186 HASTINGS. Catharine, widow of William (BclNVlLiE), Lord Harington, da. of Richard (Nevii.t, Earl ok Sahsburt, by Alice, da and h. of Thomas (Montaoute), Kakl OT" Saeisruhy. Tho' apparently a partisan of Richard, Duke of GlouccBter, he was by that Prince (a few days before he assumed the Crown) arrested at council in the Tower of Ltndon, charged with high treason, and immediately beheaded 13 June 14S3.( a ) lie was bur. at St. George'.- Chapel, Windsor. Will pr. 12 Aug. 1183. His widow, in her will dat. 22 Nov. 1 503, directs her burial to be at Ashby -de-la-Zoueh. II. 1483* 2. Edward (Hastings), Lord Hastings de Hastincs and Lord Hastincs de Hungerford, s. and h., b. about 1161 ; K.B. (with the Prince of Wales) IS April 1478. Having m. before 8 Feb. 1481, -Mary, da. and h. of Sir Thomas Hi'Kgerfobd, by Ann, da. of Henry (Percy), Earl of Northumberland (which Thomas was eldest sou of Robert, Loud HrjNGBBFOM), who was attainted 1461, and beheaded in 1463) he was (notwithstanding such attainder) sum. to Pari. v.p. as a Baron by writ 15 Nov. (1482), 22 Ed. IV., directed " Edwtmh Hading* dc Hungo-Jord " and continued to be so sum. till 16' Jan. (1496/7), i2 Hen. VII. Iu 1485, by the reversal of the attainder of 1463, his wife became stio jure HAKONESS BOTREAUX.l 1 ') BARON ESS HUNGERFORD, and BARONESS DE MOLEYNS. He was P.C., 1504. He rf. 8 Nov. 1506, and was bur. at Blackfriars, London. Will dat. 4 Nov. 1506.( t ) His widow m. in 1511 Sir Richard Sachrverell, of Katclifl'e-on- Soar, Notts, whose will dat. 29 March was pr. 26 June 1534. She was living 1528 and possibly later but was dead before 1534, being bur. at Newark, co. Leicester, as was her secoi. l husband. III. 1506. S. Gi orge (Hastings), Lord Hastings de Has- v tings [l b 1], and Loud Hastincs de Hinoebkuid [14S2], s. | § and h., b. 148S ; sum. to Pari, as Lord Hastings de Hastings from 17 Oct. (1509), 1 Hen. VIII.. to Nov. (1529), 21 Hen. VIII. He was a: 8 Dec. 1529, EARL OF HUNTINGDON. He me. on his mother's death about 1530 as Lord Botreavx [1368], Lord HdmoebFORD [1426J, and Lord dk Moleyns [1445.] He d. 24 March 1545. IV. 1545. 4. Francis (Hastings), Earl of Huntingdon, &c, 8. and h., 4. about 1514 ; styled Loud Hastings, 1529-45 ; d. 22 June 1560. V. 15C0. S. Henry (Hastings), Earl of Huntingdon, &c, s. and h., 4. 1539 ; styled Lobd Hastings, 1545-60, and was sum. to Pari. v.p. in hia father's Barony as Loud Hastings, 23 Jan. 155S/9. He d. B.p. 14 Dec. 1595. VI. 159,'i. 6. George (Hastings), Earl of Huntingdon, &c, br. and h., b. about 1543. He d. 31 Dec 1604. tea — ( a ) The description of this scene in Shakespeare's " Richard III." is taken from Sir Thomas More who heard it from Cardinal Morton (then Bishop of Ely) an eye witness. ( b ) This lady had been, according to the present law concerning forfeiture, sua jure Baroness Botreai'x since the death in 1478 of her great grandmother, Margaret, suojurc Baroness Botreaux, notwithstanding the attainder of her father in 1469 and of her grandfather in 1461, who was s. and h. of Robert, Lord Huugerford (d. 1459) by the said Margaret, who survived both her said son and grandson. Such attainders, however, prevented her undoubtedly from inheriting the Baronies of Hungerford and De Moleyns, and it was not apparently thought (at that time) till their reversal (in 1485) that she was entitled to any dignities derived thro' her attainted ancestors. She appears, however, after 1485 not to have been con- tented with the three Baronies to which she was entitled, but to have credited herself with six as " she styled herself Lady Hungerford, Hornet, Botreaux, Mods, Molincs, and Petered, which titles are sometimes attributed to [her heir] the Marquess of Hastings. Hornet and Pevercll were never Parliamentary Baronies [while] Moels, tho' a Barony by writ, was not absolutely vested in the said Lady Hungerford, as she was only sole heir of one moiety and coheir to of the other moiety of that dignity." [See Courthopc, under "Hungerford."] ( c ) Test. Vet., p. 475.
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