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 28o CLERMONT 5,108, Essex; 2,347, Sussex; 416 in the E.R., co. York; and 85, Midx. Total 13,287 acres, worth ^^21,193 a year. Grand total (England and Ireland), 36,552 acres, worth^39,279 a year. Principal Residences. — Chewton Priory, near Bath, Somerset; also Clermont Park, near Dunkirk, co. Louth, and Ravensdale Park, near Newry, in Ireland. CLEVELAND EARLDOM. Thomas (Wentworth), Lord Wentworth [1529], was, under the designation of " Thomas Wentworth, Knt., I. 1626 Baron Wentworth of Nettlested," cr. 5 Feb. 1625/6, EARL to OF CLEVELAND, co. York.(^) He d. s.p.m.s., 166-]. 25 Mar. 1667, when the Earldom of Cleveland became extinct. See fuller account under "Wentworth," Barony by writ, cr. 1529, under the 4th Baron. DUKEDOM. I. Barbara ViLLiERS,da. and h. of William(ViLLiERs), 2nd Viscount Grandison [I.] (slain at the siege of Bristol I. 1670. in 1643), by Mary, da. of Paul (Bayning), ist Viscount Bayning, was b. about 1641, and when about 18, m., 14 Apr. 1659, at St. Gregory's, London, Roger Palmer, afterwards, II Dec. 1 66 1, cr. Baron Limerick, and Earl of Castlemaine [I.]. He, however (from whom she was never legally divorced, and who d. 28 July 1705, but 4 years before her), does not appear to have been the father of any of her children unless, perhaps, of the eldest da. At the Hague, in 1659, she first met with Charles II, whom she accompanied to England the next year (the King spending the first night of his return in her society), and over whom she exercised a pernicious and almost uncontrolled influence for 10 years. C') Lady of the Bedchamber to the Queen Consort Aug. i662.('') In 1668, however, her residence at the Palace came to an (') Eight noblemen (2 Viscounts and 6 Barons) were on this day cr. Earls, being ranked, by Royal declaration, as under, viz.: [i] Manchester [Montagu) ; [2] Berkshire [Howard); [3] Cleveland [IVentworth) ; [4] Mulgrave [Sheffield); [5] Danby [Danvers) ; [6] Totness [Carew) ; [7] Monmouth [Cary) ; and [8] Marlborough [Ley). (*>) "The solemn Clarendon, the dignified Ormond, and the virtuous Southamp- ton were alike objects of her ridicule and malevolence." As to the former, indeed, his undeserved dismissal was mainly effected by her. Thomas (Wriothesley), Earl of Southampton and Chichester, had, when in office (1660-67), refused to admit her name on the Treasury books. Shortly after his death, however (1667), she had the gratification of obtaining for herself and her eldest son both the Earldoms which he had enjoyed. (') She was accordingly " removed as to her bed, from her own home to a chamber in Whitehall next to the King's own, which " [says Pepys] " I am sorry to hear." To that King's lasting disgrace he forced his wife (but three months after her marriage) to receive this woman, /;/; acknowledged (and of a large and miscellaneous assortment of his subjects the ««acknowledged) Mistress. One of her