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morton, of Paulers Perry, Northamptonshire, and had issue, 

 Katherine, who married, ist, Henry, Lord Stanhope, by whom 

 she was mother of Phih'p, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield, Katherine 

 married to William, Lord Alington, and Mary, who died 

 unmarried. Her ladyship married, 2ndly, John Poliander 

 Kirkhoven, Lord of Heenvilett, in Holland. She married, 

 3rdly, Colonel Daniel O'Neile, one of the Grooms of the Bed- 

 chamber to Charles H. Her ladyship was governess to the 

 Princess of Orange, daughter of Charles L, and was created 

 by Charles H. Countess of Chesterfield for life. Her second 

 daughter, Hesther, married Baptist, Viscount Campden. The 

 heir-general of this co-heiress of Lord Wotton was the late 

 Duke of Devonshire, K.G. Her third daughter, Margaret, 

 married Sir John Tufton, Knight, and the fourth daughter, 

 Anne, married Sir Edward Hales, Knight, of Tunstall, Kent. 

 Lord Wotton died at Bocton, April 2, 1630, aged forty-two, 

 when the Barony of Wotton, in default of male issue, became 

 extinct. 



^^ William Knollys, Treasurer of the Household in the 

 reign of Elizabeth, was advanced to the peerage by James I., by 

 letters patent dated May 13, 1603, in the dignity of LoRD 

 Knollys, of Greys, county Oxford (his chief seat). In 1614 

 he was appointed Master of the Wards, and within a short 

 time installed a Knight of the Garter. In 1616 he was created 

 Viscount Wallingford, and advanced by Charles I., August 

 18, 1626, to the Earldom of Banbury, with precedency of all 

 earls who were created before him. He married, ist, Dorothy, 

 daughter of Edward, Lord Bray, sister and co-heir of John, 

 Lord Bray, and widow of Edmund, Lord Chandos, by whom 

 he had no issue ; and 2ndly, Elizabeth Howard, daughter of 

 Thomas, Earl of Suffolk, and, dying. May 25, 1632, at the 

 advanced age of eighty-eight, was buried in the church of 

 Greys. The subsequent history of this peerage would, if 

 reproduced in detail, fill an average library (more or less). 

 The gist of the matter lay thus : Upon the decease of the 

 Earl of Banbury, the inquisition found that he died sine prole^ 

 but leaving a widow, Elizabeth, his last wife. His honours 



