Lady Georgina Charlotte Augusta, born March 20th, 1786. Lady Emily, born July 13th, 1789.

James Mordaunt William, Viscount Cranbourne, born April 17th, 1791.

In 1783, his Lordship was appointed lord chamberlain of the household, which he held till 1804. In 1793 he was elected a Knight of the Garter. He is also LL. D. and F. R. S. and high steward of Hertford.

Titles. James Cecil, Marquis and Earl of Salisbury, Viscount Cranbourn, and Baron Cecil of Essingdon.

Creations. Baron Cecil of Essingdon in the county of Rutland, by letters patent May 13th (1603) 1 Jac. I. and confirmed August 13th following; Viscount Cranbourn in the county of Dorset, August 20th, 2 Jac. I. and Earl of Salisbury in com. Wilts, May 4th, (1605), 3 Jac. I. and Marquis of Salisbury, August 18th, 1789.

Arms. Barry of ten, Argent and Azure, over all six escutcheons, 3, 2, and 1, Sable, each charged with a lion rampant of the field, a crescent for difference.

Crest. On a wreath six arrows interlaced; Or, heads and feathers Argent, girt together with a bandage or belt, Azure, garnished, Or, and over those arrows a Morion cap, Azure. Supporters. Two lions, Ermine.

Motto. Sero, sed Serio.

Chief Seat. At Hatfield, in the county of Hertford.

It appears from the evidences still extant among the writings of this family, that their ancient name was Botevile; and by this name they held lands in the manor of Stretton, in Shropshire, for many generations, from the time of King John, in whose reign the two brothers, Sir Geoffry and Oliver Botevile, of considerable rank in Poictou, came into England, in order to assist him against his Barons, as Matth. Paris relates in his history.

Sir GEOFFRY, the elder brother, was the first that settled at Stretton, on the lands given him by the Earl of Arundel (William d'Albini) which have been ever since called Botevile's Lye, and are still in the possession of one of that name. This Sir Geoffry was, by King John, constituted governor of Belvoir Castle, in Lincolnshire, which had been taken from that Earl. In the said parish of Stretton did this family reside, from the said Sir Geoffry's time, till Sir John Thynne, the elder, settled at Longleate, in Wiltshire, retaining still his ancient lands in Shropshire.

WILLIAM BOTEVILE, his son, departed this life, A. D. 1256, leaving a son JOHN, whose name is recorded in an old roll among the knights of Shropshire, who attended at the siege of Caerlaverock Castle. This Sir John Botevile had two sons, Sir Adam Botevile, and Walter Botevile. Sir ADAM was attainted of high treason, for taking part with Thomas Plantagenet, Earl of Lancaster, at the battle of Boroughbridge, fought on March 16th,

1322.

WALTER, his brother, left a son,

JOHN Botevile, who had two sons, another JOHN, and Walter Botevile.

The last-mentioned JOHN was father of Thomas Botevile and

Hugh Botevile.

The said THOMAS Botevile, the elder brother of Hugh, had

a son,

RICHARD, the father of

WILLIAM, who had a son,

RICHARD, who was the father of

of court, John of Th'

Thynne, as now used.

JOHN Botevile, called, from his a residence in one of the inns Inne, and thence came the surname of This John, according to Francis Thynne, Esq. Lancaster Herald, married Joan, daughter of.... Boulder. The issue of the said John of Th' Inne (who flourished in the reign of King Edward IV.) were, first, Ralph Botevile (alias Thynne); second, Roger; and, third, Thomas.

Roger, the second son, was father of two daughters, viz. Elizabeth, the wife of Richard Heynes, or Eynes, of Stretton, in Shropshire, and Margaret; and also of a son, William, the father of Thomas Thynne, of Deverell, in Wiltshire, who married Elizabeth, daughter of ..... Done, and was alive in the year 1625, being then very old.

RALPH BOTEVILE, or THYNNE, the eldest son of the said John of Th' Inne, married Anne, (or Joan according to some pedigrees) daughter of John Higgons, of Stretton and by her had three sons, first, Thomas Thynne; second, William; and, third, Richard; and likewise a daughter, Agnes, wedded to William Bowdlier, of the county of Worcester.

William Thynne, alias Botevile, second son of Ralph, was master of the household to King Henry VIII. He was a learned and ingenious man; educated at Oxford; who collecting together all the ancient copies of Chaucer, took great pains to correct and amend them, and put forth an edition of his works, with notes, in folio, 1542, which had been partly and imperfectly done several years before by William Caxton, b He died on Aug. 10, 1546, and had sepulture in the church of All-Hallows, Barking, Great Tower-street, London, on the north side of the communion table, where was a marble grave-stone, with his effigies of brass inlaid, and that of his wife, Anne, daughter and coheir of William

■ Observations on Parish Registers, by Ralph Bigland, Esq. the late Garter King of Arms, p. 5, 6.

VOL. II.

b Wood's Ath. vol. i. p. 61.

Stow's Survey of London, Edit. 1633, fol. 132.

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Bawde, together with those of their four children. These were, first, Francis Thynne, Esq. Lancaster Herald, before-mentioned, who was bred at the University of Oxford, and became very well versed in the antiquities of his country, as his manuscript collections in the British Museum, &c evidence, and died in 1611, without issue, by ....., his wife, daughter of ..... Rivers. He assisted Speght in his second edition, 1602, of Chaucer's works, which he had previously published in 1597, with the notes of John Stow, founded on the edition of W. hynne the father. He was also the continuator of the Annals of Scotland in Holinshead's Chronicles. Second, Elizabeth, married to Thomas Pigott, Esq. Third, Anne, to Richard Maudley, of Nunnye, in Somersetshire, Esq.; and, Fourth, Isabel, to George Pagett, Esq.

THOMAS THYNNE, of Stretton, the eldest son of Ralph Botevile, or Thynne, married Margaret, daughter, and at length heir of Thomas Eynes, or Heynes, of Stretton, Esq. by Joyce his wife, sole daughter and heir to Humphry Gatacre, who was esquire of the body to King Henry VI. and married Eleanor, daughter and heir of Richard Blyke, Esq. And the said Humphry's father, John Gatacre, married Joyce, daughter and heir of Sir John Burley, son of Sir Roger, son of Sir John Burley, who married Amicia, daughter of Sir Richard Pembruge, Knight of the Garter.

By this match the present Marquis of Bath is intitled to quarter the arms of Eynes, Blyke, Fylelode, Astley, Gatacre, Burley, and Pembruge, all very ancient and considerable families in the counties of Salop and Hereford; the two last being eminent for having Knights of the Garter descended from them in the reigns of Edward III. and Richard II.

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The said Thomas Thynne, of Stretton, by Margaret his wife, aforesaid, had issue, first, Sir John Thynne, founder of the magnificent structure at Longleate; second, William Thynne, or Botevile, Esq. who, in 1546, was made receiver of the marches, and dying on March 14th, 1584, was buried in the south aisle of Westminster Abbey, where there is a monument of marble and alabaster, with his representation, and an inscription, shewing that he was a great traveller, a brave soldier, and a devout christian; and, third, Joan, wedded to John Chelmick, of Ragdon, in Shropshire.

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d Wood's Ath. vol i. p 375.

Seymour's Survey of London, vol. ii p. 559. And Wood's Ath vol. i

The books of the building of Longleate are at this time remaining there, which shew that the foundation began to be laid in January 1567, from which time the building was carried on to 1579, so that twelve whole years were spent before it was finished. This is said to be the first well built house in the kingdom. The front is 220 feet, and the sides upwards of 180, and very noble cellars the length of the front of the house. The stone and timber were all his own; and besides carriage, and days of gift, it cost 8016l. 13s. 8d. as it appears from three old folio books of the building of Longleate. f

Sir JOHN THYNNE, the founder of that edifice, was knighted by the Duke of Somerset (to whom he was secretary) in the camp before Roxburgh in 1547, having been in the great battle of Musselburgh on September 10th, and the siege of Leith, in Scotland; and in 1550 obtained a grant of the manor of Kempsford, in com. Glouc. In the first year of Queen Elizabeth, he served in parliament for Wiltshire, and afterwards for Heytesbury in that county. By his last testament, dated at Longleate, on May 6th, 1580, (the probate whereof is on November 12th, following) he orders his body to be buried in the church of Deverell Langbridge, in the county of Wilts, and that a convenient tomb be made for him and his late wife in the said church, according to a plot thereof, made and signed with his own hand, and to the value of 100l. He bequeaths to John Thynne, his eldest son, the present possession of his house at Longleate, with the inheritance thereof; as also of all other manors, according to a conveyance made by him in his life time; and constitutes him sole executor, provided he gives security for the performance of his will, in the sum of 10,000l. And ordains the lord treasurer of England (whom he trusts will take it on him, in respect of the friendship that had been between them of old time) together with Sir Amias Paulet, Knight, overseers. He further wills, that Francis, Thomas, Egremont, Henry, Charles, Edward, and William, his sons, enjoy all such lands and annuities, which, by his deed, or this his will, he had conveyed and assured to them; and bequeaths to Elizabeth, his daughter, two thousand marks; also

See Gilpin's Western Tour, p. 125, for a short character of this place He says the Architect was John of Padua: but I do not perceive this building assigned to that artist in Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting.

See a saying of his in answer to a sarcasm on his great and sudden wealth in Fuller's Worthies, Wiltshire, p. 164.