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English: Bookplate of James Brydges, 3rd Duke of Chandos (1731-1789), styled Viscount Wilton from birth until 1744 and Marquess of Carnarvon from 1744 to 1771, the only son of Henry Brydges, 2nd Duke of Chandos, and Lady Mary Bruce, daughter of Charles Bruce, 3rd Earl of Ailesbury. Arms of Brydges quartering Bruce, with inescutcheon of pretence: Sable, three pheons argent (Nicol) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, pp.732-3 "Nicholl of Glamorgan"), for his first wife Margaret Nicol (1736–1768), daughter (and heiress) of John Nicol (d.1747) of "Colney Hatch and Minchington" (w:Minchington Hall, in the parish of Southgate, Middlesex (adjacent to Colney Hatch, in the parish of Fryern-Barnet, Middlesex)). Text from: A P Baggs, Diane K Bolton, M A Hicks and R B Pugh, 'Friern Barnet: Other estates', in A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 6, Friern Barnet, Finchley, Hornsey With Highgate, ed. T F T Baker and C R Elrington (London, 1980), pp. 17-23 [1]:

John Nicholl the younger (d. 1747) bought piecemeal a block of c. 90 a. of copyhold land at Whetstone, (fn. 91) which passed to his daughter Margaret (d. 1768), (fn. 92) later marchioness of Carnarvon.... Edward Nevett mortgaged Mayfield and 12 acres to John Nicholl of St. Andrew Holborn (d. 1688) and their son John Nevett released his right to another John Nicholl of St. Andrew Holborn in 1697.....Sheep had been the chief stock on John Nicholl's Colney Hatch estate in 1747, but there were only 59 in the parish in 1887