Arms. Azure, three right hand gauntlets, with their backs affrontee, Or.

Crest. Out of a ducal coronet, Or, a bull's head Argent, pyed Sable, armed, Or, 'and charged on the neck with a rose, Gules, barbed and seeded proper.

Supporters. On the dexter side a gryphon, party per fess, Argent and, Or, his beak, forelegs, and chain, of the second, his collar Sable, charged with three escalops, Argent: on the sinister, a bull Argent, pyed Sable, armed, collared, chained and hoofed, Or; on the collar, a rose Gules.

Motto. Ne vile Fano.

Chief Seats. Apethorp in the county of Northampton, Brympton in Somersetshire, and Bradford in Dorsetshire.a

. The claim of general William Knollys to the Earldom of Banbury, so created in the person of William Knollys, Viscount Wallingford, on August 18th, 1626, being now pending before a committee of privileges in the house of lords, is on that account here omitted for the present.

By the death of the Duke of Ancaster, which happened (since the second volume of this work was printed) February 8th, 1809, at his seat at Grimsthorpe in Lincolnshire, in the seventy-ninth year of his age, the Dukedom and Marquisate are become extinct; and the EARLDOM OF LINDSEY is understood to have devolved on general Albemarle Bertie, colonel of the eighty-ninth regiment of foot; and member of parliament for Stamford, whom I presume to be son of Peregrine Bertie, of Lincoln's Inn, Esq. who occurs in page 20, of volume II. of this work, as second son of Charles Bertie, Esq. of Uffington in Lincolnshire, who married Bathsheba, daughter of Dr. Mead; and was son and heir of the Honourable Charles Bertie of Uffington, who was fifth son of Montagu Bertie, second Earl of Lindsey, by his first wife Martha, daughter of Sir William Cockayne, and elder brother of the half blood to James, created Earl of Abingdon.

The death of the Duke of Ancaster is a subject of real sorrow to hundreds. His Grace was the common benefactor of whomsoever lived around him; and as a landlord, was regarded as the best in England. Very few of those who held farms on the extensive domains of the Duke have had their rents advanced during the thirty years in which his Grace was their landlord. It is reported, that the principal estates, including Grimsthorpe, devolve on lady Willoughby of Eresby, and the large personal property on Mr. Colyear, son of Lord Milsington, and grandson to the Duke by his only daughter.

a

Gent. Mag Ixxix. p. 189.

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General Bertie inarried about 1795, the widow of Scrope, Esq. but I believe has no issue. b

Creations. Earl of Lindsey in com. Linc. by letters patent dated November 22d, 1626, 2 Car. I.

Arms, &c. Same as Duke of Ancaster, with exception of the

coronet.

The occurrence of the Duke's death at the moment this sheet is passing the press, is the cause of this imperfect article.

a

It appears from the records of this family, collected in the reign of King Charles II. and printed at the charge of Henry Earl of Peterborough, that OSBERT le Mordaunt, a Norman Knight, was possessed of Radwell in Bedfordshire, by the gift of his brother, which he had of William the Conqueror, for his services, and the service of his father, in the conquest of this kingdom, as is evident from the following charter.

"Eustachius de Sancto Egidio omnibus hominibus & amicis suis tam Francigenis, quam Anglicis, salutem. Sciatis me dedisse, & hac præsenti charta confirmasse, Osberto dicto le Mordaunt, fratri meo, pro homagio & servitio suo, terram meam de Radwell, cum omnibus pertinentiis, & libertatibus suis, sibi & hæredibus ejus, tenendum de me & hæredibus meis, liberè & quiete, honorificè & hæreditariè, sicut illum ego inter alia recepi ac tenui de donatione & munificentia Willielmi illustrissimi Regis Angliæ, pro servitiis quæ pater meus in conquestu, & ego sibi fecimus, per servitium dimidiæ partis feodi unius militis, pro omni

a This work, of which only twenty-four copies were printed, goes under the title of HALSTEAD'S GENEALOGIES, viz. "Succinct Genealogies of the noble and ancient Houses of Alno, or De Alneto; Broc, of Shephale; Latimer, of Duntish; Drayton, of Drayton; Mauduit, of Westminster; Greene, of Drayton; Vere, of Addington; Fitzlewis, of West Horndon Howard of Effingham; Mordaunt, of Turvey, justified by public records, ancient and extant charters, &c by Robert Halstead" London, 1685, fol Halstead is a fictitious name. It was drawn up by Lord Peterborough himself, with the aid of his chaplain, Mr. Rans, rector of Turvey, com. Bedf Sce Cens. Lit. vol. ii. p. 373.

servitio seculari. Ego vero prædictus Eustachius de Sancto Ægidio, & hæredes mei prædictam terram prædicto Osberto, & hæredibus ejus, contra omnes homines ac fœminas, warrantiza. bimus. His testibus, Ranulpho filio Thomæ Hervei, &c."

This Sir Osbert le Mordaunt, for (as appears by other autho rities) he was a knight, had issue two sons.

First, Osmund, and

Second, Baldwin, as I find by charters of the said Osbert, and his son Osmund; the former giving land in Radwell to his younger son Baldwin; which his brother confirmed to him.

This OSMUND had issue

EUSTACH le Mordaunt, who by marriage with Alice, eldest daughter and coheir of Sir William de Alneto (or Alno) modernly called Dauney, became possest of the lordship of Turvey in Bedfordshire; a moiety of which he had in the lifetime of her father, as appears by his charter without date; wherein he gave to the said Eustach, and his heirs, a moiety of all his lands in the ville of Turvey, by the service of half a knight's fee; Robert le Mordaunt his brother being a witness (among others) to the charter.

Several deeds of this Eustach are extant, by the name of Eustachius Mordaunt de Wahall. He gave in free alms to the canons of St. John the Evangelist of Caudewell, for the health of his own soul, his wife's, and the souls of his ancestors and successors, the church of John Baptist, of Batonenci, and ten acres of land in Turvey; and a fine was levied in 9 Richard I. between the said Eustach, and Gilbert son of William, concerning one virgate of land, with the appurtenances in Radwell, which Osmund, father of the said Eustach, held.

WILLIAM Mordaunt, his son and heir, was lord of Turvey, Radwell, Asthull, and other lands, and was succeeded therein by a son of his own name.

Which WILLIAM was likewise possessed of Chicheley, and had licence from King Edward I. in the twenty-fifth of his reign, to enclose his pasture of Wolesey, his field called Turvey Lees, his pasture of Manselgrove, and other his lands in Turvey, to form a park. He had issue by Rose his wife, daughter of Sir Ralph Wake,

First, ROBERT, his son and heir and was also the father of Second, William Mordaunt, of Turvey, junior, and of Third, Edward Mordaunt, of Bucks, both mentioned in an old roll of fines, 27 Edw. III. and said to be married, the first to Maud, and the latter to Eleanor.