BOTELER 229 BOSWORTH i.e. "BoswoRTH, CO. Leicester," Barony {Fitz James), see "Berwick," Dukedom of, cr. 1687; forfeited 1695. BOTELER see also under BUTLER Note. — Three distinct families of this name have been ennobled — viz.: (i) The illustrious race, early settled in Ireland (of which the Marquess of Ormond [I.] is chief), which in this work is treated of under Butler, being the form of spelling most generally adopted by that line ; (2) the family of Boteler of Warrington, co. Lancaster ; and (3) the family of Botiler, Boteler, or Botiller of Wem, co. Salop, and of Oversley, co. Warwick, of which the Botelers of Brantfield, Herts, ennobled in 1628, were a cadet branch. BOTELER OF BRANTFIELD BARONY. I. John Boteler,(^) s. and h. of Sir Henry B. {d. J , - 20 Jan. 1608/9), of Hatfield Woodall, and of Brantfield, Herts, by his istwife, Catharine, da. of Robert Waller, of Hadley, Midx., was knighted at Greenwich, July 1607; aged 43 at his father's death. He was cr. a Bart. 12 Apr. 1620 by James I. M.P. for Herts 1625-26. On 30 July 1628 he was cr. BARON BOTELER OF BRANTFIELD, co. Hertford. He ?«., before 1 609, Elizabeth, da. of Sir George Villiers, of Brokesby, co. Leicester, by his ist wife, Audrey, da. and h. of William Saunders, of Harrington, Northants, which Elizabeth was sister of the half-blood of George, Duke of Buckingham, the all- powerful favourite of the King. He d. 27 May 1637, at St. Martin's-in- the-Fields, and was bur. at Higham Gobion, Beds, aged about 71.C') Will dat. i9May, pr. 29 Nov. 1637. Inq.p. m. at Chipping Barnet, 24 June 1637. II. 1637 2. William (Boteler), Baron Boteler of Brant- to field [1628], and 2nd Bart., 6th but only surv. s. andh., 1647. was found by the afsd. Inq. of 1637 to have been an idiot from his birth. He d. unm., 1647, when all his honours became extinct. Admon. 8 Oct. 1664 to his sisters, the Countess of Marl- borough, and Dame Ellen Drake, widow. ('^) (*) See pedigree in Clutterbuck's Herts, vol. ii, p. 46, and, with additions and emendations, in R. E. Chester Waters' Chester of Chicheley, p. 140, ^"c. C") Sir Henry Boteler, his s. and h. ap. (knighted at Windsor, 7 Sep. 1616), who was a favourite with his uncle, the Duke of Buckingham, d. v.p., having been sent with a tutor to Spain in 1617 "to cure him of the disease of drinking, which, young as he was, he was already much given to." See Chester Waters' Chester of Chicheley, P- 143- (^) His six sisters and coheirs "had the good fortune to be marriageable whilst their uncle, the Duke of Buckingham, was at the height of his power, and had, in consequence, all married persons of consideration at Court." These were (i) Audrey,
