appointed SECRETARY OF STATE for the Home Department 1801; and the same year, June 20th, called up by writ to the House of Peers, and sat by his father's Barony as LORD PELHAM. In 1803, his Lordship was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. In 1805, he succeeded his father as Earl of Chichester; and in 1807, was appointed Joint Postmaster-General.

His Lordship married, in August 1801, Lady Mary Henrietta Juliana Osborne, sister to the present Duke of Leeds, by whom he has had issue,

1. Thomas, born June 29th, 1802, died March 11th, 1803. 2. Lady Mary, born August 14th, 1803.

3. Henry-Thomas, Lord Pelham, born August 23d, 1804. 4. Lady Amelia-Rose, born June 17th, 1806.

5. Frederick-Thomas, born August 2d, 1808.

Titles. Thomas Pelham, Earl of Chichester, Baron Pelham of Stanmer, and Baronet.

Creations. Baronet, May 22d, 1611, 9 Jac. I.; and Baron Pelham, of Stanmer, in Sussex, May 4th, 1762, 2 George III. and Earl of Chichester, June 23d, 1801.

Arms. Quarterly, in the first and fourth, three pelicans, Argent (the arms of Pelham), and in the second and third, two buckles. Crest. On a wreath, a peacock in his pride, Argent; and sometimes a buckle, Argent, in memory of Sir John Pelham's making John, King of France, prisoner.

Supporters. On the dexter side, a horse, mouse-dun; on the sinister, a bear, proper; each collared, or gorged, with a belt, Argent, strap pendant, buckle and studs, Or.

Motto. VINCIT AMOR PATRIÆ.

Chief Seat. At Stanmer, in the county of Sussex.

THE Origin of this very ancient and noble family has been given under the titles of Earl of Bridgewater, Vol. III. p. 170; and Earl of Cholmondeley, Vol. IV. p. 16. But as the EARL OP WILTON is the elder branch of the former family, it may be proper to recapitulate the early part of the honourable descent there stated.

They are sprung from the heiress of ROBERT FITZHUGH, BARON OF MALPAS, one of the Barons of Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester, at the time of the Conqueror.

Malpas lies in the hundred of Broxton, in Cheshire; about 16 miles S.S. E. from Chester, and about 165 N. W. from London. The parish comprises twenty-five townships, one of which, Iscoyd, is in Flintshire; the others are, Malpas, Ogden, Bickerton, Bickley, Bradley, Broxton, Bulkeley, Chidclough, Cholmondeley, Chorlton, Cuddington, Duckington, Edge, Egerton, Hampton, Larkton, or Larton, Macefen, Newton, Oldcastle, Overton, Stockton, Tushingham-cum-Grindley, Wichough, or Wichalgh, and Wigland.a

Robert Fitzhugh had a castle here, of which the keep remains near the church.b

This Robert dying without issue male, left an only daughter

a Lysons's Cheshire, p. 676.

b Ibid.

c Lysons, p. 350, and 676, makes her only a coheir, and on the opinion of F. Townsend, makes the other coheir marry Patrick; but it will be seen presently, on the authority of all former genealogists, that Patrick's alliance came by a subsequent marriage in the illegitimate line; so Lysons makes it at P. 676.

and heir, married to WILLIAM le Belward, who thus became possessed of the Barony of Malpas. He left issue by her, WILLIAM le Belward, Baron of Malpas, who married Beatrix, daughter of Hugh Kevelioc, fifth Earl of Chester, and sister and coheir of Earl Ranulph. He left issue,

1. David, ancestor of this family.

2. Robert, who settled on the manor of Cholmondeley, within this barony, of which he became possessed by the gift of his father; and hence assumed the surname of CHоLMONDELEY. His son, Sir Hugh Cholmondeley, had a grant of manerial rights and privileges in Cholmondeley from Ranulph de Blundeville, Earl of Chester; and was the immediate ancestor of George-James, Earl of Cholmondeley, the present proprietor of the manor of Cholmondeley, who is Chamberlain and Vice-Admiral of the county Palatine.f

3. Richard, taken notice of by Camden in his Remains, p. 179.

DAVID de Malpas, called also Le Clerc, from being Secretary to the Earl of Chester, married Margaret, daughter and heir of Ralph ap Eynion, by Beatrix, daughter of Ranulph, the second of that naine, Earl of Chester. He was JUSTIce of Chester, and held three knights fees, temp. Henry III. His sons were,

1. WILLIAM, Baron of Malpas, who left no legitimate issue; but he left a bastard son, David, who obtruded himself into the barony; or at least into a moiety of it, which was inherited by the posterity of his daughters, to the exclusion of the lawful heirs.

d Lysons allows him but a moiety of the Barony, for the reason given in the last note.

* Some suppose her to have been an illegitimate daughter: but I see no reason for this. The same was pretended of Earl Hugh's daughter, Amicia, married to the ancestor of Sir Thomas Mainwaring, of Pever, which created the famous controversy between him and Sir Peter Leycester, who chose to take the sceptical and ill-tempered side, in which Sir Thomas is acknowledged to have clearly overcome him, though a very able and laborious antiquary. See Wood's Athenæ, Gough's Topography, and Lysons's Cheshire, p. 750.

f Lysons, ut supr. 681.

g There is an inconsistency in all these accounts, regarding the entirety or division of the Barony of Malpas, which I cannot reconcile; and which nothing but a fuller search into the ancient records than has hitherto taken place, will ascertain. It is said at Vol. III. p. 171, from former printed genealogies of this family, that by this match with Eynion's daughter, David de Malpas became possessed of the entire Barony of Malpas; viz. one half by descent, and the remainder in right of his wife.

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These daughters were, Beatrice, married to William Patrick, whose heiress married Sutton, ancestor of the Lords Dudley; and —, married to Sir Urian St. Pierre, whose male descendants became extinct in the early part of the fifteenth century; and whose heiresses appear to have married into the families of Coksey and Horton.i

2. PHILIP de Malpas, or DE EGERTON, which name he took from the lordship of Egerton, in the Barony of Malpas, which lies about eight miles South by West from Tarporley; and on which be fixed his residence in the early part of the thirteenth century.1 He left issue, by Anghared, sister of Richard de Halton,

DAVID de Malpas, or Egerton, his son and heir, who was heir to his uncle, William, Baron of Malpas; but was ousted of his inberitance by his uncle's bastard, David, before-mentioned. Camden, however, says that he recovered by a Writ of Recognizance, a moiety of the Barony of Malpas. He married Cicely, daughter of Randal de Thorneton; by whom he had

PHILIP de Egerton, his son and heir, who was Sheriff of Cheshire, 2 Edward II. He married Margaret, daughter of Richard de Wrenburg, and had six sons.

Uryan, second son, was ancestor to the Egertons of Caldecot, Bettley, Wrinchill, Dynham, Willoughby, &c. See Vol. III. p. 172. DAVID de Malpas, or Egerton, eldest son, was Sheriff of Cheshire, 5 Edward II. and 7 Edward III. and by Isabel his wife, daughter of Richard Foulshurst, of Crewe, had four sons,

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h Lysons, p. 676, makes this marriage to have been direct with the Suttons, and not through the Patricks, whom he makes to have married, before, the coheir of Robert Fitzhugh; and so to have obtained the moiety of Malpas; but at P. 350, he agrees with the common accounts, that Sutton derived through Pa

trick.

Lysons, 390, 541.

k There were two other sons, Peter, surnamed Thornton; and David, surnamed Golbourne.

Sir Rowland Egerton, first Baronet, devised this and other estates to his second son, Sir Philip Egerton, Knt. ancestor of John Egerton, Esq. of Oulton, M. P. for Chester, the present proprietor. The old hall was taken down about the year 1760; and a farm-house built on the scite: the ancient domestic chapel still remains, and is used as a barn. Lysons, p. 683.

m The Fulleshursts, or Foulhursts, were of Edlaston, in the reign of Edward I. The elder branch became extinct in the reign of Henry VI. A younger branch, by marriage with the heiress of Praers, who married the heiress of Crewe, was possessed of Crewe-Hall, in the reign of Edward III. and became extinct by the death of Robert Foulhurst, in or before the reign of Charles I. Lysons, 381. About 1300, Joan, eldest daughter and coheiress of Thomas de Crewe, the last

1. PHILIP Egerton, eldest son, married Ellen, daughter of Sir John St. Pierre, and by her had a son, David, who married a daughter of Venables of Kinderton, but died 1362, without issue; and two daughters, who became coheirs to their brother; viz. Ellen, wife of Sir John Brereton, Knt.; and Isabel, wife of Sir John Delves, Knt."

2. URYAN Egerton, brother of Philip, and heir-male of his nephew, David, succeeded as Lord of Egerton. He altered the bearing of his ancestors, by changing the tinctures, and adding to the three pheons, the lion rampant, Gules (as now used, being according to tradition, an augmentation granted for his services in the Scotch wars.) He married Amelia, daughter of John Warburton, of Warburton, Esq. by whom he had

PHILIP Egerton, of Egerton, his son and heir, who, by Margaret, daughter of David de Malpas de Hampton, aunt and coheir to her nephew, David, was father of

Sir JOHN Egerton, of Egerton, Knt. who, with Sir Hugh Venables, Sir Thomas Dutton, Sir Richard Molineux, Sir William

male heir of the elder branch of the family, married Richard Praers, whose granddaughter brought Crewe, in marriage, to Sir Robert Foulhurst, one of Lord Audley's Esquires at the battle of Poictiers; whose monument in Bartholomew church is engraved by Lysons, p. 447. See also ib. p. 500.

It appears by a book of evidences belonging to the Rev. Sir Thomas Broughton, Bart. that as early as 37 Edward III. Sir John Delves, who married Isabella Egerton, was adjudged to be entitled, in right of his wife, to a portion of the Barony of Malpas. It appears also, by records in the Exchequer at Chester, that Sir William Brereton was possessed as early as the year 1484, 2 Richard III. of a portion of the Barony of Malpas, viz. a fourth of one moiety of the manor of Malpas, a moiety of another fourth; and the fourth turn of the presentation to one mediety of the rectory. Lysons, 677.

The Breretons had law-suits with David le Malpas, the Bastard, and recovered part of the Barony. About 1527, John Sutton, Lord Dudley, conveyed the manor and castle of Malpas, and three fourths of the Barony, to George Robinson, and others. In 1536, he alienated another portion of the Barony, and large estates in Malpas, and elsewhere, to Sir Rowland Hill. In 1560, Sir Rowland settled a fourth part of the Barony of Malpas, and large estates in this parish, on his niece, Alice Greetwood, who married Reginald Corbet, one of the Justices of the Common Pleas. Sir Richard Corbet, his son, sold this estate in 1587, to Si: Randal Brereton, of Shocklach, whose daughter and heiress married Sir Richard Egerton. It now belongs to the Earl of Cholmondeley, whose ancestor purchased it of the Egertons, in 1636. The remainder of the Barony, and large estates in Malpas, became vested, partly, perhaps, by purchase (by Sir William Brereton, of George Robinson), and partly by descent, in the Breretons, of Brereton, of whom they were purchased in the reign of Charles II. by Sir William Drake, of Shardeloes, in Amersham, Bucks, ancestor to the present Thomas Drake Tyrwhit Drake, Esq. of Shardeloes, M. P. Lysons, 677.