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HOTHAM, of Scarborough, Yorkfhire; created Jan. 
4, 1621 .—Sir Charles Hotham, the tenth baronet; 
lucceeded i his father, fir John, the right rev. the lord 
bilhop of Clogher, in 1796.—This family is defcended 
from John de Trehoufe, lbrd of Kilkenny, in Ireland, 
who for his good fervices at the battle of Ha dings, had 
a grant of the caftle and manors of Colley Wefton, in 
Northaorptonfliire, and Hotham, in Yorkfhire. The 
fourth, in a dire£t defcent from this fir John de T> J e- 
houfe, was Peter de Trehoufe, who, from his refidence 
at Hotham, a (Turned that furname,, which his defcen- 
dants ever after retained : he was living in 1188. The 
twenttetl; in lineal defcent, who were nearly all knight¬ 
ed, was, fir John Hotham, the firft baronet, who was go. 
vernor of Hull in 1643. He and his fon were difcovered 
to hold a correfpondence with the royal party, and 
having been tried and.convifted by a court martial, tor 
that and other offences againft the parliament, thefe two 
unfortunate gentlemen differed death on Tower Hill.— 
Family Seats, Scarbrough and South Dalton, in the 
Fall Riding of Yorkfhire ; and Chillehurft in Kent. 
MANSEL, of Muddlefcombe, Carmarthenfhire ; cre¬ 
ated July 14, 1621.—Sir W1 l Li am Mansel, the eighth 
baronet, born April 29, 1776, lucceeded his father, fir 
William, Jan. 3, 1804.—This family is defcended from' 
Philip Manfel, who came into England with William 
the Conqueror.—Motto, Quod vulty vatde vult ; What he 
wiflies, he wiflies fervently.—Family Seats, Ifchoed, in 
Gannarthenfliire ; andWoodllone, in the county of Cork, 
in Ireland. 
PRIDEAUX,of Netherton, Devonfliire ; created July 
17, 1622.—Sir John-Wilmot Prideaux, the feventh 
baronet, fucceeded his grandfather, fir John, in Aug. 
1766 .—The name of Prideaux is of undoubted antiquity 
in Cornwall and Devonfliire; their firli refidence was at 
Prideaux Caftle, in the firft-named county, where we 
find Peganus de Prideaux was feized of it at the Nor¬ 
man conqueft.—Family Seat, Nethertoiij, in Devonthire. 
HESILRIGGE, of Nofely, Leicefterfhire; created 
July 21, 1622.—Sir Thomas Maynard Hesilrigge, 
the tenth baronet ; fucceeded his nephew, fir Arthur, 
in 1805 ; married Maty, daughter of Edmund Tyrrell, 
efq. of Gipping Hall, in Suffolk.—This family is de- 
lcended from Roger de Hefilrigge, who came, with Wil¬ 
liam the Conqueror, from a place of that name in Nor¬ 
mandy ; he fettled in Cumberland, and the place took 
his name.—Motto, Pro arts et focis , For our altars and 
hearths; or, For God and our country.—Family Seat, 
Farway, in Devonfliire. 
BURTON, of Stockerfton, Leicefterfhire; created 
July 22, 1622.—Sir Charles Burton, the fourth ba¬ 
ronet, fucceeded his father, fir Thomas, in 1735.—The 
firft that is mentioned of this ancient family, which had 
formerly large poffeffions, and were of great efteem and 
reputation in the counties of Rutland and Leicefter, is 
Henry, fon of Richard de Burtone, whofe foil, Nicholas 
de BurtOn, was knight of the fliire for Rutland in 1316. 
Thomas Burton, the fecond baronet, eminently diftin- 
guiflied himfelf in behalf of Charles I. and fuffered 
f'equeftration and imprifonment for the royal caufe.— 
Family Seat, Hoxen Hall, Suffolk. 
DRAKE, of Buckland, Devonfhire ; created Aug. 
%, 1622.—Sir Francis-Henry Drake, the fifth baro¬ 
net, fucceeded his uncle, fir Francis Henry, Feb. 22, 
»794 ; married, in 1795, Anne - Frances, daughter of 
Thomas Maltby, efq.—The firft perfon of note in this 
family is fir Francis Drake, one of our mod diftiiiguiftied 
naval heroes, in the reign of Elizabeth. See the article 
Drake, vol. vi. p. 63.—Motto, over the creft, Auxilio 
divino , By divine aftiftance ; and under it, Sic parvis mag- 
a«,»Thus great things from finalL—Family Seat, Buck- 
land-Monachorum, near Taviftock, Devon. 
SKIPWITH, of Preftwould, Leicefterfhire; created 
Dec. 20, 1622.—Sir Grey Skipwith, the eightlrba¬ 
ronet, fucceeded fir Peyton, Oft. 9, 1803.—This family, 
denominated from the town and lordftiip of Skipwith* 
in the eaft riding of Yorkfhire, is defcended from Ro¬ 
bert d’Eftotevjlle, baron of Cottingliam, in the reign of 
William the Conqueror. Robert, his foil, became, pof- 
fefted of a great inheritance, by marriage with Eneburga, ■ 
daughter and heir of Hugh, fon of Baldrick, a great 
Saxon, thane ; and among other lands had the lordftiip 
of Skipwith, or Skipwic (as anciently written). He left 
three fons ; from Robert, the eldeft, defcended the ba¬ 
rons of Cottingliam, whofe male line'terminated 17 Hen¬ 
ry III. Patrick, the youngeft. fon, being poffefted of the 
lordftiip of Skipwith, by,gift of his fattier, his defeen- 
dants affumed their name from that town, according to . 
the cuftom of the age. Sir Henry Skipwith, knt. the 
twentieth in defcent from Robert d’Eftoteville, was the 
firft baronet. The third baronet, fir Grey, after the 
death of Charles I. went, withTeveral other gentlemen, 
to Virginia, to avoid the ufurper Cromwell ; and there 
the fucceflive baronets, till the prefent, have refided.—. 
Family Seat, at Barton, in Warwicklhire. 
HARPUR, of Calke, Derbylhire ; created Sept,'.8, 
1626.—Sir Henry Harpur, the feventh baronet, was 
born May 13, 1763; fucceeded his father, fir Henry, 
1789; married, in 1791, Mil's Hawkins, by whom he has 
ifliie, Henry, born Sept. 33, 1792, died an infant; L011- 
ila-Matilda, born Nov. 14, 1793 ; George, Feh. 1,1795 
Selina, Jan. 8, 1798 ; Henrietta-Charlotte, March 19,. 
1800; Henry-Robert, Sept. 4, 1801; Edmund-Louis, 
Aug. 1, 1803 ; Charles-Hugh, born April 4, 1805.—. 
This family was originally feated at Chefton, in War- 
wickftiire, of which place was Gilbert le Harpur, fon 
of Roger, grandfon of Hugh, who lived in the reign of 
Henry I.—Family Seat, Calke, in Derby (hire. 
SEBRIGHT, of Besford, Worcefterftiire • created 
Dec. 20, 1626.—Sir John-Saunders Sebright, the 
feventh baronet, fucceeded his father, fir John, in 
March, 1794, and is M. P. in the prefent parliament 
for the county of Herts; he married, in Aug. 1793, 
Hannah, daughter of Richard Crofts, of Hading, in 
Norfolk, efquire, by whom he had three daughters; 
Frederica-Anne-Saunders ; Emily; Caroline.—The Se- 
brights were originally of Sebright Hall, in Much Bad- 
dow, in Effex, where they were feated in the time of 
Hen. II. and until the reign of Hen. VIII. Sir Edward 
Sebright, the firft: baronet, was a warm royalift, and was 
obliged to pay 1109I. compolition for his.eftate to the 
fequeftrators.—Family Seat, Besford Court, in Worcef¬ 
terftiire ; and Beechwood, in Hertfordlhire. 
DERING, of Snrenden-Dering, Kent ; created Feb. 
1, 1626.—Sir Edward Dering, the feventli baronet, 
born in 1757.; fucceeded his father, fir Edward, in 
1798 ; married, in April 1782, Anne; daughter of Wil¬ 
liam Hale, of King’s Walden in Hertfordlhire, efquire; 
by whom he has, Edward, born April 1783 ; Chomley, 
born May 1, 1785, a captain in the Weft Kent militia ; 
Charlotte, born May 1787 ; and married, Feb, 20, 1808, 
to H. Hoare, fon of fir R. C. Hoare, hart.—There is a 
tradition by which this family is traced to a very anci¬ 
ent Saxon origin; but Hailed, in his Hiftory of Kent, 
fays, the only account he has been able to gather from 
the family papers is, that the family of Dering is de¬ 
fcended from Norman deMorinis, whofe anceftor Vitalis 
Fitz-OIbert, lived in the reign of Henry II. and which 
Norman had a fon named Deritigus de Morinis.' Ed¬ 
ward, the fifteenth in defcent from Deringus, was knight¬ 
ed Jan. 22, 1618 ; made lieutenant of Dover Caftle, and 
created a baronet on Feb. 1, 1626, and was afterwards 
one of the knights in parliament for Kent. He was a 
man of parts and learning, his vanity to fhow which, in¬ 
duced him to prefent to the houfe of commons a bill for 
extirpating 
