310 Great Bedwyn. 



A.D. 



1767. Sir Thomas Fludyer, Knt. loco Thomas Cotes, Esq. de- 

 ceased, a new writ having been ordered 24 Nov. 1767. 



Thomas Cotes, Esq. was a Vice Admiral of the Red and an Elder 

 Brother of the Trinity House. 



William, son of John Burke, Esq. of London, a near relative of 

 the celebrated statesman, Edmund Burke, and an intimate friend 

 of the Earl Verney, was educated at Westminster and at Ch. 

 Ch. Oxford, where he took the degree of B.C.L. 31 May 1755. 

 Mr. Burke, who had been Secretary to the Island of Guadaloupe 

 and afterwards Under Secretary of State, first for the Southern 

 Department, and then for the Northern, went in 1777, by overland 

 route, to Madras, with despatches for Lord Pigot, who, on Mr. 

 Burke's arrival was dead. He returned to England as agent to 

 the Rajah of Tanjore, in whose behalf he laboured successfully 

 with the home authorities. In 1779 he went back to Tndia, and 

 was appointed Deputy Paymaster General of the King's troops, 

 and in 1782, Commissary General of the Forces in the East In- 

 dies. He came home in 1793, without having amassed a fortune, 

 but with his health much impaired. He died in 1798. (Alumni 

 Westms. p. 341.) 



Sir Thomas Fludyer was a merchant in London, knighted by 

 George III. in 1761. He was next brother to Sir Samuel Flud- 

 yer, Bart., Alderman of London and Lord Mayor in 1761, who 

 married for his second wife, Caroline daughter of The Hon. James 

 Brudenell, second son of Francis, Lord Brudenell, who died in 

 the life time of his father, Robert, second Earl of Cardigan. 



1768. 9 Geo. III. May 10. The Hon. James Brudenell. The 



Hon. Robert Brudenell. 



1768. William Burke, Esq. loco The Hon. Robert Brudenell, 

 who made his election for Marlborough, and a new writ 

 was ordered 13 May 1768. 



1768. William Northey, Esq. loco The Hon. James Brudenell, 

 who accepted the Chiltern Hundreds, and a new writ 

 was ordered 8 Nov 1768. 



1770. William Northey, Esq. having been made a Commissioner 

 of Trade and Plantations, was re-elected on a now writ 

 ordered 12 April 1770. 



1770. Benjamin Hopkins, Esq. loco William Northey, Esq. de- 

 ceased. The new writ was ordered 22 Dec. 1770. 



The Hon. James and Robert Brudenell, second and third sonB of 



