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CHEYNE 193 Queen of Scots. (^) He w., before (probably long before) 1581, Joan, 7th da. of Thomas (Wentworth), ist Lord Wentworth, by Margaret, da. of Sir Adrian Fortescue. He d. 5.p.m.,(^) and was bur. 3 Sep. 1587, at Toddington, when his honours became extinct'. Inq. p. m., Deptford Strand, 19 June 1589. His widow, to whom he had devised his estates, d. 16, and was bur, 17 Apr. 16 14, in the Cheney Chapel at Toddington. ("=) CHEYNE i.e. "Cheyne," Barony [S.] {Cheyne), cr. 1681 with the Viscountcy of Newhaven or " Cheyne of Newhaven " [S.], which see; extinct 1738. CHICHE See " Darcy of Chiche, co. Essex," Barony (Darcy), cr. 1551; extinct 1639- i.e. "Darcy of Chiche, co. Essex," Barony (Savage), granted in rever- sion, 8 Oct. 1613; took effect, 1639, extinct 1728; See "Rivers," Earldom of, cr. 1626, under the 2nd Earl. CHICHESTER (City of) [" The Title of Earl of Chichester (as well as that of Arundel) is fre- quently found given in early Charters to the Earls of Sussex, not as a title of dignity, but from their having been possessed of the castle and city of Chichester, the former of which was, however, demolished at a very early period." [Courthope). Roger de Montgomery (the Comes Rogerus of the Domesday Survey), generally known as Earl of Shrewsbury, who was also Earl of Arundel (or Sussex), is occasionally styled Ecirl of Chichester; William d'Aubigny, Earl of Arundel (or Sussex) is before 1150, likewise so styled,('^) the chief residence or stronghold of the Earl giving, in these early times, the title to the Earldom.] EARLDOM. I. Francis Leigh, s. and h. of Sir Francis L., K.B., by Mary, da. of Thomas (Egerton), Viscount Brackley, I. 1644. better known as Lord Chancellor Ellesmere, sue. his father in the estate of Newnham Regis, i^c, co. Warwick. He was knighted at Newmarket, Jan. 1612/3. M. P. for Warwick, 1625-26. After his 2nd marriage his advance was rapid. He was cr. a Baronet, C) See note sub Henry, Earl of Derby [1572]. () His only child, Frances, m. Nicholas Crispe. if) She left the estate of Toddington to her great-nephew, Thomas, 4th Lord Wentworth, who, in 1625, was cr. Earl of Cleveland. His granddaughter and heir, Henrietta, mo jure Baroness Wentworth, the mistress of the ill-fated Duke of Mon- mouth, resided habitually at Toddington, where she was buried in 1686. {^) See vol. i, p. 234, and p. 235, note "a." 25