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i6 BATH and Dorset, being styled '■^ consanguineus noster" in the patent. Of him, since that date, nothing further is known,(*) and the title is presumed to have become extinct on his death. II. 1536. I. John Bourchier, only s. and h. of Fulke, Lord FitzWarine, by Elizabeth, sister and coh. of John (Dinham), Lord Dinham, of Care Dinham, was b. 20 July 1470. He sue. his father as Lord FitzWarine, 12 Sep. I479,() became of full age in 1 49 1, and was sum, to Pari, as a Baron 12 Aug. 1492 to 8 June 1536; K.B. 31 Oct. 1494; P.C. 1520; one of the signatories of the letter of warning to Pope Clement VII in 1530. On 9 July 1536, he was cr. EARL OF BATH, taking his seat the next day. He »?., istly, in or shortly before 1499, Cicely, only sister of Henry (Daubeney), Earl of Bridgwater, da. of Giles, Lord Daubeney, by EHzabeth, da. of John Arundell, of Lanherne, Cornwall. He m., 2ndly, Florence, widow of Sir Humphrey Fulford, ist of the 2 daughters and coheirs of John Bon- viLLE, of Halnaker, Sussex, by Katharine, da. of Sir Robert Wingfield. She, who was b. 1472, d. s.p., Oct. 1524. Inq.p. m.if) He w., 3rdly, as her 3rd husband, Elizabeth, widow of Sir Thomas Wyndham, of Felbrigg, Norfolk, and before that of Sir Roger Darcy, of Danbury, Essex, da. of Sir Henry Wentworth, of Nettlestead, Suffolk, by Anne, da. of Sir John Say. He d. 30 Apr. 1539, and was bur. (with his father) at Braunton, North Devon, aged 68. Will dat. 20 Oct. 1535, pr. 2 June i54i.('^) His widow was living in 1542, III. 1539. 2. John (Bourchier), Earl of Bath, ^fc, only s. and h. by 1st wife, aged 40 at his father's death.(') On 8 Apr. 1548, by the death of his maternal uncle, Henry (Daubeney), Earl of Bridgwater, ^c, he sue. to any hereditary Barony that may be held to have been er. by the writ (1295), 23 Edw. I, addressed to Elias Daubeney. He was Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset, 1519; knighted [1523.]; P.C, 1553. He was one of the first to declare the right of Queen Mary to the Crown, and was, consequently, a Commissioner to decide on the claims made at her Coronation, and for the trial of Lady Jane Grey. Governor of Beaumaris Castle. Lord Lieut, of Dorset, Devon, and Corn- (^) He is called "strenuus et sapiens miles" and "vir militari doctrin^ praedi- tus" in Bernard Andre's Vita Regis Henrici septimi. (b) "On the Pell Receipt Roll, Easter, 20 Edw. IV, 15 July (1480), the name of the heir of the late Lord Fitzwaryn is given as Thomas (under age)." See contribution by Sir J. H. Ramsay in Genealogist, N.S., vol. v, p. 46. V.G. if) See Sussex Arch. Col., xv, p. 1 7, in ped. of " Poynings." V.G. (<J) Test. Vet. (*) A few months later, by the death of Henry, Earl of Essex, on 13 Mar. 1539/40, he became h. male of the body of William Bourchier, Count of Eu in Normandy, and, as such, was entitled apparently to that dignity, which, however, neither he nor his descendants ever assumed.