SIR ROBERT SENT LEGERE

Sir ROBERT SENT LEGERE, Knt., the companion-in-arms of the CONQUEROR, was, according to a tradition in the family, the person who supported that prince with his arm when be quitted the ship to land in Sussex. This Sir Robert, having overcome a pagan Dane who inhabited the manor of Olcomb, in Kent, filed his abode there; and in that place his posterity flourished for many generations. The lineal descendant of Sir Robert, SIR ARTHUR ST. LEGER, Knt., went first into Ireland in 1537, being appointed by Henry VIII. one of the commissioners for letting the crown lands there, and returning into England, was constituted lord-deputy of Ireland, 7th July, 1540. In 1543, be was recalled to inform the King of his administration of affairs; which gave his highness such satisfaction that he created him a knight-companion of the Garter, and sent him back lord-deputy, in which high office be continued until 1566, serving three sovereigns, when, being recalled by QUEEN MARY, he retired to his estate in Kent, and died there, 12th March, 1669. This eminent person has been characterized "as a wise and wary gentleman, a valiant servitor in war, and a good justice in peace, properly learned, and having gravity interlaced with pleasantness." He married Agnes, daughter of Hugh Warham, Esq., of Warham, and was s. by his second but eldest surviving son, SIR WARHAM ST. LEGER, of Ulcumb, who was appointed chief governor of Munster, in 1565, under the lord-deputy Sidney. In 1579, be was constituted knight-mareschal Of the same province; and in 1580, he caused James of Desmond, who was denominated a notorious rebel, to be hanged under martial law at Cork. He was killed, eventually, in battle (in single combat), by Hugh Maguire, Lord of Fermanagh, who fell himself at the same time. Sir Warham married Ursula, youngest daughter of George Nevil, Lord Abergavenny, and was s. by his son, SIR WILLIAM ST. LEGER, a privy councillor, and lord-present of Munster in 1627. Sir William represented the city of York in Parliament in 1639, and was appointed in that year sergeant-major-general in the army; he was subsequently employed against the rebels in Ireland; and dying about the year 1642, left, with other issue, from which descended the St. Legers of Yorkshire and Gen. St. Leger, WILLIAM, his heir, slain at Newberry, 1644.

JOHN, successor to his brother, and ancestor of the Lords Doneraile. Heyward, of Castlemore and Heyward's Hill, lieut.-col. in the army, and M.P.; ancestor of the present ANTHONY BUTLER ST. LEGER, Esq., of Heyward's Hill, co. Cork, and of his brother and heir-presumptive, HEYWARD JOHN ST. LEGER,Esq.

--(This name appears on the Battle Abbey Roll).