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20 DACRE Marches. He m. Mabel (incorrectly called Maud),(^) da. of Sir Thomas Parr, of Kendal, Westmorland, by Alice, da. of Sir Thomas Tunstall, of Thurland Castle, co. Lancaster. He d. 30 May 1485, and was bur. at Lanercost. M.I. His widow had a grant of the wardship of Thomas, his s. and h., 4 Mar. 1485/6. She d. 14 Nov. 1508 [not 1509], and was bur. at Lanercost. M.I. Will dat. 20 Dec. (1503) 19 Hen. VII, acknowledged 9 Jan. following-C") III. 1485. 2. Thomas (Dacre), Lord Dacre (of Gilsland), s. and h., b. 25 Nov. 1467. (■=) Appointed a Lieut, of the West Marches 3 May I486,('^) and appears to have acted in that capacity and as Deputy Warden and Warden till within a short time of his death ;(') he fought at the siege of Norham Castle 1494; K.B. 18 Feb. 1503/4; as Lord Dacre of the North he was excepted from the general pardon, 30 Apr. 1 509. He was sum. to Pari, from 1 7 Oct. (i 509) i Hen. VIII (and possibly earlier) (*) to 23 Nov. (i 5 14) 6 Hen. VIII, by writs directed Thome Dacres de Dacres. He distinguished himself at the head of a troop of horse at Flodden, 9 Sep. 15 13; nom. K.G. 24 Apr., inst. 16 May 15 18. He m., [Brooke); 12, Morley {Lovel); 13, Abergavenny {Nevill); 14, Zouch; 15, Ferrers of Groby [Grey); 16, Welles {Hastings); 17, Lumley; 18, Mautravers {Fitzalan, s. and h. ap. of the Earl of Arundel); 19, Herbert (Qy. if s. and h. of the Earl of Huntingdon?); 20, Beauchamp (of Powick) and 21, Stanley [cr. a few months later Earl of Derby], whose name, however, is omitted from the list (I. 18) in the College of Arms, but given in that printed in the Excerpta Historica (1831), where (pp. 379-384), is a full account of that Coronation from an old roll, with a list of those present (the variations therein from the above list and from another list in no. 1386 of the Harl. MSS. being duly noticed) taken from Harl. MS. 21 15. if) In July 1509 Thomas Dacre prayed for discharge of a recognizance in which he was bound with George, Lord FitzHugh, for his mother, Dame Mabel Dacre, accused of having ravished a ward of the King, for which she was committed to prison and remained there three-quarters of a year. [Letters and Papers, Henry VHI, vol. i, no. 380, p. 51). V.G. C) Enrolled on Close Roll, 20 Hen. VII, p. 2, no. 15. [ex inform. G. W. Watson). V.G. ("=) Ch. Inq. p. m., II, vol. I, nos. 12, 162. (<') Bain, Cal. of Documents [S.], vol. iv, 1357-1509, no. 1519, p. 311. V.G. (^) He was an exceedingly vigorous soldier, though suffering from gout, " so as I may not stir, if fire should bren my bed, without help," and is described by his superior officer, the Earl of Surrey, thus: — "There is no hardier or better knight, but often he neglects order." According to the Bishop of Carlisle in 1 5 22, he had " good wit and good fortune." Writing, I Apr. 1524, to the Earl of Surrey, he speaks of his anxiety to be relieved of his office as Warden on account of "myne age, debilitie, disease of the gowte, and my leg which troubleth me very sore." V.G. (') Le Sr Dacre de Dacre was one of those appointed a trier of petitions in the Pari, of 19 Hen. VII (1503). [Pari. Rolls, vol. vi, p. 521). No writs for this Pari, are now extant. He also figures in a bogus list concocted by Dugdale [Summonses, pp.491 -2), as having been sum. to a Pari, beginning 12 Nov. (15 15) 7 Hen. VIII (really the date to which the Pari., which first sat 5 Feb. 15 14/5, and to which he had been sum., was prorogued). As to this list see sub ii Lord Willoughby (of Broke). V.G.