liam, the son of Henry de Walton, concerning four bovates of land in Crosby; and he obtained from Albrera, the daughter of Henry, the son of Matthew de Garston, in her widowhood, one bovate of land in Garston, with a fourth part of the fishing on the river Mersey. Sir Adam's son, who wedded Ellen, daughter of John Page, of Thornton, and had two sons, Nicholas, and RICHARD BLUNDELL, who flourished under EDWARD IV. He m. Margery, daughter of Henry Scarisbrick, and had two sons, NICHOLAS and Henry, by the elder of whom, NICHOLAS BLUNDELL, he was succeeded. The only daughter of this Nicholas, ALICE BLUNDELL, dying without male issue, her uncle, HENRY BLUNDELL, inherited. He married SIR ROBERT BLUNDELL de Crosby, gave to Allan, the son of Allan Norras (Norreys), all his land in Watton Dale, Breck, and Bold, for six marks, which the said Allan had lent him. In the 5th EDWARD I. Sir Robert made over to his son, Nicholas, all his lands in Annosdale, now called Ains-Joan, daughter of Robert Ditton, who had dale, saving to himself, Shipwreck, a valuable appendage, in those days, to an estate on the coast, and likewise all his rents in Ravensmeales and Liverpoole, still reserving the produce of Shipwreck. He m. Maud, daughter of Agnes Bowler, (who possessed lands in Bishop's Castle, Ledbury, &c. temp. HENRY III.) and had a son, the said NICHOLAS BLUNDELL, who granted to William Bray, for 30 shillings, one hawke of land in Walcoate, which William once held of Nicholas for twelve years, at five shillings rent. In the 10th EDWARD I. Nicholas Blundell enfeoffs Richard, Parson of Sephton, in all his lands in Lancashire, except those which Symon de Walton held in Great Crosby; and the same Richard reenfeoffed the said Nicholas, Margery, his wife, and Nicholas, the son of David, in the said lands, and in 1296, Symon de Walton gave to Nicholas Blundell, and his heirs, all his lands and tenements in Great Crosby, with homages, rents, services, wardships, reliefs, escheats, &c. to hold of the chief lords. By his wife, Margery, or Eleanor, Nicholas had three sons, DAVID, his heir; Nicholas, whose marriage was granted to Richard Holland; and William, who wedded Joan, daughter of Griffith de la Lee. The eldest son, DAVID BLUNDELL, espoused Agnes Molineux, living his widow 4th EDWARD II. and had, with two younger sons, William and Richard, an heir, NICHOLAS BLUNDELL, who gave to Richard de Lund, all his right in the lands of Great Crosby, which Richard, the clerk, had of the gift of Agnes, his mother, 4th EDWARD III., and he also granted, in the 6th of the same reign, to Henry de Moorhouse, and Margery, his wife, a parcel of land in Little Crosby, lying near to the Moorhouses, called Crosby Meadow, to be held of the chief lord. He m. Ellen, daughter of Richard Holland, who was to keep her during his life, and had, with two younger sons, John and Richard, and a daughter, Alice, the first wife of Blundell, of Ince, a lands released to him by Henry and Nicholas Blundell, 12th EDWARD IV. The son and heir of this marriage, NICHOLAS BLUNDELL, wedded the daughter of Samlesbury, of Samlesbury, and was succeeded by his son, NICHOLAS BLUNDELL, who held lands in Little Crosby, and Ince Blundell, in the 8th HENRY VIII. He m. Margaret, daughter of Henry Scarisbrick, of Scarisbrick, and had, with four younger sons, Thomas, Hugh, and George, and a daughter, Alice, a successor, HENRY BLUNDELL, of Crosby, who held messuages, and lands in Thornton, of Vivian, the son of Robert de Ersam (Urmson), in Sockage, by the rent of ten shillings. He m. first, a daughter of Heiton, of Heiton, and had one son and two daughters, viz. Edward, who appears to have died young. Elizabeth, m, to Robert Frazakerley. Alice, m. to Orton. He wedded secondly, Agnes, daughter of Sir Richard Bold, of Bold, in Lancashire, and dying in battle in Scotland, left a son and successor, JAMES BLUNDELL, esq. of Crosby, living 31st HENRY VIII. who held the manor of Little Crosby, of Sir William Molyneux, by knight's service, rent 4d., messuages, lands, and tenements in Great Crosby, of the king, as duke of Lancaster, in soccage by fealty, rent 10 shillings; lands and tenements in Ditton, of the king, by rent three shillings and sixpence, and a red rose on St. John the Baptist's day; lands and tenements in Ince Blundell, of James Blundell, in soccage; lands and tenements in Bold, of Sir Richard Bold, knt. in soccage, by fealty rent eight shillings, with divers other possessions, under Langton, Molyneux, Butler, &c. He espoused Margaret, daughter of Butler, of Rawcliffe, and left, with two daughters, Jane and Anne, who both died issueless, a son, HENRY BLUNDELL, esq. of Crosby, who m. Agnes, daughter of Sir William Leyland, knt. of Morlies, and was father of RICHARD BLUNDELL, esq. of Crosby, who wedded Anne, daughter of Richard Starkie, of Stretton, in Cheshire, and had issue, WILLIAM, his heir; Richard; James; and Jane, the wife of Maddison. Richard Blundell died in 1567, and held at his decease, the manor of Little Crosby, Moorhouses, and Ditton; 200 messuages; 40 cottages; 20 tofts; 1 dove-house; 1 windmilne; 200 gardens; 100 orchards; 1000 acres of lands; 200 acres of meadow; 1000 acres of pasture; 400 acres of woodland; 500 of heath and ling; 500 acres of marsh ; 500 acres of turbury; 200 mossett, forty shillings rent per annum; in Crosby Parva, Moorhouses, Ditton, Great Crosby, Ince Blundell, Thornton, Bold, Liverpool, &c. The manor of Little Crosby was held of Richard Molyneux, esq. by knight's service, rent fourpence, and the manor of Ditton, as before stated, by the service of one red rose at the feast of St. John the Baptist. Richard Blundell d. a prisoner as a Catholic recusant, in Lancaster Castle, 24th ELIZABETH, and was s. by his son, WILLIAM BLUNDELL, esq. of Crosby, b. in 1560, who was imprisoned for five years, and payed sundry fines for recusancy. He espoused Amelia, daughter of Edward Norreys, esq. son of Sir William Norreys, of Speke, who died 14th CHARLES I. and brother of Sir William Norreys, K.B. slain at Musselborough. By this lady, who died in 1631, he left at his demise, in 1638, with Gillitwo daughters, Anne, the wife of brand, and Margaret, who d. s. p., a son, NICHOLAS BLUNDELL, esq. of Crosby, who m. Jane, daughter of Roger Bradshaigh, esq. of Haigh, and had two sons and six daughters. He died in 1631, and was s. by his elder son, WILLIAM BLUNDELL, esq. of Crosby, who had his thigh broken at the siege of Lathom House, fighting on the royal side. Of the sufferings and services of this gentleman, during the civil war, the following_extract from a letter of his, addressed to Mr. John Warmer, and dated, Crosby Hall, 2nd May, 1687, gives an interesting account; 66 The importunity of friends and my own slender fortune with ye great number of children that depend on my family, do incline me to petition ye king for som small advantagious employment upon a civil account. And tho' I cannot pretend to any great degree of merit, yet it is my opinion y there are few alive at ye present of thos that served ye king at ye beginning of our civil warrs in 1642 that suffer'd so much for the crown and acted so little for it as I have don. I designed to have acted more; I set up my rest upon it and ventured my all. My equipage then for ye warre was for above my fortune. But in ye first day of my service, and before I had mustred ye 100 Dragoons wch I was, by commission, raising, I lost ye use of my limbs, by a shot, and could never recover them since to make them sufficiently able for ye fatigue of war. Upon this there followed ye plunder of almost all my goods and ye sequestration of my lands, web was continued for ten years. My lands were then sold by an act of parliament! yet were they happily bought by friends, wth money provided by me, for my behouf. After I was laned in ye war, tho' I could not use a sword, I was 4 times made a Prisoner and payed my ransom twice: And my estate being bought, as above said, I pai'd ye 10th part of ye Revenue, by an arbitrary law of Cromwells for sundry years Signed W. B. Mr. Blundell married Anna, second daughter of Sir Thomas Haggerston, first bart. of Haggerston, by Alice, his wife, only daughter and heiress of Henry Banaster, esq. of Bank, in Lancashire, and had issue, 1. Nicholas, who died s. p. III. Thomas, living in 1648. II. Emilia, m. to the Hon. Richard III. Margaret. v. Fransisca. VII. Clara-Fransisca. VIII. Anne. IX. Bridget. The eldest surviving son, WILLIAM BLUNDELL, esq. of Crosby, living in 1648, m. Mary, daughter of Rowland Eyre, esq. of Hassop, in Derbyshire, and had (with two other sons, Richard and Joseph, and four daughters, Mary, Anne, Margaret, and Winifred,) a son and heir, NICHOLAS BLUNDELL, esq. of Crosby, who wedded the Hon. Frances Langdale, daughter of Marmaduke, second Lord Langdale, (for an account of the Langdale family, see BURKE'S Extinct Peerage), and had two daughters, viz. MARY, who m. JOHN COPPINGer, esq. of Ballyvolane, in the county of Cork, (see page 328), and had an only son, who died in infancy, in 1745. FRANCES. Mr. Blundell died in 1737, and was succeeded by his daughters, of whom, the younger, FRANCES BLUNDELL, espoused Henry Peppard, esq. (grandson of Thomas Peppard, esq. who died, M.P. for Drogheda, in 1640), and had issue, Christopher Peppard, who d. s. p. in 1771. NICHOLAS PEPPARD, heir. William Peppard. Mary Peppard, m. to Richard Lacon, The heiress of Crosby died 17th April, 1773, having outlived her husband about eighteen months, and was s. by her eldest surviving son, NICHOLAS PEPPARD, esq. of Crosby, who assumed in 1772, the surname and arms of BLUNDELL only. He m. Clementina, third daughter of Stephen Walter Tempest, esq. of Broughton, in the county of York, by Francis-Olive, his wife, daughter and coheir of George Meynell, esq. of Aldborough, (see vol. i. page 477), and by her, who died 21st July, 1821, had one son and two daughters, viz. WILLIAM, his heir. Frances, m. to Sir Edward Mostyn, bart. of Talacre, in the county of Flint, and d. 27th January, 1825, leaving issue, Clementina, died unm. 18th July, 1821. Mr. Blundell died 6th January, 1795, aged 55, and was s. by his son, the present WILLIAM BLUNDELL, esq. of Crosby. Arms-Sa. ten billets arg. Crest-A demi lion rampant sa. in the paws a tau fitchee erect arg. Estates-The manors of Great and Little Crosby, and in the townships of Ditton, New Blundell, Thornton, in Lancashire; Sarsfieldtown, Richardstown, and in Drogheda, Ireland. Seat-Crosby Hall, near Liverpool. KEMPE, OF ROSTEAGE. KEMPE, WILLIAM, esq. of Teign Villa, in the county of Devon, b. 6th March, 1770, m. 9th May, 1805, Sarah, daughter of the Rev. John Lyne, rector of St. Ives, and sister of Charles Lyne Stephens, esq. of Portman-square, and of Chicksand Priory, Bedfordshire, by whom he has issue, WILLIAM, b. 14th March, 1806. Nicholas-John, b. 30th November, 1808, m. 8th October, 1829, Ellen, daughter of Isaac Holmes, esq. of Liverpool, and has a son, William, b. 21st October, 1832, and a daughter, Sarah. This gentleman, who was formerly of Roath Castle, in Glamorganshire, sold that estate, in 1830, to John M. Richards, esq. and purchased his present residence in 1832. Lineage. The KEMPES* were seated at the manor of Olantigh, in Wye, in the county of Kent, • The word "Kempe" signifies a combatant or man at arms: it is used frequently in that sense antecedently to the reign of EDWARD IV. and are supposed, by some, to be of Norman origin. They became eventually dispersed throughout the south of England, and several branches, all bearing the same coat armour, but differenced in the crest, have maintained the highest respectability. JOHN KEMPE, a younger son of Thomas and Beatrice Kempe, of Olanteigh, who was born in 1380, and educated at Merton college, Oxford, obtained distinction in the time of HENRY V. by whom he was appointed chief justiciary of Normandy, and sent ambassador to treat with Ferdinand of Arragon for a league of perpetual amity, and for the marriage of the daughter of that prince with the king. He was afterwards nominated successively, within five in the early period of our language, and will be found revived in its original meaning by Sir Walter Scott. years, to the sees of Rochester, Chiches- | daughter and heiress of Penkivel, of Penter, London, and York; in 1439, created kivel, was father of cardinal, by the title of St. Balbinia, which was changed to St. Rufina, and eventually became archbishop of Canterbury, and twice chancellor of England. One branch of the Kempes of Olanteigh, an estate which remained in their possession until 1607,* is represented by the present THOMAS READ KEMPE, esq. of Kempe Town, near Brighton, and from another, settled at Lavethan, in the parish of Blisland, Cornwall, descends the present William Kempe, esq. of Teign Villa. RICHARD KEMPE, of Lavethan, in 1500, (grandson of Edmund Kempe, citizen of London, third son of Sir Thomas Kempe, knt. of Olanteigh), wedded Grace, fifth daughter of John Boscawen, esq. of Tregothnan, (which family is now represented by Edward Boscawen, earl of Falmouth), and left a son and successor, NICHOLAS KEMPE, esq. who purchased, in 1619, from Sir William Mohun, the estate of ROSTEAGE, in Cornwall, and seated himself there. He wedded Joanna, daughter of John Budge, esq. of Linkinhorne, and had two sons, JOHN, his heir. JOHN KEMPE, esq. of Rosteage, espoused Anne, daughter of Williams, esq. of Treworgay, and was s. by his son, WILLIAM KEMPE, esq. who m. a daughter NICHOLAS KEMPE, esq. of Rosteage, who of Thomas St. Aubyn, esq. of Clowance, m. Mary, daughter of Arthur Spry, esq. of living, very aged, in 1620, by Zenobia, his Place, in St. Anthony, Cornwall, a family wife, daughter of John Mallet, esq. of Wol- which had been seated there for several ley, in Devonshire, and had a son and heir, generations, and which became extinct in THOMAS KEMPE, esq. who m. Catherine, the male line on the demise of Admiral daughter of Laurence Courtenay, esq. of Spry, the estates devolving on his nephew Lostwithiel, grandson of Sir Edmund Cour-(the son of his sister), who dropped his patenay, knt. of Deviock, fourth son of Sir Philip Courtenay, of Powderham Castle, who wedded Elizabeth, daughter of Walter, Lord Hungerford. By this lady Mr. Kempe had two sons, 1. HUMPHREY, who m. Anne, only dau. of Thomas Peyton, esq. of St. Edmundsbury, by Cecilia, his wife, daughter of John Bourchier, earl of Bath, and had a son and heir, WILLIAM, father of another WILLIAM, who m. Philippa, daughter of Woodwere, of Budock, and was s. by his son, 11. JOHN. The second son, - RICHARD, Of Tregoney, ELIZABETH Kempe, m. JOHN KEMPE, esq. marrying Winifred, In that year Sir Thomas Kempe, of Olanteigh, died, leaving by his wife, Dorothy Thompson, four daughters, Mary, m. to Sir Dudley Digges, knt. Dorothy, m. to Sir John Chichele Amy, m. to Sir Henry Skipwith. tronymic THOMAS, and assumed the surname of SPRY. Mr. Kempe was s. by his son, ARTHUR KEMPE, esq. of Rosteage, who m. Honora, daughter of Charles Huddye, esq. of Trethowan, and had three sons, viz. NICHOLAS, his heir. Charles, whom. Anne, sister and heiress Arthur, an admiral in the royal served the office of sheriff of Cornwall in 1761, espoused Dorothy, only daughter of James Borlase, esq. of Treludders, and had, with four daughters, viz. Honora, Mary, Ursula, and Dorothy, the wife of the Rev. William Bedford, rector of Mary Tavy, an only son and heir, SAMUEL KEMPE, esq. who sold, in 1770, Rosteage, the beautifully situated estate and residence of his ancestors, on the Cornish coast, to Henry Harris, esq. He m. Miss Jane Geak, and had issue, 1. SAMUEL, who died on a voyage of discovery with Captain Cook. II. NICHOLAS, a distinguished seaman, who, having entered the navy at a very early age, served in the American war, in the East and West Indies, and was present at the taking of the Cape of Good Hope in 1796. He was subsequently appointed to the command of a body of Sea Fencibles in Yorkshire, and held that rank until the corps was disbanded. Captain Kempe d. unm. at Bridgend, South Wales, in 1829, aged seventy two. III. Arthur, d. in minority. IV. John, an eminent merchant at New York, who m. there Miss Eliza Dunbar, but d. s. p. v. WILLIAM, late of Roath Castle, and now of Teign Villa. 1. Jane, m. to Larbeck, esq. II. Honour, m. to John Stevens, esq. of Salisbury. Arms-Gu. three garbs, within a bordure engrailed or. Crest-A hawk. Motto---Qui seminant in lachrymis in exultatione metent. Estates-In Devon. Seat-Teign Villa. BELLEW, OF STOCKLEIGH COURT. BELLEW, JOHN-PRESTWOOD, esq. of Stockleigh Court, in the county of Devon, b. 19th July, 1803, m. 8th May, 1827, Mary-Ann, daughter of William Hancock, esq. of Wiveliscombe, in Somersetshire, and has had issue, This ancient family, which is supposed to be of Italian origin, the name still existing in Italy, was founded in England, by Belleau, or De Bella Aqua, a Norman baron, who appears on the roll of Battel Abbey, as marshal to the CONQUEROR'S army. His descendant, JOHN DE BELLA AQUA, or BELLEWE, was lord of Carlton, in Yorkshire, and married Laderina, one of the three co-heiresses of Peter de Bruce. The Bellews, of whom there were eighteen knights in a direct line of succession, and who were renowned in the wars of the middle ages, settled in Ireland, at Bellewstown, in the county of Meath, and in the adjoining county of Louth, &c. in 1470. From SIR RICHARD BELLEW, knight of the garter, descended Sir John Bellew, of Willystown, ancestor of the BARONETS of Barmeath; of MICHAEL DILLON BELLEW, |