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 88 COMPLETE PEERAGE albemarle MONCK OF POTHERIDGE, BEAUCHAMP AND TEYES ; (») EARL OF TORRINGTON, Devon, and DUKE OF ALBEMAR- LE. ('') A pension of ;£7000 a year, and the estate of New Hall, in Essex, were granted to him and his heirs for ever. (") P.C., Gent, of the Bed- (") As to the unwarranted assumption of the title Teyes, as also that of three other Laronies, by John (Dudley), ist Duke of Northumberland, see note under that title. ('') " The General's title is Duke d'Albemarle (a place in Normandy belonging to the Plantagenets from whom he derives himself), Earl of Toddington or Torring- ton : Viscount Coldstream, and Baron of Potheridge, his house. Coldstream is the river in the north that lay between him and Lambert last year. " (See letter from Andrew Newport, dat. 26 June 1660. Hist. MSS. Com., 5th Rep., App., p. 154.) The explanation of these titles is by reason of the undermentioned descent ; a descent, however, which carries with it no representation of the titles thus taken. Alice, da. and h. of Henry, Lord Teyes (or Tyas), m. Warin de Lisle. Their grandson, Warin, Lord Lisle, left a da. and h., Margaret, who m. Thomas, Lord Berkeley, and had a da. and h., Elizabeth, who m. Richard (Beauchamp), Earl of Warwick, and [cr. 141 9) Earl of Aumale. Margaret, one of the three daughters of this Earl and his said wife, m (as 2nd wife), John (Talbot), ist Earl of Shrewsbury, and had a son, John, cr. Viscount Lisle, 1452. His da., Elizabeth, coh. of the Barony of Teyes, m. Edward Grey, cr. Baron and Viscount Lisle. Their da. and eventually, represent- ative, m., for her 2nd husband (the issue by her ist husband, Edmund Dudley, carrying away her representation), Arthur Plantagenet (illegit. s. of Edward IV), who was cr. Viscount Lisle, 1533. Frances, one of his three daughters and coheirs (having left issue by her ist husband, John Basset, in whom her representation would vest) »!., for her 2nd husband, Thomas Monck of Potheridge, the great-grandfather of George Monck, cr., as in the text. Baron Monck of Potheridge, Beauchamp and Teyes, and Duke of Albemarle. This Frances was sister, ex parte maternd, of John (Dudley), Duke of Northumberland, who was styled, though improperly. Baron Tyas. The Baronies indicated a descent not only from the last possessor (a life tenant) of that title, but also (though but a bastard one) from the Royal Family, by whom alone (with the exception of the abovenamed grant in 1419) this semi-royal Peerage had hitherto been borne, after the extinction, in the 13th century, of the old (Norman) line of Earls. The surname is spelt both as Monck and as Monk in the patent, though, generally as the former, which is the spelling of the Barony cr. by the said patent. C^) The following is drawn from Lord Clarendon's account of him : — " He was of an ancient family in Devonshire, always very loyally affected, and being a yr. br., he entered early into the life and condition of a soldier. When the troubles began in Scotland, he betook himself to the service of the King, and was soon after sent into Ireland, where he served with singular reputation of courage and conduct. He was taken prisoner at Nantwich, and remained in the Tower to the end of the war, when Cromwell prevailed upon him to engage himself again in the war of Ireland ; and from that time he continued very firm to Cromwell, who was liberal and bountiful to him, and took him into his entire confidence. After the death of Cromwell, Monk was looked upon as a man more inclined to the King than any other in great authority, if he might discover it without too much loss or hazard. He had no fumes of religion to turn his head, nor any credit with, or dependence upon, any who were swayed by these trances. " He is thus described by Lord Macaulay — " With very slender pretensions to saintship, [he] had raised himself to high commands by his courage and professional skill. His nature was cautious and somewhat sluggish. " Lord Clarendon also remarks that " He was cursed, after long familiarity, to marry a