Return homewards. And thus the offering ended, the 100 poor men were placed to proceed. homeward on foot, and after them the knights, esquires, and gentlemen, on horseback; then Garter principal king of arms; then the principal mourner, with the other eight mourners, two and two; and then the yeomen on foot, two and two. BURIAL. After whose departure, presently the body was, by the eight gentlemen and four yeomen aforesaid, carried to the grave, and before it Clarencieux and Norroy kings of arms, and Lancaster herald of arms; and about the body the four assistants and the six esquires, bearing the bannerols: and after the body went the steward, treasurer, and comptroller, with two gentlemen ushers and two yeomen ushers, who, when the body was buried, kneeling on their knees, with weeping tears brake their white staves and rods over their heads, and threw the shivers of the same into the grave; that done, the six esquires delivered up the six bannerols, which were presently, with the rest of the achievements, orderly placed over and about him: and so the said officers departed to Latham hall, where they received their offices and staves again of the new Earl, their lord and master. He married three wives; first, Dorothy, daughter to Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, by his second wife; and by her he had issue three sons and four daughters. First, Heury, who succeeded him in his honours as fourth Earl of Derby. Second, Sir Thomas Stanley, of Winwick in Lancashire, Knight, who died December 18th, 1576, and was buried at Walthamstow in Essex, having married Margaret, daughter and coheir of Sir George Vernon, of the Peak in the county of Derby, Knight, and by her was father of Henry, who died an infant, and Sir Edward Stanley, his heir, of Tonge castle in Shropshire, and of Eynsham in the county of Oxford, Knight of the Bath; who married Lady Lucy Percy, daughter and co-heir of Thomas seventh Earl of Northumberland, by whom m he had one son Thomas, who died an infant, and is buried at Winwick in Lancashire; also * On a brass plate in Einsham church is the following inscription: "Hic jacet corpus Edwardi Stanly Esq. Balnei. (filii Thomæ Edwardi Comitis Derbia filii.) Obiit 18 Junii, 1632, ætatis suæ, 69 Over this inscription are his arms with "Petronilla Stanley filia posuit." Harl. MS. No. 6365. There is a portrait of this Lady Lucy Stanley, and another of her daughter, Lady Venetia Digby, in Harding's Biogr. Mirror, vol. iii. Monuments at Walthamstow in Essex, and at Tong in Shropshire. seven daughters, of whom Arabella, Mary, Alice, and Priscilla, are buried at Walthamstow in Essex, with their mother; and the others surviving him, became his co-heirs, viz. Petronilla, who died unmarried; Frances, wedded to John Fortescue, of Salden, in Buckinghamshire, Esq.; and Venetia, married to Sir Kenelme Digby," of Drystoke, in Rutlandshire, Knight; of which Venetia see the character in Lord Clarendon. Third, Sir Edward Stanley, of Eynsham, in com. Oxon, Knt. who died in 1609, and was buried at Eynsham; being succeeded by his nephew, Sir Edward Stanley, Knight of the Bath, before mentioned. The four daughters were Anne, first married to Charles Lord Stourton, and afterwards to Sir John Arundel of Lanherne, in com. Cornwall, Knight; Elizabeth, to Henry Parker, Lord Morley; Mary, to Edward Lord Stafford; and Jane, to Edward Lord Dudley. This Earl, to his second wife, married Margaret, daughter of Ellis Barlow, of Barlow, in com. Lanc. Esq. by whom he had issue one son, George, who died young; and two daughters; Margaret, married, first, to John' Jermyn, of Rushbroke, in com. Suff. Esq. and afterwards to Sir Nicholas Poyntz, of Alston Poyntz, in Gloucestershire, Knight; and Catherine, to Sir Thomas Knyvet, of Buckenham castle, in Norfolk, Knight. To his third wife he had Mary, daughter to Sir George Cotton, of Cumbermere abbey, in com. Cest. Knight, by whom he had no issue. Which Mary surviving him, afterwards became the wife of Henry Earl of Kent, and died November 16th, 1580. S HENRY, his son and heir, FOURTH EARL OF DERBY,' being summoned to parliament in 1576, took his place there on February 8th the same year. He was elected one of the Knights of the Garter on April 23d, 1574, and was installed at Windsor on May 20th following. In 27 Eliz. he was appointed her Majesty's ambassador to Henry III. King of France, to invest him with the order of the Garter. He passed through London with a noble train, on Tuesday, January 26th, 1584-5, being accompanied with several lords, and others of high degree, and landed at Calais on February 1st. On the 11th he arrived at St. Denis, being on the way met by Sir Edward Stafford, her Majesty's am See Pennant's Journey from Chester to London, under Gothurst. • Mon. apud Eynsham. bassador resident with the French King, and several English gentlemen. He made his public entry on Saturday, February 13th, having in his train more than 200 horse; and in the midway between St. Denis and Paris, his Lordship was met by the Duke of Montpensier, a prince of the blood, and other French nobles, all on horseback, who were commanded by the King to accompany him to the Hotel de Longville, where he was enteitained very sumptuously at the King's cost. Hollingshed in his Chronicle has given a journal of the whole, to the time of his Lordship's arrival in England, on Friday March 12, following. t In 29 Eliz. he was one of the peers on the trial of the Que‹ n of Scots, at which time he was of the privy-council. In 30 Eliz. he was chamberlain of Chester, and continued so to his death. In 32 Eliz. he was sent into Flanders, with other commissioners, to treat of a peace with the Prince of Parma, general of the King of Spain's forces in those parts; and in 32 Eliz. he was " constituted lord high steward of England, at the trial of Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel. On February 7th, 1555, he married Margaret, only child to Henry Clifford, Earl of Cumberland, and Alianore his wife, one of the daughters and co-heirs to Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, by Mary the Queen Dowager of France, King Henry VII's youngest daughter; and by her had four sons; Edward, who died young. Ferdinando and William, successively Earls of Derby. And Francis, who died young. His Lady survived him about three years, and ended her days A. D. 1596. By his testament, bearing date September 21st, 1592, he bequeathed his body to be buried in his chapel at Ormskirk; and a departing this life on September 25th ensuing, was there interred. FERDINANDO, his surviving son and heir, succeeded as FIFTH EARL OF DERBY, and outlived him but a short time; for having been tampered with by one Hesket, an agent of the Jesuits and English fugitives, to assume the title of King, in right of his grandmother Alianore, before-mentioned, and rejecting the proposal with indignation (though promised powerful assistance from с abroad in case of his compliance, but threatened with sudden death if he either hesitated at or revealed the proposal, he died of poison, on April 16th, 1594, according to the menaced vengeance of Hesket, who, upon his Lordship's information, had been apprehended, and convicted of treason. Camden says " he died in the flower of his youth, not without suspicion of poison, being tormented with cruel pains by frequent vomitings of a dark colour, like rusty iron. There was found in his chamber a piece of wax, the belly pierced through with hairs of the same colour that his were, put there (as the wiser sort have judged) to remove the suspicion of poison. The matter vomited up stained the silver basons in such sort, that by no art they could possibly be brought again to their former brightness; and his dead body, though rolled in sear-cioths, and wrapped in lead, yet ran with such corrupt and most stinking humours, that no man could in a long time come near the place of his burial. No small suspicion lighted upon the gentleman of his horse, who, as soon as the Earl took to his bed, took his best horse and fled." By this testament, bearing date the 12th of that month, he bequeathed his body to be buried in the said chapel of Ormskirk, where he was accordingly interred on May 6th following. Two several inquisitions, taken after his decease, recite, that he died possessed of the manors of Colsham, Woxbridge (now called Uxbridge), Hillendon and Thistleworth, and of water-mills in Denham, near Uxbridge; and of a capital messuage in Chanon row; all in the county of Middlesex and of the manors of Northwich, Adston, Byrdston, and divers other lordships and manors in the county of Chester the castle and manor of Hope and Hopedale, in the county of Flint, granted by letters patent of January 1st, 1400-1, the first of Hen. IV. to Sir John Stanley, Knight, who had issue Sir John Stanley, Knight, father of Thomas Lord Stanley, whose son Thomas Lord Stanley was created Earl of Derby, and married, in the 7th of Edw. IV. Eleanor, daughter of Richard Earl of Warwick and Salisbury, by whom he had issue George Stanley, Lord Strange, who died in his lifetime, leaving issue Thomas Earl of Derby, the father of Edward Earl of Derby, who had issue three Ex Regist. Dixie, qu 69. Annals of Queen Eliz. anno 1594, p. 65. He was a man of genius, and of a literary turn; and has left some fragments of poetry. See Park's R. and N. A. vol ii. p. 45. VOL e Esc. 36 Eliz 1 Cole's Esc lib 5, N. 61, A 16, P. 67, 69, in Bibl Harl. sons, Henry Earl of Derby, Sir Thomas Stanley, Knight, and Edward Stanley; and that Ferdinando Earl of Derby, was son and heir of Henry Earl of Derby, and died on April 16th, 1594, leaving issue by Alice his wife (daughter to Sir John Spencer, of Althorpe, in com. Northamp. Knight, ancestor to the Duke of Marlborough) three daughters his heirs. Lady Anne, at the death of her father, thirteen years and eleven months old, afterwards married to Grey Bruges, fifth Lord Chandos, and after his decease to Mervyn Touchet, Lord Audley in England, and Earl of Castlehaven in Ireland. Lady Frances, eleven years and four months old at her father's decease, afterwards married to John Egerton, Earl of Bridgewater, and died March 11th, 1635. And Lady Elizabeth, seven years and eight months old, afterwards wedded to Henry Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon. The said Alice, Countess of Derby, was afterwards third wife (but without issue) to Thomas Egerton, Lord Ellesmere and Viscount Brackley, chancellor of England, ancestor to the Earl of Bridgewater; and dying on January 26th, 1636, was buried at Harefield, in com. Middlesex, h WILLIAM his brother succeeded as SIXTH EARL OF DERBY, i being then thirty-two years of age; and having a dispute with the aforesaid ladies, touching the title to the Isle of Man, was obliged to purchase their several claims; which agreement, together with the King's fresh grant, was ratified by act of parliament, on July 7th, 7 Jac. I. He was installed one of the Knights of the Garter on May 26th, 1601, and dying on September 29th, 1642, was buried at Ormskirk. This Earl William was also constituted chamberlain of Chester, 1 Jac. I. for life; and afterwards had a new grant of that office, in conjunction with his son James, Lord Strange, for the life of the longest liver, which the latter enjoyed till 1647, when he was ejected by the usurping powers, for his loyalty to his sovereign. His Lady died before him, and was buried in Westminster abbey, on March 11th, 1626, having been married to the Earl on June 26th, 1594. She was the Lady Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Edward Vere, seventeenth Earl of Oxford, by Anne his first wife, daughter to William Cecil, Lord Burleigh, and co-heir to her brother Henry, eighteenth Earl of Oxford: and by her he had |