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DANBY 49 of Essex in Ireland. (") Lieut. Gen. of the Horse in Ireland 1599; Gov. of Armagh 1601; Sergeant Major Gen. of the Army, July to Oct. 1602. He was cr., 21 July 1603, BARON DANVERS OF DANTSEY, co. WiltSjC') and was by Act of Pari. 27 May 1605 restored in blood (as h. to his father), his elder brother, Sir Charles Danvers (who d. s.p., 18 Mar. 1600/1), having been attainted.if) He was Lord Pres. of Munster 1607-15; Gov. of Guernsey 1620/1 till his death. On 5 Feb. 1625/6, he was cr. EARL OF DANBY, co. York,() being ranked 5th of the 8 Earls cr. that day.(') P.C. 20 July 1628; Constable of Pickering Castle 1628; Grand Master of Freemasons 1630-33; nom. and inst. K.G. 7 Nov. 1633; Keeper of Wychwood Forest in and before 1638; was on the Commission of Regency, Aug. to Nov. 1641. He d. unm., at Cornbury Park, Oxon, 29 Jan. 1643/4, in his 71st year, and was bur. at Dauntsey afsd., when all his honours became extinct. M.I. at Dauntsey. Will(') dat. 19 Dec. 1640 to 29 Nov. 1643, pr. 9 Oct. 1645; admon. 9 Mar. 1673/4. i.e. "Latimer of Danby, co. York," Viscountcy {Osborne), cr. 15 Aug. 1673; see "Leeds," Dukedom of, cr. 1694, under the ist Duke.(*) i.e. "Danby," Earldom of {Osborne), a. 27 June 1674; see "Leeds," Dukedom of, cr. 1694, under the ist Duke. i.e. "Dawnay of Danby, co. York," Barony {Dawnay), cr. 1897; see "DowNE," Viscountcy [I.], cr. 1681, under the 8th Viscount. (') On 4 Oct. 1594, he and his br. Charles murdered Henry, br. of Sir Walter Long, at Corsham, for which they were outlawed, and fled to France; they were pardoned 30 June 1598. In 1604 his outlawry was reversed on the ground that the coroner's indictment had omitted the word "percussit"! V.G. (*>) This was the 4th out of 8 Baronies, which, with 3 Earldoms, were created that day. See note iub Devonshire, Earldom, cr. 1603. (<=) This Charles was beheaded for his share in the insurrection of the Earl of Essex. His yr. br., Sir John Danvers, was one of the regicide judges. V.G. C') See Creations, 1483-1646, in App., 47th Report, D.K. Pub. Records. (') See vol. iii, p. 280, note " a," under Cleveland, Earldom of, cr. 1626. (•) It was printed in the evidence in the Scales case. He left an impropriate parsonage for the upkeep of the Physic Gardens at Oxford, which he had founded at a cost of nearly ^^5,000; and bequeathed his "principal George and Garter" to his younger brother. Sir John, to descend, with Dauntsey, as an heirloom. V.G. (e) His connection with these titles was that his mother, Anne (widow of William Middleton), was one of the daughters _not coheirs] of Thomas Walmesley of Dunkenhalgh [who left male issue] by Elizabeth his wife, a sister [not one, how- ever, whose issue became representative] of Henry (Danvers), Earl of Danby above- named, whose mother, Elizabeth, was da. and coh. of John (Nevill), Lord Latimer. 7