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of Carnarvon, widow of William Berkeley Lyon, Esq. and died 1802, having had by her the present admiral, Sir Henry Edwin Stanhope, Bart.; and a daughter Catherine, married to Sir Hungerford Hoskins, Bart. and long since deceased.

Fifth, Topp, who died unmarried.

Also four daughters; Gertrude and Mary Theophila, who both died unmarried; Catherine, wife to ..... Wogan, of Wales; and Elizabeth, married ...... Aspinwall, of Lancashire, Esq.

Michael Stanhope, D. D. second son, was canon of Windsor, and died July 8th, 1738. He married Penelope, daughter of Sir Salathael Lovell, Knight, Baron of the Exchequer, by whom he had four sons.

First, Arthur Charles, of Mansfield, com. Nottingham, who first married, 1740, Mary, daughter of St. Andrew Thornhaugh, of Osberton, com. Nottingham, but had no issue by her; secondly, August 25th, 1750, Margaret, daughter and coheir of Charles Headlam, of Kerby, Yorkshire, Esq. and by her, who died in January 1764, he had Philip, the present Earl of Chesterfield; and Margaret, who married, December 26th, 1776, to William Smelt, Esq.; he died in March 1770; having married a third wife, Frances, daughter of ...... Broade, Esq. who re married, April 4th, 1782, the Rev. Thomas Bigsby.

Second, Sir Thomas Stanhope, Knight, captain in the navy, and colonel of marines, who died March 7th, 1770, aged fiftythree, unmarried.

Third, Ferdinand, who married, May 2d, 1742, Mary, daughter of...... Phillips, Esq. and had issue five sons; first, John, born 1744; second, Charles, in the army, born 1745, died 1767; third, Thomas, born 1748, died young; fourth, Michael, born 1750, died 1790; fifth, Arthur, born in October 1752, married Miss Thistlethwayte, sister to the late Countess of Chesterfield, and has issue; also two daughters, Penelope, born 1743; and Mary.

Fourth, Lovell Stanhope, Esq. law clerk to the two departments of the secretaries of state, and agent for the island of Jamaica, who died unmarried, September 1st, 1783, having been member of parliament for Winchester.

PHILIP, only son of Arthur, succeeded, as FIFTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD.

His Lordship was born November 28th, 1755; married, September 16th, 1777, Anne, daughter of Thomas Thistlethwaite,

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His son, the Rev Leonard Smelt, died in April 1809.

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D. D. of Norman Court in Hampshire, by whom he had four still-born children, and a daughter, named

Harriet, born April 9th, 1788, died November 22d, 1803; and the Countess died October 20th, 1798.

His Lordship married, secondly, May 2d, 1799, Lady Henrietta Thynne, sister to the Marquis of Bath, and has issue

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Elizabeth, born November 14, 1800.

Georgiana, born March 30th, 1802, to whom their Majesties and the Princess Augusta stood sponsors in person; and

George Augustus Frederick, Lord Stanhope, born May 23d,

1805.

On February 14th, 1798, his Lordship was appointed master of the horse, which he retained till May 1804. He is Knight of the Garter, F. R. and A. S.

Titles. Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, and Baron Stanhope, of Shelford.

Creations. Baron Stanhope, of Shelford in com. Nottingham, November 7th, 1616, 14 Jae. I.; and Earl of Chesterfield in com. Derby, Aug. 4th, 1628, 4 Car. I.

Arms. Quarterly, Ermine and Gules.

Crest. On a wreath, a tower, Azure, with a demi-lion rampant, Or, issuing from the battlements, crowned ducally, Gules, and holding between his paws a grenade firing, proper.

Supporters. Dexter, a talbot guardant, ermine, sinister, a wolf, erminois, both gorged with chaplets of oak, proper.

Motto. A deo et rege.

Chief Seats. At Bretby in the county of Derby, at Shelford in the county of Nottingham, dilapidated; and at Blackheath in Kent.

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THIS family of Tufton, anciently written Toketon, had denomination from a place of the same name in the county of Kent, being descended (as the old deeds of the family shew) a from ELFEGE de Toketon, lord of the manor of Sileham, and of Toketon in Rainham, in the county of Kent, whose descendants were also lords of Toketon, or Tufton, in the parish of Northiam in Sussex, and were good benefactors to the hospital of St. Bartholomew, at Rye in Sussex, by the gift of certain lands thereto in Ewhurst, now called the Spittles, which are divided by a little rill from the ancient demesne lands of Tufton house, in Northiam in Sussex.

Which Elfege de Toketon is mentioned in a deed without date (but by computation in the reign of King John) wherein Nicholas and Richard, sons of Edvin de Velde, confirm to OsMERE de Toketon (therein written son of the said Elfege,) a rent of eighteen-pence, two hens, and twenty-five eggs, which Simon and Jordan, sons of Walter de Meredale, used to pay yearly for lands lying near Meredale.

The said Osmere de Toketon had also a grant of lands in Ulhale, from Levord, son of Roger de Hwithorncland, the inheritance of Emma, mother of the said Levord; and in several deeds is mentioned to be father of William de Toketon.

Which WILLIAM demises, &c. to Adam de Berne, a certain pasture for twenty-five sheep, without a ram, lying in the isle of Sheppey, in the parish of St. Sexburga, to hold at 14s. per ann.

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rent, from Michaelmas, 34 Henry III. for eight years. And by deed without date, John de Madetune gives, grants, and confirms to William de Toketune, and John his son, for half a mark in money, a yearly rent of tenpence, and a hen, which Geffry de Meredale used to pay out of a tenement, with the appurtenances, near a lane leading to Sileham on the east; and also an acre and three roods of land lying in a field called Hamme, and other lands thereabouts, paying yearly a pound of cummin, or a penny : likewise by deed, without date, Cicelie, the daughter of Osmere of Upecherche, grants to Lucie, sometime the wife of William de Toketune, and to John her son, of the parish of Renham, one penny yearly rent; which William de Toketune, husband of the said Lucie, used to pay out of an acre of land in Upecherche, between the land of John, son of William, on the north, and the Jands of the said Lucie and John on the south.

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This William de Toketon was knighted, and was living in the lath of Scray in Kent, about the latter end of King Henry III. either at Sileham, or at Tufton in Rainham, being mentioned in an old legier book belonging to the abbey of St. Augustine in that county; and was dead before 56 Henry III. when Lucy his wife was a widow, and John de Toketon is mentioned to be their son in divers old deeds.

To JOHN Succeeded ROGER de Toketon his son, who by deed, dated 8 Edw. I. with Lucie his wife, granted to Roger and Joan de Reynhamme all their part of arable land, which William de Toketon bought of Peter de Mere, lying in the borough of Mere in Renham, paying a rose at Midsummer, in consideration of four pounds in money. Both the seals were appendent; but the impression of the said Roger's is gone, and the other was a fleur-delis, circumscribed S. LVCIE FIL. WILLI. And by deed, dated the same year, John de Rede, clerk, grants and releases to Roger de Tocton, his heirs and assigns, all his right, &c. in and to the whole manor of Sileham in Renham, which he and Hugh le Bygod had for a certain term of years from Oliver le Bygod. Also by another deed, in the same year, Sir Edmund Spigurne!, Knight, of com. Essex, grants to Roger de Toketon, and Lucie his wife, all his lands and tenements which he had in the hundred of Middleton in Kent, scil. those which were Henry de Albaney's, in consideration of fourscore marks sterling. And by another deed, 26 Edw. I. Nicholas de Makeland grants to them an acre

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and halt, and thirteen day-works in Renham, in consideration of four marks sterling.

Their son and heir was ROGER de Toketon, who by indenture, dated on March 12th, 26 Edward I. agreed to marry with Julian, sister of Sir John Chaumpaine, enfeoffing the said Sir John in all his fee-simple lands in the hundred of Middleton, conditionally to be re-enfeoffed again thereof, to the use of them the said Roger and Julian, and their heirs, and the heirs of the said Julian: and by deed, dated the same year, on the eve of St. Peter and Paul, John de Chaumpaine, Knight, obliges himself to pay 100l. per ann. to Roger de Toketon and Julian his wife, and to the heirs of their bodies, and the heirs of the said Julian, &c. in consideration of the feoffment which the said Roger de Toketon made him a little before of his manor of Silhamme, and all his lands and tenements in the hundred of Middleton. To which deed is appendent a seal of arms, viz. Vairy, and circumscribed S. JoнIŞ DE CHAUMPAINE.

This Roger and Julian had several sons, as appears by the deed in the family. In 11 Edw. II. John Swyft, son of William atte Cherche, grants to Joan, daughter of Roger de Toketon, three acres of land in Toketon in Renham, butting on the lands of Roger, son of Roger de Toketon, for twenty marks sterling, witness (amongst others) Roger de Toketon: also by deed dated at Renham, 12 Ed. II. William, son of Richard Reyner, and Henry, son of Thomas Reyner, grant to Roger de Toketon, and Julian his wife, and to John their son, a rent of 10d out of five acres of land in Makelonde in Renham. Which Julian survived her husband, and was living in 6 Edw. III. when Alice atte Stone demised to Julian, sometime the wife of Roger de Toketon, all her right in four acres of land in Renham,

That ROGER de Toketon was son of the said Roger and Julian, appears from a deed dated at Sylham in Renham, in 11 Edw. II. wherein John, son of Thomas Whitsuere, grants to them, and John their son, his whole purparty of land in the parish of Renham; whereunto was witness Roger, son of Roger de Toketon, John Elys, &c.

Contemporary with whom was Peter de Toketon, who was dead before 14 Edward III. when, by indenture, it is declared, that although John and William, sons and heirs of Peter de Toketon, of Renham, have enfeoffed Wythorne atte Halle, in all their garden at Toketon, yet it is agreed, &c. And in 20 Edw. III. Julian, widow of Peter de Toketon, and John and William,

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