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258 estate went to his third brother, the present lord of this and manors, viz.

22. The high, puissant, and most noble Prince, EDWARD HOWARD, the present, Earl-Marshal, and Hereditary Earl-Marshal of , Earl of Arundel, Surrey, , and , Baron of Mowbray, Howard, Segrave, Brewse of Gower in Carmarthenshire, Fitz-Alan, Warren, Clun, Oswaldestre, Maltravers, Greystock, Furnival, Verdon, Lovetot, Strange (of Blackmere) and Howard of Castle-Rising; Duke, Earl, and Baron of , next the Blood Royal, and chief of the truly illustrious family of the.

He married, A° 1727, Mary daughter to Edward Blount of Blagden near Torbay in the county of Devon, Esq a younger son of Sir George Blount of Sodington in Worcestershire, Bart. but at present hath no issue, and Richard Howard, his next brother, being dead without issue,

The honourable, Esq. of Bukenham-house in Norfolk, his youngest brother, is his heir; who on the 7th of Jan. 1723, married Winifrede, daughter of ''Tho. Stoner of Watlington Park in the county of Oxford, Esq. by whom he hath a son named Thomas, born Febr. 3, 1727, and a daughter Winifrede''. Since the death of this lady, he remarried to a sister to the present Dutchess of Norfolk, by whom also he hath issue.