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and co-heir of John Button,* esq. of Buckland in Hampshire, by Mary, his wife, daughter of William Jesson, esq. mayor of Coventry in 1631, and had issue,

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RICHARD, his heir.

Thomas, secretary to Lord Sunderland,
steward of Coventry, and commis-
sioner of salt duties.
Sarah, who m. Sir John Goodricke,
bart. of Ribston, in the county of
York, and had a numerous family.
The eldest son,

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Sarah, m. to T. Clough, esq.
of Otley.

Jane, m. to the Rev. Francis
Wanley, D. D.

Sir Richard, who was a faithful servant of
King CHARLES I. and enjoyed the confi-
dence of that unhappy prince in an eminent
degree, as a series of letters addressed to
him by the king in his majesty's extremity,
still extant, and in the possession of the
family, fully attests, d. at Lymington, in
Hampshire, and was buried there in 1682.
He was s. by his elder son,

SIR HENRY GOODRICKE, bart. b. in
1677, m. in 1704, Mary, only child
of Tobias Jenkyns, esq. of Grim-
ston, by the lady Mary Paulet,
his wife, daughter of the first
Duke of Bolton, and had issue,
JOHN (the Right Hon. Sir),
whose great-great-grandson,
the late Sir Harry James
Goodricke, d. unmarried in
1833, and bequeathing a
considerable estate to Fran-
cis-Lyttleton Holyoake, esq. "In the year 1607," says Edward Hop-
that gentleman assumed the kins, "whilst the queen was at Bath (the oc-
surname and arms of GOOD-casion of which jorney thither the year fol-
RICKE, and being created a lowing, gave such a suspicion of indirect
baronet, is now SIR FRAN- practices to the nation, by the birth of the
CIS-LYTTLETON HOLYOAKE- pretender) King JAMES made a progress
GOODRICKE.
through a part of the kingdom, and lay at
Henry.
my father's house, where, the morning after
his arrival, public mass was said in the great
dining room, where I was present at the late
celebration of it, my age screening from
any observation in my behaviour by those
who attended the service. The next act of
devotion was touching for the king's evil, by
his majesty, in our great church; the king
was very gracious to my father, though he
had been some time before (during Mon-
mouth's rebellion†) distinguished as a malig-

RICHARD HOSKINS, esq. who sat in parliament for the city of Coventry in 1660, 1669, 1678, 1689, 1696, and 1698. He m. Mary, dau. of Mr. Alderman Johnson, and sister of Lady Hale, by whom he had a son, EDWARD, his heir, and a daughter, Mary. Mr. Hopkins was a person of considerable importance in the time of JAMES II. and from the following facts mentioned by his son, the Right Hon. Edward Hopkins, was an active opponent of the court, and promoter of the revolution.

Thomas-Francis-Henry, lieu-
tenant-colonel 25th regi-
ment, m. Elizabeth, daugh-
ter of James Button, esq.
and dying in 1803, left a
son, the present SIR THO-
MA'S GOODRICKE, bart. of
Ribston.

HARRY, prebendary of York,
d. s. p.

*The family of Button, whose progenitor, SIR WALTER DE BUTTON, received the honour of knighthood from HENRY III. flourished for a long succession of generations in the county of Hants, maintaining a leading influence among the landed proprietors of that shire, and intermarrying with many distinguished houses.

JOHN BUTTON, esq. of Buckland, in Lymington, representative of the family about the middle of the seventeenth century, and uncle of Sir William Button, bart. of Alton, m. Eleanor, daughter of Sir Bernard Drake, knt. of Ash, and was grandfather of

JOHN BUTTON, esq. of Buckland, who d. in 1679, leaving by Mary, his wife, daughter of William Jesson, esq. of Coventry, four daughters, his co-heirs, viz.

ELIZABETH, M. to John Burrard, esq.
MARY OF SARAH, m. tỏ Sir Richard Hopkins,
knt. of Coventry.
ANNE, m. to Paul Burrard, esq. ancestor of the
present Sir Harry Burrard Neale, bart.
ELEANOR, m. to Thomas Dore, esq.

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+ The report from the municipal authorities of Coventry, shows the great interest which Mr. Hopkins took in the affairs of the Duke of Monmouth.

Coventry, 9th September, 1682. My Lord,-The Duke of Monmouth's coming here gives us this occasion to present your lordship with this account following, of the manner of his reception, and what past thereupon; and first we must crave leave to begin at Saturday, the 2nd instant, which morning, at the post house in this citty, was the Lord Colchester, who then bespoake fourteen post horses for his grace his use, to be ready on Fryday morning, the 8th of this instant September. In order to his grace his reception, a feast was prepared, and was on Thursday last at the Starre Inn, in this citty, where most or all of the most considerable dissenters dined, and stayed his grace his coming, being introduced by Mr. Hopkins our late burgess, who went to Daventry to meet him, and brought him to toune about nine at night, the bells then ringing and some bonfires lighted in his way. He alighted at

nant, disarmed and confined to his house, at the same time the prisons being filled with those of lesser rank. It was intimated to my father by some of the principal lords of the court, that the king was disposed to shew him some public mark of favor, but he with dutyfulness and decency declined."

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"At the latter end of the year 1688, the Prince of Orange landing in the west, and Prince George of Denmark going to him, his Princess, Anne, the king's youngest daughter, was put under confinement at St. James's, from which place, having concerted measures with Dr. Compton, Bishop of London, and others, she made her escape in the middle of the night, and coaches being provided and stationed in a proper place without one of the gates of the city, she made long jorneys, taking no more rest than was absolutely necessary till she reached Nottingham, there she was joined by Lord Devonshire, many other lords and gentlemen of note, of those counties who had not the opportunity to appear in arms for the Prince of Orange. Her Royal Highness's numbers much increasing, and this body being chiefly under the command of Lord Devonshire and the Bishop of London, she made but a short stay at Nottingham, and from thence came to Coventry to my father's house, where, during her sojourn part of three days, she received an account

the Starre, where the partie were met, the chiefe of them attended him in his chamber, where, looking about and seeing no other gentlemen, his grace sate doune and sayd little more than that he thought there had bin some gentlemen in this citty. Soone after his arrivall, the other streets were filled with bonfires, and perticularly one beginning at the cross, which Alderman Nathaniell Harriman perceiving, went and threw downe the fagotts, dispercing the company, charging them in the king's name peaceably to depart; but they soon rallyed, and began a second bonfire lower in the same street, which the said alderman likewise put out, and commanded them againe to depart in peace, but they flocked about him, shouting, a Monmouth -no Yorke! and some offered violence to him, but he defended himselfe so that he had not much hurt; so likewise a third and fourth fire he extingusht. It so happened that Mr. Maior was not at home till eleven at night, when hearing of this disorder, he came to the alderman at the cross, where there was a fire and rabble, whom they disperst.

We must not omit to tell your lordship, that Wednesday last being our councill-house day, some members thereof moved the maior that an entertainment might be ordered in the name of the corporation for his grace, but Mr.Maior refused, as also did some of his brethren, so nothing was done. Nevertheless, on Thursday night, those other, (viz.) Alderman Naylour, Alderman Francis Harriman, Alderman Lapworth, Mr. Owen, and Mr. Laurence, who is in nomination for the ensuing maior, ordered a citty officer to bring a present of wine,

by express that the king, who was before fled from Salisbury Plain to London, had abandoned the city upon the Prince of Orange marching towards it, as his majesty did afterwards out of the kingdom. Upon this Princess Anne set forward for London, and that very night the false, but memorable, alarm, which was at the same time spread all over the kingdom, reached us, that the king's Irish army of papists was destroying all by fire and sword, and such was the panick that every one believed they were at the next town. The confusion was so visible in every countenance, that it was no wonder I had the most dreadful apprehensions, and it was by the whole family increased, by my father's being absent, for he was gone to escort the princess a day or two on her jorney to London."

He d. 1st February, 1707, in the sixtyeighth year of his age, and his widow, 13th October, 1711. Both are interred in St. Michael's church, Coventry. Their son and heir,

m.

The RIGHT HON. EDWARD HOPKINS, was M. P. for Coventry, temp. WILLIAM III. and Queen ANNE, and secretary of state for Ireland. This distinguished statesman Anna-Maria, dau. and co-heir (with her sister, Charlotte, the wife of - Luther, esq. of Myles's, in Essex, see p. 10) of Hugh Chamberlen, M. D. of Alderton Manor and

which they there presented his grace with. After which, they, without the maior's consent, imployed an officer to summon the whole body of the councill-house, to be ready at the maior's parlour by nine of the clock next morning, but there appeared only the persons above said and two or three more. Mr. Hopkins and his brother attended his grace to the parlour at the tyme, who rode on his post mare, two post boys tooting their horns before him; Sir Thomas Armstrong and Mr. Roe following his grace, and the rabble shouting, a Monmouth-no Yorke; his grace alighted at the parlour, where they entertained him with wine, but stayed little, so mounted again and went on his journey, the rabble shouting him to the tounes end. Mr. Maior and his loyall brethren resolve to enquire into the ryot, and punish such offenders as shall be found guilty, as farr as the law will beare.

This is the truth, which we thought convenient to present to your lordship, to confront all fals reports, craving leave to subscribe ourselves, his majesty's loyall subjects and deputie leiftenants, and, My lord,

Your lordship's most obedient servants,
John Dugdale.

Richard Hayward, mayor.
Robert Townshend.
Nath. Harryman, alderman.
Thomas King, alderman.

For the Right Hon. the Earle of Conway,
principall secretary of state, at the Cock-
pitt, in White Hall, humbly present.
(Copied from the original at Merecole, 1822.)

Hinton Hall, both in the county of Suffolk, by Mary, his second wife, only child and heiress of Nathaniel Bacon, esq. of Friston Hall, in the same county, and had issue,

1. RICHARD, his heir.

11. Edward, d. s. p. in 1748, under age.
III. Benjamin, d. s. p. 1779, aged forty-

five.

the suite were subsequently placed by the Pretender.

"It was near two months after the arrival of my Lord Portland, before he made his public entry, which was most magnificent. The procession was from the hotel Rambouillet to the Hotel des Ambassadeurs, where his excellency, and all of us of his 1. Mary, d. in 1712, aged seventeen. suite, were sumptuously treated at the King 11. ANNE, who m. WILLIAM NORTHEY, of France's expense, for three days. It hapesq. M. P. of Ivey House, in Wilt-pening in the time of Lent, to observe strictly shire, and d. in 1822, leaving, with the ordinances of holy church, no flesh was other issue, a third son, allowed. It was wonderful to see such a RICHARD NORTHEY, an officer of number and such a variety of dishes without high rank in the army, of whom it, the height of French cookery. Several presently, as inheritor of the different soupes, fricasys, and ragouts of fish, Hopkins' estates. so disguised as might well deceive either the eye or the pallet.

This eminent person, who, as stated above, filled the important office of secretary of state for Ireland, left behind him an interesting manuscript entitled "Travels of the Right Hon. Edward Hopkins, written by himself, for the amusement of his descendants." From this MS. we are enabled to extract an account of the grand entry of the Earl of Portland, King WILLIAM's first ambassador into Paris, and of a singular dilemma in which some of the leading English in

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his son,

NATHANIEL BACON, esq. of Friston, who m. a daughter of Sir Thomas Legrosse. knt, of Norfolk, and left, with two daughters, Elizabeth, m. to Nathaniel, second son of Sir Nathaniel Barnardiston, knt. and Anne, who d. unmarried, a son and successor,

THOMAS BACON, esq. of Friston, who m. Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Brooke, knt. of Yoxford, and was s. by his son,

NATHANIEL BACON, esq. of Friston, who left at his decease an only daughter and heiress,

MARY BACON, who wedded HUGH CHAMBERLEN, esq. M. D. of Alderton Manor and Hinton Hall, both in the county of Suffolk, (for account of Dr. Chamberlen's family, see p. 10,) and left three daughters and co-heirs,

MARY, d. unmarried.
ANNA-MARIA, m. (as in the text) to the Right
Hon. EDWARD HOPKINS, of Coventry, M.P.
CHARLOTTE, m. Richard Luther, esq. of
Myles's, in Essex, and was great grand-
mother of JoHN TAYLOR, M. D. of Clif-
ton, (see p. 7,) and of JOHN FANE, esq. of
Wormsley, (see p. 92.)

"I never yet in one day, nor ever can again see such a number of people together, as lined the streets of Paris the day of the entry. The procession had near three miles to make. The windows were taken away, and as the streets are regular and the houses of several stories, it was an agreeable sight to see, upon turning into a street, so many rows like garlands appearing, the houses being mostly filled by ladies. The gentlemen were mostly in, upon, or about the coaches, of which there were a continued line on each side of the streets, near the houses.

"The ambassador had five or six coaches of his own, of great price and exquisite taste, though the French thought they had not enough, the appearance of state not having sufficient of that gawdiness, gilding, and carving on the outsides, which they affect on Such occasions; not considering that all was of a-piece, both without and within, magnificent with elegance, and costly, both as to the painting, carving, gold lace, fringe, &c.

"In the cortage there was one magnificent chariot, drawn by a set of fine Napolitan horses, of a lively grey colour, beautiful creatures, and highly managed; their harness, reins, and ribbons on their manes were orange colour, which had an agreeable effect. His excellency made a present afterwards of these horses, of which I think he had eight, to the King of France.

"A matter happened a little before the entry, which caused a small fracas, and embarrassed the ambassador. Before that minister's coaches there are those of the French ministers, and of all the princes and princesses of the blood (then very numerous), to attend the entries. A very few days before, a list appeared at the hotel, allotting us all to the coaches we were to be in, to avoid confusion, in which it appeared that some Dutch of the first quality, and two or three deputies from the principality Orange, had provision made for them. This, as it was an English embassy, gave an alarm,

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and caused a great dispute. A meeting hereupon was appointed that evening, at a tavern, when the greater part attended. I own I was one of the number of the mutineers. It was then resolved that we could not assist at the entry unless this matter was rectified, and afterwards application was made to Mr. Prior, to acquaint his excellence therewith, in the most respectful manner. Satisfaction was given, how much soever against the grain, but it was impossible to adhere to so wrong a judged scheme, so that we saw those gentlemen that day not as actors but spectators.

"There was another difficulty with respect to the Duke of Argyle, then, in his father's lifetime, Lord Lorne: he objected to the rank given him in company with our lords (for the union was not then made); he claimed his place, however, according to the antientness of his family, urging that the embassy was from Scotland as well as from England, the King being King of both. The matter was too nice and delicate for my lord ambassador to decide in favour of his claim, so he declined to attend.

"The regard paid to King WILLIAM's first embassy was so great, the orders given were so positive from the court of Versailles to the people of that of St. Germain's not to insult the English, and they were so well observed, that no disorder happened, though we daily met in the same coffee-house, which was the resort of all English gentlemen: the common civility of salutes passed, but very few of us mixed with them at the same tables or in conversation.

"King JAMES's Queen came, according to her custom, to perform her devotions and pass the holy week at the Convent of Nuns, at Charllot, near Paris, whither one day the pretended Prince of Wales came to dine with her, of which I was advertised by one of their court, who had married my aunt, the widow Lady Carteret, sister to my mother. I embraced this opportunity of satisfying the curiosity I had to see a person I had from his birth heard, and was likely to hear so much talk of, since I might view him, as incognito, upon his taking coach. I took a friend with me, and we found several English and others there, who had received the same notice, and who had the same curiosity. An incident happened there which put several of us under an unhappy dilemma, either of a seeming affront to him, which was not desirable nor becoming, or else to do an act both contrary to the laws of our country, and to our own principles. We were (being of different nations) fifty or sixty in number, ranged in a long and spacious entry, through which he was to pass to take coach. Upon his coming out of the door of the convent, attended by the Earl of Melfort, one of their chief ministers, they had not gone many steps

before that lord, seeing two English gentlemen of good families and considerable estates in the entry, stopped the pretended Prince, and in a manner presented them to him. Whatever their inclinations might be, it drew them into a difficulty, but upon this surprise they kissed his hand. We who were nearer to the court-yard made our retreat with some precipitation, choosing rather to be liable to their observation of it, than to run the risk of suffering under the like embarrassment, not knowing but as Englishmen, the gracious compliment might have been offered to us all. This was an egregious folly in Melfort, as my uncle afterwards allowed and blamed him for it, since it exposed these gentlemen, whose inclinations we knew were towards that court, and their visits to the ambassador were only such as decency required: however this faux pas discovered that they had paid court to and were acquainted with Melfort, which otherwise might still have been a secret. I cannot but observe that I afterwards sat în parliament with one of these persons several years, being a knight of a great shire, and chose by the high church for the security of the Protestant religion. The next morning Mr. Prior came into my chamber and asked me how I had slept after committing treason. I said I was guilty of none. Now, says he, you will pretend that you did not kiss hands at Charllot? I answered with a smile, that I found he had good intelligence. Well, says he, I know you did not, but such did; can you deny it? If you know it I need not turn informer, and shall be mute upon these interrogatories. Yes, says he, I know who did, and the King will know it as soon as the next courier gets to London. In a court of beggars a minister can never want spies, and there was nothing done at St. Germain's that was long a secret."

He

Mr.Hopkins had afterwards the high honour of accompanying the ambassador on a visit to the Prince of Conde, at Chantilly, and describes several days sojourn there.* d. 17th January, 1735-6, in the 62nd year of his age; his widow survived him 35 years, and d. 9th February, 1768. They were interred at St. Michael's, Coventry. He was s. by his eldest son,

RICHARD HOPKINS esq. who served in seven successive parliaments for the city of Coventry, and filled with honour and ability the posts of lord commissioner of the Admiralty and lord of the Treasury. He d. without issue 18th March, 1799, aged seventy-one, and was s. by (the third son of his sister Anne) his nephew, Richard Nor

* This Edward Hopkins had the honour of being appointed by King WILLIAM, his majesty's proxy to answer at the baptismal font for the infant son of the Earl of Manchester, then ambassador in France.

they, who has assumed the additional surname and arms of HOPKINS, and is the present Lieutenant-General RICHARD NORTHEYHOPKINS, of Oving House.

Family of Northey.

The surname of NORTHEY is supposed to have been taken from Northy, Northey, or Northeway, in the county of Gloucester. The family before us has been however from a remote era resident of Wiltshire, and has enjoyed there the highest consideration and first local influence.

SIR EDWARD NORTHEY, knt. of Epsom, in Surrey, second son of William Northey, esq. b. in 1651, was M. P. for Tiverton, Devon, in 1710, 1713, and 1714, and attor

ney-general to her majesty, Queen ANNE.
He m. Anne, sister and co-heir of Sir Wil-
liam Jollife, and by that lady, who d. 13th
August, 1743, had issue,

Edward, d. in 1774, leaving issue.
WILLIAM, of whom presently.
Anne, m. to John, Lord Raymond, of
Abbots Langley, the lord chief jus-

tice.

Elizabeth, d. unm. in 1764.

| represented Calne in parliament in 1713,
and Wootton Basset the following year. He
m. 19th September, 1721, Abigail, only
daughter of Sir Thomas Webster, bart. of
Battle Abbey, in Sussex, and by that lady,
who wedded, secondly, Sir Edmund Tho-
mas, bart. of Wenvoe Castle, had issue,
1. WILLIAM, his heir.

II. Edward, b. in 1728, d. 30th May,
1749.

III. Thomas, not twenty-one in 1749.
I. Anna, m. to John Whitby, esq. of
Cresswell Hall, in the county of Staf-
ford, and grandmother of Lucy Whit-
by, m. to Edward Berkely Portman,
esq. of Brianston, in the county of
Dorset.

Mr. Northey d. 10th November, 1738, aged
forty-eight, was buried at Epsom, and suc-
ceeded by his son,

WILLIAM NORTHEY, esq. of Ivey House, Wilts, L.L.D. F.R.S. lieutenant-colonel of the county militia, one of the commissioners for trade, and groom of the chamber to King GEORGE III.* This distinguished gentleman, a leading and eloquent member of the opposition, in the House of Commons, during the eventful period in which he lived, represented Calne, in 1747; Maidstone, in 1762; and Bedwin, in 1770. He married ANNE,

HOPKINS, M.P. secretary of state for Ireland, and d. in 1770, having had,

1. WILLIAM, of Box, in Wiltshire, M.P. for Newport, in Cornwall, from 1797 to the time of his decease in 1826 or 1827.

11. Edward, of Kinlet, in Salop, M.A. in holy orders, one of the canons of Windsor, b. 22nd October, 1754, m. 3rd March, 1794, Charlotte, second daughter, of the Rev. Edward Taylor, of Bifrons, in Kent, and sister of Sir Herbert Taylor (see vol. iii. p. 109), and d. in 1828, leaving issue,

Rebecca, m. to Thomas Bradshaw, esq. Sir Edward Northey d. 16th August, 1723, and was buried at Epsom, where the follow-daughter of the Right Honourable EDWARD ing beautiful inscription records his memory. "Edwardus Northey, eques auratus, serenissimis Gulielmo tertio, Annæ, Georgio, procuratoris in causis generalis functus munere, iterato toties honori non impar, sine fastu sustinuit, sine querelâ reliquit, interpres legum fidus et indefessus. Tam lubricam provinciam eâ fessit felicitate, ut nec subditis grave jus regium, nec regibus subditorum viderentur privilegia. Titulos non semel ampliores, eâdem solicitudine quâ alii ambiunt oblatos recusavit; non tamen otio indulgens inhonesto, non animi viribus diffisus, sed officiorum saturet dignitates. Famam boni civis, patroni strenui, viri probi, amici simplicis, non effectatem meritis reportavit; patrem, maritum, herum gravissimo cum luctu desiderant liberi, uxor, famuli: beneficium meminerent isti, quorum inopiæ sublevandæ proventus universi deciman quot annis erogavit. Unicam uxorem duxit Annam filiam Johannis Jolliffe, patricii Londinensi, familiâ apud Staffordienses antiquissimâ generosâ, ipse inter Essexienses stirpe Oriundus: liberos Gulielmum, Edwardum, Elizebetham et Rebeccam, reliquit superstites. Annam, Roberto Raymond, Eq. aurato nuptam, immaturâ morte præceptam deflevit. Obiit die Augusti, A. D. 1723, 72 annos natus. Patri optimo Gulielmus primogenitus H. M. P." His son,

WILLIAM NORTHEY, esq. of Compton Basset, in Wiltshire, held estates at Box, Haselbury, and Ditchbridge, in that county, and

Edward-Richard, an officer in the
army, and in the field of Water-
loo, who m. Charlotte, daughter
of Lieut.-General Sir George
Anson, G.C.B. uncle to the Earl
of Lichfield.

William - Brooke, captain in the
Coldstream Guards, who married
Agnes, dau. of General Borcel,
and niece of Baron Fagel, in
Holland.

Charlotte.

Lucy.

Mary.
III. RICHARD.

* There is undoubted authority for Mr. Northey's having been offered a peerage by GEORGE II, and GEORGE III.

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