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- Sir William Cokayne was second son of William Cokayne of Baddesley Ensor, co. Warwick, Citizen and Skinner of London, (by Elizabeth, daughter of Roger Medcalfe, of Wensleydale, co. York, and of Alspade and Meriden, co. Warwick, also Citizen and Skinner of London.) and grandson of Roger Cokayne, of Sturson, in the parish of Ashbourne, co. Derby, which Roger was younger son of William, second son of Sir John Cokayne, knt. of Ashbourne, by Isabel, daughter of Sir Hugh Shirley, knt. He was born 1560, admitted free of the Company of Skinners by patrimony 28 March, 1590, was a Merchant of London, Alderman and Lord Mayor as afore- said, and was knighted at his own residence, Cokayne House, in Broad Street, London (afterwards the site of the Old South Sea House and now of the City of London Club), on 8 June, 1616, after having entertained the King and the Prince of Wales at a banquet. Purchased the manor and estate of Rushton, co. North- ampton, of Elmesthorpe, Swepston, and Nethercote, co. Leicester, of Coombe Nevill, in Kingston, co. Surrey, &c. He married 22 June, 1596, at St. Leonard's, Eastcheap, Mary, youngest daughter of Richard Morris, sometime master of the Ironmongers' Company, by Maud, daughter of John Daborne, of Guildford, Surrey, sometime mayor of that town. Sir William died 20 October, 1626, aged 66, at Coombe Nevill, and was buried in great state in St. Paul's Cathedral, where a handsome monument was erected to him, engraved in Dugdale's History of St. Paul's.^ His widow remarried, 6 July, 1630,
at St. Peter le Poor, Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon, first Earl of Dover. She died 24 December, IGiS, and was buried with her first husband. Of Sir William's children, besides several who died young, Charles Cokayne, only surviving son and heir, was created 11 Aug. 1642 Viscount and Baron Cullen in the peerage of Ireland, with a special remainder, failing the heirs male of his body (which happened 11 Aug. 1810) to the younger sons of his sister Martha, Dowager Countess of Holderness, by her then husband Montague Bertie, Lord Willoughby d'Eresby (afterwards second Earl of Lindsey), in right of which the present Earl of Lindsey is entitled to the Viscountcy of Cullen. 1. Mary, married 22 April, 1620, at St. Peter's aforesaid, Charles Howard, Lord Howard of Effingham, second Earl of Nottingham, and died s.p. 6 February, 1650-1. 2. Ann, married Sir Hatton Fermor, of Easton Neston, co. North- ampton, knt. by whom she was ancestress of the Lords Lempster and Earls of Pomfret. She died 17 May, 1668. 3. Martha, married firstly, John Ramsay, Earl of Holdernesse in Scotland, and secondly Mountague Bertie, Lord Willoughby d'Eresby, afterwards (1642) Earl of Lindsey and K.G. By him she was ancestress of the Dukes of Ancaster and of the present Earls of Lindsey, Lords Willoughby d'Eresby, Dukes of Leeds, &c. She died July 1641.
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, d. 5 Apr 1589, London, Middlesex, England 