was gentleman ufher of the chamber to King Henry VII. but being envied by Sir Humphrey Stanley, of Pipe, in Staffordshire, knight of the body to that king, he fent him a counterfeit letter, in the name of Randolph Brereton, Efq equefling he would meet him the next morning by five o'clock: being thus allowed out of his house at Ingleftre, and going thither, with no other attendants than hison and two fervants, he was way-laid at Tixall Heath, by twenty men, feven of whom were of Sir Humphrey's own family, all compleatly armed, who iffuing out of a fheep-cot, and a deep dry pit, furiously affaulted him, faying that he fhould die, and accordingly flew him; Sir Humphrey, in the inftant, paffing by, with at least 24 per fons on horfeback, under the pretence of hunting a deer. This tragedy is fet forth in the petition of his widow, Alice, to the king, wherein the crayes, that Sir Humphrey and his fervants, might answer for it, but what proceedings were had therein doth 1 not appear.

William, his fon fucceeded, and was father of Sir Thomas Chetwynd, who married Jane, daughter and heir to Sir John Salter, by whom he had John, his heir, and a daughter, Dorothy, the fecond wife of Sir Wal-ter Smith, to whom he was married in the reign of Edward VI. her fortune being socl. but he being an aged man, and the very young, the detefted him to fuch a degree, as -to prevail on herself to murder him, for which the fuffered death, by being burnt at a flake, 15th May, the third of Queen Mary.

John, the only son, married first Mary, daughter and heir to Lewis Meverell, of Bold Hall, in: Staffordshire, Efq; by whom he had Sir, William Chetwynd, of Grendon, who married firft Atalanta, daughter and coheir of Robert Huick, of Stilfted, in Kent, Efq. Secondly, Catharine, relict of Stephen -Stanley, Efq; and daughter of Sir Edward' Afton, of Tixhall, in Stafford.ite, who married, thirdly, Sir Edward Cope; the faid Sir William died in June, 1612, without iffure, and John, his father, married, secondly, Margery, daughter to Robert Middiemore, of Warwickshire, Efq; by whom, he had five fons, of whom

Sir Walter, the eldeft fon, was fheriff of the county of Stafford, in 1607, and married, firft Mary, daughter and heir of John Molyns, of county of Somerset, Efq; and fecondly, to the honourable Lady Catharine Haffings, eldek daughter to George the fourth earl of Huntingdon, and widow of Sir Edward Unton, of Wadley, in Berkfhire, knight, and had two fons, viz. Walter his heir, and John, father to the firft vifourt Chetwynd; Walter, the eldest, marhac Fen's daughter to Edward Hafelrig,

Efq; by whom he had an only fon, Walte who married Anne, eldeft daughter to Si Edward Bagott, ancestor to the prefent Lor Bagott, of Great Britain, and he died with out iffue: John, the fecond fon, who died 21ft February, 1738, had one daughter, Lu cy, married to Edward Young, Efq; Bath King at Arms, and three fons, viz. Walter, created vilcount Chetwynd; John, who fucceeded him, and was the fecond viscount; and William, of Hafeler, near Litchfield, who was the third viscount.

(Ift Viscount.) Walter, the eldest føn, fucceeded his coufin in his eftate, and served for the boroughs of Stafford and Litchfield, in all the parliaments froin the year 1703, to his death; in the reign of queen Anne, he was mafter of the buck hounds, and ranger of St. James's park; his majefty, king George I. was pleafed to advance him to the peerage of Ireland, by privy feal, dated at St. James's, 27th May, and by patent, 29th June 1717, with limitations of the honours to the heirs male of the body of his father, by the titles of baron of Rathdowne, in the county of Dublin, and viscount Chetwynd, of Bearhaven, in the county of Kerry; he married Mary, daughter and coheir to John Berkeley, lord viscount Fitzharding, by whom he had no iffue, and dying 21ft February, 1735, at Ingeftre, after a tedious illness, was fucceeded by his brother,

(ad Viscount.) John, the fecond vifcount, who was one of the commiffioners of trade and plantations, receiver-general of the dutchy of Lancafter, and was ambaffador to the court of Spain; he had iffue two fors and two daughters, the eldest fon died goth May, 1741, aged 21, and William Richard, the fecond fon, died in 1763, the eldeft daughter was married in Auguft, 1748, to John Talbot, Efq; brother to William, late earl of Talbot, by whom the was mother to the prefent John Chetwynd Talbot, created 1784, Earl Talbot, in Great Britain; Francis, the fecond danghter is unmarried, and his lordship dying without male iflue, was fucceeded by his brother, Is

(3d Viscount,) William, of Hafeler, the third viscount, who was appointed by queen Anne, in 1708, her majefty's refident at the court of Genoa, and a commiffioner of the admiralty, which he refigned in 1727, and was afterwards appointed mafter worker of his majesty's mint; he married Mifs Baker, by whom he had iffu, viz.

ift Son, William, the fourth and prefent vifcount Chetwynd. 2d and 3d Thomas and John, both

fhip married his third wife, Anne, daughter to Sir John Trevor, and widow of Michael Hill, Efq; father of Trevor lord viscount Hillsborough, by whom he had no

fue, and be dying 29th of Auguft, 1928,

was fucceeded by his only furviving fon,

(2d Viscount.) Alan, the fecond viscount, was a commiffioner of the cuftoms in England, and was comptroller of the army accounts, and member of parliament for Midhurft; he married 7th May, 1729, lady Mary Capel, youngest daughter to Algernon, earl of Effex, left iffue by her, an only fon,

(3d Viscount.) George, the third and late vifcount, who was born the ad of Oct. 1730, and named after his majefty, who ftood his godfather in perfon; he married 25th April, 1752, Albinia, daughter to the honourable Thomas Townfhend, brother of the late lord viscount Townshend, by whom he had iffue, viz.

ift Son, George, the fourth and prefent viscount.

2d - Thomas, a barrifter at law. 3d Henry, a captain and lieutenant- ́ colonel in the Coldftream regiment of guards. 4th Charles, married 8th December, 1786, to Mils Mary Woodward, daughter to the right reverend the lord bishop of Cloyne.

5th--William, under fecretary to the commiffioners for managing Eaft India affairs.

John, an enfign in the ft regi

6th ment of foot guards;

And one daughter, Mary. (4th Viscount.) George, the 4th and prefent viscount Middleton.

Titles. The right honourable George Brodrick, lord vifcount Middleton, and baron Brodrick, of Middleton.

Creation. Baron Brodrick, of Middleton, in the county of Cork, 13th April, 1715, 1ft George J. and viscount Middleton, of the fame place, 15th Auguft, 1717.

Arms. Pearl on a chief, emerald, two fpears, heads erect of the field, their points Embrued, proper.

Creft. A fpear, pearl, embrued, proper, iffuing out of a ducal coronet, topaz.

Supporters. Two men in compleat armour, each holding the fpear as the

creft.

Motto. A cufpide corona. (From a fpear to a crown.)`

Seats. Middleton, in the county of Cork, 116 miles from Dublin, and 12 miles from Cork; and at Pepper Harrow, in the county et Surry, England.

The Folly of Pride, exemplified in the Hiftory of Cleonara.

AM the only daughter of a half-pay cap

Itain; my father had the double misfor

tune of being of the younger branch, and that of a very poor noble family, and my mother was a distant relation, before marriage, but had no fortune. As they had no more children than myself, they fpared no pains or coft on my education; and if my circumftances were to have been judged by the manner in which I was brought up, no one would have imagined but that I was to have had 5000l. at least, to my portion ; but instead of this, I had not the leaft prospect of a fix-penny piece from any relation or friend whatever. My poor father used often to comfort himself with faying, that as his Cleonara was nobly born, he was refolved the should have an education suitable to her birth. But, alas! when I was about twenty-one, in one month I loft both father and mother, and had nothing to fupport me but my genteel education, and nothing to boast of but the nobility of my parentage.

In this dilemma, I was at a great loss to know what to do; for as I was bred to no trade, nor inured to any fervice, I feemed to be excluded from the two only means left me to get my bread. While I was revolving these things in my mind, a maiden aunt of mine, by my father's fide, who had for ma ny years been ftarving genteelly on a fmall annuity, very kindly invited me to her house. She was one of those people who clothed and fed herself with the thoughts of her nobility; and as I frequently took occafion to exprefs my defire of getting my own livelihood, either by binding myself to fome genteel bufinefs, or by offering to ferve fome lady as her maid, the as often flew in a paffion, and told me that there had not been a trade in her family for thefe two hundred years; and that, for her part, fhe had rather fee me ftarve than go to fervice. I thought this an odd way of reafoning; for, proud as fhe feemed to be, fhe was mean enough to folicit and accept of private charities, her annuity being but fifteen pounds a year. had a part of a house to herself; her parlour was elegantly furnished, and her beaufet adorned with feveral pieces of old family plate; and, I verily believe, fhe would rather have wanted bread, (which, by the bye, fhe very often did) than have fold a teafpoon that had the family-arms upon it. But, alas! how different was that part of her furniture which was out of fight for, while her parlcur looked like that of a princess, her bedel amber resembled that of a beggar. Her who e converfation was Lothing more

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than

or give me a morfel of bread if I was ftarving

The great happiness I have found in perfeverance, joined to an opinion of my own ability, is the reason why I would perfuade all parents to educate their children in proportion to their circumftances; and to af fure all thofe of my fex that labour under the prejudices of education, whofe minds áre poifoned with falfe pride, that induftry generally meets with fuccefs; that in Eng land fervice is no flavery; nor is it any difgrace, but rather an honour, to any one, be their birth or education what it will, to be fervant when it becomes neceffary for their fupport for fure nothing can be fhameful that is honeft.

dreadful to the inhabitants of plains, from being broken by gullies, and floping on the edges of precipices: it is, however, paffable by mules, and by the horfes of the mountains. The vale grows fo narrow at laft, that it is not above 100 yards wide in fome places. The general feene at laft has little wood. The mountains on the fouth fide finish in a pyramidical rock of micaceous fchiftus, which is conftantly tumbling into the plain, from the attacks of the froft, and the melting of the fnows, the flope to the river being fpread with fragments. Met here with pieces of lead ore and manganefe. This ridge, is not, however, the whole; there are two other mountains, quite in a different fituation, and the feep travel from one to another, as the pafturage is fhort of

( From “ Annals of Agriculture.") 7E left Bagnere de Luchon,

tain paftures, and found it in general ftony what in the weft of England would be called a ftone brush, with some mixture of loam, and in a few places a little peaty. The

1787. to Vielle, the first town on the Spanish fide. The Pyrenees are fo great an object of examination, in whatever light they are confidered, but especially in that of agriculture, that it would be adding a great deal too much to the length of this paper to fpeak of them here; I fall on another occafion be particular in defcribing the hufbandry practifed in them, and at prefent ftop no longer than to mention the pafturage of Catalonia fheep in them. By a little detour out of our direct road, and by paffing Hofpital, which is the name of a folitary inn, we gained the heights, but free from fnow, which the Spaniards hire of the French for the pafturage of their flocks. I muft obferve, that a confiderable part of the mountains belong in property to the communities of their refpecfive parishes, and are difpofed of by what we call the veftry; they hire a very confiderable range of many miles. The French mountains, on which they pafture, are four hours diftant from Bagnere de Luchon, and belong to that town: thofe hours are more than zo English miles, and are the most diftant part of the parih. To arrive at them, we followed the river Pique, which upon the maps is fometimes called the Nefte. The whole way it runs in a torrent, and falls in cafcades of many ftories formed either by large pieces of rock, or by trees carried down, and ftopped by ftones. The current, in procefs of ages, has worn itfelf deep glens to pafs through, at the bottom of which the tumbling of the water is heard, but can be feen only at breaks in the wood, which hang overd darken the fcene. The road, as it is called, pafies generally by the river, but hangs, if I may ufe the expreffion, like a elf on the mountain fide, and is truly

Theep: many ferns, narciffus, violets, &c. (poterium fanguiforba) and the narrowleaved plantain (plantago lanceolata) were eaten, as may be fuppofed clofe. I looked for trefoils, but found fcarcely any. It was very apparent, that foil and peculiarity of herbage had little to do in rendering thefe heights proper for fheep. In the northern parts of Europe, the tops of mountains half the height of thefe, for we were above fnow in July, are bogs; all are fo, which I have feen in our iftands; or at least, the proportion of dry land is very trifling to that which is extremely wet. Here they are in general very dry. Now a great range of dry land, let the plants be what they may, will, in every country, fuit fheep. The flock is brought every night to one fpat, which is fituated at the end of the valley on the river I have mentioned, and near the port or paffage of Picada. It is a level spot sheltered from all winds. The foil is 8 or 9 inches deep of old dung, not at all inclofed; and from the freedom from wood all around it, feems to be chofen partly for fafety against wolves and bears. Near it is a very large tone, or rather rock, fallen from the mountain. This the fhepherds have taken for a fhelter, and have built a hut against it; their beds are fheep-fkins, and their doors fo fmall that they crawl in. I faw no place for fire, but they have it, fince they drefs here the fleth of their fheep, and in the night fometimes keep off the bears, by whirling firebrands; four of them belonging to the flock mentioned above lie here. Viewed their flock very carefully, and by means of our guide and interpreter, made fome enquiries of the thepherds, which they answered rea dily, and very civilly. A Spaniard at Ve

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