CAMDEN 515 CAMPDEN VISCOUNTCY. I. Baptist Hicks, 3rd and yst. s. of Robert Hicks, of St. Pancras Lane, Cheapside, London, Mercer, by L 1628. Julian, da. of William Arthur, of Clapham, amassed a large fortune by trade. He was knighted 24 July 1 603, soon after which he became financial agent to the King. In 1607 he main- tained his right to keep a shop in London after knighthood; elected Alder- man of Bread St. Ward, London, Nov. 16 11, but discharged at the King's direction a few days later. He built "Hicks Hall" in Clerkenwell, Midx., and founded a market house and hospital at Campden, co. Gloucester. On I July 1620 he was cr. a Baronet; M.P. for Tavistock 1620-22; and for Tewkesbury 1624-26, and Mar. to May 1628. On 5 May 1628 he was cr. BARON HICKS OF ILMINGTON, co. Warwick, and VISCOUNT CAMPDEN, CO. Gloucester, (^) for life [only], with rem. to [his son-in- law] Edward (Noel), Baron Noel of Ridlington, and the heirs male of his body. He took his seat accordingly three days later-C") He m., 6 Sep. 1584, at Allhallows, Bread Str., London, Elizabeth, sister of Sir Humphrey May (Master of the Rolls, 1629), da. of Richard May, merchant taylor of London, by Mary, da. of ( — ) Hillersdon, of Devon. He d. at his house in St. Lawrence, Old Jewry, 1 8 Oct., and was l>ur. 4 Nov. 1629, aged 78, at Campden. M.I. At his death his Baronetcy became extinct, but his Peerage devolved as below.('=) Will pr. 1 629. His widow d. shortly before 26 June, and was Ipuk ii Aug. 1643, at Campden. Will dat. 14 Feb. 1642/3, pr. 11 Aug. 1645. II. 1629. 2. Edward (Noel), Viscount Campden, ^c, son-in- law, and h., according to the spec. rem. in the patent. He was s. and h. of Sir Andrew Noel,('^) of Brooke, Rutland (who </. 9 Oct. 1607), and of Dalby, co. Leicester, by Mabel, 6th da. of Sir James Harington, of Exton, Rutland; was M.P. for Rutland 1601; knighted (^) "Sir Baptist Hicks of London, Mercer, was on Sunday was sennight, May 4, made a Baron of I know not what, and Viscount Cambden." (Rev. Jos. Mead to Sir M. Stuteville, 17 May 1628). V.G. C") This peerage, though without rem. to heirs male of the body, had a spec. rem. and so enabled the grantee to take his seat in the House of Lords. Among Peerages somewhat similarly conferred are (i) Chichester, cr. 1644, (2) Feversham, cr. 1676, (3) Hyde, cr. 1756, (4)Montagu, cr. 1786, ^c. See also the Earldom of Thomond [I.], cr. by Henry VIII. (f) "Lord Campden died on Sunday was sennight, and left unto his old wife jTijOOO a year land of inheritance and jr6o,000 in money and moveables." (Mead to Stuteville, 31 Oct. 1629). Camden says that he was buried "with such noble monuments of marble as equal, if not exceed, most in England." V.G. i^) Queen Elizabeth is said to have made this distich upon his name : — "The word of denial, and letter of fifty, Is that Gentleman's name that will never be thrifty."
