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APPENDIX H 697 a vostre tresgraciouse seignurie de considcrer les premisses et sur ceo dc gravmter et ordeyner par aduys de vostre tressage counseiU' . . . assembles q' vostre dit suppliant poet auer son' lieu en y ccst present parleament en vostre presence come sez ditr Auncestres scignurs la Warre ont ev en Icz parleamentz . . . et ceo pour dieu et en ouere de charite."(^) Five years later occurred the second creation of a baron by patent, one of no less than eleven creations by Henry VI. This creation, and those of Lisle and Dacre, deserve special attention. John Cornwall was summoned to Parliament from 24 May (1432) 10 Hen. VI to 3 Dec. (1441) 20 Hen. VI. On 17 July 1432 (in the meeting for which his first summons was issued) he was created in open Parliament Baron of Fanhopc. This creation was enrolled in Parliament, and exemplified by patent, but there were no words of inheritance. On 30 Jan. 1441/2 he was created in open Parliament Baron of Milbroke, this creation also being enrolled. Again there were no words of inheritance, and, what is remarkable, there is no reference to the previous creation; he is called "Johannes Cornewayll Chivaler " only. He died in 1443, and left no surviving legitimate issue, so we have no means of knowing how the descent of these peerages would have been regarded. In the Wensleydale case, Lord Lyndhurst, on what appear to be insufficient grounds, argued that the baronies must be held to have been limited to heirs general. The next creation to invite investigation is that, in 1444 (22 Hen. VI), of John Talbot as Lord and Baron of Lisle, with remainder to his heirs and assigns being lords of the manor of Kingston Lisle, Berks. The patent recites that Warin de Lisle {iL 28 June 1382) et omnes antecessores sui ratione dominii et manerii predictorum nomen et dignitatem baronis et domini de Lisle, a tempore quo memoria hominum non existit, optinuerunt et habuerunt, ipseque et omnes successores sui predicti ab eodem tempore, per hujus- modi nomen, loca et sessiones et alias preemincntias in parliamentis et consiliis rcgiis, ut ceteri barones regni Anglie, a toto tempore predicto habuerunt et optinuerunt-C") This remarkable statement that Warin de Lisle and his ancestors, in virtue of the possession of the manor of Kingston Lisle, had ever since legal memory {^temp. Richard I) the name and dignity of Baron Lisle, ij}c., has been closely examined by Lord Redesdale's Committee and found to be entirely false ;(') and the Committee remark: It is somewhat surprising that even in the Reign ot Henry the Sixth so extra- ordinary an Assertion should have been ventured on.C) (*) Docketed, "per ducem Glouc' xxxj die Oct'." [Ancient Petition!, file 1 2 1, no. 6013 — the ends of the lines are gone). The writer is indebted to G. VV. Watson for this petition. (•>) Lordi ^f/ijr/t, Third Report, p. 199. Compare this with the similar claim put forward in the case of the Earldom of Arundel, 11 Hen. VI. (<=) Idem, pp. 199-210. C) Idem, p. 200. 88