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ALBINI ALCESTER. G7 IV. Hen. TO J/. Robert de Albini, s. and h» ; d, before 1233, s.p., when his three sisters became bis lieirs, viz.: — 1. Isabel, w. lstly, William de Hoeton, and 2ndly Drogo de Pratellis ; 2. Asseliua, m. Ralph de St. Amand ; 3. Joan, d. a.p. ALBINI (of Belvoir.) Barons by Tenure. I. Will II. 1. William du Albini, surnamed Brito, Lord of Belvoir Castle, supposed t" have been a. and h. of Robert de Todeni, Lord of Belvoir ; d. about 1155. II. Hen. II. $. William de Albini, s. and h. ; d. 1 1 67. III. Hen. II. 5. William de Albini, s. and k He was one of the 25 Barons appointed to enforce the observance of Magna Chauta ; d. 12315. IV. Hen. III. 4- William de Albini, s. and h, ; d. 1285, s.p.m., when laabel, bis d. or, as some authorities state, bis sister, the wife of William de Boos, became his beir. ALBION. Titular /. ",Siu Edmund Plowde.v, EARL OF ALBION," so Earl [I.] stv]ed in the ma ,gi n CJ f u j g will, dat. 29 July 1655, pr. 27 July I 1640 ? l' r -'- In the body of the said will he describes himself as M Sir Edmund Plowmen of Wansted, co. Southampton, Knt., Lord, EARL PALATINE, Governor and Capt.-Gen. OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW ALBION in America, ami a PEER OF THE KINGDOM OF I RELAND.(") In this will (which is signed " ALBION ") he states as under. " I am seized of the Province and County Palatine of New Albion as of free Principality and held of the Crown of Ireland of which I am a Peer,'.*) which Honour, and Title and Province, as Aiti'NDELl, and many other Earldoms and Baronies, is assignable and saleable with the Province and County Palatine as a local Earldom." This Gentleman was 2nd s. of Francis Plowden of Plowden in Lidbury, Salop, by Mary da. of Thomas and sister of Sir Richard FBBStOR of Somerton, Oxon. He m. Mary, da. and h. of Teter Marriner of Wansted afsd., by Dorothy his wife. He d. July 1659. His wife survived him. Their 2nd s. Thomas Plowden sue, under his Father's will, to " the Province and Earldom of Albion," and he, by will, dat. 16 May, and proved 10 Sep. 1698, left it to bis 3rd a. Francis Plowden, who went out there to pro- secute his right and d. in Maryland. His descendants registered their pedigree in 1774 at the College of Arms, London, but the style or title of Eakl of Albion seems never to have been assumed after 1659. ALBUERA AND DUNGARVAN. Sec " BERESEORD OF ALBUERA and Dungarvan," co. Water- ford, Baron ; cr. 1814, ex. 1854. ALCESTER. Baron. y. Sir FitEDEMCK-BEAUciiAMr- Paget Seymour, G.C.B., 1. 1882 Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of H.M.'s Naval Forces in the Mediterranean. 2nd but 1st surv. s. and h. of Col. Sir Horace-Beau- champ Seymour, K.C.H. (who was a. of Admiral Lord Hugh Seymour, 5th s. of Francis, 1st Marchess ok Hertford) by his first wife Elizabeth-Malet, da. of (") There appears, however, to be no authority for the existence of any Irish Peer- age either of the name of " Albion " or of " Plowden,"