. Wiltshire notes and queries . nd son,1st Earl of Berkshire; ob. 1626, and bur. at Walden. Hisgreat grandson, Baron of Chesterford and Earl of Bindon, In 1745 Henry Howard, Earl of Berkshire3 (1625),Viscount Andover (1625), and Baron Charlton (1621) suc-ceeded his cousin as Earl of Suffolk ; Deputy Earl Mar-shal 1725; his descendant the late Earl, for Malmes-bury 1859-6S, succeeded in 1876; mar. Mary Eleanor Lau-derdale, grand-dau. of the 8th Earl of Coventry; ob. 1S9S,and bur. at Charlton, and was succeeded by HenryMolyneux, the present Earl. Residence, Charlton Park, Wilts. Thynn
. Wiltshire notes and queries . nd son,1st Earl of Berkshire; ob. 1626, and bur. at Walden. Hisgreat grandson, Baron of Chesterford and Earl of Bindon, In 1745 Henry Howard, Earl of Berkshire3 (1625),Viscount Andover (1625), and Baron Charlton (1621) suc-ceeded his cousin as Earl of Suffolk ; Deputy Earl Mar-shal 1725; his descendant the late Earl, for Malmes-bury 1859-6S, succeeded in 1876; mar. Mary Eleanor Lau-derdale, grand-dau. of the 8th Earl of Coventry; ob. 1S9S,and bur. at Charlton, and was succeeded by HenryMolyneux, the present Earl. Residence, Charlton Park, Wilts. Thynne of Warminster.—See Weymouth. Tottenham.—See Ailesbury. 1 These two Baronies were terminated in favour of Alfred Joseph, the20th Lord Stourton, in 1S7S. Sec an amusing account of so many ancientBaronies being called out of abeyance in the early Victorian age by Beacons-field, in his novel Sybil. 2 These two last dignities became extinct in 1721. 3 All these titles were conferred in his fathers lifetime. (To be contiuited.). THE WESTBURY CUP. SEPTEMBER, 1904. SOME NOTES ON THE MONT ACUTE S, EARLS OFSALISBURY. HE title of Earl of Salisbury was first bestowed, by w -j^llffi tne Empress Maud, on Patrick, son of Walter,1 andgrandson of Edward of Salisbury,2 the Vice-ffl?jr comes, or Sheriff, and one of the principal land-holders in Wiltshire at the time of the Domesdaysurvey. Patrick, the first Earl, so styled in the Liber Niger of 1165,was two years afterwards slain by Guy de Lusignan, andburied in the Church of St. Hilary, in Poictou. Mis sonWilliam, who succeeded as second Earl, died in 1196, and, withhis wife, found a grave near the porch of the Priory Church atBradenstoke. Ela, their only daughter (afterwards Foundressof Lacock) married William Longespee (the son of Henry II 1 Founder of Bradenstoke Priory, where both he and his wife, Sybil[Chaworth], were buried in the same grave near the vestry. See Book ofLacock, quoted in Dugdales Monasticon. 2 Younger son of Walter, E
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