brated Dr. GEORGE HICKES, Dean of Worcester 1679, and Suffragan, Bishop of Thetford, a man of universal learning, deeply read in the primitive fathers of the church, and particularly erudite in the old northern languages and antiquities, of which his "Linguarum veterum Septentrionalium Thesaurus," and the "Grammatica Anglo-Saxonicà” are splendid proofs, and held in high estimation in this country, and throughout Europe.

At

The death of CHARLES II. to whom Dr. George Hickes was chaplain, and his high church principles deprived him of the see of Bristol. the revolution he was an uncompromising non juror, and therefore bereft, in 1690, of his benefices and other church dignities. Subsequently be espoused the cause of the CHEVALIER, and was actively engaged in the service of that unfortunate prince. Dr. George Hickes died in 1715, in the 75th year of his age.* JOHN, brother of George, was of different religious principles, and became eminent as a nonconformist. In the year 1675, having published a pamphlet complaining of the conventicle act, and of the oppression of many honest men in Devonshire, where he was incumbent of Stoke, two king's messengers were sent to apprehend him as a state criminal. "It happened," continues Dr. Calamy in his nonconformist's memorial, "that upon the road Dr. J. HICKES fell into the company of these messengers, having no suspicion of them. He travelled all the morning and dined with them, when they talked with great freedom against one John Hickes as anill man and a great enemy to the government. He bore with their scurrility till dinner was over, and then going to the stable to his horse, of which he was always tender, he there gave them to understand he was the person that they had so vilified, and to teach them to govern their tongues better in time to come took his cane and corrected them till they begged his pardon. He then mounted his horse and rode to London." Upon his arrival, he procured by means of a friend in power an introduction to the King, with whom he

Zouche's Sketches, Biogr. Dict. Biogr. Britt. last edition.

Mr. Hickes died in 1781. His second son,

FOWLER HICKES, esq. of Silton Hall, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, married Jane, only child of John Topping, esq. lineally descended maternally from the Gildarts, representatives of the town of Liverpool, in many successive parliaments, and had by her an only son, the present FOWLER HICKES, esq. of Silton Hall.

Arms-Gu. a fesse wavy, between three fleurs de lys or.

Crest-A buck's head couped at the shoulder or, gorged with a chaplet vert, gu. Motto-Tout en bonne heure.

Estates-In Yorkshire, Silton, otherwise Silton Pagnell, North Riding of that county, an ancient seat of the Constables, of Burton Constable.

Seat-Silton Hall, near Thirsk.

Note-A Branch of the family of HICKES, of Nunnington, early in the sixteenth century settled in Gloucestershire, and was elevated to the peerage in the person of Sir BAPTIST HICKES, who was created Baron Hickes, of Ilmington, in the county of Warwick, and Viscount Campden, of Campden, com. Glost. His lordship died in 1629, and was succeeded by (the husband of his eldest daughter) Edward Noel, esq. (See Burke's Extinct and Dormant Peerage).

The Viscount's elder brother Sir Michael Hickes, knt. bred to the bar, was secretary to the Lord High Treasurer Burghley. He purchased the estate of Beverstone, in Gloucestershire, and on his decease was succeeded by his eldest son WILLIAM HICKES, esq. of Beverston, created a Baronet 25th July, 1619. Sir William married Margaret, dau. of William Lord Paget.

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edition.

Arms Quarterly first and fourth, arg. three inescutcheons gu. within a bordure chequez of the second and first, for HAY; and for difference in the centre of the quarters, a bull's head couped, gu. second and third party per pale sa. and arg. on a chaplet four quartrefoils all counterchanged, in the center chief a martlet arg. for difference, for NAIRN of Seggieden.

Crest-A demi countryman ppr. holding over his shoulders an oxen yoke or, the boughs gu.

Motto-Diligentia fit ubertas. Supporters-DEXTER. A countryman ppr. holding over his shoulders an oxen yoke or, boughs gu. SINISTER a Talbot, ppr.

Seat-Seggieden, upon the left bank of the Tay, about four miles below Perth, and Killicranky Cottage, in the pass of Killicranky. About the time of JOHN BALIOL, SEGGIEDEN and the hospital there belonged to the monks of St. Augustine; an order,

which first appeared in Britain in 1250. pratiques," in his account of hospitals belonging to the popish clergy, that "these hospitals were erected either for receiving strangers, or for maintaining poor and infirm people, and they were governed by a superior who was called Magister." Among the hospitals which he enumerates is that of Seggieden," and Cardonnel in his picturesque antiquities of Scotland gives a list of twenty nine hospitals, one of which is Seggieden.

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SEGGIEDEN afterwards belonged to George Hay, first Earl of Kinnoul, Lord High Chancellor of Scotland, who died in 1634, and was succeeded by George, the second Earl, who adhering to the fortunes of King CHARLES I. during the civil wars, contracted so much debt that he found it necessary to execute a deed of division, dated 1647, by which the lands and Barony of Seggieden were assigned, with others, to Sir Thomas Blair, of Balthayock. These lands were subsequently in 1652, purchased from the Blairs, by JOHN NAIRN.

The family of HICKES, appears by Thoresby's Ducatus Leodiensis, to have

held the manor of Nunnington, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, so early as the fourteenth century.

JOHN HICKES, Lord of Nunnington, about the year 1580, had two sons,

1.

2. Robert, who remained at Nunnington. This gentleman, b. in 1586, married in 1619, Frances Wright, and had several children. His grandson, Marmaduke, was mayor of Leeds in 1666-1681, and 1694. The elder son,

HICKES, who took up his abode at Nesse, near Nunnington, had two sons, Ralph, who continued at Nesse, and

WILLIAM, who migrated to Newsham Hall, near Kirby Wisk, in the North Riding of Yorkshire. He married Elizabeth Kaye, and had issue,

GEORGE, b. 20th June, 1640, the cele

brated Dr. GEORGE HICKES, Dean of Worcester 1679, and Suffragan, Bishop of Thetford, a man of universal learning, deeply read in the primitive fathers of the church, and particularly erudite in the old northern languages and antiquities, of which his "Linguarum veterum Septentrionalium Thesaurus," and the "Grammatica Anglo-Saxonicà" are splendid proofs, and held in high estimation in this country, and throughout Europe.

The death of CHARLES II. to whom Dr. George Hickes was chaplain, and his high church principles deprived him of the see of Bristol. At the revolution he was an uncompromising non juror, and therefore bereft, in 1690, of his benefices and other church dignities. Subsequently be espoused the cause of the CHEVALIER, and was actively engaged in the service of that unfortunate prince. Dr. George Hickes died in 1715, in the 75th year of his age.* JOHN, brother of George, was of different religious principles, and became eminent as a nonconformist. In the year 1675, having published a pamphlet complaining of the conventicle act, and of the oppression of many honest men in Devonshire, where he was incumbent of Stoke, two king's messengers were sent to apprehend him as a state criminal. "It happened," continues Dr. Calamy in his nonconformist's memorial, "that upon the road Dr. J. HICKES fell into the company of these messengers, having no suspicion of them. He travelled all the morning and dined with them, when they talked with great freedom against one John Hickes as anill man and a great enemy to the government. He bore with their scurrility till dinner was over, and then going to the stable to his horse, of which he was always tender, he there gave them to understand he was the person that they had so vilified, and to teach them to govern their tongues better in time to come took his cane and corrected them till they begged his pardon. He then mounted his horse and rode to London." Upon his arrival, he procured by means of a friend in power an introduction to the King, with whom he

Zouche's Sketches, Biogr. Dict. Biogr. Britt. last edition.

Mr. Hickes died in 1781. His second son,

FOWLER HICKES, esq. of Silton Hall, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, married Jane, only child of John Topping, esq. lineally descended maternally from the Gildarts, representatives of the town of Liverpool, in many successive parliaments, and had by her an only son, the present FOWLER Hickes, esq. of Silton Hall.

Arms-Gu. a fesse wavy, between three fleurs de lys or.

Crest-A buck's head couped at the shoulder or, gorged with a chaplet vert, gu. Motto-Tout en bonne heure.

Estates-In Yorkshire, Silton, otherwise Silton Pagnell, North Riding of that county, an ancient seat of the Constables, of Burton Constable.

Seat-Silton Hall, near Thirsk.

Note-A Branch of the family of HICKES, of Nunnington, early in the sixteenth century settled in Gloucestershire, and was elevated to the peerage in the person of Sir BAPTIST HICKES, who was created Baron Hickes, of Ilmington, in the county of Warwick, and Viscount Campden, of Campden, com. Glost. His lordship died in 1629, and was succeeded by (the husband of his eldest daughter) Edward Noel, esq. (See Burke's Extinct and Dormant Peerage).

The Viscount's elder brother Sir Michael Hickes, knt. bred to the bar, was secretary to the Lord High Treasurer Burghley. He purchased the estate of Beverstone, in Gloucestershire, and on his decease was succeeded by his eldest son WILLIAM HICKES, esq. of Beverston, created a Baronet 25th July, 1619. Sir William married Margaret, dau. of William Lord Paget.

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edition.

Mary-Wilmot. Penelope.

ROGER DE ARUNDEL, who held twenty lordships in the county of Somerset, 20th WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR. He was s. at his decease by his son,

GILBERT DE ARUNDEL, who acquired lands in Dorsetshire and Wilts, temp. King STEPHEN. He wedded Rosamond de Novant, and left a son and heir,

RICHARD DE ARUNDEL, who accounted for £40. knights' fees, 7th HENRY II. He m. Juliana and was s. by his son, REINFRID DE ARUNDEL, who espoused Alice de Butler, and was father of

SIR REINFRID ARUNDEL, living in the 15th HENRY III. This gentleman m. Alice de Lanherne, and was s. by his son,

SIR HUMPHREY ARUNDEL, who wedded Joan Umphraville, and had a son and heir, SIR RALPH ARUNDEL, sheriff of Cornwall in 1260. This feudal lord m. Eve, daughter of Sir Richard de Roche, of Roche, and was s. by his only son,

RENIFRICK ARUNDEL, who wedded Margaret Trombleigh, and left a son and successor,

SIR JOHN ARUNDEL, knt. of Lanherne, in the county of Cornwall, who espoused Joan, daughter of John De la Beere, of Somersetshire, and had issue. Sir John Arundel was s. at his demise by his son,

JOHN ARUNdel. This gentleman m. Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Oliver Carminowe, by whom, who d. in 1363, he left a son and heir,

SIR JOHN ARUNDEL, knt. marshall of England, in the reign of RICHARD II. who m. Joan, daughter and co-heiress of Sir William de Lustock, knt. of Lustook, in Devon, and was s. by his son,

SIR JOHN ARUNDEL, of Lanherne, sheriff of Cornwall in 1418, 1424, and 1427, and created a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of HENRY IV. who wedded Eleanor, daughter and heir of Sir William Lamborne, knt. by Joan, his wife, daughter and heiress of Ralph Soor, of Talverne, and had three

sons,

JOHN (Sir), of Lanherne, from whom the ARUNDELS, of WARDOUR. (See Burke's Peerage.)

THOMAS, of whom we are about to treat.

Humphrey, who m. Joan, daughter of

THOMAS ARUNDEL, of Kenelhelwas, married Mary, daughter of Durnford, of Durnford, in the county of Somerset, and was s. by his son,

SIR OLIVER ARUNDEL, Lord of Carshay, or the English Castle, who m. Margery, daughter and co-heir of Ralph, Lord of Albominster, son of George, Lord Arundel, and the Lady Maud, his wife, and left a son and heir,

RALPH ARUNDEL, of Kenelhelwas, who m. in 1422, Joan, daughter and sole heiress of Michael Trerice, and was s. at his decease, by his son,

NICHOLAS ARUNDEL, who wedded Jane, daughter of Peller, Lord of Peller, &c. and was s. by his son,

SIR JOHN ARUNDEL, knt. of Trerice. This gentleman married Jane, daughter and heiress of John Durant, and had issue,

JOHN (Sir) his heir.

Alexander, who m. Jane, daughter of William Lanyon, and, by this marriage, was ancestor of the ARUNDELS of Leigh.

The eldest surviving son and heir,

SIR JOHN ARUNDEL, of Trerice, espoused Amy or Anne, daughter of Sir Walter Moyle, of the county of Kent, and dying in 1561, left issue,

1. JOHN (Sir), of Trerice, whose greatgreat-grandson,

RICHARD ARUNDEL,* was elevated to the peerage in 1664 as BARON ARUNDEL, of TRERICE. The

male line of this nobleman having failed, the representation of the ARUNDELS of TRERICE has passed to the descendant of RoBERT, the second son of Sir John Arundel, by his wife, Amy Moyle, namely, the present W. A. Harris-Arundel, esq. of Lifton.

II. ROBERT, of whom presently.

From FRANCIS ARUNDEL, brother of the first peer, descended the TRENGWAINTON ARUNDELS.

III. Nicholas, both died s. p.
IV. Walter,

The second son of Sir John,

SIR ROBERT ARUNDEL,† styled knight on his tombstone in Camborne Church, is named in the will of his father, Sir John Arundel, of Trerice (as are the other sons and daughters of that gentleman), by which the estate of Menedarva is given to him and his heirs for ever. He m. first, Eleanor, daughter of Robert Southwood, but by her had no issue. He wedded secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of William Clopton, esq. of Warwick, by his wife, a daughter of the ennobled house of Grey, and had

CHRISTOPHER, his heir.

John, who m. in 1583, Elizabeth, daugh-
ter of Trenwith.
William.
Richard.
Mary.

Jacquetta, m. to Bosawsack, of Bosaw-
sack.
Blanch.

Julian, m. to Carew, of Antonie. Sir Robert Arundel died in 1580, and was s. by his eldest son,

CHRISTOPHER ARUNDEL, esq. of Menedarva, named in the will of his grandfather, Arundel of Trerice. This gentleman m. in 1583, Katherine, daughter of William Chiverton, esq. of Paul, in the county of Cornwall, and had issue,