III. Joseph, fellow of New College, Oxon, d. s. p. IV. Henry, d. s. p.

1. Catherine, m. to Sir Samuel Tryon, bart. 11. Anne, m. to Sir Robert Henley, knt. The eldest son,

1. SIR REVET ELDRED, of Saxham Magna, in Suffolk, as created a BARONET in 1641-2. He m. Anne, dau. dco heir of John Blakey, or Blackwell, gent. of ropshire, but by her, who wedded, secondly, Mr. Viderman Arnold, of London, had no issue. He died bout 1653, and with him the BARONETCY EXPIRED.

Arms-Or, on a bend raguly sa. three bezants.

ELLIOTT, OF PEEBLES.

CREATED 25th July, 1778.—EXTINCT 7th Nov. 1786.

Lineage.

↑ JOHN ELLIOTT, M.D. physician to the Prince of i ales, was created a BARONET in 1778, but dying unsarried at Brocket Hall, Herts, 7th November, 1786, the title became EXTINCT.

* Of his daughters,

The name of ELLYS is of old standing in the county of Lincoln, of which the parish church of Great Paunton bore evidence, that ancient structure having been erected by Anthony Ellys, esq. who had married a lady of the family of Ascough, as appeared by his and her arms, and the inscription on the tower of the church.

A younger branch of the family had formerly settled in Bedfordshire, and possessed the lordship of Norhill there, but that branch is long extinct.

SIR THOMAS ELLIS, who received the honour of knighthood from Queen ELIZABETH, was great grandfather of

Sir Thomas was s. at his decease by his son,

11. SIR WILLIAM ELLYS, bart. who inherited likewise a considerable estate from his uncle, Sir William Ellys, an eminent lawyer in the reign of CHARLES I. afterwards, temp. CHARLES II. attorney-general, and one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas. The baronet m. Isabella, daughter of the Right Honourable Richard Hampden, sometime chancellor of the exchequer, and grandaughter of the celebrated JOHN HAMPDEN; by her he had five sons and five daughters, of whom only one son and two daughters married, viz.

RICHARD, eldest son and heir.

Anne, m. to Edward Check, esq. of Pergo.
Isabella, m. to Richard Hampden.

Sir William d. 6th October, 1727, aged seventy-four, and was s. by his eldest son,

III. SIR RICHARD ELLYS, bart. who m. first, Elizabeth, elder daughter and co-heir of Sir Edward Hussey, bart. of Honington, in the county of Lincoln, and secondly, Sarah, daughter and co-heir of George Gould, esq. of Ivor, in Buckinghamshire, but had no issue. He d. 14th January, 1742, when the BARONETCY be

came EXTINCT.

Arms-Gules, on a fesse, argent, between three crescents, or, as many eschallops, azure.

JOHN ELWES, the third son of alderman Geoffrey Elwes, was a citizen of London, and like his father attained the aldermanic gown. He was living in 1634, and marrying Elizabeth, daughter of Roger Hebbs, of Weybridge, in Surrey, was s. by his son,

SIR GERVASE ELWES, knt. of Woodford, in Essex, who m. Frances, second daughter of Sir Robert Lee, knt. of Billeslee, in the county of Warwick, and by that lady (who wedded secondly, Sir Richard Everard, bart. of Much Waltham,) had issue,

Sir Gervase was s. by his eldest son,

1. GERVASE ELWES, esq. of Stoke College, in the county of Suffolk, who was created a BARONIT, King CHARLES II. 22nd June, 1660. Sir Gervase a Amy, daughter of Dr. Trigge, of Highworth, in Wiltshire, and had issue,

1. Trigge, who d. in his father's lifetime.
II. GERVASE m. Isabella, daughter of Sir Thomas
Hervey, knt. of Ickworth, and sister of the
first Earl of Bristol, and dying before his
father, left at his decease,

HARVEY, successor to his grandfather.
Amy, m. to Robert Meggot, esq. an eminent
brewer in the borough of Southwark,
grandson of Sir George Meggot, and hai
issue,

JOHN MEGGOT, who assumed, in 1751, the surname of ELWES, and inherited the estates of his uncle, Sis HAL ELWES.

ANNE MEGGOT, m. to John Timms, est. and by him had a son,

II. SIR HERVEY ELWES, bart. M. P. for Sudbury, temp. Queen ANNE. This gentleman, who was of mot parsimonious habits, died unmarried, 18th September, 1763, bequeathing his large estates to his nephew, JOHN MEGGOT, esq. who had previously assumed the additional surname of ELWES, and afterwards # "ELWES THE MISER," became so notorious by habits the most penurious, generosity the most disinterest-àand integrity the most rigid. The baronetcy, at the decease of Sir Harvey, devolved upon his cousin,

III. SIR WILLIAM ELWES, bart. who resided in Lis Lane, Isleworth, upon a very limited income, and wis buried there, 26th November, 1778. He appears t have left three sons,

will in 1779, after which there is n other clue to any of the sons.

If these sons were legitimate, the eldest would have succeeded to the BARONETCY at the death of his father. At the decease of their mother, called Dame Johanna Elwes, formerly Bobulia, none of her kin appear have taken out letters of administration to her effects.

Arms-Or, a bend gules, surmounted by a fesse.

azure.

ing to several hundred thousand pounds; his landed pr perty fell to his great nephew, JOHN TIMMS, esq. assumed the name of ELWES, and d. at Stoke, F bruary, 1824.

1. SIR JOHN ELWILL, knt. of Exeter, (whose mother as heiress of Pole, of Exeter,) was created a BAROby Queen ANNE, 25th August, 1709. He m. first, ances, daughter of Sir John Bampfylde, bart. of ltimore, in the county of Devon, but by that lady d no issue. Sir John m. secondly, Miss Leigh, ughter and heir of Leigh, esq. of Egham, and d, (with two daughters, the elder married to Mr. nder, of London, the younger to captain Emmerly,) o sons. He d. 25th April, 1717, and was s. by his er son,

II. SIR JOHN ELWILL, bart. who m. Miss Style, ughter and heir of Humphrey Style, esq. of Lang, in Kent, but had no issue. He died 10th Septem, 1727, (his widow m. secondly, in 1730, Mr. Henry rtlet), and was s. by his brother,

II. SIR EDMUND ELWILL, bart. who filled for seveyears the office of comptroller of Excise. He m. ne, daughter of William Speke, esq. of Beauchamp, Somersetshire, and dying 2nd February, 1740, was By his only son,

V. SIR JOHN ELWILL, bart. who wedded Selina, dow of Arthur, Earl of Raneleigh, and daughter of ter Bathurst, esq. of Clarendon Park, Wilts, by the dy Selina Shirley, his wife, daughter of Robert, st Earl Ferrers, and had an only daughter, SELINA-MARY, M. first to Felton-Lionel Hervey, esq. and secondly, to the Right Honourable Sir William-Henry Fremantle, K. G. H. By her first husband she was grandmother of the present SIR FREDERIC H. BATHURST HERVEY, bart. died the 1st of March, 1778, and leaving no male e, the BARONETCY became EXTINCT.

proprietors, in the second year of King EGBERT, A.D. 803. In several pedigrees

HASCULFUS DE ENGLEFYLD, is first mentioned, as Lord of Englefyld, about the time of Canute, afterwards in the fourth year of HAROLD Harefoot, and again in the reign of HARDICANUTE. He died temp. EDWARD the Confessor. This Hasculf purchased a hide of land, in Englefeld, of Hasculf de Pinkeny, to which deed Hely Englefeld, son to another Hasculf Englefeld, was witness.

GUY DE ENGLEFYLD, son and heir of Hasculf, lived in the time of WILLIAM the Conqueror, and was father of

Hely de EngleFELD, living temp. WILLIAM Rufus, who had two sons, WILLIAM and Peter: the elder,

WILLIAM DE ENGLEFELD, gave the parsonage of Englefeld, to the abbey of Reading, Joseph being then abbot in the reign of HENRY I. as appears by his deed, sans date, sealed with his seal, which deed recites that he gave the said parsonage to the said Joseph, and the convent there, and their successors, in consideration that his ancestors, in time past, had done so, long before his days. This gift of the Church of Englefeld, soon after is mentioned in a charter of King HENRY II. wherein he confirms the several donations to the Abbot of Reading, but without notice of the donor's name. This William had three sons,

WILLIAM (Sir), who d. s. p.
ALAN (Sir).
Thomas.

The second son,

SIR ALAN DE ENGLEFELD, was father of WILLIAM DE Englefeld, who was living in the time of RICHARD I. and was s. by his son,

JOHN ENGLEFELD, of Englefeld, father of

SIR WILLIAM ENGLEFELD, presumed to be the person mentioned with Geoffrey de Leuknors, in an inquisition to enquire about lands, given by King JoHN to Margery de Lacy, to found the priory of Acornbury, in the county of Hertford, and by the name of William de Englefeld, is recorded as one of the justices itinerant for the counties of Sussex, Southampton, and Wilts, anno 1255, 39 HENRY III.; and for Norfolk and Suffolk, 41 HENRY III. 1262, for Bedford, Essex, Hertford, and Kent; and 47 HENRY III. 1263, for Southampton and Wilts. Sir William's son and heir,

SIR JOHN DE ENGLEFELD died in the 4th of EDWARD 1. 1276. He was likewise Lord of Shiplake, Ascott, &c. His son and successor,

SIR WILLIAM de Englefeld, died in France, in the reign of EDWARD I. having had issue ROGER (Sir), Andrew, and William. The eldest,

SIR ROGER DE Englefeld, was returned one of the knights for Berkshire, in the parliament 6th EDWARD II. 1313, and dying 36th EDWARD III. 1362, left by Joan, his wife, a daughter, Alice, the wife of Mortely, and two sons, PHILIP (Sir), and William, the elder of whom,

SIR PHILIP DE ENGLEFELD, enjoyed the ancient inheritance, and died 3 RICHARD II. 1380; by Joan his wife he had three sons,

1. JOHN (Sir), knight of the shire for Berks, 21st RICHARD II. He had posterity to the third generation, but the line expiring without male issue, the estate devolved upon the descendants of his next brother.

II. PHILIP. III. Nicholas, of Ricot, in the county of Oxford, comptroller of the household to RICHARD II. m. Jane, daughter and heir of John Clark, of Lanynton-Gernon, and d. 1st April, 1415, as appears by his epitaph in Ashdon Church,

Essex. He left two daughters, his co-heirs, viz.

CICELY, m. to William Fowler.

SIBIL, m. to Richard Quatermains, and Ricote passed to that family, from whom it eventually went to the Norris's, created Baron Norris of Rycote, and eventually centred in the Earls of Abingdon.

The second son,

PHILIP ENGLEFELD, esq. m. Alice, daughter and heir of Walter Rossale, and sister and heir of Sir John Rossale, knt. and thereby acquired the Isle of Rossel, Udlington, Eton, and Yeagden, in the connty of Salop. He had issue,

PHILIP, his successor.
ROBERT.

The elder son,

PHILIP ENGLEFELD, esq. of Englefeld, served the office of sheriff of Berkshire in 1430, and died in nine years after, without issue, and was s. by his brother,

ROBERT ENGLEFELD, esq. of Englefeld, who d. in 1473, and was s. by his grandson,

SIR THOMAS ENGLEFELD, of Englefeld, (son of John Englefeld, by Joan, daughter of John Milborn,) who received the honour of knighthood on the marriage of Prince ARTHUR, son of HENRY VII. In 1496, he was elected speaker of the House of Commons, and in 1505, was made judge or justice of Chester, which office he held until his death and was speaker of the first parliament called by HENRY VIII. He m. Margery, daughter of Sir Richard Danvers, knt. of Prescot, and had, with other issue,

Richard, who d. without issue. THOMAS, successor to his father. Elizabeth, m. to Robert White, esq. Joan, m. to Henry Lenham, esq. Anne, m. to William Delabere, esq. Margaret, m. to John Lyngen, esq. He was s. by his son,

SIR THOMAS ENGLEFELD, of Englefeld, who was sheriff of the counties of Berks and Oxford in 1520, and having been educated at the Middle Temple, was the next year autumnal reader, and called to the dignity of the coif by letters patent, dated 3rd December, 1524. He had £100 per annum granted to him for life, and three years after was constituted one of the justices of the Court of Common Pleas, having received the honour of knighthood. He m. Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Throckmorton, knt. of Coughton, and had issue, FRANCIS (Sir), his successor. JOHN, heir to his brother. Thomas.

Anne, m. to Humphrey Coningsby, esq. ancestor
of the Earls of Coningsby.

Susan, m. to Humphrey Burdet, esq.
Margaret, m. first to George Carew, esq. and se-
condly, to Sir Edward Saunders, knt. lord chief
baron of the Exchequer, temp. ELIZABETH.

He died in 1537, and was s. by his eldest son,

SIR FRANCIS ENGLEFELD, of Englefeld, who was sheriff of the counties of Berks and Oxford, at the death of HENRY VIII. and first year of Edward VI. and received the honour of knighthood 22nd February, 1547. He was one of the chief officers in the Princess MARY'S family, and one of those sent by the protector and council to prohibit the hearing and cele

Here lyth Nicholas Inglefield Esquyr, sometime Controler of the Hous to King Rychard II. who died the first of April, in the Yere of Grase, M. cccc. xv. whos Soul, Jesu Perdon. Amen, Amen, Amen.

brating mass in her highness's house; but refusing to deliver such orders, and submitting rather to an punishment, he was committed for several months t prison, with Sir Robert Rochester, Sir Walgrave, an Dr. Francis Mallet, the princess's chaplain. Upo Queen MARY's accession to the throne, he was, in con sideration of his faithful services, sworn of the privy council, appointed master of the wards, and had from the crown, the manor and park of Fulbrook, in the county of Warwick, to hold in capite, being part a the forfeited lands of the attainted John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland. He sate in parliament, in the same reign, for the county of Berks; but on Eliza beth's accession, he was obliged, with Sir Thoma Gage, Sir Thomas Shelley, and others, to depart the kingdom. In the 6th of ELIZABETH, he was indicted in the King's Bench for high treason committed a Nemures, in partibus transmarinis, and outlaw He was subsequently attainted and convicted of high treason, at the parliament, 29th October, 28 Elias BETH, and all his manors, lands, and vast possessions were declared forfeited to the queen; but Sir Francis having by indenture of the 18th of the same reig settled his manor and estate of Englefield on Frases his nephew, with power, notwithstanding, of revoking his grant, if he, during his natural life, should defi or tender to his nephew a gold ring; with intent make void the uses of his said settlement, various de putes and points of law arose, whether the said m and estate of Englefield were forfeited to the que but the case, after procrastinated discussion, net a pearing clear, the queen, in the ensuing parliame 35 ELIZABETH, had a special act passed to confirm th attainder, and to establish the forfeiture to herse her heirs, and assigns; enacting that the queen shati take the advantage of revocating an assurance, wi condition made by him upon the tender of a ring a gold to his nephew, &c.; and the queen in erase quence tendering by R. Broughton and H. Bouchar the ring to Englefield, the nephew, seized and com cated the said manors and estate, and many other p sessions. By this arbitrary stretch of power, th manor and estate of Englefeld, which had been u wards of 780 years in the family, were alienated a transferred to the crown. Sir Francis retired to V ladolid, in Spain, where he was a bountiful benef to the English College, and being worn out with p secution and years, died, and was buried there, a the year 1592. Hem. Catherine, daughter and her ( Sir Thomas Fettiplace, of Compton Beauchamp, in th Vale of Berks; but having no issue, the representatio of the family devolved upon his brother,

JOHN ENGLEFELD, esq. Lord of Wotton Basset, Wiltshire, who m. Margaret, daughter of Sir Edwar Fitton, knt. lord president of Connaught, of Gaw worth, in Cheshire,+ and dying 1st April, 1567, was by his only child,

1. FRANCIS ENGLEFIELD, esq. of Wotton Basset, i the county of Wilts, as well as Englefield, in Berk who was created a BARONET by King JAMES I. 29 November, 1612. Sir Francis m. a daughter of th Honourable Anthony Brown, eldest son of Anthem first Viscount Montagu, and had issue,

1. Thomas, m. Mary, daughter of William Walla
cot, esq. of Shenfield, Berkshire, but died b
fore his father, s. p.

11. FRANCIS (Sir), heir to his father.
III. THOMAS, who s. as fourth baronet.

+ By Mary, his wife, daughter of Sir Guiscard Ha bottle, knt. of Horton, and Jane, his wife, daughter of 8 Henry Willoughby, knt. of Risley, in the county Derby.

IV. John, d. before his father, unm.

v. Anthony, of White Knights, near Reading, m. Susan, daughter of Ryley, esq. of Oxford,

by whom, who d. 2nd June, 1664, and was buried in the middle of the north chancel of Sunning Church, Berks, he had a son and heir, Anthony, who m. Alice, daughter of Thomas Stokes, esq. of London, and had a numerous family. He was s. by his eldest surviving son,

Henry, of White-Knights, whom. Catherine, daughter of Benjamin Poole, esq. of London, and had with other issue,t HENRY, who s. as sixth baronet. VI. William, who left at his decease in 1662, a daughter and heir, the wife of Fettiplace, esq. VII. Henry, m. first, Elizabeth, daughter of - Pickford, of Cornwall, but by her had no issue; secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Walter Blount, bart. of Sodington, by whom he had, Henry, d. unm.

Elizabeth, m. to Sir William Kennedy, of
Ireland.

Mary, m. to Thomas Havers, esq. of Thelton,
in Norfolk.

Catherine.

He wedded, thirdly, Anne, daughter of John Huband, esq. of Ipsley, in the county of Warwick, but by that lady had no issue.

1. Dorothy, m. to Sir Edward Morgan, bart. of Llantarnam, in Monmouthshire.

u. Mary, m. to Christopher, fourth Lord Teynham. III. Margaret, m. first, to Hatton Berners, esq. of

Whittlebury, in the county of Northampton, and secondly, to Sir William Bradshaigh, knt. Sir Francis lived until 1631, as appears by a beautiful monument in the north chapel of Englefield Church, against the north wall, adorned with the portraitures of a knight in armour, and his lady, both kneeling at a desk; behind him kneel four sons, and behind her one daughter, in praying postures; on the side of the desk, the arms of Englefield, impaling Browne; under the monument, there is a brass plate on a stone thus engraved:

Here lyeth interr'd

The Body of Sir Francis Englefield, Baronet,
(Only Child of John Englefield, Esq; and Margaret,
His Wife,) who married Jane, eldest Daughter to
Anthony Browne,

Eldest Son of Anthony, Viscount Mountagu,
By whom he had issue ten Children, viz.
Thomas, Dorothy, Francis, Thomas, John,
Anthony, William, Mary, Margaret,
And Henry; of which,

Thomas, the elder, Dorothy, and John,
Died before their Father.
He dyed

The 26th of Octb. Anno Dom. 1631.

Being 69 Years, 3 Months, and 27 Days old.

• There were ten sons and seven daughters. The former all died unmarried, except HENRY, the fourth son, ➡ho succeeded his father. Of the daughters, Martha, m. Liver Blount, esq. of Maple Durham; Elizabeth, m. Wiliam, son of Sir John Dorrington, knt. of Sussex; nd Mary, m. Sir William Swinburne, bart. of Caphea, the others were either nuns or died unmarried. The younger children of this Henry and Catherine Pole (who survived his widow, and m. Edward Webb, q. of Gray's Inn, London), were

Charles, Francis,

d. unm.

Sir Francis was s. by his eldest surviving son,

II. SIR FRANCIS ENGLEFIELD, bart. who had received the honour of knighthood from King JAMES I. 10th August, 1622. He m. Winifred, daughter and co-heir of William Brooksby, esq. of Sholeby, in the county of Leicester, and had issue,

FRANCIS, his heir.

Helen, m. to Sir Charles Waldegrave, bart. and
was mother of

HENRY, first BARON WALDEGRAVE.
Mary, m. to Sir George Browne, K.B.
Catherine, m. to William Turvile, esq. of Aston
Flamvile, in the county of Leicester.

Sir Francis d. 1st May, 1666,‡ and was s. by his son, III. SIR FRANCIS ENGLEFIELD, bart. who m. Lady Honoria O'Bryen, daughter of Henry, Earl of Thomond, but had no issue; his lady surviving him, married secondly, Sir Robert Howard, knt. sixth son of Thomas, first Earl of Berkshire. The baronet was s. in his title and estates by his uncle,

IV. SIR THOMAS ENGLEFIELD, bart. who m. first, Mary, daughter of Sir Henry Winchcomb, bart. but by that lady had no issue. He wedded, secondly, Mary, daughter of George Huntley, esq. of the county of Gloucester, and had

CHARLES, his successor.
Anne, d. unm. in 1678.

Philadelphia, m. to Henry Fossan, gent.
Elizabeth, who also married.

Sir Thomas was s. at his decease by his son,

V. SIR CHARLES ENGLEFIELD, bart. who m. Susan, natural daughter of John, Lord Culpeper, and had issue, THOMAS and Charlotte, who both died young. He d. 21st April, 1728, and was s. by his cousin (refer to issue of Anthony, of White Knights, fifth son of the first baronet),

VI. SIR HENRY ENGLEFIELD, bart. who m. first in 1742, Mary, daughter of Thomas Berkeley, esq. of Spetchley, in the county of Worcester, by whom he had no surviving issue. He wedded, secondly, in 1751, Catharine, daughter of Sir Charles Bucke, bart. of Hanby Grange, in the county of Lincoln, and by that lady had

HENRY-CHARLES, his heir.
Francis.
Francis-Michael.

Ethelinda-Catherine.
Teresa-Anne.

He d. 25th May, 1780, and was s. by his eldest son, VII. SIR HENRY-CHARLES ENGLEFIELD, bart. who d. 21st March, 1822, when the title became EXTINCT. Arms-Az. a griffin passant and a chief or.

Sir Francis was obliged to obtain the following letter from King CHARLES I. to protect him from the pains and penalties of recusancy :

CHARLES REX,

WHEREAS our trusty and well beloved Sir Francis Englefield, Knight and Baronet, being a recusant, is thereby subject to our laws and statutes in that case provided: these are to signify our royal will and pleasure, that no person or persons shall, at any time hereafter, sue, prosecute, or implead, either by way of indictment, information, or otherwise, against the said Sir Francis, for being a recusant, or convicted by virtue of any of our laws or statutes against Popish recusants, till we shall signify our pleasure to the contrary. Given under our signet, at our palace of Westminster, Decemb. the 6th, in the 10th year of our reign.