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 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. 213 The elder son, Siu William Tyhwhitt, Knt., of Ketilby, shared in the glories of Agincourt (Nicholas's Agincourt), and received by royal grant, 8th Henky A', the bailiwick of three towns in P"ra.nce ; in this grant he is styled, " toutissimo dilecto militi meo Willo Tyrwhit." Sir William, who was likewise appointed in the Ist Hen BY VI, cenesclial of certain castles and parks in the county of Lincoln, founded ttie hospitals of Wranby and Glanford Brigg, in that sliire, and the chauntry and chapelry of Higham, in Essex ; was sheriff for York- shire, 14th Henry VI, and one of the knights of the body to that monarch. He was s. at his demise, 29th Henhy VI, by his son, Adam Tyrwhitt, Esq. of Ketilby, some- times styled Sir Adam, Knt. This gentleman wedded, 1st, a daughter of John, second Lord Lumley, and 2ndly, a daughter of Sir William Newport, Knt., by Cecilia, daughter of Sir William Tyrwhitt. His son and successor. Sir Kobekt Tyrwhitt, Knt., of Ketilby, received a general pardon, 34th Henry VI, for all offences he might have committed, and died 36th Henky VI, possessed of three manors in the county of York, and fifteen in the county of Lincoln, besides divers manors, &o, in Nottinghamshire, Essex, Sussex, and London. Sir Robert m. Jane, daughter of Sir Richard Waterton, Knt., and was *. by his son. Sir William Tyrwhitt, of Ketilby, who acquired by grant, from Richard III, the bailiwick and lordship of Scotter, and though "Armiger de persona" to that monarch, he received a general pardon from Henry VII, and was subsequently, for his distinguished valour at the battles of Stoke and Blackheath, made successively a knight and a banneret. He espoused Anna, daugliter of Sir Robert Constable, Knt. of Flamborough, and had issue, I. Robert (Sie), his heir. II. Philip (Sir), knt. banneret, living 23rd Heney VIII. III. Edward, T ir. Thomas, I, n j „, TT 1 >who all a. s.v. V. Humphrey, [ VI. John, J I. Agnes, m. to Thomas, Lord Burgh, K.a. II. Elizabeth, m..to Sir William Skip- with, Knt. Sir William, who was thrice sheriff for Lincolnshire, was s. at his decease, in 1522, by his eldest son. Sir Robert Tyrwhitt, Knt. of Ketilby, grantee of Cameringham and Staintield, at which latter jilace he b>iilt the mansion bear- ing that name, long the residence of the Stainfield branch of the Tyrwhitts, its first baronets. This gentleman, vice-admiral of England, and a banneret, was seneschal of the priory of Newstead, as also of Elsham, and bailiff of Barton-on-Huii.ber, 26th Henry VIII.* He m. Maud, daughter of t>ir Robert Tailboys, of Goulton, and had issue, About this period the Beverley branch of I. William (Sie), his heir. II. Robert (Sir), of Leighton Broms- would,in Herts, one of the ecclesiastical commissioners for Lincolnshire, 26th Henry VIII, who received hirge granti in the counties of York, Lincoln, Herts, Essex, and Sussex. Sir Robert was sometime master of the horse to Queen Mary. He wedded Elizabeth,! daughter of Sir Edward Oxenbridge, second son of Sir Goddard Oxenbridge, sometime governess to the Princess Elizabeth, by whom he had an only daughter and heiress, who m. Sir Henry D'Arcy, Knt., and predeceased her father, s.p., in 1507. III. Philip, of Barton-on-Humber, who m. the daughter and co-heir of Edward Burnaby, Esq. of Barton, and from this alliance sprang the Tyrwhitts of Stainfield, baronets (so created 29th June, IGll), which family is now ex- tinct, but the estates have passed by will to the Drakes, of Shardeloes, and are now enjoyed by the present Thomas Tyrwhitt-Drake, Esq. of Shardeloes. Sir Robert's eldest son and heir, Sir William Tyrwhitt, Knt., seneschal of the priory of Gaykewell, served the office of sheriff for Lincolnshire, 28th Henry VIII, and, with his brother Robert, was one of the ecclesiastical commissioners for that county, in the 26th of the same reign. Sir William, who obtained large grants from the crown at the dissolution of the monasteries, married a daughter of Sir Robert Girlington, of Nor- manby, and, predeceasing his father in 1541, left issue, I. Robert (Sir), of Ketilby, who raised and led 250 of his tenantry with the the Tyrwhitts, descended from Adam Tyr- whitt, second son of Brian Tyrwhitt, of Tyr- whitt, and in the fourth degree from Sir Hercules, became extinct, the great part of their possessions in the counties of York and Lincoln devolving on the Tyrwhitts of Ketilby. A William Tyrwhitt, of this branch, after- wards Sir William, who married a daughter of John, Lord Lumley, was at Agincourt, with three archers ; he was son of Robert Tyrwhitt, of Beverley, who died 6th January, 1427, two years before his contemporary. Sir Robert Tyrwhitt, of Ketilby. It appears, too, that soon after the first Sir William Tyrwhite, described as " Primarius Justicianus Anglise," settled at Ketilby, that the lordship of Tyr- whitt, in Northumberland, was usui-pcd by a prior of the Order of Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem ; it shortly after came into the possession of the Ogles, who were connected with the Tyrwhitts. + This lady was the authoress of a small volume of Morning and Evening Praters, with dirers Psalmes, Simnes, and Medita- tions, Land. 1574. This little book was so highly valued by Queen Elizabeth, that she had a copy of it bound in solid gold. — Watt's Biographical Dictionary.