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ABERGAVENNY — ABEBNETHY. 27 Earls. V. Barons. XXI. 1868. Marquesses. L 1876. 21, U h or G. William (Nevill), Earl of Aber- gavenny, Viscount Nevh.l, and Lohd Abeho.wenny, 2nd but 1st surv. s. and h., b. 16 and bap. 9 Sep. 1826 at Longford. Ed. at Eton. Sometime an officer in the 2nd Life Guards. Hon. CoL West Kent Yeomanry, 1875. On 14 Jan. 1876 he was or. EARL OF LEVES,(») co. Sussex, and MARQUESS OF ABERGAVENNY, co. Moiimouth.( b ) He m- 2 May 1848 Caroline, sister of Har- court, Loud Deuwunt, eldest da. of Sir John Vanden-Bempde Johnstone, 2nd Bart, by Louisa-Augusta, da. of Hon. Edward Vekables Vebnon-Harcovut Ahchbishop of York. [Reginald William Bmnsby Xevill, sftjled EARL OF LEWES, 1st s. and h. ap., b. 4 March 1803. Lieut. West Kent Yeomanry, 1873-76. J.P. for Kent 1S80.1 Note. — In 1S83, the family estates (besides some eleven acres in Norfolk — see p. 18, n. ( c ) ) appear to be about 15,000 acres in Sussex, about fi.000 in Kent, and about 7.000 in Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Monmouthshire, and Herefordshire Total about 2S,000 acres, worth about £30,000 a year. See Bateman's " Great Land- owners," 1878. Principal residence, Eridge Castle, Kent. A BERXETII Y. ( c ) Barons [S.]. 1. Laurence (Ahehnethy), LORD ABERXETHY, ( d ) I 1 "'33 ' s. and h. of Hugh, the s. and h. of Orme, who obtained the lands of Abernelhi/ in Strathearn, from William I [8.], about 1200. By charter, 24 June 1233, he obtained certain lands in co. Roxburgh from Alexander II, [S.] who also confirmed the previous grant (made to his Grand- father) of Abernethy. He was one of the guarantees of the treaty of peace between William I [S.] and Henry III in 1244. EL 1292? ;?. Alexander (Abernethy), LORD ABERXETHY ( d ) [8.1 great grandson, being s. and h. of Hugh A., the s. and h. of Sir ( a ) A moiety of the town of Lewes came to the Nevills through the Beauchamps and Fitzalans (who possessed the entirety) from the old Earls of Warren and Surrey. The other moiety went through the other coheir of the Fitzalans to the Mowbray's, Dukes of Norfolk. ( b ) His Lordship is not improbably h. male of the body of Ralph Nevill, Earl of Westmoreland, so c. 29 Sep. 1397, and, as such, entitled to an Earldom, which (but for the exceptional Earldom of Arundel now vested in the Dukes of Norfolk) would be more ancient than any now existing, supposing the attainder of 1570 was reversed. The attainted Earl d,, s.p.m.s. in 1601. Soon after his death, Edmond Nevill, styling himself Lord Latimer (a Barony by writ of which, though he was h. male, he was not h. general), claimed in 1005 the Earldom (being h. male of the body of the 1st Earl, but by the second wife) on the ground that being cousin of the half blood (only) to the attainded Earl, such attainder (being that of a person by whom he Could not by the [then] law of half-blood be heir) did not affect him. It was however decided against his claim, and the honour declared to be forfeited. This Edmund d. about 1640 (before 2 Jan. 1645-6), s.p.ni.s., when Lord Bergaveimy possibly became h. male of the 1st Earl. According, however, to Drummond's "Noble British Families," p. 15, the issue male of Thomas Nevill, of Ardley Pigotts, Essex (who was of a senior line to the House of Abergavenny, being yr. s. of the 2nd Lord Latimer), existed long afterwards. _ ( c ) " The family of Abernethy, or Aberuethin, one of the oldest in Scotland, shared m the transcendent privilege of Sanctuary. According to Winton, there were only three originally who were partakers in such a right. — " ' That is y blak Prest of Weddale, The Thane of Fyfe, and y c thryd syne Quhalwyre be Lord of Abby methy ne. ' With us [Scots] the privilege of Sanctuary was by no means so common as has been apprehended."— See Riddell's " Scotch Peerage Law," 1833, p. 152. ( a ) See " Crawfurd," p. 6, where these are so styled. A fuller and somewhat different account of them is given in "Douglas," vol. ii, p. 466.