sons and a daughter, viz., Henry, Edmund, and Anne. His 

 eldest son, 



Henry, of Dethic, was born in 1530, the year in which the tower 

 was founded. He married, first. Frances, daughter of Sir John 

 Markham, and secondly, Mary, daughter of George, Lord Darcy, 

 of Aston, by whom he had no issue. By his first wife he had 

 three sons, Anthony, Francis, and George. 



1. Anthony, of Dethic and Kingston, attainted for high treason 

 in 1586. He married Margaret, daughter of John Draycott, of 

 Penisley, Stafford. (See Note at end.) 



2. Francis, who became possessed of Kingston by his brother's 

 death, and sold it to Gilbert, Earl of Shrewsbury. 



3. George, of Dethic. He married Helen, daughter of Hen. 

 Vine, of Ash, in Surrey, and had a son, Ferdinando. This George 

 sold the manor of Dethic to Wednesley Blackwall 



The second son of Thomas Babington and Katharine Sacheverel. 

 was Edmund, who married Mary, daughter of George Zouch, of 

 Codnor. His sister, Anne, was married to John, son of George, 

 Lord Darcy. 



Thomas Babington, who married Katharine Sacheverell, had 

 three brothers, viz., Edward, Bernard, who married a daughter of 

 Sir Gervaise Clifton, and had issue the distinguished Gervaise 

 Babington, Bishop of Worcester, who died on the 17th of May, 

 1 6 10. The third brother, John, married Sanctria, daughter and 

 heiress of Sir Richard Stanhope, of Rampton, and left issue. 



Sir Anthony (the tower builder) married for his second wife 

 Catharine, daughter of Sir John Ferrers, by whom he had two 

 sons and three daughters. George, married Anna, daughter and 

 co-heir of Sir John Constable, of Kinolton ; Richard; Elizabeth, 

 married to Sir George Pierpoint ; Catharine, married to Sir John 

 Markham ; and Mary, married to Sir Robert Brett, of Rotherby. 



Sir Anthony died in 1544. 



Now I return to the issue of Thomas Babington and Editha, 

 and shall name the brothers and sisters of the tower builder, 

 Anthony, the eldest son. 



The second son was Sir John babington, Knight of Rhodes, 



