Chapter LIII (2)

Whereas We have byn crediblie informed by our well-beloved subject Raphe Merifeild of London, Gentleman, for and on the behalf of our well-beloved subject Thomas Warner, Gent. That the said Thomas Warner hath lately descovered fower several Islands in mayne ocean toward the Continent of America, the one called the Island of St. Christopher's, alias Merwar's Hope; one other the Isle of _Mevis;_ one other the Isle of Barbados; and one other the Isle of Monserate, which said Islandes are possessed and inhabited only by Savage and Heathen people, and are not, nor at the tyme of the descovery were in the possession, or under the gouernment of any Christian Prince, State, or Potentate. And thereupon, the said Thomas Warner beinge sett forth and supplyed by the said Raphe Merefeild for that purpose made entrie into the said Islandes for & on the behalfe of our deare ffather and hath sithence with the consent and good likinge of the natives made some good beginninge of a plantation & Colony, and likewise of an hopefull trade there, and hath caused diverse of our subjects of this our Realme to remove themselves to the said Islandes, with purpose to proceede in so hopefull a worke. Know ye therefore, That we in consideration of the premisses and to the intent that the said Raphe Merifeild and Thomas Warner may be encouraged and the better enabled with the more ample countenance and authority to effect the same, doe by these presents take as well the same Islandes as all the inhabitants there and alsoe the same Thomas Warner and other our lovinge subjects under his commande or government resident on the said Islandes or any of them, and all lands good or other thinges within the said Islandes or any other neighbour Islandes to them, or any of them adjoining already by the said Thomas Warner or his company inhabited or possessed, or hereafter to be inhabited or possessed, not beinge in the possession or governement of any other Christian Prince, State or Potentate, into our Royal protection. And of our especiall grace, certeyne knoledge, and meree motion have given and granted and by these presents doe give and grant unto the said Thomas Warner, duringe our pleasure the custodie of the aforesaid Islandes, and of everie of them together with full power and authority for us & in our name & as our Leuitenant to order and despose of any landes or other thinges within the said Islandes, and to governe, rule and order all and singular persons which nowe are ore hereafter shall bee abydinge in the said Islandes or any of them, as well our natural borne subjects, as the natives and Savages of the said Islandes and all other that shall happen to be or abyde there by such good & reasonable orders, articles and ordinances as were heretofore made and agreed upon betweene them the said Raphe Merifeild & Thomas Warner or such other good & reasonable orders & ordinances as shall be most requisite and needfull at the discretion of him the said Thomas Warner. And all such as shall disobey, chastise, correct and punish accordinge to their faults and demeritts. And alsoe with force and stronge hande to represse and anoye all such as shall in hostile manner attempte or goe about to encounter the said Thomas Warner or his Company, or to possess or invade the said Islandes or any of them, or to ympeache our possession thereof, or to hurt or to annoy him or our subjects there beinge or any others which hereafter shall goe or transporte themselves to the said Islandes or any of them. And generally to doe all such acts, as shall or may tend to the Establishment of our Government settling a Colony or plantation advance any trade or commerce there which they the said Raphe Merefeild & Thomas Warner or either of them shall find mete or beneficial for us or our Kingdom or subjects straightly chargeinge and commandinge all manner of persons which now are or hereafter shall be abydinge in the said Islandes or any of them, that they be obidient, ayding and assisting to the said Thomas Warner, in all thinges as to our Leiutenant. And foreasmuch as the said Raphe Merifeild hath at his owne charges not only furnished and set forth the said Thomas Warner in the preemisses, but alsoe byn the means of transportinge our well beloved John Jeffreson gentleman, & many other our subjects hither and hath byn the especial furtherer of that whole designe. We doe by these present give and grant to the said Raphe Merifeild and to his partners, deputies, factors, servants and assignes, full power and authority freely to trade and traffique to and from the said Island for all manner of goods, merchandizes & commodities whatsoever payinge the customs and other dutyes therefore due. And alsoe to transporte, send and convey unto the said Islandes and plantations or any of them, for the mayntenance & strengtheninge of the same all and everie such our lovinge subjects as already are or hereafter shall be willing or desirouse voluntary to enter into, be sent, transported or goe unto the said Islandes & plantation aforesaid upon with and under such covenant contract and agreement as betweene them are or shall be made and agreed upon and to defende themselves in the same by all lawfull wayes and meanes and generally to doe and performe all such acts as shall or may tende to the establishment of our said Government settling a Colony or Plantation uppon the said Islandes or any of them and the advancement of any trade or commerce there with the said Thomas Warner and his Company uppon the said Islandes or any of them without lett disturbance or interruption of any person or persons beinge our naturall borne subjects, denizens or strangers. And our further will and pleasure is, that in case the said Thomas Warner be at this present dead, or hereafter shall die, our Leiutenant as aforesaid, then and in that case, we doe hereby authorise and appoint the said John Jeffreson if he shall be then livinge, in his room and place. And We, doe hereby give and grant unto him the like power, authority and prehemience during our pleasure as is before by these presents lymitted, meant or mentioned to the said Thomas Warner, and if in case the said John Jeffreson be at this present dead, or hereafter shall die our Leiutenant as aforesaid then our English subjects being or which shall be resident in the said Islandes shall and may elect some other able and fitte person there resident, to be our Leuitenant whoe by virtue of these presents shall have the alike power, authority and preheemience during our pleasure, as is before lymitted meante or intended to the said Thomas Warner and soe from tyme to tyme upon the decease of the Leiutenant, the English subjects there residing shall and may elect a new Leiutenant whoe shall have the like privilege authority and prehemience during our pleasure as is above mentioned. In Witness whereof. We have caused these our Letters to be Patents.

Witness ourselvese at Southampton, the thirteenth day of September, in first yeare of our Reigne 1625

Per ipsum Regum

Dupl:

Great Seal of England

Wynn and Wolseley.

No. 2.

GENEALOGY OF THE WARNER FAMILY.

William Warner, of Framlington, co. of Suffolk, Esq., the representative of an ancient and distinguished family in that county, m. Margaret, dau. of Geo. Jermingham, co. Suffolk, Esq., by whom (among other issue) he left a son,

Sir Thomas Warner, first English governor, and colonizer of many of the West India Islands, and who, for his energetic exertions in extending his majesty's dominions in the American seas, was graciously complimented, and had the honours of knighthood conferred upon him by his sovereign, Charles I., at Hampton Court Palace, 21 Sept. 1629. Sir Thomas m. 1st, Sarah, dau. of Walter Snelling, of Dorchester, Esq.; and 2ndly, Rebecca, dau. of Thomas Payne, co. Surrey, Esq. By his first marriage. Sir Thomas had issue, 1. Edward. 2. Mary, buried at Putney, co. Surrey, 29 Dec. 1635.

By his second wife Sir Thomas had
3. Philip.

Sir Thomas Warner, dying in 1648, was succeeded in his estates by his eldest son,

Edward, a captain in the army at the early age of thirteen. He was sent by his father, Sir Thomas Warner, in 1632, with a party under his command, to colonize Antigua, of which island he was the first English governor. His lady was made prisoner, and carried away, by the Caribs, in 1640, (vide p. 9, vol. i.,) and dying without issue, was succeeded by his brother,

Philip, colonel in the army, and governor of Antigua in 1674. He m. Henrietta Ashton, sole heiress of her brother, Col. Henry Ashton. Col. Philip Warner having acquired great wealth, d. 23 Oct. 1689, and was buried at St. Paul's, Antigua, leaving issue, by Henrietta, his wife, two sons and four daus. His eldest son,

Thomas, inherited the family estates of the Folly and Savannah,
m. Jane, dau. of -- Walrond, of Antigua, Esq., by whom he had
issue four sons and one dau. Col. Thomas Warner, dying in 1695,
was buried at St Paul's, Antigua, 11 Nov. of that year, and was
succeeded in his estates by his eldest son,
i. Edward, a colonel in the army, and member of the Council for
the Island of Antigua; m. Elizabeth, dau. of the Hon. Richard
Scott, (one of King William III.'s counsellors for Barbados,)
by whom he had (among other issue) a son and heir,
Richard-Scott, who dying a minor, at Eltham, in Kent, during
the lifetime of his father, his three surviving sisters
became the co-heirs of the family property--viz.,
1. Grace, born at Cobb's Crop, Antigua, 13 Oct. 1717, died 31
May, 1754; m. 1st, (in 1735,) Samuel Byam, Esq., the son of
Major S. Byam, and grandson of Col. Willoughby Byam; and
2ndly, William Fauquier, Esq., F.R.S. By her first husband
(buried at St. George's, Antigua, 14 Jan. 1738) she had
issue one son and one dau.,
1. Samuel, who died 19 Nov. 1761, three weeks before the
day appointed for his marriage, when his sister,
2. Phillis, became his heir.
By her second husband (buried at Eltham, 21 Dec. 1788,
aged 80) she had, among other issue,
3. Thomas Fauquier, who died in 1827.
4. Georgiana, m. 25 May, 1787, George Venables Lord Vernon.
2. Elizabeth-Anne, born in 1718, and m. in 1739, to Godschall
Johnson, of Bloomsbury-square, Esq., (which family are now
in possession of the Warner estates of Savannah and
Folly,[74]) by whom she had issue.
3. Jane, born at Christ's Church, Barbados, in 172O, m. at
St. John's, Antigua, 2 Jan. 1738, to the Hon. and Rev.
Francis Byam, rector of St John's, and counsellor of that
island, by whom she had a son, the Hon. Edward Byam,
president of Antigua for nearly fifty years, born at St.
John's, in 1740, who, failing of male issue, is now
represented by his four granddaughters, i. Adelaid; ii.
Anne-Byam; iii. Jane-Elizabeth; iv. Maria-Catherine,
co-heirs of the barony of Lee de Spenser.
ii. Ashton, (second brother of Edward Warner, whose lineage is
traced above,) speaker of the house of assembly, and
attorney-general for Antigua, born in 1691, and m. 8 April,
1714, Eliza-Anne, (dau. of George Clarke, of Clark's Hill,
Antigua, Esq., and relict of Major Samuel Byam,) who died 2
June, 1748. The Hon. Ashton Warner died in Feb. 1752, and was
interred in the same vault with his deceased wife, leaving a
numerous issue.
iii. Henry, (third son of Col. Thomas Warner,) clerk of the
assembly, Antigua, in 1724, born in 1693, and buried at the
family vault on the Savannah Estate, in that island, in 1731,
in the 39th year of his age.
iv. Philip, baptized at St Paul's, Antigua, and mentioned in
his father's will, 27 Sept. 1695, as "my youngest son
Philip."

Among the numerous children of the Hon. Ashton Warner, Speaker of
the house of assembly, his youngest sons were,
i. Samuel-Henry, born 11 Dec. 1733, and appointed deputy
provost-marshal of Antigua, who, marrying in 1762, was father
of the Hon. Samuel Warner, late president of Antigua, and
brigadier-general of the militia in that island, and who died
in 1838.
ii. Daniel, treasurer of Antigua, born in 1724, m. 2 Feb. 1746,
Rebecca, dau. of Thomas Freeman, Esq.[75] He was killed on
board H.M. sloop of war, "Virgin," 25 March, 1760, while
defending that vessel from the attack of three French
privateers, leaving, among other issue, a son,
Thomas, born 12 Feb. 1753, and m. in 1790, Dorothy, dau. of
the Hon. Francis Ffrye, dying in 1825, at Sevenoaks, co.
Kent, left, among other issue, three sons,
1. Daniel-Francis, rector of Hoo, co. of Kent, born 9 June,
1795, m. in 1818, Sylviana-Maria, dau. of Robert-Walter
Vaughan, of the city of Bristol, by whom he has issue
nine children.
2. Thomas-Shirley, stipendiary magistrate of Monserrat,
born 24 May, 1797, and m. 9 May, 1825, Rebecca, dau. of
the Hon. Henry Hamilton, of the island of Monserrat, by
whom he has issue six children.
3. Samuel-Ashton, rector of St George's, Antigua, in 1826,
born 30 May, 1790, and m. 10 June, 1824, Mary, dau. of
Stephen-Ross Willock, of Antigua, Esq., by whom he has
six children.

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I cannot conclude this detail of the Warner family without relating an anecdote of the celebrated ring, mentioned in Hume's History of England, as given by Queen Elizabeth to the Earl of Essex, and which jewel is now in possession of a descendant of Sir Thomas Warner.

When Robert Devereaux, Earl of Essex, the far-famed favourite of Queen Elizabeth, was in the hey-day of his power and her majesty's regard, the queen presented him with a diamond ring, which she ordered him to keep with the strictest care, so that should he at any time want to beg a boon, or be so unfortunate as to fall under her majesty's displeasure, and thus incur imminent danger from the malevolence of his enemies, he might return it to her as a talisman, when she pledged her word to accede to his request, or forgive him, and grant him her protection.[76] It is unnecessary to enter into the various circumstances which led to the downfall of this accomplished young nobleman; suffice it to say, that, led astray by self-interested flatterers, and his own headstrong passions, which scorned reproof, the Earl of Essex engaged in a conspiracy against her majesty, and which being detected, he was tried by his compeers, and condemned to pay forfeit of his crimes, by suffering decollation. Queen Elizabeth, although deeply grieved at this defalcation of her kinsman from his loyalty, as well as from his gratitude towards her, still remembered with pity the unfortunate earl, then in the full bloom of manhood, and celebrated for every grace which can adorn a nobleman, and anxiously looked for the appearance of the ring she had given to him, in order that some excuse might be afforded her for granting him a pardon. Days, however, rolled by, and Essex made no appeal to her majesty's clemency; until, at length, deeming him too haughty to return the talismanic jewel which might have saved his life, Elizabeth became incensed against him --the high blood of her father, "bluff old Hal," rose in her veins, and, signing his death-warrant, he was beheaded on Tower Hill, 25th Feb. 1601. About two years after this tragic event, Catharine, the first Duchess of Nottingham, (daughter of Henry Lord Hunsdon, and a relative of the unfortunate earl,) was seized with a mortal illness, and finding her life drawing to a close, she despatched a messenger to the queen, beseeching her majesty to visit her immediately, as she had tidings to communicate to her, which, without doing, she could not die in peace. Elizabeth, anxious to soothe her last moments, complied with her request, and, little deeming what those tidings were, presented herself at the bed-side of the dying countess, who, summoning up all her failing energies, related, in the hollow tones of death, the following circumstances:--

That during the period the Earl of Essex was confined in the Tower, under sentence of death, he was desirous of obtaining a faithful messenger who would convey to her majesty a ring, which he had, at a happier hour, received from her hand, on the sight of which he hoped the queen's mercy would be extended to him. Distrusting, however, those placed about him, he waited in vain for an opportunity; until, one morning, as he was gazing from his prison window, he perceived a boy, with whose open countenance he became so impressed, that he determined to trust him with his secret, and, making signals to him, (which were observed and answered by the lad,) the earl "engaged him by money and promises," to convey the ring, which he took from his finger, to Lady Scroop,[77] (a friend of his lordship's,) and beg her to present it to her majesty. The youth readily undertook the commission; but, from some mistake, instead of conveying it to Lady Scroop, he carried it to her sister, the Countess of Nottingham. This lady shewed it to her husband, the admiral, the implacable foe to Essex, who commanded her, under pain of his heaviest displeasure, to conceal the jewel, and not to breathe a word of the event to mortal ears. The countess complying with her lord's command, the queen was kept in ignorance, and the Earl of Essex fell a victim to his supposed stubbornness, for, according to Camden, the chief reason that prevented Queen Elizabeth from granting him a pardon was his obstinacy in not supplicating for mercy.

As soon as the countess had concluded her relation, she earnestly begged her majesty's forgiveness; but the queen, losing all command of herself at this harrowing statement, violently shook the dying woman, and exclaiming, " " left the apartment in an agony of grief. As soon as she gained her dressing-closet, she threw herself upon the floor, tearing her grey hair, and calling upon the name of Essex. She refused to sleep upon a bed, and, according to some authors, would never after receive any sustenance. This, however, must be a mistake, for the Countess of Nottingham died on the 25th February, 1603, and her majesty did not depart this life until the 24th of March following--a period of about twenty-seven days.

After the demise of Queen Elizabeth, this ring passed, with the other jewels to her successor, James I., from whom it was handed down to his unfortunate son, Charles I., and who, at the instigation of his queen, Henrietta Maria, presented it to Sir Thomas Warner. From Sir Thomas Warner, it passed (in a direct line) to his great grandson. Col. Edward Warner, who bequeathed it by will (dated 27th Dec, 1732, proved in the P. C. of Canterbury, 21st Feb. following) to his brother, Ashton Warner, as "_a diamond ring_, in shape of a heart, given by Queen Elizabeth to the Earl of Essex."

From the Hon. Ashton Warner it descended, as an heirloom, to his son, Joseph Warner, and it is now in possession of Charles Warner, Esq., solicitor-general of Trinidad.

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[74] This marriage accounts for the Savannah and Folly estates, having passed into another family.

[75] For further information of this gentleman, the reader is referred to Appendix No. 19.

[76] The queen's attachment to Essex might perhaps, in great measure, arise from the fact of his being her relative--as shewn in the following table, viz.,

Anne Boleyne, united to Henry VIII., king of England, had issue a
daughter,
Elizabeth, afterwards queen of England.
Mary Boleyne, (sister to Anne Boleyne,) married to William
Cary, had issue a daughter,
Catharine Cary, married to Francis Knolleys, K.G., had
(among other issue) a daughter,
Lettice Knolleys, married to Walter Devereaux, Earl of
Essex, K.G., who had issue a son,
Robert Devereaux, Earl of Essex, the favourite.

[77] Philadelphia Cary, second daughter to Henry Lord Hunsdon, married to Thos. Scroop, of Bolton, in Yorkshire, who succeeded his father in his title, in 1592, made governor of Carlisle Castle, and warden of the West Marches, in 1593, and K. G. in 1599.

No. 3.

MEMORIAL OF THE WINTHORPE FAMILY.

This gentleman (Samuel Winthorpe, Esq. of Antigua) was the son of John Winthorpe, of Groton Hall, co. Suffolk, Esq., by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Sir John Tindall, Knt., master in Chancery, and ancestor of the present Chief Justice Tindall. Mr. Winthorpe's family had early embraced the Protestant religion, and were among the most stanch supporters of that creed; and in those dark days, when Popery once again reared its head in England, the grandfather of this John Winthorpe attended the martyr Philpots to the stake, as one of his latest friends. In after years, Mr. J. Winthorpe, fearing religious persecution, sold off all his property, (bringing him in 500l. or 600l. per annum, a great sum in those days,) and emigrated to New England, then a forest waste, where, in process of time, he became its first governor, and from whence he kept up a private correspondence with Oliver Cromwell, then Protector of the Commonwealth. Besides Samuel Winthorpe, the ancestor of the Antiguan branch of the family, he had two sons, i. Stephen, a colonel in the army, appointed by Cromwell to a command in Scotland, and was afterwards a member of his parliament, died in 1659, the year prior to the Restoration, and ii. John, who succeeded his father in the government of New England, and was a regular correspondent and distinguished member of the Royal Society in Old England, died 5th April, 1676, aged 70.

Samuel Winthorpe, Esq., visiting Holland, espoused there a Dutch lady, (whose name we have not been able to ascertain,) with whom he immediately afterwards emigrated to Antigua, and died there about 1675. He left by his wife a numerous progeny of sons and daughters, among whom, Samuel, Joseph, and Henry, inherited a large estate from their father, but who (by means, it is said, little creditable to the parties concerned to relate) were deprived of their patrimony, and, consequently, their place and station in that insular community. The daughters married into some of the best Antiguan families, and became the ancestresses of the Williams, Thomas, and Ffry families. For further particulars of the Winthorpe family, the reader may consult "Mathew's History of New England," and "Farmer's Genealogical Register" of that settlement, as well as later works upon the United States of North America.

No. 4.

GENEALOGY OF THE BYAM FAMILY.

Lieut.-Gen. William Byam was descended in a direct line, on his father's side, from Caradoc Vraich Vras, Earl of Hereford, Lord of Radnor, one of the knights of the celebrated Round Table of King Arthur, (a.d. 540,) who himself sung his praises, emphatically styling him one of the "Pillars of Britain." He was founder of a dynasty of princes not extinguished till after the Norman invasion, when Blethin, the last of the regal order, was slain by Bernard Newmarch, near Brecknock, in 1094, and his territory appropriated to himself and parcelled out amongst his followers.

His son, Cawrdave, was equally, if not more celebrated than his father, being also extolled in the Triads, and, like King Arthur himself chosen (besides the enjoyment of his own territory) to be "Unbennaeth," or supreme monarch of Britain.

Caw succeeded his father in his patrimonial inheritance, at this time entitled the Principality of Ferlex and Brecon; and

Gloyw succeeded him; and

Hoyw him, flourishing a.d. 640.

Kynvard, regulus of Ferlex and Brecon, succeeded his father, Hoyw; and

Kyndeg, who was contemporary with Cadwallader, and lived a.d. 703, succeeded him.

Teithwalch, his son, gained a signal victory over his rival, the Mercian king, at Carno, in Brecknockshire, (opposite to the village of Crickhowell,) and in commemoration of which an immense circle and pile of stones is to be seen to this day.

But the encroachment of the Saxons in his son Tegyd's time became more formidable than ever, considerably circumscribing his limits, that had originally embraced all the territories lying between the two rivers of Wye and Severn; and

Tangwyd, his son, succeeded to very straitened limits, being reduced to the lordship of Radnor, with parts of Montgomery and Brecon; and

Anarawd, his son, succeeded as regulus of Radnor and Brecon, in the time of Egbert, king of the West Saxons, who united the whole heptarchy into one entire kingdom, henceforward called that of "England." To Anarawd succeeded his son,

Gwyngwy, who, though greatly reduced in territory, still affected the regal title, calling himself "Brenhin" Ferlex a Brecheiniog. And to Gwyngwy succeeded his son,

Hugan, called by John de Castares, "Prince of West Wales," but by the Welsh historians, more modestly, the "Prince of Brecknock." To Hugan succeeded

Druffin, so humbled as to be persuaded or compelled to row King Edgar in his barge on the river Dee, being one of the tributary kings who acted that derogatory part, which served to inflate the pride of that vain-glorious but powerful English monarch. Druffin m. Crusella, dau. of Idwal ap Meyrick, and was succeeded by his son,

Maynarch, who m. Ellen, dau. of Eineon ap Seliff, Lord of the Cantred of Seliff. Maynarch was succeeded by

Blethin, the last prince of his house and family; for William Rufus promising to Bernard Newmarch (England at that time having been effectually conquered and possessed by the Normans) all he could conquer in Wales, that adventurer (at the time gentleman of the bedchamber to this the second of the Norman kings) set out for the principality, and the enfeebled prince collecting, on a sudden, all his diminished forces, a battle ensued in the neighbourhood of Brecknock, in which he was worsted and himself slain. The conqueror and his eleven Norman knights (whom, tempted by the prize, he had invited to partake of his enterprise) entered into possession; and the last act of royalty shewn to this unhappy prince by his subjects and followers was the conveying his corse to the Abbey of Strata Florida, in Cardiganshire, and there interring it amongst the princes of Wales, with all the pomp the circumstances allowed. Thus, after a possession of between five and six hundred years, was this family divested of every mark of regal dignity. Rhys Goch, however, his brother, was permitted to retain a small possession on the confines of the county, entitled the lordship of Ystradew, (afterwards usurped by the Clares, and came into possession of the Herberts, Earls of Pembroke.) Rhys Goch, or Rhys the Red, married Joan, daughter of Cadogan[78] ap Elistan Glorith, (whose arms are still quartered by the Byam family,) and by her had Kynwillen, who married Jonnett, dau. and co-heir of Hawell, Prince of Caerleon, (to whom Henry II. allowed that city, and twelve miles around circumadjacent country,) and by her, whose arms are still likewise borne by the Byams, Kynwillen had Kynwell, who married Gladwys, dau. of Sitsilt ap Duvenwall, Lord of Gwent, and seventh Baron of Abergavenny, by right of tenure of the castle thereof, (from the Norman conquest,) and by her had Arthur, who married Ellen, the dau. of Meirick ap Cradog, (ancestor of the Matthews, and of the present Earls of Llandaff,) and had Howell, who married Jone, dau. of Grono ap Llowarth, Lord of Kebor, and had Griffith, who married Jonnett, dau. and sole heir of Grono ap Treherne ap Blaith ap Elvarch, Lord of Penrose, in Monmouthshire, a possession which she conveyed to her husband's family, in whose family it remained several centuries, and the ruins of the mansion are still extant, and by her (whose arms the Byams still bear) Griffith had David. David marrying Maud, dau. to Llewelyn Vaughan, of Lansamllo, had Howel Gam, who marrying Joan, dau. to Adam ap Rees ap Eineon Sais, had Meiric, and Meiric marrying Gwenllian, dau. to Gwyllim ap Jenkin, had Ievan ap Meirick, of Penrose, Esq., (from whom, in the time of his son and grandson, and by the blending of ap that followed their name with his of Ievan, or Evan, came the name of Abyam, and at length Byam;) for this Ievan, or Evan, had a son, Jenkin, or John, that was the first to whom the surname was assigned, and was of Maerdy, in Monmouthshire, and he a son, Thomas, of same place, and who marrying Johanna, dau. of Llewelyn ap Gwyllim, had a son, Edward, who was both of Maerdy, in Monmouthshire, aforesaid, and of Bath, in Somersetshire, in Subsidy Rolls of which city he is included, 45 of Henry VIII., 1545, under the name of Edward Abyam, (the ultimate name as now used being scarcely, as yet, determined,) and this Edward Abyam dying in Jan. 1594, was buried at the Abbey Church, 2 Feb. following, leaving by Welthian, his wife, the dau. of Robert Gamage, (of the Glamorganshire family of that name,) Thomas Byam, his son and heir, of Bath, and Lawrence Byam, ancestor of the family now in question.

Lawrence Byam was of Brasennose College, Oxford, and entering into holy orders, he was, on 17th June, 1575, by letters patent under privy seal from Queen Elizabeth, presented to the rectory of Luckham. He married Anne, or Agnes, dau. of Henry Yewings, of Capton, in Stogumber, in co. of Somerset, by whom (who survived her husband, and was buried at Bicknoller, 8 Dec. 1623) he had four sons, all great loyalists in their day, and the three eldest, Henry, John, and Edward, all in holy orders, and of Exeter College, Oxford, (which they entered at the respective dates of 1597, 1599, and 1600.)

Henry, the eldest, succeeding his father in the rectory of Luckham, was chaplain in ordinary to Charles II., and the companion of that monarch in his exile, both by sea and land. "He engaged," says Wood, in his "Athenæ Oxoniensis," "his five sons in the royal cause, four of whom were captains in the regiment raised by their father in his majesty's behalf. In 1636, he had become prebendary of Wells, and afterwards canon of Exeter. For his faithful adherence to the royal cause he was severely pointed at by the opposite party. His wife and daughter perished at sea, in their attempts to escape into Wales, in order to avoid the cruelties of the enemy. He attended the king in his exile to Jersey and the Scilly Islands. He was universally esteemed for his great sanctity, his knowledge of literature, his loyalty to his sovereign, and his charity to his fellow-creatures. His sermons were afterwards published by Hamnet Ward, vicar of Sturminster Newton Castle, in Dorsetshire, and who also wrote the epitaph on his tomb, still extant in Luckham church, (for which see 'Collinson's Somersetshire;' and also for further account of him, 'Echard's History of England,' under the year 1669.) He died at the advanced age of 89."

His brother, John, D.D., rector of Clotworthy, in same county, following his footsteps, shared his fate, in suffering in his own person, and those of all his children, unmerited persecutions, but which to recount would fill a volume. Edward was the son from whom the Antigua Byams came. He was admitted a student of Exeter College, Oxford, 31 Oct. 1600, then aged 16, and instituted to the vicarage of Dulverton, co. of Somerset, 4 Aug. 1612. On 22 July, 1613, he married, at Walton, in same county, Elizabeth, the dau. of Anthony Eaglesfield, rector of that place, and vicar of Chewton Mendip, some time fellow of Queen's Coll., Oxford, (being of kin with founder;) but in 1625, this Edward Byam transported himself into Ireland, where he became precentor of Cloyne Cathedral, (the next dignity therein to that of dean,) and dying at his seat at Kilwillin, on the river St. Bride's, in co. of Cork, on 6 June, 1639, he was buried in the chancel of the parish church of Castle Lyons. His funeral certificate, signed by his widow, who survived him, being given in to Ulster's office, Dublin, and letters of administration taken out for him in prerogative court of same place, his second son,

William Byam, born at the house of his uncle, (the aforesaid Dr.
Henry Byam,) at Luckham, 9 March, 1622-3, entered at Trinity
Coll., Dublin, as "Scolarium Commensalis," 24 May, 1639, just
before his father's death, and he it was that was first of the
name and family in the West Indies. The civil wars breaking out
soon after the above-mentioned period, he entered on a military
life, and distinguished himself in the manner already recounted,
at Bridgwater and elsewhere. He married Dorothy Knollys, dau. of
Frances Knollys, of Standford-in-the-Vale, co. Berks, Esq., son
of Richard Knollys, next brother of William, the only lawful Earl
of Banbury, K.G. By this marriage the Byams became connected with
the first families in England, and even with royalty itself, as
shewn by the following table[79]--viz.,
Edward 1st, King of England, m. (2nd) Margaret, dau. of Philip
III. of France, and had issue,
Thomas Plantagenet, surnamed "of Brotherton," Earl of Norfolk
and Suffolk, and grand mareschal of England, m. Alice, dau.
of Sir Robert Halys, Knt., and had issue one dau.,
Margaret Plantagenet, Duchess of Norfolk, m. John Segrave, Lord
Segrave, and had issue a dau.,
Elizabeth, one of the heirs of Lord Segrave, m. John Mowbray,
Lord Mowbray, and had issue,
Thomas Mowbray, created Duke of Norfolk, 1398, earl marshal of
England, and Earl of Nottingham. He m. Elizabeth, sister and
one of the heirs of Thomas Fitz-Allen, Earl of Arundel; died
in 1400, and left issue,
Margaret, eldest dau. and one of the heirs of Thomas Mowbray,
Duke of Norfolk, m. Sir Robert Howard, Knt., and had issue,
John Howard, created Duke of Norfolk, 1483, m. Catherine, dau.
of William, Lord Moleyns. The Duke of Norfolk was slain at
Bosworth Field, 22 Aug., and was buried at Leicester, 1485,
leaving issue a son,
Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk. His father having been
attainted, he was restored to the title, and m. Elizabeth,
dau. and heir of Sir Frederick Tilney, Knt., and died in
1524, leaving issue a dau.,
Elizabeth, m. Thomas Boleyne, Viscount Rochford, created Earl
of Wiltshire and Earl of Ormond, by Henry VIII., and had
issue two daus. and one son,
1. George Boleyne, Viscount Rochford, beheaded, May, 1536.
2. Anne, youngest dau. of Thomas, Viscount Rochford, m. Henry
VIII., King of England. She being beheaded, 19 May, 1536,
left issue,
Elizabeth, Queen of England, born a.d. 1533, died a.d.
1603.
3. Mary, eldest dau. of Thomas, Viscount Rochford, Earl of
Wiltshire and Ormond, m. William Cary, esquire to the body
of Henry VIII., and had, among other issue, a dau.,
Catherine, (sister of Henry Cary, created Lord Hunsdon,)
lady of the bedchamber to her cousin-german, Queen
Elizabeth, m. Sir Francis Knollys, K.G., and dying in 1568,
was buried at Westminster Abbey, leaving issue a dau.,
Lettice, who m. Walter Devereaux, Earl of Essex, by whom
she had Robert, Earl of Essex, the far-famed favourite of
Queen Elizabeth, and a son, Richard Knollys, (brother and
heir to William Knollys, created Earl of Banbury,) m. Joan,
dau. of John Higham, co. Suffolk, and had issue, Francis
Knollys, of Standford-in-the-Vale, co. Berks, m. Alice,
sister and co-heir of Sir Wm. Beecher, Knt., clerk to privy
council, and dying 4 Aug. 1640, left issue a dau., Dorothy,
who, as already mentioned, m. Lieut.-Gen. Wm. Byam.

Lieut.-Gen. William Byam dying at Antigua, (will proved there 1670-1,) left, by Dorothy, his wife, among other issue, two sons, Willoughby and Edward. In this way the Byam family became divided into two distinct branches, Willoughby being the ancestor of the present Byams of "Cedar Hill," and Edward that of "Pensive Hall," or "Martin Byam's," and a dau., Mary, m. to Col. George Needham, of the island of Jamaica, the son of Sir Robert Needham, first Viscount Kilmoray, and by whom she was ancestress of the present Gen. Needham, of that island, and of the Lords Seaford and Howard de Walden.

Edward Byam, youngest son of Lieut.-Gen. Byam, was governor of the Leeward Islands,[80] 1715, and president of the council of Antigua in 1707, born at Surinam, 1663-4, and m. 1st, Mary, dau. of Samuel Winthorpe, and granddau. of John Winthorpe, first governor of New England, and of Groton Hall, co. Suffolk; 2ndly, Lydia, dau., of William Thomas, aunt of Sir George Thomas, and relict of Samuel Martin, of Green Castle, Antigua, (ancestor of the present Sir Henry and Sir Byam Martin.) Col. Edward Byam is described by Oldmixon, in his "British Empire in America," as a man of the best head and fortune in British America; and also as the most popular man in the Leeward Islands. He commanded, in the attack upon the island Guadaloupe, on the breaking out of the war of succession, in the reign of Queen Anne, a regiment raised by himself in Antigua, and a part of the Enniskillen, or 27th regt. of the line. At the head of this force, he attacked and carried in gallant style the port called "Les petits Habitans," and obliged the enemy to retire. He is honourably mentioned in the London Gazette, No. 3912, from May 6th to May 10th, and also in the "Annals of the Reign of Queen Anne." By his first wife, Mary, he had one son and one dau.--viz., Edward, m. Walthian Devonshire, and died at Antigua, 29 May, 1745. Mary, born 13 Oct. 1690, m. Col. Thomas Williams, of the Old Road, Antigua.

By his second wife, Lydia, relict of Samuel Martin, he had three
sons and two daus.--viz.,
i. George, born at Antigua, 24 April, 1704, m. Henrietta-
Maria, dau. of Col. John Ffrys, of Antigua, and died 12 Nov.
1734, leaving issue two sons and four daus.--viz.,
1. George, of Apps Court, co. Surrey, m. Louisa, dau. of
Peter Bathurst, Esq., M.P., of Clarendon Park, co. Wilts,
and niece of Earl Bathurst, and was buried at St George's,
Antigua, 7 Nov. 1779, had issue, 1. George Byam, died an
infant, in 1774; 2. Selina, m. Rev. William Hony, of
Liskeard, co. Cornwall, and has issue; 3. Elizabeth, m.
Mark Batt, of Lawell House, Co. Devon, and d. s. p.; 4 and
5. Louisa and Henrietta-Maria, both d. unm.
2. John, died at Antigua, 26 Oct. 1754, unm.
3. Mary, m. 1st, ---- Lyons, of Antigua, and 2ndly, Daniel
Mathew, of Antigua, and Felix Hall, co. Essex, some time
high-sheriff for that county, had issue, 1. Daniel-Byam
Mathew, of Felix Hall, who m. Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Edward
Deering, Bart.; 2. George, who m. Euphemia Hamilton, and
had issue a son, the present George B. Mathew, capt. in
Coldstream Guards, and late M.P. for Shaftesbury, who m. at
St George's, Hanover Square, April, 1835, the dau. and heir
of Henry Hoare, Esq., and granddau. of the celebrated
antiquary, Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Bart.; 3. Elizabeth, who
m. Robert, fourth Viscount Galway; 4. Louisa, who m.
Admiral Lord Gambier; and 5. Jane, who m. Samuel Gambier,
commissioner of the navy.
4. Elizabeth, d. unm. in 1806.
5 and 6. Henrietta Maria and Lydia, both d. unm.
ii. William, of Byams, Antigua, and of Westbourn House, co.
Middlesex. He was a colonel in the army, and member of the
privy council, Antigua; born 3 July, 1706; admitted of
Christ's Coll., Cambridge, 21 June, 1720, B.A. 1724, m. 1735,
Anne, dau. of Col. John Gunthorpe, member of council,
Antigua, and had issue,
1. Martin, member of the council, Antigua, born 29 Sept.
1742, admitted a fellow commoner of Sidney Coll.,
Cambridge, 30 April, 1761, m. in 1771, Elizabeth, dau. of
Stephen Blizard, judge of court of common pleas, Antigua,
and relict of William Warner, of Antigua. He died June,
1805, s. p., and was buried at Lyndhurst, Hants.
2. Edward, lieut. R.N., born 15 Sept. 1743, m. Anne, dau. of
William Gunthorpe, of Antigua, Esq. He was lost in the
"Ville de Paris," after her capture, in 1782, leaving, by
Anne, his wife, a son and dau.,
1. William-Henry, capt. R.N., who m. his first cousin,
Alicia, dau. of Anthony Wyke, Esq. of Monserrat, and died
26 Nov. 1838, s. p.
1. Louisa, only dau. of her father, Edward Byam, d. unm. at
Kensington, in 1835.
3. Anne, eldest dau., born 27 Sept. 1744, m. 13 Jan. 1763, to
Anthony Wyke, Esq. of Monserrat, and died 18 June, 1814,
leaving a dau., Alicia, m. to her first cousin, William
Henry Byam, (see above.)
4. William, capt. in 68th regt. of foot, and of Woodborough,
in Somersetshire, born 7 Nov. 1753, m. in 1781, Mary, only
dau. of Rev. Richard Burgh, of Mount Bruis, co. Tipperary,
Ireland, and died in France, 27 April, 1830, leaving issue
three sons and three daus.--viz.,
1. Martin-William, born 19 Aug. 1783, m. Elizabeth, dau. of
Thomas Bull, of Bostock Hall, co. Chester, and died 22
April, 1836.
2. Rev. Richard-Burgh, member of council, Antigua, fellow
of King's Coll., Cambridge, vicar of Kew and Petersham,
Co. Surrey, born 26 Jan. 1785.
3. Edward-Samuel, late commissary-general of the police in
the Mauritius, and civil commissary of Port Louis, in
which situation he distinguished himself by his undaunted
zeal and inflexible efforts to suppress the slave trade
in that island, as may be seen in a recent work of Sir
Thomas Fowell Buxton, Bart. on the slave trade, p. 220.
Mr. Byam is also a gentleman of great antiquarian
research, and a Celtic scholar, as well as the compiler
of a "Genealogical Table of the Kings of England,"
reckoned one of the best that has been published; born 5
Aug. 1788, m. at the ambassador's chapel, Paris, 26
March, 1818, Eleanor, eldest dau. of Andrew Murray, prior
of Rathdowney, in Queen's County, and of Claremonts, co.
Wicklow, and niece of Viscount Frankfort de Montmorency,
and had issue, Edward de Montmorency Byam, who died an
infant, and was buried at Harpenden, in co. of Herts.
4. Martha, eldest dau., born 7 May, 1782, and living unm.
5. Anna-Maria, born 15 March, 1786, living unm.
6. Alicia-Juliana, born 10 April, 1787, m. 21 Aug. 1805,
Wm. Leeves, Esq. of Tortington House, co. Sussex.
5. Alice, second dau. of William Byam, born 29 Sept. 1746, m.
23 April, 1763, Samuel Eliot, Esq. of Antigua, and died 13
Dec. 1827, and was buried in the family vault of Lord Lee
Despencer, at Mereworth, leaving four daus., 1. Anne, m.
Lieut.-Gen. Sir Henry Crosby, of Barnesville Park, co.
Gloucester; 2. Elizabeth, m. Sir Thomas Stapleton, Lord Lee
de Spenser; 3. Mary, m. Robert Cambden Cope, colonel of
Armagh militia; and 4. Alice, m. to William Hay Carr, Earl
of Errol, father of the present peer.
iii. Alice, born 19 May, 1711, m. 11 July, 1728, Robert
Freeman, of Antigua, Esq., and had issue.
iv. Lydia, born 14 Aug. 1713, m. 9 Nov. 1734, to her cousin,
Edward Byam, of Cedar Hill, Antigua, and of Clay Hill, co.
Middlesex, from whom descends that branch of the family.
v. Francis, clerk, M.A., rector of St. John's, Antigua, and
member of the privy council at that island, born 8 May, 1709,
admitted a student of Trinity Coll., Cambridge, 1728, and m.
1738, Jane, dau. and co-heir of Edward Warner, of Eltham, co.
Kent, member of privy council, Antigua, dying at Antigua,
left issue four sons and one dau.--viz.,
1. Edward Byam, judge of the court of vice-admiralty, and
president of the council of Antigua for near half a
century, born 21 Dec. 1740, and m. 7 July, 1763, Rebecca,
dau. of Stephen Blizard, judge of court of common pleas,
Antigua, dying 8 Feb. 1817, left issue an only child and
heir,
Jane, m. 10 June, 1784, Thomas Norbury Kerby, of Weir's
Estate, Antigua, who died while in the execution of his
office of commander-in-chief, (for the time being,) his
wife, Jane, dying at Hampton Court Palace, in 1837, left
by him an only child,
Anne-Byam Kerby, born in 1796, and m. the Hon. Miles
Stapleton, rector of Mereworth, co. Kent, third son of
Lord Lee de Spencer, by whom she had issue,
Adelaide, for whom her majesty the queen-dowager most
graciously stood sponsor, born 22 Oct. 1822;
Ann-Byam, born in 1823; and two other daus.
2. Sir Ashton-Warner Byam, Knt., A.B. of Sidney Coll.,
Cambridge, attorney-general of Grenada, and a great
luminary of the law in the Western world, born 1 June,
1744, d. unm. 25 Dec. 1790, and was buried in St John's,
Antigua.
3. William, of Santa Crux, d. s. p.
4. Richard-Scott, M.D., born 20 Dec. 1753, and died at Bath,
unm., 17 Dec. 1832.
5. Grace, only dau., born 1 Jan. 1752, and m. 3 March, 1767,
to Thomas Ottley, Esq. of the island of St. Vincent, by
whom she had a numerous issue--viz., 1. George W. Ottley,
of Parry's Estate; 2. Francis-Byam Ottley, of Wier's
Estate; 3. Matilda Ottley, m. to Hastings Elwyr, barrister;
4. Jane, m. 1st, Valentine Horsford, Esq., by whom she had
five sons, and 2ndly, to Lord James O'Brien, brother and
presumptive heir to the Marquis of Thomond; and 5. Rebecca
Ottley, m. to the Hon. Langford-Lovel Hodge, who dying 24
Jan. 1817, left issue a son, Langford-Lovel Hodge, Esq., m.
the dau. of -- Hart, Esq. of Dorset Square, Brighton, by
whom he has issue.

The remaining son of Lieut.-Gen. William Byam was Willoughby Byam, (from whom the present family of the Cedar Hill Byams descend.) He was a lieut.-col. in the army, and commanded the body-guard of the commander-in-chief, Gen. Codrington, in the expedition against the island of St. Christopher's, in 1690, when he received a mortal wound in the neck, of which he soon after died. He is honourably mentioned in the London Gazette of that period, Nos. 2590 and 2602, and left, among other issue, two sons, William and Samuel. Samuel Byam, the younger son, was a major in the army, and dying early in life, (in 1712,) left, by Elizabeth, his wife, the dau. of George Clarke, of Parker's Hill, in Antigua, (and who re-married Ashton Warner, Esq.,) a son, a second Samuel, who marrying Grace, dau. of Col. Edward Warner, left Phillis, the heir of her brother, a third Samuel, (that d. unm.,) and she (Phillis) m. 1st, Charles Wollaston, Esq., M.D., F.R.S., (physician to her majesty Queen Charlotte,) and 2ndly, James Frampton, Esq. of Moreton, in Dorsetshire, and for whose issue, _vide_ "Burke's _Commoners_"--1st, "Shirley, of Eatington Park, co. Warwick," vol. i. p. 49; 2ndly, "Wollaston, of Shenton," vol. iii. p. 419; 3rdly, "Frampton, of Moreton, in co. Dorset," vol. iv. p. 193.

William Byam, son and heir, of Cedar Hill, Antigua, colonel in
the army, member of the privy council, and also one of the
general council of the Leeward Islands, m. Mary, dau. of John
Yeamans, of Mill Hill, Old Road, Antigua, lieut.-governor of that
island, and had issue,
i. Willoughby, died young, and was buried, 7 July, 1714, at
Oxford.
ii. Yeamans, died young, and was buried at Oxford, in 1714.
iii. Edward, of Cedar Hill, Antigua, and Clay Hill, co.
Middlesex, admitted a student of Trinity Coll., Cambridge, m.
(his first cousin) Lydia, dau. of Edward Byam, governor of
Antigua, in 1734.
iv. John-Sampson, died in 1766, unm.
v. Willoughby, (second of the name, the first having died an
infant,) died unm. in 1764.
vi. Henry, D.D., m. Hester, dau. of John Gunthorpe, of Antigua,
Esq., and dying, left issue by his wife, 1. Hester Byam, m. 7
Aug. 1781, Anthony Munton, d. s. p.; 2. Mary-Gunthorpe Byam,
born 9 Nov. 1748, m. in 1771, to Col. William Dundas, brother
to Lord Viscount Melville; 3. Anne Byam, living at Pear Tree
Lodge, near Southampton, unm. in 1838; 4 and 5. Henry and
Edward Byam, died infants.
vii. Anne, (second dau. living,) m. in 1727, Crooke Thomas, of
London, merchant.
viii. Mary, (eldest dau.,) m. 21 March, 1738, to Warner
Tempest, Esq. of Antigua, and of Moulsey, co. Surrey; and
ix. Rebecca, m. to Thomas Freeman, Esq. of Antigua.

Edward Byam, son and heir of William Byam, dying 13 June, 1768,
left by Lydia, his wife, issue,
i. William, of Cedar Hill, son and heir.
ii. Samuel, who m. 30 June, 1764, Elizabeth, dau. and heir of
Thos. Sheppard, Esq. of Antigua, and died in 1786, leaving
issue one dau., Lydia, m. to the Rev. Robt. Sutton, of East
Dereham, Norfolk, and has issue.
iii. Edward, buried at Antigua, in 1795.
iv. Lydia.
v. Rebecca, m. to -- Davies, R.N., died s. p.

William Byam, son and heir, of Cedar Hill, and Sunny Hill, co.
Pembroke, member of the privy council, Antigua, m. 26 June, 1766,
Martha, dau. of Edward Rogers, of Lanwnda, in Pembrokeshire,
died, and was buried at St. George's, Antigua, 1 Oct. 1779,
leaving issue,
i. Edward, son and heir.
ii. Samuel, D.D. of University Coll., Oxford, vicar of
Catterick, co. York, and chaplain in ordinary to George III.,
born in 1769, and m. Jane, dau. of John Welsh, of the island
of St Christopher's, dying at Brusselles, 24 April, 1816,
leaving issue,
1. William-Geo.-Munton, born 5 Aug. 1804, late lieut. in 43rd
Light Infantry.
2. Adolphus-Elizabeth, born 5 Sept. 1805, capt in Madras
artillery, and secretary to the court of Hydrabad, died at
the Cape of Good Hope, in 1839, s. p.
3. Henry-James, born in 1813, an officer in the service of
the Queen of Spain, died at San Sebastien, 5 Aug. 1837, s.
p.
4. Cornelia-Rachel-Munton, born 23 Feb. 1803, m. Baron
Augustus de Firkes, of Mittau, in Courland, and died in
1826.
5. Augusta-Louisa-Anne, born 4 Nov. 1806, and m. Frederick
Shallet Lomax, of Netley Park, co. Hants.
iii. Lydia, bapt. 4 Sept. 1772, died on her passage from
Antigua, unm.

Edward Byam, the son and heir, was a member of the house of
assembly of Antigua, born in 1767, and m. Christiana Matilda,
dau. of Matt. Ryan, of Dublin, barrister-at-law, died 27 May,
1795, leaving issue by his wife,
i. William, son and heir.
ii. Edward, late major in the 15th Hussars, now lieut.-col. in
the army. He served in the battles of Salamanca, Vittoria,
Orthes, and Waterloo, of Warblington Lodge, co. Hants, born
24 Dec. 1794, and m. 10 Sept 1829, at the residence of the
British minister at the court of Florence, Elizabeth Augusta,
dau. of Sir Grenville Temple, Bart., and has issue,
1. Willoughby-Temple, born 15 Aug. 1832.
2. Henry-Edward, born 22 Aug. 1835.
3. Edward, born in April, 1842.
4. Matilda-Augusta-Anne, born 28 June, 1830.
5. Agnes- Welthian, born 7 June, 1831.
6. Maria-Christiana-Elizabeth, born 6 Jan. 1834.
7. Augusta-Temple, born 10 May, 1837.

William Byam, the present representative of the Cedar Hill
branch, and of Westwood House, co. Hants, member of the council,
Antigua, and late lieut.-col. of the Local Dragoons, m. in 1815,
Martha, dau. of Thomas Rogers, of Antigua, and has issue,
i. Edward-Gamage, an officer in the 59th regt. born 30 June,
1823.
ii. Thomas-Rogers, born 12 Dec. 1826.
iii. William, born 10 Feb. 1828.
iv. Lydia, born 31 Dec. 1818, m. 18 May, 1837, to Francis
Shand, Esq. of Liverpool, and of Everton, co. Lancaster; and
v. Martha, born 29 Aug. 1821.

Col. William Byam served under the "hero of a hundred fights," the Duke of Wellington, in the battles of Orthes, Toulouse, and Waterloo, in which latter he was dangerously wounded, and in those ensanguined plains he belied not his high name, nor the deeds of his fathers, whom we find so often figuring in the annals of Antigua, leading its troops to battle, filling some high official situation, or spilling their hearts' best blood in defence of their native shores!

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[78] Ancestor of the now Earls of Cadogan.

[79] This pedigree, and that of the Byam family in general, has been authenticated by Herald's College, by certificate, dated "College of Arms, 27 July, 1841."

[80] So termed by the Heralds of the College of Arms, although only mentioned in Antiguan history as lieut.-governor of the island.

No. 5.

_Copy of the Grant of Land to Col. Philip Warner, after the Restoration of Antigua to the English Crown, in_ 1667.