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December following, and being again Secretaiy of State in 

 the first year of Charles I.'s reign, was advanced to the Irish 

 Viscounty of Killultagh March 15, 1626, in which year, 

 June 6, he was created Viscount Conway, of Conway Castle, 

 county Carnarvon. He filled afterwards the high office of 

 President of the Council, and was accredited upon some other 

 occasion Ambassador Extraordinary to the court of Vienna. 

 He married Dorothy, daughter of Sir John Tracy, Knight, of 

 Toddington, county Gloucester, and widow of Edward Bray, 

 Esq., by whom he had Edward his successor, Ralph, and four 

 daughters. He died in 1630, and was succeeded by his eldest 

 son and heir, Edward, 2nd Viscount Conway. 



^^ Sir Fluke Grenville, son of Sir F. Grenville and Anne, 

 daughter of Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmorland, a man of 

 letters and a distinguished courtier in the reigns of Elizabeth 

 and James I., who, at the coronation of the latter monarch, 

 was made a Knight of the Bath, and soon after was called 

 from being Treasurer of the Navy to be Treasurer of the 

 Household and Chancellor of the Exchequer, and was sworn 

 of the Privy Council. In the second year of James I.'s reign 

 he obtained a grant of Warwick Castle and the gardens and 

 other dependencies about it, and was elevated to the peerage, 

 January 29, 1 620-1, by the title of Baron Brooke, of 

 Beauchamp's Court, county Warwick, with limitation, in 

 default of heirs male of his own body, to his kinsman, Robert 

 Grenville, son of Fluke Grenville, Esq., of Thorpe Latimer, 

 CO. Lincoln. His lordship died September 30, 1628. As he 

 was never married, the honours descended, according to the 

 limitation, to his kinsman, Robert Grenville, above mentioned. 



1°° Sir Edward Peyton, eldest son and heir of Sir John 

 Peyton, of Isleham, Cambs,and Alice, daughter of Sir Edward 

 Osborne, Lord Mayor of London in 1585, succeeded to the 

 estates of his family on the death of his father, about the year 

 1 61 7. Sir Edward was knighted at Whitehall, February 4, 

 1610, and during the lifetime of his father was denominated 

 " of Great Bradley, in Suffolk." He served in Parliament 



