BEDFORD. 299 K.G. 29 May, and fast. 3 June 1672. Joint Com. for the office of Earl Marshal, 1673. At the coronation 11 April 1GS9 he carried Queen Mary's sceptre. P.C. and Lord Lieut, of co. Bedford and co. Cambridge, 10S9 ; Recorder of Cambridge, 1689 ■ Lord Lient. of Midx., 1692. On 11 May 1691 he was cr. MARQUESS OP TAVISTOCK and DUKE OF BEDFORD— the preamble to the patent setting forth "that he was father to the Lord Russell, the ornament of his age, whose great merit it was not enough to transmit by history to posterity, &c."(°) On 13 June 1695, in consequence of the marriage of his grandson and h. ap. Wriothesly Russell, with the da. and h. of John HowlaND, he was cr. BARON HOWLAND OF STREATHAM, co. Surrey, with rem. to his (said) grandson, and the heirs inale of his body, begotten on the body of Elizabeth lloieland. He to. (*)The following Peel's, or eldest sons of Peers, are among those who form the list of 237 " Commanders or Captains of Companies in the Armies of the Com- monwealth." and who bore " Cornets or flags and pennions," or " armorial bearings " duly described in Prestwich's " Respublica," ito., 1787, pp. 24 to 118. [Bedford] "William, Earle of Bedford, Lord Generall," i.e. William (Russell), 5th Earl, afterwards 1st Duke. [Brooke] " The Lord Brook," i.e. Robert (Greville), 2nd Lord. [Essex] " His Excelleucie Robert, Earl of Essex, Capt. Gen. of the Army employed for the defence of the Protestant Religion, the safety of His Majesties person and of the Pari., 4c,, &c.," i.f. Robert (Devereux), 3rd and last Earl. [Fairfax] " The Lord Fairfax," i.e. Ferdinaudo (Fairfax), the 2nd Lord [S.] [Grey de Groby] " Lord Grey, s. to the Earl of Stamford," i.e. Thomas Grey, styled Lord Grey de Groby, who was one of those who signed the death warrant of Charles I and who d., v.p., 1657. [Hastings] "The Lord Hastings," i.e. Ferdinaudo (Hastiugs), Lord Hastings (by summons, v,p., in 16-10) afterwards, 1043, Earl of Huntingdon. He was Capt. of the 7th troop of Horse under the Earl of Bedford fa 1642. [Inchiipiiu] " 0 'Brian, the Lord Inehequin's ix Coruettes for Ireland, 1646," i.e. Mun-ough (O'Brien), 6th Lord Iuehiquiu [I.], who, having turned Royalist, was, in 1654, cr. Earl of Inehiquin [I.] [Manchester] " The Earl of Manchester," i.e. Edward (Montague), the 2nd Earl. [Ranelagh] " Jonues, Viscount Raunelaghe," i.e. Arthur (Jones), the 2nd Viscount [I.] [Sheffield] " Capt. Sheffield, eldest s. to the Earl of Mulgrave." Qij. eldest sun', sou of the 1st Earl who d. 1646. Sir John S. the eldest s. and h. ap. (the father of the 2nd Earl of Mulgrave) was dead before Sep. 1615. [Stamford] "Grey, Earl of Stamford," i.e. Henry (Grey), the 1st Earl. [Willoughby of Parbam] "Col. William [sic] Willoughby, Lord Willoughby of Parham." This should be Francis, 5th Lord, 161S to 1666 ; his Br. the Hon. William Willoughby, did not sue. him as 6th Lord till 1 666. It is remarkable that of the above Peers, only one (the Earl of Manchester) was among the nine (lawful) Peeiis who, in 1657, were members of Cromwell's " Upper House,"cousisting of 57 "Lords" made by Cromwell himself. These nine were as under : Buoohill [I,], Roger (Boyle), 1st Lord ; afterwards, 1660, er. Earl of Orrery [I.] Cassilis [S.] John (Kennedy), 6th Earl of. EtiRE, George (Ewe), 6th Lord. Fatjcoxbehg, Thomas (Belasyse), 2nd Viscount ; afterwards, 1689, cr. Earl of Fauconberg. Manchester, Edward (Montagu), 2nd Earl of. Mulgrave, Edmund (Sheffield), 2nd Earl of. Say and Sele, William (Fiennes), 1st Viscount. Warwick, Robert (Rich), 2nd Earl of. Whmitoh, Philip (Wharton), 4th Lord. Note that " The Rt. Hon. Charles Howard of Gilslaud in the co. of Cumberland, Esq., [was] a: Babob Giesland and Loud Viscount Howakd of Moht-eth the 20th of July 1057 by His Highness the Lord Protector" (see Walkley's "New Catalogue, 16c8), but he cannot be considered as a (lawful) Peer till so cr. by Charles II, 30 April 1661, as Earl ok Carlisle, &o. Note also that Edmund Dunch [was] cr. " by the Lord Protector 26 April 165S Baron Burneu, of East Wittenham, Berks," but " died a private gentleman 4 Aug. 1078." See Noble's "Cromwell," where the orig. patent of this Peerage is mentioned. C) See " Collins," vol. i, p. 288.
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