| Thomas Hawtrey, of Chequers, co. Bucks, Esq., A. 9 H. VII. | ||||
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| Ralph Hawtrey, fourth Son | = | Winifred, d. and h. of Wm. Wallaston, Esq., of Ruislip, co. Middx. | ||
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| Edward Hawtrey, of Ruislip, Esq. | = | Elizabeth, d. of Gabriel Dormer, co. Oxon, Esq. | ||
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| Ralph Hawtrey, of Ruislip, Esq. | = | Mary, d. of Ed. Altham of Mark's Hall, co. Essex, Esq. | ||
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| John Hawtrey, of Ruislip, Esq., eldest Son. | Mary, only daughter, d. 1661. Buried at Ruislip. The Heroine of Corfe Castle. | = | Sir John Banks, Queen's Coll. Oxon, 1604. Chief Justice, temp. C. I. 1640. D. 1644. Of Stanwell, Middx., and Corfe Castle, Dorset. | |
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1. John Banks, d. before his father. 2. Sir Ralph Banks, Kt. 3. Jerome. 4. Charles. 5. William. —— 6. Bridget, d. 1636, at Stanwell, Middx. 7. Alice. 8. Elizabeth. 9. Mary. 10. Joan. 11. Anne, b. 1637, at Stanwell. 12. Frances. 13. Arabella, baptized July 31, 1642, at Stanwell. | ||||
Of these only two appear to have left descendants: Sir Ralph Banks, who is the ancestor of the Earl of Falmouth, and Baroness Le Despenser; and of George Bankes, Esq., M. P. for Corfe Castle, his lineal descendant. Mary Banks, third daughter, married Sir Robert Jenkinson, Knt.; and is the ancestor of the Earls of Liverpool and Verulam, of the Countesses of Craven, Clarendon, and Caledon; Viscountess Milton, and Viscountess Folkestone.
Burke's Commoners would probably answer the rest of R. C. H. H.'s Query, or Lysons' Middlesex.
L. H.
Charles Lamb's Epitaph (Vol. iii., p. 322.).
—I can explain to MARIA S. how this epitaph came to be attributed to Wordsworth. The late laureate did write some lines on the occasion of Lamb's death, beginning—
"To a good man of most dear memory,
This stone is sacred."
They were composed, the author says,
"With an earnest wish,