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chaplain, and tutor to his only fon, after the death of Sir William 

 Strickland, of Boynton, in whofe family he had been chaplain and 

 tutor from the time of his leaving his pariih of Topcl'iffe, in York* 

 Jlnre, till his coming to Sir William (x): by his fon, Sir John Middleton, 

 Bart, high flieriffof Northumberland, 10 Q^^nn, 1711 ; by the late Sir 

 William Middleton, Bart, who reprefentcd Northumberland in fix par- 

 liaments, and was one of theoldeft members of the houfe of 

 commons at the time of his death, i Oftobeiv 1757 ; by the pre- 

 fent Sir John Lambart Middleton, Bart. 



Sir John is named Lambart from his mother, Frances Lam- 

 bart (y), daughter of John Lambart y of Calton, in York/JAre, Efq; 

 defcended from William Lambart, who married Gundred, grand- 

 daughter to K. William I, widow to Roger Beaumont, Earl of War- 

 wick, of the fame name with her mother, wife to William count 

 de Warren, whom the king enriched with many feigniories. This 

 Lady, of the blood royal, was mother both to Waller on Earl of 

 Warwick, and to Henry de Lambart, flandard-bearer to K. Henry II, 

 A. D. 1167; between whom and a Scotch knight, Sir Alexander 

 Olyfard, fome difference arifing, to be decided in the ufual way, 

 by combat, the King of Scots, by his royal interpofition and fa- 

 vour, effected a reconciliation, on the requeft of K. Henry (z). He 



mar- 



(x) Bp. Kemtfs fiift. Regift. p.. 899. 



(y) Lamlart. 

 Lambert. 

 Lamlard* 

 Lambent. 



(z) Rex Scotia univerfu in Cbri/la eqclefiae fidelibus, falutem: Sciant omncs ad 

 quos liters iftae pervenient, quod anno ab Incarnatione Domini, MCLXVII . in pre- 

 fentia mea, et venerabilium virorum, clericorum, et laicorum apud Slryve/yn, talis fa6ta 



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