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tion of £1000. each, to his two daughters. | active military career being thus early cut But such was the complex state of the property in general, owing to the causes already explained, that it gave rise to two suits in equity, the first of which was commenced in the year 1692, by Sir John Sandes, baronet, on the part of Jane his wife, against James Ware, Elizabeth Ware, and Jane Jones, sister of Mrs. Barbara Ware, his late mother-in-law. In the course of these expensive and ruinous proceedings, Macetown Castle, in the county of Meath, (now in ruins,) came into the possession of Mr. Cheney, who had married Elizabeth Ware. James Ware m. Miss Fitzgerald, daughter of [Pierce?] Fitzgerald, esq. of an ancient Catholic family, in Westmeath, who, from some family documents still preserved, claimed descent from the Ormonds, and was connected with the families of Bruce, and O'Brien. By her he had issue,

1. ROBERT, his heir.

2. Arthur, living in Castle-street, Dublin, who had a son, Thomas, b. in

1750.

3. Joseph, who severally left issue.

4. William,

1. Margaret, who d. 26th March, 1824, at New Kilmainhaim, at a very advanced age.

James Ware, d. in 1755, being interred (December, 6th) at St. Michaels, Dublin, and was succeeded by

ROBERT WARE, esq. of Castle-street, Dublin. (See HARRIS'S Dublin, p. 485). An excellent education was bestowed upon this gentleman, who, when he grew up, evinced, like his great-grandfather, a decided predilection for antiquarian pursuits, his favourite authors being Camden and Ware. Being unable after the death of his father, to keep up the rank conceived by him to be due to the older branch of an ancient house, his pecuniary embarrassments obliged him to dispose of his property in Dublin and Westmeath, and, as he had lost the lady whom he had recently espoused, he left his only child, a daughter, in the care of his mother at Westmeath, and quitted his country to improve his fortunes in the army. In the year 1761, when expeditions were undertaken against the coasts of France, and many young gentlemen offered their services to government, Robert Ware was present at the seige of Belleisle, where, in the endeavour to rescue an officer who was engaged in the trenches, he received a severe wound, from which he never completely recovered. His hopes from an

short, he met with employment in England
in the home service of the army. Ulti-
mately, his military experience recommen-
ded him to the notice of Lord Strange,
afterwards Earl of Derby, and, in accepting
a commission in the royal Lancashire mili-
tia under his lordship's command, his assis-
tance in organizing the details of regimental
duty was greatly appreciated. In this corps
the remainder of his life was rendered very
happy, as he possessed the society of a
highly valued friend of congenial antiqua-
rian pursuits, lieutenant-colonel Chadwick,
of the ancient house of Mavesyn-Ridware,*
while an ample competency was secured to
him by a second marriage which he con-
tracted. He d. 18th July, 1779: while
bathing in the sea at Tynemouth, in Nor-
thumberland, where the Lancashire militia
was stationed, he was seized with an apo-
plectic fit, and expired immediately. "The
whole regiment," remarked a journal of the
day, " attended to pay respects to the re-
mains of a gentleman who was much res-
pected by the officers, and beloved by the
privates." His remains were interred with
military honours, at the church of St. Ni-
cholas. Robert Ware m. 25th August,
1748, at St. Marks, Dublin, Miss Anne
Thomas, of a Welsh family, leaving issue,

Pierce, baptized at St. Marks, August,
19th 1750, he d. an infant.
SARAH, his successor.

And for his second wife, he m. Dorothy,
daughter of Thomas Slack, esq. of Slack-
Hall, Derbyshire, by whom he had issue
one daughter, viz.

Margaret, b. 22nd September, 1763, m. 19th April, 1790, to Holland Watson, esq. of Stockport, Cheshire,† and d. 9th July following; the interval between her marriage and death being not many weeks.

SARAH WARE, the only surviving child of Robert Ware, esq. who left issue, was born in June, 1751. Soon after her mother's death, when, in consequence of the declining fortunes of the family, her father removed to England, she was left at Westmeath under the care of her grandmother, who educated her in the Roman Catholic faith. Afterwards, in consequence of the improvement which had taken place in the circumstances of her father, she was sent for to England, when she entered into the Protestant communion. She m. 30th May, 1780, Samuel Hibbert, esq. of Manchester, afterwards of Clarendon-House, Chorlton, in

*This gentleman is mentioned in vol. iii. p.siderable literary attainments, whose valuable con 443, in the history of the ancient house which he represented.

Mr. Holland Watson was a gentleman of con

tributions to the ancient history of Lancashire, and the adjoining counties, have been frequently acknowledged by topographical writers.

Lancashire, and d. 24th January, 1813, leaving issue,

1. SAMUEL HIBBERT, who has assumed
the surname and arms of WARE.
II. Titus Hibbert, b. 26th August, 1783,
and d. 12th January, 1803.

. Robert Hibbert, b. 3rd March,
1785, m. in 1811, Mary-Aune, daugh-
ter of Mr. William Craven, mer-
chant, of Manchester, and left at his
demise, 28th February, 1828, a daugh-
ter, Emma Georgiana, b. in 1816, at
Thunne, in Switzerland.

IV. William Hibbert, a lieutenant in the 40th regiment. He was b. 27th June, 1786, and d. 23rd February, 1806, soon after the battle of Vemeira, in which he was engaged.

v. Thomas Hibbert, b. 5th February, 1778, and d. 24th December, 1805. VI. George Hibbert, a major in the army, b. 6th April, 1790. In 1813, he joined the 40th regiment in the Peninsular, and served with it afterwards in America, and on the field of Waterloo. He has remained in the same regiment twenty-four years.

Arms Quarterly; 1st and 4th, or, two lions passant az. within a bordure of the second charged with escallops of the 1st for WARE: 2nd and 3rd, barry of eight or and vert and a pale counterchanged for HIB

BERT.

Crests-1st, a dragon's head or, pierced through the neck with a broken tilting spear ppr. for Ware; 2nd, a hand holding a millrind ppr. for HIBBERT.

Motto-Sola salus servire Deo.
Estates-In Manchester, and in Cheshire.

Family of Hibbert.

The name of Hibbert appears to have been a corruption of Hubert, which may again be referred to the Norman Hudebert. This is indicated by an examination of the registries of wills for Nottinghamshire, where we find about the year 1600, families of Hubbert, (no doubt the same as Hubert,) who have their names variously moulded, during succeeding generations, into Hubberd, Hibberd, Hibberdt, and Hibbert, which last became eventually the more prevalent orthography. From Nottinghamshire branches of the families of Hibbert extended into Derbyshire, of which county several individuals of this name have been registered as benefactors, or worthies. (See GLOVER's list of the Worthies of Derbyshire in his topographical work on that county, vol. i. p. 97, &c.)

NICHOLAS HIBBERT, esq. was settled in the middle of the sixteenth century in the nar

row neck of land in Cheshire, which is hemmed in between the counties of Derby, Yorkshire, and Lancashire. He d. July, 1586, leaving issue,

1. Nicholas, of Marple, in Cheshire,
whose son, Thomas Hibbert, was chap-
lain to the lord Keeper Bridgeman,
in the reign of ELIZABETH, and pur-
chased from Sir Edward Stanley the
manor of Marple. (See ORMEROD'S
Cheshire).

2. John, of Marple, living in 1589.
3. ROBERT, of Werneth, Cheshire, of
whom further.

ROBERT HIBBERT, the youngest son of Nicholas Hibbert, of Marple, was the founder of the family of Hibberts, of Werneth. He died in March, 1590, leaving a son and heir,

RICHARD HIBBERT, of Werneth, who m. 23rd January, 1585, Anne, daughter of William Ashton, of Werneth, and was s. by his son,

NATHANIEL HIBBERT, of Werneth, who was twice married, and left issue by both marriages. By his second wife, (who died in 1667,) he had a younger son,

TITUS HIBBERT, of Werneth, who was also twice married, and by his first wife had, with other children, a younger son,

TITUS HIBBERT, who afterwards settled at High Knowls in Lancashire. He had several children, of whom the third son was,

TITUS HIBBERT, of Manchester, merchant, b. in April, 1717. He was engaged in the commerce of the thriving town of Manchester, as a foreign merchant, and acquired an ample fortune. He had also pretensions to a literary character, having distinguished himself in a political controversy with the celebrated John Wesley, in the great national question relative to the expediency of the American war. This gentleman, no less by his exemplary industry than by his scrupulous integrity, fulfilled in every respect the honorable character of the ancient English merchant. He died 27th November, 1796, leaving issue,

1. SAMUEL, his heir. 2. John,

3. Joseph,

4. Thomas,

who d. young and with

out issue.

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PRATT, OF CABRA CASTLE.

PRATT, JOSEPH, esq. of Cabra Castle, in the county of Cavan, lieutenant-colonel of the militia, m. first in 1806, Jemima- Roberta, daughter of Sir James Tynte, bart. and has by that lady, who is deceased,

MERVYN, who m. in October, 1834, Madeline-Eglantine, only daughter and heir of the late Col. William Jackson, of Eniscoe, in the county of Mayo.

Joseph-Tynte.

Fitzherbert.
Walter.

Fitzmaurice.

Hannah, m. to Charles Rochfort, esq.

Sarah, m. to Robert Doyne, esq. of Wells, in the county of Wexford.
Elizabeth.

Col. Pratt, m. secondly, Nichola-Sophia, relict of the late Claudius-William-Cole
Hamilton, of Kingscourt, in Meath, but by her has no issue. He is a magistrate for
Cavan.

Lineage.

About the year 1650, Joseph and Benjamin Pratt, two younger sons of an ancient family, in Leicestershire, went over to Ireland and settled at Agher and Garadice, in the county of Meath.

BENJAMIN PRATT (the younger of the two brothers,) married Margaret, daughter of James Mortimer, esq. of Lislin, in Cavan, and was father of Benjamin Pratt, esq. of Agher, in Meath, who wedded Jane, daughter of Thomas Nugent, esq. of Clonlost, in Westmeath, and had a daughter, MARGARET, m. to FRANCIS WINTER, esq. grandfather of the present JOHN PRATT WINTER, esq. of Agher.

JOSEPH PRATT, the elder of the two brothers who migrated to the sister kingdom, married first, the only daughter and heir of Col. Thomas Couch, whose estates in the counties of Cavan and Donegal, he thereby acquired, and secondly, Mrs. Irwin, of Fermanagh, by whom he became closely connected with Sir Audley Mervyn. He left issue,

MERVYN, his heir.

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THE REV. JOSEPH PRATT, of Cabra, who m. Elizabeth, daughter of Jonathan Chetwood, esq. of the Queen's County, and had issue,

MERVYN.

JOSEPH, of whom presently.

James, who m. Miss Margaret Foster, cousin of the late Lord Oriel. Elizabeth, m. to Charles Moreton, esq. Ann, m. to Henry Foster, esq. cousin to the late Lord Oriel.

The second son,

THE REV. JOSEPH PRATT, esq of Cabra Castle, married in 1770, the Hon. Sarah Morres, by Lady Letitia Ponsonby, his wife, Morres, daughter of Harvey Viscount Mount daughter of Brabazon, Earl of Bessborough,

and had issue,

JOSEPH, his heir.
Mervyn, died in 1823.

Harvey, of Castle Morres, in the county
of Kilkenny, who upon the death of
his father, succeeded his mother in
the Kilkenny estates, which she and
her sister, the late Marchioness of
Antrim had jointly inherited as co-
heiresses of their brother Redmond,
Viscount Mountmorres.

Mary, m. to Sir John Piers, bart.
Letitia.

Mr. Pratt died in 1831, and was s. by his eldest son, the present Lieut.-Col. JOSEPH PRATT, of Cabra Castle.

Estates-In the county of Cavan.
Seat Cabra Castle.

SLANEY, OF HATTON GRANGE.

SLANEY, ROBERT-AGLIONBY, esq. of Hatton Grange, in the county of Salop, b. 9th June, 1790; m. in February, 1812, Elizabeth, only child of William Hawkins Muckleston, M.D. and niece and heiress of Joseph Muckleston, esq. of Walford Manor, in the same county, and has three daughters,

Elizabeth-Frances, m. in May, 1835, to Thomas Campbell Eyton, esq. eldest son of Thomas Eyton, esq. of Eyton, in Shropshire.

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Mr. Slaney, who succeeded his father in 1834, is a magistrate for the county of Salop, and M. P. for Shrewsbury.

Lineage.

"A family tradition," says Blakeway, "derives the Slaneys, from Slaney, a town in Bohemia, eighteen miles N. W. of Prague. Of the truth of this I have no means of judging. It appears from the Records of Shrewsbury, that in 1648, Frederick Slaney, gent. son of Vallantine Slaney, de civitate Regimuntani in Prussia infra dominium Regis Polonie,' (by which is meant, I presume, Konigsberg,) was admitted a burgess of that corporation."

SIR STEPHEN SLANEY, knt. son of John Slayney, of Mytton, in Shropshire, was an eminent citizen of London, and filled the civic chair in 1595. He was seated at Norton, near

THOMAS MORETON, of Moreton and Engleton, in Staffordshire, whose ancestor, John de Morton, is stated by Erdeswicke to have been lord of that place in the 9th of EDWARD II. had two sons, MATTHEW MORETON, of Moreton and Wilbrighton, (whose male heir, Edward Moreton, of Moreton and Engleton, married Mary Ducie, niece and heir of Sir William Ducie, bart. of Tortworth, in Gloucestershire, Viscount Down, in the kingdom of Ireland,) and

ROBERT MORETON, living 16 HENRY VII. when he was appointed by the Earl of Shrewsbury, one of his attorneys to deliver seisin of the manor of Alberbury, to Stephen Kemsey, in exchange for his lands in Drayton under Lyseyard, Suffen

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Eccleshall, in Staffordshire, which he o tained by purchase from Lord Sheffield, but was obliged to sell, says Degge," in order to pay his ransom, when taken prisoner by the Turks;" one of those ananias, perhaps, by which trading to the Levant was so frequently annoyed in that age. Sir Stephen died in 1608, aged eighty-four. His brother,

JOHN SLANEY, esq. was grandfather of

ROBERT SLANEY, esq. who m. Anne, daughter of Thomas Moreton,* esq. of Brocton Grange, in the county of Stafford, and had issue,

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hall, and Idsall, conveyed to that nobleman. His son,

RICHARD MORETON, esq. was seated at Haughton, and had a grant of arms, 8 HENRY VIII. His eldest son, Robert, of Haughton, left two daughters, his co-heirs, Anne, wife of Humphrey Brigges; and Jane, wife of Thomas Corbett, of Longnor; and his second son,

RICHARD MORETON, esq. was of Brocton Grange, in Staffordshire, by lease from his father and final conveyance from his niece, Anne and her husband. He was father of

THOMAS MORETON, esq. of Brocton Grange, who had four sons and one daughter, ANNE, wife of ROBERT SLANEY, esq.

wife of John Wallhouse, esq. of Stafford- of that place, and had issue, Moreton, who shire, died unm. and

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ROBERT SLANEY, esq. of Hatton Grange,
who m. in 1789, Mary, daughter of Thomas
Mason, esq. of Shrewsbury, and had issue,
ROBERT-AGLIONBY, his heir.
William-Henry, b. in 1792.
Mary.

Elizabeth-Harriet.

Mr. Slaney died in 1834, and was s. by his son, the present ROBERT-AGLIONBY SLANEY, esq. of Hatton Grange.

Arms-Gu. a bend between three martlets or.

Crest-A griffin's head ppr. wings endorsed or, beaked of the last.

Motto-Deo duce comite industria.
Estates-In Shropshire and Leicester-

shire.

Seats Walford Manor and Hatton Grange, Salop.

MAYNE, OF TEFFONT EWYAS.

MAYNE, JOHN-THOMAS, esq. of Teffont Ewyas Manor House, in the county of Wilts, F. R. S. barrister-at-law, of the Inner Temple, bapt. at St. George the Martyr, Southwark, in 1792; m. at Teffont in 1819, Sarah Fulcher, daughter of John Start, esq. of Halstead, in Essex, and has issue,

JOHN-AUGUSTUs, b. at Rome in 1820, bapt. at Teffont in 1822.
Emily-Harriet,

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Margaret-Hele, bapt. at Teffont.

Ellen-Flora,

Mr. Mayne succeeded his father in 1819.

Lineage.

The family of Mayne, of Teffont, claims descent from the ancient barons of that name who inherited the province of Maine, in Normandy; and it is recorded that Ernulphus de Maine, accompanied WILLIAM the Conqueror into England, as his standard bearer, held various offices of great tru. and profit,

and received, in requital for his valour and prowess, considerable grants of land in Devonshire, and that Joel de Mayne, obtained from HENRY I. in 1140, property in Kings Nymet, near Chumleigh, in the same county which King JOHN, upon the separation of Normandy from England seized upon. It is certain, however, that the Maynes acquired great patronage and frequently distinguished themselves in the wars of York and Lancaster. About that period, a younger branch settled in Kent, and became possessed of large estates there, at Lamberhurst, Linton, Bretchley, Staplehurst, Frittenden, Cranbrook, Biddenden, Woodchurch, &c. &c. Yet of these fair domains, and of this once flourishing and numerous family, the monuments, the grants, the inquisitions, and the wills alone remain to attest its existence and its distinction. No descendant can now be traced, and the family, of which the present proprietor of Teffont is the chief, appears to be the only one which can shew an English descent.

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