• General Notes

  1st Baronet Chislehampton
  
  18th direct male descendant
  of Sir Roger D’Oyly
  (Eston, Oxfordshire)
  
  MP for Woodstock at the Revolution, and captain of the country troop, &c.
  
  A little further up the dale stood Grosmont Priory, of which not a vestige is now to he seen. This convent was founded by Johanna, wife of Robert de Turnham, who, in the beginning of the 13th century, gave a parcel of land in the forest of Egton to the abbot of Grandimont, in Normandy, to establish a house of the same order here. During the wars between England and France, the abbot of Grandimont sold the advowson, whereupon it became prioratus indigena, or naturalised priory, so to speak, and so subsisted till the Dissolution, when there were four monks, whose income was valued at £12 2s. 8d. per annum. The site was granted, in 1544, to Edward Wright, and the following year it was purchased by Sir Richard Cholmley. The descendants of the latter sold it, in 1688, to Sir John D'Oyley, from whom it passed to the Saunders family, but there have been several changes of ownership since.
  
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  Sir John D'Oyly, of Chislehampton, Bart. eldest son and heir, was baptized at Stadhampton, Nov. 1640, and succeeding his father about the time of his majority, espoused Margaret Cholmley, eldest daughter and coheir of the intrepid Sir Richard Cholmley of Grosmont, co. York, Knight Banneret, a Colonel in the army, one of the most gallant cavaliers of his time, and a loyal and devoted adherent of Charles I., in whose service he was slain (leaving all his children infants), Oct, 1644, being Governor of Axminster, co. Devon, during the civil war; (by Margaret his wife, second daughter of John, 1st Lord Poulett of Hinton St. George, in Somersetshire;) which Sir Richard Cholmley of Grosmont was son of Sir Richard Cholmley of Whitby Abbey, co. York, by his second wife Margaret, sister of Sir William Cobb of Adderbury, co. Oxon.; through which connexion the marriage no doubt originated. By this match the D'Oylys acquired a great accession of quarterings, blood, and connexions. Lady D'Oyly was not only niece (maternally) of John 2d Lord Poulett, and aunt of the Countess of Roscommon, but her father was half-brother of Sir Hugh Cholmley, the celebrated Governor of Scarbro' Castle for Charles I., and progenitor of the extinct Baronets Cholmley. Their father, Sir Richard Cholmley, of Whitby, was grandson of another Sir Richard, by his wife Lady Katherine Clifford, widow of John Lord Scroope of Bolton, and a daughter of the house of Cumberland (and thus descended from the Royal family of England); the sister of this Cholmley was the Countess of Westmorland; and himself was nephew of Sir Richard Cholmley, Governor of Berwick and Hull (who was knighted at Flodden Field); and grandson (by the coheir of Etton) of John de Cholmondeley, sprung from the ancestors of the Earls Cholmondeley of Cholmondeley in Cheshire, whence he was descended from a coheir of Wastneys, and thence from one of Venables.[359] By this alliance the D'Oylys were at once recognised as entitled sharers in those favours which the Restoration conferred on Charles the First's adherents. In 1666 Charles II. conferred a baronetcy patent on the husbands of each of Sir Richard Cholmley's daughter-co-heiresses. Sir Thomas Putt of Combe, co. Devon, who had married the younger, was created a Baronet 20th July 1666; Sir John D'Oyly's patent dates 7th July 1666. —After this, Sir John D'Oyly contested unsuccessfully the parliamentary representation of Oxfordshire in 1679
  
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  Sir John D'Oyly was, though extravagant, a man of considerable worldly wisdom, and very proud; probably also as fond of acquiring as of spending. Still he patronizied men of learning, and was instrumental in promoting Nathaniel Wilson, afterwards Dean of Raphoe
  
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Details of John's family with Margaret Cholmeley