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DERWENTWATER 225 and had the precedency of the da. of a Duke by a like warrant, 2 i Feb. 1683/4. She ;«., 23 May 1705, shortly after her husband's death, at Knightsbridge Chapel, Midx., Henry Graham,(*) of Levens, M.P. for Westmorland, who J. 7 Jan. 1706/7, at St. James's, Westm. Within a few months of his death she m., 3rdly, 26 Aug. 1707, at Twickenham, Midx., James Rooke, who long surv. her. She d. at Paris 5 Nov. 1726. III. 1705 3. James (Radclyffe), Earl OF Derwentwater, yc, to s. and h., b. 28 June 1689, in Arlington Str., Midx.; 1 71 6. j/)7(?^ Viscount Radclyffe till 1705. A Tory, and held a command in the Jacobite army, Oct. 17 15, but after the defeat at Preston surrendered himself prisoner, 13 Nov. 171 5, and was sent to theTower of London. He w., 10 July 1712 (settl.dat. 24 June), Anna Maria, 1st da. of Sir John Webb, 3rd Bart., of Odstock, Wilts, by Barbara, da. and coh. of John (Belasyse), ist Baron Belasyse of Worlaby. He was found guilty of high treason, and beheaded on Tower Hill, 24 Feb. i 715/6, and having been attainted, all his honours became forfeited.(^) He was bur. privately, at St. Giles's-in-the-Fields, Midx., aged 26. M.I.() His widow d. at Brussels, of the smallpox, 19 Aug. 1723, aged 30, and was bur. in the Church of the English Canonesses at Louvain. Will dat. 5 to 16 Mar. 1722, pr. 27 May 1734. IV. 1716. 4. John Radclyffe, styled Viscount Radclyffe, who, but for the attainder, would have been Earl of Derwentwater, lyc, and who so designated himself, only s. and h. He inherited the greater part of the vast family estates which were preserved by the entail from forfeiture. He d. unm., after being cut for stone, and under age, at the house of his grandfather (Sir John Webb) in Great Marlborough Str., Midx., 31 Dec. 1731, and was bur. with his mother at Louvain. Will dat. 11 Nov. 1731, pr. I732.() (') "With whom she lived in her husband's lifetime." See P. Le Neve's memoranda in Top. and Gen., vol. iii, p. 154. No mention of her is made in her husband's will. () See vol. i, Appendix E, for peerages forfeited in the insurrection of 1715. (<=) The Rev. E. E. Wilde informs the Editor that the Earl's body was removed on 5 Mar. to Dagenham, Essex, and thence to Dilston, where it remained till 1874, when it was placed in Lord Petre's new mausoleum at Thorndon. The Earl's generosity was unbounded; he was "a man formed by nature to be generally beloved." See Patten's Rebellion. His youth, also, made his fate much lamented. Even at this distance of time it is difficult to read, without emotion, his touching and chivalrous speech from the scaffold. [^State Trials, vol. xv, p. 8oi). With him was executed William (Gordon), 6th Viscount Kenmure [S.]; the escape from the Tower, on the previousday, of William (Maxwell), 5th Earl of Nithsdale [S.], having saved that Earl from the like fate. G.E.C. and V.G. C) Anne, his only sister and h., m., 2 May 1732, Robert James (Petre), 8th Baron Petre of Writtle, and is ancestress of the present Baroness Furnivall, who consequently is heir gen. of the 1st Earl of Derwentwater. 29