194 CHICHESTER
24 Dec. 161 8, and on 31 July 1628, was cr. BARON DUNSMORE, co. Warwick, with rem., failing the heirs male of his body, to "John Anderson of Hardwick, co. Huntingdon,[1] grandson (nepos) and h. male of Edmund Anderson, Knt., late Ch. Justice of the Common Bench, and eldest s. of Audrey (now wife of Francis Leigh and formerly wife of Francis Anderson, Knt.), and to the heirs male of his body." He was one of the Commissioners to treat with the Scots at Ripon, Sep. 1640;[2] P.C. 8 Aug. 1641; Col. of a regt. of Horse, ex parte Regis, 1643; Capt. of the band of Gent. Pensioners 1644-46. On 3 June 1644, he was cr. "EARL OF CHICHESTER, co. Sussex," for life, "with rem. to Thomas, Earl of Southampton and the heirs male of his body by Elizabeth, da. of the said Francis; rem. to the heirs male of the body of the said Elizabeth."[3] In Jan. 1645 he was one of the King's Commissioners at the conference at Uxbridge. His estates, worth £3,000 a year, were sequestrated, but released for a fine of £2,854. He m., 1stly, 31 July 1617, at St. Dunstan's, Stepney, Susan Banning, of St. Gabriel's, Fenchurch, London, widow, da. and h. of Richard Northam. She d. s.p. He m., 2ndly, in 1617 or early in 1618, Audrey, widow of Sir Francis Anderson (who d. 22 Dec. 16 16), sister and coh. of William (Boteler), Lord Boteler of Brantfield, and 1st da. of John, 1st Lord Boteler, by Elizabeth, da. of Sir George Villiers, and sister of the celebrated favourite, George, Duke OF Buckingham. She d. 16 Sep. 1652. He d. s.p.m., at Apscourt, Surrey, 21 Dec. 1653, and was bur. at Newnham, when the Barony of Dunsmore became extinct.[4] Will dat. 2 Sep. 1652, pr. 22 June 1654.
II. 1653 to 1667.
2. Thomas (Wriothesley), Earl of Southampton and Earl of Chichester, son-in-law, and heir to the Earldom of Chichester in 1653, under the spec. rem. in its creation, having previously inherited, from his father, the Earldom of Southampton, 10 Nov. 1625. He m., 2ndly, in or shortly after 1641, Elizabeth, 1st da. and coh. of Francis (Leigh), Earl of Chichester, by Audrey, his wife, abovenamed. He d. s.p.m.s., 16 May 1667, when all his honours became extinct. See fuller account under "Southampton," Earldom of, cr. 1537; extinct 1667.
- ↑ This Sir John Anderson, of St. Ives, co. Hunts, d. unm. (before the grantee) 1630.
- ↑ For a list of the 16 "popular" noblemen who formed this Commission, see note sub Robert, Earl of Essex [1604].
- ↑ For somewhat similar remainders see vol. ii, p. 5I5, note "b."
- ↑ A tabular account of the descendants of his two daughters, the Countess of Southampton, and the Viscountess Grandison [I.], and some further particulars about him are given in R. E. Chester Waters' valuable work, The Chesters of Chicheley, p. 144, &c. Lord Clarendon describes him as "a man of a rough and tempestuous nature, … without judgment or temper … however he had some kind of power with froward and discontented men." (Hist, of the Rebellion, vol. vi, p. 391).
