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DERBY 213 Will dat. 12 Apr. pr. 12 Oct. 1594. Inq. p. m. 18 June, i Aug., 24 Sep. and 6 Oct. 37 Eliz. His widow w., 20 Oct. 1600, as his 3rd wife, Thomas (Egerton), ist Viscount Brackley (better known as Lord Chancellor Ellesmere), who d. 15 Mar. 161 6/7, in his 77th year.(") She J. at Hareheld, Midx., 23, and was bur. there 28 Jan. 1636/7, aged about 81. Will pr. 4 May 1637. XV. 1594. 6. William (Stanley), Earl OF Derby,() br. and h. male, who, as h. male of the body of the grantee, inherited the Earldom though not the other honours of the family. He was b. in Cannon Row, Westm., about 1561; matric. at Oxford (St. John's Coll.) in 1572,0 aged 11; admitted Line. Inn 13 Aug. 1594; nom. K.G. 23 Apr. and inst. 26 May 1601; Chamberlain of the co. Palatine of Chester, 30 Oct. i6o3() to 1620, and jointly, with his son James, 1626-42. Lord Lieut, cos. Lancaster and Chester 1607-26, and Joint Lord Lieut, thereof (with his said son) 1626-42. Having purciiased the rights of his nieces therein, the Lordship or Admiralty of the Isle of Man was confirmed to him 7 July (1609) 7 Jac. I, and ratified by Act of Parliament.^) Vice Adm. of cos. Lancaster and Chester 1619-38. He m., 26 June 1594,0 at Greenwich, Elizabeth, sister (of the half blood) and coh. of Henry, i8th Earl of Oxford, ist da. of Edward (de Vere), Frances, Countess of Bridgwater, and (3) Elizabeth, Countess of Huntingdon. The representation of Lady Chandos is very obscure, which is remarkable, inasmuch as if Edward Seymour, Lord Beauchamp (son of Lady Katherine Grey by Edward, Earl of Hertford) be considered (which he frequently was) illegitimate, the Crown would have vested in her issue after the death of Queen Elizabeth under the will of Henry VIII (made in accordance with Act of Pari.), which excluded the Scottish line. The most accurate account of this issue is in Long's Royal Descents, 1845, p. 3. See also N. and Q., 5th Ser., vol. xii, pp. 238, 195, ^c, referring to the account (by Sir Egerton Brydges) in the Gent. Mag. which, however, is far from accurate. (•) The manors of Brackley and Halse, Northants, were granted in 1488 to George (Stanley), Lord Strange of Knokin, father of the 2nd Earl of Derby and great- grandfather of the 5th Earl, to whose 2nd da. and coh., Frances, they were assigned as her portion. Her husband, John (Egerton), 2nd Viscount Brackley and ist Earl of Bridgwater (see note "f" on preceding page) was s. and h. male of the ist Viscount (the well-known Lord Chancellor Ellesmere), who doubtless took the title of Braci/ey when cr. a Viscount (in 1 61 6) in honour of his said son's estate, and who himself was (see text) 2nd husband of the Dowager Countess of Derby, mother of the wife of his said son. See Baker's Northamptonshire, vol. i, p. 564. (*>) For instances of Earldoms held without Baronies see vol. vii. Appendix G. (') See note " b " on preceding page. ("») Recog. Rolls of Chester, T-Z Jac. I, m. 1. V.G. (') The right thereto was held by the Council to be in the Crown; the Stanley family having no right therein inasmuch as the grant by Henry IV was made to them before the Percy estates, of which this was part, had legally lapsed to the Crown by the forfeiture of the Percy family. See ante, p. 205, note " b." 24 June 1594 and 24 Jan. 1594/5 are also given as the date; see A^ and Q., 8th Ser., vol. vii, p. 427. V.G.