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[SUiPPLEMENTAL.] 



By George Bailey. 



|T has been pointed out that the remarks in a note 



appended to the copy of gravestone of EUzabeth 



Eyre (No. ix., p. 53) in the last volume of this 



Journal, are wanting in clearness j and as there is 



some reason in this, the following supplementar)' remarks vnll 



perhaps remove the ambiguity, and make the note more easy 



to understand. 



The Elizabeth Hickman (mentioned in the note) was the first 

 wife of Henry Eyre, of Rowtor, and by her he had one child, 

 a daughter, Elizabeth, who became the second wife of Viscount, 

 afterwards Earl of, Massareene, and by her the Earl had six 

 sons and two daughters. It may be added that Henry 

 Eyre inherited the Rowtor estate from his di.stant cousin, 

 Thomas Eyre, of Rowtor, who was the eldest son of Roger 

 Evre, of Rowtor, the fifth son of Rowland Eyre, of Hassoj). 



Gervase Eyre, of Ranipton = Catherine, daughter of 



I Sir Henry Cooke, Bart. , 

 I of Wheatley, Co. York. 



Anthony Eyre = Margaret, daughter of 

 of Rampton, I Sir Charles Turner, Bt. 

 II.Sherifl'1729. 

 Died 1748. I 



Elizabeth, daughter of = Henry, of 



S^ \Villough1)y 

 Hickman. 



Rowtor, 



born 



1693. 



Anthony Eyre, 

 of tlrove and Rampton, 

 from whom descend the 

 Eyres of Rampton. 



Elizabeth Eyre- Clotworthy .Skefifington, 

 Earl of Massareene. 



