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BERKELEY 139 K.B., by Elizabeth (^),da. and sole h. of George (Carey), 2nd Lord Hunsdon, which Sir Thomas (s. and h. ap. of the last Lord by his ist wife) was b. at Callowdon afsd., ii July 1575, t/. there v-p.^ii Nov. 161 1, and was /^«r. at St. Michael's, Coventry. He was b. at Low Leyton, Essex, 7, and bap. there 26 Oct. 1601, his grandfather, George, Lord Hunsdon, being one of his god-parents, and "may bee called George the Traveller, or George the Linguist." (^) K.B. 4 Nov. 161 6, at the creation of Charles, Prince of Wales. Matric. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.) 10 June 161 8 ; iVI.A., 18 July 1623. Hew., 13 Apr. 16 14, at St. Bartholomew the Great, London, Elizabeth, Q 2nd da. and coh. of (his step-grandmother's br.) Sir Michael Stanhope, of Sudbury, Suffolk, by Anne, da. of Sir William Reade, of Osterley, Midx., she (who was b. 21 Dec. 1604) being but nine while he was 13J years old. He d. 10 Aug. 1658, at his house in St. John's, Clerkenwell, and was bur. at Cranford, Midx. M.L IX. 1658. 9 and I. George (Berkeley), Lord Berkeley,^) EARLDOM. 2nd, but only surv. s. and h.(0 Ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxford. L 1679. Committee of East India Co. 1660-97, and 1698-99. In May 1 660 he was one of the 6 Peers deputed to invite Charles II to return. Custos Rot. of co. Gloucester 1660-89. He was sum. to Pari, by writ, 8 May(i66i) 13 Car. II to 17 Oct. (1679) 31 Car. II. An original F.R.S. 20 May 1663. In May 1661 he petitioned for a higher precedence (^ in Pari., viz. as a Baron by tenure,(f) which claim was before (*) This lady, b. 24 May 1576, (Queen Elizabeth being her godmother) was tn., 19 Feb. 1595/6, from Blackfriars, London. In i6i8 she purchased the estate of Cranford, Midx., (for _^7,ooo from the coheirs of Sir Roger Aston) which has since continued in the Berkeley family. She d. 23, and was bur. there 25 Apr. 1635. M.I. Will dat. 24 Jan. 1634, pr. 5 May 1635. In right of her descent from her great grandmother, Mary, wife of William Carey, (the father of the ist Lord Hunsdon) da. and coh. (whose issue, in 1603, became sole heir) of Thomas (Boleyn), Earl of Wilt- shire [E.] and Earl of Ormond [I.], this Lady Berkeley appears, after the death of her father, and of his cousin. Queen Elizabeth (both of which happened in 1603), to have been entitled suo jure to the dignity of Countess of Ormond [I.], transmitting her right to the heirs of her body, inasmuch as the said Earldom had been cr. in 1529 with rem. to the heirs gen. of the grantee. See tabular pedigree post, p. 145. C') The characters of the Lords Berkeley so racily depicted by John Smyth of Nibley here end, as that indefatigable antiquary died 25 Feb. 1640/1, aged 73. {^) Her elder sister and coh., Jane, ot., istly, Viscount Fitzwalter {d. v. p. and j./>. 1621), 1st s. and h. ap. of Robert (RadclifFe), Earl of Sussex. She ;«., 2ndly, Sir William Withypoole. Another sister, Bridget, m. George (Feilding), ist Earl of Desmond [I.]. (^) See note " d " on previous page. (f) His elder br., Charles, ^. ■L'./i., being drowned in the Channel, 27 Jan. 1640/1. (') "It must be concluded that he did not establish his pretensions." See ante, under "Observations," p. 120, line 11. (s) The precedency allowed in 1661, 1689, and 1704, to George, Charles, and James, each respectively Lord Berkeley, (which was confirmed by resolution to the two latter) was next below that of the Lords de la Warr.