30G CLINTON. " Thomse Clynton de Say,(*) Chl'r., primogenito Comitis Lincoln." He was J. 1571. On 29 Sep. 1616, he sue. his Father as Earl ok Lincoln. He d. 15 Jany. 1619. XII. 1619. 12. Theophilus (Clinton), Earl of Lincoln and Lord Clinton, 3rd but 1st surv. s. and h., 6. 1600. K.B. 1616. He d. 21 May 1667. [Edward Clinton, stylad Lord Clixton, 1st s. and h. ap. He m. Anne, da. of John (Holles), 2nd Earl of Clare. He d. v.p. at Covent Garden, Midx. Admon. 21 April 1657. His widow m. Charles Bates, who survived her. Shed at St. Giles-in-the-fields, Oct. 1707, and was bur. Nov. "in a presbiteriau meeting-house yard."( b ) Admon. 5 Dec. 1707.] XIII. 16G7, 13. Edward (Clinton), Earl op Lincoln and to Lord Clinton, grandson and h., being only s. and h. of Edward 1692. Clinton, styled Lord Clinton abovenamed. He d. s.p. 25 Nov. 1692, when the Earldom of Lincoln passod to his cousin and h. male, (See under that title) but the Barony nf Clinton fell into abeyance between (the heirs general) his aunts and coheirs,( c ) (or their issue) daughters of the 4th Earl of Lincoln and 12th Lord Clinton. Lords Audley, and that the Lords Stafford had always ranked next below the Lords Talbot, and they were respectively placed accordingly. Lords' Journals, Vol. i, p. 522. Lord Clinton was subsequently put next to Lord Bergavenny and became the second Baron of the realm, whilst Lord Stafford became the eleventh." See " Courthope." (*) It is difficult to account for this description of him in the writ. The Barony of Say, as a creation by the writ of 1313, was junior to that of the Barony of Clinton (1299), but the Lords Clinton seem to have usually styled themselves at this period Lords Clinton and Say. See, ante, p. 305, note " a," as, also, p. 304, note " b." ( b ) See P. Le Neve's " Obituary." ( c ) Table, shewing the coheirship to this Barony, which remained in abeyance from 1092 to 1721 (when terminated in favour of Hugh Fortescue), and, again, from 1751 till : 760, the right thereto not being acknowledged till the writ of summons of 1794). XII.— Theophilus (Clinton), Earl of Lincoln and Lord Clinton, d. 1667. I . Edward Clinton, styled Lord Clinton,s. andh.ap., d. v.p. Kather- : ine, 1st wife, d. 5 Aug. 1643. T XIII. r -i Edward (Clinton), Earl of Lincoln and Lord Clinton, only child. Heir to his Grand- father in 1667. He d. 1692 s.p. Vere, only child of her mother, She d, unm. Nov. 1717, aged 73.
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Booth, cr. Baron Delamere in 1661, d, 1684. Lady E 1 i z . Grey, 2nd wife. Bobert= Kolle, of Hean- ton Satch- ville, Devon. (Lords Delamere.) Ar a - bella. Hugh Bos- caweu, of Tregothan Cornwall, d. 1701. Samuel Rolle, of Heanton, only s. and h., d. Oct.1719. Francis= Trefu- sis, of Trefu- sis, Corn- wall, d. 1680. Bridget, Other b. 1648, issuo m. 23 d. July unm. 1672, d. 28 Aug. 1721. r Bridgets only surv. da. and h., 1st wife. 0VI a r- Other garet, issued. d. unm. 16SS. Hugh =j= Hon. ' Lucy Fortes- cue, d. Nov. 1719. Ayl- mer, 2nd wife, (J. 1767. (Lords Fortescue).
