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DERBY. 73 who d. IS March 1616/7, in his 77th year.(») She d. 26 and was inn 2S Jauy. 1636/7, at Harefleld, Midx. Will pr. 1637. XV. 1594. 6 William (Stanley), Earl of Derby, br. and h. male, who, as h. male of the body of the grantee, inherited the Earldom tho' not the other honours of the family. He was b. in London about 1561 matrift at Oxford (St, John's Coll. in 1572,( u ) at the age of 11 ; el. K.G. 23 April and inst. 26 May 1601 ; Chamberlain of Chester 1603-26 and Joint Chanib. (with his son James) 1626-12. Lord Lieut, cos. Lane, and Chester, 1607-26 and joint Lord Lieut thereof (with his said sou) 1626-12. Having purchased the rights of his nieces therein, the Lordship or Admiralty of the Isle of Man was confirmed to hitu 7 July (1609) 7 Jac. I and ratified by Act of Parliament.^') He m. 26 June 1591, at Greenwich, Elizabeth, sister (of the half blood) and coheir of Henvy, 18th Earl of Oxford, 1st da. of Edward (nE Verb), 17th Eaul ok Oxford, by his first wife, Anne, da. of William (Cecil), 1st Baron Buuuhley. She d. at Richmond, Surrey, 10, and was bur. 11 March 1626/7, at Westm. Abbey. He d. 29 Sep. 1612, and was bur. at Ormskirk. Will dat. ID Feb. 1626 ; pr. 19 Feb. 1619/50. XVI. lGt'2. 7. James (Stanley), Eaul of Derby, s. anil k, //. 31 Jauy. 1607, at Knowsley, co. Lane, M.P. for Liverpool 1625, KB. under the designation of LOBD Strange^) 2 Feb. 1625/6, at the Coronation; Joint Lord Lieut, (with his father) cos. Lane, and Chester and Joint Chamberlain of Chester 1626-12, becoming sole Lord Lieut, and sole Chamberlain, 1612. He was sum to Pari, v.p., as LORD STRASGE by writs 7 March (1627/S), 3 Car. I to 3 Nov. (1639), 15 Car. I, directed " Jacobo Stanley dc Stranye, Chl'r," under the erroneous belief that the Barony of Strange dc Knockin [1299] was vested in his father and was placed in the precedeucyC-') of that ancient Barony. In 1642 he was one of the first to join the King at York, and, being that year Lord Lieut, of North Wales as well as of Cheshire and Lancashire, had intended to set up the Royal Standard (after- wards erected at Nottingham) in those parts. He subsequently removed to the Isle of Man to secure that place while his wife sustained the celebrated siege (raised 27 May 1614) of Lathom House. (Q He was el. K G. (at Jersey) 12 Jauy. 1619/50(8) but never installed. He »!. 26 June 1626, Charlotte DE la Tkf.mouille, da. of Claude, Duke of Tiiouahs, in France by Charlotte, da. of William of Nassau, Pmsck of Grange, and Charlotte of BoCBBON his wife. Taking part in the rising on ( a ) The manors of Brackley and Halse, co. Northampton, were granted in 14SS to George (Stanley), Lord Strange de Knockyn, father of the 2d Earl of Derby and great grandfather of the 5th Earl, to whose 2d da. and coheir, Frances, they were assigned as her portion. Her husband John (Egerton), 2d Viscount Brackley and 1st Earl of Bridgwater (seep. 72, note"f.") was s. and h. male of the 1st Viscount (the well-known Lord Chancellor EHesmere) who doubtless took the title of Braeklcy when CT. a Viscount (in 1616) in honour of his said sou's estate and who himself was (as in the text) the 2d husband of the Dow. Countess of Derby, the mother of the wife of his said son. See Baker's Northamptonshire, vol. i, p. 564. ( b ) See p. 72, nolo " c." (") The right thereto was held by the Council to be in the Crown ; the Stanley family having no right therein inasmuch as tho grant by Henry IV was made to them before the Percy estates of which this was part, had legally lapsed to the Crown by the forfeiture of the Percy family. See p. 68, note *' c." ( d ) This was under the (erroneous) impression that the Barony of Strange [1299] was vested in his father. See, however, the coheirs there of p. 72, note " f." (°) See an account of precedence (wrongfully) allowed to this and other Baronies (Clifford and Percy) cr. by writs issued in inadvertence vol. i, p. 20, note " b," circa fincm. 0 A second siege thereof lasted nearly two years. It is said to have cost tho enemy no less than 6,000 men. See " Dugdale where a very full account is given of the Earl and his wife, and sec also " Collins " for a different but still more elaborate account (vol. Ui, pp. 83-93), where the Earl's defiant letter to Cromwell, 12 July 1619, refusing to surrender tho Isle of Man, is given in full. ( 8 ) The ribband and George wore sent to him in the Isle of Man.