PEDIGREE OF THE YOUNGER BRANCH OF THE SWIFTS OF YORKSHIRE. ARMS: Or, a chevron nébulé, Argent and Azure, between three bucks in full course, Vert. Thomas Smith, collated to the territory of St Andrew ;; Canterbury, 1569; died June 12, 1592: aged 57. William Swift, married Oct. 5, 1592, at Kingston, in Kent; in that year succeeded to his father's rectory; in 1602, was rector of Harbledown; and died Oct. 24, 1624. =Margaret, who (with nine of her children) was buried in the Cathedral church-yard. Mary, an heiress of the house of Philpott; died March 5, 1626, aged 58. Thomas Swift, vicar of Goodrich, and also of Elizabeth Dryden. Catherine Bridstow, both in Herefordshire; died 1658. Abigail Margaret 1. Godwin Swift,Four wives; 2. Thomas, a student of Gray's-Inn. the last of them living a widow, in 1711. who died young. Erick, of William, fout issue. Leicester, Willoughby ; ANECDOTES OF THE FAMILY OF SWIFT. A FRAGMENT. WRITTEN BY DR SWIFT. [The original Manuscript, in his own hand, is lodged in the University Library of Dublin.] * THE family of the Swifts was ancient in Yorkshire; from them descended a noted person, who passed under the name of Cavaliero Swift, a man of wit and humour. He was made an Irish Peer by King James or King Charles the First, with the title of Baron Carlingford, but never was in that kingdom. Many traditional pleasant stories are related of him, which the family planted in Ireland had received from their parents. This lord died without issue male; and his heiress, whether of the first or second descent, was married to Robert Fielding, Esquire, commonly called Handsome Fielding; she brought him a considerable estate in Yorkshire, which he squandered away, but had no children; the Earl of Eglinton married another co-heiress of the same family, as he has often told me.t Barnam Swift, Esq. was created Viscount (not Baron) of Carlingford, by King Charles I. March 20, 1627, and by his death in 1642, S. P. the title became extinct. + Scottish genealogists do not record such a marriage in the pedigree of the Eglintoun family. |