Earls of Orkney and Caithness, and the Sinclairs of Herdmanstoun, from whom sprang the lords Sinclair.

SENT LEGERE.-SIR ROBERT SENT LEGERE, Knt., the companion in arms of the CONQUEROR ; was, according to a tradition in the family, the person who supported that prince with his arm when he quitted the ship to land in Sussex. This Sir Robert, having overcome a pagan Dane who inhabited the manor of Ulcomb, in Kent, fixed his abode there; and in that place his posterity flourished for many generations. The lineal descendant of Sir Robert, SIR ARTHUR ST. LEGER, KRt, went first into Ireland in 1537, being appointed by HENRY VIII. one of the commissioners for letting the crown lands there, and returning inte England, was constituted lorddeputy of Ireland, 7th July, 1540. In 1543, he was recalled to inform the king of his administration of affairs; which gave his highness such satisfaction that he created him a knight-companion of the Garter, and sent him back lorddeputy, in which high office he continued until 1556, serving three sovereigns, when, being recalled by QUEEN MARY, he retired to his estate in Kent, and d. there, 12th March, 1559. This eminent person has been characterized "as a wise and wary gentleman, a valiant servitor in war, and a good justice in peace, properly learned, and having gravity interlaced with pleasantness." He m. Agnes, dau. of Hugh Warham, Esq. of Warham, and was s. by his second but eldest surviving son, SIR WARHAM ST. LEGER, of Ulcomb, who was appointed chief governor of Munster, in 1565, under the lord-deputy Sidney. In 1579, he was constituted knight-mareschal of the same province; and in 1580, he caused James of Desmond, who was deno

minated a notorious rebel, to be hanged under martial law at Cork. He was killed, eventually, in battle (in single combat), by Hugh Maguire, Lord of Fermanagh, who fell himself at the same time. Sir Warham m. Ursula, youngest dau. of George Nevil, Lord Abergavenny, and was s. by his son, SIR WILLIAM ST. LEGER, a privycouncillor, and lord-president of Munster in 1627. Sir William represented the city of Cork in parliament in 1639, and was appointed in that year sergeant-major-general in the army; he was subsequently employed against the rebels in Ireland; and dying about the year 1642, left, with other issue, from which descended the St. Legers of Yorkshire and Gen. St. Leger,

WILLIAM, his heir, slain at
Newberry, 1644.

JOHN, successor to his brother,
and ancestor of the Lords
Doneraile.

Heyward, of Castlemore and Heyward's Hill; lieut.-col. in the army, and M.P.; ancestor of the present ANTHONY BUT, LER ST. LEGER, Esq, of Heyward's Hill, co. Cork.

SENT QUINTIN.-Sir Herbert de St. Quintin, whose name appears on the Roll, came from Lower Picardy, where the chief town is called St. Quintin. His descendant, Herbert St. Quintin, summoned to parliament as a Baron, left a dau. and heiress, Lora, mother, by her third husband, Sir Robert Grey of Rotherfield, of Elizabeth Grey, who m. Henry Lord Fitzhugh, and was direct progenitrix of Queen Catharine Parr.

SOMERVILLE.-The name of the Norman was Sir Gualter de Somerville. He became Lord of Whichnour, county Stafford, and his descendants possessed considerable property, about the close of the 12th century, in the co. Lanark, and in other parts of Scotland; of whom

WILLIAM DE SOMERVILLE was one of the barons appointed at the marriage of ALEXANDER II. (whose reign commenced in 1214) to exercise in a tournament at the castle of Roxburgh, This William's descendant, James, thirteenth Lord Somerville, augmented his fortune considerably by an arrangement with his kinsman, William Somerville, Esq., of Eadstone, co. Warwick, and of Somerville-Aston, Co. Gloucester, the celebrated poet, and author of the " Chase," representative of the English and elder branch of his lordship's family; by which, in consideration of certain sums applied to the relief of burdens, the poet, who was unmarried, settled the reversions of his estates upon Lord Somerville; and died in 1742, when the baron inherited accordingly.

The present head of the family is Kenelm, LORD SOMERVILLE; a younger branch is represented by JAMES SOMERVILLE SOMERVILLE, Esq., of Dinder House, co. Somer

set.

SANFORD.-The family pedigree of the Sandfords, of Sandford, co. Salop, commences with Thomas de Sandford, the Soldier of the Conquest, who obtained as his part of the Spoliation, the lands of Sanford. Fuller, in the Worthies of England, observes-"This ancient name is still extant, at the same place in this county (Salop) in a worshipful equipage, for on the list of such as compounded for their reputed delinquency in our late civil wars, I find Francis Sandford, Esq., of Sandlord, paying four hundred and fiftynine pounds for his composition, yet I believe the gentleman begrudged not his money, in preservation of his own integrity, acting according to the information of his conscience and the practice of his ancestors. I understand that the said Francis Sandford

was

very well skilled in making warlike fortifications. The present chief of this ancient race is THOMAS

HUGH SANDFORD, Esq., of Sandford, grandnephew of the late Daniel Sandford, Bishop of Edinburgh. A younger branch, that seated at the Isle of Up-Rossall, Shrewsbury, is represented by the Rev. HUMPHREY SANDFORD, M.A.

SOMERY In the reign of HENRY II, John de Somerie acquired the Barony of Dudley, in Staffordshire, by marrying Hawyse, sister and heir of Gervase Paganell. Their great great grandson, Sir John de Somerie, who had summons to Parliament from 10th March, 1308, to the 14th March, 1322, died in the latter year, when his castles and lands devolved upon his sisters as coheirs. Margaret, the elder, married to John de Sutton, had the castles of Dudley and Joane, the younger, wife of Thomas Botetornt, had Rowley Somery, county Stafford.

SENT JOHN.-WILLIAM DE ST. JOHN, whose name was derived from the Senitors of St. John, near Rouen, came into England with the CONQUEROR, as grand master of the artillery, and supervisor of the waggons and carriages, whence the horses' hames, or collar, was borne for his cognizance. He m. Oliva, dau. of Ralph de Filgiers, of Normandy, and had by her, Thomas, who d. without issue, and John de ST. JOHN, who inherited, on the demise of his brother, all the lands in England, and principally the lordship of STANTON, CO. Oxon, (for distinction from the other towns of the same name, called STANTON ST. JOHN.) This John was a person of great eminence in the reign of WILLIAM RUFUS, being one of the twelve knights that accompanied Robert Fitz-Hamon, Earl of Gloucester, in a warlike expedition against the Welsh, and received, "in reward for his great services, and helps in many victories," the castle of Faumont, co. Glamorgan. He had issue, a dau., Avoris, m. to Sir Bernard de St. Valery, and two

sons, I. ROGER, ancestor of the noble House of ST. JOHN, and Thomas, Lord of Stanton, St. John, living 13 HEN. II., whose son, ROGER, was assessed £133 6s. 8d. for trespassing in the King's forests, 22 HENRY II. The grandson of this Roger, JOHN ST. JOHN, was killed at the battle of Evesham, 43 EDWARD III. He was in the holy wars with RICHARD I., who, at the siege of Acon, in Palestine, adopted the device of tying a leathern thong, or garter, round the left leg of a certain number of knights, (one of whom was this John St. John,) that they might be impelled to higher deeds of valour. This is supposed by some to have given the idea of the Order of the Garter.

SENT LES.-After the execution of Waltheof, the Conqueror offered Judith, his niece, the deceased Earl's widow, in marriage to SIMON ST. Lız, a noble Norman, but the lady peremptorily rejected the alliance," owing," Dugdale says, "to St. Liz's halting in one leg;" which refusal so displeased the King, that he immediately seized upon the Castle and honour of Huntingdon, which the Countess held in dower, exposing herself and her daughters to a state of privation and obscurity in the Isle of Ely, and other places; while he bestowed upon the said Simon St. Liz, the town of Northampton, and the whole hundred of Falkeley, then valued at £40 per annum, to provide shoes for his horses. St. Liz, thus disappointed in gaining the hand of the Countess of Huntingdon, made his addresses, with greater success, to her elder daughter, the Lady Mand, who became his wife, when William conferred upon the husband, the Earldom of Huntingdon and Northampton.

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SENT GEORGE. The descendants of Baldwin St. George, the Norman, flourished in England for several centuries, and frequently

represented the County of Cambridge in parliament. They were seated at Hartley St. George, in that shire, full 500 years. SIR RICHARD ST. GEORGE, Clarenceux, king-of-arms, eighteenth in a direct line from Baldwin the Norman, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Nicholas St. John, Esq., of Lidiard Tregoze, co. Wilts, and had three sons,

I. Henry (Sir), Garter king-of-arms, who left four sons.

Sir Thomas St George, Garter king-of-arms.

Colonel William St. George, slain ex parte regis.

Sir Henry St. George, Clarenceux king-of-arms.

Sir Richard St. George, Ulster

king-of-arms of Ireland.

II. George (Sir), of Carrickdrumrusk, co. Leitrim, whose grandson, SIR GEORGE ST. GEORGE, Bart., elevated to the peerage of Ireland, as LORD ST. GEORGE, in 1715, left at his decease a dau., the Hon. Mary St. George, m. John Usher, Esq., M.P., by whom she had a dau., Judith, wife of George Lowther, Esq., of Kilrue, co. Meath, and a son, St. George Usher, who was elevated to the peerage of Ireland, in 1763, as LORD ST. GEORGE, of Hartley St. George, co. Leitrim, which dignity expired at his lordship's decease, without male issue, in 1775. His only dau., EmiliaOlivia, m. William-Robert, second Duke of Leinster.

III. Richard, who went over to Ireland, in the beginning of the 17th century, in the royal army, and was appointed governor of the town and Castle of Athlone, From him descend the four brothers, THOMAS BALDWIN ST. GEORGE, of Parsonstown, Acheson St. George, Esq., of Wood Park, co. Armagh, John St. George, Esq., of Woodside, Cheshire, and Archibald, of Camma Lodge, co. Roscommon, as well as the Baronet

of Woodsgift, the present SIR RICHARD BLigh St. George. SAY.-Picot de Say was, in the time of the Conqueror, one of the principal persons in the County of Salop, under Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury, and founded the distinguished Baronial house of Say, from which derives, through female descent, the lord Saye and Sele. Frederic Richard Say, Esq., of Harley Street, appears to be the male representative.

SENT BARBE.-Robert de St. Barbe, who came with the Conqueror from Normandy (in which province a town and two villages bearing the name are still to be found) was, according to an ancient charter of the Abbey of Glastonbury, progenitor of Robert St. Barbe of South Brent, co

Somerset, to whom the families of St. Barbe of Ashington, Whiteparish, and Ridgeway traced their pedigree. The only surviving branch is that settled at Lymington, Hants.

SENT MORE.-The baronial family of St. Maur, founded by the warrior of Hastings, became extinct in the chief male line at the decease in 1499 of Richard, 6th Lord St. Maur, whose only dau. and heiress, Alice, wedded William, 5th Lord Zouche of Haryngworth. The Seymours, Dukes of Somerset, whose historic greatness needs little of ancestral aid to augment its glory, claim to be a scion of the baronial house, and their pretensions may be sustained by the valuable authority of Camden..