Sir F^dmund Ludlow's eldest son, by his first wife, Bridget Cokrr, was Sir Henr}' Ludlow, Knight, M.P. for that shire, born 15S7, who married Letitia, daughter of Thomas West, Lord Delaware, by whom he had issue, with three daughters ; Edmund Ludlow, the celebrated republican general during the civil wars in England, who died at Vivay in S'.vitzerland, in 1693, aged 73, where a monument is erected to his men:ior}-; and Henry Ludlow, Esq., who married "Webster, grand-daughter of Margaret, second daughter of Sir Richard Bingham, the ancestor of the late George James Ludlow, third Earl Ludlow, Viscount Preston, and Baron Ludlow of Ardsalla in the peerage of Ireland, Baron Ludlow in that of the United Kingdom, born 12th Dec, 1758.

The family of Ludluw, (which derives its surname from the ancient town so denominated in the County of Salop.) settled at Hill Deverell in Wiltshire, in the reign of Edward HI., 1350, at which time lived William Ludlow, Esq., of Wiltshire, who married Margaret, daughter of William Rymer, wb.ose son John Ludlow, married Leonora, daughter of Thomas Ringv/ood ; their son was John Ludlow, who married Phillipa, daughter of Nicholas Bulstrade, whose son William Ludlow man-ied Jane, daughter of Nicholas Moore ; leaving a son George Ludlow. Esq., who married Edith, daughter of Sir Andrew, Lord Windsor, whose son was the before mentioned Sir Edmund Ludlow, Knight.

The old Willett lioraestead stood on Clason's Point, the extremity of Cornell's neck, directlv on the site of the late Mrs. Clason's mansion.*