PEDIGREE B (continued). 176 PEDIGREE OF THE BENNET-TESDALE FAMILIES. The present Earl, Charles Augustus Bennet, P.C., is the sixth in this line. He bears, as a second crest, for Bennet, out of a mural coronet, or, a lion's head, gu., charged on the neck with a bezant. In right of descent from Edward I the Earl of Tankerville is entitled to quarter the royal arms of Edmund Plantagenet. N DESCENTS OF RICHARD WIGHTWICK, CO-FOUNDER. Of those whose names are marked thus the College possesses portraits. John, John, 14 Hen. IV (1412; condidit testamentum 1420) Alicia. Henry. John, 7 Hen. VI (1438), ob. s. p. William (? Richard), 17 and 34 Hen. VI (1438, 1455). Agnes. Julian. See p. 179. PEDIGREE OF THE WIGHTWICK FAMILY. 177 Henry de Wightwike, 18 Edw. IV (1478) — Thomasine, dau. of Wm. Milston of Bamhurst. Margaret Broke de Blakeland, 16 Hen. VIII (1524). Humphrey, ob. 1594. Margaret, dau. and co-heir of Ric. Jenkes of Salop (her mother was dau. and heir of Rowland Grosvenor of Dallicott, Salop). See next page. The earlier part of this pedigree follows Erdeswicke's MS. History of Staffordshire, written about 1595. Shaw's Staffordshire and Jones's History of Tettenhall vary from it in some points. Francis, ob. 1715. Elizabeth, ob. 1736. James, ob. 1749. John, ?of Wolverhampton, adm. of Emmanuel Coll., Camb., Apr. 4, 1646; intruded Fellow of St. John's, Oxford, 1651-62; Jane Pritchard. Thomas Ann Tristram. Great-grandparents of Stubbs Wightwick, of Great Bloxwich, J.P., D.L. (ob. 1858) DOROTHEA, 3rd dau. of Ric. Fryer, esqre., M.P., of the Wergs, Staffs. The main Wightwick line ended with him. 2 Aunt to Jane Lane, who saved King Charles II after Worcester fight. PEDIGREE C (continued). COLLATERAL BRANCH OF THE WIGHTWICK FAMILY. PEDIGREE OF THE WIGHTWICK FAMILY. 1 To 'my sonne Henrye Wightwicke' were left by his father my best gowne, my best satten suits of apparell, my cloake, my saddle, and all my bookes.' N 2 179 CHAPTER XIV. NATALITIA AND STATUTES. THE Letters Patents and the Charter of Mortmain, dated on the festival of St. Peter the Apostle (June 29), 1624, were read in the common hall on August 5, and at the same time the new Master, Fellows, and Scholars were formally admitted. There was present a large and distinguished company, including the Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Prideaux, Robert Lord Dormer, afterwards Earl of Carnarvon, and William Dormer his brother, Sir Francis Godolphin, knight, Sir John Smith, knight, Dr. Daniel Featley (Archbishop Abbot's chaplain), the Proctors, a great number of other Masters, and the Mayor, Recorder, and principal Burgesses of Abingdon. The coFounder, Richard Wightwick, was, it seems, not present. He lived at no great distance, at East Ilsley, but was advanced in years. 3 1 Both entered Exeter this year. Lord Carnarvon fell at Newbury in 1643, being lieutenant-general of the King's forces. Sir Fleetwood Dormer, a cousin, entered Pembroke in 1634. He settled in Virginia. * He entered Exeter June 25, 1624. Sidney Earl of Godolphin, Lord High Treasurer, was his third son. 3 Or Fairclough (Fertlow), son of the cook of Magdalen and C. C. C. He was fellow of Corpus. While chaplain to the embassy at Paris he had much learned controversy with the doctors of the Sorbonne. His rectory at Acton was occupied in 1642 by the Roundheads, who taking him to be a Papist, or at least that he had a Pope in his belly, they drank and eat up his Provision, burnt down a Barn of his full of Corn, and two Stables, the loss amounting to 2112, and at the same time did not only greatly profane the Church there by their beastly actions, but also burnt the rails, pull'd down the Font, broke the windows and I know not what' (Athenae, ii. 37). They also sought him in the Church to murder him. Featly was however placed in the Assembly of Divines, but, excepting to the Covenant, was judged by the Commons' to be a Spye and a betrayer of the Parliaments cause, was seised upon, committed Prisoner to the Lord Petre's house, and his Rectories taken away.' He was allowed, however, to go to Chelsea College, of which he was Provost, to die. Though a Calvinist, his character and polemical abilities are highly extolled by Wood. He was of small stature, yet he had a great soul and had all learning compacted in him. He was most seriously and soundly pious and devout.' See Life and Times, ii. 244, n. 3. 6 |