physic; and had issue by her one son, George Lord Abergavenny, and one daughter, Bridget, married to Sir John Shelly, Bart. and departing this life June 2d, A D. 1666, was buried on the 14th of the same month at Birling.

Which GEORGE, TENTH LORD ABERGAVENNY, was born April 21st, 1665; and having married Honora, daughter of John Lord Bellasis, of Worlaby, departed this life without issue, on March 26th, 1694-5, and was buried in the church of St. Giles in the Fields, London, April 1st following.

Whereupon, the title of Lord Abergavenny descended and came to the heirs male of Sir Christopher Neville, second surviving son of Edward Lord Abergavenny, and Rachel, his wife, daughter of John Lennard, Esq. which Sir Christopher, being seated at Newton St. Low, in com. Somerset, was made one of the Knights of the Bath at the coronation of Charles I. and having married Mary, daughter and coheir of Thomas Darcy, of Tolston Darcy, in com. Essex, Esq. had sepulture with his ancestors at Birling, on June 7th, 1649, having issue by her a son,

RICHARD Neville, who, by his wife, Sophia, left issue,

GEORGE Neville, his son and heir, who was seated at Sheffield, in the county of Sussex; and having wedded Mary, daughter of Sir Bulstrode Whitlock, Knight, left issue two sons;

First, George, who succeeded to the barony of Abergavenny, March 26th, 1694-5, on the death of George, Lord Abergavenny, before-mentioned; and

Second, Edward Neville, second son, born in December 1664, father of William, fourteenth Lord Abergavenny.

Which GEORGE, ELEVENTH LORD ABERGAVENNY, married Anne, daughter of Nehemiah Walker, of the county of Middlesex, Esq. who remarried John Earl Delawarr, and died 1748. By her he had issue three sons and two daughters, viz.

First, Henry, born August 16th, 1701, who deceased young. Second, George.

Third, Edward.

Jane, married to Abel Walter, of Busbridge, in com. Surry, Esq.; and

Anne, died unmarried, in the twenty-second year of her age, in March 1736-7.

And departing this life in the sixty-third year of his age, on March 11th, 1720-1, was succeeded by his eldest surviving son, GEORGE, born May 16th, 1702, TWELFTH LORD ABERGA

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VENNY, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Thornicroft, of the city of Westminster, Esq. and dying on November 15th, 1723, was succeeded by Edward his brother.

The said EDWARD, THIRTEENnth Lord AbeRGAVENNY, married Catharina, daughter of lieutenant-general Tatton; who re married his successor, and dying October 9th, 1724, in the nine. teenth year of his age, and without issue, was succeeded by William Neville, son and heir of Edward Neville, brother of George, Lord Abergavenny, who died in March 1720-1, as aforesaid,

Which Edward Neville was commander of several men of war, and, being commodore of a squadron, died in Virginia, on board the Lincoln, September 12th, 1701, in the thirty-seventh year of his age, leaving issue, by Hannah his wife, daughter of Mr. Jervois Thorpe, who survived him till March 25th, 1764, dying at the age of ninety-six, William, Lord Abergavenny; and a daughter, Mary, married to Charles Chamberlain, of Smallfieldplace, in com. Surry, Esq.

Which WILLIAM, FOURTEENTH LORD ABERGAVENNY," on February 10th, 1738-9, was constituted master of the jewel office. His Lordship, in May 1725, was married to Catharina, (Tatton) Lady Abergavenny, widow of Edward, the late Lord; and by her (who died on December 4th, 1729) had issue, a son, named

George, born June 24th, 1727, his late Majesty being his godfather, and a daughter, Catharina, born June 20th, 1728.

His Lordship married, secondly, on May 20th, 1732, the Lady Rebecca, daughter of Thomas, Earl of Pembroke, and by her, who died October 20th, 1758, had issue three daughters;

Harriot, born November 17th, 1734, died unmarried, 1762; Mary, born June 13th, 1736, died unmarried, 1758; and Sophia, born March 14th, 1738, died unmarried, 1759; and one son, William, born in October 1741.

His Lordship died at the Bath, September 21st, 1744, and was buried at East Grinstead, in Sussex, October 2d, following; to whom succeeded in honour and estate his only son by his first Lady,

GEORGE, FIFTEENTH LORD ABERGAVENNY, who in July, 1757, was appointed lord lieutenant, and custos rotulorum of the county

She remarried Mr. Pink, of Sharsted, a Kentish gentleman, and was grandmother of the late Henry Alured Shove, Esq Barrister at law, having died about twenty-five years ago.

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of Sussex, which he resigned in 1759; his Lordship married, February 5th, 1753, Henrietta, daughter of Thomas Pelham, late of Stanmere, in Sussex, Esq. sister to Thomas, late Earl of Chichester, by which Lady, who died in August 31st, 1768, he had issue,

First, Henry, his heir apparent, born February 22d, 1755.

Second, the Rev. George Henry, born September 6th, 1760, married, May 11th, 1787, Caroline, daughter of the Hon. Richard Walpole, and has a daughter born August 5th, 1789, and a son born March 12th, 1792.

And a daughter, Henrietta, born May 24th, 1756; married at Hingham in Norfolk, September 9th, 1779, to Sir John Berney, of Kirby, in com. Norfolk, Bart.

His Lordship was on May 17th, 1784, advanced to the dig nities of Viscount Neville, and EARL OF ABERGAVENNY, and died September 10th, 1785, and was succeeded by his son.

HENRY, SECOND EARL OF ABERGAVENNY. His Lordship was born February 22d, 1755, and married, October 3d, 1781, Mary, only child of the late John Robinson, of Wyke House, in Middlesex, Esq. by whom (who died October 26th, 1796) he had,

First, Mary Catharine, born February 27th, 1783; married, January 2d, 1802, Thomas Meyers, Esq. late accomptant-general in Bengal; and dying July 11th, 1807, left issue by him a son, born June 4th, 1803.

Second, Henry, Viscount Neville, born May 22d, 1785, died April 8th, 1806.

Third, Ralph, Viscount Neville, born December 21st, 1786, brought up in the navy.

Fourth, Henrietta, born July 14th, 1788.
Fifth, John, born December 25th, 1789.

Sixth, William, born June 28th, 1792.

Titles. George Neville, Earl of Abergavenny, Viscount Ne ville, and Baron Abergavenny.

Creations. Baron by tenure of the castle of Bergavenny (Jure Uxoris) 27 Hen. VI. 1448, and writ and summons to parliament, September 5th, 1450, 29 Hen. VI. By descent anciently, July 23d, 1392, 16 Rich. II. Originally, June 23d, 1295, 23 Edw. I. and Viscount Neville and Earl of Abergavenny, May 17th, 1784.

Arms. Gules on a saltire Argent, a rose of the first barbed and seeded, proper.

Crest. In a ducal coronet Or, a bull's head, Argent, pied, Sable, armed of the first, and charged on the neck with a rose, Gules.

Supporters, Two bulls, Argent, pied, sable, armed, unguled, collared, and chained, Or.

Motto. NE VILE VELIS,

Chief Seats. At the castle of Abergavenny, in the county of Monmouth; at Eridge park, in the county of Sussex; and at Kidbrook, near East Grinstead, in the same county.

THIS family sprung from Staffordshire. The first who attained to the dignity of Peerage was WILLIAM Paget, a person of humble origin, but of very great and eminent abilities, whose father, WILLIAM Paget, one of the Serjeants at Mace of the city of London, born near Wednesbury, in Saffordshire, had issue two other sons, John and Robert; also one daughter, Anne, married to— Smith, Esq.

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WILLIAM, who was created FIRST LORD PAGET, was a born at London; and having been beducated under the famous Lilly, in St. Paul's School, was sent to the University of Cambridge, where, in Trinity-hall, he had his academical education: from whence he went into the family of the noted Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, as appears from these lines Leland writ to him:

Tu Gardineri petiisti tecta diserti,
Eloquii sedem, Pieriique chori.

Which is, that being young, he went into the learned Gardiner's family, which was the very seat of eloquence, and of the muses.' From his family he went to study in the University of Paris, and after some stay, returned again into the Bishop's house. Soon after, in respect of his learning and merits, he was employed in several important affairs; for in 21 Henry VIII. he was sent into France, to obtain the opinions of the learned in that kingdom, concerning the King his master's divorce from Queen Ca

a Fuller's Worthies in London, p. 210.

Strype's Memorials, Vol. II. p. 379. Ibid. Vol. III. p. 282. d Herbert's Life of Henry VIII. in Hist. of Eng. Vol. II. p. 14c.