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CORRiaENDA, BTO., TO VOLS. H AND UI. 361 Robert Ciirson" h lo styled on 80 June 1611 [vol. i., No. 1767], but on 8 June 1613 he fippennt as " llobert, Baron Curson " [lb. No. 4160], and about the mine dnte as " My Tjord Cor«on " [lb. p. 663]. In the aauie year he 18 styl«<l <'The Baron Cnmaon '* [No. 4253], and on 19 March 1514 ** Robert, Lord Curson" [Ko. 4899]. Similar evidence is supplied by tiie King's accounts [published in vol. ii. of the Calendar], where, up to July 1612, 1»e alleged Peer is styled *'Sir Hubert Corson" [p. 1467], but in and after March 1513 is entered ns " Bnrou Curson" [p. 1464], or "Lord Curson" [p. 1473]. It is suggested by J. H. Itound (who has oollected this sTidence) that this points to some action having been taken by the Crown in 1612-1618 (wheo Sir llobert held command in the French war, undertaken in con- junction with the Emperor) for the recognition of Curson's foreign title, which recc^nition may have been mistaken for an English orsfttion. Mr. Hound considers this to have been also the case as to the Dukedom of Dudley in the 17th century, which he holds to have been similarly accepted ai an English creation (see vol iii., p. 187), on the strength of a reeognUUm of Lady Dudley as a Duchess of the Empire. The title of Count of the Holy Roman Empire, conferred in 1696 on Thomas Arundell, afterwards (1006) Baron Anindell of Wardour, was never acknowledged by Queen Elisabeth. It seems certain that in Curson's case no English peerage was conferred, as he is styled [only] " Sir Robert Curson " in the commission of the peace for Norfolk and Suffolk, 1 March 1516, tho' it may be significant that he is there entered immediately after the Peers and at the head of the Knights ^Ex, inform. J. H. Round]. From an article by '* John Clyde," entitled '*Sir Robert Curson, otherwise Lord Curson " [Suffolk Inst, of Arch, and Nat. History, vol. iz], it appears that he was similarly entered on a Royal commission relating to Ipswich in 1621. From that article and elsewhere, the following particulars can be derived. His parentase is unknown, but he was Knighted in 1489, his arms [Metcalfe's " KnigkU"] being *'nrg on a bend, M, between 8 wivems' heads erased, gu^ a popinjay, nr^, beaked and legged, or." He was Capt. of Hammes C^tle, near Calais, 1499 ; fought against the Turks in conjunction with the Emperor Maximilian, by whom, probably about 1600, he appears to have been made a Baron of th« Holy Roman Empire : was pro- claimed a traitor (with 6 others, all severely punished), in Not. 1601, as a Yorkist conspirator, but immediately pardoned, inasmuch as, presumably, he was a spy employed by the King, from whom he afterwards received a pension, and many other favours. He entertained the Queen Consort Katharine in 1617, and Henry Vin. himself in 1662, at his house in Ipswich. He die. p. His wiU, dat. 81 Oct. 1584, being proved March 1684/6, at Hozne, by Dame Margaret Curson, his relict. line 20, /or "21," read **28'*; line 22, €fier "Leicester," add «*ohildreD of another Charles JniNnrs, of the same "; line 28, after '* 1804," add ** at Croom- banck, oo. Kent "; line 86, far *< taking," read " having taken "; Uno 87, far •< July following," read ** inst." VoLum III. • p. 2 ; line 11, /or ««Phi1ippa," read "before 18 Oct. 1424, Philippn, 8d" ; line 12, after "Stafford," add "She was living 17 Sep. 1462 •' ; line 16, after " Norfolk," add ** by Joan, da. and h. of Sir Robert Ufford, of Wrentham." Note (^), line 22, for " ThomiB," read " Thomas." p. 3 ; lines 20 to 22, dele " Sir " to " Tilney," and intert " John (Boubohim), Lord Bbrnbrb, by Margaret, da. and h. of Sir Richard Brrnbrs, usually spoken of as Lord Bbrmbrs." Top note, line 18, far " Lyndhurt," read " Lyndhuret" p. 4 ; in margin, for " 1611," read " 1 612." Line 8, for " Clevc," read " Cle e line 26. for " 1611," rend " 1611/2 " ; line 28. for " June," read " Sep." ; line 81. for •• 29 May 1670," read " 25 March 1669/70 "; line 89, after " firstly," add 2f