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 CLEVELAND 283 Aldrich; M.A. i8 May 1678. (^) Hew,, istly, in 167 1 (a few months after her father's death on 25 May 1671), Mary, only da. and h. of Sir Henry Wood, Bart., Clerk of the Green Cloth, by his 2nd wife, Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Gardiner, (1645-47), Solicitor Gen., the bride being about 7 and he about 9. At the age of legal consent (1677) ^his ceremony was repeated. She, who was a great heiress, d. s.p., of the smallpoXjC") when scarcely 1 7, on 1 5, and was ^z/r. 16 Nov. 1680, as "Duchess of Southampton," in Westm. Abbey. Admon. 12 Jan. 1680/1, to curators of her husband till of his age of 21, and again 19 Sep. 1683 to him. He w., 2ndly, between 25 Oct. and 10 Nov. 1694, Anne, da. of Sir William Pulteney, of Misterton, co. Leicester (grandfather of William, ist Earl of Bath), by Grace, da. of Sir John Corbet, ist Bart., of Stoke. He d. in St. James's Sq., Midx., 9 Sep., and was bur. 3 Nov. 1730, in Westm. Abbey, in his 69th year.('') Will dat. 24 Dec. 1716, pr. 17 Nov. 1730, by his v/idow and sole legatee. She, who was b. 2^ Nov., and bap. i Dec. 1663, at St. Martin's-in-the- Fields, m., about 5 Aug. 1733, Philip Southcote, of Chertsey, Surrey, who survived her, but d. before Oct. 1758. She d. 20, and was bur. 28 Feb. 1745/6, in Westm. Abbey. Will dat. 6 June 1743, pr. 3 Mar. 1745/6 and 14 Oct. 1758. III. 1730 3. William (FitzRoy), Duke OF Cleveland [1670], to Duke of Southampton [1675], Earl of Southampton 1774. [1670], Earl of Chichester [1675], Baron Nonsuch [1670], and Baron Newbury [1675], s. and h. by 2nd wife. He was b. 19 Feb. 1697/8; was Receiver Gen. of the Profits of the Seals in the King's Bench and Common Pleas, and Comptroller of the Seal and Green Wax office. He m., 22 Jan. 173 1/2, Henrietta, 5th da. of Daniel (Finch), 6th Earl of Winchilsea, ^c, by his 2nd wife, Anne, da. of Chris- topher (Hatton), I st Viscount Hatton. She d. after less than 2 days' illness, of miliary fever, 14, and was bur. 18 Apr. 1742, in Westm. Abbey, aged 37. He d. s.p., 18 May 1774, aged 76, at Raby Castle, co. Durham (the residence of his nephew, the Earl of Darlington), when all his honours became extinct.{^) Will, dat. 27 Sep. 1763 to i Mar. 1771, pr. 27 Oct. 1774, by the Earl of Darlington, the residuary legatee. (^) Dean Prideaux writes of him from Oxford, in 1676, that he "will ever be very simple, and scarce, I believe, ever attain to the reputation of not being thought a fool." Lady Cowper also, in her diary, speaks of him as "a natural fool." See Family of Chester of Cliiche/ey, by R. E. Chester Waters, p. 487, in which work is an anecdote, by Aubrey, to account for His Grace's intellects never recovering an early shock. This work also contains a full account of the families of Wood, and of Gardiner of Cuddesdon, Oxon, the ancestors of the Duke's first wife. C') " Poor little Duchess of Southampton is dead of the smallpox, which every creature is sad for." (Countess of Sunderland, to H. S., 16 Nov. 1680. Sidney's Diary). V.G. ("=) He was of weak intellect, and voted with the Whigs. V.G. l^) " By the failure of issue a perpetual annuity of ^^8,000 per annum devolves on the Duke of Grafton." See Annual Reg. for 1774.