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330 FERE AR D — FE RREIIS . II. 1824. 2. Thomas IIenhy (Skeffington), Viscount Ferrard [I., 1707] and Baron OnrnL of Collon [I., 1790], only surv. s. and h. He was (under tho surname of I-ostti) M.F. for Dunleer, 1797-1800; for Drogheda, 1S07-12; and (under the surname of Skrfrinr/ton, which lie took by Royal lie. 8 Jauy. 1S17) ; for co. Louth, 1S21-20, having in 1824 (as above stated) sue. big mother in the Irish Peerage. In 1828 he sue. his father as Barox Oriel ok Fe it hard [U.K., 1821.] P.O. [1.] He m. 20 Nov. 1S10, Harriet, only da. and h. of Chichester (Skekkinuton), 1th Earl ok Masserkene [I.], by Harriet, da. of Robert (Jocelyn), 1st Earl or Roden [I.J She, who on the death of her father, 2f> Feb. 1S16, became suo jure Viscountess Massereene and Baroness Of Louu.unea [I.] d. 2 Jan. 1831. See that diguity cr. 1660. Viscount Ferrard d. 18 Jan. 1811, at Farnham, co. Cavan. III. 1811. 3. Joiix (Skeffixgton), Viscount Massereene [K'tjO], Viscount Ferrard [1797], Baron ok Louuhnea [1660], and Baron Oriel ok Collon [1790] in Ireland, also Baron Oriel ok Ferrard [1821] in the United Kingdom, 9 . and h., b. 30 Xov. 1S12. He, havingsKC his mother as Viscount Masserkene and Baron ok Lougiixea [I.] in 1831, sue. his father in 1811 as Viscount Ferrard, &c. [I.], and as Baron Oriel of Ferrard [U.K.] S>ee " Alassereene " Viscountcy [I.], cr. 1060. Seo " Oriel of Ferrard, co. Louth " Barony (Fouler), a: 1821. FERRERS, DE FERRERS, DE FERRARS or DE FERRAEIIS. "The Earls of Derby of the family of Ferrers were not unfrenuently styled Earls de Ferrers, eus has been before remarked under Derby ; they were also called Earls of Tutbury, from the Castle of Tutbury, one of the possessions of Henry de Ferrers, mentioned in Domesday. Thomas (Plautagenct), Earl of Lancaster, who was possessed of the Castle of Tutbury (granted to his father by the Crown), styled himself, upon his seal, Earl of Lancaster, Leicester, and.Ferrers ; no such Earldom [of Ferrers] however existed until 1711." [Courthope.] Barony by 1. Joire de Ferrers, of Chartley Castle, co. Stafford,( 8 ) "Writ. oul y e - and • of Robert, Earl of Derby, or Earl de Ferrers (which Earldom he forfeited in 1266) was after the death of his father in I. 1299. 1279 permitted to inherit some 'of the family estates tho' he was not (according to his petition to the Pope in i296), restored entirely thereto. He served in the Scotch wars and was sum. to Pari, as a Baron [LORD FERRERS] from 6 Feb. (1298/9), 27 Ed. I., to 19 Dec. (1311), 5 Ed. II., by writ directed Johi dc Ferariis.{ b ) He m. in 1302 Hawyse, da. and h. of Robert DE MuscegrOS, of Charlton, co. Somerset. He d. (1324-25), 18 Ed. II. II. 1325. 2. Robert (de Ferrers), Lord Ferrers, s. and h., aged 15 at the death of his father. He was never sum. to Pari, as a Baron, but was sum. to a council, 25 Feb. (1311/2), 16 Ed. III. He served in the wars in Scotland and France and was present at the battle of Crecy in 1316. He is said to have ro. Agnes, da, of Humphrey (de Bohdn), Earl of Hereford. He d. (1350), 21 Ed. III. ( a ) The estate of Chartley was the inheritance of his great grandmother, Agnes, Countess of Derby, one of the sisters and coheirs of Randolph (de Blondeville), Earl of Chester. ( b ) It is to be remarked that this Barony is frequently spoken of as " Ferrers dc Chartley," but no such designation is appended to any of the writs. Banks in his " Bar. An'jl." queries the precedency of this Barony prior to the writ of 1 Ed. IV. to " Walter Devereux do Ferrers," inasmuch as there is no proof of the sitting of the Baron sum. by Ed. I. and none of his descendants wore sum. till tho said Walter. The precedency, however, of 1299 was both iu 1077 and 1771 allowed to it.