PATRICK CHAWORTH

Patrick de Cadurcis, or Chaworth, whose name appears on the Battle Roll, was a native of Little Brittany, and after the victory of Hastings, appears to have been rewarded by grants of land in Gloucestershire. From him descended Thomas de Chaworth, who was summoned to parliament as a Baron in 1299, and whose descend- ants continued for a long series of generations, seated in high repute in the counties of Nottingham and Derby. The eventual heiress was the "Mary Chaworth" of Lord

Byron's poetry -

"Herself the solitary scion left
Of a time-honoured race."

This lady, who was only child of William Chaworth, Esq., of Annesley, married in 1805, John Musters, Esq., of Colwick, and died in 1832.

--(This name appears on the Battle Abbey roll)