III. William, M. A. of Queen's College, Cambridge, in holy orders. This gentleman devoted a great portion of his life to the study of prophetic history, was the author of four vols. 8vo. and several abstruse works on the fulfilment of prophecy. He m. Margaret, eldest daughter of William Wooley Simpson, of Diss, banker, and left at his decease, 1835, William, m. to his cousin, and other issue. 1. Amelia, d. in 1781.

11. Mary, m. to George William Browne Bohun, esq.† of Beccles, Suffolk, de

ceased.

+ A lineal descendant of the ancient family of De Bohun. Humphrey de Bohun is mentioned in Doomsday Book for Norfolk, as Lord of Dercios in Taterford.

III. Frances, born in 1733, m. to the Rev. John Longe, vicar of the valuable living of Coddenham and Crowfield, Suffolk. Mr. Longe, who was an active magistrate of that county, d. in 1834.

IV. Sophia, d. in 1828.

The second, but eldest surviving son is the present ROBERT WARD, esq. of Salhouse.

Arms - Arg. on a bend engrailed sa. between two acorns, slipt vert, three fleurde-lis, or.

Crest-A dexter arm erect couped at the elbow, habited quarterly, or and vert, cuff arg. hand proper, holding a pheon of the third.

Motto-Usque ad mortem fidus.
Estates-At Salhouse.

Seat-Salhouse Hall, Norfolk.

The family of WRAYE was originally seated at Carlton, in Coverdale, Richmondshire, early in the reign of ELIZABETH, holding at that time grants of land from the crown, as proved by a series of wills for two hundred and fifty years past, and other documents. The Wrays of Kelfield are the only surviving descendants of the name, sprung from the father of Lord Chief Justice (Sir Christopher) Wray. That eminent person, who died in 1592, married Anne, daughter of Nicholas Girlington, esq. of Normanby, in Yorkshire, and was ancestor of the extinct baronets, whose male line expired in 1809 (see vol. ii. p. 632.)

RICHARD WRAYE (brother of Sir Christopher), settled at Kelfield, married in 1551, and had a son,

JOHN WRAYE, b. in 1552, of Brogden House and Auburne Hall (the Manor House), in Kelfield, who resided previously with his

uncle at Ashby cum Finby, in Lincolnshire: he m. in 1587, Anne, daughter of Adam Carter, esq. and by her had issue,

1. GEORGE, his heir.
II. John, d. unm. in 1819.

III. Thomas, married in 1679, but d. s. p.
1. Mary.

11. Elizabeth, m. to William Blithe, esq. of Stillingfleet. III. Anne. IV. Margaret. v. Penelope. The eldest son,

GEORGE WRAYE, esq. of Brogden House and Auburne Hall, b. in 1594, married Anne, daughter of Kendall, esq. and had issue,

1. John, d. unm. II. GEORGE, his heir.

1. Elizabeth. 11. Faith.

III. Anne.

IV. Ursula, m. to Thomas Myres, esq. v. Mary.

Mr. Wraye died in 1647, and was succeeded by his son,

IV. Lucy, m. to William Brown, esq.
R. N.

Mr. Wraye died in November, 1752, and was s. by his son,

The Rev. HENRY WRAY, A. M. b. in 1727, heir and possessor of Brogden House, and several parts of the estates of Kelfield,

II. GEORGE (Successor to his father), a captain in the army, d. unm. 1762. III. John, d. young.

IV. BENJAMIN.

1. Mary.

II. Esther.

Mr. Wraye, of Brogden House, was personally named in the deed of settlement made by the Hon. Elizabeth Saunderson (only child and heiress of Sir John Wraye, bart. of Glentworth House, who bequeathed her estates, first, to Sir Drury Wraye, bart. and his descendants, all now extinct, and

afterwards to the Wrayes of Kelfield).' He d. in 1714. The second surviving son, BENJAMIN WRAYE, esq. b. in 1693, of Kelfield, and afterwards of Thorp Arch, Yorkshire, was also personally named in the Hon.

He

Mrs. Saunderson's deed of settlement. m. Elizabeth, daughter of John Owram, esq. of York, and had issue,

1. George, b. in 1722, and d. in 1734. 11. HENRY, his heir.

1. Elizabeth.

11. Anne.

of Hadfield, Broad Oak, Essex, and a deputy-lieutenant of the West Riding of the former county. He m. in 1776, Susanna, second daughter of George Lloyd, esq. of Hulme Hall, near Manchester, and had issue,

I. CECIL-DANIEL, his heir.

II. George, A. M. in holy orders, rector of Cowesby, in Yorkshire, b. in 1781, m. in 1816, Caroline, daughter of William Wainman, esq. of Carr Head, in that county, and has a son.

1. Harriet.

Mr. Wray, who would have possessed the Hon. Mrs. Saunderson's estates, being the

sole remainder heir male named, had they not been barred by the late Sir Cecil Wray, bart., died in March 1814, and was succeeded by his elder son, the present Rev. CECIL DANIEL WRAY, of Kelfield.

gu.

Arms-Az. on a chief or three martlets

Crest-An ostrich passant, or.

Motto-Et juste et vray.

Estates-In the counties of York and Lincoln.

III. Henrietta.

Residence-Strangeways, Manchester.

"This old and respectable family," says Gilbert, in his History of Cornwall, has principally resided for upwards of three

centuries in the parish of St. Austell and St. Blazey: the surname of Carlyon in connexion with Cornwall is derived from very remote antiquity, for besides the Barton of Carlyon, near Truro, it is upon record that a seaport town of this name was formerly in existence on the north-west coast of

the county. Lyons also makes mention of the family in the Magna Britannia. "Carlyon, or Carlion, is supposed by Tomas, whose romance was published in 1804, by Sir Walter Scott, to have been the residence of his hero Sir Tristrem; it is worthy of remark, that among the more remote ancestors of Mr. Carlyon, of Tregrehan, Tristrem occurs as a christian name in allusion to this celebrated hero of romance:" and in Drew's History of Cornwall is the following account: Herls, when speaking of this an

cient family in his Parochial History, says, though the name be local from a place in Kea parish called Carlyon, which signifies the care, watchfulness or circumspection of a lion, I should say this family of Carlyon, by its name and arms, were the descendants of Richard Carlyon, alias RICHARD the first."*

THOMAS CARLYON, esq. of Tregrehan and Pennans (great-grandfather of the present proprietor), m. Elizabeth, daughter and coheiress of Philip Hawkins, esq. of Trewithen, in Cornwall, and had four sons and two daughters, of whom

PHILIP, Succeeded his father.
Thomas was in holy orders and of St.
Just, in Cornwall. He m. Anne,
daughter and co-heir of William
Gwavas, esq. of Penzance, and had
three sons and four daughters, of
whom the eldest son,

THOMAS, eventually inherited Tregrehan. The eldest son,

PHILIP CARLYON, esq. of Tregrehan, m. Elizabeth, only child of the Rev. Samuel Trewbody, of Boscundle, minister of the parish of St. Germains, in Cornwall, and niece of Edward Craggs, the first Lord Elliot, of Port Elliot. By this lady he left an only son and successor,

EDWARD TREWBODY CARLYON, esq. of Tregrehan, who d. without issue, having bequeathed all his landed property to his first cousin,

THOMAS CARLYON, esq. of St. Just, eldest son of the Rev. Thomas Carlyon, of St. Just, in Roseland, by Anne, daughter and coheiress of William Gwavas, esq. of Penzance. This gentleman m. his cousin german, Mary Carlyon, of St. Austell and Trelissick, which latter place she inherited from her grandfather, the Rev. John Pomeroy, whose wife, Thomasine Hooker, was great niece of the celebrated divine, Richard Hooker, author of the "Ecclesiastical Polity." By this lady, Mr. Carlyon had issue,

WILLIAM, his heir.

Mr. Carlyon, who was sheriff of Cornwall in 1802, d. 16th December, 1830, and was s. by his elder son, the present WILLIAM CARLYON, esq. of Tregrehan.

Arms Sa. a plate between three castles arg. each charged with a cross-crosslet gu. Crest-A demi lion rampant gu. ducally crowned or, collared arg. holding between his paws a bezant.

Motto-Turris tutissima Virtus.

Estates In Cornwall; Barton of Tregrehan, Restmeas, Biscovey, Cuddra, Merthen, Polglaze, Gwavas, Pennans, &c. &c. Great Crinnis also belongs to Mr. Carlyon. About a mile from Tregrehan, contiguous to the sea, is a gentle hill, on which is situated the rich copper mine of Crinnis, and here a bed of riches was discovered in a place to which the finger of Hope had seldom directed the steps of Expectation. The quantity of ore raised between the years 1811 to 1816 was 39,246 tons, which sold for £298,516.

Seats Tregrehan and Pennans, both in

Richard the First, surnamed a Lyon's hart,

A valiant man, noe doubt, and void of feare; Who did, as antient cronichles impart,

A Lyon's hart out of his body teare: Which makes me judge that Cœur de Lyon springs As being descended from the race of kings.

+ The character of Mrs. Carlyon, who died 13th January, 1821, was most accurately recorded by the Rev. T. S. Smyth, vicar of St. Austell and St. Blazev. "While I was preparing this sermon for the press, another sincere friend to the poor

re

everlasting reward. A christian in spirit and in truth, who in her life practised the duties of religion, and in the decline of that life, felt its consolation and its hopes. To her benevolence and her charities, there are many in this parish that can bear the most affecting testimony. Her pious signation has been thus justly recorded. Declining in health, through the long period of twentyeight years, she bore the severe and often renewed attacks of disease with exemplary patience; and humbly submissive at all times to her Maker's will, she awited the tranquil hour of her departure with pious and habitual resignation."

The family of CREYKE is of ancient date in the East Riding of the county of York, and supposed to be of Danish extraction. The first on record is Sir Walter de Creyke, knt. who was appointed governor of Berwick in 1340, after Sir Richard Talbot, by EDWARD III. In 1358, John de Creyke represented York in a parliament held in that city, and Robert de Creyke was bailiff of the same place in 1379.

ALEXANDER CREYKE, of Kyln or Colleston Pythe in Beverley, living in 1413, m. Isabel, daughter and heiress of Egglington, and had two sons and one daughter, viz. THOMAS, his heir, Roger, who died s. p. and Margaret. This Alexander by his will desires to be buried before the cross in the body of the church of the Grey Friars in London, or if he died in his own county, to be interred in St. Mary's, Beverley. He makes his son, Thomas, and his wife, Isabel, executors, and mentions his children, Roger and Margaret. His son and successor,

THOMAS CREYKE, of Colleston Pythe in 1443, m. Jane, daughter and co-heir of Thomas Arden, of Marton, and had issue,

ROBERT, his heir.

*The name of CREYKE or CREIK Occurs in early times in Suffolk. Margery Creyke, according to Dugdale, founded a monastery at Flixton, in that county about four hundred years ago. It likewise occurs in Cambridgeshire. In the south aisle of the nave of Westley Waterlass church is a gravestone with figures of a knight and his lady, engraved on brass plates, under canopies. This is commonly supposed to represent Sir John de Creyke, temp. EDWARD II. and his lady, but the arms are not

those of the Yorkshire family. It appears by record that a manor in the parish of Westley Waterlass passed by conveyance in the early part of the fourteenth century from the family of Creyke to that of Vauncy.

Thomas, of Beverley and Ganton, had a son, Walter, of Ganton, who m. a daughter of Sir Ralph Elleker, knt. of Risbye, and had a son, Ralph, of Ganton, who left, by Grace his wife, daughter of Saltmarshe, of Saltmarshe, one son and two daughters, viz. Ralph, b. 16th April, 1555, Elizabeth, b. 1st April, 1554, buried 30th March, 1556, and Katherine, b. 23rd August, 1557.

Anne, m. to Sir John Wentworth, knt. of Elmsall.

Robert, of Ryton, who m. Isabel, or
Margaret, daughter of Sir Richard
Whetel, knt. governor of Calais, and
had issue,

Edmund, of Ryton, who m. Kathe-
rine, daughter of Trystrem Teshe,
of York, and had Alexander,
d. s. p. Susan, and Anne.
Isabel, m. to John Sutton, of Notts.
Elizabeth, m. to William Perce-
hay, of Ryton.
Jane, d. unmarried.

Robert Creyke made his will 20th Sept. 1538, and desires to be buried within the college church of St. John, Beverley. Isabel or Margaret, his widow, made her will 8th July, 1548. William, of Heslerton, who m. Agnes, daughter and co-heir of John Heslerton, of Heslerton, and had a son, Robert, of Heslerton, buried 14th Dec. 1581, leaving, by Margaret his wife, daughter of James Rokeby, of Rokeby, a son,

George, who died s. p. Hugh, who m. Alice, daughter of James Strangwayes, of Ormsby, by Anne, his wife, daughter and co-heir of Ralph Danby, widow first of Christopher Conyers, and secondly of Robert Wilberforce. Katherine, m. to colnshire. Alice, m. to Lincolnshire.

-

Repinhall, of Lin

Lakyn, of Darlyn, in

Robert Creyke d. about the year 1488, and was s. by his son,

RICHARD CREYKE, of Marton, who m. in 1503, Margaret, daughter of Sir William Constable, knt, of Hatfield, in Holderness,

RALPH, his heir.

Agnes, m. to George St. Quintin, of
Harpham.

The son and successor,

Ralph Creyke, of Marton, in 1563, was in ward to the Earl of Northumberland. He m. first, Katherine,* daughter of Thomas Crathorne of Crathorne, and secondly, Anne, daughter of George Pate of Flamborough. By the latter he had no issue. By the former, who d. in 1605, he had,

I. ROBERT, of Cottingham, b. in 1576, disinherited by his father. He m. Margaret, daughter of Thornborough, and had issue,

William, of Cottingham, who m. Dorcas, daughter of John Gamblin, of Loftus, and had three sons, James, Robert, and William, who all d. s. p. Ralph, d. s. p. Dorothy, m. to

Currer, esq. Katherine, m. James Lord Boyd, father of the first Earl of Kilmarnock.

Everilda, m.to Richard Musgrave, esq.

11. Edward,

III. Thomas, IV. William,

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all d. s. p.

II. Priscilla.

III. Anne.
Iv. Ursula.

v. Katherine. The fifth son,

GREGORY CREYKE, esq. who succeeded his father at Marton, suffered severely for his devoted attachment to CHARLES I. and compounded heavily for his estates. He m. Ursula, daughter of Sir John Legard, knt. of Ganton, by Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Sir John Mallory, knt. of Studley, and had issue,

1. Ralph, page to HENRIETTA-MARIA,

queen consort of CHARLES I. prede-
ceased his father, leaving two sons,
Cornelius and Charles, who appear
to have died young. The latter was
killed by an accident.

11. John, d. in the West Indies.
III. GREGORY, eventual heir.
IV. Christopher, d. s. p. 20th Dec. 1679,
buried in St. Mary's, Beverley.

v. William.

vi. Henry. VII. Thomas.

VIII. Edward.

IX. Richard, who had a commission from Henry, Duke of Newcastle, lord lieutenant of Yorkshire, to guard the sea coast of the East Riding against the Prince of Orange, which he faithfully executed, and was the first who gave notice to King JAMES that the Prince had sailed from Helvoetsluys. He m. Frances, daughter of Robert Horner, of the city of York, and had two sons, and one daughter, viz. Richard, d. young; John, an eminent divine, chaplain and librarian to the Earl of Winchelsea, d. about 1757; and Frances.

x. George.

1. Elizabeth.

11. Margaret, b. 1st July, 1628, m. first to Francis Wright, of Plowland, in Holderness, and secondly, to Hugh Cholmley, son of Sir Henry Cholmley, of Newton Grange. III. Katherine.