Campden, Viscount (Noel).—Campden is in Gloucestershire.
Sir Baptist Hicks, created Viscount Campden 1628, left two Daughters, the elder of whom married Lord Noel, one of whose Descendants (Edward) was created Earl of Gainsborough 1682.
Digby, Earl.—This Title, when a Barony, was nominal (though local in itself, from Digby, co. Lincoln) till Henry, the late Peer, was created Earl of Digby in 1790. He dying in 1793, was succeeded by Edward the present Earl.
Coleshill, Viscount (Digby).—In Warwickshire. The Manor of Coleshill was forfeited by Sir Simon Montfort, on a charge of High Treason in supporting Perkin Warbeck; when it was given to Simon Digby, then Deputy Constable of Coleshill Castle[248].
Montagu, or Montacute, Viscount (Browne).—From a high Hill in a Village in Somersetshire; where William Earl of Moreton, Maternal Brother to William the Conqueror, built a Castle, which, as it rises from its base to a sharp point, he called Mons acutus. Thus far the tradition; and Bishop Gibson, in his Edition of Camden's Britannia, allows this to have been the place from which Sir Anthony Browne, the first Viscount, had the Title[249].
Rutland, Duke.—From the County.
Granby, Marquis (Manners).—From a Village in Nottinghamshire.
The Barony of Roos of Hamlake[250] gives Title to the eldest Son of a Marquis of Granby, in his Father's life-time.
Kent, Duke.—From the County.