. Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical. same, and while acommoner represented in parliament Great Bed win in 179O; andI8O63 and Selkirk, Icc. in 1796. Titles. James-George Stopford, Earl of Courtown, ViscountStopford, and Baron of Courtown j Irish honours. And- BaronSaltersford in Cheshire. s Collins, vol. ii p. 501. i Ulsters Office. 452 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. Creations. Baron of Courtown in the county of Wexford,September IQih, 1758, 32 Geo. II. j Viscount Stopford, and Earlof Courtown April 12th, 1762, 2 Geo. III.; Lord Saltersford ofCheshire, August 13th, 1
. Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical. same, and while acommoner represented in parliament Great Bed win in 179O; andI8O63 and Selkirk, Icc. in 1796. Titles. James-George Stopford, Earl of Courtown, ViscountStopford, and Baron of Courtown j Irish honours. And- BaronSaltersford in Cheshire. s Collins, vol. ii p. 501. i Ulsters Office. 452 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. Creations. Baron of Courtown in the county of Wexford,September IQih, 1758, 32 Geo. II. j Viscount Stopford, and Earlof Courtown April 12th, 1762, 2 Geo. III.; Lord Saltersford ofCheshire, August 13th, 1794. Arms. Azure, crusuly of crosslets, three lozenges Or. Crest. On a wreath, a cockatrice rising. Supporters. Two stags, plain collared and chained, eachcharged on the shoulder with a lozenge. Motto. Patri^ infelici fidelis. Chief Seats. Courtown in the county of Wexford, forty-fivemiles from Dublin; and formerly Bete-hall in the county ofChester, one hundred and fifty-one miles from London, * s Information of Dean Stopford, but see Lysons, ut supiia. LORD DAWNEY. 453. DAWNEY, LORD DAWNEY. CVISCOUNT DOWNE IN Sir Paine Dawney, of Dawney-castle in Normandy, fromwhom this family is descended, came into England with KingWilliam the Conqueror. In former times they wrote their name, DAnney, and werelords of the manor of Shunock, or Shannock, in the county ofCornwall. Of this family was John Dawney, living in the reign of Ed-ward I. who married Jane, third and youngest daughter of PeterLe Cave (by his wife, the only child of Sir Thomas Bromflete),and had Sir Edward DAnnay, the father of Sir Nicholas, who in the reign of Edw. II. obtained a charterfor a weekly Wednesday and Friday market, and a yearly fair onthe eve, day and morrow of St. James the Apostle, at his saidmanor of Shannock. In 1 Edw. III. he had summons to parliament among theBarons of England, but not after, ? which was occasioned by hisabsence in the holy war against the infidels; whence he broughta very rich
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