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WBNTWORTH. 99 y L 1 665, 6. Hbnriitta Maria, ntojure Baronhs Wbktworth, or (ponibly) only ohilii of the Above, and, te eiioli, probably (*) entitled to eticoeed 1667. h«r Mid Father, on hie death, 1 Mareh 1664/5, in the Barony of Wentworth. She was aliio grand-daughter and h. of ThouM (Wbhtwobth), Earl op Clbtblavd and Lord Wbktworth, on whoee death, 2r> March 1667, she was, nndoubtedly,(A) entitled to that Barony. She. who wae 6. in Kngland in or shortly before 1657, assisted in a Court "masque,'* Dea 1674. Her illicit connection with the well known Duke of MonniouUi begun, apparently, in 1680, and ci>ntintie«l tall h*s eseciition. She survived him but nine months, and d. unm. 2n being hur. 30 April 1686, at Toddington, aged about 29.(b) M.I. VII. 1686. 7. Akkk, Buojnre IUronbss Wentworth, and dow. Baronrsb Luvilaob op Hurlbt, aunt and heir, being only surv. da. of Thomas (Wkhtworth), Karl op Clbvrland and Lord Wbhtworta, by his first wife Anne, da. of Sir John Cropts, all abovenamed. She had m. 11 July 1688, at St Giles' in the fields (Lie Lond., he aged 22, she 16) John (Lotblaob) 2d Baron Lovrlacb op Hurlbt, who d. 26 Nov. 1670 and was hur, at Hurley, co. Berks. She fue. to ike Baromi of Weniworih 28 April 1686,(*) but continued to be known as Udy Lovelace. She d. 7 May 1697. Admon. 26 April 1697. VIlI. 1697. 8. Martha, mo jure BABONns Wxntworth, gran- daughter and heir being, da. and h. of John (Lovblaob), 8d Baron Lovrimob op Hdrlbt, by Martha, da. and coheir of Sir Edmund Ptb, Bart, of nradenbam, Budcs, which John, who was only s. and h. of John, 8d Baron Lotblaok op Hurlrt, by Anne, sue Jure Baron bbs Wbntwortb, both abovenamed, d. s.p.m. (vitd nmtrifi) 27 Sep. 1693. She, who was 6. about 1666, m. aa Inn second wife (Lie. Vic. Oen., 6 March 1692/8, he about 82, wid., to marrv at Bradeuhaw or Wickham, Bucks), Sir Henry Jornbon, of Friston Hall, co. SufFolk, and of Black wall, oa Midz., an eminent shipbuilder. She tue. to the peerage, as above, 7 May 1697, the resolution of the House of Lords, 1 Ajpril 1702,(<>) that she was entitled to the Bsrooy of Went- worth being confirmed by Queen Anne,(*) at whose coronation ahe aocordiuffly walked as a Peeresa. He d, 29 Sep. 1719, at Bath, and was hur, at Toddington afsd. Will pr. Oct. 1719. The emojmre Baroness </. s.p. 18 and was 6iir. 26 July 1745, at St. James' Westm., aged about 80.(0 ^Vill pr. 1745. (*) Courthope, overlooking, apparently, this instance, remarks [** Obeervaiione,** p. xL] : " The case has not occurred where the s. and h. ap., having been called up in a Bamny orUfinatiwj in writ of nimmotif, has d. v.p., leaving an only da. ; but it is presumed such da. would become entitled to thn same estate in the dignity, which was before enjoyed by her father, she being heir apparent of her grandfather and within the original limitation of the writ of creation.'* It may, however, be remarked that Courtho}»e places the succession of this Barony aa '* 1667 " [not 1665} incon- sistently with his above remark ; but, probably, this is not intentional, and is merely a non correcting of the date (1667) as given in ** Nicolae" (^) A whole length portrait, by Kneller, waa engraved in meazotint by R. Williams, a photograph of which ia given in Uutton's " Wentworth" where a small, coarse enginving from a picture by Liely, 1675, pub. 1708 by W. RichanlRon, is also noticed. («) Of her writM Humphrey Prideaux to John Ellis. 20 Sep. 1681, ••The old Lady Jjovelace is very busy at all businesses in the town to influence them her way, and ahe is now grown so xealous a whig that she goes every Sunday to the Lady Andesey's, to make one of the Holy Sisters at her conventicle.** (*) Luttrell (" Diarff," 8 April 1702) wiites, ** Yesterday. in the Houaeof Peers, the Lady Johnaon, da. of the late T^ord Lovelace, was heard by her council aa to her right of being Baronm«a Wentworth ; her claim allowed." (•) See vol. ii, p. 802, note *' b," tub *' Clifton/' as to the descent of Baronies by writ to heirs female. O The estate of Toddington descended, after her death, to William (Wentworth), Earl of Straflbrd (the 2d Karl of the creation of 1711), whose motlier, Anne, was da. and h. of Sir Henry Johnson abovenamed, bv his ^rit wife. Iliis was by virtue of the marriage settlement of the said Henry with his eeeond wife, the abovenamed Marths, Bsroness Wentworth, by which, fnilttig issue from that marriage, the eatate had been so settled. It was curious that it should thus revert to a branch of the Wentworth family. Earl William, however, demolished the grand old mansion, and, at his death, in 1791. the estate waa allotted to his eldest skter and coheir, Lady Anne Cjnolly.