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Death — Barbados. 
TUFTON. 
Captaine John Due makes a lardge relacion con- 
cerneinge Sr. Wm. Tufton* whom he saith Hawley 
caused to be condemned by a Councell of Warre, and 
that he was by that sentence shot to death, and six more 
of his Companye did cast Lotts for their Lives, and that 
one of them FLOORY a Chirurgeon was hanged, but all 
this Reportes but by relacion from others, and nothing 
of his owne knowledge. 
Mr. Robert Quoitmore makes a lardge relacion of a 
discourse that passed betwixt Captaine Hawley and 
him at the house of Commons dore, and that Hawley 
should tell this Examinate, that they were onely three 
men executed in his tyme, vizt. TUFTON,, Ffloory, and 
MORGAN, and that TUFTON was shott, aud the other two 
hanged, and that this Examinate demandinge of Haw- 
ley how they were put to death, he tould this Examinate 
it was by Martiall Lawe, and that he had a Commission 
* Sir William Tufton was the 5th son of Sir John Tufton of Hoth. 
field in Kent and brother of Sir Nicholas Tufton, who was created 
Baron Tufton and Earl of Thanet, successively. 
In Berry's Pedigrees of the Families of Kent (London, 1830), Sir 
Willliam Tufton is said to have been created a Baronet of Ireland, 
and to have married a daughter of a Cave of Leicester. Beaston does 
not mention any Baronetcy in favour of Sir William Tufton. In Hasted's 
History of Kent, (Vol. 2, p. 129), Sir William Tufton is said to have 
been created a Baronet of Ireland, and to have married a daughter of 
Cecil Cave, his eldest son by whom, Sir Benedict Tufton, succeeded him 
in title and Estate. In the 5th edition of Collins (Vol. 3, p. 325) the 
same account of Sir William appears, with the further detail that his 
wife's name was Anne. His three sons died without issue, and his 
only daughter married Sir Thomas Beaumont of Gracedieu, Leicester, 
shire. 
