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somebody will take me up, my good soldiers, | the 7th, he departed, and at eight the same evening he was interred at the entrance of the great church, with all military honors. I am, sir,

charge them, never mind me; it's only the loss of a leg in the service." He sat up, and helped to tie on a handkerchief to stop the blood, and cried out all the time of the action, "I care not for my leg, if my regiment do their duty, and I hope they will." As soon as the town surrendered he heard the men cheer, he joined them with as great spirits as if nothing had happened, and called to me to have him carried to the head of his regiment. I feel to the heart for his family. I could wish to have fallen with him, sooner than part with a man who was so good a friend to me. At half-past three on the morning of the 3rd, he received his wound; at one o'clock on the morning of

Your very humble obedient servant,
B. MATHEWS.

The remains of this gallant soldier were at first interred in the grand church at Monte Video, with military honors, but were afterwards removed to England, and deposited in the family vault in the church of St. Paul's, Bristol, where a monument, designed by Flaxman, executed by Rossi, and erected by Colonel Vassall's widow, bears the following inscription.

Sacred to the Memory of
SPENCER THOMAS VASSALL, esq.
Lieutenant-colonel of the 38th regiment, who,

After twenty-eight years of active and unremitting service,
During which he had acquired a high military reputation,

Was mortally wounded at the storming of Monte Video, in South America,
On the 3rd of February, 1807,

At the moment he had conducted his intrepid followers within the walls of the fortress,
And expired on the 7th of the same month,

Aged 40.

His beloved remains, brought to England by the companions of his victory,
are deposited near this spot,

Where, to record her own, her children's, and her country's loss,
She, who was the wedded and happy witness of his private worth,
Has caused this monument to be erected.

Stranger, if e'er you honor'd Sidney's fame,
If e'er you lov'd Bayard's reproachless name,
Then on this marble gaze with tearful eyes,
For kindred merit here with VASSALL lies!
But far more blest than France or England's pride,
In the great hour of conquest VASSALL died;
While still undaunted in the glorious strife,
Content he purchased victory with life,
And nobly careless of his own distress,
He bade his mourning comrades onward press;
Bade them (the hero victor o'er the man,)
Complete the conquest which his sword began ;
Then proudly smil'd amidst the pangs of death,
While thanks for victory fill'd his parting breath."t

Colonel Vassall espoused 10th July, 1795,
Catherine - Brandrith - Backhouse, daughter
of the Rev. D. Evans, D.D. and left issue,
SPENCER-LAMBERT-HUNTER, his heir.
Rawdon-John-Popham, captain in the
78th regiment of Highlanders.
Honora-Mary-Georgina, m. to the Rev.
E. P. Henslowe.

Catherina - Spencer - Alicia-Beresford,
m. to the Hon. Thomas Le Marchant
Saumarez, second son of James, Lord
De Saumarez, G.C.B.

Arms-Az. in chief a sun, in base a chalice or, and for honorable augmentation, on a fesse of the second the breached bastions of a fortress, above which the words Monte Video; on a canton arg. the number "38th" within a branch of cyprus, and another of laurel, the stems united in saltire.

Crests-First, on a mount vert, a breached fortress, thereon hoisted a flag gules, with the inscription "Monte Video," in letters of gold. Second, a ship with masts and

shrouds ppr.

Mottoes-Sæpe pro rege, semper pro re

+ The poetic part is from the pen of Mrs. publica-and Every bullet has its billet.

Opie.

Seat-Milford, Hants.

BAGOT, OF PYPE HALL.

BAGOT, THE REV. EGERTON-ARDEN, of Pype Hall, in the county of Stafford, b. 3rd January, 1777, s. to the estates upon the demise of his father in 1806.

Lineage.

This is a branch of the ennobled family of BAGOT.

SIR WALTER-WAGSTAFFE BAGOT, LL.D. representative in parliament successively for the borough of Newcastle-under-line, the county of Stafford, and the University of Oxford, espoused, in 1724, the Lady Barbara Legge, eldest daughter of William, Earl of Dartmouth, and had (with several daughters, the eldest of whom, Barbara, wedded Ralph Sneyd, esq. of Keel,) six

sons, viz.

1. WILLIAM (Sir), his successor, M.P. for Staffordshire, who was elevated to the peerage in 1780, as BARON BAGOT, of Bagot's Bromley, in the county of Stafford.

II. Charles, who assumed, by act of parliament, the surname and arms of CHESTER, in pursuance to the will of his cousin, Sir Charles Bagot Chester, bart. He m. in 1765, Catherine, dau. of the Hon. Heneage Legge, a baron of the Exchequer, and dying in 1792, left issue,

1. CHARLES, b. in 1770.

2. Anthony.

3. William, in holy orders.

4. John, an officer in the army.

5. Henry.

6. Catherine.

7. Louisa.

8. Barbara, m. to John Drummond, esq.

9. Frances, m. to R. G. Braddyl,

esq.

10. Anne.

11. Mary, m. to Robert, late Earl of Liverpool.

12. Elizabeth.

III. WALTER, of whom presently. IV. Richard, who assumed, by sign manual, the surname and arms of HOWARD, upon his marriage with the Hon. Frances Howard, sister and heiress of Henry, twelfth Earl of Suffolk. He d. in 1818, leaving an only daughter and heiress,

MARY, m. 7th July, 1807, to the Hon. Colonel Fulk GrevilleUpton, who has assumed the surname and arms of HOWARD only. v. Lewis, Lord Bishop of Norwich, m. in 1771, Mary, daughter of the Hon. Edward Hay, and d. in 1802. VI. Thomas d. unmarried.

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Mary.
Caroline, married in 1828, to Edmund-
Robert Daniell, esq. barrister-at-law.
Charlotte, m. to the Rev. William
Somerville.

Jane-Margaret, m. to Edward-Vaughan
Williams, esq.

Agnes, m. to John Farquhar Fraser,

esq.

Mr. Bagot d. in 1806, and was s. by his eldest son, the present Rev. EGERTONARDEN BAGOT, of Pype Hall.

Arms-Erm. two chevrons az. Crest-Out of a ducal coronet, or, a goat's head ar. attired or.

Motto-Antiquum obtinens.
Seat-Pype Hall, Staffordshire.

HAY, OF LEYS.

HAY-BALFOUR, DAVID, esq. of Leys, in the county of Perth, and of Randerston, in Fifeshire, succeeded his father in 1790, and is now male representative of the noble family of HAY.

Lineage.

The traditional origin of the house of Hay runs thus:-In the reign of Kenneth the Third, anno 980, the Danes, who had invaded Scotland, having prevailed at the battle of Luncarty, near Perth, were pursuing the flying Scots, from the field, when a countryman and his two sons appeared in a narrow pass, through which the vanquished were hurrying, and impeded for a moment their flight. "What," said the rustic," had you rather be slaughtered by your merciless foes, than die honorably in the field; come, rally, rally!" and he headed the fugitives, brandishing the yoke of his plough, and crying out, that help was at hand: the Danes, believing that a fresh army was falling upon them, fled in confusion, and the Scots thus recovered the laurel which they had lost, and freed their country from servitude. The battle being won, the old man, afterwards known by the name of Hay, was brought to the king, who, assembling a parliament at Scone, gave to the said Hay and his sons, as a joint reward for their valour,

so much land on the river Tay, in the district of Gowrie, as a falcon from a man's hand flew over till it settled; which being six miles in length, was afterwards called Errol; and the king being desirous to elevate Hay and his sons from their humble rank in life, to the order of nobility, his majesty assigned them a coat of arms, which was, argent, three escutcheons, gules, to intimate that the father and two sons had been the three fortunate shields of Scotland. The stone on which the falcon lighted is still to be seen in the carse of Gowrie, in a small village called Hawkstone. So much for tradition. But the incontrovertible fact is,

WILLIAM DE HAYA, who obtained a grant of the lands of Errol, from William the nulph de Soulis, Lord of Liddesdale, and Lion, espoused Juliana, daughter of Ra

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had issue,

1. WILLIAM, his heir.

He

2. Robert, witness to a charter con-
firming the liberties of Durham and
Coldingham Abbeys, in 1204.
was ancestor of the TWEEDDALE
family.

William de Haya, who held the office of
king's butler (Pincerna Domini regis) dur-
ing the reigns of MALCOLM IV. and WIL-
and was s. by his elder son,
LIAM the Lion, died about the year 1170,

SIR WILLIAM DE HAYA, who obtained from WILLIAM the Lion, the manor of Herrol, now Errol, in Perthshire; erected into a barony, for the service of two soldiers, to which Hugh, Bishop of St. Andrews, is a

witness. He m. Eva de Petenalin, and thereby acquired the lands of Petenalin; which he and his wife, Eva, gave to the Priory of St. Andrews. Sir William died towards the close of the twelfth century, and was s. by his son,

DAVID DE HAYA, who wedded Helen, daughter of Gilbert, Earl of Strathern, and had two sons, viz.

1. GILBERT, who succeeded his father
at ERROL, and was ancestor of the
NOBLE house of Errol, which ended
in heiresses in 1717; the youngest
of whom espoused the Earl of Kil-
marnock, and her descendant is now
EARL OF ERROL (See BURKE's Peer-
age and Baronetage).
2. WILLIAM,

The second son,

WILLIAM DE HAYA, obtained from his brother Gilbert, in 1235, a grant of two carucates of land, in Errol, called LEYS; which grant was afterwards confirmed, in 1451, by William, Earl of Errol, to Edmund Hay, of Leys, the lineal descendant of this William. He was s. at his demise, by his

son,

DE HAYA, of Leys, father of

EDMUND DE HAYA, of Leys, an eminent patriot, who distinguished himself in favour of King ROBERT I. In 1312 he obtained, to himself and his son William, a lease, from the abbot and convent of Scone, of the lands of Balgarvie. From this Edmund de Haya, the estate of Leys passed from father to son, to his great-great-grandson,

EDMUND HAY, of Leys, to whom, William, Earl of Errol, granted a charter of confirmation in 1451. He had issue,

1. EDMUND, his heir.

II. Peter, from whom descend the families of KINNOUL, Melginch, Pitfour, Seggieden, &c. (see HAY, of Pitfour, and HAY, of Seggieden.)

The eldest son and successor,
EDMUND HAY, of Leys, had seisine of his
estate in 1496. He had four sons,

PETER, who predeceased his father.
PATRICK, successor to his father.
Walter, both mentioned in a charter
Thomas, dated 1496.

Edmund Hay died 31st January, 1497, and was s. by his second, but eldest surviving son,

PATRICK HAY, of Leys, who m. Elizabeth, daughter of John Moncrieff, of Moncrieff, and had a son,

EDMUND HAY, of Leys, who had a charter, as heir to his father, upon a precept of clare constat, 18th and 20th March, 1513. He espoused Elizabeth Durham, and was s. by his son,

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1663, Mary, daughter of William Spencer, gent. of Handsworth, and had issue,

NICHOLAS, his heir.

Mary, m. to Humphry Wyrley, esq. He d. in 1692, and was s. by his son,

NICHOLAS GEAST, esq. of Handsworth, who m. Phoebe Downing, of the family of Sir George Downing, knt. of East Hatley, in the county of Cambridge, and dying in 1720-1, was s. by his son,

RICHARD GEAST, esq. of Handsworth. This gentleman espoused, 19th April, 1722, Jane, second daughter of William Dugdale, esq. of Blyth Hall, and great-grandaughter of the GENEALOGIST, by which lady, (who d. in 1772,) he left at his decease in 1736, two sons, namely,

RICHARD, his heir.

Henry, devisee in remainder, and executor of his maternal uncle, John Dugdale, esq. This gentleman wedded Anne, second daughter of John, and great-granddaughter of Thomas Walford, esq. of Binton, in Warwickshire, a descendant of Roger Walford, to whom King HENRY VIII. leased the manor and lands of Claverdon, in which manor part of such lands are now vested in Henry Geast Dugdale, esq. He had issue,

1. Richard, who d. s. p. in 1797.
2. HENRY, of Bordesley Park, in
the county of Worcester, M.A.
barrister-at-law, who assumed
in 1822 the additional surname
and arms of DUGDALE.

3. Jane, died unmarried.

4. Anne, m. Francis Dugdale Astley, esq. (his second wife) and d. s. p. in 1813.

5. Mary, d. unmarried in 1794. 6. Phoebe, d. young in 1779.

The elder son,

RICHARD GEAST, esq. barrister-at-law, inheriting under the will of his uncle the Dugdale estates, assumed in 1799 the surname and arms of Dugdale. He m. in 1767, Penelope-Bate, eldest daughter and co-heir of Francis Stratford, esq. of Merevale, by whom (who d. in 1819) he left at his decease, in 1806, one son and three daughters, viz.

DUGDALE-STRATFORD, his heir.

Penelope, m. to Charles-James Packe, esq. of Prestwold.

Louisa-Anne, m. to William Dilke, esq. of Maxstoke Castle, in the county of Warwick.

Emma.

Mr. Dugdale was s. by his only son, the present DUGDALE - STRATFORD DUgdale, esq.

Arms-Quarterly; 1st and 4th, arg. a cross moline gu. in the first quarter, a torteaux: 2nd and 3rd, arg. barry of ten arg. and az. over all a lion rampant gu.

Crest-A griffin's head and wings endorsed or.

Motto-Pestis patriæ pigrities.

Estates-In Warwickshire.

Town Residence - 23, Lower Brooke Street.

Seat-Merevale Hall, near Atherstone.

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