Now being called Daniell, they brought the same valour and loyalty as heretofore and engaged for the King. One Thomas was slain at the battle of Brentford, and his nephew Peter, the heir, being a captain in the Earl Rivers's regiment, died at Oxford of a shot received at the siege of Gloucester, in the lifetime of his father.

And of the direct line of the Duttons of Dutton, a most ancient family, descended from Hudard, which came over to this land with King William the Conqueror, and to whom Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester gave the lands of Dutton (Hudard having before the gift seated himself there), should I have had honourable mention to make, had there been any remaining to name, but there is but one only daughter and heiress, married to the Lord Kilmorey, as her second husband. One of her daughters is wedded unto the Lord Byron, Governor of Chester, who with his six brothers have all distinguished themselves for the King, and she, this Lady Byron (mark you, being a Dutton of Dutton by her mother), is a person of such

comely carriage and presence, handsomeness and sweet disposition, that scarce will she leave her equal behind her, when she departeth out of this world, which all must do.

The Ladye Kilmorey survived her second husband. Her eldest son, Lord Kilmorey, compounded for his estate, and he and Mr. Thomas Needham his brother, which had been took prisoner before at Wem, were both took prisoners, as before said, by Lambert at Winnington Bridge. The sword of Hudard, the ancestor of the Duttons, is at this day in the custody of Ellinour, the Ladye Kilmorey, having passed since his death, from heir to heir as an heirloom.

Many Duttons is buried at All Saints' Church, Budworth, where was a most sweet organ, on which was the arms of Leycester of Tabley carved; but now is it all spoiled, the rebels having pulled all the pipes out, breaking and destroying them, and calling them in their vile foolishness whistles in a box.'

Also a Dutton of Dutton marrying with the heiress of Hatton, time of the fifth Henry, still continues as Dutton of Hatton, though

now removed to a more southern county, Gloucester if I err not, and of these John Dutton and his son Sir Ralph was both constant and true royalists.

And the Davenports, of whom there be many branches, were loyal. William Davenport of Woodford was took prisoner at the battle of Middlewich, March, 1643. He escaped from Nantwich, but was took again on St. Luke's Day that same year in a skirmish at Aldford; at the end did he die a prisoner for his loyalty at Farrington in Yorkshire. John Davenport, his nephew, was likewise a follower of the wars, and taken prisoner at Middlewich.

Peter Davenport, of Bramall, said, 'that on New Year's Day, 1643, Captain Sankey and Captain Duckenfield, with two or three troops, came to Bramall, went unto his stables, and took all his horses, driving away also all that they found in the park, above twenty in all; afterwards did they return again, taking all such things as were left at the first; and afterwards was he made to compound five hundred pounds. But in truth I think not

this Peter Davenport's whole heart was with the King, for likewise did he bemoan himself of Prince Rupert's troopers, who he says took eight horses, ate up much victuals and provisions, and threescore bushels of oats; the which, I conceive, should never have been spoke of, the King being loyally welcome to all, sooner than the rebels should discover aught at their next inroad.

CHAPTER XIII.

HE Dones of Utkinton. I would I could say they were all loyal, but the head

of the family, Sir John Done (he was

the last, for it passed away unto the Crewes, also rebels), having been bred a Presbyterian by his kinsman, John Bruen of Stapleford, whereof he hath much to answer for, espoused the rebel side. When men have no taste for the Church, it seemeth to me the King gets little relished either. Some of the family were loyal, or the Dones would have been unremembered for me, Sir Ralph Done, cousin to Sir John, being taken prisoner with many others, January 18, 1643, at Acton Church, in which they were obliged to shelter themselves, having been separated from Lord Byron's army by a sudden swell of the River Weever, owing