A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank; but univested with heritable honours (1838)
es—In Warwickshire ; and in thecounty of Monaghan, Ireland. Seats—Eatington Park, in the county ofWarwick ; and Lough Fea, in the county ofMonaghan. VAVASOUR, OF WESTON. VAVASOUR, WILLIAM, esq. of Weston Hall, in the county of York, m. Sarah,daughter and co-heiress of John Cooke, esq. of Swinton,… … The eminent family of Vavasor, or Val-\ tsOR (as Camden has it), derived theirname from their office, being formerlykings valvasor, a degree then little inferiorto the baronial. There are, says Brac-ton, for the civil government of mankind,emperors, kings, and princes, magnates orvalvasors, and…
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