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 BRERETON 301 Abergavenny. He was bur. 21 Apr. 1664, at Brereton, aged ^2- His widow was bur. there 5 Dec. 1687. III. 1664. 3. William (Brereton), Baron Brereton OF Leigh- LiN [I.], s. and h., bap. 4 May 1631, at Brereton. He m., in or before i659,(*) Frances, 2nd da. and coh. of Francis (Willoughby), 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham, by Elizabeth, da. and coh. of Edward (Cecil), Viscount Wimbledon. He d. in London, 1 7, and was bur. 19 Mar. 1679/80, at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, aged 48.('') Admon. 11 Dec. 1686, and again 18 May 1697 to a creditor. His widow was bur. 12 Sep. 1680, at St. Martin's afsd. Will dat. 6 Sep. 1680, pr. 16 Feb. 1682/3. IV. 1680. 4. John (Brereton), Baron Brereton of Leigh- LiN [I.], s. and h., b. 2, and bap. 4 Dec. 1659, at St. Paul's, Covent Garden. He did not sit in the Pari. [I.] of James II, 7 May i689.('') He in. (lie. Vic. Gen. 26 June 1686) Mary, da. of Sir Thomas Tipping, of Wheatfield, Oxon, by Elizabeth, da. and coh. of Sir White Beconsaw, of Moyles Court, Hants, she being then aged 31 and a spinster. She d. Feb. 17 14/5, and was bur. at Brereton. He d. s.p., 171 8, at Brereton, aged 58. Admon. 24 Oct. 17 18, and again 14 Mar. 1723/4. V. 1718 5. Francis (Brereton), Baron Brereton OF Leigh- to LIN [I.], only surv. br. and h. b. i, and bap. 2 May 1662, 1722. at St. Paul's, Covent Garden. He d. unm.,('') in the parish of St. Andrew's, Holborn, and was bur. 1 1 Apr. 1722, at Brereton afsd., aged 59, when his Peerage became extinct.{f) Admon. 24 May 1722 to his aunt, Elizabeth Brereton, Spinster, and (after her death) 14 Mar. 1723/4, to Sir Clobery Holte, Bart., and James Tyrrell, " Esq.," cousins once removed and next of kin. (*) The date 21 Aug. 1658, is given for this marriage in the fictitious Diary of Lady IVilloughby. See note sub Francis, Baron Willoughby of Parham [16 18?]. C") He was a man of great literary attainments, and was one of the Founders of the Royal Society, 20 May 1663. "I find him a very sober and serious able man. .... After dinner he very genteelly went to the organ and played a verse very handsomely." {Pepys, 5 Jan. 1667/8). V.G. Q For a list of peers present in, and absent from, this Pari., see vol. iii, Appendix D. V.G. C') On 14 Feb. 1687/8 he had lie. from the Vic. Gen. office to marry Mary Frances, Dowager Viscountess Kilmorey [I.], about 23, and a widow. This mar- riage however never took place, and she m., 8 May 1690, Theophilus (Hastings), Earl of Huntingdon. («) On the death s.p. (1872) of Charles Holte Bracebridge, of Atherstone Hall, co. Warwick {h. 19 Mar. 1799), and of his only sister, both being children of Mary Elizabeth, only da. and h. of Sir Charles Holte, Bart, of Aston Hall in that co. (whose great-grandmother Jane, wife of Sir Robert Holte, Bart., was sister of the and Lord Brereton), the whole of the issue of Sir John Brereton, (the only s. of the 1st Baron), is presumed to have become extinct, and the representation of the family to have devolved on the daughters and coheirs of Mary, Countess of Thomond [I.], the only da. of the 1st Lord Brereton.