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killed in 1643, leaving', by Gertrude, his wife, daughter and co-heir 

 of Henry Talbot, third son of George, sixth Earl of Shrewsbury, 

 with other children, Henry and William, of whom the first was 

 created Marquess of Dorchester, 1644, and died 1680, having been 

 twice married, but leaving no male issue. His brother, William, 

 who was of Orton, Hants, and Thoresby, Co. Notts, pre-deceased 

 him, leaving, by Elizabeth, his wife, daughter and co-heir of Sir 

 Thomas Harris, of Tong Castle, Co. Salop., Bart., with other 

 children (of whom Gervase, the second son, created Baron Pierrepont 

 of Ardglass, in the peerage of Ireland, 1703, and Baron Pierrepont 

 of Hanslope, Co. Bucks, in the peerage of England, 1714, died s.p. 

 in the latter year), Robert Pierrepont, his son and heir, born 1634, 

 married, as already mentioned, Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Sir 

 John Evelyn, died vita patris, 1669, and was buried here, where is 

 a stately monument, hereafter described, erected by his widow. Of 

 their five children three were sons, of whom Robert and William, 

 successively third and fourth Earls of Kingston, died without issue. 

 Evelyn Pierrepont, the third son, succeeding 1 to that title, as fifth 

 Earl, in 1690, was created Marquess of Dorchester, 1706, Duke of 

 Kingston, 1715, was Lord Privy Seal, President of the Council, one 

 of the Lords Justices, K.G., Gustos Rotulorum of Co. Wilts, and 

 died 1726. This nobleman, inheriting his maternal grandfathers 

 estates, resided occasionally at his mansion here, where his daughter, 

 Lady Mary, enjoyed the advantage of the tuition of Gilbert Burnet, 

 Bishop of Salisbury, and whence she eloped, in 1712, with Edward 

 Wortley Montagu, Esq. The Duke was twice married, first to 

 Lady Mary Fielding, daughter of William, third Earl of Denbigh, 

 and secondly to Lady Isabella Bentinck, daughter of William, first 

 Earl of Portland. By his first marriage he had issue one son, 

 William Pierrepont, born 1692, died vita patris, 1713; and three 

 daughters, Mary, wife of Edward Wortley Montagu, Esq., Frances, 

 of John, eleventh Earl of Mar, and Evelyn, of John, first Earl 

 Gower; and by his second, two daughters, Caroline, wife of Thomas 

 Brand, Esq., and Ann, who died unmarried. The only son married 

 Rachel, daughter of Thomas Baynton, Esq., and left issue one son 

 and one daughter, of whom the former, Evelyn Pierrepont, succeeding' 



