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WILTON— WILTSRIRB. 163 ' FamUf Atoiet.— These, in 1882, consisted of 8,018 acres in Lanoaahire ; 776 in the West Riding of Yorkshire ; 853 in Staffordshire ; 196 in Somersetshire ; 88 In Ijeicestershire, and 1 in Salop. ToUU^ 9,871 acres, worth £31,284 a year, ittelasi?e f»f £138 standing in the name of the then Lord's [step ?] mother. The Land Agenf$ Hfeord (of the same date, 1882), however, states that " these estates are now worth £65,000 a year." Principal SeaU, — Heaton Hall, near Maneheater, oo. Lancaster ; and Barton Lodge, near Melton Mowhraj, oo. Leicester. WILTON CASTLE. See '* Wilton of Wilton Castlb, co. Hereford," Earldom {Kgerton)^ cr, 1801, with a spea rem. to the family of Qroivtnor. WILTS, see Wiltshiiui. WILTSHIRE, WILTES, or WILTS. Barldom. 1, VfiijAJM Ls Soropb, Ist 8. and h. ap.(*) of Ricliard I 1397 (^' SoROPi), 1st Lord Scrofi di Bolton (so sum. 1871), by Blanche, . ' da. of Sir William Di La Pole, was h, before 1860, probably about 1 ^QQ ^^^^ * ^^ hniyhted before 1878 ; Seneschal of the Duchy of ^^^^* AquiUine, 1888-92; Captain of the Castle Ac. of Cherbourg, 1886-89 ; Captain of the Castle &c of Brest, 1889, besides being Constable of the Castles of Bamborough, Queenbo/ough, Marlborough, Beaumaris, Dnblin, &c. He became Lord of the Isle of Man, 1898,(^) by purchase from William (de Montacute), Earl of Salisbury ; Vice Chamberlain of the Household, 1898 ; was K.G. soon after July 1394 ; P.O., Chamberlain of the Household and joint Ambassador to France to arrange the King's marriage with the Princess Isabel, all in 1895 ; took a prominent part on behalf of the King, against the Duke of Gloucester and others in 1397,(o) for which (as a reward) he was cr. 29 Sep. 1397, BARL OF WILTES, t.f., WILTSHIRE,(<>) with limitation *'nbi d KeredibuM 9uit ma$euU$ in perpetuum"{*) receiving considerable grants of estates forfeited by that Duke's adherents. He was Chief Justice of Chester and North Wales, 1898, and was L, Treoiurer of England, 1898-99. He m. Isabel, widow of John DR Drattov, da. and eyentually coheir of Sir Maurice RosRRLL, of Derham, co. Olouc., by his first wife Isabel, da. of Sir Edmund Chrlrrt. On the landing of Henry, afterwards Henry IV., at Ravenspur, he fled to Bristol, which surrendered to that Prince, 29 July 1899, by whose order he wss next day beheaded. ('j He d, s.p. 80 July 1399, as afsd^ when the Earldom, if considered (as it probably was) one in tail male, became txtinet^ but in any case, by the Earl's attainder declared in Pari, a few months later, it became {*) In " Cowrlhope " [1857] his parentage is misstated, he being described as '* br. of Stephen, 2d Baron Scrope of Masham, ' that statement having been copied from " iVicotai " [1825], tho' totally disproved, not long afterwards [1882], hj Sir H. NicoUs himself, in his edit of the Seroj^ and QrDivenor Roll, as also [1841] by Belts in his KnighU of the Oarter, (^) In right thereof he appears to have used the arms of the Isle of Man (Ou,, 8 legs in armour conjoined in the less point) quarterly with his paternal coat {atur$ a bend, or) of Scrope. (0) For this conduct Walsingham says of him that *' a man more wicked and cruel could not easily be found amongst the whole human race." (d) « The title of Earl of Salisbury, which is the principal town of that county, being at that time in William de Montacute,'* observes Dugdale, implying, apparently, that had it not been so, the Earl of a county would naturally have selected the capital town thereof for his title of dignity. («) See observations as to patants similarly worded in vol. iii, p. 107, note " c," fii6 " Devon." Sir John Bussy and Sir Henry Qrene shared the like fate. The Earl had made himself particulsrly otoozious to Henry IV., as the adviser of the repeal of the patent secuiing to him the possessions of the Duchy of Lancaster during his exile.