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13EV P E V 0 N S H I RE. DavoNsucafi, DUKE Of (Sir William Cavendish), year the psior and co,ivent of Sheen snn’endered their Marquess of Hartington, Earl of Devonshire, Earl of monastery to bins. lIe had, snbeeqnently, grants from the Burlington, Baron C’avendish of Hardwioke, Baron crown, received the honour efknightbood, and was appointed Cavendish of Keighley, KG., F.R.S., D.C.L., lord- treasurer of tbe ehan,1,er to the king; an office wbich ho lieutenant and. enetos rotulorum of tho Co. Derby, MARY, when he was sworn of the priva’-cenoeil. Sir Wilhans high-steward of Cambridge; steward of the hundred Walereft, in Cheshire, by whom lie ha’i fonr surviving of Amounderoess, co. Lancaster 5. 27 April, dane. He m. lndly. Elieabeth, dan. of Thomae Cenyngeby, 1808 in. 6 Aog. 1829, Lady Blanche-Georgians Eeq., and had two dane. Re Ta. lrdly, Enizasern, dan. o Howard, dan. of George. 6th Earl of Carlisle, and John llardwick, of tlardwiek, cc. Derby, and widow of by her (who ci. 27 April, 1840) he has issue, m. Svsoccca-Coserroa, Merqsme of If,, rliegfsa, late 2T. P. fur she inherited under settlement. By this eminent woman Nsrth Lancashire, formerly a Lord of tile Admiralty, be had a large family, of which, late Secretary fur War, 6. 23 July, 1s33. is. Frederick-Charles, H.P. for lbs North-West Riding sf s. Hcscp.v, H.P. for the county of Derby, wae of Tutbury Yorkshire, 6. 30 Nov. 1836, m. 7 June, 1164, LucyCaroline, Priory, in Staffordsbire. He Ta. Grace, 3rd dan. of George l,,,l dan. of Gearge-tYilliam, 4th and present Ti. WILLIAM, C. to the estates at the decease of his brother. Lord Lyttelton. III. Edward, late lIP, for West Sussex, capt. Berbysbiro for his 2nd wife, Catherine, Baroness Ogle, dan. and coheir militia, end D.L. fer cc. Derby, 6. 28 Jan. 1838 ; m. 3 Ang. 1863, Eusma, 4th dan. of the late Right lion. ‘tV_S-S. Laseelles (ccc Hanrwoon, B. of), and has aeon, 6. 38 May, IRiS. I. Louisa, ci. 24 Sept. 1861, to the Hms. Freneis Egerten, 2nd son of Francis, 1st Earl ef Elleemeve, KG. His Graces, his grandfather as 2nd Earl of Burlington, 9 May, 1834 ; and his consin, as 7th Delco of Devonshire, 17 Jan. 1858. ILIllcagr. The noble family of Cavendish, of which, in the last eontnry, two branches attained dnkedeme. laid the fsnndations Sir William Cavendish had considerable grants ef forfeited of its greatnees erighaally on tho share of abbey lands, ehnreb lands in the reign of Ei’wAan VI. He S. in tb obtained, at the dieselntic’n of the monasteries, by Sir William 4th year i f the succeeding reign, having aomctime before Cavendieb, who had been gentloman-nsher to Cardinal commenced the erection of Chateavorth. henry Cavcndiub, Wolsey, and S. in 1517 ; and snbseq,ently, by the abilities Sir Wtllianc’e eldest son, dying, as stated above. iesnleos, and the good fortnne of Elizabeth, his widow, who remarried we’ pass to the 2nd eon, George, Earl of Shrewsbury, and S. in 1607, aged Sma WILLIAM Covscao,sn, It B., who evantnally, inherited eighty-seven. But thengh thence arose the exalted rank the whale estate; and, through his celcbra’ed mother, p05- and extensive possessions enjoyed at present by lbs Caasndishes, wased three of the most s1,lendid seats ever raised by one be it not ecppessd that their remote ancestors wore hand within the eame ceonty (em-octed by her); namely, obscnre. Whether Mn first of the name who enjoyed the CnATswoarn, Hannwmcar, and Otncorrs, Sir Wifliam lordship of Cavcndish, in Suffolk, was or was not the sen nan elevated to the peerage, as Barea f.’oersdiolc, ef Birdseirte, of a member of the baronial fsnnly ef Genaen, whom .Devsaol-;re, 2 Ang. 1658. His lordship ,a. 1st, Anne, dan. genealogists have stated to have owiacd that estate, it is and co-heir of Henry Kighley, Esq. of Kighley. co. York,’ clearly aecertai,sed that Sin Jonc CAveNnisn, who acquired the lordehip of and by her had, Cavsndish-Overball, by his marriage with Alice, dan. and WILlIAM, me heiress of John do Odyngseles, was chief-justice of the Frsnees, Ta, to William, let Lerd Maynard. Conrt of King’s Bench in 13ff, 1373, and 1177. In the 4th He m. lndly, Elizabeth, dan. of Edward Bongbton, Eeq. of RICnARD II., his lordship was elected chancellor of the Caneton, eo. Warwick, widow of Sir Richard Wortley, Knt. University of Cambridge, and was next year commissioned, 0r Wertley, by whom he had a son, with Robert de Males, treasurer of England, to suppress John (Sir), KB. the insurrection raised in the city of York ; i,s wlsieh year The earl ii. 3 March, 1625, and was s. by bin elder eon, the mob, having risen to the number of 10,000, made it a WILLrAM, 2nd earl; who Ta. Christian, dan. of Edward, point, particularly in the es. of Snifelk, to plunder and Lord Bruce of Kinlosae, and had, mnrder the lawyers; and being incensed in a mom’s than WILLIaM, his heir, - ordinary degree against the Chief-Justice Cavendtsh, his Charles. killed in the ems-il wars, on the ssde ef the king. eon, John, having killed the notoriens Wat Tyler, they Anne, m. to Robert, eldest son of Robert Rich, Earl of seized npon, and dragged him, with Sir Jshn of Cambridge, prior of Bury, into the market-place of that town, and Ills lordship S. in 1628, and was a. by his eldest sen, there canoed both to be behesded. The yonnger ssn of WiLLIAM, 3rd earl. This nobleman m. Elieabstb, dan. of the jndge, S,a Jonse Cs.vEsenosn, csqi,ire of the body to King William, Earl of Salisbury, by whem be had a dan., Anne, Rscnaao II., is said to be the person who actually slew 5By Mary, his wife, dan. of Sir Thomas Cams, one of the Wet Tyler. “For V’’am Walworth, mayer of London, jndges of the court of Queen’s Bench, and granddau. of Sir having arrested him, be fnrionaly struck the mayor with Thomas Preston, of Preslon Patmck and Lcvens, in It estmorland. his dagger, but being armed, hurt him not; vWi’erenpoo, 339 0EV the mayor, drawing his baselard, grievously wounded Wat in the neck; in which conflict, an eeqnire of ths king’s boi,se, called John Cavendish, drew his sword, and woonded him twice or thrice oven unto death. For which service, Cavendieb was knighted in Smitblield, end bail a grant of £40 per annum from the king.” The gre.ct-great grandeene of tbie Sir John Cavendish were the brothers, WsaLiAsi Cavevn,s,s and Georgo Cavendieh ; the latter was Use faithful attendant of Cardinal Weleey, threngb all fortunes; so faithful, indeed, that after tbo death of the Cardinal, King HENaV retained bins in his own smviee, especially npsn the grounds of his attaebment to his late fallen master. Tbe elder brother, WTLLTAOI CavmcNiuen, was, in 2110, appointed one of the commissioners for visiting and taking the ens-renders of divers religions houses, and in tbat filled in the cnsning reigns of EnwAnn VI. and Queen ci. let, Margaret, dan. of Edmnnd Restock, Esq. of Richard Barley, Esq. in the same shire, whose large estates Earl of Shrewobury; but d.c. p. in liii. III. Cb.arles(Sir, of Welbeck Abbey, co. Nottingham ;-m. of Cnthbert, Lord Ogle. Sir Charles was e. by his eldest son, WiLLIAM (Sir), wbs o. his mother as Barsa Ogle, and was afterwards created (with minor dignities) Jisrqnees and Done os NewcAsTLe, onder which latter title he aeqoired no much renown as a cavalier-general dnring the civil ware, and was commonly styled The Legal BaKe of fV’eweoille. His graced, in 1670, and woos. by his only son, Hessna-, 2nd Duke of Newcastle, who S. in 1i51, without mole issne, wben eli his buneura, save the barony of Ogle, became extinct. His grace left five, dane., the third of whom Lady llargaret Cavenclish, on. John 1-tolles, Earl of Clare, afterwards Bnke of Newcastle. 4 May, 1600, and advanced t0 an earldem, as Earl eg Warwick. z2