. A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours. nel James Baldwin, from ValentineGreatrakes, esq. of AfFane, in the county ofWaterford. In 1686, James II. confirmedthe possession by patent. The property- hadoriginally formed part of the great estatesof tke Earl of Clancarty, from whom it waspurchased by the family of Valentine Greatrakes, of AfFane,born in 1628, was the celebrated person whowas supposed to cure various maladies bymerely stroking the
. A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours. nel James Baldwin, from ValentineGreatrakes, esq. of AfFane, in the county ofWaterford. In 1686, James II. confirmedthe possession by patent. The property- hadoriginally formed part of the great estatesof tke Earl of Clancarty, from whom it waspurchased by the family of Valentine Greatrakes, of AfFane,born in 1628, was the celebrated person whowas supposed to cure various maladies bymerely stroking the parts affected, of whomthe philosophic Boyle makes special andhonourable mention, and of whom a par-ticular account will be found in the Philo-sophical Transactions of 1699. His ownletter to Boyle (1666, in in BoylesWorks) is a memorable proof of self-delu-sion, but his philanthropy was unequivocal ;for he spent his income in charity. * Grandjather of Daniel OConnell, esq. ,for Dublin. 697 NEWDEGATE, OF HAREFIELD. NEWDEGATE, CHARLES-NEWDIGATE, esq. of Harefield Place, in thecounty of Middlesex, b, 14th July, 1816, succeeded his father 23rd April, 1833. This family, whose name was writtenvariously Niwudgate, Niwodegate, New-digate, and Newdegate, possessed fromtime immemorial to the beginning of thereign of Charles I. the manor and landsof Newdegate, in the county of first ancestor upon record,John de Niwudegate, living in the 14thof King John, left by Agnes, his wife, threesons, Richard, William, and Robert. Tothe eldest, Richard de Niwudegate, as appears byan ancient deed, William Yonge grantedfor homage and service half a yard of land,and by another dateless charter of WilliamTestardus, he held other lands. He weddedAlicia, daughter of William de Horley, andhad three sons, John, William, and eldest, John de Nywdegate, living III. granted by deed to Galfred dela Wytecrofte the land wliich Norman dela Bere and Mabilia, his wi
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