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Beaumont, esq. of Coleorton, and William Curburg, lands in Cotes Hodington, Broughton, Prestwould, Wimeswould, and Loughborough, for the payment of a certain yearly rent. He m. Anne, daughter of Harcourt, and had, besides two daughters, Mary, m. to Richard Storey, of Braunston, and Dorothy, m. to John Rigmaiden, two sons,

1. JOHN, who purchased the site of the Priory of Gracedieu, in 1539. He was surveyor of Leicestershire for the Crown, and subsequently master of the rolls, which appointments he resigned in 1552, a short period before his decease. This learned person, m. first, Isabella, daughter of Lawrence Dutton, esq. of Dutton, in Cheshire, and had by her a daughter, Anne, m. first, to Dutton, esq. and secondly, to Thomas Ashby, esq. of Loseby. He wedded secondly, Elizabeth, eldest daughter and co-heir of Sir William Hastings, knt. younger brother of George Earl of Huntingdon, and by her, who was living in 1574, had, with other issue, a son and successor, SIR FRANCIS BEAUMONT, of Gracedieu, one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas, temp. Queen ELIZABETH. Hem. Anne, daughter of Sir George Pierrepoint, knt. of Holme-Pierrepoint, in the county of Nottingham, and relict of Thomas Thorold, esq. of Marston, in Lincolnshire, by whom he left at his decease, 22d April, 1598, three sons and a daughter, viz.

1. HENRY, (Sir) knt. of Gracedieu, whom.Barbara,daughter of Anthony Faunt, esq. of Foston, and had by her, (who m.secondly Sir Henry Harpur, baronet, of Calke,) an only daughter and heir, BARBARA, born in September, 1605, two months after her father's death, m. first, to John Harpur, esq. who d. s. s.p. and secondly toSir Wolstan Dixie, bart. by whom she had issue.

2. JOHN, b. in 1582, who succeeded his brother at Gracedieu, and was created a BARONET, 29th June, 1626. This gentleman enjoyed considerable reputation as a poet, and is highly commended by his contemporaries. His chief work was "Bosworth Field," a poem, descriptive of the famous battle fought there between

RICHARD III. and the Earl of Richmond, meriting (to quote the opinion of Headley) republication, for the easy flow of its numbers and the spirit with which it is written. His minor productions have been much admired, and the verses he addressed to King JAMES I. on the true form of English poetry, entitle their author to a place among the most judicious critics of his time. Sir Johnm.Elizabeth,daughter of John Fortescue, esq. and great-great-grandaughter of Sir Richard Pole, K.G. by Margaret, daughter and heir of George Duke of Clarence, brother to EDWARDIV. and had seven sons and four daughters. Of the former all d. s. p. except the sixth, THOMAS (Sir), third bart. of Gracedieu, who died 7th July, 1686, leaving five daughters, his coheirs, viz.

of

CECILY, m. to ROBERT
BEAUMONT, esq.
Barrow-upon-Trent.
VERE, m. to Sir John
Rayney, bart.

MARY, m. to George
Morton, esq.

JANE, m. to Charles
Byerley, esq.

ANNE, m. to Robert
Pawley, esq.

3. FRANCIS, born at Gracedieu,
in 1586, the celebrated Dra-
matic poet. In 1596, this dis-
tinguished person was ad-
mitted(with his two brothers,
Henry and John,) a gentle-
man commoner of Broad-
gate's Hall, now Pembroke
College, Oxford, and he sub-
sequently became a member
of the Inner Temple. The
Dramatic muse had, how-
ever, too many attractions to
allow him to apply with
much assiduity to the dry
study of the laws, and so
early as 1607, when BEAU-
MONT was in his twenty-first
year, his first play, in con-
junction with FLETCHER, is
dated. The connexion of
these gifted writers conti-
nued during the short span

For fuller details, see BURKE's Extinct Baronetage.

of Beaumont's life, and the productions of which they were jointly authors, have ever held a very high place in English literature. Francis Beaumontm. Ursula, daughter and co-heir of Henry Isley, esq. of Sundridge, in Kent, and died 9th March, 1616, aged 30, leaving Elizabeth, whom. a Scotch colonel, and was resident in Scotland in 1682. Frances, living unm. in 1700, at a very advanced age, at which time she enjoyed a pension from the Duke of Ormond, in whose family she had lived as a domestic.

1. Elizabeth, b. 1589, m. to Thomas Seyliard, esq. II. EDWARD, of whose descendants we have now to treat.

The second son of Thomas Beaumont,

EDWARD BEAUMONT, esq. settled at Barrow-upon-Trent, in the county of Derby, about the year 1550. Hem. Anne, daughter and heir of Milgate, of Lockington, in Leicestershire, and had a son and successor,

WILLIAM BEAUMONT, esq. of Barrowupon-Trent, who m. Elizabeth, daughter of Sutton, esq. of Derby, and by this lady (who had the honour of entertaining Mary Queen of Scots,) had issue,

1. Edward, died young.

11. FRANCIS, successor to his father.

III. Edward.

v. Christopher.

IV. William.

VI. Thomas.

1. Elizabeth, m. to I. Bennet, of Derby. II. Dorothy, m. to W. Neale, of Derby. III. Helen.

IV. Mary. VI. Jane.

v. Anne. Mr. Beaumont died 30th July, 1592, and was s. by his son,

FRANCIS BEAUMONT, esq. of Barrow-uponTrent, a major in the service of CHARLES I. who m. Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Simon Bracebridge, esq. of Twiford, in the county of Derby, and had issue,

Edward, who was disinherited, and d.
unm. in France, in 1660.
JOHN, successor to his father.
Anne.

Major Beaumont died 2nd January, 1661, aged 92, and was s. by his son,

JOHN BEAUMONT, esq. of Barrow-uponTrent, who m. first, Dorothy, daughter of John Powtrell, esq. of West Hallom, in Derbyshire, by whom he had issue, and secondly, Barbara, daughter of Edward Willoughby, esq. of Cotham, in Nottinghamshire, by whom he left at his decease, with other issue, a son and successor,

ROBERT BEAUMONT, esq. of Barrow-upon

Trent, aged seven, in 1662, who m. first, Cecily, daughter and co-heir of Sir Thomas Beaumont, bart. of Gracedieu, and had by her, who d. in 1697, a son and daughter, viz. JOHN, his heir.

Barbara, abbess of a convent in Flanders. Mr. Beaumont m. secondly, Jane, widow of Francis Lowe, esq. of Old Greaves, and daughter and heir of John Middleton, esq. of Wandesley, Notts, by whom he had a son, Frances, who died unm., and thirdly, Winifred, daughter of Francis Lowe, esq. by whom he had no issue. He died 2nd January, 1726-7, and was s. by his son,

JOHN BEAUMONT, esq. of Barrow-uponTrent, b. in 1694, who m. Miss Joyce Johnson, niece of Thomas Allestree, esq. of Alvaston, in the county of Derby, and by her, who d. 11th June, 1780, aged 79, and was buried at Barrow, had issue,

JOHN, his heir.

Robert, b. in 1731, m. Ann Wild, and by her, who died 5th September, 1784, aged 32, left at his decease, 14th September, 1796, aged 64, one son and two daughters, viz.

JOHN, successor to his uncle.
Anne, widow of the late Rev. C.
Allsop, vicar of Sheepshead.
Mary-Joyce.

Edward, in holy orders of the church
of Rome, b. in 1732, d. at Nor-
wich, in August, 1820.

Francis, b. in 1737, d. 28th June, 1806, leaving, by Elizabeth Hibbert, his wife, a dau., Joyce, wife of Rev. Christopher Dodsley, rector of Swinnerton, in the county of Stafford. Barbara, Joyce, all died young. Catherine,

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Mr. Beaumont d. 11th October, 1763, aged 72, and was s. by his eldest son,

JOHN BEAUMONT, esq. of Barrow-uponTrent, who d. unm. 21st July, 1806, aged 75, and was s. by his nephew,

JOHN BEAUMONT, esq. of Barrow-upon Trent, b. 23rd January, 1779, a magistrate and deputy-lieutenant for the county of Derby, who m. 29th August, 1825, the Hon. Mary-Elizabeth Curzon, third daughter of Nathaniel, second Lord Scarsdale, and had, JOHN, his heir.

Robert-Curzon, b. 10th December, 1827.
Edward, b. 25th July, 1829.

Henry.

Mr. Beaumont d. 11th March, 1834, and was s. by his eldest son the present JOHN BEAUMONT, esq. of Barrow-upon-Trent.

Arms Az. semée of fleurs-de-lis, a lion rampant, or.

Crest-On a chapeau erm. a lion passant,or.
Motto-Erectus non elatus.
Estates-In Derbyshire.
Seat-Barrow-upon-Trent.

ERLE-DRAX, OF CHARBOROUGH.

DRAX-ERLE SAWBRIDGE, JOHN-SAMUEL-WANLEY, esq. of Charborough Park, in the county of Dorset, and of Ellerton Abbey, in Yorkshire, b. 6th October, 1800, m. 1st May, 1827, at St. George's Church, Hanover Square, London, JaneFrances, only daughter of Richard-Erle-Drax Grosvenor, esq. and has issue,

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Maria-Caroline.

Sarah Frances-Elizabeth.

This gentleman, whose patronymic is SAWBRIDGE, succeeded to the estates in right of his wife, upon the demise of that lady's brother, Richard-Edward Erle-Drax, esq., 13th August, 1828, and assumed in consequence, the surnames and arms of ERLE-DRAX. He is Captain in the East Kent militia, and Captain Commandant of the Charborough Yeomanry Cavalry, which troop he raised and maintained at his own expense during the disturbances in the year 1830.

Lineage.

manor of Beckington.

The descendant of a branch of this ancient line,

WALTER ERLE, esq. (son of John Erle of Culhampton in Devon, by Thomasine, daughter of Beare, of Somersetshire, and grandson of John Erle of Culhampton, who was son of John the second son of John Erle of Ashburton in Devon,) became possessed of Charborough, in the county of Dorset, by his marriage with Margery, daughter and coheir of Richard Wikes, of Charborough, who had inherited Charborough from the family of Camel of Shakwycke and Charborough. Walter Erle d. in 1581, leaving issue, THOMAS, his heir.

The Erles are of ancient and knightly | St. Maur, conveyed to her husband the descent. The first ancestor that occurs in the pedigree is Henry de Erle, Lord of Newton in Somersetshire, 35 HENRY III., but the family was long previously settled in that county: so far back as the 7th HENRY II. John de Erlegh paid five marks for the scutage of his lands at Beckington in Somersetshire. He died 11 HENRY II. and was succeeded by WILLIAM DE ERLEGH, his son, who is certified to hold a knight's fee in capite of the King, by which he had a right to be his Chamberlain. This William founded Buckland Priory, and was father of John de Erlegh, who paid scutage 6 RICHARD I. and 1 JOHN, holding the manor and hundred of North Petherton, in the county of Somerset. He left a son and successor, William de Erlegh, who had issue, John, who d. s. p. 12 HENRY III. and HENRY, sheriff of Dorset and Somerset in that year. The descendant of the latter, JOHN DE ERLE, served in the Scottish wars of that monarch's reign. He was sheriff of the two counties, and knight of the shire temp. EDWARD II. His grandson, SIR JOHN DE ERLEGH, attended the Black Prince at the battle of Najara, and participated in several other engagements in Spain, in one of which he was wounded and taken prisoner, and as ransom, was obliged to sell a considerable portion of his ancient inheritance. He was succeeded in the remainder by his eldest son, SIR JOHN DE ERLEGH, whose only daughter, Margaret, marrying John

Honor, m. to John Giffard, esq. of
Brightley. (See p. 293.)

The son and heir,

THOMAS ERLE, esq. of Charborough, who m. Dorothy, daughter of William Pole, esq. of Columpton, in the county of Devon, and by her, who m. 2ndly, Sir Walter Vaughan, [knt. had issue,

I. WALTER, his heir.

11. Christopher, of Stourminster Marshal. III. John, d. young.

IV. Thomas, d. young in 1592.

1. Elizabeth, m. to Sir Richard Strode, knt. of Devon.

11. Dorothy, d. young.

Thomas Erle died 16th March, 1597, and was interred at East Morden, where a handsome monument is erected to his memory. His son and successor,

SIR WALTER ERLE, of Charborough, re

This Margaret wedded 2ndly, Walter Sandys, ceived the honour of knighthood in 1616,

and 3rdly, Sir William Cheney, knt.

and in 1641, was one of the managers against

march to the lowest of the ditches adjoining to the side of the bog, and there to post themselves till the horse should come about by Aghrim Castle and sustain them, and till the other foot had marched over the other bog before, where it was broader, and were supported by Foulks and Brigadier Stuart's regiment. Erle's, and the other three regiments, pursuant to their orders, advanced over the bog, most of them passing up to the middle in mud and water; and upon their near approach to the ditches, received the enemy's fire, which yet did not hinder them from marching to the lowest hedge, and

the Earl of Strafford at his trial. On the breaking out of the civil wars he sided with the parliament, and the active part he bore in those unhappy times, may be seen in Rushworth and Whitlock. He was governor of Dorchester and lieutenant of the Ordnance, in which latter appointment he succeeded Mr. Pym in 1643. In 1645 he deciphered some important letters which had been intercepted, and received for this service the thanks of the House of Commons. In 1646, he was one of the four commissioners to the King for peace; and in 1647, a commission passed for him to be master of the Ordnance. Sir Walter, toge-beating the Irish from them, and so on from ther with Mr. Hollis, and other Ephori, (as Lord Clarendon styles them), and 7000 foot, 800 horse, and four pieces of cannon, came from Wells to Sherbourne to oppose the Marquis of Hertford. On the approach of the Earl of Caernarvon, he raised the siege of Corfe Castle.

Sir Walter m. Anne, daughter and heir of Francis Dymoke, and sister of Sir Henry Dymoke, knt. and with her acquired the manors of Erckington and Pipe, in the county of Warwick, which he sold, 1 CHARLES I. to Sir Walter Devereux, bart. By this lady, who d. in 1665, he had issue,

THOMAS, aged 2, in 1623, who m. Susanna, 4th daughter of William Fiennes, 3rd Viscount Say and Sele, and by her, who m. 2ndly, Robert Hawley, esq. left at his decease, which occurred during the lifetime of his father, two sons and two daughters. The former were Walter, who m. Anne, daughter of Thomas Trenchard, esq. and THOMAS, of whom presently, as successor to his grandfather.

Anne, m. to Norton of Hampshire. Sir Walter died in 1665, and his son having pre-deceased him, the estates eventually devolved on his grandson,

GENERAL THOMAS ERLE, of Charborough, a military officer of high reputation, who commanded in Ireland and Flanders in the wars of King WILLIAM and Queen ANNE: in 1714 he was appointed lieutenant-general of the Ordance, governor of Portsmouth and Southsea Castle, and in 1716 made general of foot. He was likewise privy councillor to Queen ANNE and GEORGE I. "At the battle of Aghrim in 1691, Majorgeneral Mackay, observing several bodies of the enemy's horse and foot draw off from the line and move towards the road, where they were hard put to it by the English, laid hold of the opportunity, and ordered his troops to march over the bog which fronted the enemy's main body. The regiments of ERLE, Herbert, Creighton, and Brewer, going over the narrowest place, where the hedges on the hostile side ran farthest into the bog, they had orders to

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hedge to hedge, till they were got very near their main body. But the Irish had so well ordered the matter, that they had an easy passage for their horse among all these hedges and ditches; which yet being observed by the valiant Colonel Erle, he encouraged his men by telling them, “there was no way to come off but to be brave." However, the English being both flanked and fronted, and exposed to all the enemy's fire from the neighbouring hedges, were forced from their ground, and obliged to retreat again to the bog with considerable loss. And amongst others, the brave colonels Erle and Herbert being made prisoners, the former, after being twice taken and retaken, at last got clear of the enemy; but the other (as was reported), was barbarously murdered by the Irish, when they saw he was likely to be rescued." *

General Erle commanded as lieutenantgeneral the centre of the army at the battle of Almanza in 1709, as the Earl of Galway did the left wing, and lost his right hand in the engagement.

This gallant officer m. Elizabeth, 2nd daughter of Sir William Wyndham, bart. of Orchard Wyndham in Somersetshire, and dying in 1720, left an only dau. and heir,

FRANCES ERLE, of Charborough, who espoused Sir Edward Ernle,† bart. of Maddington, in the county of Wilts, M. P. for Wareham, and dying in 1728, left an only daughter and heir,

ELIZABETH ERNLE, of Charborough, who m. HENRY DRAX,‡ esq. of Ellerton Abbey

* Kennet's History, Vol. iii. p. 120. Tindal's Continuation, Vol. i. p. 178.

+ See family of ERNLE of ETCHILHAMPTON, at conclusion.

The family of Drax appears to have been anciently seated in the county of York. In 1647, rond, and other cavaliers, having converted their Colonel Drax, Colonel Modiford, Colonel Walestates into money, and not being able to reside in England under the usurpation, retired to Barbadoes, where Colonel Drax acquired, in a few years, an estate of 8 or £9,000 per annum, and married the daughter of the Earl of Carlisle, then proprietor of the island.

in Yorkshire, M. P. for Lyme Regis and
Wareham, and secretary to Frederick,
Prince of Wales, and by him, who died in
1755, had issue,

THOMAS ERLE-DRAX, heir to both his
parents.

Edward, of Melcombe Regis, successor
to his brother.

Frederick, died aged 7.

Elizabeth, m. 1st to Augustus, fourth
Earl of Berkeley, and 2ndly, to Ro-
bert Viscount Clare. Her ladyship
d. 29th June, 1792.

Mary, m. to John Durbin, esq. of
Bristol.

Harriot, m. to Sir William Hanham,
bart.

Susannah, m. 1st to William Cracraft,

esq. alderman of London, and 2ndly, in 1777, to John Touchet, Earl of Castlehaven. The countess d. 31st July, 1789. Frances, d. in 1751. The heiress of Ernle and Erle d. in 1759, and was s. by her eldest son,

THOMAS ERLE-DRAX, esq. of Charborough, who m. Mary, daughter of Lord St.

John of Bletshoe, but d. without issue in 1790, aged 67, when he was s. by his bro

ther,

EDWARD DRAX, esq. of Charborough, who m. 16th April, 1762, Mary, daughter of Awnsham Churchill, esq. of Henbury, and had an only daughter and heiress,

SARAH-FRANCES DRAX, of Charborough, who m. 11th March, 1788, Richard Grosvenor, esq. M. P. for West Looe, nephew of Richard, Earl Grosvenor, and that gentleman assumed in consequence of his marriage, the surname and arms of ERLE-DRAX. The issue were one son and a daughter, viz.

RICHARD-EDWARD, the heir.

JANE-FRANCES, successor to her brother. Mr. Erle-Drax Grosvenor d. 8th February, 1819, aged 58, and his widow (the heiress of Charborough), on 15th June, 1822. They were s. by their only son,

RICHARD-EDWARD ERLE-DRAX, esq. of Charborough and Ellerton Abbey, d. unm. 13th August, 1828, and was s. by his sister,

JANE-FRANCES ERLE-DRAX, who had m. in the previous year, JOHN-SAMUEL-WANLEY SAWBRIDGE, esq. and that gentleman having assumed the surname and arms of ERLEDRAX, is the present possessor of CHARBOROUGH PARK, &c.

Ernle of Etchilhamptov.

The Ernles of Etchilhampton and Maddington, were a branch of the ancient and knightly house of the same name, so long seated in the counties of Sussex and Wilts. (See vol. iii. p. 619.)

MICHAEL ERNLE, esq. of Bourton, lineally descended from Richard de Ernle of Ernle, living temp. HENRY III. served as sheriff of Wiltshire 22nd ELIZABETH. He m. 1st, Mary, only daughter and heir of Roger Finnamore, esq. of Wetham House, in the parish of Calne, Wilts, and by her had two sons and two daughters,

JOHN (Sir), knt. of Whetham, ancestor

of the ERNLES of WHETHAM, in Wiltshire, who are now represented by Major-general JAMES KYRLE-MONEY of Much Marcle in Herefordshire, and of Whetham in Wiltshire. (See vol. iii. p. 615.)

Richard.

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SIR WALTER ERNLE, of Etchilhampton, who was created a BARONET 2nd February, 1660-1. Hem. Martha, daughter of Edward Tooker, esq. of Maddington, and sister and co-heir of Sir Giles Tooker, bart. and had by her (who was buried at Maddington 14th May, 1688) two sons and a daughter, viz.

1. EDWARD, b. 17th October, 1649; m. Anne, daughter of Edward Ashe, esq. of Heytesbury, in Wiltshire, and dying v. p. 21st June, 1675, left issue,

WALTER, Successor to his grand-
father.

EDWARD, heir to his brother.
Michael, buried at Bishop's Can-
nings 13th November, 1674.
Elizabeth, m. to Thomas Stratter-
den, esq. who took the surname
of DRAX, and 2ndly, to John
Colleton, esq.
By the former
she left a son,

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