The second son,

PHILIP MORGAN, esq. of Langston, acquired that estate in marriage with the daughter and heir of Sir John Norris, knt. of Penlline Castle. He was direct ancestor of

WILLIAM MORGAN, esq. sheriff for Monmouthshire in 1567, and M.P. in 1571, who was the first proprietor of Llantarnam. He m. Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Rees Mansel, knt. of Margam, and was s. by his son,

EDWARD MORGAN, esq. of Llantarnam and Penrice, M. P. for Monmouthshire in 1586, who m. Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Hugh Smith, esq. of Long Ashton, in Somersetshire, and had a son and successor,

WILLIAM MORGAN, esq. of Llantarnam, who m. the Lady Frances Somerset, daughter of Edward, Earl of Worcester, and was father of

1. SIR EDWARD MORGAN, of Llantarnam, who was created a BARONET in 1642. He m. Mary, daughter of Sir Francis Englefield, bart. of Wotton Basset, in Wiltshire, and was s. at his decease, 24th June, 1653, by his son,

11. SIR EDWARD MORGAN, of Llantarnam, living in 1661, who m. Frances, daughter of Thomas Morgan, esq. of Mangham, and was s. by his son,

III. SIR EDWARD MORGAN, of Llantarnam, who m. for his second wife, Mary, daughter of Humphrey Baskerville, esq. of Pontrilas, in the county of Hereford, and by that lady, who wedded, secondly, John Grubham Howe, esq. father of the first Lord Chedworth, had two daughters,

ANNE, who died unm. bequeathing her moiety of
the inberitance to John Howe, esq. who had
married her mother, Lady Morgan.

FRANCES, m. Edmund Bray, esq. eldest son of Sir
Edmund Reginald Bray, of Barrington Park,
Gloucestershire, and had issue,

REGINALD MORGAN BRAY, died unmarried 6th
April, 1741.

MARY BRAY, who wedded John Blewitt, esq.
of London, and dying in 1756, had issue,
EDMUND BLEWITT, esq. d. unm.
EDWARD BLEWITT, esq. who m. Miss
Courcy, and by her, who wedded se-
condly, John Macnamara, esq. left at
his decease in 1766, two sons, JOHN,
who d. s. p. and

EDWARD BLEWITT, esq. who m. in
1796, Amelia, daughter and co-heir
of James Duberley, esq. of Ensham
Hall, Oxfordshire, and had issue,
EDWARD BLEWITT, esq.
REGINALD-JAMES BLEWITT, esq. of
Llantarnam Abbey, M.P. for the
Monmouthshire boroughs.

The intervening descent was as follows:

Edmund Blewitt, b. in January, 1800; d. in 1831, leaving by Mary Prothero, his wife, an only daughter, Amelia Rosa. Frances-Mary-Ann Blewitt, m. to Richard Brinsley Dowling, esq. barrister-at-law, and has an only daughter, Florence-Blewitt. Reginald, d. unm. 1761.

Frances Blewitt, m. to Joseph Newton, esq. and had a daughter, Mary, now living. Catharine Blewitt, m. to William Dur ham, esq. of Maugusbury, in Glouces tershire, and had a daughter Catharine, who m. Col. Kingsmill Evans, and was mother of the present KINGSMILL EVANS, esq. of the Hill Court, Herefordshire.

(See BURKE's Commoners, vol. ii. p. 243.) FRANCES BRAY, who m. Thomas Fettyplace, esq. and had issue, Frances, wife of Richard Gorges, esq. of the Eye, Herefordshire; Mary, m. first, to B. Shaw, esq. and secondly, to William Kemeys, esq.; and Arabella, si. to John Webb, esq. father of the present Colonel Webb, of Adwell.

Sir Edward died in 1681, at an early age, when, er at the death of his uncle James, who is said to bave succeeded to the title, the BARONETCY became EXTINCT.

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vember, 1602. "His father, Dr. Morice, dying au. 1605, left this his son, not full four years old, and a widow, very rich, who became the third wife of Sir Nicholas Prideaux, of Soulden, in the parish of Holdsworthy, a pretty market town lying near the borders of Cornwall." Lady Prideaux attended with great zeal to the education of her son, and under her guid ance he became a person distinguished in his time for learning and accomplishments. He resided with her at Churston, in West Putford, a small parish to the west of Bytheford, where he most sedulously followed his studies, and her ladyship, until her decease in October, 1647, had the entire direction of his affairs. Soon after his return home, he was married to one of the grandaughters of his step-father. In 1645, he was elected to the Long Parliament, by the county of Devon, without solicitation on his part, but did not take his seat. In 1651, he was appointed sheriff for Devonshire, having the year before settled at Werrington, in that county, which he had purchased from Sir Francis Drake, and being an intimate friend of General Monk's, was subsequently employed in the restoration of the exiled monarch. In March, 1759, through the influence of Monk, he was made colonel of foot, and constituted governor of Plymouth, and he attended the general to Dover, in 1660, to receive the restored monarch, when he received the honour of knighthood, and at Canterbury was sworn one of the principal secretaries of state, and of his majesty's privy council. He held the seals of office until 1668, when he resigned, and retired into private life. He m. as stated above, Elizabeth, dau. of Humphrey Prideaux, esq. of Soulden, in Devonshire, and had issue, WILLIAM (Sir), his heir.

John, a Turkey merchant, father of

John Morice, esq. M.P. for Cornwall, temp. GEORGE I, who m. Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Jeffrey Jeffreys, knt. alderman of London, and died 13th February, 1734-5. He had one son and five daughters, of which all were dead in 1741, except one daughter, the wife of Jeffrey Jeffreys, esq. of the Priory. Humphrey, a Hamburgh merchant, who m. a daughter of Trollope, esq. of Lincolnshire,

and had a son,

Humphrey Morice, M.P. for Grampound, and sub-governor of the Bank, temp. GEORGE I. and GEORGE II.

Nicholas, d. unm.

William, m. Anne, daughter and co-heir of Richard
Lower, M.D. and d. in his father's lifetime, s. p.
Mary, m. to Sir John Carew, bart. of Anthony, in
Cornwall.

Gertrude, m. to Sir Walter Young, bart. of Culli-
ton, in Devonshire.

He m. secondly, a daughter of Richard Reynell, esq. of Ogwell, in Devonshire, by whom (who d. before her husband) he had an only son, his successor at his decease, about the year 1690,

II. SIR NICHOLAS MORICE, M.P. for Newport, temp. Queen ANNE, King GEORGE I. and King GEORGE II. m. Lady Catherine Herbert, eldest daughter of Thomas, Earl of Pembroke, aud by her ladyship, who d. in 1716, had issue,

WILLIAM, his successor.

CATHERINE, m. in 1725, to Sir John St. Aubyn, bart. and d. 16th June, 1740, leaving issue, JOHN ST. AUBYN, who s. his father, and was fourth baronet.

Barbara St. Aubyn, m. to Sir John Molesworth, bart. M.P. for Cornwall.

BARBARA, m. in 1728, to Sir John Molesworth,
bart. of Pencarrow, and died 17th May, 1735,
leaving a son,

Sir John Molesworth, M.P. who m. his cousin,
Barbara St. Aubyn.

He d. 27th January, 1725-6, and was s. by his son,

III. SIR WILLIAM MORICE, M.P. for Newport, and afterwards for Launceston, m. first in September, 1731, Lady Lucy Wharton, daughter of Thomas, Marquess of Wharton. Her ladyship died 2nd February, 1738-9. Sir William m. secondly, Anne, daughter of Thomas Bury, esq. of Bury-narber, in Devonshire, but had no issue. He d. 24th January, 1750, when the BARONETOY EXPIRED, while his large estates devolved upon the families of St. Aubyn and Molesworth. Werrington is now, by purchase, the property of the Duke of Northumberland.

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MORLAND, OF SULHAMSTEAD
BANISTER,

CREATED 18th July, 1660.-EXTINCT in Nov. 1716.

Lineage.

1. SAMUEL MORLAND, a man of considerable celebrity at the period in which he lived, was son of the Rev. Thomas Morland, rector of Sulhamstead, in Berkshire, and born about 1625, as we learn from one of his works, dated 1695, wherein he says he had then passed the seventieth year of his age. He received his education at Winchester school, and Magdalen College, Cambridge. In 1653, he went to Sweden, in the famous embassy of Bulstrode Whitelock, and became subsequently assistant to secretary Thurloe. In a few months after he was sent by Cromwell to the Duke of Savoy, to remonstrate against the persecution of the Waldenses, and published on his return, a History of the Evangelical Churches of the Valley Piedmont." As an ingenious mechanic, however, the

nothing can be stronger than the king's giving him the seals at Canterbury, on his return to London, so great and speedy an honour, could only be the reward of the greatest services, and which both the king and Lord Clarendon, had before equally acknowledged by letters unde their own hands from Breda."

See the Letters in Thurloe's Collection.

reputation of Sir Samuel Morland stands highest, and amongst his inventions are enumerated the speaking trumpet, the fire engine, a capstan for heaving anchors, and the STEAM ENGINE: others claim this great discovery, but the proofs in favour of Morland are extremely convincing.

In 1675, Sir Samuel (who had been created a BARONET in 1660,) obtained a lease of Vauxhall House, made it his residence, and considerably improved the premises, every part of which showed the inventive genius of the proprietor; the side table in the dining room was supplied with a large fountain, and the glasses stood under little streams of water. His coach had a movable kitchen with clockwork machinery, with which he could make soup, broil steaks, or roast a joint of meat. About 1684, he purchased a house at Hammersmith, near the waterside, and all his letters we have seen in the Lambeth Library, or British Museum, are thence dated. He gave a pump and well, adjoining to his house, for the use of the public, which benefaction was thus recorded upon a tablet fixed in the wall: "Sir Samuel Morland's well, the use of which he freely gives to all persons, hoping that none who shall come after him, will adventure to incur God's displeasure, by denying a cup of cold water (provided at another's cost and not their own) to either neighbour, stranger, passenger, or poor thirsty beggar, July 8, 1695." This pump has been removed, but the stone tablet was preserved in the garden of the house, afterwards known by the name of Walbrough House.

Sir Samuel married four wives; the first was a French lady, Susanne de Milleville, daughter of Daniel de Milleville, Baron of Boessey; the second, Curola, daughter of Sir Roger Harsnet, knt.; and the third, Anne, daughter of George Feilding, esq. After her death, he was entrapped into a fourth marriage, with a woman who pretended to be an heiress of £20,000. This, he himself stated, proved his ruiu. Of abandoned character, she probably impaired his property by extravagance, and though he obtained a divorce from her in 1688, the rest of his history is but a melancholy detail of disappointments and distress. In 1689, he wrote a long letter to Archbishop Tenison, giving an account of his life, and concluding with a declaration that his only wish was to retire and spend his life in Christian solitude," for which he begs the archbishop's "helping hand to have his condition truly represented to his majesty." He died in January, 1696, and was s. by his son,

II. SIR SAMUEL MORLAND, at whose decease s. p. in November, 1716, the BARONETCY became EXTINCT.

about the reign of HENRY VI. which descended to his son, of his own name,

WILLIAM MORYSINE, OF MORISON, who m. Elizabeth, daughter of Roger Lee, of Preston, in Yorkshire, and had a son and heir,

THOMAS MORYSINE, of Chardwell, and afterwards of the county of Hertford, who marrying a daughter of Thomas Merry, of Hatfield, in that county, had, with a daughter, the wife of Stephen Hales, of Coventry, two sons, viz.

RICHARD (Sir), his heir.

Fines, fellow of Peter House, in Oxford, who after taking a master's degree, and studying the civil law, obtained a license in 1589, at the age of twenty-three, of the master and fellows of the house to travel, and leaving the university, he embarked in 1591, and spent the following seven years abroad; returning in 1598, he became secretary to Sir Charles Blound, lord deputy of Ireland. He died in 1614, and his travels were published in 1617, (London) entitled "An Itinerary, containing ten years travels through the twelve dominions of Germany, Bohmerland, Switzerland, Netherland, Denmark. Poland, England, Scotland, and Ireland, divided into three parts."

The elder son,

SIR RICHARD MORYSINE, OF MORISON, spent, like his brother, several years in the university of Oxford, took a degree in arts, afterwards travelled, and be came distinguished amongst the most accomplished of his time. In 1537, he was a prebendary of Yatmin ster Secunda, in the church of Salisbury, and being st length recommended to HENRY VIII. as a person of worth and ability, he was accredited ambassador to the Emperor Charles V. as he was again, by EDWARD VI. He received the honour of knighthood in Italy, and died at Strasburgh, 17th March, 1556. Sir Richard was the author of many works, was esteemed a learned man, encouraged learning, and was liberal to several scholars of note. He realized by his own exertions a fair estate, comprising the manor of Whitesbury, or Whichbury, in Wilts and Hants; the manor of East Chinolk, in Somersetshire; and the manor Cashiobury, where he had commenced the erection of a mansion house. He m. Bridget, eldest daughter of John, Lord Hussey, of Sleford, and by that lady (who m. secondly, Henry, Earl of Rutland, and thirdly, Francis, Earl of Bedford,) had issue, CHARLES (Sir), his heir.

Elizabeth, m. first, to William, eldest son of Henry,
Lord Norreys; and secondly, to Henry Clinton,
Earl of Lincoln.

Mary, m. to Bartholomew Hales, esq. of Chester-
field.

Jane-Sibilla, m. first to Edward, Lord Russel, son

of the second Earl of Bedford. His lordship d in the lifetime of his father issueless, and her ladyship m. secondly, Arthur, Lord Grey, of

1. SIR CHARLES MORRISON, who was made a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of King JAMES I. and created a BARONET 29th June, 1611. He m. the Hon. Mary Hicks, daughter and co-heir of Baptist, Viscount Campden, and left an only surviving child,

ELIZABETH, Who m. Arthur, Lord Capel, and was

mother of

Arthur Capel, first EARL OF ESSEX.

Sir Charles d. in 1628, and was interred in Watford Church, where a sumptuous monument was raised to the memory of himself and his wife, with their effigies curiously wrought in marble thereon, as also the effigies of two sons, who died young, and of his daughter, the Lady Capel. The BARONETCY EXPIRED with Sir Charles, and his estates passed to the noble house of Capel. Cashiobury has ever since been the chief seat of the EARLS OF ESSEX.

The first we meet with is

WILLIAM DE MORTON, whose son,

PETER DE MORTON, gave to the monks of Blithe, one carucat of land in Marton, with all appurtenances, and timber in his wood, to make them lodging and for fireing; as likewise a toft in the same town, and free multure in the mill thereunto belonging, on condition that they would receive him into their society "when God should give it into his heart." To Peter succeeded, NICHOLAS DE MORTON, whose wife, Agnes having outlived him, did fealty in her widowhood to the prior of Blythe the Friday next after the Ascension of our Lord, 1289, in the name of ROGER, her son, then under age, for two bovats of land in Marton, which the said Roger claimed to hold of the said prior, and acknowledging to owe 4s. per annum, and gave for relief, eight shillings. The said,

ROGER DE MARTON, was father of

THOMAS DE MARTON, whose son, and heir,

SIR ROBERT DE MORTON, knt. of Bautre, served in

39th 40th and 43rd of EDWARD III. in the last mentioned year he is called a knight, and in seven years afterwards he was constituted escheator of the counties of Nottingham and Derby, as he was again in the 1st of RICHARD II. He was returned to parliament twice subsequently for Nottinghamshire, in the 3rd and 17th of the last named king. Sir Robert was s. by his son,

CHARLES MORTON, of Morton, who had two sons, viz.

ROBERT, from whom after six generations, descended

ANTHONY MORTON, esq. of Morton, who wasted
the estate in the reign of ELIZABETH, and
his son,

ROBERT MORETON, sold Hareworth to Mr.
William Saunderson,

Robert, in the 17th of EDWARD IV. from him descended the Mortons, of London, whereof SIR ALBERT MORTON, was secretary of state, temp. JAMES 1.

The elder son and heir,
RICHARD MORETON, esq. of Milbourne St. Andrew,
temp. HENRY VI. was father of five sons, viz.

1. JOHN the celebrated CARDINAL MORTON, arch
bishop of Canterbury, and lord chancellor
of England, temp. HENRY VII. of whom AN-
THONY WOOD, states, "that he was a wise and
eloquent man, but in his nature harsh and
haughty—that he was much accepted by the
King, but envy'd by the Nobility, and hated
by the people. He won the King's mind with
Secrecy and Diligence, chiefly because he was
his old servant in his less fortunes, and for
that also he was in his affections, not without
an inveterate Malice against the House of
York, under which he had been in trouble."
This eminent man died at the advanced age of
ninety, in September, 1500, and was buried in
the Cathedral Church, at Canterbury.
11. Thomas, archdeacon of Ely.

1. GEORGE, his heir.

II. Thomas, ancestor of the Henbury line.

1. Lucy, m. to Thomas Mompesson, esq. of Little Bartington.

11. Cicely, m. to John Champneys, esq. of Orchard-
leigh, in Somersetshire.

III. Mary, m. to Augustin Laurence, of Sherford.
IV. Bridget, m. to Thomas Basket, of Divelisk.
v. Margaret, m. to George Lovell.

He d. in 1591, and was s. by his son,

GEORGE MORTON, esq. who, by his wife, daughter of Francis, of Combe Flory, was father of

SIR GEORGE MORTON, of Milbourne, St. Andrew, who, with several others, received the honour of knighthood, at the Tower, 1603, preceding the coronation of King JAMES I. He m. Joan, daughter of Holloway, of Walton, (some accounts make her wife to his father,) in Somersetshire, and had three sons, GEORGE, William, and John, with a daughter, Elena, m. to Thomas Hussey. Sir George was s. by his eldest son,

1. GEORGE MORTON, esq. of Melbourne St. Andrew, in the county of Dorset, who was created a BARONET 1st March, 1618-19, and represented the county in parliament 1 CHARLES I. during the trouble of whose reign he was a faithful royalist. Sir George m. Catharine, daughter of Sir Arthur Hopton, of Witham, in Somersetshire, and dying in 1661, was s. by his son,

II. SIR JOHN MORTON, of Milbourne St. Andrew, who married three wives. By the first, Eleanor, who died in 1671, he had an only daughter,

ANNE, who m. Edmund Pleydel, esq. of Midgehall,
Wilts, M. P. for Wootton Bassett, and dying in
1726, left surviving issue,

EDMUND MORTON PLEYDELL, who m. Deborah,
daughter of William Kuffen, esq. and died
in March, 1754, leaving issue.
Nevile Morton Pleydell, of Shitterton, who m.
Betty, daughter of Charles Brune, of Plum-
ber, and had with other issue, a daughter,
Jane, m. to Humphrey Prideaux, esq.
Thomas Morton Pleydell, d. s. p. 1773.
Henrietta, m. to Walter Hardiman, esq. of
Wilts.

Arethusa, m. to G. Ryves, esq. of Ranston.
Cornelia, m. to the Rev. Timothy Collins,
canon of Wells.

Sir John Morton's second wife, was Anne, daughter of Sir Francis Wortley, of Wortley, and the third, Elizabeth, daughter of Benjamin Culm, D.D. by Deborah, daughter of Sir Charles Pleydel, but by neither had he any issue to survive him. He died in 1698, aged seventy-one, when the BARONETCY EXPIRED. The estates were inherited by the Pleydells.

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The family of MOSLEY was founded by
JENKIN MOSLEY, of Hough End, whose son,
JAMES MOSLEY, was father of

EDWARD MOSLEY, of Hough End, who m. Margaret, daughter of Alexander Elcock, of Hilgate, in Cheshire, and had three sons,

1. NICHOLAS (Sir), his heir.

II. ANTHONY, of Ancoats, who m. Alice, daughter
of Richard Webster, esq. of Manchester, and
dying in 1670, was s. by his son,
OSWALD, of Ancoats, m. Anne, daughter

and co heir of Ralph Lowe, esq. of Mile
End, in the county of Chester, and dying
in 1630, left

NICHOLAS, of Ancoats.

EDWARD (Sir), of Hulme, in the county of Lancaster, who inherited the estates of Sir Edward Mosley, bart. in 1665. III. OSWALD, of Garret. The eldest son,

SIR NICHOLAS MOSLEY, knt. was lord mayor of London in 1599. He m. Margaret, daughter of Hugh Whitbroke, of Bridgenorth, in Salop, and had two

sons,

ROWLAND, his heir.

Edward (Sir), attorney-general for the duchy of
Lancaster, d. s. p.

Sir Nicholas d. at the advanced age of eighty-five, 12th December, 1612, and was s. by his elder son, ROWLAND MOSLEY, esq. who m. first, Anne, daugh ter of Humphry Hoghton, of Manchester, and had a daughter,

Margaret, m. to William Whitmore, esq. of Apley,
in Shropshire, and left a daughter,

ANNE WHITMORE, heir to her father, who m.
Sir Richard Sawyer, knt.

He wedded, secondly, Anne, daughter and co-heir of Richard Sutton, esq. of Sutton, in Cheshire, and had, with another daughter Anne, a son and heir,

1. EDWARD MOSLEY, esq. of Hough, in the county of Stafford, who was created a BARONET 20th July, 1640. He m. Mary, daughter of Sir Gervase Cutler, knt. (and heir of her mother, Elizabeth, only daughter and heir of Sir John Bentley, knt. of Bradsal Park, in Derbyshire), by whom he had issue,

EDWARD, his successor.

Mary, m. to Joseph Maynard, esq. of Gunnersbury, in Middlesex, son and heir of Sir John Maynard, knt. serjeant-at-law, one of the cam missioners of the great seal, temp. WILLIAM III. and had two daughters (co-heirs to their father),

ELIZABETH MAYNARD, m. to Sir Henry Hobart, bart. and had with other issue,

SIR JOHN HOBART, bart. created Lord Hobart, and Earl of Buckinghamshire.