THE

PEERAGE

OF

ENGLAND;

CONTAINING

A Genealogical and Hiftorical ACCOUNT

Of all the

PEERS of ENGLAND,
Now exifting, either by Tenure, Summons or Creations:
Their DESCENTS and COLLATERAL LINES.
Their BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, and ISSUES:
Famous ACTIONS both in War and Peace:
Religious and Charitable DONATIONS.
DEATHS, PLACES of Burial, MONUMENTS, EPITAPHS2
And many valuable MEMOIRS never before printed.

ALSO

Their Paternal COATS of Arms, CRESTS, SUPPORTERS,
and MOTTO S,

curiously engraven on COPPER PLATES.

Collected from Records, Old Wills, Authentick Manuscripts,
our most approy'd HISTORIANS, and other Authorities,
which are Cited.

By ARTHUR COLLINS, Efq;

VOL. III.

The THIRD EDITION, corrected and enlarged in every
Family, with MEMOIRS not hitherto printed.

OND ON-

Printed for W. INNYS and J. RICHARDSON, T. WOTTON and
E. WITHERS, C. HITCH and L. HAWBS, J. HODGES,
R. MANBY, J. & J. RIVINGTON, H. S. Cox, R. BALDWIN,
W. JOHNSTON, S. CROWDER and W. WOODGATE, and
P. DAVY and B. LAW. M.DCC.LVI.

TO THE

RIGHT HONOURABLE

ROBERT D'ARCY,

Earl of HOLDERNESSE, Baron D'Arcy, Menill, and Conyers: One of His MAJESTY'S Principal Secretaries of State, and of his moft honourable Privy Council; and Lord Lieutenant of the North-Riding of Yorkshire.

MY LORD,

T

RANSMITTING to Pofterity, the Acts of fuch who have deferved well of their Country, has in all Ages been countenanced, by Perfons of public Spirit and Learning; which induces me to beg your LORDSHIP'S Patronage, of this Third Volume of the Nobility England; wherein your antient and noble Family is the first treated of.

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I should not presume to take this Liberty, were I confcious of advancing any Particular, inconfiftent with the utmost Truth and Impartiality; but I have Cited my Authorities, which are evident Proofs thereof; and demonstrate the eminent Atchievements, great Abilities, and Services, of your LORDSHIP'S Ancestors.

I am fenfible, how much this Addrefs is breaking in, and interrupting your most important Thoughts, and Bufinefs, which the Honor and Intereft of our most gracious SOVEREIGN, and the Nation, can but ill difpenfe with, at the present Critical Juncture.

And fearing to offend you, by expatiating on that Affability, Candor, and Humanity, which has gained you univerfal Applaufe among all Ranks of the People; therefore shall conclude this Epistle, with fubfcribing myself,

YOUR LORDSHIPS's

Mcf faithful,

and most devoted

bumble Servant,

ARTHUR COLLINS.

THE

PEERAGE

O F

ENGLAND.

VOL. III.

EARL S.

D'ARCY, Earl of HOLDERNESSÉ.

A

S fuch who served the conqueror in his victorious expedition, were rewarded with lands and poffeffions; its highly probable, that Norman de Arecy, (as then wrote) the ancestor of of the present Earl of Holderneffe, was in the battle of Suffex, whereby William Duke of Normandy obtained this kingdom: For the name occurs in the roll of Battle-Abbey, and in the lifts of those who landed with that monarch. And at the time of the general survey, the said Norman de Arecy held no less than thirty-three lordships in Lincolnshire, by the immediate gift of the conqueror, of which Noctone was one, where he and his descendants had their chief feat for divers generations".

a

b

This Norman, in 6 William Rufus, being with the King then dangerously ill at Gloucefter, when thofe about him. thinking his cafe defperate, advis'd a council to be call'd; and the King repenting him of his fins, promifed, if he recovered, to mend his life. Thereupon, as an inftance of his contrition, he confirmed to the monks of St. Mary's-Abbey at York, their poffeffions; to which this Norman de Areci (as he then

B

a Ex tab. olim in abb, de bello. Hollinshed, p. 4. Linc, in fcace, regis,

Hollinth. p. 20.

wrote

b Libb. docmd. in Com' Mon. Angl. tom. 1. p. 335.