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SIR RICHARD REYNELL, knight of West Ogwell, was knighted by CHARLES I. at Ford house, the seat of his uncle Sir Richard Reynell, on the occasion of that monarch making a visit there, 15th September, 1625. He married at Upton Helions, 12th January, 1616, Mary, daughter of Richard Reynell, esq. of Creedy Widger, a bencher of the Middle Temple (See Reynell of Malston). The seal of this Sir Richard Reynell is in possession of Colonel Taylor, the present proprietor of Ogwell. He left issue,

1. THOMAS his successor.

11. Richard (Sir), Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, created a BARONET of that kingdom in 1678, from whom descends the present and sixth baronet Major General Sir THOMAS Reynell, K. C. B. now representative in the male line of the Reynell family. (See BURKE'S Peerage.)

1. Mary, b. 1613; m. Gregory Huckmore, esq.

Mary. Frances. Jane.

11. Elizabeth, b. 1618.

Sir Richard, d. 10th February, 1648, aged 64, was buried in East Ogwell Church, and s. by his son.

THOMAS REYNELL, esq. of West Ogwell, a county magistrate, who served the office of high sheriff of Devon in 1677. He represented for several years the borough of Ashburton in parliament, and was elected knight of the shire. He m. first, Mary, daughter of John Bennet, esq. and secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of James Could, esq. and relict of William Vincent, esq. He d. March, 1698. By his first lady, who was b. 6th July, 1631, and d. 17th September, 1671, he had,

I., wife of John Coplestone, esq. but considered to have d. s. p.

11. Mary, m. to John Whitrow, esq. of Dartmouth, in Devon, by whom she had a daughter,

Rebecca Whitrow, co-heiress of her uncle, Richard Reynell, from whom she inherited, by will, the estates of Ogwell. She married JOSEPH TAYLOR, esq. of Denbury; and her great-grandson Lieutenant-Colonel TAYLOR, is the present proprietor of Ogwell. By his second lady Thomas Reynell, esq. had, III. Richard, his successor.

He was member for the county in 1654, and 1656, and for Ashburton in 1658.

+ It may be proper here, to mention that Sir William de la Pole, in his remarks on the genealogy of

IV. Thomas, considered to have d. s. p. 1. Elizabeth.

11. Anne, m. Sir William Morice, of Werrington, bart. and left issue,

The son and successor,

RICHARD REYNELL, esq. of West Ogwell, represented Ashburton in parliament for thirty-three years, but dying without issue, 1735, he left his estates to his niece Mrs. TAYLOR and her husband, whose great-grandson is now the proprietor of Ogwell, and nineteenth in descent from the first Sir Richard Reynell who flourished in the reigns of Henry II. and Richard I.†

Arms-Masonry argent and sable, a chief indented of the second.

Crest-A fox passant or, being the crest of Strighall.

Mottoes-Murus aheneus esto, and Indubitata Fides,

Supporters-As anciently borne, two foxes.

Reynell, of Malston.

THOMAS REYNELL, esq. of Malston (second son of Walter Reynell, esq. of Malston and East Ogwell, to whom his father gave the estates at Malston,) married Cicely, daughter of Edmund Mathew, esq. and heir to Alicia her mother, daughter of Rous or Risby, esq. of Combe in Bradninch, by whom he left a son and successor,

GEORGE REYNELL, esq. of Malston, who m. Joan, daughter of Lewis Fortescue, esq. of Fallapit, one of the barons of the exchequer,

and by her left issue.

1. EDMUND, his heir.
11. Henry, d. s. p.

III. John, m. Agnes, third daughter, by
Elizabeth, his wife, dau. of Thomas
Pollexphen, esq. of Kitley, in Devon,
of John Hele, esq. of Holbeton.
IV. Humphrey, m. the relict of
Stocket, esq.

v. Richard, of Credy-Widger, in the
county of Devon, a bencher of the
Middle Temple. By marriage and
purchase, he became possessed of
numerous estates, viz. Great Woot-
ton, Clyst-Hydon, Holbeam, Credy-
Widger, Shobrooke, Little Fulford,
Tilhouse, Anke, Lynch, &c. all in the
county of Devon. He m. Mary daugh-
ter and heir of John Periam, esq. of
Creedy-Widger, near Crediton, who
was brother of Sir William Periam,
lord chief baron of the exchequer.
Inquisition post mortem, taken at

the Reynell family, makes two more descents than are here given, but we follow the pedigrees which are in possession of various branches of the family in the details we have now furnished.

Crediton, 7th January, 7 CHARLES I. | Devon, de jure, by Margaret, sole daughter He died 25th April, 1631, leaving and heiress of Sir William Waller, by Jane, issue, sole daughter and heiress of Sir Richard Reynell, of Ford. With his grandson, Giles Reynell, esq. of Malston, who d. s. p. in 1735, ended the line of Reynell, of Malston; the estate was sold in 1729.

1. Periam, aged 18 years, 4 months, 14 days, in 1631,* who d. s. p. 1639, aged 27. Inquisition post mortem, taken at Exeter, 3rd October, 15 CHARLES I.

2. Borough, d. s. p. before his brother.

1. Mary, m. her kinsman Richard Reynell, of West Ogwell, esq. their son Thomas Reynell, aged 15 years, and 20 days, 1639. 2. Elizabeth, m. Thomas Tuckfield, of Fulford, esq. John Tuckfield, their son, aged 15 years, and 7 months, and 12 days.

3. Sarah, m. Robert Duke, esq. of Otterton.

4. Rebecca, m. Rev. Mr. Hall, Rector of Saint Peter's Exeter. 5. Deborah, m. James Huyshe, esq. of Sand in Sidbury. 6. Juell, d. unm.

7. Trippœna, m. Sir John Davie, baronet, to whom she brought Creedy, and by whom she had

issue one son,

Sir John Davie baronet, who d. unm.

1. Elizabeth, m. Humphrey Burrough, esq. of Broadcliff.

**A member of the Malston branch of the family migrated from Devonshire into Ireland, at the beginning of the seventeenth century, and became the founder of two families which were long seated at CastleReynell, and Reynella, both in the county of Westmeath. The former, extinct in the male line, is represented by Barbara, Countess of Donoughmore, who was dau. and coheiress of the late lieutenant-colonel William Reynell, of Castle Reynell, by Jane, dau. of Sir William Montgomery, bart. The Reynella family is also represented by a female, viz. the only dau. of the late Richard-Molesworth Reynell, esq. of Reynella, by Catharine, daughter of the Hon. Ponsonby Moore, brother of the first Marquis of Drogheda. Of this latter family, however, there are several branches, the two chief of which are represented by COOKE REYNELL, esq. of Woodfort, in the county of Westmeath, and RICHARD-WINTER REYNELL, esq. of Killynon, in the same county.

The arms of this Irish branch of the Reynell family are the same as those of the

11. Alice, m. John Beare, esq. of Beares-Reynells, of Ogwell.

court.

III. Jane, m. John Fountaine, esq. of Stokenham.

The eldest son,

EDMUND REYNELL, esq. of Malston, m. Anne, daughter of Lewis Hatch, esq. of Allar, in the county of Devon, and had issue.

1. George, his successor.

11. Edmund, m. Mary, daughter of Hugh Fortescue, esq. and had issue, Hugh, Edward, John, and Jane.

III. Nicholas, m. Mary, daughter of
Lockington, esq. of Washbourne.
IV. Alice, m. John Bastard, esq. of
Gorson.

v. Elizabeth, m. Roger Speccott, esq. of Thornborough. He d. in 1609, and was s. by his son,

GEORGE REYNELL, esq. of Malston, m. Rebecca, daughter and heir of Hugh Fortescue, esq. of Weare, and was father, interalios, of a son and successor,

EDMUND REYNELL, esq. of Malston, born 1606, who m. Jane-Margaret, daughter of Sir William Courtenay, bart. fourth Earl of

* Wardship of Periam Reynell granted to her mother, Mary Reynell, of Credy-Widger, widow, for £550, 7 CHARLES I. (1631-2.) Court of Wards and Liveries, Records ChapterHouse Westminster.

Reynell, of Newton Abbott.

JOHN REYNELL, esq. (third son of John Reynell, of East Ogwell, by Margaret, daughter of William Fortescue, esq. of Wood) was born in 1524, and inherited from his father property in Newton Abbott, in the county of Devon, where he settled and became the founder of the family of Reynell, of Newton Abbott, which continued to reside there till the close of the last century. He m. Alice, daughter of Thomas Lowman, esq. of Honington, in the county successor, of Devon, and by her had issue, a son and

RICHARD REYNELL, esq. of Newton Abbott, born in 1550, who died 10th October, 1610. By his wife, Margery, he left a son and successor,

by

JOHN REYNELL, esq. of Newton Abbot, b. in 1579, who d. s. p. in 1639, and was s. his brother,

HENRY REYNELL, esq. of Newton Abbot, b. 1581, who d. 1641. By his wife, Lucy, he had a daughter, Anne, b. 1614, and d. 1631, and a son and successor,

RICHARD REYNELL, esq. of Newton Abbot, b. 1617, who m. Mary, daughter of Thomas Harris, esq. of Ashburton, in May, 1641,

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1. Rebecca, b. in 1706, d. unm. in 1771. 11. Susanna, b. in 1707, d. unm. in 1783. The elder son,

THOMAS REYNELL, esq. of Newton Abbot, b. 1714, m. 1734, Jane, daughter of the Rev. William Lux, vicar of Kenton, in the county of Devon, and dying 26th March, 1776, left, with other children who d. unm. two sons, JOHN, his heir, and Thomas, b. 3rd May, 1749, who m. Joanna, daughter of Mardon, esq. of Exeter, and d. March, 1819, leaving issue one daughter.+

The son and successor,

The REV. JOHN REYNELL, of Newton Abbot, b. 30th October, 1736, settled as pastor of a presbyterian church first at Plymouth, and afterwards at Thorverton, near Exeter. By his wife, Mary, sole daughter and heiress of Edward Richards, of Upex, near Exeter, whom he married 16th June, 1763, he became possessed of estates at Upex, and the family at that time sold their property and abandoned their residence at Newton Abbot. He d. in September, 1800, leaving issue,

I. JOHN, his successor.

11. WILLIAM-RICHARDS, the present representative of this branch.

III. Thomas, in holy orders, b. at Ply

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A sermon preached on occasion of her death, containing a very interesting description of her life and character, by Isaac Gilling, minister of the gospel in Newton Abbot, Devon," was afterwards published.

Elizabeth-Lux, b. in 1793, m. in 1811, to Michael-Cato de Castro, esq. M.D. formerly physician to the British forces at Lisbon, and has issue, Henry-Reynell de Castro and others.

The family of the Wrefords, now become numerous in Devonshire, are known to have resided

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mouth, 26th October, 1768, for a short time pastor of a presbyterian church, at Crediton, Devon. He d. unm. 19th December, 1830.

IV. Richard, b. 25th December, 1770. Now British viceconsul at Syracuse. v. Edward, b. in 1775, d. in 1806, unm. VI. Henry, b. at Plymouth, 7th November, 1777, m. in 1804, Lydia, daughter of - Fagg, esq. and near relative of Sir John Fagg, bart. He died 1st January, 1823, and had issue, Henry, late midshipman in the Hon. East India Company's service, b. at Bristol, 10th April, 1807, m. in 1833, and resides at Calcutta.

John, b. 9th February, 1809.
Alfred, b. 22nd May, 1815.
Emily.

Marianne, m. in 1832, to Mr. Wil-
liam Carter, and has issue.
Caroline, m. the Rev. John Johns,
pastor of a presbyterian church,
at Crediton, and has issue, Rey-
nell-Eveleigh, and Alethe.

Julia.

VII. James, b. 2nd May, 1782. VIII. Mary, b. 21st March, 1773, m. 30th October, 1797, to Richard-Vickery Wreford, esq. youngest son of John Wreford, esq. of Cleaveanger, in the county of Devon. She d. 23rd November, 1826, having had issue, Rev. John-Reynell Wreford, one of the pastors of the presbyterian church, assembling in the new meeting house, Birmingham. He m. Harriet, third surviving daughter of the Rev. Charles Wellbeloved of York, (see that family, vol. iii. p. 665,) and has issue,

1. Charles-Reynell Wreford, b. in 1828.

2. John Kenrick - Reynell Wreford.

William - Ellicombe Wreford, m. Martha, third daughter of Mr. W. Y. Sheppard, of Bristol, and has issue,

on their own estates in that county for nearly three centuries. The oldest estate in the family is Middlecote, situated in the parish of Morchard Bishops, whence they removed to Clannaborough, towards the close of the seventeenth century. There are several estates in Devon, possessed by faorigin from the Clannaborough family. milies of the name of Wreford, who derive their Cleaveanger family emerged from Clannaborough at the early part of the eighteenth century. The Cleaveanger estate is in the parish of NymetRowland, near Chumleigh.

The

Reynell Wreford.
William-Henry Wreford.
Mary-Reynell Wreford.
Rev. Henry William - Gardiner
Wreford, pastor of the presby-
terian church, assembling in the
great meeting house, Coventry,
m. Mary, youngest daughter of
Jeremiah Ridout, esq. of Edg-
baston, near Birmingham, and
has issue,

Laura-Reynell Wreford.

Laleham and Shepperton, both in the county
of Middlesex, to his grandsons, Thomas and
Henry Reynell. Sir Thomas Reynell d. at
Laleham, May, 1665, aged seventy-seven.
A portrait of this gentleman, of his lady, and
of her father, Sir Henry Spiller, by Van-
dyck, are now in possession of the present
representative of this branch of the family,
at Tor, near Torquay, Devon. Sir Thomas
Reynell was buried in a vault under the
altar of the parish church of Shepperton,
where all his descendants through his se-

Charles-James Wreford, midship-cond son, including the late Mr. Reynell, of
man in the Hon. East India Leatherhead, lie interred. Sir Thomas left
Company's service, lost at sea, issue,
April, 1828.

Mary-Reynell Wreford.
Elizabeth-Morell Wreford.

IX. Elizabeth, b. in 1779, m. 5th Au-
gust, 1812, to the Rev. John Morell,
LL.D. pastor of a presbyterian church,
successively at Enfield, Daventry,
and Brighton, and the author of nu-
merous publications. He has had
issue,

1. John-Reynell Morell.

2. Elizabeth Morell, deceased.
3. Charlotte Morell.

The eldest son,

JOHN REYNELL, esq. succeeded his father, the Rev. John Reynell, in 1800, but dying unm. in 1826, in the sixty-first year of his age, he was s. by his brother,

WILLIAM-RICHARDS REYNELL, esq. now of Clifton, in the county of Gloucester, the present representative of this branch of the family. He was born 11th January, 1767, the nineteenth, or according to Pole, twentyfirst in descent from the first Sir Richard Reynell. He possesses landed property in Clifton, and at Bath.

Arms-Masonry, argent and sable, a chief indented of the second.

Crest-A fox passant, or.
Motto-Murus aheneus esto.

Reynell, of Laleham and Shepperton.

SIR THOMAS REYNELL, knt. second son of Sir Thomas Reynell, knt. of West Ogwell, by Frances, daughter of John Aylworth, esq. was born A.D. 1588. He was a member of the Middle Temple, and sewer of honour in ordinary to CHARLES I. whom he accompanied during almost the whole period of the civil wars. He was knighted by that monarch 15th September, 1625, on the occasion of that monarch visiting his uncle, Sir Richard Reynell, at Ford House. He m. Katherine, sole daughter and heiress of Sir Henry Spiller, of Laleham, in the county of Middlesex. Sir Henry Spiller, dying 18th April, 1649, left his two manors of

THOMAS, his successor.

HENRY, who s. his brother.

Frances, m. Francis Hippesley, esq.
Katherine, m. Peter Dutton, of Hatton,
esq. in the county of Chester.
Dorothy, m. Roger Gardiner, esq. of
White Waltham, in the county of
Berks.

THOMAS REYNELL, esq. of Laleham, son and heir of Sir Thomas Reynell, was b. in 1648. He m. Anne, daughter and co-heiress of Charles Balam, esq. of Cambridge, He d. 9th January, 1670, and was buried at Laleham. He left issue, one only daughter. ELIZABETH, who inherited Laleham,

and was m. to her kinsman, Sir Richard Reynell, second baronet of the Irish creation of 1678, and son and heir of Sir Richard Reynell, bart. lord chief justice of Ireland. By this gentleman she was mother of the third baronet, Sir Thomas Reynell, and great-grandmother of the present and sixth baronet, Major General Sir THOMAS REYNELL, K.C.B. (See BURKE's Peerage and Baronetage.) Lady Reynell d. 2nd April, 1706, aged thirty-nine, and was buried at Laleham with her father. Her husband likewise, who d. in June, 1723, was buried at Laleham. Mr. Reynell leaving no male issue, was s. by his brother,

HENRY REYNELL, esq. of Shepperton, who took the name of SPILLER in addition to and after his patronymic. This gentleman was an eminent lawyer. He m. Elizabeth, dau. of Basil Brent, esq. of Hanslope Park, in the county of Berks. He d. 24th February, 1715, aged eighty-one, and was s. by his only son,

BRENT-REYNELL SPILLER, esq. of Shepperton, who m. Mary, daughter and coheiress of William Hockmore, of BucklandBaron, in the county of Devon, and d. 15th April, 1736, when he was s. by his son,

HENRY REYNELL, esq. of Shepperton, who on disposing of the Spiller estates, dropped the use of that name. He m. Anne-Eliza

beth, daughter of Zouch Troughton, esq. Both d. in 1762, leaving

HENRY, who succeeded.

Mary, m. James Doran, esq. and d. s. p. Elizabeth-Marquess, m. William Gould, esq. and d. s. p.

Mr. Reynell was s. by his only son,

HENRY REYNELL, esq. of Leatherhead, in the county of Surrey. He m. Hester, dau. of John Bowman, esq. and d. in December, 1824, leaving issue, one daughter, his heiress.

CAROLINE-HESTER. This lady m. in
April, 1821, the Rev. David Williams,
second son of the late Rev. Thomas
Williams, vicar of Langammarch, in

the county of Brecon. On his marriage with Miss Reynell, Mr. Williams took the name and arms of Reynell in addition to his own. On the death of Mr. Reynell, of Leatherhead, his son-in-law and daughter inherited the manor of Buckland-Baron, alias Netherton, in the parish of Combein-teign-head, in the county of Devon; and the manors of North Bower and East Chilton, with part of the manor of Wembdon, in the county of Somerset. Their residence is at Tor, near Torquay, in the county of Devon.

CHADWICK, OF SWINTON HALL.

CHADWICK, ELIAS, esq. of Swinton Hall, in the county of Lancaster, b. 6th January, 1813, succeeded his father in January, 1834.

Mr. Chadwick is an Honorary Master of Arts of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

Lineage.

This family springs originally from the hamlet of Chadwick, in the parish of Rochdale, situated at the southern extremity of Spotland, bounded eastward by the Spodden, and southward by the Roche. William de Chadwyke, the first of the name on record, was born about the year 1355, as he was living in 1413, being then styled senior, and having a son, William, of age. William de Chadwyke, son of William de Chadwyke, senior, had a grant from Adam de Bamford in 1413, of certain lands from Adam de Bamford. His descendant,

JOHN DE CHADWYK, son of Nicholas de Chadwyk, by Maud, his wife, daughter and heir of Thomas de Paris, died in the lifetime of his elder brother Robert, in, or about the year 1445, leaving three sons, namely,

HENRY, his heir, of Chadwyk, living, 25th March, 1470; ancestor of the CHADWICKS Of Chadwick. JONATHAN

CHADWICK, M.D. of Chadwick, aged forty-five, 9th September, 1664; m. first, Maria, daughter of Thomas Chetham, esq. of Nuthurst, in Lancashire; and secondly, Catherine, daughter of his kinsman, Colonel Lewis Chadwicke, of Mavesyn Ridware, in Staffordshire, and widow of Lieutenant-Colonel John Chadwick, of Healey Hall. Dr. Chadwick left issue only by his first wife,

JOHN, M.A. b. in 1649, of Chadwick Hall, died s. p.

JONATHAN, M.A. of Chadwick Hall, died s. P.

WILLIAM, M.A. of Chadwick Hall, died s. p..

SARAH, who inherited the estate of Chadwick after the death of her youngest brother. She died unmarried in 1722, having bequeathed her lands to her maternal relative, the Rev. Roger Kay, by whom they were left in charity to the school of Bury. JORDAN, who held lands in the township of Spotland, temp. HENRY VI., ancestor of the Chadwykes of Healey Hall, in Lancashire. The representative of that line,

JOHN CHADWICKE, esq. of Healey Hall, m. his relative Katherine, only surviving daughter and heir of Lewis Chadwicke, esq. of Mavesyn Ridware, and from this marriage descends the present HUGO-MALVEYSIN CHADWICK esq. of Mavesyn Ridware, in

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