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In the 34th of Henry VIII., 1542-3, Thomas Foster and 

 Elizabeth his wife, account in the Exchequer for several 

 temporalities in connection with the monastery of St. 

 Peter's, Shrewsbury. Su- William Forester, K.B., married 

 Lady Mary Cecil, daughter of James, thu*d Earl of Salis- 

 bury. He was a staunch Protestant, and represented 

 the county with George Weld, as previously stated, with 

 whom he voted in favour of the succession of the House 

 of Hanover, and the family came into possession of the 

 Willey estates by the marriage of Brook Forester of Dot- 

 hill Park, with one of the Welds, the famous George 

 Forester, the Willey Squire, being the fruit of that mar- 

 riage. George Forester left the whole of his estates to 

 his cousin, Cecil Forester, of Boss Hall, who was allowed 

 by George the Fourth, whose personal friendship he had 

 been permitted to enjoy for many years, to add the 

 name of Weld in 1821. Cecil Weld Forester, Esq., 

 was ennobled the same year by George the Fourth, 

 who, when Prince of Wales, honoui'ed him with a visit at 

 Ross Hall. He married Catherine, daughter of His Grace 

 the fourth Duke of Rutland, and was not less renowned 

 than his cousin, as a sportsman. His eagerness for 

 the chase was happily characterised by the late Mr. 

 Meynell, who used to say, '' First out of cover came 

 Cecil- Forester, next the fox, and then my hounds." A 

 famous leap of his, thirty feet across a stream, on his 

 famous horse Bernardo, has been recorded in some lines 

 now at Willey which accompany the portrait of the horse. 

 He is supposed to have been one of the first who insti- 



