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of the lands of Henry, late Lord Bergavenny deed., is styled "Edwardus Nevill, armiger, alias dictus Edwardus Nevill, dominus Bergavenny" and who (according to the decision of 1604, and the place assigned to his son in the House of Lords) may perhaps be considered entitled to be reckoned as Lord Bergavenny. He was s. and h. of Sir Edward Nevill, of Addington Park, Kent, by Eleanor, Dowager Lady Scrope of Upsall, da. of Andrews (Windsor), Lord Windsor, which Edward was 3rd son of George 4th, and br. of George 5th, Lord Bergavenny. He inherited the Castle, &c., of Abergavenny and the entire estates of the family, under the entail thereof to heirs male made by his uncle, the 5th Lord (as abovenamed), notwithstanding the attainder of his father, being enabled so to do under Act of Parl. beforementioned,[1] 2 and 3 Philip and Mary. He is spoken of as having been deaf. He m., 1stly, Katharine, da. of Sir John Brome, of Halton, Oxon, by Margaret, da. of John Rowse, of Ragley, co. Warwick. She was Maid of Honour to Queen Mary. He m., 2ndly, Grisold, da. of Thomas Hughes, of Uxbridge, Midx. He d. at Uxbridge, 10 Feb. 1588/9. Inq.p.m. at Maidstone, 7 July 1589, in which he is styled "Edward Nevill, decd., s. and h. of Sir Edward Nevill, Knt., also decd." Admon., in which he is styled "Edward, Lord Abergavenny, alias Edward Nevill, Esq.," granted 15 May 1590 to his s. Henry Nevill. His widow m., about 1589, Francis (Clifford), 4th Earl of Cumberland, who d. 21 Jan. 1640/1. She d. 15 June 1613, at Londesborough, and was bur. there. M.L | |
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8 or 1. Edward Nevill, who on the same grounds as his father, may, on his death, be considered as entitled to be reckoned as Lord Bergavenny, s. and h. by first wife.[2] He was 38 years old in 1588/9. M.P. for Windsor 1588–89 and 1593. "Being seised of an estate in tail male by virtue of the Act of Restoration, 2 and 3 Philip and Mary (1555/6) in the Castle and Lordship of Bergavenny, he claimed in 1598 the dignity of Baron of Bergavenny, not, as has been generally supposed, on the sole ground that the dignity was attached to the Castle of Bergavenny, but that he, as being seised of that Castle, and as h. male of the last Lord, was the more eligible person. On this occasion the Lord Chief Justice of England (Sir John Popham) determined that there was 'no right at all in the h. male, and therefore he must wholly rely on the favour of the Prince—the common custom of England doth wholly favour the h. gen.—that Her Majesty may call by new creation the h. male, and omit the h. gen. during her life, but yet a right to remain to her [i.e. the h. general's] son, having sufficient supportacion. No entail can carry away dignity but by express words or patent;' the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas was of the same |
- ↑ See p. 33, note "a".
- ↑ A survey of his numerous estates in the counties of Sussex and Monmouth, together with some in Kent, Surrey, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Warwick, Worcester, Hereford, Salop, Wilts, and Somerset, including "Burgavenny House" in the parish of St. Martin, Ludgate, London, is given in Rowland's Nevill Family, p. 151; see Ibid. p. 104.
