History and genealogy of Peter Montague, of Nansemond and ...

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INTRODUCTION.
1628, on the death of Carleton. This was four years after his
resignation of the Eton Fellowship."
He was an excellent scholar, and Selden himself, his great antag-
onist, owns him to have been a man well skilled in ancient learning.
He died of the ague, April 13, 1641, and was buried in his own
Cathedral at Norwich. He had a son Richard, and a daughter
married to D. Stokes, D. D. They had a son Richard Stokes, M. D.
III. William Montague, second son of Robert, and brother of
Lawrence, married Margaret, dau. of John Malthouse of Binfield,
Berkshire. Their children were :
(1.) William Montague of Boveney, M. A., and fellow of King's
college, Cambridge. He left Eton college and succeeded to the
estate at Boveney, 158 1, and was living in 1634.
(2.) Elizabeth, who married Richard Burns, or Barns, of Wink-
field,* Berkshire.
(3.)
(4.)
(5.)
Anne, who married first Edward Smith, second Daniel Ballard.
George, who married Susan Norris.
Peter.
IV. Peter Montague, fifth and youngest son of William No.
III., married Elanor, dau. of William Allen of Burnham, Bucks.
Their children were
(1.)
(2.)
William, (who had three sons, George,* William and Robert.)
Peter Montague, who went to Virginia in America.
(3.) Richard Montague, who went to New England in America.
(4.)
(5.)
(6.)
Robert.
Elizabeth.
Anne.
Margaret.
(7.)
A chartf of this pedigree accompanies this work. This family in
England are called the Boveney and Dorney Montagues, and their
Coat of Arms is blazoned, " Argent three fusils in fess gules between
three pellets (or ogresses)." A plate, representing a correct copy of
these arms, accompanies this work.
* In the village of Winkfield, six miles southwest of Windsor in Berkshire, in the Parish
church is a tablet with a figure engraved on brass of an aged man distributing bread to the
poor. In memory of Thomas Montague, Yeoman of the guard, who died in 1630, aged 92
years. Lysons Magna Brit. Vol. 1, p. 438.
t While that portion of the Pedigree from Drogo down to the first Earl of Salisbury was
obtained through the researches of the writer, the other portion from William Montague,