WILLIAM, his heir.
David, of Chepstow, in the county of
Monmouth, father of two sons, viz.
HENRY, of Middleton, in Lanca-
shire, ancestor of the LORDS RA-
NELAGH. (Refer to BURKE's Peer-
age and Baronetage.)
RICHARD, of Claypit, in Monmouth-
shire, ancestor of the JONES'S,
now represented by SIR FRANCIS
BURDETT, bart.

Morgan, of Crosland, who left issue.
Richard, of the county of Pembroke.
Walter, of Mouleswood.

The eldest son and heir,

WILLIAM AP JOHN, alias JONES, who is styled in deeds between the years 1570 and 1600, lord of the manors of Hendre Obeth, Castle Arnold, Llanarth and Cefndugloid, m. first, Constance, daughter of Thomas Morgan, esq. and sister of Rowland Morgan, esq. of Machen, and by that lady had issue, JOHN, his heir. William.

Charles.

Walter.

Mr. Jones m. secondly, Anne, daughter of Sir Walter Hawley, knt. of Sussex, and by her had,

Philip, of London, and Llanarth, m. Joan, daughter of, but d. s. p. in 1603.

John.

Elizabeth.

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He m. thirdly, Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Herbert, esq. of Penkelly, and had another son and daughter, namely, William, whose great grandsons, William Jones, and were living Jeremy Jones, in 1633. Blanch, m. to Rowland Morgan, esq. of Machen, and conveyed the estate of Castle Arnold to the Morgans. He was s. by his eldest son,

John Jones, esq. of Treowen, living in 1563, and dead before 1609, m. Anne, dau. of Giles Doddington, esq. of the county of Somerset, and had issue,

WILLIAM, his heir.

Florence, m. to Edward Points, esq.
Jane.

Elizabeth, m. to Sir Charles Jones, of
Dingestow, in Monmouthshire.
His son and heir,

WILLIAM JONES, esq. of Treowen, Hendre, Obeth and Llanarth, m. Jane, only daughter and heir of Moor Gwillim, esq. of Monmouth, M.P. for that borough, in 1586, and had issue,

PHILIP (Sir), his successor.
John, of Treveldre in 1630, m. Anne,
daughter of Philip Nicholas, esq. of
Llanpult.

Moor, of Campson, in the county of
Monmouth, d. s. p.

Frances, } Anne, d. unm. Mary,

He was s. at his decease by his eldest son,

JOHN JONES, esq. of Llanarth Court, Treowen, and Penllwyn, in the county of Monmouth, lord of the manors of Llanarth, Hendre Obeth, Treowen, Cefn, Dugloid, and Rogerstone, in the same county,m. Florence, sister and heir of Henry Morgan, esq. of Penllwyn, (a branch of the Morgans of Tredegar,) by whom (who d. in December, 1755, and was buried in the chancel of Llanarth,) he had issue,

1. PHILIP, his successor.

11. Edmund, d. unm. at Douay, aged
nineteen.

111. John major in the Hanoverian ser-
vice, b. at Llanarth in 1728, died at
Clytha Cottage, in May, 1803, unm.
and was buried at Llanarth.
IV. WILLIAM, of Clytha House, in the
county of Monmouth, which he pur-
chased from his brother-in-law, Ri-
chard Lee, esq. b. at Llanarth, 20th
February, 1733-4, m. in the parish of
Mary-la-Bonne, 6th July, 1767, Eli-
zabeth, daughter of Sir William

* THOMAS BASSETT, esq. of Beaupre, in the county of Glamorgan, ("descended from Thurston de Bassett, of a noble family in Normandy, who came over with William the Conqueror, was his grand falconer, and his name appears on Battle Abbey roll; his son, Sir John Bassett, knt. came in 1093, to Sir Robert Fitzhamon, and was his first chancellor and vice comes in Glamorganshire. Fitzhamon bestowed upon him the lordship of St. Hilary, in which Beaupre is situated,") left two sons, the elder his successor at Beaupre, the second,

RICHARD BASSETT, esq. was father of

Morgan, K.B. (by lady Rachael Cavendish, his wife, daughter of William Duke of Devonshire,) but died s. p. in London, in 1805, buried at Llanarth. Mr. William Jones was engaged several years at law with the Morgans of Tredegar, respecting the Tredegar estate, which he claimed in right of his wife, but the suit terminated against him. He settled all his estates by will on the third son of his nephew, Mr. Jones, of Llanarth, who now enjoys them, as WILLIAM JONES, esq. of Clytha.

v. Henry,

vi. Edward, both d. young.

1. Mary, b. in 1731, m. in 1768, to Richard Lee, esq. lord of the manor of Great Delce, near Rochester, in Kent, of Clytha House in Monmouthshire, (which he sold to his brother-in-law Mr. William Jones) and afterwards of Llanfoist House near Abergavenny, by whom (who d. at Pisa, in 1829,) she had three daughters, coheirs, viz.

MARY LEE, m. to JOHN JONES, esq. of Llanarth Court.

ELIZABETH LEE d. unm. aged fiftynine.

APPOLONIA LEE, m. in 1792, to

Robert Berkeley, esq. of Spetchley, in the county of Worcester. II. Anne, d. unm. in July, 1781. II. Elizabeth, a nun at Louvaine. IV. Florence, d. unm. in 1817. v. Jane, d. unm. in 1821.

Mr. Jones d. in March, 1775, aged eightyeight, was buried in the chancel of Llanarth Church, and s. by his eldest son,

PHILIP JONES, esq. of Llanarth Court, b. in 1723, lord of the manors held by his father, with those beside of Popinbury, Tawdley, &c. in Kent, and of Upton Court, in Berks, which he obtained with his wife, Catherine, youngest sister and co-heir of John Wyborne,+ esq. of Hawkwell Place, in Kent. In 1771, Mr. Jones, in conjunction with Robert Berkeley, esq. of Spetchley, procured an act of parliament enabling him

ANTHONY BASSETT, of Kamain, in the county of Glamorgan, b. in London, m. Anne, daughter of Robert Berry, esq. by Catherine, relict of Sir Robert Howard, K.B. son of the Earl of Suffolk, and daughter of Henry Neville, Lord of Abergavenny, by whom he left at his decease in 1586-7, an only daughter and heiress,

ANNE BASSETT, who m. PHILIP JONES, as in the text, and administered to her father's effects in 1687.

The manor of Hawkwell was granted temp. HENRY VIII. to John Wyborne.

Robert Sibbald, who deriving his information from Sir James Balfour, states that in the year 1334, Florentius, styled Admuty de Eodem, had perambulation of the marshes or bounds of his lands with the Abbot of Dunfermling. Between this Florentius and the last proprietor of the lands of the name, by whom they were at last conveyed to a Mr. Gibson, a relative of his lady, the daughter of Gibson, of Druie, in Fife, many links in the chain of successors are deficient. What can, however, now be traced of this family, exhibits it of consideration and of good connexion, in favour with the succession of their sovereigns, and for the most part distinguished by devoted loyalty to them, or the junctures, and on occasions when such a principle was most creditable, and most required.

We shall proceed briefly to enumerate such notices of the family as are at the present moment to be discovered from the first until their final disappearance amongst the aristocracy of Scotland, and afterwards proceed to their existing representatives in Ireland and other parts of the world, in all of which they have maintained an honourable reputation; they are yet to be found in the humbler walks of life in Fife, and it is traditional that a branch emigrated to France, and is settled in the neighbourhood of Toulon. In the registers of the Kirk sessions of several parishes in Fifeshire and East Lothian, frequent notices of births, baptisms, and interments, occur. Others are

A. D. 1334. Florence Auchmoutu, or de Admuty de Eodem, had perambulation of the marches of his lands of Auchmoutu, in Fife.

1450. Auchmoutu, of that ilk, married the second daughter of Sir John Boswell, of Balmuto, widow of James Halket, of Pitferran.

1466. David Auchmuty, of that ilk, had perambulation of the marches of his lands of Auchmoutu with Richard, Abbot of Dunfermling, in clearing them from the adjoining lands of Gailmilk.

1517. Alexander Auchmoutu, of that ilk, fifteenth in a jury for the valuation of the sherifdom of Fife.

1535. Henry Auchmoutu, of that ilk, son and heir of the foregoing, had charter of his lands of Auchmoutu.

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1544. David Auchmoutu, of that ilk, and other freeholders in Fife, served Sir Wemyss, heir. 1606. Obiit Johannes Auchmuty, of that ilk, he was married to Isabel, fifth daughter of Sir David Wemyss, of that ilk, progenitor of the Earl of Wemys.

1650. Obiit Sir David Auchmuty, of that ilk, married to Janet Lindesay, second daughter of Mr. John Lindesay, of Balcarras, ancestor to the Earl of Balcarras. 1669.

Obiit Sir David Auchmuty, of that ilk, he m. Margaret Gibson, daughter of Sir Alexander Gibson, of Durie, in Fife, by whom he had in

found in antique chronicles, of small moment, perhaps, individually, but incidentally useful in clearing up or ascertaining the period of existence of the family in its native land. The name of Florence would seem to indicate something of Flemish origin, it is comparatively of infrequent occurrence in the histories of the period. There is a tradition that the crest was given by JAMES of Scotland to the then chief of the name, at the siege of Roxburgh. The arms are those so often borne by the borderers and lowland Scots, as alluded to by Drayton. The motto, assuming an apparent allusion to the arms, "Dum spiro spero," is found in a translation into Latin of the works of Theocritus. The lands called north and south Achmuty were sold to the Earl of Rothes, the Chancellor of Scotland, by Mr. Gibson, and when he was created Duke of Rothes, he took also the title of Baron of Auchmuty. The honours expired with him, but the lands remain still strictly entailed in the Leslie family.

Among the Barones Minores, or lesser Barons of Fife, Auchmuty is put on the alphabetical list appended to Blair's Atlas, by Robert Gordon, of Straloch, and in an old brochure or pamphlet preserved in the library at St. Paul's Cathedral, endowed by Primate Marsh, the Laird of Auchmuty is noticed.

In the year 1602, John and Alexander Auchmuty, of the Scottish House, had a grant from the crown of 2000 acres of land

1648. David Auchmuty of that ilk, his eldest

son,

Alexander. Charles.

Colin, married to Janet Sinclair, and others. This eldest son is supposed to have been amongst those who fell on King Charles's side in the fatal battle of Worcester: of the others nothing now can be discovered.

Of a cadet branch, called Achmuty of Gosford, in East Lothein, we find

Achmuty, of Gosford, married the second daughter of Sir Patrick Murray, first Lord Elibank.

Sir John Achmuty, of Gosford, married to Eliza, only daughter of Patrick Murray, second Lord Elibank, by whom he had Sir Alexander Achmuty, who sold the lands to Mr. Peter Wedderburn, to discharge a fine levied on him by the parliamentarian forces for his malignancy.

Sir James Achmuty, gentleman of the privy chamber to King Charles II.

Sophia, wife of Sir William Drummond, of Haw thornden, son of the celebrated William Drummond, the poet.

Isabella, married to Sir John Byres, of that ilk, in Lothian, and others.

Sir Alexander's eldest son was John Achmuty, of whom no more can at present be traced.

in the county of Cavan, but this they sold to Sir James Craig. John is presumed to have been father of

ARTHUR AUCHMUTY, b. in 1600, who settled at Brianstown, in the county of Longford. This gentleman, known as "Captain Auchmuty," assisted at the defence of Castle Forbes against the Irish rebels in 1641. He died in 1698, having had by Martha, his wife, two sons and one daughter, viz.

1. ARTHUR, his heir.

11. John (Capt.), of Newtown Flood, in the county of Longford, M.P. for the borough of St. Johnstown; m. Isabella, daughter of the Rev. James Stirling, rector of Temple Michael, and died in 1722, leaving issue,

1. ARTHUR, whose issue is pre

sumed to be extinct.

2. James, in holy orders, Dean of Armagh, who m. Miss Clarke, of London, and had a son, the Rev. John Auchmuty, father of John Auchmuty, Seneschal of the manor of Mullingar, who m. Miss King, of Dublin, and had (with two daughters, Mrs. Fisher and Mrs. Verdon) one son, James Auchmuty, who m. the daughter of the Rev. George Keatinge, and has issue, John, George, and a daughter.

3. Forbes, d. s. p.

4. Richard (Capt.), d. s. p.
5. Robert, Judge of the Admiralty
in New England, who left, by
Julia, his second wife, daughter
of a French refugee clergyman,
named Treillard, two sons, Sa-
muel and Robert. The latter was
judge of the admiralty in New
England. The former, the

REV. SAMUEL AUCHMUTY, rec-
tor of Trinity Church, New
York, m. Miss Nicholls, of
that city, and had issue,
SAMUEL (Sir), G. C. B.
lieutenant general in
the army, a highly dis-
tinguished military offi-
cer, who died in 1822,

s. p. Robert-Nicholls,of Rhode Island, who m. Miss Wainwright, and had, with other issue, a dau. wife of Colonel Wainwright, and a son, Richard-Tylden Auchmuty, of Tivoli, in the state of New York, late Capt. of marines in the United States' Service. Jane, m. to Richard Tyl

The elder son,

ARTHUR AUCHMUTY, esq. of Brianstown, m. Elizabeth, daughter of David Rhynd, of Enniskillen, merchant, and dying in 1696, left (with five daughters, Margaret, m. to Anthony Jessop, esq. of Doory Hall; Martha, m. to Captain Deane; Isabella, m. to Morgan Galbraith, esq.; Jane to Francis Fetherston, esq. and Elizabeth to Lieutenant Carruthers) a son and successor,

THOMAS ACHMUTY, esq. of Brianstown, who m. Dorcas, daughter of Samuel Towneley, of Moygne Hall, in the county of Cavan, by Dorcas, his wife, daughter and coheir of Roger Moygne, son of Thomas Moygne, Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh, and had issue,

1. SAMUEL, his heir.

11. John, who perished at sea.

III. Thomas, an officer of dragoons, who left, by his wife, a daughter of Eyre, of Eyre Court, two daughters. IV. Towneley, of Dublin, who left, with other issue,

Robert, of Dublin, whose son Robert, lieutenant R.N. m. his cousin, Alicia Auchmuty, and has a son, Arthur. Thomas, of Madeira and of Bath, father of Thomas, Colonel in the Madras army, who m. his cousin, Miss Staples, and had a son, William, of Log House, in the county of Tyrone, who is married, and has issue. v. Arthur, M.D. whom. Mary, daughter and eventually sole heir of James Lawder, esq. of Kilmore, in the county of Roscommon, and had, with two daughters, Deborah and Elizabeth, a

son,

Thomas, of Dublin, who m. bis
cousin, Judith, daughter of Sa-
muel Auchmuty, esq. of Brians-
town, and had two sons,
James, who d. s. p.

Arthur, M.D, now of Kilmore
House, in Roscommon, a