ROBERT HENLEY, esq. of Henley, in the county of❘ Somerset, high sheriff in 1613, was grandfather of

SIR ROBERT HENLEY, knt. bencher of the Temple, and master of the King's Bench, who m, first, Mrs. Rivett, and by her had a son, ancestor of the Henleys of Grange, in Hampshire. He m. secondly, Anne, second daughter of John Eldred, esq. of Saxham, in Suffolk, and had by that lady three sons, ANDREW, John, and Robert. Sir Robert died in the possession of an estate worth £4000 a-year. His eldest son by his second wife,

1. ANDREW HENLEY, esq. of Henley, was created a BARONET by King CHARLES II. Sir Andrew m. Mary, daughter of Sir John Gayer, knt. of London, and had issue,

ROBERT, his heir.

ANDREW, successor to his brother.

Catherine, m. to Carleton Whitelocke, esq.
Mary.

He died about 1675, and was succeeded by his elder son,

11. SIR ROBERT HENLEY, M.P. for Andover in 1681. This gentleman died unmarried about 1680, leaving the estate £20,000 in debt, and was succeeded by his brother,

III. SIR ANDREW HENLEY, who continuing the extravagant course of his brother, soon run out and sold the estate. He m. a daughter of Mr. Ball, of Yeatly, in Hampshire, and had (with two daughters) his successor,

IV. SIR ROBERT HENLEY, who appears to have been in comparatively humble circumstances. It is stated that he first went with the queen's letter to sea, and was afterwards customer in the port of Sandwich. He m. Mrs. Bowles, of Camberwell, but died without issue about the year 1740, when the BARONETCY be

caine EXTINCT.

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Lineage.

THE HON. SIR EDWARD HERBERT, knt. of Red Castle, in the county of Montgomery (afterwards called Powis Castle), second son of William, first Earl of Pembroke, m. Mary, only daughter and heir of Thomas Stanley, esq. of Stenden, in Hertfordshire, master of the Mint in 1570, and was s. by his eldest son,

SIR WILLIAM HERBERT, K.B. so created at the coronation of King JAMES I. who was elevated to the peer age in 1629, as Baron Powis, of Powis Castle. He m. Eleanor, daughter of Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, and had (with two daughters) a son and heir,

1. PERCY HERBERT, of Red Castle, who, in the lifetime of his father, and before that gentleman was raised to the peerage, was created a BARONET 16th November, 1622, Sir Percy m. Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Craven, knt. alderman of London, and had issue,

WILLIAM, his successor.

Mary, m. to George, Lord Talbot, eldest son of
John, Earl of Shrewsbury.

He inherited the barony of Powis on the decease of his father in 1655, and dying in 1666, was s. by his

son,

II. SIR WILLIAM HERBERT, third Lord Powis, who was created, in 1674, Earl of Powis, and on the accession of King JAMES II. Viscount Montgomery and Marquess of Powis. His lordship, following the fortunes of his royal master, withdrew into France at the Revolution, and was subsequently created Marquess of Montgomery and Duke of Powis. He was afterwards outlawed for not returning within a limited time and submitting to the new government. He m. Lady Elizabeth Somerset, daughter of Edward, Marquess of Somerset, and dying at St. Germains, 2nd June, 1696, was s. by his only son,

III. SIR WILLIAM HERBERT, who was restored to the honours enjoyed by his father prior to the Revolution, and was thus fourth Lord Powis, and second Earl and Marquess. His lordship m. Mary, daughter. and co-heir of Sir Thomas Preston, bart. of Furness, in Lancashire, and had two sons, viz.

WILLIAM, his heir.

Edward, m. Henrietta, daughter of James, first Earl Waldegrave, and dying in 1734, left by that lady (who m. secondly, Mr. Beard, the comedian,) a posthumous child,

BARBARA HERBERT, who m. first, Henry-Arthur Herbert, created Baron Herbert, of Chirbury, in 1743.

The marquess died in 1745, and was s. by his elder

son,

IV. SIR WILLIAM HERBERT, third Marquess of Powis,

who died unmarried 8th March, 1748, when all his honours, including the BARONETCY, became EXTINCT; and his estates devolved, under his lordship's will, upon the husband of his niece, Henry-Arthur, Lord Herbert of Chirbury.*

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HERBERT, OF BROMFIELD.

CREATED in 1660.-EXTINCT in 1669.

Lineage.

FRANCIS HERBERT, esq. of Dolgiog, in Montgomeryshire, son of Matthew Herbert, esq. (uncle to the celebrated Lord Herbert of Chirbury), by Margaret, sister of Francis Foxe, of Bromfield, in Salop, had two sons, namely,

1. MATTHEW, his heir.

II. Francis, of Oakley Park, whose son,

RICHARD, of Oakley Park, a magistrate and deputy-lieutenant for Salop, married Florentia, daughter of Richard, second Lord Herbert of Chirbury, and had

FRANCIS, whose son,

HENRY-ARTHUR HERBERT, esq. was created Baron Herbert of Chirbury, 21st December, 1743, and in three years after advanced to the EARLDOM OF POWIS, having espoused Barbara, niece of William Herbert, last Marquess of Powis. His lordship's son and successor, the second Earl of Powis, dying s. p. in 1801, the honours became extinct, while the estates passed to his sister, LADY HENRIETTA-ANTONIA HERBERT, wife of Edward, Lord Clive.

George, who m. in 1693, Martha, daughter of John Newton, of Heightley, and relict of Richard Owen, and had a son, FRANCIS, M.P. for Montgomery, who m. Mary, daughter of Rowland Baugh, esq. by Mary, his wife, daughter and co-heir of Thomas, Lord Folliott, and had George, Henry, and Mary, who m. Captain Frederick Cornewall, of Diddlebury, and was mother of the late Bishop of Worcester.

The elder son of Francis Herbert of Dolgiog,

1. MATTHEW HERBERT, esq. of Bromfield, in Shrop shire, high sheriff thereof in 1655, was created a BA RONET in 1660. He m. Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, in Warwickshire, but d. s. p. in 1669, when the BARONETCY became EXTINCT.

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HERBERT, OF TINTERNE.

CREATED 3rd July, 1660.-EXTINCT

Lineage.

1. THOMAS HERBERT, esq. of Tinterne, in the county of Monmouth, created a BARONET at the Restoration, m.first, Lucy, daughter of Sir Walter Alexander, knt.;

This family, anciently written HAIRUN, HEYRUN, and HEIRUN, was long of eminence in the county of Northumberland. One of its members, William He ron, who had license to castellate his house at Ford, was summoned to parliament as a baron in the time of EDWARD III. and another, Sir Richard Heron, was similarly dignified by RICHARD II. (See BURKE'S Extinct Peerage.)

SIR JOHN HAIRUN, one of the soldiers of the ConQUEROR, possessed Ford, with a very good estate, and acquired Chipchase by marriage with the daughter and heir of its Saxon lord, Sir William Chipches, of Chipches Castle. From Sir John we pass to his lineal descendant,

1. CUTHBERT HERON, esq. of Chipchase Castle, in the county of Northumberland, who was created a BARONET by King CHARLES II. 20th November, 1682. Sir Cuthbert m. first, Elizabeth, third daughter of Sir Richard Graham, bart. of Netherby, and had, with five daughters, three sons, namely,

1. CUTHBERT, his heir, who m. Elizabeth, danghter of Sir John Mallory, knt. of Studley, in the county of York, and dying in the lifetime of his father, left an only child, his heir, ELIZABETH HERON, living in 1693, m. ta Ralph Jennison, esq. of Walworth. 11. JOHN, successor to the baronetcy. III. CHARLES, heir to his brother. Sir Cuthbert m. secondly, Miss Thompson, daughter of George Thomson, esq. of Yorkshire, and by that lady had another son,

IV. CUTHBERT, who m. Catherine, daughter of Richard Myddleton, esq. of Offerton, in Durham, and dying in 1738, left a son,

THOMAS, who succeeded as fifth baronet.

John Heron, esq. of Brampton, in Huntingdonshire, and left an only daughter and heir,

HENRIETTA HERON, m. to Mr. Huxley, of London. His wife, who survived him, died 29th October, 1713, and was buried in the Abbey Church of Bath. He was s. at his decease, about the year 1693, by his brother,

III. SIR CHARLES HERON, who m. Catherine, daughter of Sir William Poultney, knt. of St. James's Street, Middlesex, and had one son, Harry, and three daughters, of whom two died young, and the third, Catherine, m. Mr. Panton, of Banff, in Scotland. He was s. at his decease by his son,

IV. SIR HARRY HERON, an officer in the Guards, who m. Elizabeth Coventry, but dying without issue in 1749, was s. by (the only surviving son of Cuthbert Heron, esq. his uncle by the half-blood), his cousin, V. SIR THOMAS HERON, who inherited the estates and assumed the surname of his maternal uncle, Francis Myddleton, esq. of Offerton. He m. first, Margaret, daughter of Ralph Finlay, esq. of Carrickfergus; and secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander Arbuthnot, esq. of Fortree, in Scotland. By the former, who died in 1753, he had an only daughter,

MARY, who sold the estate of Grinkle Park to her cousin, Robert Wharton Myddleton, esq. She m. Captain Baron, of Alnwick, and had two daughters, viz.

Elizabeth Baron, who died in 1796, aged six

teen.

MARY BARON, M. to George Lynn, esq. of Southwick House, in the county of Northampton.

Sir Thomas dying thus without male issue, 27th May, 1801, the estate of Bowlby, &c. passed to his cousin, Robert Wharton, esq.t of Old Park, in the county of Durham, who assumed the surname and arms of MYODLETON. At the decease of Sir Thomas the BARONETCY is said to have become EXTINCT, but has been assumed by Cuthbert Heron, esq. of Newcastleupon-Tyne.

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to the emperor's court at Ghent, left by his second wife, Bridget, daughter and heir of Sir John Wiltshire, of Stone Castle, in Kent, and widow of Sir Richard Wingfield, two sons, the elder of whom,

HENRY HERVEY, esq. was father of

1. SIR WILLIAM HERVEY, of Kidbrooke, in Kent, who acquired high military reputation in the reigns signalized himself against the Armada, having boarded of ELIZABETH, JAMES I. and CHARLES I. He first one of the galleons, and killed the captain, Hugh Monçade, with his own hand; he was afterwards knighted and employed in Ireland, where continuing his eminent career, he was created a BARONET 31st May, 1619, and the next year raised to the peerage of that kingdom, as Baron Hervey of Ross, in the county of Wexford. He was subsequently made a peer of England, in the dignity of Baron Hervey, of Kidbrooke. He m. first, Mary, relict of Henry, Earl of Southampton, and daughter of Anthony, Viscount Montacute, and secondly, Cordelia, daughter and coheir of Brian Anslow, esq. of Lewisham, in Kent. He had three sons, William, killed in Germany, John, died in Ireland, and Henry, who died young, beside an only daughter and eventual heir,

ELIZABETH HERVEY, who m. John Hervey, esq. of Ickworth, and d. s. p. Mr. Hervey's estates devolved upon his brother, Sir Thomas Hervey, knt. whose eldest son,

John Hervey, became Earl of Bristol. His lordship outliving his sons, died in 1642, when all his honours, including the BARONETCY, became

EXTINCT.

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HEWET, OF HEADLY HALL.

HERVEY, OF KIDBROOKE.

CREATED 11th Oct. 1621.

EXTINCT 7th June, 1822.

CREATED 31st May, 1619.

EXTINCT in 1642.

Lineage.

SIR NICHOLAS HERVEY, of the privy chamber to King HENRY VIII. and ambassador from that monarch

About the year 1737 Sir Harry Heron is stated to have mortgaged Chipchase Castle and estate to Archibald Reed, of Bellingham, whose only son, John, left the property to his daughter, wao m. Christopher Soulsby, esq. who took the surname of Reed.

Mr. Wharton was son of Thomas Wharton, esq. M.D. of Old Park, the friend and correspondent of Gray the pet, and grandson of Robert Wharton, esq. of Old Park, by Mary, his wife, daughter of Richard Myddleton, esq. of Offerton, and sister of Catharine, the mother of Sir Thomas Heron, bart. (see BURKE's Commoners, vol. i. p. 171.)

Lineage.

ROBERT HEWET, esq. a gentleman of ancient extraction, possessed a considerable estate at Killamarch, in Derbyshire, temp. HENRY VIII. and had two sons, Robert, who d. s. p. and his successor,

WILLIAM HEWET, esq. who d. in 1599, aged seventyseven, and was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral, London he left four sons, JOHN, his heir, Solomon, Thomas, and William; from the three last sprung the families of Hewet, of Pishobury, Herts, the

There was a SIR WALTER HEWET, who made a distinguished figure in EDWARD III.'s wars in France.

Of the saine family was SIR WILLIAM HEWET, lord mayor of London, 1559, but whether brother to this Robert is not certain; of him we find the following circumstance related in STow's Survey of London:

"Sir William Hewet, clothworker, mayor, 1559, son of Edmund Hewet. He d. 6th February, 1566. His wife was the daughter of Leveson, of Kent. This mayor was a merchant possest of a great estate valued at £6000 per annum, and was said to have had three sons, and one daughter; to which daughter this mischance happened (the father then living upon London bridge). The maid

III. Frances.

IV. Anne.

v. Grace, m. to Sir Thomas Brograve, bart. of Hamels, Herts.

Sir John d. in 1657, aged fifty-nine, after he had seated his family at Waresby, in Huntingdonshire; and by his services and sufferings in the troublesome times acquired high reputation for loyalty. He was s. by his elder son,

II. SIR JOHN HEWET, who m. Frances, daughter of Sir Toby Tyrrell, bart. of Thornton, Bucks, by whom (who survived him, and m. secondly, Philip Cotton, esq. of Conington, in Cambridgeshire) he had a numerous family, viz.

playing with her, out of a window over the river Thames, by chance dropt her in, almost beyond expectation of being saved. A young gentleman, named Osborne, then apprentice to Sir William, the father (which Osborne was one of the ancestors of the Duke of Leeds in a direct line), at this calamitous accident, immediately leap'd in bravely, and saved the child. In memory of which deliverance, and in gratitude, her father afterwards bestowed her in marriage on the said Mr. Osborne, with a very great dowry, whereof the late estate of Sir Thomas Fenshaw, in the parish of Barkin, in Essex, was a part; as the late Duke of Leeds, himself, told the Rev. Mr. John Hewyt, from whom I have this relation; and together

v. Catherine.

VI. Arabella.

VII. Elizabeth, m. to Broke, esq. of Nacton, in Suffolk, M. P. for Ipswich.

Sir John d. 30th September, 1684, and was s. by his eldest son,

III. SIR JOHN HEWET, sheriff of the counties of Canbridge and Huntingdon 2 JAMES II. m. first, Anne. daughter of Francis Stokes, esq. of Tiderton, Wilts, and had two sons, who both died issueless, and two daughters, of which Anne, the elder, m. John Hagar, esq. of Bourn, in Cambridgeshire, and had a son. Hewet Hagar. Sir John wedded, secondly, Eleanor, eldest daughter of Sir John Osborne, bart, of Cricksands, in the county of Bedford, but had no child by that lady. Dying thus without male issue, the bargeetcy devolved upon his nephew,

IV. SIR WILLIAM HEWET, captain R.N. who married Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Levemore, of Gosport, and had three sons, WILLIAM, his heir, Levemore, and Herbert, with a daughter, Elizabeth. He d. in 1740, and was s. by his eldest son,

V. SIR WILLIAM HEWET, captain R. N. lost before Pondicherry in the Duc d'Aquitaine, of which ship be was in command, 1st January, 1761: with Sir Will perished his brother Levemore, and Herbert having died some years before, the baronetcy reverted to his uncle,

VI. SIR TYRREL HEWET, who married Miss Gedding. daughter of Mr. Robert Gedding, of the Post Office. and had two sons, BYNG and THOMAS. He d. 17th February, 1770, and was s. by the elder,

VII. SIR BYNG HEWET, who went to India in the Company's service in the year 1768, and was killed there about the year 1770. He was s. dying s. p. by his brother,

VIII. Sir THOMAS HEWET, who m. Mary, daughter of Mr. Tebbutt, of Sudbury, in the county of North ampton, but d. s. p. 7th June, 1822, when the BAROS ETCY became EXTINCT.

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HEWETT, OF PISHOBURY. CREATED 19th July, 1660.-EXTINCT 2nd Dec. 1680.

Lineage.

SIR WILLIAM HEWETT, knt. who died in the paris of St. Martin in the Fields, London, in 1637, m. Ei zabeth, daughter of Richard Wiseman, esq. and ha

with that estate in Essex, several other lands in t parishes of Harthel, and Wallis or Wales, in Yorks now in the possession of the said most noble famiy also, that several persons of quality courted the young lady; and particularly the Earl of ShrensbayBut Sir William was pleased to say, Osborne saved bet and Osborne should enjoy her. The late Duke of Len and the present family, preserve the picture of Sir Win liam, in his habit of lord mayor, at Kiveton House, i Yorkshire, to this day, valuing it at £200."

Son of Christopher Stokes, esq. of Tiderton, wh wife was sister to the Lord Chancellor Hyde, Ea Clarendon.

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numerous family, five sons and six daughters. The eldest son,

1. SIR THOMAS HEWETT, knt. purchased the manor and estate of Pishobury, in Hertfordshire, and served he office of sheriff for that county in 1638 and 1660, a which latter year he was created a BARONET. He #. first, Frances, daughter of Sir John Hobart, bart. of Blickling, lord chief justice of the Common Pleas, and sy her, who died 21st May, 1632, had a daughter,

Dorothy, m. 2nd April, 1666, to Sir William Beversham, of Holbrook Hall, Suffolk.

Sir Thomas m. secondly, about 1633, Margaret, eldest laughter of Sir William Lytton, knt. of Knebworth, and relict of Thomas Hillersdon, esq. by whom, who died in 1689, he had issue,

GEORGE, his heir.

Elizabeth, m. to Sir Richard Anderson, bart. of Penley.

Margaret, m. to Sir Edward Farmer, knt. of Ca

nons.

Anne, m. to Sir John Rivers, bart. of Chafford.
Arabella, m. to Sir William Wiseman, bart. of
Canfield.

Mary, m. to Sir Charles Crofts Reade, knt. of
Bardwell, in Suffolk.

Jane, m. to Charles Staples, esq. of Westminster. Sir Thomas d. 4th August, 1662, aged fifty-seven, and was 8. by his son,

II. SIR GEORGE HEWETT, of Pishobury, who was raised to the peerage of Ireland, in 1689, as Baron of St. James Town, in the county of Longford, and Viscount Hewett, of Gowran, in the county of Kilkenny, but died unmarried, 2nd December following, aged thirty-seven, when all his honours, including the BARONETCY, became EXTINCT. From him the Manor of Pishobury passed to his sister, Lady Reade, who sold it to Ralph Freman, esq. of Hamels, from whose heir, Philip, Earl of Hardwicke, it was purchased in 1823, by Rowland Alston, esq. of Harold House, Bedfordshire. The Estate of Pishobury was devised by Lord Hewett to his sister, Lady Wiseman, who conveyed it, in 1701, to William Gardiner, esq. whose grandaughter, Rose, brought it in marriage to Jeremiah Milles, esq.

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RALPH HEYMAN, esq. was possessed of a good estate in the reign of HENRY VII. He purchased the manor of Harenge, in Kent, from Sir Francis Willoughby, which his son,

PETER HEYMAN, esq. settled upon his son Peter. In the 25 HENRY VIII. Otterpole, in Kent, was purchased by Peter Heyman, esq. from Thomas Wombwell, esq. of Northfleet.

Somerfield estate, in the parish of Sellinge, in Kent, belonged to William Tilde, esq. who died leaving one daughter, ELIZABETH TILDE, his heir, who became the wife of

PETER HEYMAN, esq. about the middle of HENRY VIII. 1527. By this lady he had issue,

RALPH, his heir.

William, m. Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Reginald
Scot, knt. and had a son, Thomas.

Mary, m. to Paul Johnson, esq. of Fordwich.
Catherine, m. to William Hamon, esq. of Acris.
Margaret, m. first, to John Poynet, esq. and se-
condly, to John Hill.

Mildred, m. to Thomas Corbet, of London.
Anne, m. to Robert Cutts, of London.
Emeline, d. unm.

He m. secondly, Mary, daughter of William Tirrell, esq. of Beeches, in Essex, and by her left an only daughter,

Jane, heir to her mother, m. John Honywood, esq. of Elmsted, in Kent, and had an only daughter, Catherine Honywood, who m. Sir Edward Scot, knt. of Scotts Hall, in that county. This Peter Heyman was one of the gentlemen of the bedchamber to EDWARD VI. and had a grant from that monarch, of Claverty, in Kent. He d. in August, 1550, and was s. by his eldest son,

RALPH HEYMAN, esq. of Somerfield, living in 1577, m. Anne, daughter of William Naunton, esq. of Suffolk, and had issue,

HENRY, his heir.

William, who gave a perpetual exhibition for the
education of youths at the King's School at Can-
terbury, and at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Elizabeth, m. to Sir Thomas Scott, knt. of Scott's
Hall.

Mary, m. to John Boade, esq. of Feversham.
Anne, m. to Adam Sprackling, esq. of Fordwich.
Elizabeth, m. to Thomas Tournay, esq. of New
Buildings.

Margaret, m. to William Hales, esq. of Hepington.
Rebecca.

He d. in 1601, and was s. by his elder son,

HENRY HEYMAN, esq. of Somerfield, who m. Rebecca, daughter and co-heir of Dr. Robert Horne, bishop of Winchester, by whom he had four sons and three daughters, of the latter, Elizabeth, m. Sir Peter Godfrey, knt. of Lyd, in Kent. He d. in 1613, and was s. by his eldest son,

SIR PETER HEYMAN, knt. who m. first, Sarah, daughter and co-heir of Peter Collet, of London, merchant, and had by her,

HENRY, his heir, born at Selling, in Kent, 20th
November, 1610.

Sarah, m. to Laurence Rooke, esq. of Monksnor-
ton, in Kent.

He m. secondly, Mary, daughter and co-heir of Randolph Wolley, of London, merchant, by whom he had

was left by another branch of the family for charitable

uses for ever.