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CULLEN — CULLODEN. 437 She, who was ba)>. 26 May 1703, at Stratton Audley, Oxou, d. 28 June and was hiir. 1 July 1754 at St. l'eter's, Rushton. Ho m., secondly, 16 Dec. 1754, at Uppingham, co. Rutland, Sophia, 2nd and yst. da. and coheir of John Baxter, Storekeeper of the Ordnance at Gibi-altar, by Sophia, da. of Edmund Woodward of Stratton Audley, Oxon, and sister and coheir of George V. of Stoke Lyue, in that county, sometime Envoy to Poland. He d. at Rushton Hall 7 and was bur. 13 June 1802, at All Snints,(") Rushton, in his 92nd year.(>>) M.I. Will dat. 10 June 1771, pr. 28 June 1S02. His widow, who was 6. 2G Dec. 1737 at Upnor Castle and lap. at Frindsbury, co. Kent, survived him but six weeks ;{«) she d. at the King's Arms Hotel, Oxford, 13 and was bur. 19 July 1802 at All Saint's, Rushton. M.I. Admon. 17 Feb. 1803. VI. 1802, G. Borlase (Cockayne), Viscount and Baron Cullen to [I.], 2ud but 1st snrv. s. and h., by 1st wife ; b. and lap. 30 Sep. lfcj 10. 1740 at St. Peter's, Rushton. He d. umn. at St. Albans, Herts, 11 and was bur. 21 Aug. 1810 at All Saints, Rushton, in his 70th year. M.I. Admon. 17 Sep. 1810. By his death the issue male of the grantee came to an end and the peerage was considered extinct,^) on the exact date at which loS years before, it had been created. Fumili/ Fstulcs. — These vested in the ten daughters and coheirs(°) of the Hon. William Cockayne of Rushton Hall (2nd surv. and only s. that had issue, (only child by 2nd wife,) and testamentary heir of the 5th Viscount. He d. 8 Oct. 1809, ag»d 53, ten months before his elder br., the last Viscount. The estate of Rushton (about 3,000 acres, with the advowson worth about A'800 a year) was sold in 182S for £140,000 to William Williams Hope of Amsterdam. CULLODEK ie. " Cuixopen in North Biitian " Barony (Prince Adolphus Frederick), cr. 1801, with the Dukedom ov Cambridge, which see. ( a ) The Church of St. Peter, which formed one side of the outer quadrangle of Rushton Hall, had (together with the buildings formiug the opposite side) been pulled down about 17S0, a serpentine drive being made over its site, with a view to render the place less "gothic." A scarce engraving (V. Wiustanley delin. 1741) was pub. by Toms in 1750, giving a birdseye view of the park and of the fine old mansion iu its pristine state. ( b ) He had then been in possession of his peerage and estates above 30 years, a longer period, apparently, than has been attained by any other nobleman. Charles (St. Clair), Lord Sinclair [SJ, 6. 30 July 1768, d. 30 Sep. 1863, was in possession of the family estates 87 years, Bince his Father's death in 1776, but his claim to the peerage not having been allowed till 1782 he can only be considered as havingbeen in possession of his peerage for 81 years. (°) The same period as that between the death of his grandparents abovementioned. ( d ) It was in 1818 one of the three extinctions used under the Act of Union [I.] for the creation of the Barony of Garvagh [I.] According, however, to the spec. rem. in the creation (which see), Albemarle (Bertie), 9th Earl of Lindsey, would, in 1810, have been entitled thereto (he being h. male of the body of Charles Bertie, the last person mentioned in the remainder) and, at that Earl's death, his heirs maleof the body, the subsequent Earls of Lindsey. The patent, however, which pro- bably was produced at the sitting of 1662, has long been lost and was never enrolled. (°) Of these ladies, Frances Annabella, the 9th da., wife of William Assheton of Downham Hall, co. Lancaster, d. 25 July 1835, aged 40 ; Elizabeth Charlotte, 10th, yst. and surv. da., widow of the Hon. Edniond Sexton Pery (s. of the 1st Earl of Limerick [I.], ) d. 21 April 1883, aged 84 ; while, of the other efcdit, four d. unm. and (1) Hon. Matilda Sophia Austen, widow, d. 23 Feb. 1869, aged 90, s.p.m.s. (2) Hon. Mary Anne Adams, widow, d. 16 June 1873, aged 91, leaving, among other issue, a- son, George Edward Cokayne, who by royal lie. 15 Aug. 1873, took the name of Cokayne, in lieu of that of Adams, under her testamentary direction. (3) Hon. Georgiana, wife of John Edmond Mauusell, d. 19 Dec. 1864, aged 80, s.p. (4) Hon. Caroline Eliza, wife of Thomas Philip Maunsell, of Thorpe Malsor, co. Northampton (M.P. for North Northamptonshire), d. 12 March 1860, aged 72. The four last mimed ladies were raised by royal warrants (23 Sep. 1S30 and 4 Sep. 1S3S) to the same rank as if their Father had succeeded to tho Viscountcy.