Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-03-08


1715, Jane Butler; second, March 16, 1871, Mary
Ball, born 1707-S daughter of Col Joseph Ball. and
wife, widow Johnson, supposed to have been
Montague of the great old English house of King
makers
From this second marriage came several chill
dren, among them George Washington, first Presi-
dent of the United States, and a daughter Eliza
beth Betty, who married Col Fielding Lewis
also descended.
READE-MARTAIN- MARMIoN-DYMoKEe etc.
Mildred Reade, wife of Augustine Warner, came
from the ancient English houses of Marmon, Dy
moke and Windebanke through Andrea Redde
who seated in his Manor of Linkenhot Hamp
shire, England 1856. He married. Cooke, of
Kent, and left several children. Their second son.
Robert Redde, married Mildred, daughter of Sir
Thomas Windebdnke of Hane's Hall, Parish of
Hurst, Berkshire, and wife, Frances, daughter of
Sir Edt0drd DymOke of Scrivelsby, Lincolnshire
hereditary champion of England this noble Office
descending to him through the marriage of Sir
John Dym0ke of Scrivelsby Hall, to Margaret, a
daughter of Lord Philip Mdrmion, who lived about
1902, and held this office hereditary in the family,
from the time of William the Conqueror who is
supposed to have brought the custom with him to
England. Through this marriage Sir John Dy-
moke and his descendants became hereditary
champions of England, defenders of the Crown.
At the coronation of George the w, Sir Henry
Dymoke, descendant of Sir John, the champion,
and the ceremony is described by our Ambassador,
Rush, 1925, who present. At the corona
ton banquet the Kings table was set upon the
royal platform. Below six long tables, set
three each side, at which the peers and peer
esses were seated aisle down the center. After
all had taken their seats, at the opposite end of
this open space, appeared the hereditary champion
of the Crown upon horseback red tufts and plumes
nodding from his helmet and the head trappings
of his horse. He attended by Howard of
Efingham and the Duke of Wellington. Abreast,
the three rode slowly up the aisle until they
reached the platform which the King was
seated. Here they halted, and the champion, ad-
vancing clad in heavy armor, received from his
sovereign cup from which he drank his health,
then casting down his gauntlet, put forth his
challenge, the Herald speaking for the champion,
crying in a loud voice:
"If any person, of what degree soever, high or
low, shall deny, gainsay our Sovereign Lord
King George the Fourth, of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, Defender of the
Faith, son and next heir to Sovereign Lord,
King George the Third, the last King, deceased,
to be right heir to the Imperial Crown of the
United Kingdom, or that he ought not to enjoy
the same, here is his champion who saith that
he leth, and is false traitor being ready in
person to combat with him. and in the quarrel will
adventure his life against him, what day
ever he shall be appointed"
Sir Thomas Windebdnke, who married Frances,
daughter of this Sir Edward Dymoke, hereditary
champion, Clerk of the Signet to Queen Eliza
beth and King James, He died October "a, 1907.
From this union of Mildred Dindebanke and
Robert Reade came several children, among them
Co.. George ReGde, born 1900 died 1871, who
to Virginia 1887 He was secretary of the
Colony of Virginia, 1887; Acting Governor, 1885,
Burgess from James City Co.. 1649, and from York,
1856; member of His Majestys Council March 10,
1851, dying in Office and was also Colonel Of
Militia. He was brother of the private secretary
to Windebanke, who was Secretary of State, temp,
Charles l.
He married Elizabeth, daughter of Capt. Nicho-
las Martain of York County. The eldest child of
this union, Mildred ReGde, born -, died about
1894 married Col. Augustine Warner. and their
daughter, Mildred married Lawrence Washington
and became the mother of Augustine Washington
who married secondly, Mary Ball, and had George