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DENBIGH 179 [I. 1643. -• Basil (Feilding), Earl of Denbigh, &€., ist s. and h., /-». about 1608, .fA'/c-i/ Viscount Feilding, 1622-43; ed. at Emman. Coll., Cambridge; K.B. 2 Feb. 1625/6, at the Coronation. He was sum. to the House of Lords, v.p., 21, and took his seat 24 Mar. 1627/8, in his father's Barony of Newnham Paddockes, by writ directed Basilio FeihUng de Ne-jcnham Paddock ch'r;(^) was Ambassador to Venice, 1634 till the spring of 16^8, when he was moved to Turin and never returned to Venice, though nominally Ambassador there till i643.() In opposition to his father, having joined the Pari, faction, ("=) he was made, v.p., in 1642, Lord Lieut, of cos. Denbigh and Flint, and subsequently, 1643, Lord Lieut, of co. Warwick; was at the battle of Edgehill (his father fighting as a volunteer with the Royalists), and was Col. of a regt. of Horse in the Pari, army; Major Gen. in command at Coventry and in several of the Midland Counties, and in 1644 was one of the Parliamentary Commissioners to the King.() Recorder of Coventry 1647-51 ; Speaker of the House of Lords 1648; Member of the Council of State 1 649-51.0 As, however, he concurred in the Restoration, he was, 2 Feb. 1664/5, '^'■- BARON ST. LIZ,(*) with a spec. rem. failing the heirs male of his body to those of his father. He m., istly, Anne, da. of Richard (Weston), ist Earl of Portland, by his 2nd wife, Frances, da. and coh. of Nicholas Waldegrave. She d. 10 Mar. 1634/5, at Venice. He »;., 2ndly, 12 Aug. 1639, Barbara,(8) da. and coh. (with ;^50,ooo) of Sir John Lamb, of Rothwell, Northants, Dean of the Court of Arches, by Anne, ist da. of Sir Thomas Crompton. She d. after (*) For a list of heirs ap. of peers sum. v. p. in one of their father's baronies, see vol. i. Appendix G. () While he was Ambassador at Venice "the King gave him merely for the title's sake, five or six hundred pounds yearlie extraordinarie." (Letter of the Earl of Winchilsea, 10 Apr. 1661. Hht. MSS. Com., MSS. of Allen George Finch, vol. i, p. iii). V.G. (■=) On 1 1 July 1642, his mother made a touching appeal to him not to take up arms against the King. He was one of the most capable commanders on the Parlia- mentary side, but resigned his commission 2 Apr. 1645, in obedience to the self- denying ordinance. V.G. {^) His somewhat despicable character is set forth by Clarendon, who gives him credit for "much greater parts than either of the other three" commissioners. It appears that he said he would most willingly "serve the King slgnai/y, but that to lose himself without any benefit to the King he would decline." {') See note sub Thomas, Lord Fairfax of Cameron [1648]. (*) It is difficult to imagine what amount of dignity was considered as being thereby gained, as he had already a Barony of more ancient date vested in him. One of his ancestors had ?«. Agnes, da. and h. of John Seyton, which name is said to be the same as that of St. Liz, the last name having been the patronymic of the (early) Earls of Northampton and Huntingdon in the 12th century. See a similar creation in 1660, when the Earl of Winchilsea was made Baron FitzHerbert of Eastwelt. (8) J. H. Round has printed in Essex Archceol. Trans., N.S., vol. x, p. 31, some correspondence (from the State Papers) between Barbara and her father. V.G.