.

2. Frances, m. to Sir Benjamin Bathurst. Upon Otho Peter (a member of this branch of the family) the following curious epitaph is to be seen in Exminster Church, near Exeter.

In sempiternam memoriam Othonis Peter armigeri mæstissimus ejus filius hoc monumentum p. p. p.

Conditur hâc Petrâ pietatis Petra Petræus
Omen habet nomen nam Petra vera fuit
Vicinis pacis-sponsæ constantiæ-amoris
Natis-pauperibus Petra patrocinii
Indole tam propriâ, quam stemmate fulsit avito
Marte suo clarus, conjuge, Prole, Patre
Fama fidesque viri nobiscum in sæcula præstat,
Mens generosa Deum cœlitus orta petit
Sic Petra Petram operit,-corpus Petra, nempe
Petræi hæc,

At Christe fructur mens meliore Petra.
Obt... die Junii 1607.

+ The Duke of Leeds, the representative of this ancient family, is descended from Thomas Godolphin, by his first wife, who was a daughter of 1. SIR PETER-APSLEY, whose only daugh- Edmund Bonithon, of Bonithon, esq.

Thomas Peter was for a long time impri- | (descended from the ancient Derbyshire fasoned by Cromwell, but procured his release mily of that name), he had issue a son, and 2nd February, 1653, through the influence successor, and interference of his maternal kinsman, the celebrated Hugh Peters, who was chaplain to the Protector. He d. in 1675, leaving issue three sons, and a daughter, the wife of Henry Vincent, esq.

His eldest son and successor,

Gregory PeteR, esq. of Harlyn, was High Sheriff of Cornwall in the last year of King William's and the first of Queen Anne's reign. He was m. in 1658, to Elizabeth, daughter of John Goove, of Goovehayes, in the county of Devon, esq. and dying in 1710, was s. by his son,

JOHN PETER, esq. who m. in 1685, Ann, second daughter of Sir John Coryton, of Newton-Ferrars, bart. M. P. for the county of Cornwall, and d. in 1733, leaving issue (besides several daughters),

1. HENRY, his successor.
2. William, Rector of Mawnan, who,
by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of
the Rev. William Smith, chaplain to
Queen Anne, left issue two sons,
WILLIAM, m. to Harriet, daughter
and co-heiress of the Honourable
George Hamilton, second son of
James, sixth Earl of Abercorn.
ROBERT, Rector of Sully, who m.
Martha, daughter of

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WILLIAM PETER, esq. who m. his cousin Mary, daughter of Jonathan Peter, esq. of Porthcothan, and resided at Harlyn. Like his ancestors for many generations,

"Whose doom contending neighbours sought,
Content with equity unbought.”

he discharged the duties of a county magis-
trate and English country gentleman, with
no less credit to himself than advantage to
all around him, and dying in 1776, was s.
his eldest surviving son,

by

HENRY PETER, for many years colonel of the Royal Cornwall Militia, and a magistrate and deputy warden and lieutenant of the county. He was m. in 1782, to Anna Maria youngest daughter of the late Thomas Rous, esq. of Piercefield, in the county of Monmouth, and dying in 1821, has been s. by his eldest son, WILLIAM PETER, esq. now of Harlyn, and representative of this ancient family.

Arms-1. Gules on a bend or, between two escallop shells argent, a Cornish chough proper between two cinquefoils azure, for PETER. 2. Argent a saltire sable, for CoRYTON. 3. Argent on a chevron azure, between three cinquefoils gules, as many Frank-horse-shoes or, for FERRARS. 4. Gules two lions passant guardant or, for Bodulgate.

lin, esq. of Glamorganshire. 3. Jonathan, of Porthcothan, who m. Mary, daughter of Henry Hoblyn, esq. by Bridget, daughter and coheiress of John Carew, of Penwarne, esq. and grandaughter of the celebrated Richard Carew, of Antony, author of the 'Survey of Cornwall,' &c. Mr. Peter was an active magistrate and country gentleman, and was s. at his decease by his eldest son,

HENRY PETER, esq. High Sheriff of the county of Cornwall in the 20th of George II. By his wife Mary, only daughter and heiress of William Harpur, esq. of Trevarthen

Crest-Two lions' heads erased and endorsed, the first or, the second azure, gorged with a plain collar counterchanged.

Mottoes-Sans Dieu rien, and Sub libertate quietem.

Estates---The manor of TREGELLOW, with TRELOUZA, and other lands in the parish of Padstow. A part of the property acquired by William Peter with Joan Arundel.

HARLYN, and other estates in the parishes of St. Merryn, St. Ervan, Little Petheric, Padstow, &c. acquired in 1632, with the heiress of Mitchell.

The manor of Trefeock, with Trevarthen and Trentinny, came by the heiress of Harpur, in 1717.

CHIVERTON, with the manors of Tywarnhayle, Bosvellack, Ventongemps, and other lands in the parishes of St. Agnes, St. Allen, Cubert, Newlyn, &c. acquired with the heir

Hugh Peters (of a family which had been driven from Antwerp, on account of its religion) was the son of Thomas Dykewoode Peters, a merchant of Fowey, by Martha, daughter of John Treffry, esq. of Place. The name of Peters was first assumed by Thomas Dykewoode, the grandfa-ess of THOMAS. ther of Hugh. The Rev. Charles Peters, the learned Seats Harlyn near Padstow, and ChiCommentator on the Book of Job, and the able an- verton, near Truro, in the county of Corntagonist of Bishop Warburton, was of this family. wall.

DYMOKE, OF SCRIVELSBY.

The King's Champion.

DYMOKE, HENRY, Esq. of Scrivelsby Court, in the county of Lincoln, The Honorable THE KING'S CHAMPION, b. 5th March, 1801; succeeded to the estates and the hereditary championship at the decease of his father, the Reverend John Dymoke, on the 3rd Dec. 1828, having previously executed the official duties of champion as deputy for that gentleman at the coronation of his late Majesty King GEORGE IV. Mr. Dymoke m. 14th January, 1823, Emma, daughter of William Pearce, esq. of Weasenhall, in Norfolk, and Holm Cottage, Richmond, Surrey, by whom he has an only daughter, EMMA-JANE, b. 11th February, 1826.

This gentleman is the seventeenth of his family who has inherited the ancient office of CHAMPION.

Lineage.

This family ranks in point of antiquity, male and female, with the most ancient in the kingdom. It derives the singular office of CHAMPION from the celebrated baronial house of MARMYUN, or MARMYON, with the feudal MANOR OF SCRIVELSBY, to which the championship is attached.

wounded, he cryed out so loud, that his friends in the house arose; and, finding him extremely tormented with the pain of his wound, advised him to confess himself to a priest, and vow to restore the nuns to their former possessions. Furthermore, that having so done, his pain ceased; and that in acAt the time of the Norman Conquest, complishment of his vow, accompanied by Sir ROBERT DE MARMYON, Lord of Fontney, Walter de Somervile, and the rest, he forthin Normandy, having by grant of King Wil- with rode to Oldbury; and, craving pardon liam the castle of Tamworth, in the county of the nuns for the injury done, brought them of Warwick, with the adjacent lands, ex- back to Polesworth, desiring that himself, pelled the nuns from the abbey of Poles- and his friend Sir Walter de Somervile, worth, to a place called Oldbury, about four might be reputed their patrons, and have miles distant. "After which," (writes Sir burial for themselves and their heirs in the William Dugdale,) "within the compass abbey-the Marmions in the chapter house of a twelvemonth, as it is said, making `a |—the Somerviles in the cloyster. However costly entertainment at Tamworth Castle, some circumstances in this story (continues for some of his friends, amongst whom was Dugdale,) may seem fabulous, the substance Sir Walter de Somervile, Lord of Which of it is certainly true; for it expressly apover, in the county of Stafford, his sworn peareth by the very words of his charter, brother, it happened, that as he lay in his that he gave to Osanna the prioress, for the bed, St. Edith appeared to him in the habit establishing of the religion of those nuns there, of a veiled nun, with a crosier in her hand, the church of St. Edith, of Polesworth, with and advertised him, that if he did not restore its appurtenances, so that the convent of Oldthe abbey of Polesworth, which lay within | bury should remain in that place; and likethe territories belonging to his castle of Tam-wise bestowed upon them the whole lordship worth, unto her successors, he should have an evil death, and go to hell. And, that he might be the more sensible of this her admonition, she smote him on the side with the point of her crosier, and so vanished away. Moreover, that by this stroke being much

of Polesworth: which grant King Stephen afterwards confirmed." The castle and manor of Tamworth, in Warwickshire, and the manor of Scrivelsby, in the county of Lincoln, were granted by the Conqueror to this Robert de Marmion, to be held by grand

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