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Only son of John Walsh, Cathanger, Somerset. There is no record of his admission, but he was elected Reader 5 Nov. 1555. He was made Serjeant-at-Law in 1559, became a Judge of the Common Pleas in 1563, and died in 1572.

WALSINGHAM, BARON. See DE GREY, WILLIAM.

Admitted 18 November, 1628.

Second son of William Warmestry, Registrar of the diocese of Worcester. He was educated at Oxford, where he graduated 1625. He succeeded his father in the office of Registrar. In 1628 he published a poetical pamphlet entitled Virescit vulnere virtus, or England's Wound and Cure, a tract throwing light upon the state of society at the period. He also composed a Latin poem in praise of William Camden (1624). He died in London 31 Aug. 1641.

Admitted 8 November, 1796.

Youngest son of Rev. William Watkins of Gelly of Llanwetherine parish, co. Monmouth. He was called to the Bar 10 June, 1803, and practised as a Conveyancer from 1799 to his death in 1808.

He is chiefly known by the able treatises he has left on The Title and Powers of the King as Guardian of the Duchy of Cornwall; on The Law of Descents (1793); on Government (1796); on Copyholds (1797—9); on the Principles of Conveyancing (1800); and on the law of Tenures in his Introduction to the fourth edition of Gilbert's Law of Tenures (1796).

Admitted 2 November, 1601.

Son and heir of Edward Watson of Rockingham Castle, Northamptonshire, and of the Middle Temple. He was educated at Oxford, where he entered in 1599. He became a constant attendant at Court as a follower of Buckingham (q.v.), and was knighted by James I. in 1608. He entered Parliament for Lincoln in 1614, and was made a Baronet in 1621. At the outset of the Civil War his castle was seized by the Parliamentarians and he himself arrested on a charge of not defending it. He cleared himself of the charge, however, and was created Baron Rockingham in 1644. He died 5 Jan. 1652-3.

Admitted 9 March, 1595-6.

Son of Thomas Watts of Buntingford, Hertfordshire. He was a patriotic merchant of London who provided a ship for service against the Spanish