DOWNE +51 IV. 1668 4. Thomas (Pope), Earl of Downe and Baron Pope of Belturbet [I.], also a Baronet [161 1], ist and only surv. s. and h., bap. 29 Sep. 1640, at Wroxton; matric. at Oxford (Trin. Coll.), 30 July 1658. He d. unm., 4 months after his father, 18, and was bur. 16 May 1668, at Wroxton, aged 27, when all his honours Jan. to May. became extinct. {^') VISCOUNTCY [I.] William Ducie, 2nd s. of Sir Robert D., ist I ^ Bart, (so cr. 1620, sometime, 1631, Lord Mayor of '^ London), by Elizabeth, da. of Richard Pyott, . Alderman of London, sue. his elder br. in the '^' Baronetcy and estates, 7 Mar. 1656/7; was K.B. 23 Apr. 1 66 1, at the Coronation of Charles IL He was cr., by warrant originally dated 19 July i675,() BARON OF CLONEY and VISCOUNT DOWNE [I.]. He ;;;. (lie. Fac. 23 June 1662, he 40, she 27) Frances, da. of Francis (Seymour), ist Baron Seymour of Trowbridge, by his ist wife, Frances, da. and coh. of Sir Gilbert Prynne. He^. i./)., 9 Sep. 1679, at Charlton, Kent, aged 64,and was iJiKr. atTortworth, when his Peerage (but not the Baronetcy) became extinct. Admon. 26 Sep. 1679, ^^ ^^^^ of Tortworth, co. Gloucester. His widow, who was bap. 27 Apr. 1623, at the Lodge in the Great Park, at Great Bedwyn, Wilts, was bur. there 20 Sep. 1699. II. 1681. I. John Dawnay,(') 2nd s. of John D., of Cowick, CO. York, by Elizabeth, da. of Sir Richard Hutton, of Goldesborough, co. York, Justice of the Common Pleas (1617-39), was bap. 25 Jan. 1624/5, at Hooton Pagnell. He sue. his nephew, Sir Thomas Dawnay, 2nd Bart. [1642], in the family estates in 1644; knighted 2 June 1660; was M.P. for co. York 1660, and for Pontefract 1661-81, 1685-87, and 1689-90. A Tory. He was cr., 19 Feb. 1 680/1 (33 Car. II), VISCOUNT DOWNE [I.J.C) He, with fourteen other peers, was given (*) Of his four surv. sisters and coheirs, Frances, the third, m. Francis (North), Baron Guilford, the Lord Keeper, and is ancestress of the Earls of Guilford and of the Lords North, which last inherited the Wroxton estate of this family. C") The "19" was afterwards cancelled. The docquet is dated Aug. See Cal. S.P. Dom., and Cal. of Treasury Books. The patent was not enrolled. V.G. {') He is often spoken of as Baronet, being brother of Sir Christopher D. (so cr. 19 May 1642), and uncle and heir male to Sir Thomas D., the 2nd and last Bart., but there appears to have been no spec. rem. in the creation of that dignity. Both in his mar. lie. (1663) and in the preamble to the patent of his Viscountcy (1681) he is styled Knight {Miles), not Baronet. The origin of the Dawnays is dealt with by J. H. Round in his Peerage and Pedigree, vol. i, pp. 291-4. G.E.C. and V.G. i^) See the preamble to this patent in Lodge, vol. v, p. 75. For this creation, Lord Halifax, at whose instance it was made, is stated to have received ^25,000. (Reresby's Memoirs). V.G.
