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 76 GRANDISON. Deputy, 3 April 1616, was, on 3 January 1620/1, cr. VISCOUNT GRAND1S0N(") OF LIMERICK, co. Leitrim [I.], with a spec. rcm.[ h ) failing the heirs male of his body to those of his niece, Barbara, da, of Sir John St. John, of Lydiard Tregoz, afsd., by her husband, Sir Edward VlLLlER8,(°) President of Munster. He resigned his high office (after six years service) in Mav 1622.( d ) P.C. [E. and I.] ; 1 1 ion Tueasurku [II 13 Aug. 1625, being on 20 May 1626, cr. BARON TREGOZ OF HIGH WORTH, co. Wilts [K.] In 1627 he received from the Crown the manors of Battersea and of Wandsworth, co. Surrey. He m. Joan, widow of Sir William llouitoFT, or RtCROFT, da. and h. of Henry Hoydon, of Battersea. He f Limerick [I.], nephew, and (according to the spec. rem. in the creation) heir to that peerage. He was s. and h. of Sir Edward Vili.iers, President of Muuster ('or. to George, the well known Di ke or Bitkixouam), by Barbara, 1st da. of Sir John St. Joun, both abovenanicd ; was 4. 1614 ; sue. his father, 7 Sep. 1626 ; sue. to the peerage (as afsd.) 1630, his name being called in the House of Lord* [LJi Nov. 1631; was one of the four Knights( u ) dubbed at Windsor, 20 May 1038, when the Prince of Wales was installed a Knight of the Garter. lie distinguished himself nobly in the Royal cause at the head of his regiment ami was mortally wounded (24 July 1613) at the siege of Bristol.! f ) He w., 31 Oct, 1G39, at St. Margaret's, Westm., Mary. 3d da. of Paul (Baynino), 1st YiscofNT Baynino, by Anne, da. of Sir Henry Glemuam. He rf. s.p.m. at Oxford of wounds reed, as afsd.(R) and was bur. 2 Oct. 1613, at Christ Church Cathedral there in his 30th year.( h ) M.I. His widow (who was aged six at her father's death, 10 July 1629), hi. 25 April 1648, at St. Barth. the Less, Loudon, Charles (Yilliers), 2d Eaiil OF ANGLESEY, who d. s.p. Feb. 1600,1. Shew, thirdly Arthur Goik;es, of Chelsea, co. Midx., who d. s.p. 18 April 1668, and was bur. there. Her admon. as "of Blanckuey, co. Lincoln,' 20 Jan 1671/2 ; her will dat. 30 March 1671, pr. 16 Feb. 1676. 7. III, 1643. 3. John (Villieus), Viscount Gbandison of Limerick [I.], br. and h. male, sue. to the peerage in 1613. He M. Catharine, da. of John Claeke, of Aldington, Berks, by Catharine, da. of John Batkman, of (") He was descended from (tho' not a representative of) the Grandison family (thro' whom the estate of Lydiard Tregoz was derived) his ancestor, Sir Oliver St. John, having m. {temp. Hen. VI.) Margaret, sister and h. of John (Beauchamp), Lord Beauchamp (see vol. i, p. 277, note " g "), whose ancestor, Roger, tho 1st Lord, m. Sybilla, da. and eventually coheir of Sir John de Patteshull, by Mabel, da. of (whose issue became coheir to) William (Grandison), 1st Lord Grandison. ( b ) A copy of the patent is given in the claim of the Earl of Jersey in 1820 to this Viscountcy. ( c ) This spec. rem. was evidently only for the sake of the highly favoured family of Villiers, as Barbara was but one out of many sisters of Sir John St. John, Bart, (ancestor of the Viscount Bolingbroke, &c.), who, being himself both heir at law as well as heir male of the grantee, would naturally have been the remainder man. ( d ) According to Cox's "History of Ireland" (part ii, p. 35), he, as well as his successor. Viscount Falkland [S.], " came away in disgrace " owing to their zeal for the Protestant religion, which exposed them to " the prevailing power of then- Popish enemies." (°) See vol. iii, p. 251, note " a," sub " Elgin," for their names. ( f His " justice and integrity " his " rare piety, devotion, and personal courage of all kinds " are mentioned by Lord Clarendon, who states that he [somewhat prophetically] said that " the very obligations of gratitude to the King on behalf of his house were such, as his life was but a due sacrifice." (8) See vol. i, p. 194, note "c," sub " Aubigny," in "The Loyalists Bloody Roll." ( u ) Barbara, his only da. and h., was the notorious Duchess of Cleveland (so cr. 1670 ; d, 1709) who certainly inherited none of her father's virtues. She, however, erected the monument at Oxford to his memory.