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and are so kind as to have a will to serve me. I beg you'll excuse this 
trouble, and believe me, Sir, 
**Vour most humble Servant, 
“C, NEWBURGH. 
“To Mr. Charles Bushby, at Corbridge, near Hexham.” 
However undoubted the right of the eldest son of Charles 
. Radcliffe after his father’s death, he was as effectually deprived of 
his inheritance as if he had himself been guilty of high treason. 
In 1749, the King went down to Parliament, and gave his 
assent to an act to “endow the Royal Hospital for Seamen, at 
Greenwich, with the forfeited estates of the Earl of Derwentwater 
and Charles Radcliffe, deceased, and for raising certain sums of 
money for the relief of the children of the said Charles Radcliffe.” 
Charles Radcliffe’s eldest son, being deprived of his patrimony, 
and having no other means of subsistence, accepted £24,000—a 
sum scarcely exceeding one year’s income of the family estates—as 
a relief for his support, and consented that the title under the 
settlement should be extinguished. But, if he was under the 
disabilities of an alien, and could not hold the estate, the Act 
of 1749 could confer no valid title on the trustees of Greenwich 
Hospital, still less could it operate in law to deprive his only son, 
Anthony James, born in England in 1757, of his rights of inherit- 
ance. 
Anthony James, grandson of Charles Radcliffe, became Fifth 
Earl of Newburgh in 1786. He married Anne, daughter of Joseph 
Webb, Esq., of Slinden. She was a grand-niece of the last 
Countess of Derwentwater. He presented a petition to Parliament 
gth June, 1788, when a bill was passed granting £2,500 per annum 
to his lordship. He was undoubtedly the last who had any claim on 
the Derwentwater Estates under the settlement of 1712. He was the 
last male heir, and was succeeded in the Earldom of Newburgh by 
his cousin, Francis Eyre, Esq. In the year 1800, he visited 
Keswick, and was in Crosthwaite’s Museum. ‘The proprietor 
expressed his regret that he had accepted so paltry a pension for 
his large inheritance, but he only replied—“ Half a loaf is better 
than no bread,” : 
