Worsley over the river Irwell, at Barton Bridge, to convey coals from his mines to Manchester. The family we are now treating of branched off about the year 1307, in the reign of EDWARD II. and are still in receipt of quit and chief rents over the townships of Worsley, Bedford, Astley, &c. in Lancashire; the remaining branch of the family continued lords of Worsley Hall, in the said county, till the 3rd of HENRY VIII. (1512) when Sir James Worsley, of Worsley Hall, married the heiress of Appuldercombe, in the Isle of Wight; Richard, their descendant, was created a baronet by JAMES I. in 1611, whose descendant, the late Sir Richard Worsley, bart. of Appuldercombe Park, died intestate, and without issue, in the year 1805; when the baronetage devolved on his kinsman, the Rev. Sir Henry Worsley Holmes, whose son, Sir LeonardThomas-Worsley Holmes, was the last baronet. The Appuldercombe estate vested in Miss Bridgman Simpson, who became the wife of the present Lord Yarborough, but is since dead, and his lordship enjoys

the estate.

The family before us has been traced down by regular descent from the time of the conquest, and has at various times been connected with many houses of distinction.

The immediate ancestor of the present possessor of Hovingham,

THOMAS WORSLEY, esq. of Hovingham Hall, m. Mary, daughter of Henry Arthington, esq. of Arthington Hall, in the county of York, and was s. by his son,

THOMAS WORSLEY, esq. who m. in 1710, Mary, eldest daughter of Sir Robert Frankland, bart. of Thirkleby Park, in the county of York, and was s. by his son,

THOMAS WORSLEY, esq. who m. in 1735, Anne, dau. of Sir William Robinson, bart. of Newby Park, in the county of York, and had several children, most of whom died young: Frances, the third daughter, m. Sir Thomas Robinson, (eldest son of the said Sir William Robinson,) who was created BARONGRANTHAM, and Mary, another daughter, m. M. Constable, esq. of Wassand, in the county of York. The eldest son and

successor,

THOMAS WORSLEY, esq. of Hovingham, was for many years member of parliament for the borough of Caln, and was a distinguished cultivator and patron of literature and the arts. He held the office of surveyor general of the Board of Works, under the auspices of his majesty, GEORGE III. from whom he received many flattering marks of royal favour. The family mansion house at Hovingham was designed and built by this gentleman, and was enriched by him with an extensive library of classical and scientific books, together with a fine collec

tion of pictures and various other works of art. He m. Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. J. Lister, and had issue several children, Frances, (unmarried) being the only one now surviving. Of the sons,

EDWARD, succeeded his father.
George, in holy orders, M.A. of Trinity
College, Cambridge, rector of Stone-
grave and Scawton, in the North
Riding of Yorkshire, m. Anne, fourth
daughter of Sir Thomas Cayley, bart.
of Brompton, in that county, and d.
in 1815, having had issue,
1. George,

2. Edward,

} deceased.

3. WILLIAM, heir to his uncle. 4. Marcus, m. Harriet, daughter of Hamer, esq. lieutenant

R. N. of Conyngham Hall, in the county of York, and has issue.

5. Thomas, in holy orders, M.A. F. C.G.S. master of Downing College, Cambridge, and rector of Scawton, in the county of York.

6. Frederick-Cayley.

7. Septimus-Lancelot, M.A. University of Cambridge.

8. Henry-Francis, m. Catherine, daughter of B. Blackden, esq. and has issue.

9. Charles-Valentine, barrister-atlaw.

10. Arthur, lieutenant 51st regiment of native infantry in India. 11. Digby-Edmond.

1. Isabella, m. to J. C. Blackden, esq. who has issue several children.

2. Philadelphia, m. to William J. Coltman, esq. M.A. in the University of Oxford.

Normandy, but quitting that party he was reconciled to his sovereign, and d. in 1121 without issue, when he was s. by his brother, WILLIAM GOUEL DE PERCEVAL, surnamed Lupellus, or the Little Wolf; he held the Norman and English estates, and bore the title of Earl of Yvery. Taking part with the Empress Maud, he was in a continual state of warfare with the Barons against STEPHEN. He m. Auberie, sister to Waleran de Bellemonte, Earl of Mellent, in Normandy, daughter of Robert, Earl of Mellent, by his his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Hugh, the Great Earl of Vermandois, brother to Philip, and son to Henry I. King of France. The issue of this marriage were,

1. WALERAN, ancestor to the Barons of Yvery, in Normandy, whose male line terminated in 1421.

11. Ralph, (who assumed his father's nickname of Lupellus,) Baron of Karry, died s. p.

III. Henry, surnamed Lupellus, s. to his brother, Ralph, as Baron of Karry. He was ancestor of that line, which became EXTINCT in 1351." IV. William, also surnamed Lupellus, ancestor to the Barons Luvel, of Dockings, Minster Luvel, and Tichmersh, Viscount Luvel, and Barons Morley, whose male line expired in 1487. v. RICHARD, surnamed de Perceval. William Gouel de Perceval died between 1153 and 1158. His youngest son,

Robert, Baron Perceval, in Ireland, Lord of Eastbury, Carhampton, Watton, Correville, and Lindbays, in Somerset; being nearly related to Strongbow, Earl of Pembroke, (Sir Richard de Perceval was grandson to Auberie de Bellomonte, daughter of Robert, Earl of Mellent, and aunt to the said Earl of Pembroke, who was son to her sister Elizabeth de Bellomonte, by Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Pembroke, her husband,) was early engaged in the expedition to Ireland, although there is no positive mention of him in that kingdom before 1261, (Annal O'Dempsie, fol. 364,) when he sailed thither with Richard de Marle, Stephen de Borgo, and near two hundred other knights, where he behaved with so much valour, that he acquired great possessions, and seated himself wholly in that kingdom, making over to his brothers, Hugh and John, all his lands in the county of Somerset.

Having thus deserved so well of that state, he received summons to the parliament held at Dublin, 1285, (ex Rot. claus. Hiberniæ,) and left issue,

SIR RICHARD DE PERCEVAL, knt. Lord of Stawell, half of Bodecombe and Eastbury, in the county of Somerset, was a distinguished commander in the holy wars. He m. a daughter of Willam de Mohun, Lord of Dunster, and had issue,

1. Robert de Perceval, his heir.
II. Hamelin de Perceval, d. s. p.
III. Richard de Perceval.

Sir Richard de Perceval d. about 1202, and was s. by his eldest son,

&c. who died without issue, ante 9th EDWARD ROBERT DE PERCEVAL, Lord of Eastbury, I. and was s. by his youngest brother,

RICHARD DE PERCEVAL, who was in the holy wars with his father, and died, leaving

issue,

rolls of the Magnates Hiberniæ his name is found, and in the 30th EDWARD I., A.D. 1301, he received letters from the king of England, requiring his attendance in the Scottish wars, and again soon after a letter of credence was sent in behalf of Geoffry Geymull, and John Wogan, the king's justitiary in Ireland, requiring him to confide in those persons, and referring him, as to his conduct as to that expedition, to the verbal instructions which they were ordered to give him.

He m. Grace, daughter of Thomas Fitz Maurice, first Baron of Kerry and Lixnaw, in Ireland, (she was nearly related to him, being descended from Basil de Clare, sister to the Earl of Pembroke before mentioned, and wife of Raymond Le Gross, father of Morris Fitz Raymond, father of Thomas Fitz Maurice, father of this lady,) and had issue, Thomas, his heir.

But engaging in battle with the Irish, he was unfortunately slain with William de Welleslie, the 22nd October, 1303, and was buried in the priory of Youghall,' to which he was a great benefactor, and was s. by his son,

THOMAS, fourth Baron Perceval, of Ireland, who dying A.D. 1322, the 15th EDWARD II. the title of baron extinguished in this line, and was not revived until near four hundred years afterwards, in the first Earl of Egmont.

Father Cling, in a manuscript in the library of the Duke of Chandos, gives a great account of him.

11. John de Perceval, also surnamed de Watton, d. s. p. 1285.

III. Sir Richard de Perceval, surnamed de Correville, whose male line terminated in 1485.

John de Perceval d. before 7th King EDWARD I. and was s. by his eldest son,

ROGER PERCEVAL, Lord of Eastbury, Bodecombe, &c. summoned to parliament in England, 24th EDWARD I. as a baron. He m. Joan, daughter and sole heir of Sir John de Breteche, Lord of Carhampton, Trobbeville, Bodecombe, &c. in the county of Somerset, and having been a participator in the Scottish wars, d. in 1287, and was s. by his son,

SIR JOHN PERCEVAL, Lord of Eastbury, Bodecombe, Carhampton, Trobbeville, part of the manor of Weston, in Gordano, &c. He m. Milicent, daughter and sole heir of Laurence de Sancto Mauro, and had issue,

I. JOHN, his heir.

II. WALTER, who s. his brother. Sir John Perceval d. about 1339, and was s. by his eldest son,

JOHN PERCEVAL, who d. s. p. before the 20th EDWARD III. (1345), and was s. by his brother,

SIR WALTER PERCEVAL, kut. Lord of Eastbury, &c. knighted on the field of Cressy, by EDWARD III. He m. Alice, daughter and heir of William de Acton, and had issue, 1. JOHN, his heir.

II. RALPH, Succeeded his brother.
III. John (Sir), knt. who forfeited his
lands in the county of Glamorgan, in
the reign of RICHARD II.

Sir Walter d. before 1349, and was s. by his

son,

JOHN PERCEVAL, who had a son that does not appear to have succeeded him, for John Perceval was succeeded in his estates, before 50th EDWARD III. by his brother,

SIR RALPH PERCEVAL, knt. Lord of Eastbury, &c. who m. Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of John de Wyke, and had issue, 1. JOHN, his heir.

II. RICHARD, heir to his brother.
III. Walter.

Sir Ralph d. 1403, aged fifty-four, and was s. by his eldest son,

SIR JOHN PERCEVAL, Lord of Eastbury, Weston, &c. died before the 8th of HENRY V. 1420, s. p. and was s. by his brother,

SIR RICHARD PERCEVAL, Lord of Eastbury, Weston, &c. m. Agnes, daughter of Sir Richard Arthur, of Clopton, in the county of Somerset, and had issue,

1. JOHN, his heir, d. s. p. 1439.
11. Ralph de Weston, senior, s. his bro-
ther John, and was ancestor to the
PERCEVALS OF WESTON, in Gordano,
in the county of Somerset, which fa-
mily became extinct in the male line
in 1691.

III. Ralph de Weston, junr. Sir Richard Perceval died between 1433 and 1439. The youngest son,

RALPH PERCEVAL, de Weston, junior, Lord of Tykenham, Rolleston, &c. in the county of Somerset, m. a daughter of Richard Vincent, Lord of Rolleston, and had issue,

1. Edmund, who is mentioned in an entry of this family in the heralds office, in Dublin, but he d. s. p.

II. THOMAS, his heir.

Ralph Perceval de Weston, junior, was killed at the battle of Bosworth, 22nd August, 1485, and was s. by his youngest son,

THOMAS PERCEVAL, Lord Tykenham, &c. who m. Alice, only daughter of William, and sister, and at length heir, of John Cave, of Sydenham, in the county of Somerset, and was s. by an only son,

DAVID PERCEVAL, Lord of Tykenham, Rolleston, Sydenham, &c. who m. Alice, daughter of Thomas, sister and heir of John Bythemore, Lord of Overwere, Nailsay, Batilborough, &c. which marriage brought an alliance with most of the sovereign houses of Europe. He had issue,

1. James, b. 30th Nov. 1531, who s. his father, and d. s. p. 24th March, 1548. 11. GEORGE, a twin with his brother James, whom he succeeded. He was ancestor of the Earls of Egmont, the Barons Arden, the family of Templehouse, in the county of Sligo,* Doctor Robert Perceval, of Dublin, and the Percevals of Maryborough, Queen's county, &c.

III. THOMAS. David Perceval died 5th December, 1534. The youngest son,

THOMAS PERCEVAL, b. about 1532, or 3, for in this latter year his mother was dead, left by Catherine, his wife, a son,

THOMAS PERCEVAL, his successor, who was father of

JOHN PERCEVAL, of the county of Somerset, who having married in Bristol, removed to Dublin about 1595, and had issue, 1. RICHARD.t

The chief of the Sligo branch is the present ALEXANDER PERCEVAL, esq. of Temple House, M.P. for the county, and lieutenant-colonel of the Sligo militia. His father, the late representative of the family, m. a daughter of Alexander Carroll, esq. of Dublin, and his grandfather m. Miss Carlton, eldest dau. and co heir of Guy Carlton, esq. elder brother of the first Lord Dorchester.

+ This RICHARD PERCEVAL, born in Dublin, who was a freeman of Drogheda, removing to England, settled at Manchester, and in 1625, sold an estate of his father's near Bristol, for £3,000, above all incumbrances. He m. Alice, daughter of Baskerville, of Dublin, and had issue,

1. ROBERT, who went on the Jamaica attack in Oliver Cromwell's time.

II. JOHN, of Dublin. The second son,

JOHN PERCEVAL, of Dublin, who removed from the county of Somerset to Dublin in 1595, is the head of the next branch; but the state of disturbance at that period, with very imperfect or no registries, and the loss of family papers, render it impossible now to ascertain into what families this gentleman and his two successors married, nothing but the christian names of their wives being known. This John Perceval left by Katharine, his wife, one son and one daughter, JOHN, his heir.

Anne, m. to Richard Wigget, mayor

II. Richard, merchant, and alderman of Li-
verpool, from whom descended,
1. Richard, of Liverpool,
2. John, of Wigan,
3. Samuel, of Latham,

living in 1762, who are the only male descendants of Richard Perceval, of Manchester: the two latter had issue in 1762,

III. THOMAS. Richard Perceval being a captain in Colonel Hebland's regiment, and Manchester then sustaining a siege by the king's troops, he was sent out with a message, and was killed by Lord Strange, afterwards Earl of Derby. His youngest

son,

THOMAS PERCEVAL, esq. married about the year 1647, Jane, daughter and co-heir of Edward Shepheard, (and he must have made a second marriage, as in his will his wife is called Hannah). He bought Royton estate, Lancashire, about 1663. It appears by a document (dated 12th July, 1690, at Kilcullen camp,) now hanging in the mayor's office, in Drogheda, that King WILLIAM III. appointed Thomas Perceval an alderman of that corporation; he had issue,

1. Thomas, d. s. p.
II. RICHARD, his heir.
I. Edward, d. s. p.
IV. William, d. s. p.

1. Jane, wife of Mr. Gilliam, of Manchester, had issue,

Jane Gilliam, wife of John Greaves, of
Kilcheth, who had issue,
Edward Greaves.

1. Hannah.

buried in the crypt of St. Michael's church, Bristol, having had issue, Thomas, bapt. 22nd June, 1722, d. s. p.

Richard, bapt. 20th May, 1724, d. s. p.

Anne, bapt. 21st September, 1727, buried 1727.

Elizabeth, who took out letters of administration to her father's property as only child, 21st July, 1764, in Prerogative, London, and shortly after became the second wife of the Rev. Edward Lockwood, of Dews Hall, in the county of Essex. She died suddenly and intestate, without issue, 14th June, 1770, having intended to leave her large property to Edward Lockwood, esq. of Bishops Hall, Romford, Essex, second son of her husband, by Lucy, daughter and heir of the Rev. William Dowdeswell, of Kingham, on his assuming the surname of Perceval. She was buried with her father.

2. Samuel Perceval, of Clifton, m. Grace, sister and heiress of Sir

III. Elizabeth.

Thomas Perceval's will is dated 23rd April, 1702, and was proved in prerogative, Dublin, 1705. He was succeeded by his second son,

RICHARD PERCEVAL, esq. of Royton, in Lancashire, who was baptized at Drogheda, 20th January, 1675. He m. in 1692, Katharine, daughter of Thomas Norris, esq. of Speke, Lancashire, father of Lady Sidney Beauclerk, by Katharine, daughter of Sir Henry Garroway, knt. of London, and had issue,

1. Thomas, d. unm. II. WILLIAM, his heir. III. John, d. unm.

IV. Richard, d. unm.

Richard Perceval was s. by his second son,

WILLIAM PERCEVAL, esq. of Royton, who m. in 1716, Dorothy, daughter of Thomas Kenyon, (of Lord Kenyon's family,) of Salford, attorney-atlaw, by Katharine, daughter and heiress of Luke Lloyd, esq. of Bryn, and had issue,

1. THOMAS, his heir.

11. Nathaniel, d. aged thirteen. William Perceval, died 1721, and was s. by his eldest son,

THOMAS PERCEVAL, esq. of Royton, born 1719, living in 1762, who m. Martha, (who d. in 1760,) daughter of Major Benjamin Gregg, of Chamber Hall, by his wife, daughter of John Gill, esq. of Carr House, and had issue, an only child,

KATHARINE PERCEVAL, born in 1740, who m. in 1763, Joseph Pickford, esq. who assumed by royal permission, 19th December, 1795, the surname and arms of Radcliffe only, and was created a baronet the 2nd November, 1813.