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DERBY 211 was bur. 4 Dec. 1572, with great state,() in the church at Ormskirk, aged 63. Fun. cert, at Coll. of Arms. Will dat. 28 Aug., pr. 2 i Nov. 1572. His widow /». Henry (Grey), 6th Earl of Kent, who J. i Jan. 1614/5. She d. s.p., 16 Nov. 1580. XIII. 1572. 4. Henry (Stanley), Earl OF Derby, &'c., s. and h. by 1st wife, b. Sep., and bap. 4 Oct. 1531, styki^ Lord Strange till 1559, and, as such, was one of the 40 Knights (K.B's) 20 Feb. 1 546/7, C") at the Coronation of Edward VI, to whom he was Gent, of the Privy Chamber, as he was also, July 1554, to King Philip. He was sum. to Pari., v.p., in his father's Barony, as LORD STRANGE, from 23 Jan. (1558/9) I Eliz. to 8 Feb. (1575/6) 18 Eliz.;(') admitted to Gray's Inn 24 Jan. 1 56 1/2 ; was ^r. M. A. of Oxford 6 Sep. 1566. He jkc. his father in 1572 as Lord Lieut, of cos. Lancaster and Chester, which office he held till his death; Vice Adm. of cos. Lancaster and Chester 1573-87; nom. K.G. 24 Apr. and inst. 30 May 1574; Ambassador Extraordinary to France for the investiture (at Paris, 18 Feb. 1584/5) of Henri III with the order of the Garter;('^) P.C. 20 May 1585; Steward of the Household 1588. He was also in Oct. 1586 one of the Commissioners for the trial of the Queen of Scots,(*) and 14 Apr. 1589 was Lord High Steward for the trial of the Earl of Arundel. Chamberlain of Chester 1588-93. He m., 7 Feb. 1555, in the Royal Chapel, Whitehall, Margaret,(*) ist da. of Henry (Clifford), 2nd Earl of Cumberland, and the only child that survived infancy of (his ist wife) Eleanor, da. of Charles (Brandon), Duke (") A full account of the ceremony is printed in Col/ins, vol. iii, pp. 72-78. C*) These were so dubbed "in lieu of the Bath, which then could not be performed according to all ceremonies thereto belonging, the time for that purpose being too short." See Metcalfe's Book of Knights, p. 85. (') For a list of heirs ap. of peers sum. v.p. in one of their fathers' baronies, see vol. i, Appendix G. V.G. C) See an account of these special Garter missions in vol. ii. Appendix B. (') The 24 noblemen who were on the Commission for the trial of the Queen of Scots at Fotheringhay, 6 Oct. 1586, were nine Earls, vix. Oxford, Kent, Derby, Worcester, Rutland, Cumberland, Warwick, Pembroke, and Lincoln; one Viscount, vix. Montagu, and fourteen Barons, vix. Abergavenny, Zouche, Morley, Stafford, Grey of Wilton, Lumley, Stourton, Sandys, Wentworth, Mordaunt, St. John of Bletso, Burghley (the Lord Treasurer), Compton, and Cheyney. Besides these, there was the Lord Chancellor (Sir Christopher Hatton), and " the Privy Councillors Hatton, Walsingham, Crofts, Sadleir (who had held Mary Stuart in his arms when she was a baby), Mildmay, and Sir Amyas Paulet," as also the two Chief Justices (Wray and Anderson), the Chief Baron (Manwood), and four other Judges. See Froude's Elixaheth, vol. vi, p. 281. (') This Margaret was looked upon {circa 1557) by many Englishmen as the legal heir presumptive of the Crown. See Cal. of State Papers, Venetian, ed. by R. Brown, p. 107. G.E.C. On this account, she was an object of suspicion to the Queen, and in May i 580 was under restraint. Camden says that she had " a womanish curiosity" in prying into the future, " consulting with wizards." V.G.