Sir * Styled in Latin, Ingrossator rotulae magna; in Curia Scaccarii. '' In the Court Calendar it i« valued now at £651 a year, and is at present held by Lord William Bentinck. ' Willis. Notit. Pari ch. iv. sec. in. THE CHEQUERS BRANCH. 499 William de Alta Ripa, of Algerkirk in the county of Lincoln ; and who appears to have acquired this estate by his union with Catherine, the daughter and co-heiress of Sir Chequers of Chequers. From him, by a descent of ten steps, we arrive at Sir William Hawtrey, Knight, the father of Bridget*. There are two flat monuments of this family in Ellesborough church. One has the effigies of a gentleman and lady, engraved on a brass plate, with two groups of figures, the one of eleven men, and the other of seven women, representing their sons and daughters. The brass fillets, with the inscription, have been torn off, but there is the coat of arms of Hawtrey. The other has an inscription on a brass plate in the old black letter. #f pour ruartttf prat) for fht sottlrs of Cfcomas ©atotreg (Ssqugf r, anti £>pjbell his irjyffe tohprh GThomas fcrresspb the xvth tiap of flo- brmbec in the pm of our Hortrc 6o*& a mccccc . xl. mi . ariO tl;f siapU £$itU tomsSptJ the .... trap of ... . in the wre of our iCorbr <8oti a mccccc on tohose sfoute anfo all Christen soules Slesu habe merrp. iiere Ipethe the bofcp of iHarpe somtpme the iupfe of S83iIIiam ^ato- trep of this parpshe (Sgqupa*, luho oeparte'o this Ipfe in trabeu" of her fprst rftgRr the xth Uap of Serember in the per? of our 3Lorl3 #00 M . vc. l. v. hjbose soule £0)3 parson* The wife of Sir William Hawtree, the father of Bridget, was Winifred, the daughter of Ambrose Dormer, Esquire, of Great Milton in Oxford- shire, and sister of Sir Michael Dormer, who married Dorothy Hawtrey, sister of Sir William Hawtrey c . Sir William Hawtrey had no male issue ; but he had three other daughters, Mary, married to Sir Francis Wolley ; Anne, to John Sanders of Dinton ; and Elizabeth, to Walter d Vi-itation of Bucks, in 1574. Harl. MSS No. 1139. Pedigree of Hawtrey in Brown Willis, supra. In the twenty-sixth of Elizabeth, the Queen granted to Michael Hawtrey, Philippa li is wife, and Willi. im Hawtrey, their son, the Rectory and Advowson of the Vi- carage of Wendover, for their lives, rendering 49^ l6s. 8d. a year. The fine paid was 501. Rot. Pat. in Brown Willis, MSS. vol. xl. fol. 106. e Monument of the Dormers in Great Milton Church. Brown Willis's MSS. vol. xix. in Bibl. Bodl. 3 s 2 500 THE CHEQUERS BRANCH. book iv. Pye, son and heir of Sir Walter Pye. The estate at Chequers went with Bridget, the second daughter, to Sir Henry Croke f . Sir Henry Croke died of the stone, the first of January, in 1659, in the seventy-second year of his age, and was buried at Ellesborough. In the inscription upon his monument, which is a flat marble on the pavement, there is a singular thought, conceived in the quaint beauties of the lan- guage of those times, that " he did not love the poor, and therefore that " none might continue in poverty, was the constant object of his exertions, " and of the employment of his wealth." p. m. s. REQUIESCIT SUB HOC MARMORE DOMINI HENRICI CROKE, EQUI- TIS AURATI, DEPOSITUM, ANNOS XLIII CLERICI PIP.E OFFICIO GAUDENS, TAM LITERIS QUAM MORIBUS HUMANISSIMI : AN". DN\ MIRABILI MDLXXXVIIl" NATI : jETATIS LXXII, DOMINIQUE MDCLIX, PRIMO MANE, MENSE JANUARII, LITHIASI MORBO, DE- NATI. EX DIUTURNITATE JUDICIUM COMPUTETIS, EX EUPHEMIA FIDELITATEM, SINGULIS CHARISSIMUS SOLAS PAUPERES NON REDAMAVIT, IDEOQUE,NE TALES PERMANERENT, TUM OPE, TUM OPIBUS SATAGEBAT. ALBO OMNIUM CALCULO VIVEBAT, SUO MORIEBATUR. A coat of arms, Croke quartered, with a crescent for difference. His lady, who died before him, is buried under a superb marble monu- ment in the same church. She is represented in a recumbent posture, under an arch, supported by four Corinthian columns, and her manly vir- tues are celebrated in the following, rather extraordinary, epitaph. She died in 1638, and was buried on the fifth of July s. ECCUM NOMEN QUAM EMPHATICE MARMOREUM : DURIORI SCILICET SAXO jEQUE PERENNE: ' See the Genealogy of Hawtrey, Croke, Thurban, Puissel, and Greenhill, No. 25. s Ellesborough Register of burials. o 05 = - f • < a _ Co ~ s «4 wit 3' C-. • 3 ra 'a sf~ - 3 It 3 W S= »3- I™ 'o o sill ■ s.S 2. » OS' £8- J e. p-g cp to S-i: ^' 1 •3 « J C. Ci C5 << os CO ^ £ 21 ft- c y o"co- Pi J8 5- _ o re jfs a 8. 500 THE CHEQUERS BRANCH. book iv. Pye, son and heir of Sir Walter Pye. The estate at Chequers went with Bridget, the second daughter, to Sir Henry Croke f . Sir Henry Croke died of the stone, the first of January, in 1659, in the seventy-second year of his age, and was buried at Ellesborough. In the inscription upon his monument, which is a flat marble on the pavement, there is a singular thought, conceived in the quaint beauties of the lan- guage of those times, that " he did not love the poor, and therefore that " none might continue in poverty, was the constant object of his exertions, " and of the employment of his wealth." p. m. s. REQU1ESCIT SUB HOC MARMOEE DOMINI HENRICI CROKE, EQUI- TIS AURATI, DEPOSITUM, ANNOS XLIII CLERICI PIPJE OFFICIO GAUDENS, IAM LITERIS QUAM MORIBUS HUM A NISSIM I : AN". DN 1 . MIRABILI MDLXXXVIII NATI: jETATIS LXXII, DOMINIQUE MDCLIX, PRIMO MANE, MENSE JANUARII, LITHIASI MORBO, DE- NAT I . EX DIUTURNITATE JUDICIUM COMPUTETIS, EX EUPHEMIA FIDELITATEM, SINGULIS CHARISSIMUS SOLAS PAUPERES NON REDAMAVIT, IDEOQUE, NE TALES PERMANERENT, TUM OPE, TUM OPIBUS SATAGEBAT. ALBO OMNIUM CALCULO VIVEBAT, SUO MORIEBATUR. A coat of arms, Croke quartered, with a crescent for difference. His lady, who died before him, is buried under a superb marble monu- ment in the same church. She is represented in a recumbent posture, under an arch, supported by four Corinthian columns, and her manly vir- tues are celebrated in the following, rather extraordinary, epitaph. She died in 1638, and was buried on the fifth of July?. ECCUM NOMEN QUAM EMPHATICE MARMOREUM : DURIORI SCILICET SAXO .EQUE PERENNE: ' See the Genealogy of Hawtrey, Croke, Thurban, Russel, and Greenhill, No. 25. - Ellesborouffh Register of burials. 3 8? ■i a\ iizi m as 1 'si §■ a l-l »^3 2 1 1 111 ^ ? i0 5? ' I > o S '^z|S,w|. •8.KJ .si 2i? £. o o i III mi C3 5" ~ - ' Isll •ill- if r It i fl jpp- a> -- i.> *s. -II II 1-5 C o * o >1j B >■ $ 3 1 H a.g 1* fsi i* o If t o Kb- w H if H s.-s g; B -II < 1 C ■a pi | - > S! H'TrS" eei" | £> 3 f"l <l «|"S 1 = I'oS H | g.Ss pa Is. 1 CJ CH. IV. SEC. III. THE CHEQUERS BRANCH. ET VEL IPSI MONUMENTO MONUMENTUM ; NOMEN QUAERAS (LECTOR) SEU TITULUM POTIUS VIRTUTUM, PIE VIXIT SPIRANS ETHICA BRIGETTA CROKE : MARITA PLUSQUAM AMICA MULIER QUAM PENE NULLA, FEMINjE NIHIL HABENS NISI SEXUM, CONSTANTIA FLORESCENS UXOR ADMODUM VIRILI, MULTA PARTU MATER, ET AMORE MULTA, CLARIS ORIUNDA PROAVIS, CLARIS ET DIGNA, CUJUS VIGENTEM CINEREM RIGANS MARITUS, OBRUTA DUM JACET H/EC TUMULO, JACET ILLE DOLORE. The arms are, Croke, single, with a crescent, impaled with, argent, lour lions rampant, between two cotises sable. For Hawtrey. Two crests, two swans' necks, Croke; and for Hawtrey, a bear's head, or, fretty, sable. There are likewise two single coats, one of Croke, and the other of Hawtrey, as in the impaled coat of arms. His son and successor, not only in his estates, but likewise in the office of Clerk of the Pipe, was Sir Robert Croke, Knight, who twice re" presented the borough of Wendover in Parliament, in the fifteenth and six- teenth years of Charles the First', and was knighted by that King at Whitehall, the nindi of August, 1641 k . Like his father, he improved his patrimony by a prudent marriage. The object of his choice was Miss, or as young ladies were then called, Mrs. Susanna Vanloor, one of the three daughters and heiresses of Sir Peter Vanloor, Baronet, only son of Sir Peter Vanloor of Tylehurst in Berkshire. This last gentleman was born in Holland, in the province of Utrecht, was a wealthy merchant in London, and was naturalized by the authority of parliament. His mercantile and pecuniary services were often employed, and acknowledged, by his Sovereigns Queen Elizabeth, King James, and Charles the First, and he was rewarded by the title of a Baronet. He died September the sixth, in 1627, being above sixty years old, and was buried 1 15 and 16 Charles I. Willis's Not. Pari. * Woods Ath. Oxon. vol. ii. col. 728. .502 THE CHEQUERS BRANCH. book iv. at Tylehurst under a sumptuous monument 1 . By his wife Jacomina, the daughter of Henry Teighbott, he had only one son, of his own name, and six daughters, of whom Anna married Charles Caesar, son and heir of Sir Julius Caesar, Privy Counsellor, and Master of the Rolls, and Mary, Sir Edward Powell, Baronet. Sir Peter Vanloor, the son, married Susanna, the daughter of Lawrence Beeke, of Antwerp, and had three daughters. Jacomina, Susanna, and Maria. Susanna married Sir Robert Croke m . In 1661, Sir Robert Croke presented a petition to King Charles the Second, for restoring the ancient and established comptroll and legal course of the King's Exchequer. He states, that his Majesty's father, in the eighth year of his reign, by his letters patent, granted him the office of Clerk of the Pipe, or Ingrosser of the Great Roll of the Exchequer : that the ancient course of the Court had been observed from King Stephen, until of late, that the auditors obstructed the same by illegal and unsafe proceedings ; and in particular that many rents had been omitted in the accounts, and many sums lost to the Crown. His Majesty, by an order of the seventh of June, 166 1, referred the petition to the Chancellor, and others, who met at Serjeant's Inn, on the eighth of July, and made an order for the production and return of various documents, by the second of November, but what farther was done does not appear". He died February the eighth, 1680, aged 71 years, and his lady in 1685, aged 60. They were both buried at Ellesborough, but their tomb-stones are now nearly covered by the pew of the Russel family . They had six sons, and seven daughters p . The arms of Vanloor are, or, a garland, or orle of wood-bine, or honey- suckle, proper 1. Robert Croke, Esquire, their eldest son, was Clerk of the Pipe, in his father's life-time, who must therefore have resigned in his favour, after having enjoyed the office above twenty years. He died however without issue before his father, July the 30th, 1671, aged thirty-five years, and ' Ashmole's Berkshire, p. 14G. '" Gmealogy of the Vanloor family in Dugdale's MSS. No. 852. fol. 324, It is signed by Pieter van Loor. No. 26. " Landowne MSS. vol. 259. fol. 100. ° Inscription p There was a Robert Croke, who took the degree of Doctor of Physic, 1 May, lfj44, can it be