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 436 BURNELL The family of RatclifFe, sometime [from 1485] Lords FitzWalter and afterwards [1529] Earls of Sussex, assumed {zmong other assumptions) the style of BARON BURNELL, in right of representing one of the coheirs (^) of that Barony. (*") This assumption was apparently not continued by the h. gen. {i.e. the h. to the Barony of FitzWalter) after the death, s.p., of the fifth Earl of Sussex in 1629. BURNELL OF EAST WITTENHAM BARONY. I. Edmund Dunch, s. and h. of Sir William D., of Little Wittenham, Berks {d. 22 Jan. 161 1), by . 1658. Mary, da. of Sir Henry Cromwell (grandfather of the Protector Cromwell), was b. 1602; Sheriff of Berks, 1633-34; and of Oxon, 1667-68; M.P. for Wallingford, in 3 parls., 1627-53, and joining the parliamentary party, signed the Pro- testation in 1641; took the covenant in 1647; was on the committee for levying fines on estates of "delinquents," and, in 1648, was a Protestor against any agreement with the King. M.P. for Berks in the Protector's pari. 1654-55, and 1656-58; Gov. of Wallingford Castle 1655. He was, by the said Protector, 26 Apr. 1658, under patent,() (in which he is designated as "Edmund Dunch, Esquire) cr. BARON BURNELL OF EAST WITTENHAM, Berks.C^) to him and the heirs male of 1416, Edmund Hungerford, (yr. son of Walter, ist Baron Hungerford, which Edmund is called Dominus de Burnell in a Feudal Aid, 1428) whose lineal representative m. Edmund Dunch, cr. Baron Burnell of East Wittenham, in 1658, by Cromwell, as mentioned in the text. (*) See note "f" on previous page. C') See Antiq. Repertory^ vol. iii, p. 175. (") A facsimile of this interesting patent is in Noble's Cromwell., vol., frontispiece. It is sealed with these arms, viz. Quarterly, ist and 4th, the cross of St. George; 2nd, the cross of St. Andrew; 3rd, the Irish harp — over all on an escutcheon of pretence A lion rampant [the arms of Cromwell]: the whole representing the arms of the Commonwealth. In the border round the patent, among other devices, is, at the top, the same quarterly coat, but without the escutcheon; while, on the dexter side, are the arms of Cromwell, and, on the sinister side, a shield of 6 quarterings, viz. Cromwell and 5 others. G.E.C. In Noble's Cromwell, vol. i, pp. 438-42, edit. 1787, he is wrongly stated to have been cr. a Baronet in 1658. V.G. (^) In Banks' Baronia Anglica, vol. i, p. 145 (where the descent of Dunch from Burnell, through Hungerford, is fully set out) are some pertinent remarks as to the "vested power in the Sovereign de facto to create honours" under the Act 11 Hen. VII, ^c. In the case of the only other Hereditary peerage conferred by the Pro- tector, viz. that of Charles Howard, who by patent, 20 July 1657, was cr. Baron Gilsland and Viscount Howard of Morpeth, the fortunate patentee and noble cat-in-pan was cr., 30 Apr. i66i, by Charles II, not only a Baron and Viscount (as above) but even an Earl, as Earl of Carlisle. The Viscountcy promised by the Protector to