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 286 CLEVELAND. cm 25 May 1671) Mary, only da. and h. (if Sir Henry Woon, Bart., Clerk of the Green Cloth, by his 2nd wife Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Gardiner, some timo Solicitor Gen., the bride being about 7 and he about 9. At the age o£ legal consent (1677) this marriage was repeated. She, who was, a great heiress, d.~*. p. when scarcely 17, on 15 and was bur. 16 Nov. 16SU as "Duchess of Southampton" in Westm. Abbey. He m. secondly, Nov. 1694. Anne, da. of Sir William PoLTBSKY of Misterton, co. Leicester (grandfather of William, 1st Haul (iv Bath) by Grace, da. of Sir John Corbet, 1st Bart, of Stoke. He d. in St. James' sq., Midx., 9 Sep. 1 730 in his 69th year and was bur. 3 Nov. in Westm. Abbey. Will dat 24 Dec. 1716, pr. 17 Nov. 1730 by his wi.low and sole legatee. His widow, who was 6. 25 Nov. and bap. Dec. 1663 at St. Martins in the fields, m., Aug. 1733, Philip SOUTHCOTB of Chertsey, co. Surrey, who survived her, but who d. before Oct. 175S. She was bur. 28 I'eb. 1745/6, in Westm. Abbey. Will dat. 6 June 1743, pr. 3 March 1745/6 and 14 Oct. 175S. III. 1730, -j. William (Fitz Roy), Duke of Cleveland [1G70], Duke ok Southampton [1675], Earl ok Southampton [1670] Eahl ok Chichester [1675], Baron Nonsuch [1670J and Baron Newbury 1774. [1675], s. and h. He was 6. 19 Feb. 1697/8 ; was Kcceiver Gen. of the Profits of the Seals in the Kings Bench and Common Pleas, and Comptroller of the Seal and Green Wax office. He m. in 1731, Henrietta, 5th da. of Daniel (Finch), 6th Earl ok Winchelsea, &c. by his 2nd wife Anne, da. of Christopher (Hatton), 1st Viscount Hatton. She  2nd Earl ok Daklinoton, by Margaret, sister of James, Earl ok Lonsdale, da. of Robert Lowtukr [which Henry _, , was s. and h. of Henrv, 1st Earl ok Darlinoton, by Grace, sister of iiuiteaom. the w]lole b]ood f)f w flliam, and 1st da. of Charles (Fitz Rot), Dukes IV 1833 oF Cleveland abovenamed], was, on 5 Oct. 1827, cr. MARQUESS OF CLEVELAND,^) and, on 29Jany. 1833, cr. BARON RABY OF RAliY CASTLE, co. Durham,^) and DUKE OF CLEVELAND. (°) He was 1 ( a ) "By the failure of issue a perpetual annuity of £8,000 per annum devolves on the Duke of Grafton." See " Annual Keg." for 1774. ( b ) He was bap. as "William Harry,'' but seems generally known as "William Henry." ( c ) It is a cause of wonder that the head of the lustoric house of Vane of Riby, him- self the holder of a peerage of some antiquity (1699), should have so prided himself on a bastard descent from an infamous and prurient adulteress, that when he obtained a step in the Peerage, he chauged his title to that of " Cleveland," a peerage conferred on his notorious ancestress as the actual warjes of her prostitution, and one which had stunk in the nostrils of the nation during the 40 years she enjoyed it ; one, too, which had not been redeemed from the slur thus attached to it by any merit of her successors, of whom the one was a fool and the other a nonentity. The selection is more remarkable as the Earls of Darlington do not appear to have inherited, thro' this woman, any of their vast estates. ( d ) As to the Barony of Ruby, when the celebrated Sir Thomas Wentworth (then Viscount Wentworth) was cr. Earl of Strafford (1640), he was at the same time cr. " Baron ok Rabt, a house belonging to Sir Henry Vane, and an honour he made account should belong to himself, which was an act of the most unnecessaiy provo- cation that I have known, and, I believe, was the chief occasion of the loss of the Earl's head." See " Clarendon" i, 150. The limitation of this Barony was (unlike that of the Earldom), with a spec, rem., under which it lasted till 1799, when, on the the death of Frederick Thomas (Wentworth), 3rd Earl of Stratford and 5th Baron of Raby, it became extinct. It was, some 30 years afterwards, not unnaturally revived in favour 'of the family of Vane, the actual owners of Raby.