544 CROFTS CROFTS OF SAXHAM BARONY. William Crofts, s. and h. of Sir Henry C, of Saxham, SufFolk,(^) by his ist wife, Elizabeth, da. of Sir Richard I. 1658 WoRTLEY, of Wortley, co. York, was b. about 1611. to He was brought up at Court, being Master of the 1677. Horse to James, Duke of York. By Charles II, when in exile, he was, by patent dat. at Brussels, 18 May 1658, cr. BARON CROFTS OF SAXHAM, Suffolk.^) In 1660 he was sent on an embassy to Poland to announce the King's accession. Capt. of the Guards to the Queen Mother; Gent, of the Bedchamber 1661 till his death. On 31 Mar. 1667 he sue. his father in the Suffolk estates. In 1670 he entertained the King at Saxham. He w., istly, about i Apr. 1661, Dorothy, widow of Sir John Hele (living 1645), and formerly of Hugh Rogers, of Conington, Somerset, and (possibly) before that of Sir Thomas Hele, da. of Sir John Hobart, 2nd Bart. [161 1], by his ist wife, Philippa, da. of Robert (Sydney), ist Earl of Leicester. She, who was bap. i Jan. 1619/20, at St. Bartholomew-the-Great, London, d. at Whitehall, and was bur. 7 Feb. 1662/3, at St. Andrew's, Holborn. Her admon. as ^^ alias Hele, alias Rogers, late of Flanchford, Surrey, but deed, at Whitehall," granted 25 Feb. 1662/3 to her husband. He m., 2ndly, Elizabeth, widow of the Hon. Henry Howard, and before that of John (Craven), Baron Craven of Ryton, da. of William (Spencer), 2nd Baron Spencer of Wormleighton, by Penelope, da. of Henry (Wriothesley), Earl of Southampton. She, who was b. 16 Feb., and bap. 3 Mar. iSij/S, at Brington, d. i i,and was bur. 18 Aug. 1672, at Saxham. M.I. He d. s.p., II, and was bur. 13 Sep. 1677, at Saxham afsd., when his Peerage became extinct.(^) M.I. Will pr. 1677. CROM CASTLE See " Erne of Crom Castle, co. Fermanagh," Barony [I.] {Creighton), cr. 1768; Viscountcy [I.], cr. 1781; Earldom [I.], cr. 1789. CROMARTIE or CROMARTY EARLDOM [S.]. i. George Mackenzie, s. and h. of Sir John M., y I St Bart. [S.], of Tarbat, by Margaret, yr. da. and coh. ' •^' of Sir George Erskine, of Innerteil, was b. 1630, at Innerteil; ed. at Aberdeen Univ., and at King's Coll. Aberdeen; graduated there 1646; sue. his father in the Baronetcy and (^) See an exhaustive pedigree in Gage's Thingoe Hundred, co. Suffolk, p. 134. C") For a list of peerages cr. by Charles II while in exile, see vol. v, Appendix E. He had charge of the King's illegit. son (afterwards Duke of Monmouth), soon after the death, 1656/7, of the mother of the child, who was thenceforth known as "James Crofts," and brought over to England, in 1660, as "Captain Crofts." (') He is spoken of in the Gramont Memoirs as that " madcap Crofts."
