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JEFFREYS — JERMYN. 327 Duke of York; Ch. Justice of Chester, 30 April 16S0 : Serjeant at Law, 17 Feb., and Kings Serjeant. 12 May 1683; cr. a Baronet 17 Nov, 1681; Chief Justice of the Kings Bench 29 Sep. and P.O.. 4 Oct. 1683, being «».{*) IB May 1685, BARON JEFFREYS OF WKM., co. Salop, with rem. to heirs male of his body by Ann, his then wife. rem. to heirs male of his body generally. On 28 Aug. 16S5 he set out for the (ever memorable) Western Circuit (termed the " Blood;/ Assize,) where his severity in trying those concerned in the Duke of Monmouth's insurrection provoked general indignation. ( b ) He presided as l ord High Steward, 9 Jan. 1685/6, at the trial of Lord Delamere (afterwards Karl of Warrington) for high treason. He is sometimes (but probably only from the misunderstanding of what was meant as a sarcasm) said to have been cr. (bv a patent which was never sealed) EARL OF FLINT( C ) and VISCOUNT WICKHAM. He m. firstly, before July 1673 (said to have m. at Allhallows, Barking), Sarah, da. of the l!ev. Thomas Nekdham, M. A. She was 6«r. IS Feb. 1 677/8, at St. Mary's, Alderman bury, London. He hi. secondly (Lie. London, 6 June 1679, he about 32 [42 ?] she about 23), Ann, widow of Sir John Jones, of Funmon, co. Glamorgan, da. of Sir Thomas Bli dwohth, of Leatherhead, Surrey, sometime (1665-66) Lord Mayor of London, by Mary, his second wife. Soon after the landing of William III. he was arrested and committed by the Lords of the Council to the Tower of Loudon, where he d. 19 April 16S9, and was bur. the 20th in St. Peter's ad Yincula, being removed thence 2 Nov. 1093, and bur. (under the Communion table) at St. Mary's, Aldermanbury. Will pr. Dec. 1690. His widow, who was bap. 16 Dec, 1657, at St. Dionis Backchurch, was (probably) bur. at St. Mary's afsd., 29 Sep. 1703.',") Admon 20 Jan. 1703/4, to her da. Mary, wife of Charles 'Dtne. II. 1GSV', 2. John (Jeffreys), Baeos Jeffreys of Wbm, s. and to h., by fiist wife ; b. and bap. 16 July 1673, at St. Mary's, Alderman- 1702. bury; sue. to the peerage, 19 April 1689. He m., 17 July 1688, at Hedgerley, Charlotte, da. and h. of Philip (Herbert), 7th Earl of Pembroke, by Henrietta Mauricetta, da. of William (ce Penancokt de Keroualle), Count de Keroualle. He d, s.p.m. 9, and was bur. 12 May 1702, at St. Mary's, Aldermanbury, when the title became extinct. Admon. 23 May 1702, to the relict ; again 17 May 1745, to Henrietta Louisa, Countess of Po.mfret, only child of deed., and again 2 July 1765. His widow m. 28 Aug. 1703, at Chelsea (Lie. London 2 July 1702 [aic] he 33 and she 27) Thomas (Windsor), 1st Viscount Windsor or Bi.ackwater [I.], who d. June 1738. She d. 13 Nov. 1733, and was bur. at Reigate. Surrey. Admon. 20 May 1745. 16 July 1765, and 11 March 1766. JERMYN OF ST. EDMUNDSBURY. Barony. 1. Henry Jekmyn, 3d but 2d surv. s. of Sir Thomas I 1G4.3 Jermyn, K.B , of Rushbroke, co. Suffolk, Comptroller of the House- hold, by his first wife, Catharine, da. of Sir William KlLLiaREW,(«) was b. about 1604; M. P. for Liverpool, 1828-29; for Corfe Castle, 1640, and for Bury St Edmunds, 1640-43; Vice Chamberlain to the Queen Consort, 1639 ; Master of the Horse to the said Queen, 1639 ; Col. of the Queen's Reg. of Horse Guards, 1643, being for his great zeal towards the Royal cause, or. 8 Sep. 1643, BARON JERMYN OF ST. EDMUNDSBURY, co. Suffolk, with a spec, rem., failing heirs male of his body to his elder br. Thomas Jermyn in like manner. Ambassador to Paris and to the Hague, 1644 ; Chamberlaiu to the Queen Consort, ( a ) This was one of the 10 English Peerages, cr. by James II. See a list thereof, vol iii, p. 78, note " a," s«6 " Denventwater." ( b ) He is almost the only Peer of whom the modern peerages venture to speak ill. ( c ) See vol. iii, p. 386, note "a," tub " Flint." ( d ) The burial of " Lady Sarah Jeffreys " at that date presumably refers te her. ( e ) See pedigree of Jermin, in Candler's " Suffolk pedigrees," where three sous are given to this Sir Thomas by his first wife, vie. (1) " Robertus Jermin, Arniiger, ob. 1623, s.p.," (2) "Thomas Jermin, arm.," and (3) " Henricus Jermin, creatus Diius Jermin, Baro de burgo Sti Edmundi." To the second wife of Sir Thomas (Mary Barber) often said to be the Earl's mother, no issue is there given.