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James Underwood, of Dublin, Enquire.—Un ierwood 
is the name of an ancient, rich, and refpeftable, family o.f 
Devonfhire, England; one of whom, James Underwood, 
went over to Ireland after the aft of fettle men t in 1666 ; 
made large nurchafes of lands (three thoufand acres) in 
the county of Wexford; and for his attachment and loy-f 
alty to king Charles II, ohtained letters patent for feveral 
other parcels of land in the county of Galway and in the 
aforefaid county of Wexford. All the laid lands vfere 
fettled on their family in the year 1692 ; but afterwards 
mortgaged. An unfuccefsful lawfuit for upwards of forty- 
eight years was carried on in Ireland, for the recovery of 
the faid lands, by the prefent James Underwood and his 
father, againlt the family of the Stopfords, now earl of 
Courtoun,—Arms: Gules, on a fefs ermine, a lion paf- 
iant azure, between » crofs pattee fitchee and two annu¬ 
lets in chief and one in bafe, or.—Creft: on a wreath of 
their colours, a lion paflant azure.—Motto, Noli irr.itare 
leonern, Do not provoke the lion. See Plate CXI. 
PLATE CXII— John Simpson, of Eounty Hall and 
TilftqnEftates, in theparifh ofTrelawnyin the illand of Ja¬ 
maica,and of Fair Lawn in the county of Kent, Efquire; was 
high (heri'J for the county of Kent in the year 1807.—Anns: 
Party.per bend fipiRer gules andor, alion rampant counter- 
changed ; on a chief wavy argent, a crofs raguly gules.—• 
Creft : a crofs raguly gules, therefrom fufpended a (hield as 
in the arms, without the chief.—Motto, Regi rcgnoque jidelis, 
Faithful to king and country. 
Isaac Titford, of Kentand Somerfet,Efquire.—Arms : 
Gules, three lions’ heads erafed afgent; a crefcent for 
a difference.—Creft: a demi-lion rampant argent. 
Shelly Pilkington Pennell, pf Sudbrooke Hall, in 
the county of Lincoln, Efquire ; only fon of the late 
Shelley Pennell, of the fame place, efquire; a defcendant 
of the ancient family of the Paynells of Boothby in the 
fame county.—Arms: Gules, two clievronels argent.— 
Creft: an oftrich’s head proper. 
Pierce Edgcumbe, of Plymouth in the county: of De¬ 
von, Efquire ; born Auguft 18, 1768 ; appointed clerk of 
the rope-yard in his majefty’s dock-yard at Chatham in 
June 1809 ; and afterwards clerk of the furvey at Ply¬ 
mouth dock; married Eleanor Yorke, by whom he has 
iflue, Ellen Sufanna, born Jan. 5, 1806; Emma-Mary, 
Sept. 5, 1807 ; Richard-Darke, June 4, 1811. 
This ancient family was refpeftably fituated in Milton 
Abbott in the county of Devon in the thirteenth century, 
as appears not only from an infcription over an old door in 
the family-manfion denominated Edgcumbe Houfe, in the 
parifh of Milton Abbott aforefaid, viz. R. E. 1292; but 
alfo from certain writings now in the poffeflion of Richard 
Edgcumbe, efq. the prefent poflefTor of the Edgcumbe 
eftate, and to whom it has defcended from that time in a 
right line ; by one of thofe writings, dated 17 Edw. II. 
certain lands are defcribed as “ heretofore belonging to 
John of Eggecombe, and extending from Churchetown 
home to Eggeco.mbe, See." At what time the name was 
firft fpelt Edgcumbe is uncertain ; but that it has been fo 
a confiderable time is evident from a tablet againft the 
fouth wall in the church of Milton Abbott, whereon is 
inferibed, that Thomas Edgcumbe of Edgcumbe was 
there buried on the 19th day of July, 1589. The above- 
mentioned Richard Edgcumbe of Edgcumbe, in 1292, had 
three fons : 1. James, who died unmarried. 2. Richard. 
•3. Reginald, who is ftiled Clericus in a deed dated 17 
Edw. II. Richard the fecond fon had two fons : ift, John; 
2d, William. From John, the heir, defcended Richard 
Edgcumbe, who, fucceeding his father at Edgcumbe in 
1670, was great-grandfather both to Richard Edgcumbe, 
the prefent pofleffor of Edgcumbe, and to Pierce Edg¬ 
cumbe, the fubjeft of this article. Richard Edgcumbe, 
«fq. the elder branch, has four fons: 1. Richard. 2. Tho¬ 
mas. 3. John, a poft-captain in 1807, and who in the 
Pfyche frigate aflifted with credit and reputation at the 
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late reduftion of the ides pf France and Java. 4. Edward. 
From William, the fecond fon of the fecond Richard, who 
rnarried rn 1353 Hilaria daughter of Ralph de Cathele, is 
defcended the prefent Earl of Mount Edgcumbe. See 
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Arms: Gules, on a bend ermines, cotifed or, three 
boars’ heads couped argent.—Creft : a boar paflant argent, 
with a chaplet of oak vert, frufted or, round the neck.— 
Motto, Au plaijir fort de Dieu. 
The Reverend John Francis, M. A—Arms: Gules^ 
a chevron errnine, between three doves volant argent.— 
Creft : a dove argent, holding in her beak a branch of 
olive vert.—Motto, infontes ut colurnbce , Harmlefs as doves. 
Robert Fisher, of Mitcham Cottage, Surry, Efquire. 
—Arms : Argent, on a chevron cotifed gules, between 
three demi-lions guardant couped gules, as many bezants. 
—Creft : out of a ducal coronet or, a demi-lion gules, 
holding between his paws a gauntlet proper.—Motto, Vir- 
tuteim extendere faHlisy Courage is proved by deeds. 
Charles Nutt, of Coventry, Efquire,—Arms: Per 
fefs azure and ermine, a pale counterchanged, and three 
pheons, two and one, argent.—Creft : on a cap o,f main¬ 
tenance gules, turned up ermine, a pheon or, between two 
wings expanded argent.—Motto , Spcro meliora, I hope bet¬ 
ter things. 
Robert Young, of Bath, Efquire.—Arms: per fefs 
gules and argent, three lions rampant guardant counter- 
changed.—Creft: a detni fea-unicorn proper, armed or. 
The Reverend Nathaniel D’Eye, of Eye, in the 
county of Suffolk.—Arms : Or, on a chief indented azure 
two mullets.—Creft: on a chapeau azure, turned up er¬ 
mine, two wiqgs or. 
Thomas Roberts, of London Colney, Herts, Efquire. 
Arms: Or, a fefs wavy, between three bucks trippant fa¬ 
ble, horned and hoofed or.- -Creft : on a mount vert, a buck 
as in the arms.—Motto, Succefus a Deo eji. 
James Bunce, of the Inner Temple London, Efquire. 
—Arms : Azure, on a fefs, between three boars paflant 
argent, as many eagles difplayed of the field.—Creft: a demi- 
boar ereft azure, tranfpierced with a broken fpear gules, 
headed argent.—Motto, Sic vivere ut velis, I live as I like. 
The prefent James Bunce is lineally defcended from fir 
James Bunce, baronet, alderman of London, who in the 
troublelome times of king Charles II. aflifted that un¬ 
happy monarch with fixty thoufand pounds, an immenfe 
fum in thofe days ; and alfo, at his own expenfe, raifed, 
maintained, clothed, and paid, a troop of horfe confiding 
of upwards of five hundred men, for the king’s defence; 
but the alderman, with many more of the king’s friends' 
were obliged to quit the country and retire into foreign 
parts with the exiled monarch; who, being at Faulkland 
in Scotland on the fifteenth day of July, in the year 1650, 
his majefty there conferred on him the honour and title 
of a baronet of this realm; but, his eftates having been fe- 
queftrated by Oliver Cromwell, though fome parts were, 
on the happy reftoration, rellored to him upon his return 
to England, his property being much reduced, the patent 
never was .taken out; though the original, under the fign 
manual of king Charles II. remained in the family, and 
is now in the pofleflion of the prefent James Bunce, who 
is the only legitimate heir of the aforefaid alderman ; and, 
in confideration of whofe fervices, the king granted a pen- 
fion of 400I. a-year, which was regularly paid until the 
early part of the reign of'king George II. in the time of 
fir Robert Walpole’s adminiltration, when the fame was 
taken off, it being confidered as a gratuity, and not obli¬ 
gatory to be paid. The family-eftate is called Crowdle- 
bam, in the parifli of Kemfing, in Kent; in the parifh- 
church of which there is a vault belonging to tlie family. 
Henry St. George Griffiths, of the city of Here¬ 
ford, Gent, born Apiil 23,1764; married, Dec. 13, 1791, 
to Sufannah Fletcher ; and has iflue, Robert-Thomas, born 
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