Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical . n of Harwich (English honours); Earl and Vis-count of Hillsborough, Viscount of Kilwarlin, and Baron Hill, ofKilwarlin, Irish honours. Creations. Baron Hill, of Kilwarlin, and Viscount Hillsbo-rough, both in the county of Downe, August 21st, ]/lJ, 4George L; Viscount Kilwarlin, and Earl of Hillsborough, Octo-ber 3d, 1751, 25 George H.; Lord Harwich, Baron Harwich, inEssex, November 20th, 1756, 30 George IL ; Viscount Fairford,and Earl of Hillsborough, August 12th, 1772j and Marquis ofDownshire, in Leland, August lyth, I
Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical . n of Harwich (English honours); Earl and Vis-count of Hillsborough, Viscount of Kilwarlin, and Baron Hill, ofKilwarlin, Irish honours. Creations. Baron Hill, of Kilwarlin, and Viscount Hillsbo-rough, both in the county of Downe, August 21st, ]/lJ, 4George L; Viscount Kilwarlin, and Earl of Hillsborough, Octo-ber 3d, 1751, 25 George H.; Lord Harwich, Baron Harwich, inEssex, November 20th, 1756, 30 George IL ; Viscount Fairford,and Earl of Hillsborough, August 12th, 1772j and Marquis ofDownshire, in Leland, August lyth, I789. Arms. Sable, on a fess. Argent, between three leopards, pas-sant-guardant, proper, three escallops of the field. Crest. On a wreath, a rein deers head, coupt gules, collaredand attired, Or. Supporters. On the dexter side, a leopard, proper, ducally col-lared and cliaincd. Or; on the sinister, a rein deer. Gules, du-cally collared, chained, and attired. Or, Motto. Per deum et ferrum obtenux. Chief Seat. At Hillsborough, in the county of Downe. EARL OF AYLESBURY. 107. BRUCE BRUDENEL, EARL OF AYLESBURY. For the male ancestry of this noble Lord, I must refer thereader to the account already given of his elder brother, the Earlof Cardigan. But as his Lordship inherits his Barony by virtueof a special limitation in the patent granted to the late Earl ofAylesbury, his maternal uncle, and as (pursuant to the will ofhis said uncle) his Lordship has assumed the surname of thatfamily, and has been since advanced to the chief title inherited bythem; it seems necessary to insert the descent of the Bkuces, sofar back as the ancestry of the late Countess of Cardigan, motherto the present Earl of Aylesbury, can be uninterruptedly traced. They are decended from Robert le Bkus, (or Bniis) anoble ^ knight of Normandy, who was a person of such note andvalour, and so much confided in by William Duke of Normandy,that after his victory over Harold, King of England, he sent himto subdue the north
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