get, daughter of Sir John Pennington, of Muncaster,* and died in 1668, leaving a son and successor, THOMAS HEBER, born in 1643, who married Rebecca, daughter of Sir Robert Markham, bart. of Sedgebrooke, Lincolnshire, and was buried at Marton 2nd December, 1679. His son, REGINALD HEBER, born at York in 1675, married, in 1696, Hester, daughter of Sir William Cayley, bart. of Brompton, and was buried at Marton in 1715, leaving a son and heir, THOMAS HEBER, b. in 1697, who inherited the lands of his ancestors at Yargrave, Arncliffe, and Ayrton. He was a deputy lieutenant and a justice of the peace for the West Riding, and lord of the manors of East and West Marton, Stainton, and Hartlington. He married, in 1722, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of John Atherton, of Atherton and Beausey, in Lancashire, and heiress (through her mother, Elizabeth Cholmondeley, and her grandmother, Elizabeth Vernon,) to the manors and estates of her ancestor, Sir HENRY VERNON, bart. of Hodnet. Thomas Heber died 21st October, 1752, and was buried at Marton, leaving issue, RICHARD, his heir. Reginald, successor to his brother. Thomas, d. in minority, s. p. est son, of Wicklewood Ampnors, in Norfolk, of Elizabeth, b. in 1726, d. unmarried in yeomanry raised in Craven in 1801, high 1812. Frances, d. unmarried in 1805. The eldest son, RICHARD HEBER, esq. succeeded in 1753 to his hereditary estates in Yorkshire and Shropshire, but dying without male issue in 1766, they devolved upon his brother, The Rev. REGINALD HEBER, rector of Chelsea, and afterwards of Malpas, Cheshire, and Hodnet, Salop, b. in 1729, who m. first, in 1773, Mary, daughter and coheir Sir John Pennington, of Muncaster, ancestor of Lord Muncaster. + Cuthbert Allanson, D. D. married Dorothy Nowell, daughter of Roger Nowell, of Rede Hall, Lancashire, by Mary, daughter of Sir John Legard, bart. of Ganton, son of Sir Digby Legard, and Lady Grace D'Arcy, daughter to the Earl of Holdernesse. + West Marton Hall, situated near the village belonging to its possessor, is an ancient family mansion, fast falling to decay, standing low and embosomed in wood. "One boast its owners at least are entitled to make, that no house in the history of Craven, or in the present generation, has been connected with greater virtues, or equal talents." (Vide Whitaker's History of Craven.) § Hodnet Hall is situated in a sheltered valley to the S. W. of the village which belongs to it, and nearly in the centre of the estate. It was once a sheriff of Shropshire in 1821, and in the latter end of that year, elected member of parliament for the university of Oxford. Mr. Heber, who was the last male representative of the ancient houses of MARTON and HODNET, § acquired the reputation of an accomplished scholar in the literary world, and the character in private life of an amiable and generous man. His library, considered one of the most extensive and rare collections in Europe, consisted of above very extensive half-timbered mansion, having had cloisters decorated with carved oak, and armorial bearings. In the entrance hall is a shield empannelled, containing the Vernon arms with twentyfour quarterings, of the date of 1599, united with the Needham arms in ten quarterings. A little to the east of the hall on an eminence still called the "Castle Hill," surrounded by a moat, are the remains of a tower, the first residence and place of defence belonging to Odo de Hodnet. The high grounds to the west, from which is a beautiful and extensive prospect, are called "The Parks," interspersed with dingles and fine old timber, and oaks of unusual growth. According to Speed's earliest maps, Hodnet Park was of very considerable size in the fifteenth and to the eighteenth century. No deer have been kept since the death of Sir Richard Vernon in 1722. The living of Hodnet is very considerable, and is in the gift of the family, to whom the whole of the north chancel belongs. On the 22d Inst., at Marylebone church, by the Rev F. V. Thorn. ton, vicar of Bisham, Berkshire, John, eldest son of John Thornton, HEBER, OF HODNET AND MARTON. X Lineage. possessed of land at Keytheley, and at Elslach, and was the purchaser of the estate of West Marton, in Craven, where he died in 1548. His eldest son, REGINALD HEBER, succeeded him. He married, in 1558, Anne, daughter of John de Malholme, of Elslach. His name appears in the return of the principal gentlemen of the West Riding at the visitation in 1585, when he entered his pedigree.* He was proprietor of the estates of West and East Marton, lord of the manor, and patron of the advowson. He purchased of his kinsman, Henry d'Arcy, esq. in the seventh year of Elizabeth, the estate and manor of STAINTON, and was possessed of considerable landed property in Hartlington, Yargrave, Ayrton, Skipton, Wakefield, and Long Preston. He died 14th November, 1600, and was buried at Marton. His son, Thomas Heber, dying in his lifetime, all his estates descended to his grandson, THOMAS HEBER, born at Marton, 8th June, 1566, who lived during his grandfather's lifetime at Stainton Hall, and removed to Marton in 1600. He was a justice of the peace in the reign of JAMES I. He married Elinore, daughter of Thomas Ferrand, esq. of Carlton, and dying at Marton in 1633,† was succeeded by his eldest son, THOMAS HEBER, justice of the peace in the reign of CHARLES I. who married Anne, daughter of Sir William Lowther, of Ingleton, and was buried at East Marton 26th January, 1659. He was succeeded by his son, THOMAS HEBER, esq. who married Brid Crest-Rising out of a ducal coronet or, a lady's head and shoulders proper in profile, crined, or. Motto Prest d'accomplir. + Jane, daughter of Thomas Heber, married, in 1607, Thomas Lister, esq. of Arnoldsbiggin, ancestor of the Lords Ribblesdale, of Gisburne Park, Craven, Yorkshire. Sir William Lowther, of Ingleton, ancestor of the Earls Lonsdale. Macauley Rector Hodnet. * get, daughter of Sir John Pennington, of Muncaster, and died in 1668, leaving à son and successor, THOMAS HEBER, born in 1643, who married Rebecca, daughter of Sir Robert Markham, bart. of Sedgebrooke, Lincolnshire, and was buried at Marton 2nd December, 1679. His son, REGINALD HEBER, born at York in 1675, married, in 1696, Hester, daughter of Sir William Cayley, bart. of Brompton, and was buried at Marton in 1715, leaving a son and heir, THOMAS HEBER, b. in 1697, who inherited the lands of his ancestors at Yargrave, Arncliffe, and Ayrton. He was a deputy lieutenant and a justice of the peace for the West Riding, and lord of the manors of East and West Marton, Stainton, and Hartlington. He married, in 1722, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of John Atherton, of Atherton and Beausey, in Lancashire, and heiress (through her mother, Elizabeth Cholmondeley, and her grandmother, Elizabeth Vernon,) to the manors and estates of her ancestor, Sir HENRY VERNON, bart. of Hodnet. Thomas Heber died 21st October, 1752, and was buried at Marton, leaving issue, RICHARD, his heir. Reginald, successor to his brother. Thomas, in holy orders, rector of Mar- MARY, m. to the Rev. Charles Chol- The Rev. Reginald Heber d. in 1804, was of Wicklewood Ampnors, in Norfolk, of Elizabeth, b. in 1726, d. unmarried in yeomanry raised in Craven in 1801, high 1812. Frances, d. unmarried in 1805. The eldest son, RICHARD HEBER, esq. succeeded in 1753 to his hereditary estates in Yorkshire and Shropshire, but dying without male issue in 1766, they devolved upon his brother, The Rev. REGINALD HEBER, rector of Chelsea, and afterwards of Malpas, Cheshire, and Hodnet, Salop, b. in 1729, who m. first, in 1773, Mary, daughter and coheir • Sir John Pennington, of Muncaster, ancestor of Lord Muncaster. + Cuthbert Allanson, D. D. married Dorothy Nowell, daughter of Roger Nowell, of Rede Hall, Lancashire, by Mary, daughter of Sir John Legard, bart. of Ganton, son of Sir Digby Legard, and Lady Grace D'Arcy, daughter to the Earl of Holdernesse. West Marton Hall, situated near the village belonging to its possessor, is an ancient family mansion, fast falling to decay, standing low and embosomed in wood. "One boast its owners at least are entitled to make, that no house in the history of Craven, or in the present generation, has been connected with greater virtues, or equal talents." (Vide Whitaker's History of Craven.) Hodnet Hall is situated in a sheltered valley to the S. W. of the village which belongs to it, and nearly in the centre of the estate. It was once a sheriff of Shropshire in 1821, and in the very extensive half-timbered mansion, having had bearings. In the entrance hall is a shield empan- | two hundred thousand volumes. He d. unmarried 4th October, 1833, and was buried at Hodnet, leaving by will all his hereditary property and personality to "his only sister MARY, widow of Charles Cowper Cholmondeley, rector of Hodnet, with remainder to his nieces, the daughters of his late brother Reginald." Arms-Party per fess az. and gu. a lion rampant or, on a dexter chief point a cinquefoil arg. Estates In the counties of York, Salop, and Norfolk. Seats-Hodnet Hall, near Shrewsbury, and Marton Hall, Craven, Family of Hodnet. HODNET, according to Camden, belonged to a knightly family of that name, of whom the first was placed there as a reward for his services, by WILLIAM the Conqueror, in whose army he was a general. He is styled ODO DU HODENET, and, in 1116, was succeeded by his son, BALDWIN de Hodenet,* * who held the manor and estate as lieutenant and senescal to Roger de Montgomery. To his successor, Odo de HodneT, this estate, manor, and free warren, were confirmed by HENRY I. in 1134, by a very ancient deed, still in the possession of the family, bearing the great seal and the signature of HENRY I. surnamed "Beauclerc.' His eldest son, * For full account of BALDWIN DE HODNET, see BLAKENEY'S History of Shrewsbury, vol. i. p. 41, published in 1818. BALDWIN, dying in his father's lifetime, the estate devolved to his next son, WALTER de HODNET, in 1164, who died in 1237, and was succeeded by his son, SIR WILLIAM de HodNET, a knight of the shire, in the 21st of EDWARD I. His only daughter, MATILDA, succeeded him in 1288, sole heiress, and m. in 1298, SIR WILLIAM DE LUDLOWE, of Stoke Say, Salop, knight. Hodnet continued in this line for six generations, each representative being knight of the shire, from the reign of EDWARD I. to HENRY VII. The last male heir, SIR JOHN LUDLOW, K.B. m. in 1465, Lady Elizabeth Grey,† daughter of Richard, Earl of Powes and Tankervyle. The only son of this marriage dying in infancy, the estate passed to their eldest daughter, Alice, styled "The Ladye of Hodnet,' who married, in 1493, HUMPHREY, third son of SIR HENRY VERNON, OF HADDON, Derbyshire, K.B. Humphrey Vernon and Alice, his wife, lived at Hodnet, after the death of her father, Sir John Ludlow, in 1495, and were succeeded, in 1542, by their son, GEORGE VERNON, esq.§ who was buried at Hodnet, in 1555. His eldest son, Richard, dying a minor, he was succeeded by his second son, JOHN VERNON, who being but seven years old at his father's death, was under the guardianship of George, Earl of Huntingdon, and Richard, Viscount Hereford, and married under age, in 1564, Elizabeth Devereux,|| daughter of Sir Richard Devereux. John Vernon was the acknowledged co-heir DUCARET'S History of Normandy). He was buried at Vernon, where his monument stands as described in Gough's Sepulchral Monuments. The said Sir + Lady Elizabeth Grey," wife of Sir John Henry Vernon had four sons. GEORGE, the eldest, Ludlowe, was daughter of Richard, Earl of Powes married Maude, daughter of Sir Gilbert Talboys. and Tankerville, by Margaret, daughter of James, He was celebrated in Queen ELIZABETH's reign for Lord Audley, which Richard was eldest son of his magnificence and hospitality; lord of thirty Henry Grey, Earl of Powes, and his Countess, manors in the counties of Salop, Stafford, LeicesAntigone, daughter of Humphrey, Duke of Glou-ter, and Derby, and styled "King of the Peak.” cester, fourth son of King HENRY IV. and his Queen, MARY DE BOHUN. There is a doubt, however, of this lady's being the daughter of Richard Grey, Earl of Tankerville, and the question has been much litigated. (See BURKE's Extinct Peerage.) "Humphrey Vernon,' who married Alice Ludlow, the third son of Sir Henry Vernon, of Haddon, K.B. by Lady Anne Talbot, daughter of John, third Earl of Shrewsbury, and Lady Catherine Stafford, daughter of Humphrey, Duke of Buckingham, who was grandson to Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, sixth son of King EDWARD III. and Queen PHILIPPA. (See SANDFORD'S Genealogical History). The said Sir Henry Vernon, of Haddon, was fourteenth in lineal descent from Richard de Vernon, created Baron Shipbroke, in 1066, founder of St. Wesburgh's Cathedral, Chester; son of William de Vernon, of Vernon, in Normandy; founder of St. Mary's Cathedral, Vernon; and of the cathedral of Rouen. (See He had two daughters, co-heirs; Dorothy, married to Sir John Manners, ancestor of the Dukes of Rutland; Margaret, married to Sir William Stanley, ancestor to the Earls of Derby. Sir Henry's second son, Thomas Vernon, married Anne, youngest daughter of Sir John Ludlow, heiress of Stokesay, ancestor of the Curzon Scarsdale families ; and his fourth son, John Vernon, married Helen, daughter of Sir Nicholas Montgomery, ancestor of Lord Vernon, of Sudbury. (See SHAWE's History of Staffordshire, where is a Pedigree of VERNON of Haddon and Tong.) § At Tong church there is a curious monument to Humphrey Vernon. The epitaph is as follows: -"Here lyeth the bodye of Homfrye Vernon, of Hodnet, who died 1542, and Alyce, his wife, Ladye of Hodnet, who died 1531." ELIZABETH DEVEREUX, who married John Vernon, esq. of Hodnet, was daughter of SIR RICHARD DEVEREUX, knight, by Lady Dorothy Hastings, daughter of George, Earl of Huntingdon, by Lady of his cousin, Henry, Earl of Powes, and one of the claimants of the barony of Powes, undecided at his death. He succeeded in recovering some of the estates of that deceased nobleman. He was buried at Hodnet, in 1592, having had fourteen children,* several of whom died young. He was succeeded by his fourth son, SIR ROBERT VERNON, born 1577, created K.B. by Queen ELIZABETH, and comptroller of the household to her Majesty. He was lord of the manors of Hodnet, Hopton and Epsley, Bolas, Popton, Preston Longford, and Moreton Say. He married Mary, dau. of Sir Robert Needham, of Shavington, and sister to the first Viscount Killmory. He was succeeded, in 1625, by his son, SIR HENRY VERNON, created a baronet in 1660. He was a royalist, and suffered materially from his attachment to CHARLES I. whom he attended to Oxford. He died in 1676, and was succeeded by his son, Anne Stafford, daughter of Edward, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM, who was fifth in descent from Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, sixth son of EDWARD III. by Queen PHILIPPA. Sir Richard Devereux (who died in his father's lifetime) was only son of Walter, first Viscount Hereford, by Lady Mary Gray, daughter of Thomas, Marquis of Dorset, and was sixth in descent from the same Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, sixth son of EDWARD III. The said Sir Richard Devereux was father to Walter, Earl of Essex, whose son SIR THOMAS VERNON, baronet, who died in 1684, leaving one son, SIR RICHARD VERNON, bart. his successor, who died in 1723, at the court of Augustus, King of Poland, where he had been sent envoy extraordinary, by GEORGE I. in 1715. He dissipated a large portion of his paternal estates, several of which he sold. At his death the Hodnet estate passed to his sisters, Diana and Henrietta Vernon, who died unmarried, and, in 1752, the estate, manor, and advowson of Hodnet, descended through ELIZABETH, only daughter of the first baronet, Sir Henry Vernon (who, in 1675, had married Robert Cholmondeley, eldest son of Thomas Cholmondeley, of Vale Royal, Cheshire,† and died in 1685, leaving one only daughter), to her granddaughter, ELIZABETH ATHERTON, wife of THOMAS HEBER, esq. of Morton, sole heiress to her great grandfather, SIR HENRY VERNON, bart. of Hodnet. Robert, Earl of Essex, was beheaded by Queen ELIZABETH, in 1601. * The fourth daughter of John Vernon, Elizabeth, married Henry, Earl of Southampton, whose granddaughter, Lady Rachel Wriottesley, was wife of William Lord Russell, and mother to the first Earl of Bedford, also to Rachel, Duchess of Devonshire, and Katherine, Duchess of Rutland. (See Life of Lady Rachel Russell). + For the pedigree of the Cholmondeley family, see ORMEROD's Cheshire. ILBERT, OF HORSWELL HOUSE AND BOWRINGSLEIGH. ILBERT, WILLIAM-ROOPE, esq. of Horswell House and Bowringsleigh, both in the county of Devon, b. 5th April, 1805, m. 31st March, 1830, Augusta-Jane, second daughter of James Somerville (Fownes) Somerville, esq. of Dinder House, in Somersetshire, and has issue, WILLIAM-ROOPE, b. 2nd April, 1833. Mr. Ilbert, who succeeded his uncle in November, 1825, is a magistrate and deputylieutenant for the county of Devon. Lineage. The name of ILBERT occurs in Doomsday Book, as holding land in the county of Dorset. Prior to the 17th century, the family was settled at Rill, in the parish of Buckfastleigh, in Devon. WILLIAM ILBERT (the first on record), left two sons, WILLIAM, his heir, and John, who m. Susan Sumpter, and left an only child, John, who d. young. The elder son, WILLIAM ILBERT, m. in 1605, Alice Hanaford, and had issue, William, who d. s. p. ; PETER, of whom presently; Elizabeth; Ann, m. to James Bovey, of Buckfastleigh; Margaret, m. to Samuel Mitchelmore; Maria; Johanna, and Alice. The second son, |