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BEAUMONT 67 Family Estates. — These, in 1883, besides some 24 acres, near London, in Midx., valued at ^^i 1,000 a year, and some 30 acres, near Dover, valued at ;^2,ooo a year, consisted of 5,700 acres in co. York, valued at ;{^ 12,400 a year. Total, 5,754 acres, of the yearly value of /[2 5,400. Principal Residence. — Carlton Towers, near Selby, co. York. BEAUMONT OF SWORDS VISCOUNTCY [I.] I. Thomas Beaumont, s. and h. of Sir Henry B., of Cole Orton, co. Leicester,(^) by Elizabeth, da. of John Lovis, citizen of London, and h. to her br. Humphrey, sue. his father 31 Mar. 1607, and was knighted 23 Apr. 1603, at Belvoir Castle; Hio;h Sheriff of co. Leicester 1610-11; cr. a Baronet, 17 Sep. i6iq. On 20 May 1622, he was cr. VISCOUNT BEAUMONT OF SWORDS, CO. Dublin [I.]. He m., in or before 1614, Elizabeth, da. and h. of Henry Sapcote, of Bracebridge, co. Lincoln, by Eleanor, da. and coh. of Robert Sapcote, of Elton, co. Huntingdon. He d. before 22 May 1625. Will, without date, but made in Feb. 1624, pr. 31 May 1625. His widow, who was aged 12 in 1592, was living May 1625. II. 1625. 2. Sapcote (Beaumont), Viscount Beaumont of Swords [I.], s. and h., b. 10 May 1614. He suffered deeply in the Royal cause, his house being burnt by the rebels. He «/., istly, 28 May 1632, at Burton, co. Lincoln, Bridget, the yr. of the two daughters so named of Sir Thomas Monson, ist Bart., by Margaret, da. of Sir Edmund Anderson, Lord Ch. Justice of the Common Pleas. She was bur. i June 1640, at Burton. He ;w., 2ndly, in or before 1643, Ann, 1st da. of Sir W^illiam Villiers, Bart., by his 3rd wife, Rebecca, 2nd da. of Robert Roper, of Heanor, co. Derby. He d. 1658, aged 44. His widow d. at the Grange, co. Leicester, and was bur. 6 Sep. 1678, at Brooksby, in the same county. Admon. 20 Sep. 1678, 12 Mar. 1 680/1, and 19 June 1682. III. 1658 3. Thomas (Beaumont), Viscount Beaumont of to Swords [I.], and also a Baronet, s. and h. by ist wife, 1702. bap. 10 Apr. 1634, at Burton afsd. He was not present in James II's Pari, in May iS^.i^) He ;». Mary, da. of Sir Erasmus de la Fontain, or Fontain, of Kirby Bellars, co. Leicester. She was living Oct. 1671. He d. s.p., 11 June 1702, aged 68, and was bur. at Cole Orton, when all his honours became extinct.(f) (^) Being descended from Thomas, 2nd s. of John, 4th Lord Beaumont, the grandfather of Viscount Beaumont, he petitioned James I to renew in his person the extinct Viscountcy, which petition is printed in Nichols' Leicestershire, vol. iii, p. 734. See also Round's Peerage and Pedigree, vol. i, p. 95. C") For a list of the Peers present in, and absent from that Pari., see vol. iii. Appendix D. (■=) The estates went by his will to his cousin and h. ma/f, Sir George Beaumont,