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DORSET 419 was bur. at Astley, co. Warwick, aged 50. Will dat. 30 Aug. 1501. His widow w., as 2nd wife, Henry (Stafford), Earl of Wiltshire, who d. 6 Apr. 1523. She </. 12 Apr. 1530, and was bur. at Astley afsd. W^ill, in which she ignores her 2nd husband, styling herself " Marquess of Dorset, Lady Haryngton and Bonvyll," dat. 6 May 1527, pr. 5 Nov. I530.() V. 1 501. 2. Thomas (Grey), Marquess of Dorset, and Lord Ferrers (of Groby), s. and h.,() by 2nd wife, b. 22 June 1477; K.B..^) being then styled Lord Harington {jure m.itris though his mother was still living), 31 Oct. 1494. K.G. after 22 Sep. i 501. He was sum. to Pari., 17 Oct. 1509, by writ directed Thome Grey, Domino Ferrers de Groby, but in the Pari, of 1 5 1 1 by writ directed Thome Grey, Marchioni Dorset. King's Lieut. Gen. May 15 12; "Captain or Admiral of the King's Army" in the ineffectual expedition to aid Spain against France in June 15 12, the troops proving mutinous and Dorset incompetent; held a command on the right wing at Therouenne 15 13; was one of the 8 Challengers at the Field of Cloth of Gold, June 1520, and bore the sword of State there before the King ;(^) P.C. I523;(') Gent, of the Privy Chamber, 1523; Lord Warden of the Scottish Marches, and Ch. Justice in Eyre, South of Trent, June 1523-30. He had a grant in survivorship with Sir Francis Bryan of the office of Constable of W^arwick Castle, Dec. 1528, and held that office till his death. He promoted the King's divorce, as also the impeachment of Cardinal Wolsey. On the death of his mother, six months before his own, he sue. her as Lord Harington and Bonville. He w.,(') (*) Printed in Nicolas's Testamenta Fetusta, p. 631. V.G. (*■) His younger brother, Leonard, was cr., 2 Jan. 1535/6, Viscount Grane [I.]. V.G. (') "Thes be the namys that war mad Knytes of the Bath, the Thursday be for Alhalow Day. Fyrst, My Lord Herry, Duke of Yorke. My Lord Haryngton, Lord Marcas sun. My Lord Clyfford. My Lord Fyvaren. My Lord Dakyr of the South. My Lord Strange, Lord Stranges sun." ^c. (Sir T. Lyng to Sir John Paston, 1494). V.G. () For a list of the peers and peeresses present on that occasion see vol. vi, Appendix B. (') The date is usually given as 1520, but query 1523, for as late as 15 Apr. of that year he thanks Henry VIII for his admission as one of the Privy Chamber. {Letters and Papers, Henry nil, vol. iii, part 2, p. 1244). V.G. (*) In 1482 "Thomas Lord Marquis Dorcet" petitioned the King in Pari. "That where dyvers appointements and aggrements have ben had and made bitwixt youre seid Highnes and the seid Lord Marquis, aswell of and for a mariage to be had betwix Anne the doughter and heire of Anne late Duchesse of Exceter and Thomas the son and heire apparaunt of the seid Lord Marquis, by the full assent and aggre- ment of Thomas Sengliger Knyglit, fader to the same Anne," the said Marquis having