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CLIxNTON 317 described as of Tredegar, co. Monmouth. He w., 2ndly, before 1501, Anne. Q He d. 4 June 1514- His widow, who apparently was not the mother of his heir, was living 7 Nov. iSiS-(^) VIII. 1515. 8. Thomas (Clinton otherwise FiENNEs), Lord Clin- ton, s. and h., apparently by ist wife, aged 24 at his father's death, was never sum. to Parl.("=) He was knighted 1513. He m. Joan (settl. 4 May 15 10), illegit. da. of Sir Edward Poynings, K.G. He d. of the sweating sickness, 7 "Aug. 1517, and was bur. the same day at Richmond, in his 28th year.(<') His widow, who had lie. to m. whom she would, 4 July 1 51 9, m. Sir Robert Wingfield, and was living as his wife 7 Nov. iSiS-^) IX. 1517. 9- Edyard (Clinton otherwise Fiennes), ' Lord Clinton, only s. and h., b. 1512. He was sum. to Pari. 27 Apr. (1536) 28 Hen. VIII by writ(') directed Edzvardo Fenys de Clinton et Sc],(f) and later Edwardo Fettys de Clinton Magna Admirallo AngV . On 4 May 1572 he was cr. EARL OF LINCOLN. He d'. 16 Jan. 1584/5. X. 1585. 10. Henry (Clinton otherwise Fiennes), Earl of Lincoln and Lord Clinton, s. and h., h. 1540; K.B. 29 Sep. 1553. He d. 29 Sep. 1616. XI. 1 6 10. II. Thomas (Clinton otherwise Fiennes), Lord Clinton, or Lord Clinton de Say, s. and h. ap., who v.p. was sum. to the House of Lords in his father's Barony, . enough, no such name occurs in the daily lists, which include not only those who were present (marked " p "), but those who might attend as having received a summons. Ralph, Lord Scrope (of Masham), who had received a writ of summons for this Pari., is similarly ignored in the Lists in the Journals of the House. See 47th Report, D.K. Public Records, p. 86, which wrongly guesses " Edward " as the name of the Clinton so summoned, and Dugdale's Summonses. V.G. (*) See recovery recited in patent, 13 Nov. 1511. {Letters and Papen Henry VllT). V.G. (•>) Idem, vol. ix, pp. 307-8. V.G. (') See note " e " on preceding page. ("^) Inq. p. m. at Canterbury 25 Nov. 15 1 7, at Warwick 26 Feb., and again at Canterbury 13 Mar. 151 7/8. V.G. (') "In [1557-1558] 4 and 5 Ph. and Mary, a question of precedency arose between this nobleman and Henry, Lord Stafford, when it was decided, 12 Feb. 1558, that the Lords Clinton had by long continuance and great antiquity ranked next above the Lords Audley, and that the Lords Stafford had always ranked next below the Lords Talbot, and they were respectively placed accordingly. {Lords Journals, vol. i, p. 522). Lord Clinton was subsequently put next to Lord Bergavenny and became the second Baron of the realm, whilst Lord Stafford became the eleventh." {Cowthope). (') Pari. Pawn. It will be noticed that his surname as given is that borne by his great-great-grandmother, and that the assumption of the Barony of Say is here officially recognised. Owing to the fact that Dugdale's Summonses, pp. 499 and 502, in two f/3 r, n

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