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a baronet, on the institution of that order by James I. at 

 Newmarket, in 161 1. He married Anne, only daughter and 

 heiress of Edmund Butts, Esq., of Thornage, in Norfolk, by 

 Anne, his wife, daughter and co-heiress of Henry Buers, Esq., 

 of Barrow, in Suffolk, and had issue six sons and four 

 daughters. He died in 1649. 



^ On July 2, 161 1, Sir Robert Drury, of Halsted, county 

 Essex, with his wife and family, obtained licence to travel 

 for three years in parts beyond the seas. He died in April, 

 1615. 



^1 Sir Thomas Jermyn, of Rushbrooke, county Suffolk.sub- 

 sequently Treasurer of the Household to Charles I. He had 

 two sons, Thomas, 2nd Baron Jermyn of St. Edmundsbury, 

 and Henry, afterwards Earl of St. Albans. 



^2 Sir William Woodhouse, son of Sir William Wood- 

 house (the valiant Vice- Admiral of England, temp. Queen 

 Mary, who was the second son of Sir Roger Woodhouse, of 

 Kimberley and Waxham, county Norfolk), was knighted by 

 James I. in 1603, "at Sir George Fermor's." Bloomfield 

 mentions that Sir William Woodhouse " is said to have been 

 the first person in England that erected and invented decoys 

 for the taking of wild ducks " (" Hist, Norfolk," vol. ix., 

 P- 353)- 



^^SirWalter Butler, of Kilcash, county Kilkenny, grand- 

 son of James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond, and Joan, daughter 

 and heiress of James, nth Earl of Desmond, succeeded, as iith 

 Earl of Ormond, to the dignities of his family only, on the 

 death of his uncle Thomas Butler, loth Earl of Ormond ; who, 

 dying in 1614, and leaving (by his second countess, Elizabeth, 

 daughter of John, 2nd Lord Sheffield) one surviving child 

 only, who, through the influence of James I., was married to 

 Sir Richard Preston, Baron Dingwall in Scotland, and Earl 

 of Desmond in Ireland. But on the demise of the loth Earl 

 of Ormond, his estates were claimed by his son-in-law, Lord 

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