SIR JOHN LINGEYN the son, sheriff of Herefordshire, 21 HENRY VII. and 8 and 12 HENRY VIII., and who died 1530, m. 1514, Eleanor, daughter and heir of Thomas Milewater, esq. of *Stoke Edyth, in the county of Hereford, by whom he had a son, JOHN LINGEYN, who m. Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Englefield, of Englefield in Berkshire, and Rossall near Shrewsbury, speaker of the house of Commons, chief justice of Chester, and knight of the bath; by whom he had a son, numerous family left issue, Frances, m. to John Unett, and Alice to Herbert Herring; and by their descendants part of Sutton is still enjoyed. The male line of the family was continued by Sir Henry's brother, ROGER LINGEN, esq. who bought Radbrook, the inheritance of his ancestors, from Lord Dingwall: he m. Anne, daughter of Fulk Walwyn, esq. of Much Marcle, county of Hereford, and had a son, ‡ ROGER LINGEN, esq. who m. Rachel, daughter of the great physician, Dr. Willis, and aunt of Browne Willis, M.P. of Whaddon, county of Bucks, the celebrated antiquarian, and had a son, JOHN LINGEN, M. P. for Herefordshire, who d. 1554, leaving by Isabel his wife, daughter of John and Sibell Bryenton, of Stretton, county of Hereford, one only THOMAS LINGEN, esq. of Radbrook, who daughter + Jane, who m. William Shelley, esq. of Michel Grove, Surrey, and d. with d. 1742, leaving by Ann his wife, only dau. of out issue 1610, bequeathing her family in-Robert Burton, of Longner, county of Salop, heritance of Sutton Court, to her cousin- esq. (and sister and heir to her brother Thomas Burton, as well as to her uncle,) a son, german, EDWARD LINGEN, who was son of William Lingen, the second son of the above John and Sibell Lingen, by Cicely, daughter of Richard Ingram, of Walford, in the county of Warwick. This Edward Lingen, m. Blanch, only daughter of Sir Roger Bodenham, K. B. of Rotheras, county of Hereford, and had a numerous family; one son, John Lingen, captain in the royal service, was killed at Ledbury; and the eldest son, SIR HENRY LINGEN, knight of Sutton and Stoke Edith, was greatly distinguished for his attachment to CHARLES I. in whose service he maintained a regiment of horse; and besides the vast expenses he incurred in the course of his active services compounded for his estates with the Parliament by a fine of £6342. He was M.P. for Hereford, 1661, and d. January, 1662. He m. Alice, daughter of Sir Walter Pye, knight, of the Meend, by whom he had two sons and fifteen daughters, but only two of this * Stoke Edith was afterwards sold by Henry Lingen to Paul Foley, ancestor of the present possessor. + This Mrs. Shelley, in the stormy times of the Reformation, was a firm adherent to the ancient faith, and her husband was attainted in 1583, and she was for some time confined in the Fleet. An Harleian Manuscript (No. 2050) contains many curious letters to her there, particularly one of an offer of marriage in her widowhood, from Francis, youngest son of the first Lord St. John. Queen ELIZABETH had certainly a kindness for Mrs. Shelley, as evinced by some memorials (Harl. MSS. 2120, p. 8. B.), and restored her a house and demesne, which seems to have been Sutton; for ROBERT LINGEN, who assumed the name of BURTON, and the arms of Burton in conjunction with those of Lingen. The collateral branches of the Lingen family are exceedingly numerous and interesting. In the collection of Mr. Owen Salusbury, of Rûg, and Mr. John Salusbury, of Erbistock, made in the seventeenth century, and now in possession of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynne, bart., there is a long descent traced from a William Lingen, of the county of Hereford, to a William Lingen, esquire of the body to HENRY VII., who m. Margaret, daughter to William Sutton, Lord Zouch, to Augustin Lingen, who acquired Bettws by marriage with the sole daughter of John ap David Lloyd, from whom descended in the female line the late learned Archdeacon Hugh Owen, of Shrewsbury, whose son, the Rev. Edward Pryce Owen, is the present possessor. another letter to her in the same collection speaks in affecting terms of the attachment of the neighbourhood to the Lingen family, and of their disquietness in having heard a false report that "the Lingen's lands would be gone from the name of Lingen for ever." Great part of her rich inheritance, including Radbrook in Gloucestershire, and her Shropshire estates, passed on her death to a hungry Scot of the court of James L., Sir Richard Preston, Lord Dingwall, but Radbrook was repurchased. Mrs. Shelley founded Shelley's Hospital in Hereford. This Roger Lingen had a sister Frances, m. to the Rev. Hanbury, of Much Marcle, county of Hereford, who d. in 1758, at the advanced age of 106. COKE, OF TRUSLEY. COKE, D'EWES, esq. of Brookhill Hall, in the parish of Pinxton, in the county of Derby, b. 22nd December, 1774; m. 2nd November, 1797, Harriet, daughter of Thomas Wright, esq. of Nottingham, and has issue, 1. FRANCIS-LILLYMAN D'EWES, b. 4th June, 1804, B. A. Christchurch college, Oxford. 11. William-Sacheverell, b. 31st August, 1805, late a lieutenant in the 39th Regiment. III. Edward-Thomas, b. 4th January, 1807, late a captain in the 69th Regiment, m. 6th August, 1835, Diana, second daughter of the late Rev. John Talbot, of Ardfert Abbey, in the county of Kerry, Ireland, (descended from the illustrious John Talbot, first Earl of Shrewsbury), who assumed by sign manual the surname and arms of Crosbie, on the demise of his uncle John, second Earl of Glendore, (who m. the Hon. Diana, eldest daughter of Lord George Sackville, and sister to the present Charles, fifth Duke of Dorset), and has issue one daughter, Jane-Susanna. IV. John-Henry, b. 12th December, 1811, B.A. Pembroke college, Oxford, in holy orders. v. Richard-George, b. 12th February, 1813. Mr. Coke, who succeeded to the estates upon the decease of his father, the Rev. D'Ewes Coke, B.L., 12th April, 1811, is a magistrate and deputy-lieutenant for the county of Derby, and was formerly recorder of Newark and deputy-recorder of Grantham. Lineage. This ancient and respectable family, which | can trace its descent in a direct male line for upwards of five hundred years, settled at Trusley, in the county of Derby, in the early part of the reign of EDWARD III., at which time HUGH, son of Robert Coke, m. Agnes, daughter and sole heir of Robert Owen, of Marchington Woodhouse, in the county of Stafford. His grandson, THOMAS COKE wedded, about the year 1418, Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas de Odingsell, of Trusley. Through this alliance a considerable portion of the landed property in the parish of Trusley, as * It appears by an old deed, bearing date 46 EDWARD III. that Hugh Coke had lands in Marchington; and by another deed, dated 4 RICHARD II. Agnes, his widow, gave to John Coke, her second son, lands in Witchnor. well as a moiety of the manor and the advowson, passed into the possession of the Coke family; Thomas de Lyes, lord of two parts of the latter, having conveyed it to William de Odingsell and Maud his wife, by a deed bearing date 1314. The Odingsells had long been persons of distinction, Gerard de Odingsells, son of Basilia and Hugh de Odingsells, having a knight's fee in Eperstone so far back as the time of HENRY III. WILLIAM COKE, fourth in descent from Hugh, m. in 1448, Joan, daughter of John Hilton, and was s. by his son, WILLIAM COKE, who having been married twice, died A.D. 1514, leaving as his suc cessor, WILLIAM COKE, who m. Isabel, daughter of Sir Ralph Longford, of Longford, high sheriff for the county of Derby in 1501. In the reign of EDWARD III. Sir Ralph Longford, an ancestor of the above Sir Ralph, The eldest son, RICHARD COKE, m. Mary, daughter and heir of Thomas Sacheverell,* of Kirkby, in the county of Nottingham, descendant of Sacheverell, of Snitterton and Hopwell, in the county of Derby. The pedigree of this family, in the visitation of 1569, begins with married one of the two daughters of Sir | William le Wyne, to whom the manor of Pinxton (or as it is written in old writings Penkeston) belonged. Sir Ralph sold his moiety to Francis Coke. The other daughter was married to Sir John Sulney, whose portion descended to the Staffords, and from them to the Revells, from whom it was pur-Patrick Sacheverell, lord of Hopwell in the chased by the grandfather of the present owner of Brookhill. William Coke died 1518, leaving one son, WILLIAM COKE, who m. Dorothy, daughter of Robert Fitzherbert, of the ancient and ennobled family residing at Tissington, in the county of Derby, and whose ancestor's name appears in the "Roll of Battel Abbeie." He died A.D. 1576, and left, with other issue, 1. RICHARD, his heir. reign of EDWARD I. Thoroton describes John de Sacheverell as having married a co-heiress of Fitz-ercald, five generations before 15 EDWARD I. (about the year 1020). William, a younger son of John Sacheverell, of Hopwell, by the co-heiress of Leche, married the heiress of Snitterton, and was of Ible and Snitterton. Thomas Sacheverell, his grandson, sold Ible about 1498; Snitterton was retained longer. Thomas Sacheverell, son of Thomas, lived at Kirk 11. John, rector of North Wingfield, in by, which had been acquired in marriage the county of Derby. III. Anthony, IV. Arthur, v. Edward, } died young. 1. Elizabeth, m. to John Bird, or Bride, of Locko, in the county of Derby, which family had possessed the manor of Nether Locko as early as the reign of HENRY IV. She survived her husband, having had issue a son, William, who sold the manor in the reign of Queen ELIZABETH to William Gilbert, then of Barrow, his mother's second husband. The Gilbert family consequently removed there and resided at Locko Park for several generations. John Gilbert, William's descendant, became possessed of Thurgarton Priory, in the county of Nottingham, by bequest from the Coopers, and took the name of Cooper by act of Parliament in 1736, and having about the same time sold Locko to the Lowe family, who at present reside there, removed to Thurgarton, which place was sold a short time previous to his death by Colonel John-Gilbert-Cooper Gardiner, who d. unmarried in 1833. In the year 1630 there was another intermarriage between the Gilberts and Cokes, of which presently. 11. Elena, m. to Robert Key, Keyes or Kays. III. Margaret, m. to Geoffrey Whalley. IV. Dorothy,m. to Christopher Thacker, whose family, in 1540, had a grant of Repton Priory from HENRY VIII. Gilbert Thacker, the last of this family, d. in 1712. v. Isabel, m. to John Danvers, of Swithland, in the county of Leicester. VI. Anne, m. to Philip Streethay, of Streethay, in the county of Stafford. with the heiress of Kirkby; he had an only daughter, married to Coke of Trusley. By this marriage, Kirkby Hall, and property in that parish, was conveyed to, and has ever since remained in the family of Coke, it having been acquired by the great-grandfather of Mary Sacheverell in marriage with the sole heiress of Richard Kirkby. Richard Coke d. in 1582, leaving, with a daughter, Dorothy, m. to Valentine Carey, D.D. Bishop of Exeter, five sons, viz. 1. FRANCIS (Sir), his heir. II. John (Sir), who bore a pre-eminent part in the public affairs of the stormy period in which he lived, being principal secretary of state for upwards of twenty years to the unfortunate CHARLES I. It required a man of no ordinary abilities to steer a happy course between the contending parties of those troubled days, and the soundest discretion to reconcile oftentimes the king his master and the factious parliament. sole desire was, as he expressed it in that house on the 22nd of March, 1627,"not to stir, but to be quiet; not to provoke, but to appease-my desire is," he continued, "that every one resort to his own heart to reunite the king and state, and to take away the scandal from us." His life and character cannot be better drawn His *The name is derived from "Saut de Chevreuil.” The celebrated Dr. Sacheverell is said to have been of this family, but it is not clear that he was descended from them. He possessed an estate in Derbyshire by gift from George Sacheverell of that county, who admired his political zeal and esteemed him as a cousin, and before whom, as high sheriff for the county in the 9th of Queen ANNE, he preached one of his inflammatory sermons, which brought him before the House of Lords by impeachment of the Commons. than in the words of David Lloyd, author of a work, published in 1670, entitled "State Worthies, or the Statesmen and Favourites of England since the Reformation." "Sir John Coke, younger brother to Sir Francis Coke, born at Trusley, in Derbyshire, of ancient and worshipful family, and allied to the best family in that country, was bred fellow of Trinity college, in Cambridge, where his wit being designed his estate, he was chosen rhetorick lecturer in the university, where he grew eminent for his ingenious and critical reading in that school, where rhetorick seemed not to be so much an art, as his nature; being not only the subject but the very frame of his discourse. Then travelled he beyond the seas for some years (when his judgment was fitted for foreign observations by domestic experience) in the company of a person of quality, returning thence rich in languages, remarks and experience, having all the dangers incident to him for his religion by a wary profession, that he came to learn and not to search; being first related to Sir Fulke Greville, Lord Brook, who did all men's business but his own he was thence preferred to be secretary to the Navy, then master of the requests, and at last secretary of state for twenty years together. Being a very zealous Protestant, he did all good offices for the advancement of true religion: his contemporaries character him a grave and a prudent man in gait, apparel and speech; one that had his intellectuals very perfect in the dispatch of business, till he was eighty years old, when foreseeing those intrigues that might be too hard for his years, he with his majesty's good leave retired as Moses did, to die when his eyes were not dim, &c. having kept himself strictly to the law of the land: insomuch so that being sent to command Bishop Williams from Westminster, and being asked by the stout bishop, by what authority he commanded a man out of his house and freehold, he was so tender of the point that he never rested till he had his pardon for it. * * Never was any man more put to it to reconcile the two readings of that text, καιρῶ λ κυριῳ δελυέιν, which he could never have done, but that his old rule safeguarded him, viz. "That no man should let what is unjustifiable or dangerous appear under his hand, to * * give envy a steady aim at his place or person. Indeed he had an happy mixture of discretion and charity whereby he could allow to things and persons more than mon of straighter apprehensions or narrower affections were able to do." He settled at Melbourne, in the county of Derby, as lessee under the Bishop of Carlisle, under which see the palace, now Melbourne Hall, together with the impropriate parsonage, was long held under lease. The bishops of Carlisle had occasionally resided at the palace, to which a large park was attached. During a great part of his official life Sir John Coke resided in a house which had been the residence of the Hynninghams, called the Black House, opposite to White Hart Lane. Bedwell, in his History of Tottenham in 1631, says that he had read the following inscription, in a chamber over the hall: "In this chamber King HENRY VIII. hath often lyen." It was pulled down about ninety years ago. Sir John m. Mary, daughter of Powell, esq. of Presteign, in Radnorshire, and left two sons and three daughters, 1. John (Sir), his heir, who was a member of the committee of sequestrators appointed by parliament for the county of Derby, 31st March, 1643, and also one of that for the purpose of raising 5167. levied upon the county, for the maintenance of Fairfax's army from 1st February to 1st December, 1644; and in 1646 was one of the receivers (Sir John Curzon being the other) of 50007. raised in the county for the disbanding of the Derbyshire forces, which money was to be repaid out of the composition of delinquent's estates in the said county. He was also one of the representatives of the county in the 16 CHARLES I. He sold to Sir William Boothby the manor of Ashbourne, which had been granted by King CHARLES I. to William Scriven and Philip Eden, and by them conveyed to his father Sir John Coke. Dying without issue at Paris, he was succeeded at Melbourne by his brother. 2. Thomas, whom. Mary, daughter of Pope, esq. He compounded for his estate in 1655 for the sum of 22007., agreeable to an ordinance by the parliament for the "Decimation of the Cavaliers," whereby all who had borne arms for CHARLES I., or declared themselves in his interest, were to pay the tenth of their estates that were left, to support the charge of the commonwealth without regard to future compositions, or any articles upon which they surrendered. We find the Gilberts, Harpurs and Fitzherberts, with whom the Cokes had intermarried, subjected to equally heavy penalties. He d. in 1656, and was s. by his son, JOHN, who represented the were so daunted with his reply, that they kept silence a long time, and when Coke, member for Derby, rose up and said, 'I hope we are all Englishmen, and not to be frightened with a few hard words;' so little spirit appeared in that assembly, often so refractory and mutinous, that they sent him to the Tower for bluntly expressing a free and generous spirit.' William Allestrey was his colleague at this time, and he was again returned as member for the borough in the 1st of WILLIAM and MARY, in conjunction with the Hon. Anchetil Gray. His successor, Thomas, in 1701, made an agreement with Bishop Nicholson, that in consequence of an increase of the annual rent of Melbourne from 451. to 701., and of the vicar's stipend from 207. to 307., the fee should be vested in perpetuity in Thomas Coke, his heirs and assigns. This agreement was confirmed by act of Parliament in 1704. The last heir male of this branch of the family was George-Lewis Coke, who died in 1750, when the Melbourne property, as well as the manorial rights of the subordinate manor of Over-Haddon and lands in Bakewell, in the county of Derby, devolved upon his sister and sole heiress CHARLOTTE, the daughter of the Hon. Thomas Coke, teller of the exchequer and vice-chamberlain to Queen ANNE. She was m. to Sir Matthew Lambe, bart. and was mother of Sir Peniston Lambe, created, in 1770, an Irish peer, as Baron Melbourne, deriving his title from the estate acquired by his father's marriage with the representative of this branch of the Coke family. He was s. in 1828, by his son, William, Viscount Melbourne, the present prime minister of England. Melbourne Hall and the parsonage manor, which abound with memorials of the Coke family, are his occasional residence, but the * Allotments were made to Lord Melbourne in lieu of these rights at the time of the inclosure in 1806. |