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Eoothby-Paynell, a market town, and -a gentleman’s old 
feat, called Boothby, (at this time all in being, under 
that name,) were fo denominated from one Boothby,” 
of very ancient time there inhabiting ; the heir-general 
of which married Paynell, lord of Bampfon, in Devon-, 
fhire. Theobaldns de Boothby was governor of Pon¬ 
tefract Cattle, in Yorkshire, which he held a long tiiyie 
againft the Lancaftrians, in the civil wars between the 
houfe of York and them. Henry Boothby was created 
baronet by Charles I. by letters patent, dated Nov. 5, 
1644, figned by his majefty’s fign manual; but the civil 
wars prevented its palling the Teals at that time. Sir 
William, his fon, had the patent renewed after the re- 
Horatio n.—Motto, Mors Clirijli mors mortis mihi , Chrili’s 
death is death to my death.—Family Seats, Alhbourne 
HaU, in Derbylhire ; and Croperdy, three miles from 
Banbury, in Oxfordfliire. 
DIXIE, of Bofworth Houfe, Leicefterfhire ; created 
July 4, 1660.—Sir Beaumont Dixie, the lixth baro¬ 
net, born in 1771, fucceeded fir Wolftan, July 12, 1806; 
he is great grandfon of fir Wolftan,the third baronet.— 
There is a tradition, that this ancient family is defcended 
from Wolftan earl of Ellenden, (now called Wilton,) 
who married the fitter of Egbert, the firft Englilh mo¬ 
narch. Another afi'erts (upon a relation of fir Walter 
Littleton, chancellor of Litchfield), that one of the 
Dixies married the daughter and heir of Wolftan, of 
Wolftan, in Warwickttiire, about feven hundred years 
fince; and, in confirmation of the fame, a piece .of ala- 
bafter was, not many years ago, found under a pillar in 
Wolvey Church, near Wolftan, with this infcription in 
old characters, viz. “Wolftan Dixie,-in the year of out 
Lord noo.” But Dugdale, in his Wafwickfhire, inti¬ 
mates, that Wolftan was fo called, from fo.nie Saxon 
pofleftbr, named Wulfric, among whom Wolftan was a 
proper chriftian name. The firft wefind, iivthe Vifita- 
tions of the Herald, is Wolftan Dixie, living about the 
reign of Edward III. who was feated at Catworth, in 
I-Iuntingdonfliire. SirWolftan, the firft baronet, at the 
breaking cut of the rebellion, 1641, appeared early in 
the defence of the king, and was a great fufferer for the 
royal caufe. When the gentry of the county of Leicef- 
terfhire contributed 25,642!. for his majefty, fir Wolftan 
gave i himfelf, towards that fum, x8351. for which fignal 
ferviee he had a warrant for a baronet’s patent ; but, 
through the confufiofi of the times, it was not taken out 
till after the reftoration.—Motto, Quod, disci dixi, (chofen 
no doubt as an echo to the family name,) What I have 
faid I have laid.—Family Seat, Bofworth Houfe, Lci- 
cefterftiire. 
HONYWOODf of Evington, Hants; created July 19, 
1660.—Sir John Courtenay Hony'ywood, the. fifth 
baronet, born in 17S7 ; fucceeded his father, fir John, in 
March 1806.—The family of Honywood, anciently writ¬ 
ten Henewood, take their name from the manor of Hene- 
wood, in the parilh of Poilling, in Kent, where they re- 
fided in Henry Ill’s reign, when Edmitnd.de Honewood, 
(or Honywood, as.the name was afterwards .fpelt,) of 
that parifti, was a liberal benefactor to the priory of 
Horton, in . that neighbourhood, and is mentioned as 
fu-ch in the ledger-book there; after which they refided 
at Hy the,dor which port John Honywood ferved in par¬ 
liament in the 20th of Richard II. and Thomas Hony¬ 
wood in the 29th of Henry VI. The pedigree begins 
with William Honywood, who died in the latter end 
of the reign of Henry II.—Motto, Omne .bonum de fuper. 
Every good thing is from above.—Family Seat, Eving- 
ton, near Canterbury. 
AUBREY, of Llantrithyd, Glam.organfliire ; created 
July 23, 1660.—Sir John Aubrey', the fixth baronet, 
fucceeded his, father, fir Thomas, Sept. 4, 1786 ; mar¬ 
ried,' firft, Mary, eldeft daughter (and co-heir with her 
lifter Emma counters of Tankerville) of fir James Cole- 
brook, oi G attorn, in Surrey, from whom they derived 
large fortunes; and by her, who is deceal'ed, had iffue 
L D R Y. 
one fon, John, who died in his infancy. Sir John mar¬ 
ried, fecondly, Martha-Catharine, daughter of George- 
Richard Carter, efq. of Chilton, in Bucks, eldeft foil and 
heir of judge Carter: this lady, with her fitter, Julia, 
who died a minor, and unmarried, were co-heirs and 
only furviving iflue of the faid Richard Carter, efq. by 
Julia, his wife, daughterand foie heir of James Spilman, 
efq. and Hefter, his wife, one of the fitters and co-heirs 
of the laft fir William Willys. bait, of Fen Ditton, in 
Cambridgethire, and Canterbury, Kent. Sir John was 
appointed by his majefty, in July '1782, one of the lords 
of the admiralty ; and in December 1783, one of the lords 
of the treafury, which laft lie, re figned in July 1780.—. 
Saint Aubrey, of the blood-royal of France, came "into 
• England with William the Conqueror, A. D. 1066, as 
the Chronicles of All Souls’ College teftify, which are 
there to be feen tied with a chain of iron. Sir Regincld. 
Aubrey, fon of,-Saint Aubrey, came into Brecknock with 
Bernard Newmarke in 1094, and had to his part the ma¬ 
nor of Aberkinrigg and Slough, with other lands; mar¬ 
ried Ifabel, daughter of Richard earl of Briones, and 
earl of Clare and Tunbridge, by whom he had tw>o fons ; 
Reginold Aubrey, fon and heir, who had a fon, lord 
Aubrey, earl of Dunmartyn and BulJoine, and lord mar- 
fhal of France, as is regiftered in the books of franchifes 
and liberties, in the Chambers of London. William 
Aubrey, efq. fecond fon to fir Reginold, lord of Aber¬ 
kinrigg and Slough, married Margaretta, one of the 
daughters of fir William Gunter, by whom he had one foil, 
Thomas Aubrey, efq. lord of Aberkinrigg and Slough, 
who married Joneda, daughter of Traharne ap Enion, 
lord of Coinmitt, a man paternally defcended from Brou- 
• ham lord of Brecknock, which Broujiam had thirty chil¬ 
dren. Many of his fobs were lords of the provinces, and 
his daughters married to great princes; arid the reft, 
tjrat were not married, were religious, and are numbered 
amongft the faints; as our hiftorie.s mention. William 
Aubrey, efq. fon and heir male of Thomas Aubrey, lord 
of Brecknock, Brenwedd, and Bally, dodor of civil law, 
was a confpicuous ornament of his country in the reign 
of Edward VI. and during the two fucceeding reigns. 
He was regius profelTor of law at Oxford, official prin¬ 
cipal and vicar-general in fpirituals’to'the archbiftiop of 
Canterbury, fupreme judge of the royal army at St. 
Quintas, one of the counfel of the marches in Wales, a 
mailer in chancery ; and laftly, by the fpecial favour of 
queen Elizabeth, he was taken to her nearer ferviee, and 
made one of the mailers of requefts ini ordinary. He was 
buried in St. Paul’s cathedral, where was a hanfifome 
monument, with his bull, and under him his three foils 
and fix daughters, with the arms of theirwives and hui- 
bands, -which,-with the cathedral itfelf, was confumed 
in the conflagration which happened Sept. 2, 1666. He 
died July 23, '1595; aged fixty-!ix years. His three fons 
were all knights.—Motto, Nolem fero. —Family Seats, 
Llantrithyd, Gl'ainorganlhire; Chilton, Dorton, and 
Borftall, alL in Buckinghamlhire; which laft eftate has 
palled, by feveral heirs female, from Nigel, who owned 
it at the conqueft, to the Aubreys. 
' Description of the Borfall Horn, nozo in the pojffjion of Sir 
John Aubrey, hart. 
1 King Edward the Confellor' had a royal palace at 
Brill, or Brehul, in Bucks, to which he often retired for 
the ple.ifureiof-hunting in his forett of\Bernwood. This 
fore ft,it is faid,'was much infelled by a wild boar, which 
was at laft Haiti by one Nigel, a huntiinan, who prefented 
the boar’s head to the king; and, for a reward, the king 
gave to him one hyde of arable hind,: called Derehyde, 
and a wood culled Kulewood, with the cuftody of the 
forell of Bern Wood,-"to hold to him and his heirs, per 
unitm cornu, quod ejl charta puediElxforefue. Upon this 
ground Nigel built a lodge, or maniiou-houfe, called 
Borfall, in memory of the Haiti boar. For'proof of this 
in a large folio vellum book, containing tranforipts of 
charters, and evidences relating 10 this eftate, (fuppofed 
to be written in or before the reign of Henry VT.j is a 
