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10 DACRE 11 Hen. VII to 5 Jan. (1533/4) 25 Hen. VIII, by writs (') directed Thorns Fienes de Dacre. K.B. 31 Oct. I494;() took part in the defeat of the Cornish rebels at Blackheath, 17 June 1497, and was at the raising of the siege of Norham Castle; a prisoner in the Fleet 1525, for harbouring felons. In July 1530 he signed the Lords' petition to the Pope in favour of the King's divorce. He m., probably about 1492, Anne, da. of Sir Humphrey Bourchier (s. and h. ap. of John, Lord Berners), by Elizabeth, da. and h. of Frederick Tylney, of Boston, co. Lincoln.('=) She was living 29 Sep. 1530. He d. 9 Sep. 1533, and was l>ur. at Hurstmonceaux. Will dat. I Sep. 1 53 1, pr. 18 May 1534. IX. 1533. 9- Thomas (FiENNEs), Lord Dacre, grandson and h., being s. and h. of Sir Thomas Fiennes, by Jane {m. 15 14, d. Aug. 1539), da. of Edward (Sutton), Lord Dudley, which Thomas was s. and h. ap. of the last Lord, and d. v.p. 26 Oct. 1528. He, who was aged 18 and more in I534,('^) was sum. to Pari, from 8 June (1536) 28 Hen. VIII to I Mar. (1538/9) 30 Hen. VIII, by writs directed Thome Fienes de Dacre.(^) He was early in attendance at the Court, was one of the jury who sat on the trial of Anne Boleyn, May 1536, and bore the canopy at the funeral of Jane Seymour in 1538. He was one of the escort of Anne of Cleves in 1540. He m., in 1536, Mary, da. of George (Nevill), Lord Abergavenny, by his 3rd wife, Mary,(') da. of Edward (Stafford), Duke OF Buckingham. Having taken part in hunting deer in Laughton Park, Sussex, when one of the park keepers met his death, he was found guilty of murder, and was hanged at Tyburn, 29 June 1541, whereby it was con- sidered that his honours were forfeiled.^^) He was hur. at St. Sepulchre's, near Newgate, aged 26.() His widow m., 2ndly, ( — ) Wootton, of North (*) There is proof in the Rolls of Pari, of his sitting. He figures in a bogus list concocted by Dugdale {Summonses, pp. 491-2), as having been sum. to a Pari, begin- ning 12 Nov. 7 Hen. VIII (really the date to which the Pari, which first met 5 Feb. 1 5 14/5 was prorogued). As to this list see sub ii Willoughby (of Broke). V.G. {) See note sub Thomas, Marquess of Dorset [1501]. ("=) She is sometimes stated to have been da. of John, Lord Berners {d. 1474), but this is an error. Anne, eldest child of this Lord, "moriebatur in etate quinque annorum," according to an ancient (between 1474 and 1497) pedigree printed by Collins, Baronies by IVrtt, p. 334. {ex inform. G. W. Watson). V.G. f^) Exch. Inq. p. m., II, file 488, no. 3; file 567, no. 6. {^) Pari. Pawn. In Dugdale's fabricated and extremely inaccurate list of the writs for this Pari. {Summonses, p. 502), which first met 28 Apr. I 539, the words "del South " are unwarrantably added to this last writ. V.G. (*) See note by Sir Egerton Brydges, in Collins, vol. vi, p. 567, correcting former errors. if) The ground for this, in the opinion of Chief Baron Parker, as expressed when considering the attainder of the Earldom of Ferrers in 1760, was that Dacre was a Barony in fee simple; and accordingly he distinguished the cases of Stourton and Fer- rers, which, as estates in tail, were within the protection of the Statute De Donls. V.G. C") The yearly value of his estates, which were preserved from forfeiture by his grandfather's entail, is given as ^1,180 18;. I'^d., a large income in those days.