414 TOUCHET — TOWNSHEND. TOUCHET. Barony by 1. WttxiAM TouciiET, was sum. to Pari, as a Baron writ. (LOUD TOUCHET) by writs from 29 Dec. (1299) 28 Ed. I. to 1 1°90 3 ^" v- WWyiM Ed. i., having also been sum, " cquis ct armis," 26 Sep. 1297, to Carlisle, and, on 30 March preceding, to York, being then described as of co. Northampton. His name as '• Willielmus Toiichct, dominus de Levenhalei ' i» subscribed to the famous letter of the Barons to the Tope iu 1301. (*) No further particulars of him are given in Dugdalo or elsewhere.^) to 1306. TOWNSHEND OF LYNN REGIS, u& TOWNSHEND OF RAYNHAM. Barony. l. Sib Horatio Towksitend, Bait, of Raynhftni, <m. I Iflfil Norf.dk. was sr. 20 April l(Jtjl.(<-) BASON TOWNSHEND OF LYNN REGIS, co. Norfolk, and subsequently - Dec 1082, Viscountcy. VISCOUNT TOWNSHEND OF RAYNHAM, co. Norfolk. He T ir>j i *** 'b>ger TiiWN.siiKXD, Bart, (so rr. lei April 1 til 7}. of 1. lbi>j. y^yuunni afsd., by Mary.('l) 2.1 da. and coheir of Horatio (l)K 'KitK BaHoD Vhiib oy Tiuo'HY. Ho tras i>. about 1630!; e.l. at Cambridge, being cr. M. A. 27 Nov. 1645 ; sue. his elder br., Sir Roger Townshend, 2d Mart, (i. 21 Dec. 1628 ; d. a minor and uum.) about 1 b'18. in the. Ikironetcii and the family estates. When of full age he engaged in many measures to promote the Restoration, joining, in 1659, in the design for surprising F.ynn.and iu the address to demand a free Pari. He was MP. for Norfolk, 1656-58, 1050 and 1 660. and was one of the 12 commissioners deputed to invite the return of the King, 7 -May 1660, by whom he was, the next year, raised to the peerage as afs.l. ; I., l.ieut. ril Norfolk, 1001-76 ; Yice Admiral of Norfolk. 1602-70; Col. of a Keg. of Foot. 1667; raited to a Viscountey, in 1652, as afsd.(') Hew. firstly, probably before 1658. Mary. .la. and b, of Kdward LRWKNou. of Denham. Co. Suffolk, by Elizabeth, da. of Sir William KfssEl.l.. of Chippenham, co. Cambridge. She d. s.p. in of before 167:!. Her adtnon. (limited) 28 June 1700. He in. secondly (Lie. VI& Gen.. 21 Nov. 1073 ; he -12. widr., and she 20). Mary. da. of Sir Joseph A SHI, 1st Bart., of Twickenham, by Mary. 2d and yst. da- of Robert Wn.SoN. of London. She </. of the smallpox, shortly before 19 Dec. 1085.C) He d. Dec. 1087. aged about 57. Will pr. Dec. 1087- II. 1687. 2. Charles (Towxsuend), Viscount Towkshesb of Rav.vha.m, Sec, 1st s. and h., by second wife, b. 1671 ; sue. to the peerage. Dec. 10S7 ; ed. at Kton and at King's Coll., Cambridge ; took his seat in the House of Lords, 3 Dec. 1097; L. Lieut, of Norfolk, 1701-13, and 1711-30; F.R.S., 3 April 1706 ; a Commissr. for the Union [3.1, 1700 ; Capt. of the Yeomen of the Guard, 1707-11 ; I'.C. (1707) to Queen Anne and subsequently to Geo. I. ; Joint (») See full account thereof in "Nicolas," pp. 761 -SOD. ( b ) " It has been presumed that he was of the same family as the ancestor of John Touchet, who acquired the Barony of Audley, temp. Hen. IV., but the material difference [Archceologia, vol. xxi, p. 220] between the arms of this Baron and of Huron Toiichet just mentioned renders it unlikely." [Courthupc.] (*) See vol. ii. p. 275, note "<S," sub 11 Clarendon," for a list of the 6 Earls and 0 Barons made on that day. ('•) She in secondly Mildmay (Fane). Earl of Westmorland and had issue. (") "A gentleman of the greatest interest and credit in that large county of Norfolk ... of very worthy principles and of a noble fortune . . . all the King's friends in tho3e parts Were ready to obey him and the Lord Willoughby of Parbain (whom he had brought over to his side) iu whatsoever they undertook. " [Claren- don's " " Rebellion."] His portrait (of a somewhat Puritanical cast) " after a painter unknown," is engraved in " Doyle" (') It is presumed that she was the " Lady Townshend," who so died " on Thursday before 19 Dec. 1085."
