288 BEAUMONT. 10 Oct. 1840,( h ) the Queeu having upon Hia petitic terminated the edjcijanec of that A Gilbert Stapleton, s. June 1636 Sir Murk St-iple- ton, cr. n Bart. 1602, eventually sole 1)., I.'. S.p.S. 1707. X Mark Erring-=x=Ann«, only ton of Ponte- l.ind, N.a'th- umberlaiul. cliilil that issue. I Nicholas Errington, nephew and=p h. of .Sir Mark Stapleton, took the name of Stapleton, <t. 171"). -J Nicholas Stapleton of Garlton=j= afsd. ... and. h. </. 1750. Thomas Stapleton, s. and h,== thv. PBTITIOSEB for the Ba- I rony of Beaumont in 2 7S!> & 1798, </. 1821. , , i Miles Sta-f pleton, 2nd S.. tf. 1808. Miles Sta- pleton of Carlton, s. and h. d. s.p. 1836. Catharine, sis- ter and h. m. Sir George C. Throckmorton, Bart.,andri.s.p. Jan. 1839. Thomas Sta-=i= pleton of Carl- ton, s. and h. d. July 1839. Miles Thomas Staj)leton, 8. and h. (heir of Joan. Lady Stapleton, and consequently coheir, i.e. heir of a moiety of the Barony of Beaumont) in whom the abeyance was ter- minated by Writ of Summons, 16 Oct. 1840, as Lord Be.vumont. -p Francis (Non-ays), Earl of Berk-=f shire, r. and u. A. s.p.m. 1623. I EdwardWray,=j=Elizabeth, (Baroness m. 27 March, | Norris)d;t. aiuisoieu. 1622. | bur. 28 Nov. 1645. L 1 Montague (Ber-=rBridget, da and tie), 2nd Earl of 1 soleh., second wife, Lindsey d. 1666. | bu>:2iM:u:V}i,6-i. James Bertie (1st a and h. of his=? mother), sum. to Pari, as Lord "Norrcys de Hycote," 1679, dr. Earl of Abingdon 1682.. <(. 1609. Montague (Bertie), James Karl of Abingdon, s. Bertie and h. d. 17 13, s.p.s. rf v.f. Willoughby (Bertie), Earl=f of Abingdon, nephew mid ' k d. 1762. Willoughby (Bertie), Earl of=j= Abingdon, a. and h. d. " 7 Montague (Bertie), Earl of Abingdon, a. and h, (heir of Fridcswido, Lady Norreys, and consequently coheir i.e. heir of a moiety 1 of the Barony of Beaumont), living 1840. I () The early years of the Queen's accession were the halcyon times for the Teemge lawyers. Supporters of the Whig Government (Lord Melbourne's) who, under other ministers, might have entered the Peerage from below, had now good reason to expect to be placed over the heads of almost the entire Baronage {e.g. over such families as Stourton, St. John, Dormer, Roper, Clifford, Byron, &c, whose ancestors had fur hundreds of years consecutively held a Peerage), provided only that the Peerage lawyer could prove that there was in them (or, failing that, in their respective wives, which would equally benefit their posterity ) some small f ruction of co-representation of some one of the prodii/ious number of early Baronies, which (according to modern interpretation) were created in fee by the numerous writs of summons issued by the Plantagenet Kings. Before the time of Geo. Ill (passing over the anomalous case of Le Despeneer) no abeyance had been terminated that bad existed more than the space of some 30 years or bo ; that King, however, in four (Botetourt, Zouehe, Boos and Howard de Walden) out of the eight Baronies he thus terminated, introduced the pernicious practice of reviving Baronies whose estates had been entirely alienated, and where the dignities themselves had lapsed for a century or more. It was reserved, however, for the Bhort space of little more than three years (March 1838 to May 1841) to termi- nate the abeyance of six Baronies — of which five had long been disused, the " Caput Baronia'" and all estates belonging to them baring been alienated and their very These five (1) Vaux, which bad been in abeyance names become unfam about 175 years; (2) Biiave, about 300 years, the newly established Baroness representing one of the younger of tiie nix sisters and coheirs (all of whom left ' saue l of the second Lord ; (3) Beaumont, about 350 years ; (4) Cajioys, above 400 yews,
