vember, 1720, s. p. having m. Elizabeth, daughter of Colonel Richard Fowler, of Harnage Grange, in the county of Salop. VI. Gilbert, died young. VII. Richard, m. Elizabeth, daughter of 2. Robert, died young. 4. Edward. 5. Mary, 6. Isabel, The eldest son, Grosvenor. died s. P. WILLIAM COKE, esq. of Trusley, m. Catharine, daughter of Paul Ballidon, esq. of Derby, by whom he acquired a moiety of the manor of Stanley, in Derbyshire, (now in the possession of Sir Hugh Bateman, bart.), and dying the 20th of January, 1718, at the age of thirty-nine, without male issue, the elder branch of the family became extinct. Of his daughters, 1. CATHERINE-CASSANDRA-ISABELLA, was m. to her cousin Edward Wilmot, of Spondon, barrister-at-law, second son of Edward Wilmot. Her husband, who thus became inheritor of the patrimonial estate of the Trusley branch of the Cokes, was descended from one of the most ancient families in the land. Speed, in his succession of Saxon Monarchs, mentions a nobleman of that name so early as the reign of ETHELRED (A.D. 1008). At the time of the conquest the family was settled at Sutton-upon-Soar, in the county of Nottingham, and removed to Derbyshire in the reign of HENRY VIII.; part of the family residing at Spondon, and part at Chaddesden, in the immediate vicinity of the former place. The present Sir Robert Wilmot, of Chaddesden, whose grandfather, Edward, was created a baronet in 32 GEORGE II. is lineally descended from Edward Wilmot who m. Susanna Coke, of Trusley, on 30th May, 1667. Edward Wilmot dying the 1st January, 1748, was buried in Trusley church, and was s. by his son and heir, Francis Ballidon Wilmot, who m. Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Wilmot, of Derby, by Henrietta, daughter of William Cavendish, and left issue one son and one daughter, viz. Francis, rector of Trusley and Pinxton, who dying 21st April, 1818, unmarried, the Trusley and Spondon properties devolved upon his only sister and heir. Susanna, m. to John Coke, of Debdale, county of Nottingham, of whom presently. II. FRANCES. The second daughter and co-heir, FRANCES COKE, m. in 1720, D'EwES COKE, esq. of Suckley, son of Heigham Coke, descended from the Bishop of Hereford. (See p. 273.) She died, leaving issue three sons. He m. secondly, Catherine, daughter of Frances Hurt, of Alderwasley, in the county of Derby, by whom he had two sons and three daughters. By his first marriage, 1. D'Ewes, died in vitâ patris. 11. Balidon, d. s. p. III. GEORGE, of whom presently. By the second, 1. Charles, died in the West Indies. 11. D'Ewes, m. Deborah, daughter of Stokes, of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick. He was sometime resident in Newfoundland, where he filled an official situation, and was shipwrecked off that coast, but his life was preserved. He subsequently settled at Poole, in Dorsetshire, and d. s. p. III. Jane, m. and had issue. V. Catherine, } v. Bridget, m. and had issue. D'Ewes dying in 1751, was s. by his son, GEORGE COKE, esq. for some time an officer of dragoons, who m. Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. Seth Ellis, of Brampton, in the county of Derby, and d. 17th November, 1759, leaving one son, THE REV. D'EwES COKE, rector of Pinxton and South Normanton, in the county of Derby, a botanist of some celebrity in his native county, where he added greatly to the list of discoveries of indigenous plants. He m. Hannah, daughter and heiress of George Heywood, of Brimington, in the county of Derby, and had issue, 1. D'EWES, his heir. 11. William (Sir), one of the judges in the supreme court in the island of Ceylon, d. at Trincomallee 1st September, 1818, aged forty-two. 111. John, high sheriff for the county of Nottingham in 1830, and magistrate | vells, in whose hands it continued till it was John, who d. 24th August, 1828, J. Hannah, m. to Rev. Ellis Williams, rector of Pinxton, d. in 1833, s. p. The Rev. D'Ewes Coke dying at Bath 12th April, 1811, was succeeded by his eldest son, D'EWES COKE, esq. the present proprietor of Brookhill. Arms-Gules, three crescents, and a can ton or. It is generally supposed that the crescents and the sun were adopted by the family at the time of the crusades to Palestine, when Richard introduced the custom of wearing coats of arms and of having them engraved upon seals. His own broad seal, when he embarked for the Holy Land, contained two crescents (the Turkish ensign), and they seem not to have been uncommon emblems, as we read of another prince (according to Speed) who going against the Turks adopted a crescent, with this motto: "Plenior redibo," ("I will return more full.") Richard I. after his return from captivity, ordered a new broad seal to be engraved, bearing a full moon, which Speed thinks was done emblematically. The adoption also of one of the heavenly bodies as a crest strengthens the probability of the coat of arms originating with the family in the manner described, and that they took arms from the badges of Richard-the moon and starswhich were emblazoned upon all his standards, and are cut upon his great seals, Quarterings-Owens. Odingsell. Beresford. Snitterton. Hopwell. Crest-The sun in splendor, or. The manor of Trusley (Toxenai), now the property of John Coke, esq. in right of his wife, was held by one Hugh under Henry de Ferrars, when the survey of Domesday was taken. Oliver de Odingsells purchased it of Ralph de Beaufey in the reign of HENRY III. The co-heiresses of this family brought it in moieties to Richard Piper and Thomas Coke: the former's moiety passed to the Vernons, and was purchased of the Manners family in 1569 by Richard Coke for 5207. and a douceur of 10l. to Mr. Manners. The manor-house, the ancient seat of the Cokes, was taken down by Edward Wilmot. The College, in the parish of All Saints, Derby, which had been the habitation of the canons, passed into lay hands after the Reformation. It was some time in the possession of the Allestrey family, who sold it to the Goodwins. It came by marriage from the latter to Daniel-Parker Coke, and at his death, with his other landed property, to the heirs at law, D'Ewes Coke and Susanna, wife of John Coke. Debdale, purchased by John Coke, esq. Spondon, by marriage with the Wilmots. Brimington and Totley by marriage with the Heywoods. The old mansion-house at Brimington was the property and residence of Colonel Gill, one of Cromwell's officers during the civil war. Lower Moor, in Herefordshire, by descent from George Coke, Bishop of Hereford, who purchased the estate of the Earl of Worcester. Seats-Brookhill Hall, Debdale, and Lower Estates-Brookhill was granted by JAMES SCRASE-DICKINS, OF SUSSEX. DICKINS-SCRASE, CHARLES, esq. of Brighthelmstone, in Sussex, b. 15th September, 1794; m. 18th February, 1829, Lady Frances-Elizabeth Compton, daughter of Charles, first Marquess of Northampton, and has issue, CHARLES-SPENCER, b. 5th February, 1830. This gentleman succeeded his father 11th October, 1833, and is a magistrate and deputy-lieutenant for the county of Sussex. Lineage. The family of SCRASE, originally of Danish extraction, held lands in Sussex before and at the period of the Norman conquest, as appears by the general survey. From NICHOLAS SCRAS, who, in the 10 EDWARD I. was vicecomes or sheriff, an office at that time of great trust and power, descended RICHARD SCRASE, of Hambleton, in Sussex, styled "Valettus ad coronam Domini Regis Edwardi Quarti." This Richard was buried in the chancel of Preston, as appears by a brass plate on his tomb, which records the period of his death to have been in the year 1499, and was s. by his son, RICHARD SCRASE, of Bletchington, in Sussex, who d. in 1519, and was buried at Preston, leaving a son, EDWARD SCRASE, of Bletchington, who d. in 1579, and was likewise interred at Preston. His son, RICHARD SCRASE, of Bletchington, was father of TUPPIN SCRASE, esq. of Bletchington, who obtained, in the year 1616, from Sir William Segar, garter king of arms, a grant of a crest to his arms, by a patent which sets forth that "Tuppin Scras, of Bletchington, in the county of Sussex, beareth for his coate armour, az. a dolphine arg. the fyns gu. and tayle gold between three escallops of the same, and was the sonne and heire of Richard, that was the sonne of Edward, the Edward William Tred- Mary Tredcroft, m. to the Rev. Susan, m. to Edward Blacker, esq. of Mary, m. to Richard Randes, esq. of Hartfield, in Sussex. Dorothy. Edith, m. to George Bedford, esq. The son and heir, RICHARD SCRASE, esq. of Bletchington, married and had four sons, WILLIAM, his heir. Richard, whose only daughter and heir, Henry, who left several children; John, The eldest son, WILLIAM SCRASE, esq. of the county of Sussex, was father of WILLIAM SCRASE, esq. of Stanmer, in Sussex, who d. in 1725, and was buried at Brighton, leaving, with other issue, a son and heir, CHARLES SCRASE, esq. of Brighthelmstone, who m. Miss Turnour, and dying in 1792, left two daughters, his co-heirs, SALLY, m. to ANTHONY DICKINS, esq. ELIZABETH, M. to William Smith, esq. of London, and d. s. p. The family of Dickins, in which the estates of the Scrases eventually centered, was settled at Broadway, in Worcestershire, at an early period, and in the reign of CHARLES II. Thomas Dickins was a bencher and treasurer of the Inner Temple. He left an only daughter, who died unmarried, and bequeathed her property between Ambrose Dickins, esq. father of the late Mr. Dickins, of Wollaston, and Anthony Dickins, who married the heiress of Serase. The immediate ancestor of the family before us, ANTHONY DICKINS, esq. of Broadway, in Worcestershire, son of William Dickins, was baptized at Broadway 19th September, 1624, and m. Margaret, daughter and heir of Edward Times, esq. of Chevrington, in the county of Warwick, by whom he left two sons, of whom the elder, TIMES DICKINS, esq. of London, baptized at Broadway 12th March, 1669; died s. p. before 1707, and was s. by his brother, WILLIAM DICKINS, esq. of Chevrington, in the county of Warwick, bapt. at Broadway 10th August, 1659, who was father of CHARLES DICKINS, esq. assumed the additional surname and arms of SCRASE, upon the demise of his maternal grandfather in 1792, and upon the 5th May, in that year, married Elizabeth, daughter of John Devall, esq. of London, by whom he left, at his decease 11th October, 1833, an only child, the present CHARLES SCRASE-Dickins, esq. Arms-Quarterly; 1st and 4th, erm. on a cross flory sa. a leopard's face or; 2nd and 3rd, az. a dolphin naiant arg. fins or between three escallops of the last. Crests-1st, a lion sejant sa. holding a cross flory or; 2nd, on the stump of a tree, entwined by a serpent ppr., a falcon volant also ppr. beaked, membered and belled or. Estates-In Sussex, &c. Residence-Stoke Chichester. ORPEN, OF GLANEROUGH. ORPEN, RICHARD-JOHN-THEODORE, esq. of the city of Dublin, m. in 1819, Eliza, daughter of the Rev. Richard Stack, late fellow of FRANCIS-FITZ-RICHARD, b. in 1827. Arthur-Herbert, b. in 1830. Charles-William-de-Erpingham, b. in 1833. Mary. Theodora-Elizabeth. Emilia-Georgiana. Cornelia-Susannah-Sarah. Elizabeth-Ida-Rebecca. Mr. Orpen succeeded his father in 1805. Lineage. The family of ORPEN is of remote antiquity, and is stated to derive its descent from ERPEN, second son of Varnacker, (maire of the palace to CLOTHAIRE I.), who was son of Meroveus, and grandson of Theodorick, son | of CLOVIS, King of France. This Erpen, in the year 571, was governor to Gontram, son of CLOTHAIRE I., and Gregory of Tours | styles him "Duke." In his time a church which had been burnt down in Orbin Street, in the city of Tours, was rebuilt. The name, thus originally ERPEN, often pronounced Alpen, and by the ancient historians who wrote in Latin called Erpinus, Alpinus, and Albon, is varied in all the following forms, prior to the settlement in England of that branch of the family whence the present Orpens descend; Erpen, Arpen, Harpin, Erpon, Herpon, and by the French D'Arpin, D'Harpin, Torpin, Arpinus, Erpinus, Harpinus, Herpon, Albon and Albin. Several of the family still reside in France, known by the appellations of D'Herpin and D'Harpin. The name* comprises two words, Er," signifying "Dwellers," and "Pen," "the Summit." Under the monarchs of the early French dynasties, many of the family acted a brilliant and distinguished part, but our limits preclude us from reverting to more than one of those ancient warriors, namely, EUDES ERPEN, who appears to have been a man of high character and martial fame. Gilbert Abbas calls him Vir magnificus," and he is generally known in the old historians, by the name of "Herpinus Bituricensis," or Erpen of Bourges. Partaking_of_the_religious enthusiasm of the times, Eudes Erpen sold the Comté of Bourges to PHILIP I. King of France, for 60,000 crowns, and joined the followers of the cross, who, with Prince Robert, son of WILLIAM the Conqueror, then set out for Palestine. His services in the Holy Land are frequently alluded to in the ancient chroniclers, and Gilbert Abbas mentions that Baldwin (son of Godfrey, of Bouillon) having determined to attack the army of the Saracens near Ascalon, Count Erpen remonstrated with him, and urged delay until those chiefs who had withdrawn should return, and all the forces be collected. Baldwin having, however, tauntingly replied, "Si timeas, fuge Biturigas," Erpen immediately joined 66 Froissart spells the name Orpham, or Orphem; and Erpingham is written Orpingham in Speed's Theat. Brit. Thus it became gradually changed into Orphen and Orpen, and this latter orthography has been continued by the family, claiming descent from the ERPINGHAM branch, in contradistinction to the rest of the family, who derive from the collateral branches separated, it is supposed, before the establishment of the family at Erpingham or Orpingham. in the attack, but the Christian forces were, as he predicted, totally defeated, Baldwin alone escaped to Jerusalem. Count Erpen, together with Stephen Count of Blois, Stephen of Burgundy, Conrad, and the remains of the army, retreated to the town of Ramoth. Here they were besieged by the Saracens, and, after some time, the walls being battered down, the city was taken by storm. Count Erpen, and the other leaders, retired into a tower where they defended themselves, with eminent valour, for three days, until at length the enemy, having succeeded in effecting a breach, set fire to the tower. Count Erpen, and the others, sallied out and made immense slaughter among the infidels; so great indeed that they fell back, and calling out to Conrad, who particularly distinguished himself, offered terms if he would surrender: he accordingly did so, and Count Erpen, with all the survivors, were made prisoners. Ordericus Vitalis says, that Count Erpen was conveyed a captive to Babylon, (the author of "L'Art de Vérifier les Dates," alters it to Bagdad) and remained there for a considerable time, until some merchants from Constantinople, happening to discover the place of his confinement, he sent a message to AlexiusAugustus, then emperor, entreating him to procure his release, which the emperor having immediately demanded, Erpen was set free, and returned to France. On his way he visited Pope Paschal II. to consult his holiness as to the course he should in future adopt, broken down as he was by toil and suffering. Ordericus Vitalis gives at full length the Pope's speech to him, and mentions that in the sequel the aged warrior, following the pious advice then given, retired to the monastery of Cluny, in Burgundy, and there, having become a monk, continued in the service of God until his death. The son of this redoubted and valiant soldier (by Matilda his wife, daughter of Gilo, lord of Sully, Seulli, or Sauliers) was ROBERT D'ERPEN, who held a knight's fee of the honour of Pont Audemar. He is stated to have accompanied the CONQUEROR to England, and to have fixed his residence at Erpingham, in the county of Norfolk, (where some of the Erpen family are supposed to have settled so early as the time of EDWARD the Confessor). His son was John de Erpingham in 1100, to whom followed Peter, who was succeeded by Robert, and he, in 1200, by John, to whom succeeded, in 1277, Robert, who had a brother, Thomas, rector of Henderby, in Suffolk, ancestor probably of the Orpens of Suffolk, Kent, Essex and Sussex. Robert died in 1345, and was succeeded by his eldest son, John. He must have had another son |