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CUMBERLAND 567 He subscribed the letter to the Pope praying him to sanction the King's divorce from Catherine of Arragon,and was rewarded by large grants of divers monastic lands in Yorkshire, the Priory of Bolton in Craven (1541), £sPc. In 1536 he bravely held his castle of Skipton during Aske's rebellion. He was Warden of the West Marches, Capt. of Carlisle 1525-28, and 1534 till his death; Constable and Steward of Knaresborough, and of Penrith &c. Nom. K.G. 23 Apr., inst. 13 May 1537. He ;«., istly, Margaret, da. of George (Talbot), 4th Earl of Shrewsbury, by Anne, da. of William (Hastings), Lord Hastings. She d. s.p., soon after marriage. He »;. 2ndly, about 15 16, Margaret, ist da. of Henry (Percy), 5th Earl of Northumberland, by Catherine, da. and coh. of Sir Robert Spencer, of Spencer Combe, Devon. She was iur. 25 Nov. 1540, at Skipton. He d. 22 Apr., and was i>ur. 2 May 1542, aged about 50, at Skipton, the value of his estates at that time not exceeding £i,-j20 a year. Will dat. 2 Apr. 1542, pr. 4 June 1543-0 II. 1542. 2. Henry (Clifford), Earl of Cumberland, &'c., s. and h. by 2nd wife, aged 25 at his father's death; K.B. 30 May 1523, at the Coronation of Anne Boleyn; Constable and Steward of Knaresborough 1 542 ; Bearer of the third sword at the Coronation of Queen Mary, i Oct. 1553. Lord Lieut, of Westmorland, 1553-59; High Steward of the Duchy of Lancaster estates co. York, 1557; appears first to have favoured and afterwards opposed the insurgent Earls in 1569. He m., istly (cont. Mar. 1533), in the summer of 1537, at her father's house in Suffolk Place, London (the King being present), Eleanor, yst. da. and coh. of Charles (Brandon), Duke of Suffolk, by his 3rd wife, Mary, Queen Dowager of France, da. of Henry VII. She d. s.p.m.s., at Brougham Castle, 27 Sep. I547,() and was i'ur. at Skipton, aged about 28.(') He ;«., 2ndly, in 1552 or 1553, at Kirk Oswald, Anne,() da. of William (Dacre), Lord Dacre (of Gilsland), by Elizabeth, 5th dreaded enemy was slaine a little before A° 1525.' The Signed Bill for the creation of the Earldom of Cumberland is remaining amongst the Records at the Rolls, but with- out a Recepi, and there is no enrolment of the Patent; it might, therefore, have been concluded that no Patent had passed the seal, had there not been a full account of the creation of these Peers remaining in the College of Arms (2nd M. 16, p. 68), in which it is stated that 'all their patentes were presented to the Kinges personne by Sir Thomas Wriothesley Gartier Principall Kyng of Armes.'" (Courthope's Nicolas, sub "Cumberland," p. 135, footnote). (*) It is printed in full in Test. Ebor., vol. vi, p. 127. V.G. (^) Her only surv. child, Margaret, m. 1555, Henry (Stanley), Earl of Derby, (■=) The Earl was so much affected that, "on learnmg he was a widower he swooned and lay as one dead," and did not revive till his attendants, who supposed him actually dead, were making arrangements for embalming the body. V.G. C) See ante, p. 405, note"" a," ^sub "CoNYERS." Not, as usually stated, the Anne (her aunt) who was widow of Christopher, Lord Conyers. V.G.