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SUSSEX. 337 bap. 11 March 1575, was bur. II Dec. [Qtj. 1022(a)] at Watford afsd.( b ) Hem. secondly [settl. 10 June (1623) 21 Jac], Prances, widow of Edward Shute, da. o£ Hercules Mkftas, of Hame, co. Essex, Gent. Pensioner, by which lady he previously had had issue. She d. in St. Clement Danes Adinou. 17 Jan. 1027/8. to her husband, and again, IS Jan. 1629/30, "to Sir Alexander Radclilfe, K.B., and Dame Jane,^) Im wife, only da. of the deceased." He </. s.p. legit ( d ) at his house at Clerkenwell, 22 Sep. 1839, and was bur, at Boreham afsd. Funeral certif. at Coll. of Arms. Will nr. 1629. At his death the Barony of Pit: Walter (see that dignity) devolved on the heirs general, vie., the descendants of his paternal aunt (of the half-blood) Lady Prances Mildmay, but the Viscountcy of FitzWalter and Earldom of Sussex passed to his cousin and heir male. [Henry Uadclyffe, or Ratclyffe, sfylfl Viscount Fitzwalter, 1st s. and h. ap. by Srst wife ; b. about 159S: m. Feb. 1613/1, at St. Barth. the Great, Loudon. Jane, 1st da. ami coheir(°) of Sir .Michael Stanhope, of Sudbury, Suffolk. He (/. s.p. and v.p. 20 Nov. 1621. Im[. post mortem. His widow m. 25 April 1621. at Kensington, Sir William Withypoolk.] XIII. 1G29, 6. Edward (Radclyffe or Ratclyffe), Earl of to Scsuf.x [1529] and ViSGOOMT FitzwaLTER [10251, cousin and h. ] 04 3. male, being 2d but 1st surv. s. and h-0 of Sir Humphrey RAD- CLYFFE or Ratcliffk, of Elstow, co. Bedford, by Isabel, da. and h. of Edmund Harvey, of Elstow afsd., which Humphrey (who d. lf>66) was 3d s. of the 1st Earl by his first wife.(S) He was b. about 1560 ; M.P. for Petersfield, K8&-S7; for Beds, 15SS-S9; for Portsmouth, 1592-93, and for Beds (again) 1601 and 1601 12 ; was Knighted before 30 May 1591 ; sue. to the pcera'/e 22 Sep. 1629. Hem. firstly. Elizabeth, widow of John Gostwicke, da. of Sir William Pbtre, of Ingatestone, Essex, by Anne, da. of Sir William Browne, sometime [1514 1 L. Mayor of London. He m. secondly, 30 May 1591, Jane, widow of John Catesby, and, before that, of William WK8T, of Marswort h, Bucks, da. of Sir Francis Hynde, of Madingley, co. Cambridge. He IX. thirdly, 22 May 1634, at St. Andrew's Holborn (Lie. Fac.) Eleanor, willow of Sir Henry Lkk. 1st Bart, 4th da. of Sir Richard WoRTLEY, of Wortley, CO. York, by Elizabeth, da. of Edward Houghton, of Cawston, co. Warwick. (a) The date of 162J is giveu in Clutterbuck's " Herts," vol. i, p. 238 ; which, if correct, contradicts that of Hie subsequent marriage. ( b ) In Manningham's Diary, 12 Oct. 1602. an unpleasant picture is given of his domestic life. "The Earl of Sussex keeps Mrs. Sylvester Morgan (sometime his Lady's gentlewoman) at Dr. Dayly's house as his mistress, calls her his Countess, hires Capt. IVhitlocke, with money ami cast suits, to brave his Countess with telling of her how he buys his wench a waistcoat of £10, and puts her in her velvet gown, etc. ; thus not content to abuse her by keeping a common wench, he strives to invent means of more grief to his lady, who is of a very goodly and comely personage of an excellent presence and a rare wit." ( c ) To this Jane, born Shute, his wife's da., the said Earl devised the estate of Attlehorough, co. Norfolk. She is often considered to have been an illegit. da. of the Karl himself, but she m., 7 June 1623, at St. James', Clerkenwell, as " M ra Jaiue Shute," and in the mar. lie. (Fac.) she is called "da. of Edward Shute, Esq., dec* and then aged 13." She m., as her second husband, Dr. Lewis. John Ratcliffe, her » and h. by her 1st marriage, sold Attleborough in 1657 to Sir Francis Bickley, Bart. See Barrett's "Attlehorough," ISIS. ( d ) His 4 legit, children, all by his first wife, d. v.p. and s.p., viz. (1) Henry, as in the text; (2) Thomas; (3) Elizabeth, m. 20 Feb. 1607/8, at the Chapel Koyal, Whitehall, Sir John Kamaay (afterwards, 1621, Earl of Holderuesse) and d. 6 Dec. 1618; (4) Honora. ('I The 2d da. and coheir, Elizabeth, m. George (Berkeley), Lord Berkeley; Bri'Iget, another da. m. George (Feilding), 1st Earl of Desmond [I.] (') Thomas the 1st s. d. s.p. before 1629. ( 8 ) George R. the 2d son of the 1st Earl, in Katharine, da. and h. of John (Marney), Lord Marney and d. s.p. ; Sir John R. the 4th and yst. b., only child by the third wife, d. nlso s.p. aud was bur. 19 Nov. 1568, at St. Olave's, Hart Street, Y