IV. 1684. 4. John Villiers, otherwise DANVERS, s. and h., b. about 1677; assumed the style of Viscount Purbeck and Baron Stoke on his father's death in 1684. By the death of his cousin, George (Villiers), Duke of Buckingham, on 16 April 1687, he became entitled (if the legitimancy of his grandfather could have been established) to the titles of EARL OF BUCKINGHAM, VISCOUNT VILLIERS, and BARON WHADDON, under the reversionary patent in the creation of those dignities, 14 March 1616/7. He accordingly assumed the same, tho' he made no formal claim thereto till April 1709. See "Buckingham Earldom, cr. 1616/7; ex. apparently in 1687 tho,' if the above claim was right, not till 1774.
PUTNEY.
i.e., "Cecil of Putney, Co. Surrey" (Cecil), Barony, cr. 1625, with the Viscounty of Wimbledon, which see; ex. 1638.
