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CORNWALLls. 379 CORNWALLIS AND CORNWALLIS OF EYE. Barouy. |_ g IR Frbdbbiok Cornwalus, Bart., was, on 20 April I, 1GG1. 1661 > BARON CORNWALLIS OF EVE, co. Suffolk. (») He was a yr. s. of Sir William C. of Brome. co. Sufi'olk, by his 2nd wife, Jane, da. of Hercules Mkwias, was 6. Nov. 1610 ; sue. his eliler br. (of the half-blood) Thomas C. in the family estates in 1626, was cf. a Baronet, 4 May 1627, and subsequently, 1 Dec. 1630, was Knighted; was M.P. for Eye April and Nov. 1640, till "disabled" 23 .Sep. 1612, and subsequently, 1660-61, M.P. for Ipswich. He dis- tinguished himself in the civil war on behalf of the King, particularly 30 June 1644, at the tight of Cvo|>edy . He followed the King in his exile and, returning with him, was made Treasurer of the Household, 30 May 1660, and P.O. on 6 July following, being next year, 3 days before the Coronation, raised to tlie Peeraye as above stated. He m. firstly, 1634, Elizabeth, da. of Sir John Ashbcrnham of Ashburnhaui, Sussex, by Elizabeth, sua jure Baroness Chamond [S.] She was bur. in Christ Church Cathedral. Oxford. He m. secondly, before 1641, Elizabeth sister (of the half-blood), to William, Loud Crofts, da. of Sir Henry Crofts, of Saxham, Suffolk, by his 2nd wife, Elizabeth, da. of Sir Richard WortLET, of Wortley, co. York. He it. suddenly, of apoplexy, 31 Jan. 1661/2, and was bur. at Brome, co.'Suffolk. M.I. Admon. (now lost) as "of co. Midx-," Feb. 1661/2.( b ) His widow d. s.p.m.6. at St. Martiu's-in- the-Fields. Admon. 15 Dec. 1674. II. 1662. 2. Charles (Cornwalus), Baron Cornwallis of Eye, b. and h. by his first wife ; bap. 19 April 1632 -at Gulf Old; M.P. for Eye, 1660-62; Gent, of the Privy Chamber, 1660 ; Surveyor of the Customs, 1661 ; KB., IS April 1661. He W.Margaret, da of Sir Thorn as Playstkd of Arlington, Sussex. She it. 0 and was bur. 8 March 1668/9 at Culford, Suffolk. M.I. He d. 13 April 1673 at St. Dunstan's-in-the-East, London, and was bur. the 17th at Culford. Admon. 6 May 1673 and 21 July 1686. 1682, belong to Charles II ; one, the Countess of Dorchester, 1685, belongs to James II ; one, the Countess of Orkney [S.J, 1696 (her husband having been raised to that Earldom 5 weeks atter her marriage to him) belongs to William III ; two, viz. (1) the Duchess of Monster [I.] 1716, Duchess of Kendal, 1719 : and (2) the Countess of Leiuster[I.] 1721, Countess of Darlington, 1722, belong to George I ; and one, the Countess of Yarmouth, 1740, belongs to George II. Of the Royal titles thus dealt with, the most profuse distributor was Henry VIII, who conferred (1525) two such Ducal titles {Richmond and Somerset) both more immediately connected with his own race, and one such Earldom (Nottingham) on one person, on whose death, however, they reverted to the Crown. Charles TI, among all his creations, conferred in like manner (1675), but the Dukedom of Richmond, together with the Earldom of March, whereof, however, Richmoud, siuce 1613 to 1624, and again since 1641, and March since 1619, had been vested in the Stuart family till 1672. This fourth alienation of Richmond (in 1675) is however likely to be finid. Kendal (enjoyed as an Earldom by the Honse of Lancaster, and as a Dikedom by the House of Stuart) was conferred as a Dukedom (1719) by George I on the oldest of his elderly Mistresses, previously (1716) made Duchess of the Province of Munster [I.] The younger Mistress, the Countess of Darlington, so cr. 1722, had likewise previously (1721) been made Countess of Leinster [I.], so that these two ladies had half of the kingdom of Ireland allotted (as their peerage titles) between them. Finally, these titles having reverted to the crown, the (somewhat unlucky) Earldom of Munster (together with the Barony of Tewkesbury, sometime, 1706-27, held by George Lewis, afterwards George I) were in 1831 conferred by William IV ou the eldest of his illegitimate sons then living, with remainder to three other such sons successively. The creation (1840) of the Duchess of Inverness, the reputed wife of IT.R.H, Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, Earl of Inverness, &c. may be here mentioned. This title, at her death in 1873, reverted to the crown. (■) See an account of this and other creations, ante, p. 275, note "d," sub " Clarendon." ( b ) " A man of so cheerful a spirit that no sorrow came next Ins heart, and of so resolved a mind, that no fear canw into his thoughte."— Lloyd's Cliaracters.