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 CHEYKE — CHICHESTER. 239 CHEYXE. ie. " Ciieyn-e " Barony [SJ, (Oheyne) a: 1681 with the Visoountct of Newiiaven [S.], which see ; ex. 1738. CIIICIIE. See "Darcy of Ciiiciie, co. Essex" Barony, (Dairy), cr. 1551; ex. 1639. i.e. "Darcy of CriicnE, co Essex" Barony, (Sacagc), granted in reversion, 8 Oct. 1613; took effect, 1639; ex. 1728; See "Rivers" Earldom of, cr. 1626, under the 2d. Earl. CIIICTIESTEE (City of). [" The title of Earl of Chichester (as well as that of Arundel) is fre- quently found given in early Charters to the Earls of Sussex, not as a title of dignity, hut from their having been possessed of the castle anil city of Chichester, the former of which was, however, demolished at a very early period." See " Courthope. " Roger de Montgomery (the " Comes Roijerus" of the Domesday Survey) generally known as Earl (if Shrewsbury, who was also Earl of Arundel (or Sussex), is occasionally styled Earl of Chichester ; so also William de Albini, Earl of Arundel (or Sussex) is about llfiOi likewise so styled (See, ante, vol. I, p. 139, note "d," and p. 141, note "m"): the chief residence or stronghold of the Earl giving, in these early times, the title to the Earldom.] Earldom. J. " Franxis [Leigh], Baron of Dunsmore, co. Warwick," was on 3 June 1644, cr. "EARL OF CHICHESTER, I. lGll. co. Sussex," for life "with rem. to Thomas, Earl of Southampton and the heirs male of his body by Elizabeth, da. of the said Francis ; rem. to the heirs male of the body of the said Elizabeth." He was s. and h. of Sir Francis Leioh, KB., by Mary, da. of Thomas (Eoerton), Viscount Bracelet, better known as Lord Chancellor Ellesmere, and sue. his Father in the estate of Newnham Regis, See., co. Warwick. He was knighted at Newmarket, Jany. 1612/3. M.P. for Warwick, 1625-26. He m. firstly Susan, da. and h. of Richard Northam. She d. s.p. He in. secondly in 1617 or early in 1618, Dame Audrey Anderson, widow of Sir Frances A. (who d. 22 Dec. 1616) : sister and coheir of William (Boteler), Lord RoTELEIt of Rrantfibld, being 1st da of John, 1st Lord Boteler, by Elizabeth, da. of Sir George VrtXtKHS, sister of the celebrated favourite George, Duke of Buckingham. After this alliance his advance was rapid. He was cr. a Baronet, 21 Dec. 1618, and on 31 July 162S, was cr. BARON DUNSMORli, co. Warwick, with rem., failing the helrS male of his body, to " John Anderson of Hard wick, co. Huntingdon, ( a ) grandson (' hepns ') and h. male of Edmund Anderson, Knt., late Ch. Justice of the Common Bench, and eldest s. of Audrey (now wife of Francis Leigh and formerly wife of Francis Anderson, Knt.), and to the heirs male of his body." He was one of the Com- missioners to treat with the Scots 1640 and 1641 ; P.C. 1641 ; Col. of a Reg. of Horse, ex-parte Jier/is, 1643; Capt. of the band of Gent. Pensioners, 1644-46, and was, at Oxford, cr. in 1644 Earl of Chichester as above stated. In Jany. 1645 he was one of the King's Commissioners at the conference at Uxbridge. His estates, worth £3,000 a year, were sequestrated, but released for a fine of £2,854. His wife was living Sep. 1652, but d. before June 1654. He d. s.p.m. at Apscourt, Surrey, 21 Dec. 1653, and was bur. at Newnham, when the Barony of Dunsmore became extinct. ( b ) Will dat. 2 Sep. 1652. pr. 22 June 1654. (") This Sir John Anderson of St. Ives, Co. Hunt d. unm. (before the grantee) 1 630. H A tabular account of the descendants of his two daughters, the Countess of Southampton, and the Viscountess Graudison [I.], and some further particulars about him is in Mr. R. E. Chester Waters' valuable work, "The Chesters of Chicheley," p. 144, &c. Lord Clarendon's character of him is as "a man of rough and tem- pestuous nature," much opposed to innovation.