CHANDOS— CHARLEMONT. 207 me. by his '>• (who hud all along been the prime mover of the claim) Samuel Egerton Brydges, better known as Siu Eoerton Bhydges, (4. 30 Nov. 1762) who then styled himself, "per If/em terra' Baron Chandos of Sudeley." He, however, accepted a Baronetcy, 27 May 1815, and, beyond publishing in 1831 his " Lex tartc " to show that the decision of the Peers did not take away his right to resort to a legal trial by jury, took no further steps to establish his Peerage dignity. This accomplished writer of genealogical and other works (whoso edition of Collins' Peerage of England is still the standard work for the Peerage of the time of George III.) d. 8 Sep. 1837 at Grog Jean, near Geneva, leaving several sons, none of whom left issue, so that his Baronetcy became extinct as well as any claim, thro' him, to this Barony, some 20 years after his death.] CHANDOS, and BUCKINGHAM AND CHANDOS. Dukedom 1. Richard (Temple - Nugent - Brydges - Chandos - and Grekvili/e), Marquess of Bucktsoham, having, lfi April 1796, in. Marquessate Anna Elizabeth, de jurc("-) suo jure Baroness Kini.oss [S.J only da. t i coo and h. of James (BltYDOES), Duke ok Chandos, was on 4 Feb. 1822
- • cr. MAKyUESS OF CHANDOS and DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM
AND CHANDOS. See " Buckingham " (town) Marquessate of, cr. 1784, under the 2nd Marquess. CIIARDSTOCK. See "Henley of Chardstock," Barony [I.], (Eden), a: 1799. CIIARLEMONT, and CAULFEILD OF CHARLEMONT. Barony [I.] 1. Toby Caui.fuild ivas bap. 2 Dec. 1565, at Great I 1620 Milton, Oxon, as "Toby, s. of Alexander Calfehill" [si'c.]( b ) He distinguished himself under Frobisher, under Lord Howard, and at the capture of Cadiz (1596), he accompanied the Earl of Essex to Ireland, as commander of a troop of horse, was at the capture of Kingsale from the Spaniards (1601) and was, in 1601, placed by the Lord Deputy Mountjoy iu charge of Fort Charlemont.(°) He was Knighted [I.] at Christ Church, Dublin, 25 July 1603 by the Lord Deputy Carey ; was Receiver of the vast estates of the rebel Earl of Tyrone, 1607-10, of which he, in 1610, obtained 1000 acres. Gov. of co. Tyrone and co. Armagh 1608 ; M.P. for co. Armagh 1613 ; P.C. [I.] 1613 ; Master of the Ordnance, 1615 ; a Commissioner for the escheated estates in Ulster, 1616. On 22 Dec. 1620( d ) he was cr. LORD CAULFEILD, BARON OF CHARLEMONT, co. Armagh this point comes the crux of the pedigree. The claimant contended that this Edward was Imp. at Maidstone, 25 March 1603, being the s. of Robert Bridges of that town, ((/. 1636) who was s. of Anthony Bridges, the 3rdsurv. s. of John, 1st Baron Chandos of Sudeley. Mr. Beltz however shows very clearly (1) that the baptism at Maidstone was a. modern [and apparently a fraudulent] insertion (2) that Robert Bridges (son of Anthony abovenamed) d. s.p.m. (the will of his only child, Ann Jackson, alias Bridges, 1641, is given in appendix xii), and (8) that the said Edward Bridges of Faversham (instead of being bap. at Maidstone in 1603) was bap. at Harbledown (near Canterbury) in 1606, being s. of John Bridges of that place (Churchwarden in 1632) who d. 1646. (») See p. 206, note " b." ( b ) The name is invariably so spelt in the registers of Great Milton. Of previous children there occurs the baptism, 7 July 1561, of Alexander (bur. there 12th inst.) of Jane, 16 March 1562/3, and of Anthony, 12 Oct. 1561, also, subsequently, of Thomas, 1 Sep. 1567 and of Hester 12 Sep. 156S, iu which last two entries the father is described as "Gent." There occurs also the baptism, 25 Nov. 1577, of "Dorothy, da. of George Calfehill, Gent," and a marriage, 29 July 1577, of "Richard Joyner, Gent, and Dorothy, da. of Alexander Calfehill, Gent." These appear to be all the entries of that family therein. ( c ) This was so called from Charles (Blount), Lord Mountjoy [I.] who had erected it in 1H02 to protect the bridge over the Blackwater. ( cl ) See the very long preamble to this patent in " Lodge " vol. hi, p. 13S, and see also p. 154 ibid, for the preamble to the patent creating the Earldom (23 Dec. 1763) wherein it is stated that an Earldom was intended to be conferred on the first Baron as appears by Royal letters 16 July 1622.
