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BOB SET. 149 VI. 1530, 3. Henry (Grey), Marquess op Dorset [1475], Lord to Ferrers dk Ghody [1300], Lord HauingtON [1314] and Loud Bon- 1554 yille [14-19], s. and h. 6. before 1510; and, apparently, sli/kd Lord Grey till l. r i30. KB., 30 May 1533 ; el. K.G-. 17 Feb. 1546/7, inst. 23 May 1547. Lord High Constable, IS to 20 Feb. 1547 at the coronation of Edward VI, where lie bore the sceptre with the dove ; P.G., 1519 ; Lord Lieut, of Co.'s Leicester and Rutland, 1549 ; Justice in Eyre, south of Trent, 1550 ; Warden of the Scotch Marches, 1551. He was, on 11 Oct. 1551, cr. Doke of Suffolk ("). He m. firstly, before 1530, Katharine, da. of William (Fitzalan), Earl Of Arundel, by his 2nd wife, Anne, da. of Henry (Percy), Earl of Northumberland. Her he re- pudiated, but she was living in 1552, the date of her mother's will. He m. secondly, about 1535, Frances, da. of Charles (Brandon), Duke of Suffolk, eldest da. and heir of line to her mother Mary (Troon), Dow. Queen of France, da. of King Henry VII. Ha proclaimed his eldest da., well known as " Lady Jane Grey," as Queen, after the death, 6 July 1553, of King Edward VI. He was pardoned for his rebellion; but, having subsequently joined in Wyatt's plot, was (eleven days after the execution of his da.) beheaded on Tower Hill 23 Feb. 1554, when, having been attainted, all his honours became forfeited, the Dukedom of Suffolk and the ilarquessate of Dorset becoming, as he<Z. s.p.m., extinct, but the various Baronies ( b ) falling, subject to such forfeiture, into abei/ancc. Will pr. 1556 ; His widow, the Dow. Duchess of Suffolk, tn. Adrian Stokes, apparently, one of the gentlemen of her household. She d. Nov. 1559, and was bur. in Westminster Abbey. M.I.(c). Her will dat. 7 pr. 28 Nov. 1559, by her said husband. Earldom. l. " Thomas Sacvjl, k.G., Baro.v of Bcckhurst, High IV lf>01 Treasurer of England," was, 13 March 1603/4, cr. EARL OF ' DORSET ( d ). He was only s. and h. of Sir Richard Sackville ( c ), by Winefred, da. of Sir John Brydges, Lord Mayor of London in 1520 ; was b. between 1527 and 1536, at Buckhurst in Withyam, Sussex; ed. at Oxford (Hart Hall) and at Cambridge Universities ; Barrister of the Inner Temple ; M.P. for East Grin- stead 1557-63, and for Ailesbury 1563-67 : was, 8 Juno 1567, Knighted by the Duke of Norfolk in the Queen's presence at Westminster, and was, the same day, cr. BARON OF BUCKHURST, co. Sussex (*). Ho was cr.M.A. of Cambridge 30 Aug. 1571. In 1572 was ambassador to Charles IX of Fiance to congratulate him on his marriage, and was one of the Peers that sentenced the execution of the Duke of Nor- folk. P.C., 1585 ; in Nov. 15S6 he conveyed to Mary, Queen of Scots, the confirma- tion by Pari, of sentence of her death (fc'). In 15S7 he was Ambassador to the States (") By the death, 16 July, 1551, of Charles (Brandon) 3rd Duke of Suffolk, br. to his wife, this title had a few weeks before become extinct. ( b ) Besides the Baronies of Ferrers de Groby, Harrington and Bonville above mentioned he is sometimes credited with a Barony of Astley, of which unquestionably the Lords Ferreis de Groby were representatives. This Barony, if it can be considered a hereditary peerage, is of earlier date than any of the others. See sub. " Astley " Barony, cr. 1295. The sole heirship, of all these Baronies would seem to vest, after 1578, in the heirs of Katharine Grey, the Dukes second da., whose representative, the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos s.p.m., 26 March 1S89, leaving 3 daughters and coheirs, of whom the eldest, suojurc Baroness Kinloss [S.], is the heir of line of Mary Tudor, sister of Henry VIII. (°) Her epitaph runs " Nupta Duci prius est ; uxor post Armigcri Stock." C) See "Creations, I4S3-1646 " in ap. 47th Rep. D. K. P. Records. (°) " Or, as the people called him, Fill-Sack, by reason of his great wealth and the vast patrimony he left. See Nauuton's Frag. Regalia. 0 " He wrote several poems, besides being (with Thomas Norton) the joint author of ' Oorboduc,' the first respectable tragedy iu the English language. It was acted by the Gentlemen of the Inner Temple, before the Queen, 18 Jan. 1561." See Jesse's "Stuarts." The life and character of this Earl are given on no less than 36 pages by Sir Egerton Brydges in " Collins." vol. ii, pp. 110-145 ; truly, as Je3se remarks, "the Earl has no reason to complain of neglect." (8) He had been named one of the Commissioners for her trial iu Oct. 1586 at Fotheriugay, but was not present thereat. See the names of the 24 noblemen who were thereon, ante, p. 72, note " a," siii " Derby."