214 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. army sent against the rebel earls, 13th Elizabeth. He m. Elizabeth, daugh- ter and heiress of Sir Thomas Oxen- bridge, son and heir of Sir Goddard Oxenbridge, by Elizabeth, his wife, the sole daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Echingham, of Echingham, and was s at his decease, in 1581, by his eldest son, WOliam Tyrwhitt, Esq. of Ketilby, who wedded a daughter of Peter Ereschville, Esq. of Stayvely, in Derbyshire, and was s. by his son, Eobert Tyrwhitt, Esq. of Ketilby, who m. Bridget, daughter of John Manners, fourtli Earl of Rutland, and left a son and successor, William Tyrwhitt, Esq. of Ketilby, who m. Catherine, daughter of Anthony Brown, Viscount Monta- gue, and was s., at his decease, by his eldest surviving son, Francis Tyrwhitt, Esq. of Ketilby, who d. in 1673, leaving an only daughter and heiress, Catherine, who espoused Sir Henry Hunloke, Bart., of Wingerworth, and the great great grandson of this mar- riage was Sir Henry Hunloke, Bart., of Wingerworth, wlio thus represented the eldest or Ketilby branch of the Tyrwhitts. II. William, d. s.p. III. Tristram, of G-ranby, in Lincolnshire, who was "camp maister" to the army marching northwards to quell the rebel earls of Northumberland and West- morland. He m. a daughter of Sir William Shipwith, Knt., by Alice, his wife, daughter of Sir Lionel Dymock, Knt., but d. s.p. Sir Tristram was author of A Treatise on the Duty of a Commander-in- Chief. IV. M.iR5iADUKE, of whom presently. I. Elizabeth, m. Humphrey Littlebury, of Stainsby. II. Eaith, m. 1st, Ambrose Sutton, Esq. of Barton, and 2ndly, Lawrence Meers, Esq. III. Troth, in. Godfrey Foljambe, Esq. The fourth son of Sir William Tyrwhitt, MABMADrKE Tykwhite, Esq. of Scotter, espoused Ellen, third daughter of Lionel Beresby, Esq. of Thribourg, in the county of York, by whom he left at his demise, in 1599, a son and heir, Robert Twtbwhitt, Esq. of Scotter, and afterwards of Cameringham, co. Lincoln, who was sheriff for Lincolnshire, 9th James I. He m. Anne, daughter of Edward Basset,*
- " The Bassets," to follow the words of a
quaint inscription in Cameringham, " were also in their generations of great authority, having been bai'ons and allied to the crown, and companions of the Order of the Garter." Esq. of Fledborough, in Nottinghamshire, and had (with other children, who died young), I. Maemaduke, his heir. II. Robert, was for thirty-two years in the service of Chaeles I. He was eldest esquire of the horse, master of the buckhounds, and, with Sir C. Clerk, ranger of the New Forest. He followed the fortunes of that ill-fated monarch to the last, and when the momentary ascendency of the Regicides had sullied their country with the blood of his master, he did not long survive. The broken cavalier lingei-ed, unmolested by Ceomweli, at Hampton Court, but for two years. He d. January, 1651, and was buried in Hampton Church, where a monument is erected to his memory. III. William, d. v.p. IV. Edmund, gentleman pensioner in ordinary to Charles I. V. Francis, was, in his youth, cup-bearer to the Queen of Bohemia, sister to Chaeles I, and accompanying her to her husband's court, was present at most of the great battles of that period on the continent. In 1631, having the king's commission for that purpose, he raised 1,500 men for the service of Gustavus Adolphus, and in 1632, when, vipou the retirement of the Marquis of Hamilton from the command of Gus- tavus's English and Scottish forces, his successor, the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, had reformed the 6,000 British into two regiments, Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Tyrwhitt was, by Gustavus's desire, appointed to the command of the first. In November of the same year, a few days before the battle of Lutzen, he was taken prisoner by the Imperialists, whilst on a reconnoitring party with Gustavus, and was thus debarred from sharing the honours of that fatal day. He escaped after the action. In 1642, he joined King Charles, at York, with 155 men, and in the same year was appointed to a principal command in the wars in Ire- land, where he d., 1643, and was buried in Christ Church, Cork. Ti. Thomas, "divine and chaplain" to King Charles I. I. Elizabeth, m. Sir Ferdinando Lee. The eldest son and successor, Maumaduke Tyrwhitt, Esq. of Camer- ingham, b. 15S8, m. Mary Haggerston, and, dying in 1631, was s. by his eldest son, Cecil Tyewhitt, Esq. of Cameringham, who m. Anne Townshend, and was *. at his demise, in 1694, by his son, Robeet Tyrwhitt, Esq. of Cameringham. This gentleman in. Ellen, daughter of Thomas Lyster, Esq. of Coleby, and had issue, I. Thomas, who s. his father at Camer- ingham. This gentleman, who em- braced the Catholic religion, d. unui.
