two sons, Edward and John, both clergymen. 5. Charles, in the Marine service, and married to Ann, daughter of Graves,

or Greaves, of Moseley Hall, Worcestershire, Esq. The daughters were, Dorothy, who married Robert Davies, of Llannerchin, in Denbighshire, Esq.; Arabella, who died unmarried, and was buried at St. Peter's, in Dublin; and Anna-Lucinda, unmarried.

The said Sir Edward died in September, 1741, and was buried at Delgeny, in the county of Wicklow, in Ireland; as was his lady, who survived till August 16th, 1745. On Sir Edward's death, his title and estates descended to his eldest son,

Sir NICHOLAS BAYLY, Bart. who was chosen to several parliaments, as Knight of the shire for the county of Anglesey. He was also, on the 23d day of June, in the 33d year of the reign of his late Majesty King George II. appointed his Majesty's Custos Rotulorum of the said county; and on the 24th of June, in the first year of his present Majesty King George III. was again appointed to that office; also, on the 25th of November, in the second year of his present Majesty, was appointed his Majesty's Lieutenant of the said county, in the room of George, Earl of Cholmondeley.

He first married; on April 19th, 1737, Carolina, daughter and sole heir of Thomas Paget, Esq. one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber to his Majesty King George I. and Brigadier-General of his Majesty's forces (by Mary, his wife, daughter and co-heir of Peter Whitcomb, of Great Braxtead, in Essex, Esq.), son of the honourable Henry Paget; by Mary, his wife, daughter of Sandford, of Sandford, in Shropshire, Esq. second son of William, fifth Lord Paget, by Frances his wife, eldest daughter of Henry, Earl of Holland: by which lady, who died February 7th, 1766, and was buried in the vault of her husband's family, in the parish church of Llanldwen, in the county of Anglesey, he had six sons and five daughters; viz.

1. Edward, who died unmarried in 1756, and was buried at Portsmouth.

2. Henry, now Earl of Uxbridge.

3. Nicholas, born at Plas-Newyth, in Anglesey, 1749, formerly a Captain in the first regiment of Foot-guards, and now Colonel of the West Middlesex Militia. He has issue.

4. Thomas. And, 5. Brownlow, died infants.

6. Paget, born at Plas-Newyth, 1753, formerly a Lieutenant in

the Royal Navy; died November 15th, 1804, leaving issue by Miss Colepepper.

The daughters were; 1. Mary, married July 3d, 1766, to Stephen Metcalfe, of Sereby, near Brig, in com. Linc. Esq. died October 20th, 1790. 2. Dorothy, married, 1760, to George Forbes, Earl of Granard, but died at Knightsbridge, February 19th, 1764, and was buried at St. James's, Westminster. 3. Caroline died unmarried, 1786. 4. Gertrude, who died at Bristol, in 1761, unmarried. And, 5. Louisa-Augusta, born December 4th, 1750, married, April 6th, 1789, Captain Thomas Poplett, R. N. Sir Nicholas died December 9th, 1782, aged seventy-five years," leaving his second wife daughter of surviving.

Hunter,

HENRY BAYLY-PAGET, EARL OF UXBRIDGE, was born June 18th, 1744, and baptised the 16th of the next month, in the parish of St. George, Hanover Square: he succeeded to the BARONY OF PAGET (by the death of Henry Paget, second Earl of Uxbridge, and Baron Paget, of Beaudesert, who died unmarried, November 17th, 1769), in right of his mother, as heir general to Sir William Paget, Knight of the Garter, who was summoned to parliament by writ, December 3d, 4 Edward VI. 1549, as Baron Paget of Beaudesert, in the county of Stafford; and was accordingly summoned to Parliament, by writ, dated January 13th, 1770, and assumed the name and arms of PAGET, in virtue of his Majesty's sign manual, dated the 29th of the same month. On July 3d, 1773, his Lordship was, in a full convocation of the university of Oxford, created LL. D. and on July 20th, 1782, was appointed Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the county of Anglesey.

On May 19th, 1784, his Lordship was created EARL OF UX

BRIDGE.

His Lordship was married at Castle Forbes, the seat of the Earl of Granard, April 11th, 1767, to Jane, eldest daughter of Arthur Champagne, Dean of Clonmacnoise, in Ireland (only son of Major Josias Champagne, by Jane his wife, daughter of Arthur Forbes, Earl of Granard, in Ireland); which marriage was confirmed by another, in the parish of St. Anne, Dublin, on the 7th of August following.

1. Henry-William, Lord Paget, born March 17th, 1768, a

P Coffin-plate.

Lieutenant-general in the army, and colonel of the 7th regiment of dragoons; married, July 25th, 1795, Carolina-Elizabeth, daughter of George, fourth Earl of Jersey, and has a numerous

issue.

2. William, born December 22d, 1769, who died in 1794.

3. Sir Arthur, born January 15th, 1771, a Knight of the military order of the Bath, and late Envoy-extraordinary to the Sublime Porte.

4. Caroline, born February 6th, 1773; married, April 9th, 1792, John-Thomas, second son of William-Ann Hollis, fourth Earl of Essex.

5. Jane, born September 1st, 1774; married April 18th, 1797, George, now Earl of Galloway.

6. Edward, born November 3d, 1775, a Major-general in the army, and colonel of the 80th regiment of foot; married, May 21st, 1804, the Honourable Louisa Bagot, daughter of William first Lord Bagot, who died May 30th, 1806.

7. Louisa, born March 26th, 1777; married, March 5th, 1801, to Colonel James Erskine.

8. Charles, born October 7th, 1778, M. P. for Carnarvon, Captain of the Revenge in the royal navy, married, March 7th, 1805, Elizabeth-Araminta, second daughter of Henry Monck, Esq.

9. Berkeley, born January 2d, 1780, M. P. for the county of Anglesea, Major in the 7th Regiment of dragoons; married, November 22d, 1804, Sophia, daughter of the Hon. William Bucknall Grimston, and niece to Viscount Grimston, and has issue a daughter, born in December 1805.

10. Charlotte, born October 27th, 1781; married, October 15th, 1805, John Willoughby, Earl of Enniskillen.

11. Mary, born, April 9th, 1783; married, June 27th, 1803, Thomas Lord Graves.

His Lordship is Lord Lieutenant of the counties of Anglesey and Stafford, Keeper of the Castle of Carnarvon, Ranger of Snowdon Forest, Vice-Admiral of North-Wales, Pembrokeshire, and county of Carmarthen, L.L.D.

Titles. Henry Bayley-Paget, Lord Paget of Beaudesert, in Staffordshire, and Earl of Uxbridge.

Creations. Baron Paget, of Beaudesert, in com. Stafford, January 19th, 1550, 4 Edward VI.; Earl of Uxbridge, May 19th, 1784.

Arms. Quarterly, first and fourth, Sable, on a cross engrailed, between 4 eagles displayed, Argent, 5 lions passant of the first, for Paget; second and third, Azure 9 Estoiles, 3, 3, 2, and 1, Argent for Bayly.

Crest. On a wreath, a demi tiger, Sable, tufted and maned, Argent, and ducally gorged, Or.

Supporters. Two tigers, Sable, tufted and maned, Argent, and ducally gorged, Or.

Motto. PER IL SUO CONTRARIO.

Chief Seats. At Sinai Park, and Beaudesert, both in Staffordshire; and Plas-Newyth, in the county of Anglesey.

THOUGH there are many elegant histories of this ancient and illustrious family, written by learned and judicious antiquaries, yet they differ greatly as to their origin and first settlement in the island.

Some bring them from Greece to Gaul, and from thence to Scotland, at least a thousand years ago; others bring them from Italy; others from Spain, Flanders, &c.

It is certain there were many considerable families of the name of Gordon in France, long before the Norman Conquest of England, whose descendants are subsisting in France to this day.

The most probable conjecture, therefore, is, that some of these Gordons came to England with William Duke of Normandy, anno 1066, and to Scotland with King Malcolm Canmore, or his son King David I. for it is well known that the ancestors of several of the best families in Scotland are of Norman extraction, and removed into Scotland with one or other of these princes.

It is also said, that in the reign of King Malcolm Canmore, a valiant Knight, of the name of Gordon, went into Scotland, and was kindly received by that Prince; and having killed a wild. boar which greatly infested the borders, the generous Malcolm gave him a grant of several lands in the Merse, or Berwickshire, which he called Gordon, after his own surname. He settled there, and took the boar's head for his armorial bearing, in memory of his having killed that monstrous animal. He was progenitor of all the Gordons in Scotland; and mention is made of Adam de Gordon the father, and Adam his son, in the reigns of the said Malcolm and David.

It is most certain, the Gordons were making no small figure in