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lord Neville, to whom she had borne a son John, 

 afterwards married to her second husband, Robett 

 lord Willoughby, of Eresby ;* ana dying 5 of Nov. 

 1396, left John de Latimer, her son by the lord 

 Neville, her next heir, then 13 years of age. 



John de Latimer dying without issue, his lands 

 came to Ralph de Neville, earl of Westmereland, 

 his half brother by his father's first marriage with 

 Maud, daughter of lord Percy, by a special feoffe- 

 ment ; the inheritance whereof was given by that 

 earl to his third son George, the first Neville lord 

 Latimer, who married Elizabeth, daughter of the 

 earl of Warwick, and died 30 of December, 1470, 

 9 of Edward IV. ; being then seized amongst other 

 extensive possessions, of the manors of Sinning., 

 ton, Snape, Scamston, and Thornton in Pickering 

 Lythe, in the county of York ; leaving Richard 

 Neville, his grandson, (son of Henry Neville, Knt. 

 his only son, who had died during his father's life- 

 time,) his next heir, at that time about 2 years of 

 age. 



Richard Neville, lord Latimer, married Ann, 



* I may perhaps appear to have been unnecessarily 

 circumstantial in these details, but as a mistake of some 

 importance on this subject has crept into the " Magna 

 " Brittania," where it is said that " Elizabeth, daughter 

 * c and heir of William lord Latimer, marrying to lord 

 " Willoughby of Eresby, carried this (Sinnington) and 

 tl other lay estates, into his family ; which were inheri- 

 6i ted by her son William and his posterity," I hare 

 deemed it right to set the matter at rest, by proving 

 clearly from Dugdale, that she had been previously 

 married to John lord Neville, of Raby, to whom she bore 

 a son John, who succeeded to those estates by the title 

 of John de Latimer, being the first lord Latimer of the 

 Neville family; 



