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a hunclciy the poundcs a pcsc also he had a gerfalcon for the 

 heme in her majcstys tyme which he kept XVIII yere and 

 offered the lyke to flye for a hundred pounde and were refused 

 for all." 



On the branch of the family settled at Black Bourton, 

 county Oxford, Farley Castle eventually devolved, and was one 

 of the great possessions of Sir Edward Hungerford, Knight 

 of the Bath, surnamed "the Spendthrift," by whose boundless 

 extravagance the family property, immense though it was, 

 was utterly destroyed. He died in 171 1, having had a son, 

 Edward, who predeceased his father, without surviving issue. 

 Thus terminated this remarkable family, notable for its great 

 fortune and bad luck — if the paradox be admissible. Two 

 branches of the Hungerford family, however, are still settled 

 in Ireland.* 



-^ Sir John Danvers, Knight, of Dauntscy, Wiltshire, 

 acquired by his marriage with the Hon. Elizabeth Nevil, 

 fourth daughter of John Nevil, last Lord Latimer of that 

 surname, the ancient castle of Danby, in the North Riding 

 of Yorkshire. By this lady he had three sons and two 

 daughters. His second son and heir. Sir Henry Danvers, 

 Knight, was elevated to the peerage July 27, 1603, as Baron 

 Danvers, of Dauntsey, county Wilts, and on the accession of 

 Charles I., created Earl of Danby, and soon after chosen a 

 Knight of the Garter. Dying January 20, 1643, a bachelor 

 and without heirs, all these honours became extinct. 



^^ Sir Thomas Wroughton died In June, 1597. His eldest 

 daughter, Dorothy, married, ist. Sir Henry Unton, Queen 

 Elizabeth's ambassador at the court of France, temp. July 24, 



* Some short time since a most interesting manuscript collection of 

 memoirs of the Hungerford family was sold by auction in London. It. 

 realized a high price, and, we believe, was purchased for the Astor Library, 

 in New York City. Recently, all our good rural manuscripts have been 

 bought up by enterprising American and Colonial collectors . The absence 

 of such uniciue documents render the elucidation of domestic history all 

 the more difficult, in many cases a hopeless task ! 



