ancient, and also has rebuilt it, and the centre.

Pedigree of Cholmeley of Easton.

Sir Henry Cholmely Kt. who died in 1620, married Alice daughter of William Lacy of Stamford, their fourth son John, of Kirkby Under Wood, entered his pedigree 1634, he married Elizabeth, Daughter of Edw. Pilkington Co. Derby, but Henry of Easton married Elizabeth daughter of Sir Richard Sondes, he died A. D. 1632. Their son Montague Cholmeley, had a warrant from Charles I. dated at Lincoln, 16th July 1642, for the dignity of a Baronet : but the confusion of the times probably prevented the patent being made out, (Warrant penes M. Cholmeley,) he married Elizabeth daughter of Sir Ed. Hartop, and died 1652. Their son Montague who died in 1700 married Elizabeth daughter of Richard Booth Alderman of London, his 2nd wife, (his 1st Alice Booth died, sine prole) 'Their only son James Cholmeley, married Catherine Woodfine, and died 1735, she died 1770 aged 89. John Cholmeley, their son, married Penelope daughter of Joseph Herne of Twyford, Co. Middlesex, Esq. and died 1768. Montague, then only son married Sarah daughter of Humphry Sibthorpe M. D. of Oxford, and

died in 1803. Their son Sir Montague Chol meley, who was high sheriff for the county of Lincoln in 1805, married Elizabeth daughter of John Harrison Esq. of Norton Place, near Spittal, in Co Lincoln, and has issue, Montague, John, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Maria.

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.

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Pedigree of the Irby Family Lords af Boston.

This family bath been of very long standing in Lincolnshire, and served in several parliaments for Boston, in the said county.

They were heretofore lords of Irby, (anciently wrote Ireby) in Candlesho wapentake, in Lindsey, near Wainfleet, late part of the estate of William Bury, of Lyndwood Grange, in com. Linc. Esq; great nephew and heir of the late Sir Thomas Bury, Knt. late lord chief baron of the exchequer.

In 1251, 35. Hen. III. Sir William de Ireby, Kut. occurs. amongst the witnesses to the charter of foundation, of the abbey of Hales, in Gloucestershire, founded by Richard, earl of Cornwall, King of the Romans. As also to a charter of confirmation to the monastery of St. Bega, in Cumberland, granted by William de Fortibus, earl of Albemarle.-As also to another

ebarter of the aforesaid earl of Cornwall to the priory of Knaresborough, in Yorkshire, dated 10. April, 1257. This gentleman was, very probably, in some eminent employment, under, and attendant upon that great prince, who was the second son of King John.

John de Irby, 5. Edw. III. 1332, was one of the jurors in an inquest, taken before the King's escheator for the founding a chauntry in Wygton, by John Gernoun, and Margaret his wife, and granting it, together with the advowson of the church, to the abby of Holmcultrum, in the county of Cumberland.

Leonard Ireby, Esq; was one of the burgesses in parliament for the borough of Boston from the first of Queen Mary, to the sixth of Phil. and Mary,and again, 5, Eliz, 1563, and the 13th, 1571. The family had here a very large mansion house, by the side of the haven, wherein was a gallery, with a fret-work ceiling and several coats of Arms of the Ireby's, some impail'd, and others quartered with those of other families, in this and the adjacent counties, with whom they inter-married, in painted glass in the windows, which house hath, of late years, been let.*

It is now (1816) down; it stood nearly opposite the west end of the church, on the west side of the ri

In 31. Eliz. 1589, Anthony Irby, Esq; was one of the burgesses in parliament for the borough of Boston, and again, 39, and 43, of that reign, and I. Jac. I

Sir Anth, Ireby, Kut. his son and heir, in 3, 15 and 16 Car. I. was burgess for Boston, and high sheriff of the county of Lincoln, 13 Car. I. and gave, for his arms, Argent, a Fret, of eight Pieces, Sable, on a canton, Gules, a Chaplet, Or. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Peyton, of Iselbam, in con. Cantab. Bart, by whom he had issue, three sons, Sir Anthony, Edward, and Thomas ; and two daughters Alice, married, first, to Francis Jermy, of Gunton, in Norfolk, Esq; (by whom he had five sons and three daughters ;) and, secondly, to Edmund de Grey, Esq; of the Merton family; she died July 30, 1665, aged fifty-six, and lies buried at Gunton; and Elizabeth Irby, whe died an infant. For this Sir Anthony, and his lady, was erected a sumptuous monument, still standing in the west end of the north aile of the parish church of Whapload, in the wapentake of ver. A coach road led to it from the old bridge, where the White hart Inn now stands. The site is now a garden belonging to a chimney-sweeper. Part of the north wall is up. A view of the house is given in Stukley's Itinerary.