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A54698 The grandeur of the law, or, An exact collection of the nobility and gentry of this kingdom whose honors and estates have by some of their ancestors been acquired or considerably augmented by the practice of the law or offices and dignities relating thereunto the name of such ancestor, together with the time in which he flourished, the society in which he was a member, and to what degree in the law he arrived being perticularly [sic] expressed / by H.P. H. P. (Henry Philipps) 1684 (1684) Wing P2022; ESTC R30532 72,310 296

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The Grandeur OF THE LAW OR An exact Collection of the Nobility and Gentry of this Kingdom whose Honors and Estates have by some of their Ancestors been acquired or considerably augmented by the Practice of the Law or Offices and Dignities relating thereunto The Name of such Ancestor together with the Time in which he Fluorished the Society in which he was a Member and to what Degree in the Law he arrived being perticularly expressed By H. P. Gent. LONDON Printed for Arthur Jones at the Flying-Horse near St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet 1684. TO The RIGHT HONORABLE FRANCIS Lord GVILFORD LORD KEEPER OF THE GREAT SEAL OF England c. MY LORD THE welfare of Mankind hath so necessary a Dependance upon Laws and the Administration of Justice that by the Vote of all Ages The Profession of the Law hath ever been rank't amongst the most Honorable Callings Perhaps in the Judgment of many it would not have become any Person less eminent than Cicero to have said Cedant Arma Togae And yet if a good Peace be the end and only justifiable ground of War and if it be true what Philosophy teacheth us That the End is always more noble than the Means I do not well see how the Consequence will be avoided in Favour and Preferrence of the Gown But this small Treatise hath nothing to do with such Polemical Debates It only designs to set down and enumerate those Illustrious Families of our Nation which have been raised to Honor and Wealth by the Profession of the Law The very Nature of the Subject does in a manner entitle it to your Lordships Protection who are in your self the greatest Example of this kind and the greatest Ornament of the Law in this or any Age. Others have owed their Preferments in Honor and Estate to the Law To which your Lordship is much more a Creditor than a Debtor When we consider your Nobility of Extraction Eminency of Parts and above all your Inviolable Integrity we are all bound to confess that you brought with you more Honor to the Gown than you receive from it But these great Truths are not fit to be spoken by so mean a Person as I am who shall be too much honored in being permitted to lay my self with this small Tribute at your Lordships Feet and to make a Profession of being My Lord Your Honors most Obedient and most humble Servant H. Philipps TO THE READER THE Method I have taken is first of all to Enumerate so many of the present Nobility of England and such Englishmen whose Titles of Honor are in Scotland and Ireland of which there are but few as by the Study and Practice of our Laws eminent Preferments and Places of Trust and Profit relating thereunto are risen and advanced to such their Dignities and according to the times of their respective Creations have placed them with all Circumspection Yet I do not insist that they are ranked without any Error but submit it to the Judgment of those better read in Matters of that Nature It may be Objected That I ought not to have preferred the Scots and Irish Nobility any otherwise than according to such English Honors as they are here invested with and truely they ought not but in regard they were but few I thought it would not be improper to place them next after our English Nobility according to their Titles The next Degree are the Baronets which being an Hereditary Title I have with the like Care placed them persuant to the Date of their several Patents And as to the Knights and Esquires forasmuch as there is not any material Precedency claimed or used I have placed those Degrees promiscuously as they came to my hands without the least design or intention of Injury to them or any of them and hope it will be so taken There have been many Families both of Nobility and Gentry as have been raised by the means above-mentioned besides such as I have expressed in this Book who are now become Extinct as to their Names though perhaps their Estates have been Vnited to some other Families by Daughters and Heirs but being it is difficult to point particularly at such Families to whom such Estates were carri●d and least it might be offensive I have not in the least meddled therewith THE NOBILITY THE first who laid the Foundation of that Noble and Flourishing Family of the Howards was William Howard one of the Judges of the Court of Common-Pleas in the Reigns of the two first Edwards From which William are directly descended Henry Howard Duke of Norfolk Earl of Arundel Surry Norfolk and Norwich and Earl Marshal of England c. James Howard Earl of Suffolk and Baron Howard of Walden Thomas Howard Earl of Berkshire Viscount Andover and Baron of Charleton Charles Howard Earl of Carlisle Viscount Morpeth and Baron Dacres of the North. Henry Lord Stafford Son and Heir to William Howard Late Lord Viscount Stafford Francis Howard Baron of Effingham And William Lord Howard of Escrick with diverse other Honourable Persons of this great Family Henry Cavendish Duke Marquess and Earl of New-Castle Earl of Ogle Viscount Mansfield Baron Ogle Bertram of Bothall and Bolesover as also William Cavendish Earl of Devonshire and Baron Cavendish of Hardwick are both descended from Sir John Cavendish Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Kings-Bench in the Reigns of King Edward the Third and Richard the Second * Observe The Earl of Devonshire is the Elder House Charles Sackvill Earl of Dorsett and Middlesex Baron of Buckhurst and Lord Cranfield is descended of an Ancient Family of that Name in Sussex But the first who made any considerable addition to the Estate and Honour was Sir Richard Sackvill Knight one of the Benchers of the Inner-Temple in the Reign of King Henry the Eighth and afterwards Under-Treasurer of the Court of Exchequer whose Son and Heir was the first Lord Buckhurst James Cecill Earl of Salisbury Viscount Cranbourne and Baron of Essendon as also John Cecill Earl of Exeter and Baron of Burleigh are both Issued in a direct Line from William Cecill an eminent Lawyer of the Society of Grays-Inn in the Reign of King Henry the Eighth in which Study he made so great a Progress that besides many other worthy Offices he at last was constituted Lord High Treasurer of England and created Baron of Burleigh in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth and at his Death left an Estate of a prodigious Vallue John Edgerton Earl of Bridgewater Viscount Brackley Baron of Elsmeere is the Grandson of Thomas Edgerton a Natural Son to Sir Richard Edgerton of Ridley in Cheshire Knight which Thomas being placed in Lincolns-Inn to the Study of the Law so improved himself therein that he became first Sollicitor General to Queen Elizabeth next her Attorney General then Master of the Rolls then Lord Keeper afterwards Lord Chancellor and last
so great perfection that his most gracious Majesty as a mark of his Royal Favour hath been pleased to make choice of him to execute the Office of his Solicitor General being but an entrance to those future preferments which his great Learning Loyalty and Elloquence do most justly intitle him to He is the Second Son of the late Famous and most Incomparable Lawyer Heneage Earl of Nottingham Lord High Chancellor of England and the true inheritor of his great Abilities and Judgement who as in the Catalogue of the Nobility I have there mentioned was the Son and Heir of another great Lawyer of the same Society namely Sir Heneage Finch Knight Serjeant at Law and Recorder of the City of London a younger Son of Sir Thomas Finch and Brother to Thomas Finch Earl of Winchelsea Roger North of the Middle-Temple Esq Chief Justice of Chester and one of His Majesties Learned Council in the Law is a younger Brother to the Right Honourable Francis Lord North Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England Sons of Dudley late Lord North of Carthlidge who was descended from Edward Lord North a person eminently Learned in the Laws and Treasurer of the Court of Augmentations in the Reigns of Henry the Eighth Edward the Sixth and Queen Mary Evan Seys of the City of Gloucester and of Boverton in the County of Glamorgan Esq several times one of the Members of Parliament for the said City was called to the degree of a Serjeant at Law by the Arch-Traytor Oliver Cromwell in the year 1656 and again by his present Majesty in the year 1660. which said Evan Seys being by Birth of the Ancient British Race is descended from Roger Seys of Boverton aforesaid a Man of great Note and Attorney General of the whole Principality of Wales in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Tristram Coniers of the Middle Temple Serjeant at Law and of Walthamstow in the County of Essex Esq a person of great Judgement and knowledge in the Law is descended from William Coniers Esq a Learned Member of the said honourable Society and one of the Readers thereof in the beginning of the Reign of King Charles the First Gyles Strangwaies of Melbury-Samford in the County of Dorset Esq a Gentleman of a very fair Estate is the direct descendant of James Strangwaies Esq Serjeant at Law and one of the Justices of the Common-Pleas in the several Reigns of King Henry the Fifth and Sixth John Caryll of Harting in the County of Sussex Esq a person of great Learning and Integrity is the eldest Malebranch directly descended from Sir John Caryll of Harting aforesaid and of the Inner-Temple Knight one of the Readers of that Honourable Society in the Thirty Sixth year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth after which by Queen Mary in the Second year of her Reign he was called to the degree of a Serjeant at Law and lastly by Queen Elizabeth was constituted her Attorney of the Dutchy of Lancaster which Sir John Caryll was the Son and Heir to the no less famous and learned John Caryll of the Inner-Temple aforesaid Esq advanced to the like dignity of a Serjeant at Law by King Henry the Eighth in the Second year of his Reign by which two great Sages of the Law was considerable part of the Estate of this Honourable Family raised which remains to their Posterity at this day Francis Plowden of Shiplake in the County of Oxon Esq and Cotton Plowden of the City of London Gentleman are lineally descended from that famous and excellent Lawyer of his time Edmond Plowden originally of Plowden-Hall in the County of Salop a Family of great Antiquity there and of the Middle-Temple Esq one of the Readers thereof in the Reign of Queen Mary by whom he was called to the degree of a Serjeant at Law whose Learned Works now extant do sufficiently evidence his great Abilities Thomas Markham of Allerton in the County of Nottingham Esque a person of great Integrity and Repute is the Son and Heir to the late valiant and Loyal Thomas Markham of Allerton aforesaid Esq who discerning the Flames of Rebellion breaking forth upon this Kingdom which threatned no less then those Miseries and Calamities which afterwards befel this distressed Nation did Cordially put himself in Arms on the behalf of His late Majesty in whose Service he was slain at Gainsburgh in Lincolnshire fighting stoutly against the Parliament forces in the year 1643. to the no small diminution of his Estate which Thomas was descended by many Ancestors of the greatest note in this County from Sir John Markham Knight one of the Justices of the Court of Common-Pleas in the Reign of King Henry the Fourth and he the Son of Robert Markham and Grandson of John Markham both Eminent Lawyers John Lukener of West-Dean in the County of Sussex Esq a Gentleman of a very ample Fortune is descended from Sir Roger Lukener Knight one of the Readers of the Middle-Temple and made a Serjeant at Law by Queen Elizabeth in the latter end of her Reign which Sir Roger was descended from Geffrey de Lukener one of the Justices of the Common-Pleas in the beginning of the Reign of King Edward the First John Stoner of Stoner in the County of Oxon Esq a Family of great Honour and Antiquity in this County is descended from John de Stoner Esq Serjeant at Law Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer and Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas in the Reigns of King Edward the Second and Edward the Third Thomas Sympson of the Inner-Temple Esq is the Son and Heir to the late Learned and Judicious Sir John Sympson of the same Society Knight one of His Majesties Serjeants at Law Recorder of the Town of St. Albans in the County of Hertford and one of the Judges of the Sheriffs Court held in the City of London Thomas Gawdy of Claxton in the County of Norfolk Esq is descended from Thomas Gawdy of the Inner-Temple Esq Serjeant at Law one of the Readers of that House and one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench in the beginning of Queen Elizabeths Reign William Fortescue of Buckland in the County of Devon Esq is descended from the famous Sir John Fortescue of Buckland aforesaid Knight Serjeant at Law and Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas in the Reign of King Henry the Sixth he was a Man of profound knowledge and experience in the Law as his Learned Works some part whereof still extant do manifest and by Birth was a younger Son to Sir Henry Fortescue of Wood in the said County of Devon Knight Chief Justice of Ireland and descended of a Family of great Honour and Antiquity in the West of England Edward Tildesly of Morlies in the County of Lancaster Esq is the Son and Heir to that great patern of Loyalty and Valour Sir Thomas Tildesly of Morleys aforesaid Knight who being in Arms on the