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 128 CHANDOS VI. 1 62 1. 6. George (Brydges), Baron Chandos of Sudeley, s. and h., b. 9 Aug. 1 620, being a year and a day old at his father's death. He was nom., by Pari., Lord Lieut, of co. Gloucester in Feb. i64i/2,('') but became a zealous royalist, being, later in that year, Col. of a regt. of Dragoons in the King's service. At the first battle of Newbury (20 Sep. 1643) he had 3 horses shot under him, and was mainly instrumental in breaking the enemy's cavalry. He is said to have been offered the Earl- dom of Newbury, accordingly, but to have declined it till more peaceful times. In 1642, and again in 1644, Sudeley Castle was taken by the Parliamentary forces and reduced to ruins, the owner being in London, where he had given himself up " to the pleasures of that place-^") His composition, as a delinquent, was no less than ;{^3,973. On 13 May 1652, in a duel on Putney Heath, he mortally wounded Col. Henry Compton, and was, after a year's imprisonment, found guilty, 17 May 1653, in the "Upper Bench" of manslaughter.() He m., istly, 14 Dec. 1637, at Totteridge, Herts, Susan, da. of Henry (Montagu), ist Earl of Manchester, by his 3rd wife, Margaret, widow of John Hare, da. of John Crouch, of Cornbury, Herts. She was bur. 20 Apr. 1652, at Harefield, Midx. He m., 2ndly, 17 Jan. iSc^iJi, at Hedgerley, Bucks, Jane, da. of John (Savage), Earl Rivers, by his ist wife, Catherine, da. of William (Parker), Lord Morley. He d. of the smallpox, s.p.m.,(f) Feb. 1654/5, and was bur. at Sudeley, aged 34. Will dat. 24 Jan. 1654/5. His widow, who acquired from him the estate of Sudeley and other family inheritances, m., 21 Oct. 1655, at St. Bride's, London, Sir William Sidley, Bart., of Ailesford, Kent, who d. s.p., 1656. She m., 3rdly, 1657, George Pitt, of Strathfield Saye, Hants, who d. 27 July 1694. She d. 6 June iBjS.^^) VII. 1655. 7. William (Brydges), Baron Chandos OF Sudeley, br. and h. male. He m. Susan, da. and coh. of Garret Kerr, or Carr, of London. She was bur. 15 Oct. 1672, at Harefield, Midx. He d. s.p.m.s., and was bur. there 22 Aug. 1676.0 VIII. 1676. 8. James (Brydges), Baron Chandos of Sudeley, cousin and h. male, being only s. and h. of Sir John Brydges, Bart., of Wilton Castle, co. Hereford, by Mary, da. and h. of James Pearle, of Dewsall and Aconbury in that co., which Sir John was s. (^) He sided at first with the Pari., and as late as Jan. 1 64 1/2 joined the popular leaders in the Lords in two protests against the action of that House in rejecting the demand of the Commons for control of the Militia. V.G. C") Clarendon's History of the Rebellion. (=) As to his sentence see vol. i, p. 264, note " b." (^) He had 6 daughters, 3 by each wife. V.G. (*) Their great-grandson and h., George (Pitt), Baron Rivers of Strathfield Saye, was, on I Apr. 1802, cr. Baron Rivers of Sudeley Castle, co. Gloucester, which peerage became extinct 31 Mar. 1880. (') " By and by comes my simple Lord Chandos, who began to sing Psalms, but so dully that I weary of it." {Pepys, 21 Dec. 1662). V.G.