An historical and genealogical account of the noble family of Greville, : to the time of Francis, the present Earl Brooke, and Earl of Warwick : including the history and succession of the several Earls of Warwick since the Norman conquest; and some account of Warwick Castle . s houfe at North-end,in the county of Middlefex. On the death of the duke ofMontagu, the King, on the i6th of July, 1749, was pleafed toappoint him lord lieutenant and cuftos rotulorum of the countyof Warwick, in the rcjom of his grace. On the 3d of Febru-ary, 1751, he had a third fon, Robert-Fulke, born in Mar
An historical and genealogical account of the noble family of Greville, : to the time of Francis, the present Earl Brooke, and Earl of Warwick : including the history and succession of the several Earls of Warwick since the Norman conquest; and some account of Warwick Castle . s houfe at North-end,in the county of Middlefex. On the death of the duke ofMontagu, the King, on the i6th of July, 1749, was pleafed toappoint him lord lieutenant and cuftos rotulorum of the countyof Warwick, in the rcjom of his grace. On the 3d of Febru-ary, 1751, he had a third fon, Robert-Fulke, born in March, 1753, he was made knight of the moft ancientorder of the Thiftle. On the 13th of November, 1759, hewas by patent created Earl of Warwick, and afterv/ardsobtained a grant, to him and his defcendants, earls of Warwick,for bearing the creft anciently ufed by the earls of that county,viz. a Bear erect, argent, muzzled, gules, support- O INO ] ING A Ragged Staff of the first ; and of which granta copy is fuhjoined in the note*. On the 26th of Auguft,1760, his lordfhip had a £fth daughter, born in London, andchriftened Ann. TITLES. * To ALL AND SINGULAR, to whom thcfc prcfents fhall come, Stephen Martin Leake, efquire, garter principal king of** arms, fendeth, WHEREAS the Right Honour-* able Francis Earl Brooke hath re-* prefented unto the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Effingham, deputy* (with the Royal approbation) to the? Moll Noble Edward Duke of Nor-« folk, earl marfhal and hereditary marflial of England, That his Ma-* jefty having b^en gracioully pleafsd,• by letters patent under the great feal* of Great-Britain, bearing date the* thirteenth day of November laft, inthe thirty-third year of his reign, to grant unto him, and the heirsmale of his body lawfully begotten, the dignity, Ityle, and title,of Earl of Warwick : And being defirous to bear the creftantiently ufed by the Earls of Warwick, viz. a Bear Ereft,argent, muzzled, gules, fupporting aRACcED Staff
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