in the county of Surrey, d. February, wall, by whom he left, inter alias, a daugh1805, unmarried. 2. Isabella, d. unm. November, 1733. He m. secondly, Prudence, daughter of John, and sister and sole heiress of William Busvargus, esq. of Busvargus, in Corn Florence Wadham, m. John Wyndham, esq. The Princess Joan Plantagenet, by Gilbert de Margaret de Audley, m. Ralph, Earl of Staf- Hugh, Earl of Stafford, K.G. m. Philippa, daughter of Thomas, Earl of Warwick, K.G. Their daughter, Margaret Stafford, m. Ralph, Earl of Westmoreland, K.G. and had, Margaret Neville, m. Richard, Lord Scrope, of Bolton, by whom she had Henry, Lord Scrope, of Bolton, m. Elizabeth, daughter of John, Lord Scrope, of Masham. Their second son, Sir Richard Scrope, m. Eleanor, daughter of Eleanor-Scrope, m. Sir Thomas Wyndham, of Thomas Plantagenet, Earl of Norfolk, and Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk, m. John, Lord Elizabeth-Segrave, daughter and heir, m. John, John Howard, Duke of Norfolk, K.G. Earl Margaret-Howard, m. Sir John Wyndham, of and had issue, as is above-mentioned. The loyalty of the Wyndham family became proverbial from the emphatic admonition of Sir Thomas ter, Anne, m. to John Blake, and their third daughter and co-heiress, Margaret, m. CAPTAIN JOHN-HARRIS NICOLAS, R.N. and had five sons. Wyndham to his son, "not to desert the Crown though it hung upon a bush ;" and an interesting relic of the attachment which Colonel Giffard bore to his Sovereign has descended from his daughter, Mrs. Keigwin, to her great-great-grandson, Captain Toup Nicolas. It consists of a small gold ring, set with diamonds, within which is a concealed miniature of CHARLES I., beautifully enamelled on a turquoise. Mrs. Keigwin appears to have been ing verses on the death of her grandmother, Joan, a woman of superior attainments; and the followdaughter of Sir Henry Portman, of Orchard, in Somersetshire, who d. 1633, were written before she was eighteen. "On the memory of the most virtuous and honourable lady, the Lady Joan Wyndham. Two Orchards' had a several right to thee, She, skillfully putting the same in cure, secure. The greater is his loss, but that he knew 1 Sir John Wyndham, her husband, resided at Orchard Wyndham, in the county of Somerset, and her father, Sir John Portman's seat was at Orchard, in the same county. judge of the Common Pleas, and Sir Wadham 2 Sir Hugh Wyndham, the sixth son, was a Wyndham, the seventh son, was one of the Justices of the King's Bench, and father of Thomas Wyndham, Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Family of Busbargus. 00 The original name of the BuSVARGUS family was LETHON. JOHN LETHON having purchased the estate of BUSVARGUS, (which name signifies, in the Cornish language, "The house on the top of the wood,") in the parish of St. Just, in Penwith, first adopted the name of Busvargus as an alias, but soon afterwards abandoned that of Lethon altogether. He was living at Busvargus in the 20th ELIZABETH, 1578, and by Janepher, daughter of John Sparnon, of Breage, in the county of Cornwall, had, 1. JOHN. II. Thomas, living 1608. 111. Elizabeth, unmarried in 1620. IV. Thomasine, unmarried in 1620. JOHN BUSVARGUS, of Busvargus, the eldest son, b. about 1605, was living at Treveneth, in the parish of Wendron, in 1620, in consequence of his marriage, on 5th October, 1619, with Agnes, eldest daughter of John Hill, esq. of Trenethick, in Wendron.* He entered his pedigree at the Herald's Visitation of Cornwall, in 1620, and d. in December, 1637,† leaving issue, by the said Agnes Hill, who d. in December, 1643, I. JOHN. II. WILLIAM. III. Thomas, bapt. 28th August, 1625. 1. Johanna, bapt. 3rd December, 1620. 11. Alicia, bapt. 17th May, 1627. IП. Maria, bapt. 27th October, 1629. IV. Anne, bapt. 1st December, 1633. JOHN BUSVARGUS, the eldest son, was baptized 16th December, 1621, and in 1637, succeeded his father in the estates of Busvargus, Tregeseal, Trevejean, Boscashel, Keigwin, He died without issue, and Callartha, &c. 20th April, 1641, being then seised of that property, as appears by the inquisition taken on his decease, and leaving his brother, WILLIAM BUS VARGUS, his heir, who was bapt. 9th February, 1623. He signed the resolution of the gentry in his neighbourhood to support the Protector in 1658, and died at Busvargus, in April, 1665, leaving, JOHN BUSVARGUS, the eldest son, d. 1st by Prudence, daughter of Hugh Pawley, of May, 1607, and, by Mary, daughter of Lelant, gentleman, ‡ whom he married in Thomas Randall, of Mabe, (who m. se-June, 1648, and who survived until December, condly, in June, 1611, John Noy, of St. Burian, d. March, 1614,) had, I. JOHN. 11. Alice, m. Nicholas Balson, of Paul, and was living in 1620. * The family of HILL of TRENETHICK was one of the most ancient in Cornwall. John Hill, alias Bodow, m. Jane, daughter and heir of John de Bodow, by the daughter and heir of Walter le Seneschall, eight generations before 1620, and his descendants having formed alliances with the families of Trefusis, Vyvyan, Erisey, and Penrose, became related to those of Granville, Gilbert, Gorges, Bonville, Arundell, Carminow, Rashleigh, Enys, Killigrew, Petit, and many others of equal respectability. + A curious inventory of his effects is printed in the Gentleman's Magazine for January, 1827. 1708, 1. JOHN. 11. William, b. 2nd September, 1660, and of whom no more is known. III. Hugh Busvargus, of St. Just, gen On Searle, Margery, daughter and heir of Robert Tresteane, of Trenowa, by Grace, daughter of Robert Arundell, of Camborne. The said STEPHEN PAWLEY died 19th November, 1635, and a handsome table monument to his memory exists in Lelant church, containing the arms of Pawley, viz. Or a lion rampant, sable; on a chief dancette of the second, three mullets argent. Crest, a unicorn's head issuing from a ducal coronet, quartering Tresteane. another compartment is a shield of the arms of Tresteane, impaling Arundell. By Margery Brea, the eldest son, m. Joan, daughter of he had five sons and five daughters. HUGH PAWLEY, and besides Prudence, who m. William Busvargus, A pedigree of the PAWLEY family, attested by had four sons and four daughters. The Pawley George Owen, York herald, of which a copy is family are now represented by that of Buck of preserved in the College of Arms, is said "to have Biddeford, in consequence of the marriage of John been in the keeping of Mrs. Busvargus, of St. Just, Buck, esq. with Judith, daughter and heir of Hugh in Penwith, 19th March, 1747." It commences Pawley, of Biddeford, merchant, the descendant with STEPHEN PAWLEY, of Gunwin, in Cornwall, of William Pawley, of that place, who was a who m. Margery, daughter and co-heir of Ambrose younger son of Hugh Pawley, of Lelant, a son of Brea, of Paul, whose son and heir, STEPHEN PAW-Hugh Pawley, by Joan Serle. Mrs. Buck died LEY, m. Jane, daughter of Hugh Samford, of Comb-5th October, 1739, aged 28, leaving three sons, florie, in Somersetshire. They had several children, George, Lewis, and William Buck. Vide History of whom STEPHEN PAWLEY, the eldest son, m. of Biddeford, p. 88. Iv. Margery, b. May, 1649, m. in December, 1671, Thomas, son of the Rev. Amos Mason, vicar of St. Just. She d. May 1677, leaving issue. v. Ann, m. 11th October, 1674, Edward Edwards, of Trevollard. JOHN BUSVARGUS, the eldest son, baptized 1st August, 1651, m. about 1680, Mary, daughter of John Usticke, of Botallack, gentleman, and d. June, 1707. By her, who d. in November, 1708, he had, 1. JOHN. II. WILLIAM. III. Margery, bapt. 5th December, 1685, IV. Margery, bapt. 9th June, 1694, d. v. PRUDENCE, of whom hereafter. JOHN BUSVARGUS, esq. the eldest son, was born in July, 1681, m. 1707, Hannah, daughter of William Veale, of Trevailer, gentleman, and dying without issue, in April, 1710, was succeeded by his only brother, WILLIAM BUSVARGUS, esq. of Busvargus, b. February, 1682, and m. June, 1705, Anne, daughter of Ceeley, of St. Ives;* but dying without issue, in June, 1751, his estates devolved upon his sister and heiress, PRUDENCE, b. 13th June, 1691, m. first, before November, 1713, the Rev. Jonathan Toup, lecturer of St. Ives, who d. July, 1721, leaving, 1. The Rev. Jonathan Toup, an eminent Greek scholar, "whose great critical It is remarkable that for seven generations every member of this family married into families living within thirty, and generally within ten miles of their own house. The arms borne by the Bus sagacity was known to the learned throughout Europe," b. December, 1713. He entered into holy orders, March, 1736; and was presented to the Rectory of St. Martin's, by Looe, July, 1750. Mr. Toup inherited the estates of Busvargus on his mother's death in 1773, and d. 19th January, 1785, unm. 11. Mary, m. Charles Worth, gent. of St. Ives, d. 6th November, 1750, s. p. She m. secondly, the Rev. John Keigwin, vicar of Landrake, before-mentioned, by whom, who d. March, 1761, she had the following issue, and d. February, 1773, III. William-Keigwin, b. 1724, d. unm. 1747. Iv. John, d. unm. 1741. v. Prudence, b. 1727, m. the abovementioned Charles Worth, of St. Ives, and left issue. vi. Margaret, d. unm. 1745. VII. Anne, b. 1731, m. John Blake, (who d. 1762,) and d. 28th March, 1814, leaving, Arms 1. Phillis, b. 1751, m. 1786, Nicholas-Harris Nicolas, esq. major of the royal Cornwall fencible cavalry, captain 44th and 89th regiments of foot, and d. February, 1799, s. p. 2. Anne, b. 1762, m. Paul-Harris Nicolas, esq. (who d. 1788,) now living, without issue. 3. Margaret, b. 13th September, 1762, m. 21st May, 1787, Captain John-Harris Nicolas, R.N. by whom, as has been already stated, she has five sons, (Granted in February, 1832, to Sir Harris Nicolas, and his descendants, in lieu of the Arms and Crest granted to his father and brothers in 1816,†) Argent, a Fess engrailed, and in chief three Eagles displayed, Gules. Quartering HARRIS, KEIGWIN, and BUSVARGUS. Crest-On a wreath of the colours, a Fetterlock Or, the Fetter passing through a plume of five ostrich feathers, alternately Argent and Gules. FULLERTON, OF WESTWOOD AND BALLINTOY CASTLE. FULLERTON, GEORGE ALEXANDER, esq. of Ballintoy Castle, in the county of Antrim, of Westwood, in Hampshire, and of Tockington, in Gloucestershire, b. in 1776, m. and has issue, Frances, m. to Andrew Armstrong, esq. of Gallen, in the This gentleman, whose patronymic is DOWNING, assumed the surname and arms of * Through this alliance the Downing family directly descend from the PLANTAGENETS: HENRY III. Eleanor, dau. and coheir of Raymond de Berenger, Comte de Provence Wingfield, esq. of Upton) of Thomas Calybut, esq. of Castle Acre, in Norfolk, and had a son, CALYBUT DOWNING, esq. of Shennington, in Gloucestershire, who m. Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Wingfield, esq. of Upton, in Northamptonshire, by Elizabeth, his wife, sister of William Cecil, Lord Burghley, treasurer to Queen Elizabeth, and was father of CALYBUT DOWNING, who became a commoner in Oriel College, Oxford, in 1623, and subsequently entering into holy orders, was made rector of Hickford, in Buckinghamshire, and of West Ildesley, in Berkshire; which latter he afterwards exchanged for the living of Hackney, in Middlesex. He m. Margaret, daughter and coheir of Robert Brett, D.D., and dying in 1644, left issue, 1. GEORGE, (Sir) of East Hatley, in Cambridgeshire, who was created a BARONET, 1st July, 1663. This distinguished person, who acted a prominent part in the eventful period in which he lived, was sent, during the Protectorate, ambassador to the States General of Holland. He sat for several years in parliament; and after the Restoration, became secretary of the treasury, teller of the exchequer, and one of his majesty's commissioners of customs. With Sir George Downing, when secretary of the treasury, originated the important act of the 17 CHARLES II., "To make all the money that was to be raised by this bill to be applied only to those ends to which it was given, which was the carrying on of the war, and to no other purpose whatsoever, or by what authority soever. This important innovation, and one which was the origin of estimates being laid before the House of Commons, was the more necessary in that reign, as it was well known the public service was much injured by the application of money to the purposes of the pleasures of the court, instead of the interests and defence of the country. Sir George Downing was opposed violently by Lord Clarendon, who was such a slave to his narrow prepossessions, that he would rather see the dissolute excesses he abhorred, derive nourishment from that revenue which had been allotted to maintain the national honour, and which, by its deficiencies thus aggravated, had caused the navy to be laid up, and the coasts to be left defenceless, than suffer them to be restrained by the only power to which thought less luxury would submit. In 1670, Sir George Downing proceeded again as ambassador to Holland, on the recall of Sir W. Temple, and remained there until 1672, when the war again broke out. He m. a lady greatly distinguished for beauty, Frances, fourth daughter of Sir William Howard, knt. of Naworth Castle, in Cumberland, and sister to the first Earl of Carlisle, and dying in 1684, left issue, 1. GEORGE (Sir), 2nd baronet, of East Hatley, one of the tellers of the exchequer temp. JAMES II., who m. Catharine, eldest daughter of James, Earl of Salisbury, by Margaret, his wife, daughter of John, Earl of Rutland, and had an only son, GEORGE (Rt. Hon. Sir), 3rd bart. of East Hatley, knight of the bath, and FOUNDER of DOWNING COLLEGE, Cambridge. He m. Miss Forester, daughter of Sir William Forester, knt. of Watling-street, in Shropshire, and died s. p. in 1749. By a will dated in 1717, he devised all his property to his cousin and heir, Sir JACOB DOWNING; and in case his line failed, he directed the foundation of a college at Cambridge, which event took place in 1800, after much litigation. Sir George represented Dunwich in parliament. 2. William died s. p. 3. Charles, comptroller of the customs, who m. Sarah, daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Garrard, bart., and d. 15th April, 1740, leaving a son, JACOB (Sir), who succeeded his cousin, Sir George, as 4th bart. He m. a daughter of - Price, esq. but died without issue in 1764, when the baronetcy became EXTINCT. His widow wedded, secondly, Admiral Sir George Bowyer, bart. 1. Frances, m. to John Cotton, esq. son and heir of Sir John Cotton, bart. 2. Philadelphia, m. to Sir Henry Pickering, bart. of Whaddon." 3. Lucy, m. to Sir Richard Bulkeley, bart. of Old Baron. 4. Mary, m. to Thomas Barnardiston, esq. of Bury. 5. Anne. |
