HISTORY OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 



1749, Philip Thicknesse, Esq. late Lieutenant-Go vernor of Lan- 

 guard Fort, and d. 1762, leaving issue, George, the present Baron f 

 Philip, R. N. b. June 23, 1760; James, d. an infant; Elizabeth, b. 

 Aug. 4, 1750; Joyce, b. March 25, 1753; Charlotte, m. July 15, 

 1786, Mr. Wilder. His Lordship d. at Paris, November 1740, and 

 was succeeded by his only son, 



John, fifth Earl of Castlehaven, m. 1776, Mrs. Cracraft, and d. 

 without issue, April 22, 1777, when the Earldom became extinct; 

 but the Barony of Audley descended to his nephew, George, pre- 

 sent and sixteenth Baron Audley. 



Creation*.-- -Baron Audley, of Heleigh Castle, in the county of Stafford, by 

 writ of summons, Oct. 20, 1403 ; but originally Jan. 26, 1296. 



Arms. -Ermine, a chevron, Gules, quartering, Gules, a fret, Argent, fop 

 Audley. 



Crest . -In a ducal coronet, Or, a swan rising, Argent, ducally gorged of the 

 first. 



Supporters.- Two wyrerns, with wings expanded, Sable. 



Motto. Je le tiens (I hold it.) 



Heir-Apparent. George John, his Lordship's son. 



Chief Seat . Grovely, near Sarum, Wiltshire. 



BAGOT, BAJION BAGOT. 



WILLIAM BAGOT, Baron Bagot, of Blithfield, in Staffordshire, 

 and a Baronet; F.L.S.; born Sept. 11, 1773; succeeded his father, 

 William, the late Lord, Oct. 22, 1798; married, 1st, May 30, 1799, 

 Emily Fitzroy, daughter of Charles first Lord Southampton, (who 

 d. June 8, 1800), leaving a daughter, who d. Jan. 1, 1801 ; and, 

 2dly, Feb. 17, 1807, Louisa Legge, eldest daughter of George, 

 third Earl of Dartmouth, K. G. and has issue by her, (who d. Aug. 

 13, 1816,) Louisa, b. March 1, 1808; Agnes, b. August 10, 1809; 

 William, son and heir, b. March 27, 1811 ; Harvey, 6. Dec. 17, 

 1812 ; Eleanor ; and Alfred. 



This noble family is of great eminence and antiquity ; and, as 

 appears by Domesday-Book, were possessors of Bagot's Bromley, 

 in Staffordshire, at the time of the Conqueror's Survey, which they 

 held of the Baron Stafford, whose male line became extinct, 1195, 

 and they became possessed of it by marriage with the heiress of 

 Robert de Stafford with Hervey Bagot, a younger branch of this 

 family, who thereupon assumed the surname and title of Stafford 



