Book I.] THE ALINGTONS. 51 



that the fine imposed upon Sir Giles in the Star Chamber was 

 shared between Queen Henrietta Maria and the Earl of 

 Holland. In consequence of the issue of this marriage having 

 been bastardized, the estates came to Sir Giles's only surviving 

 brother, 



William Alington, Esq., who was elevated to the 

 peerage of Ireland, as Baron Alington of Killard, July 28, 

 1642.* His lordship married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir 

 Natheniel ToUemache, Bart, of Helingham, by whom he had 

 five sons and three daughters, of whom Elizabeth, the eldest, 

 married Charles Seymour, 2nd Lord Tronbridge, and had 

 surviving issue Francis and Charles, successively Dukes of 

 Somerset. It was partly through this alliance, and partly 

 by purchase, that the manor of Newmarket eventually passed 

 to the Seymours, and again, from that family, by marriage, to 

 the Manners, Dukes of Rutland. 



Lord Alington was succeeded by his eldest surviving son, 

 William Alington, 2nd Baron, who was created a peer of 



escaped the point of perjury. The eight Bishops were — my Lord's Grace 

 of Canterbury [Dr. Abbot] ; the Bishops of London [Dr. Laud] ; of 

 Winchester [Dr. Neile] ; of Norwich [Dr. White] ; of Coventry and 

 Lichfield [Dr. Morton] ; of Bangor [Dr. David Dolben] ; of Rochester 

 [Dr. John Bowie] ; and of Gloucester [Dr. Goodman]. It was the 

 solemnest, the gravest, and severest censure that ever, they say, was 

 miade in that Court. All the bishops made speeches, and all very good 

 ones, many excellent and learned, wherin the Bishop of London bore 

 the bell from them all, demonstrating the foulness and heinousness of the 

 crime." 



* This Lord Alington, who was appointed Constable of the Tower, 

 during pleasure, with a salary of ^looo a year, payable quarterly, by 

 patent dated Westminster, April 24, 1672, built a magnificent mansion at 

 Horseheath, after the design of Webb, in 1665, at an expense of ^70,000. 

 This estate was sold with the house, about the year 1687, for only ^42,000, 

 to John Bromley, Esq., who expended ;^3o,ooo more in building, and 

 died in 1707. His grandson was, in 1741, created Lord Montfort of Horse- 

 heath. Thomas, the second Lord Montfort, having involved himself in 

 embarrassments, was obliged to sell this estate in 1776, when the splendid 

 mansion, on which such large sums of money had been expended, was 

 sold for the materials : it had been stripped of its furniture the preceding 

 year, and several valuable portraits by Walker, Lely, Sir Godfrey Kncllcr, 

 and other masters of the early English school, were removed. 



