hursts. Charles Parkhurst, esq., who lived at the beginning of this century, was the last of the name; he had one son, who died an infant; and the property came, by a daughter, into its present possessors, the Baxters. The proprietors of Catesby have, within the last hundred years, been two or three times in the Fleet. Our informant speaks of Catesby as "this unhappy estate." It is remarkable that the adjacent estates, Fawsley and Thuckburgh, were each in the family of its present possessor for several generations previous to the Reformation. COFTON CHAPEL, near Dawlish, is said to be connected with a strange tale of the fate of sacrilege ; but we are not able to relate the full particulars. GLASTONBURY. "The next building, worth most observation, that is now in being, is the Markethouse. It is a neat pile of building, built of late years with some materials the town had from the old abbey. But I was told by a man of credit, living in the neighbourhood of Glastonbury, that the town hath lost, in a great measure, their market since its building, which he imputed to its being built with materials that belonged to the church; and whoever reads sir H. Spelman's History of Sacrilege will not wonder that such a fate should attend it."—Hearne's [Rawlinson's] Hist. of Glastonbury, p. 104. CHAPTER VIII. Of Families, wherein Church Property has, or is said to have, continued. THE younger Tanner says,-"If the abbey-lands did not continue long in some families, they continued a great while in others. Tavistock, Woburn, and Thorney Abbeys were granted to John lord Russell, and are yet the duke of Bedford's. Burton-uponTrent was granted to sir William Paget, 37 Henry VIII., and is now the estate of the earl of Uxbridge. Thetford and Bungay were granted to the duke of Norfolk; Newstead, in Nottinghamshire, was granted to sir John Byron, and is still lord Byron's; Margan was granted to sir Rice Manxell, and is still lord Mansell's, &c., &c."-(Nasmith's Ed. Pref. p. 25, Note 2.) The case of the Russells we shall notice presently. The Pagets,--and it is difficult to believe that Tanner could have been ignorant of it,—are not a case in point; the original family are extinct in the male line; and that now assuming the name is properly Bayly. The pedigree is this :— Sir William Paget, the original grantee, created lord Paget, 1549, was succeeded by his eldest son, who died without children. To him succeeded his brother Thomas, third baron Paget; to him his son, William, fourth baron; to him his son, William, fifth baron. This William had two sons. The elder, William, sixth baron, had one son, Henry, created earl of Uxbridge, 1714. The earl had one son who died before his father; and on his son dying without heirs, the earldom became extinct. But the barony of Paget, being a barony in fee, devolved on the other branch of the family. For Henry, second son of the fifth baron, settled n Ireland, and had issue one son, Thomas, who died without heirs male; his only daughter, Caroline, [or Catherine,] married sir Nicholas Bayly, and their son succeeded to the barony of Paget, and was afterwards created earl of Uxbridge. Thetford was granted to the duke of Norfolk; but is now in lord Petre. Bungay, when Taylor wrote, was in Wolfran Lewis, esq., and others. Newstead was a most unhappy example at best; but the abbey belongs now to Colonel Wildman, who has no issue. The family of the Mansells became extinct in the male line six years after Tanner wrote. So that of all Tanner's instances, the Russells are the only case that is pertinent at the present time. We believe that the following list embraces nearly, if not quite, all those families which have held abbey sites in the male line from the Dissolution to the present time. There may be, here and there, a detached abbey manor remaining in the same family; had we, however, discovered any such not heretofore named, they should have been stated here. Brooke...... of Norton, Cheshire. Cecil........of Woolsthrop, (marquis of Exeter.) Croke...... of Stodely, Oxon. Cotton....... of Combermere, Cheshire, (viscount Combermere.) Fortescue.... of Cokehill, Worcestershire. Heneage....of Sixhills, Lincolnshire. Thynne.... of Longleat, Wilts, (marquis of Bath.) Wynne...... of Conway, Caernarvonshire, (baron Newborough.) : Among these families we notice the following:CECIL, marquis of Exeter. The second, seventh, and ninth earls died without issue male. COTTON, of Combermere.-Sir George Cotton, first grantee, had one son, Richard Cotton, esq., who was succeeded by his eldest son, George Cotton; and he by his eldest son, Thomas. This gentleman had one son, sir Robert Cotton, first baronet, whose three eldest sons died in their father's lifetime, and without issue male; the fourth son, sir Thomas, succeeded. He had seven sons, all of whom, except the youngest, died without issue male. Sir Robert, the eldest, was third baronet; sir Lynch, the youngest, the fourth; his son, sir Robert, was the fifth; and his son, sir Stapleton, created first viscount Combermere. His lordship has lost his three eldest sons. Of John Russell, first earl of BEDFORD, it will be sufficient to refer to Burke's character. He had but one son, Francis, second earl, whose eldest son, Edward, died in his father's lifetime, without children; the second son, John, died also in his father's lifetime, without heirs male; the third son, Francis, was slain the day before his father's death. Edward, son of this Francis, succeeded as third earl, but died childless. His cousin (Francis, grandson of the second earl by his fourth son,) succeeded as fourth earl. He was succeeded by his eldest son, William, fifth earl and first duke; of his sons, Francis, the the eldest, died young; William was beheaded on a charge of high treason; John died young; Edward and Robert died without children; George left one son, who died without children. Wriothesley, son of the beheaded lord Russell, succeeded as second duke. Of the second duke's sons, William died young; Wriothesley succeeded as third duke, but died without children; John succeeded as fourth |