ISO NTJNNINGTON. 



cliffe family, ancestors of the late Duke of Roxburgh, 

 then resided here, having obtained a lease of the 

 hall and part of the estate, for 50 years. About the 

 period of the departure, 1669, it came into the pos- 

 session of Ranald Grahme, Esq., as it is* said, by 

 purchase, from whom it passed to the noblemen 

 above mentioned. 



The old mansion was in a great measure rebuilt, 

 at least the whole line of the south front, by Lord 

 Preston, as appears by the coronet and arms over 

 the entrance, and is still of considerable extent 

 and beauty, though much impaired by the hand of 



guarum Teterum Septentrional ium Thesaurus : folio ; and 

 Grammatica Anglo-saxonica. The first ofthese is the 

 author's masterpiece, and held in high estimation both 

 In this country and onfthe continent. He died in 171 5 ? 

 in the 75th year of his age. 



Zouch's Sketches. Biograph. Diet. Biog. Brit. 



His brother John Hickes, was of different religious 

 principles. He became a presbyterian, and was deprived 

 of the living of Stoke, in Devonshire, in 1662; for non- 

 conformity. In 1685, he joined the Duke of Alon- 

 inouth's army, for which he was executed. His son 

 William was rector of Braughton Gifford, in Wiltshire, 

 1712. 



Vide Calamy. Palmer. 



Nunnington Branch of the Hickes. 



Robert Hickes, of Nunnington, born in 1586, and 

 married in 1619, to Frances Wright, appears to have 

 succeeded his father at Nunnington. He had several 

 children, of whom Marmaduke Hickes, Esq., appears 

 to have been the most distinguished ; having been made 

 thrice mayor of Leeds in 1666, 1681, and 1694. H6 

 was thrice married and died in 1696, aged 77. 



A younger branch of the Hickes of Nunnington, inter- 

 married with the ancient family of the Idels, who had a 

 seat at Bulmer, near Castle Howard. 



