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 AiLEsBURY COMPLETE PEERAGE 6i He d. there i6 Dec. (") 1741, in his 86th year, and was bur. there with his 2nd wife. C') Will pr. Jan. 1742. III. 1741 3. Charles (Bruce), Earl OF AiLESBURY, {ffc. [E.], also to Earl of Elgin, i^c. [S], 2nd Q but only surv. s. and h. 1747. by 1st wife, b. 29 May 1682. Charles II was one of his Godparents. He was M.P. for Great Bedwyn 1705-08 ; and was elected also in 17 10, but sat for Marlborough 1710-11. On 29 Dec. 171 1, he was sum. to the House of Lords, v.p.^ in his father's Barony, as LORD BRUCE OF WHORLTON.O On 17 Apr. 1746 he was cr. BARON BRUCE OF TOTTENHAM, Wilts, with a spec, rem., Q (") T. A. Mann, Histotre de Buxelles, 1785, vol. i, p. 241. According to Macky " he was very tall, fair complexioned." His remarkably interesting Memoirs, written about 1729, were pub. by the Roxbrughe Club in 1890, and leave on the reader's mind the impression that the writer was a moderate, sensible, honest, truthful, and chivalrous partisan of the exiled Family. V.G. (") Urns containing their hearts are in the Mausoleum at Maulden, Beds. V.G. His elder br. Robert, b. 6 Aug. 1679, d. young, v. p., and was bur. 22 July 1685, before his father was ennobled. V.G. (") He was one of the twelve Peers who, not without some straining of the prerogative, were cr. within 5 days to secure a majority in the House of Lords for the Tory Administration. They are said to have been sarcastically asked by the Earl of Wharton, whether they tendered their votes separately, " or by their foreman.^'' Three of these were eldest sons of Peers of England, and consequently made no permanent addition to the Peerage, v'rz.. : Bruce (s. and h. ap. of the Earl of Ailesbury), sum. in his father's Barony. Compton (s. and h. ap. of the Earl of Northampton), sum. in his father's Barony. Paget (s. and h. ap. of Lord Paget), cr. Lord Burton. The other nine, arranged alphabetically as to their surnames and titles of Peerage, were — Bathurst, cr. Lord Bathurst. Dtipplin^ Lord, see Hay. Foley, cr. Lord Foley. Granville, cr. Lord Lansdown. Hay, styled Lord Dupplin, being s. and h. ap. of the Earl of Kinnoul [S.], cr. Lord Hay. Lansdown, Lord, see Granville. Mansel, cr. Lord Mansel. Masham, cr. Lord Masham. Middleton, Lord, see Willoughby. Mountjoy, Lord, see Windsor. Trevor, cr. Lord Trevor. Willoughby, cr. Lord Middleton. Windsor, Viscount Windsor [I.], cr. Lord Mountjoy. (See also note sub Bathurst.) Q This spec. rem. is the more remarkable as he had female issue of his own, who represented him and his family, while the issue of his sister not only did not represent the family of Bruce, but were not even entitled to quarter their armorial ensigns. Of his three married daughters, the eldest, Mary (wife of Henry Brydges,