Page:The Complete Peerage Ed 2 Vol 2.djvu/93

BEDFORD 77 in July i6i5.(^) Will dat. 6 Mar. 1614/5, pr. 14 July 1615, and 17 Feb. 1646/7.] [John Russell, .f/v/c'd' Lord Russell, 2nd, but ist surv. s. and h. ap., also by istwife, M.P. for Bridport 1 572-80/1, was jkw. to Pari. ^'./)., Jan. 1580/1, in his father's Barony, as LORD RUSSELL, and sat therein then and on many subsequent occasions. C") He m. (mar. lie. at Fac. office, wherein he is called Thomas, 12 Dec. 1574), 23 Dec. 1574, at Bisham, Berks, Elizabeth, widow of Sir Thomas Hoby, and da. of Sir Anthony Cook, ot Gidea Hall, in Romford, Essex. He d. in July 1584, s.p.ni.s., v.p., at Highgate, and was bur. at Westm. Abbey. M.I.('^) Admon. as of St. Anne, Black- friars, London, 9 Oct. 1584, to his widow, and again, 22 Oct. 161 8, to his da. Anne, Lady Herbert. His widow was bur. 2 June 1 609, at Bisham afsd. M.I.^) Will, as "late wife of Rt. Hon. John, late Lord Russell," dat. 23 Apr., pr. 23 June 1609, and again 19 Nov. 161 7.] [FR.A.KCIS Russell, snkiJ (1584-85) Lord Russell, 3rd, but ist surv. s. and h. ap., by ist wife. Knighted 1570, for his services in Scotland, by the Earl of Sussex. M.P. for Northumberland i572-84.() He m., 15 July 1 57 1, Juliana, da. and coh. of Sir John Foster or Forster, Warden of the Middle Marches. She ^. before him. He was mortally wounded in a fray on the Scottish border, 27 July 1585, and d. not many hours before his father, being bur. at Alnwick. Admon. 14 Sep. 1585, and 4 Mar. 1593/4.] V. 1585. 3. Edward (Russell), Earl of Bedford, (f^c, grand- son and h. male, being only s. and h. of Francis R. by (*) Clutterbuck erroneously states {History of Hertfordshire) that she was bur. 26 June 1580, at Watford, Herts. C") Lord Russell is ignored in Dugdale's Lists of Summonses, and Courthope (p. 408, note) wrongly states that there is no notice of him in the "Journals of the House of Lords, whereas his name appears regularly from Jan. 1 580/1, in which month a new writ issued for Bridport on his becoming a peer. For a list of men sum. v.p. in their father's peerages see Appendix G in vol. i. V.G. {•=) An engraving of his tomb is in Dart's IVestminster Ahbe< (with copy of the numerous polyglot verses thereon), as also of the monument of Elizabeth, one of his two daughters and coheirs, who d. unm. 2 July 1600. An elaborate account of her baptism, 27 Oct. 1575 (the Queen being godmother) is in the Genealogist, N.S., vol. iii, p. 25. The other da., Anne (the h. gen. of the Russell family, and of the 1st Earl of Bedford), m. Henry Somerset (then styled Lord Herbert), afterwards Earl and Marquess of Worcester, and left issue. if) In Ashmole's Berkshire her effigy is said to have "a Viscountess's coronet on her head," which would be the courtesy rank of her husband. if) In the House of horis^ Journals, vol. ii, p. 76, " Dominus Russell," with the mark /i. (signifying present) is printed under date 19 Dec. 1584. This could hardly refer to anyone but this Francis Russell, and would imply that he, like his elder br., had been sum. v.p. An examination, however, of the original MS. Journals by the Rev. A. B. Beaven, shows that p. has been inserted in error, and that no Dominus Russell sat in the Pari. 1584-85 which met first 25 Nov. 1584. The name appears to have been retained in this Pari, by an oversight, possibly the clerk considered that he had succeeded automatically to the position of his elder br. V.G.