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BUCKINGHAM 391 high treason I3,() and executed on Tower Hill, 17 May 1521, and was bur. at the Austin Friars, London, aged 43,() the attainder being confirmed in Pari. 31 July I523,('=) when all his honours hscimc forfeited. Inq.p. m. 16 Oct. I525.() He m. (cont. 14 Dec. 1490) Eleanor, ist da. of Henry (Percy), 4th Earl of Northumberland, by Maud, da. of William (Herbert), Earl of Pembroke. She d. 13 Feb. 1530, and was hur. at the Greyfriars, London. (^) Will dat. 24 June 1528, directing her heart to be bur. there and her body at the Greyfriars, Bristol. EARLDOM. ii6i8(') i. Mary Beaumont, da. of Anthony I Beaumont, of Glenfield, co. Leicester, by jy ,M j ( — ), da. of Thomas Armstrong, of Corby, co. '^ ' J 1632. Lincoln, m., istly, as his 2nd wife. Sir George Villiers, of Brokesby, co. Leicester, by whom she was mother (among other issue) of George Villiers, cr. Earl of Buck- ingham in 1616/7, and Marquess of Buckingham in 1617/8, as hereafter mentioned. Her husband d. 4 Jan. 1605/6, and she ;«., 2ndly, 19 June (^) In Shakespeare's vivid account of these proceedings in " Henry VIII," note that in the Duke's speech therein he calls himself " Bohun" being the name of his maternal ancestress, i.e. " When I came hither I was Lord High Constable, And Duke of Buckingham; now poor Edward Bohun." G.E.C. In character he was vain, weak, and excessively fond of dress. Of him Lloyd sagely remarks, " That which ruineth the world ruined him, his tongue. Fate never undid a man without his own indiscretion; and her first stroke is at the head." His portrait is at Magd. Coll. Cambridge. V.G. There is a strange entry among the burials of St. Botolph's Bishopgate, viz. 1608, Apr. 9. " The Lady Marye Bohun alias Staffhrde, buried out of Bethlehem House, [i.e. Bedlam lunatic-asylum], aged 140." C') The fate of his race was singularly tragic. Both he and his father were be- headed, while his grandfather, great-grandfather, and great-great-grandfather (Edmund, Earl of StafiFord, 1395-1403), were all slain in the wars of the Roses. (f) There is a grant to his son, Henry Stafford, and Ursula his wife, of the manor of Brasted, Surrey, in the King's hand by reason of the attainder of Edward late Duke of Buckingham. {Ancient Deeds, vol. v, A. 13,529). The gorgeous attire of this Henry Stafford at the meeting of Henry VII and Philip, King of Castile, near Windsor in 1 505/6 is described in a Paston letter of 17 Jan. in that year. " My Lord Harry Stafforth rod in a gown of cloth of tuyssew, tuckyd, furryd with sabulles, a hat of goldsmyth worke, and full of stons, dyamondes, and rubys, ryding apon a sorrellyd courser bardyd with a bayrd of goldsmythes wark with rosys and draguns red." V.G. C^) He was degraded from the order of the Garter. See Appendix B to this volume. (f) She appears to be the lady referred to in Wriothesley's Chronicle : — "This year [1538] 19 Aug.: Mr. John Audley d. at his place of Hodnill in Warwickshire, which was husband to the Duchess of Buckingham departed, and after was married to Master Spencer's wife of Warwickshire, which remaineth now his widow." V.G. (^ There being but 1 8 months difference in the creation of the Earldoms respec- tively conferred on the son (No. VIII) and on the mother (No. IX), the accounts of them have, for convenience sake, been transposed.