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retaining her large revenues, of which subsequent proceedings at 

 law failed to dispossess her. She afterwards resided in Russia and 

 in France, and died in Paris in 1788, when the landed estates of 

 the Duke of Kingston passed, under his will, to Charles Medows, 

 the second of his nephews, as already described. 



The nianors of Dean and East Grimstead had been previously 

 sold to Sir Arthur Cole, afterwards Baron Ranelagh. The family 

 of Cole, originally of Devon and Cornwall, migrated to Ireland 

 early in the reign of James I., where Sir William Cole was first 

 Provost of Enniskillen, 1612, and was living 16t^0. By Susan, his 

 wife, daughter and heir of John Croft, of Co. Lancaster, and relict 

 of Stephen Segar, Lieutenant of the Castle of Dublin, he left, with 

 two daughters, two sons, Michael and John. The elder, born 1616, 

 died vita patris, leaving, by Catharine, his wife, daughter of Sir 

 Lawrence Parsons, of Birr, one son. Sir Michael Cole, who died 

 1710, of whom presently. The second son, John Cole, of Newland, 

 Co. Dublin, was created a baronet 1660, and died 1691, leaving, by 

 Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of John Chichester, of Dungannon, 

 Esq., with several other children. Sir Arthur Cole, created Baron 

 Ranelagh 1713. He purchased these manors from the trustees of 

 ^he last Duke of Kingston, and dying s.p. 1754, set. 90, was buried 

 at West Dean. He had been twice married, first to Catharine, 

 daughter of William, third Baron Byron, buried here 1746, and 

 secondly, in 1748, to Selina, daughter of Peter Bathurst, of Claren- 

 don Park, Wilts, Esq. She enjoyed these estates for life, with her 

 second husband, whom she married here in 1755, Sir John Elwill, 

 of Co. Devon, Bart., and was buried here in 1781 ; when the manors 

 seem to have been divided, that of West Dean passing by settlement 

 to the descendants of Mary Cole, one of Lord Ranelagh's sisters, 

 who married Henry Moore, third Earl of Drogheda; and that of 

 East Grimstead to the issue of Elizabeth Cole, another sister, who 

 married, 1671-2, her cousin. Sir Michael Cole, above-mentioned (his 

 second wife). Their eldest son, John Cole, of Enniskillen, Esq., 

 died 1726, having been twice married, and leaving by his first wife, 

 Florence, daughter of Sir Bourchier Wray, of Trebitch, Co. Corn- 

 wall, Bart., with other children, John Cole, born 1709, married 



