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12 DACRE and Aperfield, near Cudham, Kent, who was Sheriff of Kent, 1590-91, and M.P. for Newport (Cornwall) i57i,Bramber 1584-86, St. Mawes 1586-87, Christchurch 1588-89,81. Germans 1593, Rye 1597-98, Liskeard i6oi,and Sussex 1 6 14. She ^. 10 Mar. 161 1/2,(^) aged 70, at Chevening, andwas ^«r. there the same day. M.I. Her husband, who was about to have been sum. to the House of Lords in his wife's Barony, obtained by royal warrant, 2 Apr. 1 612, the precedence due to the eldest son of "Lord Dacre of the South. "() He d. 20, and was bur. 21 Sep. 161 5, at Chevening, aged 71. M.I. Inq. p. m. XII. 1612. 12. Henry (Lennard), Lord Dacre, s. and h., i'i3!/>. at Chevening, 25 Mar. 1569/70; admitted Lincoln's Inn 15 Oct. 1588; knighted after the capture of Cadiz, by the Earl of Essex, 22 or 27 June I596.() M.P. for West Looe 1597. He w., in 1589 (her portion ;^2,2oo), Chrysogona, da. of Sir Richard Baker, of Sissinghurst, Kent, by his 2nd wife, Mary, da. of John Giffard. He d. 8, and was bur. 9 Aug. 1616, at Chevening, aged 46.() Inq. p. m. 14 Jac. I. Admon. 21 Nov. 161 6. His widow, who was b. about 1573,0 was bur. at Cheven- ing, 30 Sep. 1 61 6. XIII. 1 61 6. 13. Richard (Lennard), Lord Dacre, s. and h., b. Apr. 1596, aged 20 years 4 months and 8 days at his father's death. He w., i stly, 1 4 July 1 6 1 7, at Paulerspury, Elizabeth, 3rd da. and coh. of Sir Arthur Throckmorton, of Paulerspury, Northants, by Anne, da. of Sir John Lucas, of Colchester, Essex. She d. in childbed, and was bur. 19 Feb. 1621 jl, at Chevening. He m., 2ndly, 4 Jan. 1624./ 5, at St. Giles's, Cripplegate, Dorothy, da. of Dudley (North), 3rd Lord North, by Frances, da. of Sir John Brocket. He d., at Hurstmonceaux, 20, and was bur. there 21 Aug. 1630, aged 34, leaving ;^50 a year to his cousin Randal (or Randolf) Dacre, the heir male of this family.(Q Will dat. 25 Nov. 1624, pr. 30 Aug. 1630. Fun. certif. Inq. p. m. 5 Nov. 1630. (=") She became a Protestant, and is said to have "abounded as much in worth and virtue as in honour." She was on the worst of terms with her brother's wife. V.G. () "A rare pattent of precedency granted to Sampson Lennard, circa 161 1, but not dated [i/f], the occasion being the death of his wife, Margaret, Baroness Dacre, in whose right he was to have been made Baron Dacre, but the Barony descending to his son, he was allowed only the precedency as an heir apparent of the dignity." (Black's Aihmolean MSS., no. 832). The original document, dated 2 Apr. ID Jac. I, is in the possession of Thomas Barrett Lennard. G.E.C. and V.G. ("=) See vol. iii, p. 400, note "a." l^) " A new ague has appeared, and Lord Dacre and others are dead of it." (Letter of John Chamberlain, 24 Aug. 1616). V.G. («) A portraitofher when aged 6, dated 1579, is (1914)31 the Vine, Hants. V.G. (') He re-built the house at Chevening after the designs of Inigo Jones.