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BRASSEY 283 Family Estates. — These, in 1883, consisted of 3,544 acres in Sussex, and 73 acres in Cheshire; the first valued at about ;(!i and the other at about ;^io per acre. Total 3,617 acres, valued at ;^4,4i7 a year. Chief Residence. — Normanhurst Court, near Battle, Sussex. BRAY see BR AYE BRAYBROOKE, and BRAYBROOKE CASTLE See "Griffin of Braybrooke Castle, co. Northampton," Barony (Griffin), cr. 1688; extinct 1742. BARONY. I. John Griffin (Griffin), Lord Howard de Walden,(^) was, on 5 Sep. 1788, cr. LORD BRAY- I. 1788. BROOKE, BARON OF BRAYBROOKE, co. North- ampton, with a spec, rem., failing heirs male of his body, to "Richard Aldworth Neville, Esq.," and the heirs male of his body. He d. s.p., 25 May 1797. See "Howard de Walden," Barony, cr. 1597, under the 4th Lord. II. 1797. 2. Richard (Aldworth-Neville, afterwards Grif- fin), Lord Braybrooke, Baron of Braybrooke, 3rd cousin {ex parte materna) and h. according to the spec, limitation. (^) He was only s. and h. of Richard Neville-Aldworth,() afterwards (1762) Neville, of Stanlake and Billingbear, Berks, {d. ij July 1793) by Mag- dalen, da. of Francis Calandrini, ist Syndic of Genoa. He was ^. in Duke Str., Westm., 3 July 1750; matric. at Oxford (Merton Coll.) 20 June 1768, M.A, 4 July 1771; F.S.A. 24 May 1792; D.C.L. 10 July 1810; LL.D. (Cambridge) 5 July 18 19. He was M. ?.("") for Grampound 1774-80, for Buckingham 1780-82, and for Reading 1782-97. On 17 July 1793, he sue. his father in the family estates, and on 25 May 1797 he sue. to the estates of the family of Griffin at Audley End,() in Essex, (^) For the descent of the ist Lord Braybrooke, through his mother, from the Lords Griffin and the Lords Howard de Walden, and for the very distant connexion of the and Lord Braybrooke with the ist Lord, see tabular pedigree. C") For the pedigree of the family of Aldworth, see Howard's Misc. Gen. et Top., N.S., vol. iv, pp. 173-4. (') He voted with the Tories in support of Lord North's administration; after his marriage, in 1780, he became a regular follower of the Grenvilles, and with them adhered to Pitt until 1801, and thereafter generally voted with the Whigs. V.G. () In right of this ownership, he and his successors therein are Hereditary Visitors of Magdalen College, Cambridge.