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 ii6 BENHALE at Langley Abbey, Norfolk. He survived her and d. s.p., in or about, and not later than, 1404, when the Barony became exnnct.{^) BEREHAVEN or BEARHAVEN See "Chetwynd of Bearhaven, co. Cork," Viscountcy [I.] (Chet- wynd), cr. 171 7. BEREHAVEN Frances, widow of Sir George Hamilton, sister of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, and elder da. and coh. of Richard Jennings, of Sand- ridge, Herts, became in 1679 wife of Richard Talbot, afterwards Earl OF Tyrconnell; she was intended in 1677 to have been cr. Countess of Bantry C") or Countess of Berehaven [I.],^) but no patent ever passed the seals. See "Tyrconnell," Earldom [I.], cr. 1685. BERESFORD OF ALBUERA AND DUNG AR VAN, AND BERESFORD OF BERESFORD BARONY. I. William Carr Beresford, illegit. sonC) of (^) His arms were, Gules a fer de moulin Argent, over all a bendlet Azure. These were the same as those borne by Sir Guy de Ferre, a distinguished man of Gascon origin, and the two owned adjoining manors in Suffolk, known as Benhall and Benhall Sir Robert. It seems quite possible that Sir Robert was a member of Sir Guy's family, but dropped his foreign name when he settled in England, and called himself after his Suffolk place. The fact that (like Melchizedek) nothing is known of his parentage, also points to his having been of foreign extraction. The two abovementioned Benhall manors both passed to the Ufford family, which again suggests kindred between Ferre and Benhale. [ex inform. Arthur Crawley Boevey). V.G. (*>) In an MS. entitled "Irish Nobility " [circa 1690-1710 ? by Peter le Neve ?) penes Sir Arthur Vicars, she appears as " Countess of Bantry." [ex inform. G. D. Burtchaell). "18 June 1677. Reference to the Lord Treasurer of the petition of the Countess of Bantry for a pension which she was informed after marriage to Sir G. Hamilton his Majesty would grant her, if she outlived him." [State Papers Dom., Entry Book 46, p. 187). V.G. if) 9 July 1677. Warrant to the Earl of Peterborough, Deputy E.M., after reciting the creation of Dame Frances Hamilton, the relict of Sir G. Hamilton, to be Countess of Berehaven in Ireland, ordaining that Elizabeth, Mary Frances, and Henrietta Hamilton, the daughters of the said Sir George Hamilton, should enjoy the privilege and precedence of the daughters of a Countess of Ireland. [State Papers Dom., Entry Book 4GA, f. 209). [ex inform, the Marquis de Ruvigny). V.G. 1^) Another illegit. son was Admiral Sir John Poo Beresford, Bart., K.C.B., who d. 2 Oct. 1844. G.E.C. T. Creevey writes, "their mother is unknown, but there is a notion they were Lady Waterford's before her marriage." V.G.