[Illustration] Originally from Newborough in Staffordshire, but from
the fourteenth century established, through female descent, first at
Hartington, and afterwards at Wakebridge, in this county. Radborne
was inherited from the Chandos's, through the Lawtons, also in the
fourteenth century. It came to the Chandos family from an heiress of
Ferrers or "Fitz-Walkelin."
See Leland's Itinerary, vol. viii. fol. 70 a, and vol. iv. fol. 6;
the Topographer, i. 280; Topographer and Genealogist, i. 176; and
Lysons, xciv.
ARMS.--_Argent, a chevron between three crescents gules_.
Present Representative, Edward Sacheverell Chandos Pole, Esq.
CAVENDISH OF HARDWICK, DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE 1694, EARL 1618, BARON
1605.
[Illustration] This family was originally from Cavendish Overhall,
near Clare, in Suffolk, and is descended from Sir John Cavendish,
who in the reign of Edward III. was Chief Justice of the King's
Bench. It was John, a younger son of the Judge, who killed Wat
Tyler, and from him the family are descended. But it was Sir William
Cavendish, younger brother of George Cavendish, who had been
Gentleman Usher to Wolsey, who may be called the real founder
of the Cavendishes, by the great share of abbey lands which he
obtained at the Dissolution of Monasteries, "and afterwards," adds
Brydges, "by the abilities, rapacity, and good fortune of Elizabeth,
his widow," the celebrated Countess of Shrewsbury. The Cavendishes
first settled in Derbyshire by the marriage of this Sir William with
"Bess of Hardwick," in 1544.
See Topographer, iii. 306; Brydges's Collins, i. 302; Collins's
Noble Families.
ARMS.--_Sable, three buck's heads cabossed argent, attired or_.
Monsr. Andrew Cavendysh of this family bore, _Sable, three crosses
botonnée fitchée or_, 2 _and_ 1. (Roll Ric. II.)
Present Representative, William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire,
and 2nd Earl of Burlington.