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DERBY. 71 he was, undoubtedly, one of the earliest and most constant supporters of that Queen ' RC. 17 Auk. 1553 ; Lord High Steward and Bearer of the Curtana at the Coronation of Queen Mary, 1 Oct. 1553 ; one of the Commissioners for the trial of Lady Jane Grey, &c., 11 Nov. 1553 ; one of the attendants on Philip, Prince of Spain, at his landing 19 July 1554. On the accession of Queen Eliz. he was again made P.C. 24 Nov. 1558, Chamberlain of Chester 1559-65, and in 1569 Lord Lieut. C03. Chester and Lancaster. His magnificent hospitality was unbounded.;*) He m. firstly 21 Feb. 1530, Dorothy, da. of Thomas (Howard), 2d Dukk of Norfolk, by his 2d wife Agnes, da. of Hugh Tn.NET, of Boston, co. Lincoln. He ni. secondly Margaret, da. of Ellis Barlow, of Barlow, eo. Lane. Lie m. thirdly Mary, da. of Sir George Cotton, of Combermere, co. Chester, by Mary, da. of John Onllv, of Catesby, co. Northamp- ton. He d. 24 Oct. 1572, at Lathom House and was bur. 1 Dee. with great magnificence( b ) in the church at Ormskirk. Fun. cert, at Coll. of Arms. Will dat. 24 Aug. pr. 21 Nov. 1572. His widow m. Henry (Grey), 6th E.utL of Kent (who d. 31 Jnuy. 1015, aged 71) audtf. s.p., 10 Nov. 15S0. XIII. 1572. J,. Henry (Stanley), Earl of Derby, Sec, s. and h. by 1st wife, styled LonD BxRAltOS till 1559, and, as such, one of the 40 Knights (made as'K.B's) 20 Feb. 1546/7,( c ) at the coron. of Ed. VI, to whom he was Gent, of the Privy Chamber, as he was also, July 1554, to King Philip. He was sum. to Pari., v.p., in his father's Barony, as LOKD STRANGE, by writs 23 Jany. (155S/9) 1 Eliz. to 8 Feb. (1575/6) IS Eliz. ; was cr. M.A. of Oxford 6 Sep. 1566. He sue. his father in 1572 as Lord Lieut, cos. Lane, and Chester ; el. K.G. 24 April and iust. 30 May 1574 ; Ambassador Extraordinary to France for the investiture (at Paris 13 Feb. 1585/0) of King Henry III with the order of the Garter ;(") P.C. 15S5 ; Steward of the Household 15S8. He was also in Oct. 15S6 one of the Commissioners for the part thereof not entirely accurate] is given. No less than 26 Peers affixed their names to this settlement. These were two Dukes, I'i';., Northumberland (Grand Master of the Household) and Suffolk ; 2 Marquesses, viz., Northampton and Win- chester (Lord Treasurer); nine Earls, viz., Arundel, Bedford (Lord Privy Seal), Huntingdon, Oxford, Pembroke, Shrewsbury, Warwick (eldest son of the Duke of Northumberland), Westmorland, aud Worcester ; besides thirteen Barons, viz., Aber- gavenny, Bray, Clinton, Cobhani, Darey, Grey de Wilton, Paget, Rich, Russell (eldest son of the Earl of Bedford), Talbot (eldest son of the Earl of Shrewsbury), YVuntworth, Willoughby of Parbam, and Windsor. The Earls of Bath, Derby, and Sussex, were represented by their respective eldest sous, viz., John Bourcbier slylcd Lord Fitzwarine, Henry Stanley styled Lord Strange, and Thomas Ratclifl'e styled Lord Fitzwalter. John Paulet styled Lord St. John (s. and h. ap. of the Marquess of Winchester), Lord Thomas Grey (br. to the Duke of Suffolk), and Gerald Fitzgerald, the attainted Earl of Kildare [I]., were also among them, as was also the Archbishop (Craumer) of Canterbury, Bishop (Goodrich) of Ely (then Lord Chancellor), and Bishop (Ridley) of London. There were, besides, the three Secretaries of State (Petre, Cecil, and Cheke), seven Judges, six Privy Councillors, the Lord Mayor and six Aldermen, &c., &c. ( a ) Camden in his "Annals of Eliz." says "that with Edward, Earl of Derby's death, the glory of hospitality seemed to fall asleep." Mr. Howard Evans, in his " Our Old Nobility," adds "His household expenses are said to have amounted to £4,000 per annum. His political career was, however, a most inglorious one ; under. Edward VI. he acted as a Commissioner for the advancement of the Reformation ; under Mni-y he delivered Protestants to be burnt at the stake ; under Elizabeth he hunted Catholics to the death. Thus he.contrived to keep all he had and to acquire still more." The Stanley motto, " Sans changer," was equally inappropriate to him, as to his ancestor, the 1st Earl of Derby. ( b ) Tho ceremony is printed in full in " Collins," vol. iii, pp. 72-78. ( e ) These were so dubbed " in lieu of the Bath [K B.], which then could not be performed according to all ceremonies thereto belonging, tho time for that purpose being too short." See Mulcalfs " Book of Kniyhts," p. 85. Jjv See an account of these special Garter missions vol, ii, p. 192, note *' a," sub