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rude delineation of the fite of SorftaH-houfe and manor; 
and under it the figure of a man prefenting on his knees 
to the king the head of a- boar on the point of a fword ; 
and. the king returning to him a tout of arms, Argent a 
fefs gules, between two crefcents, and a horn vert. 
The fame figure of a boar’s head was carved on the head 
of an old bedftead, now remaining in the tower or lodge 
of that-ancient houfe or caftle; and the arms are now to 
be feen in the windows, and in other parts. And what 
is of greateft authority, the original horn, tipt at each 
end with filver, gilt, fitted with wreath^ of leather, to 
hang about the neck, with an old brafs feal ring, a plate 
of brafs, with the fculpture of a horn, andfeveral fmaller 
plates of filver, gilt, with fleurs-de-lis, (fuppofed to be 
the arms of Lifures, who intruded into this eflate and 
office at or foon after the conqueft,) has been all along 
preferved by the lbrds of Borflall, under the name of 
Nigel’s horn ; and is now in the poffeffion of fir John Au¬ 
brey, bart. to whom this eflate has defcended without 
alienation or forfeiture, prior to the conqueft, to the pre- 
fent time, by feveral heirs female, from the family of 
Nigel to that of Aubrey. The Borflall horn and char- 
tulary were, by permifiion of fir John Aubrey, exhibited 
to the fociety of antiquaries by Mr. Southoufe, member 
of the faid fociety ; who have caufed to be engraved 
this very interefling memorial and inftrument of ancient 
conveyance, and the curious plan of the manor, taken at 
the time of compiling the chartulary, as defcribed by 
biihop Kennet. This horn is fuppofed to have belonged 
to the Indian bifon, or buffalo ; and is of a dark-brown 
colour, variegated and veined like tortoife-fhell : it is 
two feet four inches long on the convex bend, and twen¬ 
ty-three inches on the concave : the infide, at the large 
end, is three inches diameter; being perforated there lb 
as to leave the thicknefs only of half an inch for about 
three inches deep; but further in it is thicker, being 
not fo much, or fo neatly, perforated.—See the article 
Bos, vol. iii. p. 223. 
MOSTYN, of Moftyn Hall, Flintftiire; created Aug. 
3, 1660.—Sir Thomas Mostyn, the fixth baronet, 
M.P. for the county of Flint, fucceeded his father, fir 
Roger, July 26, 1796.—The family of Mojlon, in Flint- 
fhire, (which is the true name, though in compliance 
with the pronunciation of the country it is ufually writ¬ 
ten Moftyn,) is defcended from Tudor Trevor, lord of 
Bromfield', Chirk, Maelor, Whittington, and Ofwaldf- 
tree. He was earl of Hereford in right of his mother, 
Rheingar, grand-daughter and heir of Caradoc Ureich- 
fras, earl of Hereford, who was flain by the Saxons in 
788, or 796, to revenge the death of Offa their king, 
who was killed in the battle of Ruddlan, two years be¬ 
fore. This Caradoc is ftyled, in the Hiftory of Cambria, 
publiflied by Dr. Powell, 1584, king of North Wales, on 
account of his great poffeftions in that country; for, 
being driven out of his own eflate by Ethelbald king of 
Mercia, after the battle of Hereford, Conan Tindaethwy, 
then king of Wales, received him, and gave him the 
lands between Chefter and Conway to inhabit. Tudor 
Trevor, (who, in the Britifh genealogies, is reckoned to 
be lineally defcended from Vortigern king of the Bri¬ 
tons,) married Gwaleddis, or Angharad, daughter of 
Howell Dda, king of all Wales, by whom he had three 
ions. This Tudor'Trevor lived about A.D. 924, and 
his ufual refidence was at Llys Pengwern, in Chirkland, 
in Denbighfhire ; which feite, and the lands about it, 
(though the houfe has long been deftroyed,) is in the 
poffeflion of the family to this day. The wife of Jevan, 
the eighth in defeent from Tudor, was grand-daughter 
of Eleanor, eldeft daughter of Edward I. and queen 
Eleanor. Sir Roger, tiie firft baronet, took arms in 
defence of Charles I. and raifed 1500 men for his fer- 
vice, at his own expence, whom lie alfo maintained ; 
and, after he had taken the caftle of Hawarden, entered 
with his regiment into Chefter, then befieged by the re¬ 
bels. He alfo repaired the caftle of Flint at his own 
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charge, of which lie was appointed governor, and kept 
it for the crown, enduring a long fiege, and the greateft 
bardfhips; and, though reduced to the laft neceffity, 
did not deliver it up until he had the king’s fpecial or¬ 
der. He fpent above fixty thoufand pounds in the fer- 
vice of the crown; and had his houfe at Moyfton fo 
plundered and ftripped, that he was forced for feveral 
years to live at a farm-houfe in his neighbourhood, after 
he had obtained his liberty from his imprifonnient in 
the caftle of Conway. He was on the reftoration of the 
royal family created a baronet. Sir Roger, the late 
baronet, was the eighteenth in defeent from Eleanor, 
daughter of Edward I. as alfo, according to Dugdale, 
the thirteenth from John of Gaunt duke of Lancafter. 
He had been M.P. for the county of Flint in eight par¬ 
liaments, and was c ho fen for the ninth at the time of 
his death. He was alfo lord lieutenant of that county. 
In the Moftyn library is an illuminated pedigree of the 
family, not lefs than, forty-two feet long,-which, after 
pafling through the Britifh and Saxon race of monarehs, 
purfues its progrefs through the kings of Ifrael, reaches 
Noah and his ark, and finiflies with Adam and Eve !—« 
Motto, Auxilmm mtum a Domino, My help is from the 
Lord.—Family Seats, Moftyn Hall, in Flintftnre; Glod- 
daith, in Caernarvonfhire ; Leighton, in Chefhire ; and 
Maefmynnan, in Denbigh (hire. 
LEICESTER, of Tabley, Chefhire; created Aug. 
10, 1660.—Sir John-Fi,eming Leicester, the fifth 
baronet, fucceeded his father, fir Peter-Byrne, Feb. 12, 
1770.—Tills family is fuppofed to have defcended from 
a younger foil of the old earls of Leicefter, or to have 
come from Brittany, in France, where the name fti 11 is. 
Sir Nicholas Leicefter, knt. was fenefchal to Henry Lacy, 
earl of Lincoln, and conftable of Chefhire, about the year 
1276.—Motto, Tu Dominegloria mea. Thou, Lord, art my 
glory.—Family Seat, Tabley, near Knutsford, Chefhire. 
WHELER, of Lemington Haftang, Warwickftiire,; 
created Aug. j 1, 1660.—The Rev. Sir Charles Whe- 
LER, tiie feventh baronet, M.A. prebendary of York, 
and vicar of Lemington Haftang, in Warwickftiire, fuc- ; 
ceeded his brother, fir William, in April 1799; married 
Lucy, one of the daughters, and at length co-heir, of 
the late right honourable fir John Strange, mafter of-the 
rolls, and had three fons and five daiighters: Trevor, 
married Harriet-, daughter of Richard Beresford, of 
Afiiborn, in Derbyfhire, and has two fons, Trevor and 
Francis, and four daughters, Harriet, Lucy, Maria, 
and Charlotte, all infants; Charies-John, married Ifabel, 
daughter of-Clofe, efq. of Richmond, in Yorkfhire, 
and has two fons, .Edward and Charles-John, and a 
daughter, Ifabella; William, redtor of Laddock, in 
Cornwall, unmarried ; Penelope, wife of William Wil- 
berforce Bird, efq. of the Spring, Kenelworth, in War- 
wickfhire; Jane, wife of George Dandridge, efq. of the 
Commandery, in Worcefter; Sally, wife of Abraham 
Hume, efq. of Bilton Grange, in Warwickftiire; Lucy, 
wife of the Rev. John Wife;, fecond fon of Matthew 
Wife, efq. of Lemington Priors, in Warwickftiire ; So¬ 
phia, married to the Rev. John Biddulph, fecond Ion of 
the late fir Theophilus Biddulph, bart. of Birbury, in 
Warwickftiire. All the daughters have iffue.—This fa¬ 
mily is fuppofed to have been feated in Worcefterfliire 
as early as the reign of Edward II. Sir Charles, the 
fecond baronet, was colonel of a regiment of foot,*- go¬ 
vernor of the Leeward I-ilands, and reprefentative in par¬ 
liament for the univerfity of Cambridge for fomc part 
of the long parliament, 1661, having-been formerly fel¬ 
low of Trinity College; from which, with others, he 
was ejedted, April 18, 1644, by the earl of Manchellei, 
and had the honour to be one of the gentlemen intruded 
. to carry the plate of that univerfity to king Charles I. 
then in great diftrefs. Trevor, his eldeft foil, major in 
his father’s regiment of foot, died in the life-time of his 
father, Oct. 12, 1678. Admiral fir Francis Wheler, knt. 
third (on of fir Charles, was wrecked on the rocks of 
8 S Scilly. 
