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right, and William Douglas, earl of 

 Selkirk, created duke of Hamilton 

 in 1661. Lady Archibald Hamil- 

 ton, her mother, was the daughter 

 of James earl of Abercorn, descend- 

 ed from Claude Hamilton, youngest 

 son of James Hamilton, earl of Ar- 

 ran, and duke of Chatelherault. 

 She was, by her own direction, in- 

 terred in a very private manner in 

 Westminster-abbey, where her re- 

 mains have been deposited with 

 those of her maternal grandfather 

 and grandmother, in the Ormond 

 vault in Henry the Seventh's cha- 

 pel. 



Marc^5th. At Pontoise, in France, 

 George Barnewell, viscount Kings- 

 land, nephew to earl Fauconberg. 



John Macbride, esq. admiral of 

 the blue. 



Sir Thomas Shirley, bart. many 

 years governor and commander-in- 

 chief of the islands of Antigua, St. 

 Christopher's, &c. and a general in 

 the army. 



The right hon . Jane lady dowager 

 Erne, relict of the late lord Erne. 



17th. At Liege, the hon. and 

 rev. William Aston, prebend of the 

 collegiate church of St. John the 

 Evangelist in that town, and bro- 

 ther to lord Aston, of Forfar. He 

 died in distress from the revolution- 

 ary government of that unhappy 

 country. 



Hon. Daines Barrington, F.R. 

 and A.S.S. fourth son of the first 

 viscount Barrington, so well known 

 by his " Miscellanea Sacra," by 

 Anne, his wife, daughter and co- 

 heiress of sir William Daines. John 

 viscount Barrington of the kingdom 

 of Ireland had iss-ue six sons, viz. 1. 

 V\^illiam, his successor in the peer- 

 age; 2. Francis, died young; S. 

 John,amajor-general, who reduced 

 Guadaloupe, and was governor of 



Berwick ; 4. Daines, the subject of 

 this article; 5. Samuel, adm. of the 

 white (see p. 63) ; 6. Shute, bishop of 

 Durham, &c. He was one of his 

 majesty's counsel learned in the law, 

 and a bencher of the honourable so- 

 ciety of the Inner Temple; ap- 

 pointed. May 24, 1751, marshal of 

 the high court of admiralty in Eng- 

 land, which he resigned in 1753, 

 on being appointed secretary for the 

 affairs of Greenwich-hospital ; was 

 appointed a Welsh judge on the 

 North- Wales circuit, 1757; and af- 

 terwards second justice of Chester, 

 which he resigned after 1785, we 

 believe, on a pension, and, at his 

 death, retained only the place of 

 commissary-general of the stores at 

 Gibraltar. Although Mr. B. claim- 

 ed no high distinction as a lawyer, 

 he was universally allowed to be a 

 profound and judicious antiquary. 

 His first publication, which will al- 

 ways maintain its rank, and has 

 gone through five editions, the au- 

 thor liberally canceling each pre- 

 ceding one at his own expense, was 

 " Observations on the Statutes, 

 chiefly the more ancient, from 

 Magna Charta to 21st James I. c. 

 27 ; with an Appendix, being a 

 Proposal for new-modelling the Sta- 

 tutes, 1766," 4to. two editions in 

 one year. He was also the author 

 of many valuable papers in the Ar- 

 chseologia, and the Philosophical 

 Transactions. 



John viscount Arbuthnot, lord 

 Inverbervie. 



Lady Chapman, widow of sir 

 John Chapman, bart. 



The rev. John Norbury, fellow 

 of Eton-college. He was the son 

 of a barrister in Cheshire. He was 

 admitted into King's-college 1744, 

 and took the degrees of A.B. 1746; 

 A.M. 1750; S. T. P. 1784. On 



