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3i6 CLINTON by the new King, in whose reign he fought in France and Scotland. He m., istly, ( — ). He m., 2ndly, Margaret, da. of John St. Leger, of Ulcombe, Kent, by Margaret, da. and h. of James Donet, of Sileham in Rainham, in that CO. He rf". 24 Sep. 1464. His widow »?., 2ndly, Walter Hungerford, and, 3rdly, Sir John Heveningham. She J. i Feb. 1495/6. (*) VI. 1464. 6. John (Clinton or possibly Fiennes), Lord Clinton, s. and h., aged 30 and more at his father's death, was never sum. to Pari. In spite of his father's renunciation of the title of Lord Say for himself and his heirs, he appears to have been recognised as "Lord Clinton and Say.^") He m., istly, Elizabeth, da. of Richard (Fiennes), Lord Dacre, by Joan, suo jure Baroness Dacre. He w., 2ndly, Anne,(') said to be da. of Sir Humphrey Stafford. He d. 29 Feb. 1487/8, and was bur. at the Grey Friars, London. His widow w., shortly after 4 Aug. 1488 (date of agreement), Richard WiLLOuGHBY,of the WoUaton family. She was living circa 1508, and then apparently the wife of Thomas Willicote.(^) VIL 1488. 7. John (Clinton otherwise Fiennes), Lord Clinton, s. and h., aged 17 at his father's death, was of Amington, CO. Warwick. K.B. 14 Nov. 1501. He was not sum. to Pari, until 23 Nov. (i 514) 6 Hen. VIII, by writ directed .... Clynton de Clynton cKr.(^') He is said to have w., istly, Elizabeth, da. of Sir John Morgan, sometimes Clintons " continued to use the title, and when Edward, Lord Clinton (who had taken his seat as Lord Sa [/Vnyj de Clinton et Sai in 1536 and had been then ranked, avowedl}-, as Lord Say) was created Earl of Lincoln (4 May 1572), the heralds pro- claimed his st3'le as 'Sir Edward Fynes Conte de Lincoln, Seigneur Clinton tt Say.' His grandson was returned as member for Grimsby, in his father's lifetime (1601-04) as Lord Clinton and Saye, and was called up to the House of Lords [y-p-] in 1610 as 'Thomas Clynton de Say.'" (J. H. Round, Peerage Studies, p. 455). For some remarks on the assumption of peerage titles by peers, see vol. v, Appendix F, and for the surrender of peerages see Appendix A to this volume. V.G. (*) See, as to these facts, articles entitled "Cases from the Early Chancery Proceedings" in The Ancestor, vol. viii, p. 167, and "The Clinton Family," Idem, vol. X, p. 32. V.G. C") There is a general pardon {Patent Roll), 9 Aug. 147 1, to "John Clynton of the town of Calais, lord de Clynton and Say alias lord de Clynton of Folkeston, co. Kent." He is so called in Patent Roll 3 Hen. VIII, part 3, m. 5, and in Early Chan- cery Proceedings, Bundle 195, no. 25; his widow, in the agreement for her re- marriage being also called "Lady Clynton and Say." [Hist. MSS. Com., Lord Middleton's MSS., p. 121). Indeed "Clinton and Say " appears to have been the style and title of these lords in all documents, public and private, for at least 200 years. V.G. (') Her husband settled lands on her, as " the Lady Anne Clynton," 6 Feb. 1487/8, thirteen days before his death. V.G. (^) See Sussex Arch. Coll., vol. xvii, pp. 77, 78, and Inq. p. m. co. Warwick on Thomas, Lord Clinton. V.G. (f) The clerks of the Chancery were evidently ignorant of the Christian name of the Lord Clinton who was to be summoned; the writ has been attributed to the 8th Lord, but as it issued in the lifetime of the 7 th Lord there seems no ground for doing so. Not only did no Lord Clinton sit in the Pari, which met 5 Feb. 15 14/5, but, strangely