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DEVON 329 named, (^) being thus h. male, though not h. general, of his family. And having (like his father, who fought at Tewkesbury 1471, and other rela- tives) espoused the Lancastrian side, and been banished and attainted, in 1484, by Richard III, was knighted by the Earl of Richmond (afterwards Henry VII) 7 Aug. 1485, being, 15 days later, present at Bosworth field. He was by patent, 26 Oct. 1485, cr. EARL OF DEVON, or DEVON- SHI REjC") with the usual rem. to heirs male of his body. Shortly after- wards he was, by Act of Pari, i Hen. VII (1485), " restored ['■) to the honours ('•) lost by his attainder in the Pari, of i Ric. III." At the Coronation, 30 Oct. 1485, he was bearer of the Second Sword; Constable of Restormel Castle, Cornwall, Feb. 1486/7; K.G. before Apr. 1494; was in the French expedition 1491; defended Exeter against Perkin Warbeck 1497. He m. Elizabeth, ist da. of Sir Philip Courtenay, of Molland, Devon, by ( — ), da. of Robert Hingeston. She d. before him, and was bur. at Tiverton, Devon. He d. 28 May I509,() when the Earldom became (■^) See tabular pedigree, p. 335. (*>) ^'■Devonshire in Pari. Roll, no. 123, I Hen. VII, p. I, no. 30." It appears from Collins' Precedents, p. 411, that the creation was "without the solemnities," the words used being ^^ teste me ipso,^ not " hisce testihus." See also Creations, 1483-1646, in App. to 47th Rep. of D.K. Pub. Records, where reference is made to the Act of I Hen. VII restoring the Earldom of Devon, as mentioned in the text. This was the first creation made by Henry VII, followed next day by those of the Earldom of Derby and of the Dukedom of Bedford. ('^) The following persons were by this same Pari, (i Hen. VII) restored to the honours [here printed in italics' lost by attainder either in the Pari, of I, 8, or 12 Edw. IV or in that of i Ric. Ill, t^/z. : (i) Richard Beauchamp, £aro« o/' 5/. .^/waW; (2) Richard Wydeville, Knt., Earl Rivers; (3) John Welles, " Squier," Baron Welles; (4) Jasper [Tudor], Duke of Bedford [so cr. 27 Oct. 1485], Earl of Pembroke; (5) Henry Clifford, Baron Clifford; (6) William Beaumont, Knt., Viscount Beaumont; (7) John Veer, Knt., Earl of Oxford; (8) Edward Stafford, Knt., Duke of Buckingham; (9) Thomas Ormond, alias Botyller, Knt., Earl of Ormond in Ireland; (10) Edmund Ros, Baron de Ros ; (11) Thomas Grey, Knt., Alarquess of Dorset ; and (12) the heirs of Robert, Lord Hungerford, in the Barony of Hungerford. With respect to the remaining (13th) restoration, i.e. that of Edward Courtenay, it differs from the others, inasmuch as this Edward was cr. Earl of Devon before he was " restored to the honours [see next note] lost by his attainder in the Pari, of I Ric. III." ("*) It is difficult to see what honours are intended. It certainly was not the Barony of Courtenay (under the writ of I 299) nor the s/d" Earldom of Devon (formerly held by the family of Reviers), of neither of which Sir Edward Courtenay was the representative, or even a coh. The words of restoration seem to imply that he was entitled to some honour, and if the Earldom of Devon is held to have been granted (1335) to Hugh Courtenay in tail male, this Edward would have been the 8th Earl of that creation (on the death of his cousin in 147 1) save only for the attainder of that dignity (1461) by Edward IV, which attainder apparently stands good from 1 47 1 to the present time. It is, however, possible that as many of the attainders made by Edward IV were reversed by this Act of I Hen. VII, the attainder of this Earldom was (rightly or wrongly) considered to have been similarly reversed, under the general term of " the honours lost " by Sir Edward in the Pari, of I Ric. III. («) Not I March, as in Diet. Nat. Biog. V.G. 42