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Rev. Samuel Whiling'. 4 7
English king upon the head of the Norman
duke. The Ports, or St. Johns, kept up their
situation, continuing to increase their riches
and greatness by the noblest alliances, and
became relations to the royal house of Tudor, _*
as their progenitors had been to the Norman
princes ; and for the eminent services they have
rendered the State, several of them have been
ennobled. Alexander, the third son of Sir
John St. John, Knt. (the ancestor of various
peers of this family), was seated at Thorley in
Herts: he was the father of Henry, whose son
Oliver St. yohn of Cayshoe, in Bedfordshire,
Knt., was returned a member for his county in
the parliaments held in the I2th and 2Ist years
* "Both the house of St. John and Tudor descended from Margaret,
sister and sole heiress of John de Beauchamp, of Bletshoe, in
Northamptonshire, Knt., a junior line of those of Powick, branched
from the old Earls of Warwick, as appears by the following sketch : --
Sir OIiver St. John,-- Marg. Beauchamp._ John Beaufort, Duke
Kut., from whomde- of Somerset, grandscend
the earls, bar- son of J'ohn of Gaunt,
ons, and baronets of D. of Lancaster, son
this family. , of K. Edward IlL
Margaret _ Edm. Tudor, Earl of
I Richmond.
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King Henry VIE"