colonel of the Romney fencible cavalry, raised in 1794, and disbanded in Ireland, 1800. He is unmarried. Creation. Baron Chandos of Sudeley Castle, com. Glouc. by letters patent, April 8th, 1554, 1 Mary. Arms. Argent, on a cross, sable, a leopard's face, or. Crest. On a wreath, the bust of a Saracen, side-faced, proper, vested paly of the first, and gules, and semè of roundles counterchanged, the cape ermine, a wreath round his temples. Supporters. Two otters, argent. Motto. MAINTIEN LE DROIT. ST. JOHN, LORD ST. JOHN OF BLETSHOE. THIS being the eldest branch of the ancient family of ST. JOHN, of Stanton St. John in Oxfordshire, as already observed in the account of the Viscount Bolingbroke and St. John, I am now to treat of Sir JOHN St. John, the eldest son of Sir OLIVER St. John, of Penmark in Glamorganshire, by Margaret his wife, daughter to Sir John de Beauchamp, and sister and heir to John, Lord Beauchamp, of Bletshoe, Knight. This Margaret afterwards wedded John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, and Knight of the Garter, and bore to him Margaret, who was wife of Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond, and by him mother of Henry VII. King of England. She, thirdly, married Lionel, Lord Welles, and by him had John, Viscount Welles, Knight of the Garter, who wedded Cecily, second daughter of King Edward IV. but died February 9th, 1498, leaving issue one sole daughter, Anne, b The said Sir JOHN St. John was made Knight of the Bath, in November, 1488, by Henry VII. at the creation of his eldest son, Arthur, Prince of Wales. He married Alice, daughter of Sir Thomas Bradshaigh, of Haigh, in the county palatine of Lancaster, and by her had issue, First, MAURICE de St. John, who died unmarried. Secondly, Sir John de St. John, Knight, his successor. And three daughters; Anne, wife of Henry, Lord Clifford ; a See p. 42. b Dugdale's Baronage, vol. ii. p. 13. c Jekyl's Cat. of Knts. Philpot's great Baronage, fol, 207, in Offic. Armor. Eleanor, married to John de la Zouch, of Cheadle in Staffordshire, Esq.; and Margaret, who was a nun at Salisbury. Which Sir JoHN de St. John, (who was Knight of the Bath, 17 Hen. VII.) succeeded his father in the estate at Bletshoe, and married Sibyl, daughter of Morgan ap Jenkyns ap Philip, and had issue by her three sons. e First, Sir John de St. John, of Bletshoe, Knight. Second, Sir Oliver St. John, of Sharnbrook in com. Bedford, Knight, who married' Mary, daughter of...... Fitz Jeffry, of Thurleigh in the county of Bedford. Third, Alexander St. John, of Thorley in com. Hertford, Esq. who married Anne, daughter of George Dalyson, Esq. and widow of...... Lenthorp. He was father of HENRY, whose son Sir OLIVER St. John, of Cayshoe in Bedfordshire, Knight, was M. P. for that county 12 and 21 James I.; and 1 Char. I. his eldest son OLIVER St. John, succeeded Chief Justice Bankes, as LoRD CHIEF JUSTICE of the Common Pleas, which he resigned at the restoration, and died on the Continent December 31st, 1673, aged about seventy-five. His second wife was daughter of Henry Cromwell. His eldest son, Francis St. John, of Longthorpe com. Northton, was father of Sir Francis, created a Baronet, 1715. (See Noble's Cromwell, vol. ii. p. 13.) He had also eight daughters; of whom Catherine wash the wife of Sir Griffith Ryce, of Wales, Knight, (son of Sir Ryce apThomas) who lie both buried in the cathedral at Worcester, under a tomb erected to their memories; but she had a second husband, Sir Peter Edgecombe, ancestor to Earl Mount Edgecombe, and survived him some years; second, Alice, was married to Henry Parker, Lord Morley; third, Margaret, was wedded to Thomas Gamage, of Coyte castle in Glamorganshire, Esq.; fourth, Elizabeth, to Sir Thomas Rotheram, of Bedfordshire, Knight; and, fifth, Sibyll, to Sir Robert Kirkham, of Cotterstock in Northamptonshire, Knight, and the rest died unmarried. Sir JOHN St. John, his eldest son and heir, married Margaret, daughter of Sir William Waldegrave, of Smalbridge in Suffolk, Knight of the Bath, by whom he had issue Oliver St. John, only son. And four daughters; Margery, the wife of Henry Grey, of • Visit. com. Hunt MS. f Notitia St. Johanniana, p. 30. Edmondson's genealogies, and Notitia St. Johanniana, p. 30. Habington's Antiq. of Worcester, p. 21. Wresthouse in Bedfordshire, ancestor to the late Earls and Duke of Kent; Anne, the wife of Richard Dennys; Margaret, married to Francis Russel, second Earl of Bedford; and Alice, the wife of Edmund, Elmes, of Lilford in Northamptonshire, Esq. Which OLIVER, FIRST BARON ST. JOHN, was by letters patent, bearing date January 13th, 1558-9, 1 Eliz. advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this realm, by the title of LORD ST. JOHN OF BLETSHOE; and in 15 Eliz. was one of the peers who sat in judgment on Thomas, Duke of Norfolk; and dying ' in the 24th of Eliz. was found to have been married to Agnes, daughter of John Fisher, Esq. and granddaughter and heir of Sir Michael Fisher, Knight, who died on June 18th, 1548, 2 Edw. VI. (as appears by inquisition taken at Ampthill, January 14th, 3 Edw. VI. ) possessed of the manor of Clophill-hall, the manor of Kempston, called Fishers, the manor of Eton, called Goddington, in Eton and Wyboldeston, the manor of Clifton, and advowson of the church, and the manor of Bygleswade, all in Bedfordshire ; " and to which the said Agnes was found to be heir, then twentytwo years old, and the wife of the said Oliver St. John. He had by her four sons and six daughters, viz. First, John, second peer. Second, Oliver, third peer. Third, Thomas, from whom descended Sir Francis St. John, created Baronet on September 22d, 2 James I.; and Francis, ancestor of the St. John's, of Cole-Orton in Leicestershire. Martha, eldest daughter, married John Cheney, Esq.; and secondly, James Colebrond, of Barham in Sussex, who died on October 21st, 1600, leaving issue by her, Sir John Colebrond, Bart. created to that dignity on December 21st, 1621; Judith, the second daughter, was married to Sir John Pelham, of Laughton in com. Sussex, Knight; Margaret, to Nicholas Luke, of Wood-End in Cople, Bedfordshire, Esq.; Anne, first to Robert Corbet, of Morton Corbet in Shropshire, Esq. (whose sole daughter and heir, Elizabeth, was married to Sir Henry Wallop, the Earl of Portsmouth's ancestor), and secondly, to Sir Rowland Lytton, of Knebworth in Hertfordshire, Knight (she died P February 28th, i Pat. 1 Eliz. p. 4. Tirwhit, qu. 22. k Camden's Annals. m Cole's Esc. lib. v. p. 378 in Bibl. Harley. Ex Stemmate. 1601, and was buried at Knebworth); Margery and Agnes died unmarried. JOHN, SECOND LORD ST. JOHN, OF BLETSHOE, the eldest son, was one of the peers who sat on the trial of Mary, Queen of Scotland. He died on October 23d, 1596, and by his will ordered his body to be buried at Bletshoe, in such manner as his father was buried. His wife, Catherine, Lady St. John, had sepulture in St. Michael's chapel in Westminster-abbey, where is the following inscription : Memoriæ S. Catharina Domina St. John, filia Gulielmi Dormer de Cum mors sit certa, et posterorum cura incerta, morta- OLIVER, his next brother and heir, became his successor, as THIRD LORD ST. JOHN; and married' Dorothy, daughter and heir to Sir John Rede, of Odington in the county of Gloucester, Knight, by whom he had eight sons, and seven daughters, viz. First, Oliver, his successor. Second, John, who died young. Third, Sir Anthony, who married the daughter of ............. Aubrey, widow of Sir William Herbert. Fourth, Sir Alexander, who was elected to parliament for the town of Bedford, in the 12th, 18th, and 21st of James I. and the 1st of Charles I. He was knighted, 1608, with his brother Anthony; and married Margaret, daughter of John Trye, of Hardwick in com. Gloucester, Esq. she died without issue, August 27, 1656, aged seventy-three, and was buried at St. Leonard's, Shoreditch. Fifth, Sir Rowland, who was made Knight of the Bath in Camden's Ann. s Drake, qu. 70. r F. F. in Offic. Arm. f. 555. a. I. I. 8. in Offic. Arm. f. 1. b. ■ Edmondson's Genealogies. |