302 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book XII. 



heiress, Isabella, successor to her father's titles according to 

 the limitations in the several patents. She married Henry 

 Fitzroy, ist Duke of Grafton, natural son of Charles 11. and 

 Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland. As we have seen, 

 his lordship was a frequent visitor at Newmarket during the 

 sojourns of the court there for the races. He died July 28, 

 1685, in the sixty-seventh year of his age, and was buried at 

 Euston, in Suffolk, when all his honours and estates devolved 

 upon his daughter's husband ; and through his elder brother, 

 John Bennett, descended the Earls of Tankerville. 



190 Sir William Chetwynd, of Grendon, county War- 

 wick, son of John Chetwynd, Esq., of Ingestrie, and Mary, 

 daughter and heiress of Lewis Meverett, Esq., of Bold Hall, 

 county Stafford. 



191 William Digby, 5th Baron Digby, youngest son of 

 Robert Digby, who was elevated to the peerage of Ireland, 

 July 29, 1620, as Baron Digby of Geashill, in the King's 

 county, and Lady Sarah Boyle, daughter of Richard, ist Earl 

 of Cork. His three elder brothers having succeeded in turn to 

 the barony, and each dying without issue, William, 5th baron 

 inherited in 1657. He married Lady Jane Noel, daughter of 

 Edward, ist Earl of Gainsborough, and died November 29, 

 1752. 



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