BRIDGWATER 311 BRIDGWATERC) or BRIDGEWATER EARLDOM. I. Henry Daubeney, s. and h. of Giles, Lord Dau- BENEY, by Elizabeth, da. of Sir John Arundel, of Lan- I, 1538 heme, was b. Dec. 1493; ^^'^- ^^^ father 22 May 1508; to K.B. 23 June 1509; served in the English army in France, 1548. 1513- Had livery of his father's lands 19 Dec. 15 14. On 19 July 1538, under the style of Henry Davsheney, Knight, Lord Bawbeney, he was cr. EARL OF BRIDGWATER.() He
- »., istly, before 16 July 15 17, Elizabeth, da. of George (Nevill), Lord
Abergavenny, only child by his ist wife, Joan, da. of Thomas (Fitz Alan), Earl of Arundel. He m., 2ndly, Katharine, widow of Rhys ap Griffith, ("=) da. of Thomas (Howard), ist Dure of Norfolk, by his 2nd wife, Agnes, da. of Sir Philip Tylney, of Boston, co. Lincoln. He d. s.p., 1 2 Apr. 1 548, aged 54, when this Earldom (and the Barony of Daubeney, cr. by patent I486) became extinct. His widow was bur. 11 May 1554, in the Howard Chapel at Lambeth, Surrey. Her will (unproved) is in the principal Court of Probate. IL 1617. I. John Egerton, 2nd, but ist surv. s. and h. male of Thomas (Egerton), Viscount Brackley, iifc. (better known as Lord Chancellor Ellesmere), by his ist wife, Elizabeth, da. of Thomas Ravenscroft, inherited the greater part of his father's estates.('^) M.P. for Callington 1597-98, and for Salop 1601. He (as also his elder (^) br.) served under the Earl of Essex in Ireland, and was there knighted, at Christ Church, 8 Apr. 1599; Baron of the Exchequer of Chester, 1 599-1 605; K.B. 24 July 1603; M.A. Oxford, 30 Aug. i6o5;(') jkc. his father in the Viscountcy 1 5 Mar. 1 6 1 6/7. He was cr. EARL OF BRIDG- WATER, 27 May 1617 (within two months of the death of his father, to whom such dignity is supposed to have been promised), with rem. to the heirs male of his body thereafter begotten. P.C. 4 July 1626; Lord President of Wales,(°) and Lord Lieut, of cos. Salop, Worcester, Here- (*) This is the correct spelling, as the word does not mean the bridge over the water, but the burg of Walter. V.G. (•>) "Comes de Briggewater" in the patent. V.G. (') According to the usual account it was Sir Rhys ap Thomas, K.G., who m. the da. of the Duke of Norfolk. But from Dwnn's Visitations, vol. i, pp. 210-1, and Meyrick's notes thereon (in the ped. of Rvs of Dynevor, co. Carmarthen), it appears that it was Rhys ap Griffith, grandson of the former, {ex inform. G. W. Watson). V.G. {^) He sold the estate of Doddleston, Cheshire (purchased by his father in 1582), where his parents were buried. (^) See ante, p. 272, note " d." (') See note sub William, Baron Howard of Effingham [1603]. (s) It was on the occasion of his proceeding to Ludlow Castle, his official residence, that his da., Lady Alice Egerton, was benighted in the forest, an incident which gave rise to Milton's Comus.
