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Henry V. and Henry VI., and also of Ireland, married Joane, 

 daughter and heir of Sir Wm. Burgh, Lord Chief Justice of 

 the Court of King's Bench (2 Richard II. A.D. 1378), and had 

 a son, 



William Alington, of Horseheath,* in Cambridgeshire, 

 sheriff of Cambridge and Huntingdon in the year 1437, whose 

 eldest son, William Alington, Esq., married Elizabeth, 

 daughter and heiress of John de Argentine, and acquired 

 with her the manor of Wymondley, in the county of Hert- 

 ford, held in grand sergeanty, by service of presenting the 

 first cup at the coronation of the kings of England, which 

 service was claimed and allowed at the coronation of King 

 James II., and has, until recent times, been performed by the 

 lords of that manor. By this alliance he also obtained the 

 manor of Newmarket in Suffolk, which remained apparently 

 in the family until about the middle of the eighteenth 

 century, when the estate passed to the Dukes of Rutland by 

 the marriage of Frances, eldest daughter of Charles, 6th Duke 

 of Somerset, in 1750, with John, Marquis of Granby. She 

 died in 1760.! From William Alington and Elizabeth his 

 wife was derived SiR GiLES ALINGTON, who married Mary, 

 only daughter and heiress of Sir Richard Gardiner, Knight, 

 who had several children, of whom three of the younger sons, 

 George, John, and Richard, were the founders of families ; 

 George Alington, the second son, being the direct ancestor 

 of the Alingtons of Swinhope, county Lincoln, whose present 



* Horseheath was held by petit-sergeanty under the Earls of Oxford 

 by the service of holding the earl's stirrup, whenever he should mount 

 his horse in the presence of the holder of the manor. 



t In Davy's list of the lords of this manor he places : — William Aling- 

 ton, Esq., son and heir of John Ahngton, ob. 20 Edward IV., A.D. 1480. Sir 

 Giles Alington, Knt., son and heir. WiHiani Alyngton, Gent., released it 

 to Sir Giles Alington, Knt., son and heir of Sir Giles, ob. 1 1 Elizabeth, A.D. 

 1569. Sir Giles Alington, Knt., grandson and heir, ob. 28 Elizabeth, A.D. 

 1586. In 1717, Hildebrand Alington, Esq., presented to the living. 

 Charles, 6th Duke of Somerset, ob. 1750, and gave it to Frances, his 

 eldest daughter, who married John, Marquis of Granby. She died 1760. 

 Charles, Duke of Rutland, son and heir, ob. 1787. John Henry, Duke 

 of Rutland, son and heir. 



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