Harley - DA396 .H2 A2 1854

Couins. MS. Rectors of B. Bryan, Hari. Coll. 6 Dugdale's Warwickshire, p.625, ed.1656. Collins. MS. ped. in Lady F. V. Harcourt's Collections. xii INTRODUCTION. which had been destroyed in the siege, after its restoration was first used. The Rev. Thomas Froysell, his own kinsman, minister of Clun in Shropshire, preached the funeral sermon, which was after- wards published (London 1658) under the title of " The Beloved Disciple," together with another sermon, " The Gale of Opportunity," preached on the death of his friend Humphrey Walcot, of Walcot, Esq. From the former the sketch of his character is added to this Introduction, Sir Robert was thrice married, First, to Anne, daughter of Charles Barret, of Belhouse in Essex, Esq. by whom he hadd a son who died early, and was buried at Bucknell in Shropshire. She was buried at Cuxton in Kent, where there is a monument to her memory. Secondly, to Mary, sister of Sir Richard Newport a (afterwards Lord Newport) of High Ercall, in the county of Salop, by whom he had nine children, who died young. She was buried at Brampton 5th Aug. 1622. Thirdly, to Brilliana, second daughter of Sir Edward Conway, (afterwards Baron Conway,b of Ragley, in the county of Warwick, 22nd March, 1624, and Viscount Killutagh in Ireland, 15th March, 1626, and Viscount Conway, of Conway Castle, 6th June, 1627), by Dorothy, daughter of Sir John Tracy, of Todington, in the countyof Gloucester, and widow of Edward bray, of Great Barrington, in that county. Her brothers were Edward, second Viscount Conway, Sir Thomas Conway and Ralph Conway ; and her sisters, Frances,, married to Sir William Pelham, of Brocklesby, in the county of Lincoln, and Helengenwagh, married to Sir William Smyth of Hill Hall, in the county of Essex. Recent generations of the Harleys, since the time of Hen: VII, had married into the families of Hackluyt of Yetton,e Croft of Croft, Warnecombe of Ivington, in Herefordshire, and Vaughan of Tretower, in the county of Brecknock; by which alliances a cousin- ship existed between the Harleys and most of the families of note and

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