4° THE MANORS OF KIRK LANGLEY AND MEYNELL LANGLEY. 



sixth son of Godfrey Meynell, of Willington, in the county of 

 Derby, and was a descendant of the Meynells formerly of Langley, 

 as may be seen in the pedigree in the Herald's College, and by 

 the pedigree entered by his father, Godfrey, 1618, and by his 

 monument in St. Dunstan's, in East London. The same coat of 

 arms was allowed him that Sir Hugh Meynell had in 1285 — viz., 

 Vaire, argent and sable. He died a bachelor, and Isaac, his 

 brother, the seventh son, became possessed of Meynell Langley.* 



Isaac left one only daughter, Elizabeth, who married t Honble. 

 Robert Cecil, member for Wooton Bassett, and second son of the 

 Earl of Salisbury, but, I apprehend, sold the estate to Godfrey 

 Meynell, Esquire, of Langley, grandson of the before-named 

 Godfrey Meynell, of Willington, and son of Thomas Meynell, the 

 rector of Langley, who married Catharine, daughter to Colonel 

 John Lane, of Bentley Abbey, in the county of Stafford, and 

 niece to Mrs. Jane Lane who was so greatly instrumental in 

 saving King Charles II. when he quitted the kingdom for 

 France.^ 



Thomas Meynell had one son and four daughters ; to his son 

 Godfrey he gave up property in his own lifetime, residing himself 

 at the rectory. He died in the autumn of the year 1705, and 

 the above Godfrey, his son, in the spring preceding. The son 

 married Mary Horde, daughter of Thomas Horde, Esq., of 

 Coates, in the county of Oxford ; he left one son and one 

 daughter; Godfrey, his son, died in the year 1758, and left his 

 estate to the grandchildren of his grandfather, Thomas Meynell, 

 by his three great-aunts (r) Katherine, who married Gilbert 



above his godfather, Godfrey Thacker, of Repton, Esq., by the Herald, and 

 would have refused the place because he was his godfather, but the Herald 

 would not suffer him, but told him it was his place. Vaire argent and sable 

 was the De la Ward's coat, and the nag's head was the crest, and the daughter 

 of De la Ward married to the Meynells of Langley. The pedigree is carried 

 down in the Herald's College to anno 1634, Book G. 33, folio 7, and this coat 

 was then allowed by the Herald. This was writ by Tho. Meynell, rector of 

 Langley, and given to his son Godfrey, 1702." 



* Part of the estate lying in Kirk Langley was sold afterwards by Godfrey 

 Meynell, Esq. 



+ First to Hale, of King's Walden ; second, to Robert Cecil. 



% Vide Lanes' pedigree, and the Lanes' petition to Charles II. 



