and prudent management of his good mother, before her son came of age she entirely discharged his estate.

He married a daughter of Ashurst, of Ashurst, in Lancashire, by whom he had issue three daughters; one of which, says the captain, was my mother, and the only surviving child of that gentlewoman the last Latham, of Earlham, and is still living.

As his father was a steady.royalist, and suffered both in his person and estate for the cause of his king and country, so this gentleman made an early embarkation into that grand affair of the revolution; whereby he expended such large sums, and so far involved his estate through an ardent prosecution of the common-good, that he left me (being the next male heir by my mother's side,) nothing more than the coat of arms which by birth-right descended to me, and what the world could not alienate. This gentleman dying without issue male, both the name and estate of the Lathams, of Earlham, were extinguished together.

I have often heard my great aunt say, that Charles, Earl of Derby, successor to that noble lord that was murdered at Bolton, took particular notice of her brother when a youth and under the care of a tutor; and would frequently come to see him, and at proper times take him with him: That she never heard that lord, when speaking to him, or of him, call him by any other name but the top of his kin, a phrase he constantly used on such occasions.

The family well knew his lordship's reasons for that familiarity; and it was plain to them, not from their alliance with Bickerstaff, but from his lordship's knowledge that this Latham's ancestor was natural brother to Isabel, the heiress of that name to Sir Thomas Latham, and was the only motive for his lordship's appellation.

I have now in my custody an old signet, that my aunt used to say had been in the family two hundred years or more, and was esteemed the signet given by Sir Thomas Latham to his son Sir Oskatel, the crest being an eagle

with her wings extended, and looking back as for something she had lost, or was taken from her, as before.

I have also heard my aunt say, that the paternal coat of that family she sprung from was painted upon wood, and, as she had been told about a hundred years ago, with the bearings of the sundry families they had married into quartered therewith. Thus far Mr. Finney, of the family of Lathams, of Earlham, descended from that famous foundling Sir Oskatel de Latham; to which I have only to add and observe, that if any reader should still remain in diffidence of what I have delivered with respect to the two branches hitherto treated of, I do assure him that I have, with the utmost care, collected and examined what I have wrote on this subject from the best authorities I could meet with, and am fully satisfied of the truth and reality thereof. And if he will please to consider with me how many revoJutions this island has undergone in a few centuries, then it will appear no wonder to him that the members of the national community have been so extremely distorted by those convulsions of state, as almost to wipe out of memory, and even history, many notable and remarkable transactions of the preceding ages; then, I say, it will appear no wonder to him if he meet with some things obscurely delivered, which he is requested to overlook or amend.

THE

SECOND PART

OF

The Genealogical History

OF THE

ANCIENT AND HONOURABLE

HOUSE OF STANLEY.

IN the first part hereof I have given the reader the direct

and lineal succession of this most ancient house from their original, as far as I am able to discover it, to the year 1741.

I have also taken notice of and described the leading collateral branch, in the person of Sir John Stanley, whose successors became Earls of Derby; and have lineally deduced them from him to the demise of James, the late and last earl, in 1735, by whose death without issue the honour and earldom of Derby became extinguished in that noble branch.

I have likewise given the pedigree and genealogy of Sir Thomas Latham, Lord of Latham, and the marriage of his only daughter with the aforesaid Sir John Stanley, with their issue in the leading line, to the time before-mentioned; together with the history and descendants of his natural son Sir Oskatel, which hath so far completed the history proposed; and naturally leads me into a new scene of proceeding by a lineal and successive description of

every other collateral branch issuing out of or from the original stock, some of whom went out full as early as the said Sir John; but his branch, being highly advanced in honour and dignity, claims the first notice, and I will, as intended, give the reader a true light of our proceeding, and prevent all confusion in the coherence of one part with the other.

The first and next branch in due course is the honourable and worthy house of Gres withen, in the county of Cumberland, whose original and descendants are described by the following printed table.

WILLIAM of Stanleigh,-ALICE, daughter of Hugk Ld. of Stanleigh and Stour- Massey, of Timperley. ton: he lived in the 26th of

Edward III.

WILLIAM of Stanleigh,-MARGERY, the daughter junior, Lord of Stanleigh and heiress of William Hooand Stourton: he lived in ton, Lord of Hooton. the 10th of Richard II.

WILLIAM of Stanleigh,-MARGERY, the daughter Knight, Lord of Stanleigh. | of John Arden, Knight,

WILLIAM of Stanleigh,-MARY, the daughter of Sir Esq. Lord of Stanleigh: he | John Savage, Knight, lived in the 10th of Henry

VI.

JOHN Stanleigh, the ISABEL, daughter and younger son. heiress of Sir Thomas Latham, Lord of Latham.

JOHN Stanleigh, Knt.-ELIZABETH, the sister Steward of the Household of Sir William Harrington, to King Henry IV.

Knight.

Sir Thomas Stanley, Knt, Comptroller of the Household to King Henry VI. who created him the first Baron Stanley. Of this Thomas are the Earls of Derby, the Lord Monteagle, and the Stanleys of Lancashire.

JOHN Stanleigh, of Greswithin, in the C. of Cumberland, the youngest son.

JOHN Stanleigh, of Greswithin, son and heir of John: he lived in the 10th of Edward III.