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74 DARCY LORD DARCY. (') He held a command on the right wing at Therouanne in 15 13; P.C., and in great favour with the King; subscribed the letter to the Pope praying for the King's divorce, but opposed the dissolution of the monasteries, and finally joined in Aske's rebellion, called the Pilgrimage of Grace-C") He had lie. on account of age and infirmity, 28 Oct. 1535, to absent himself from Parl.(') Although, as Lord Darcy of Temple Hurst, or of Temple Newsam, he had had a general pardon as recently as 18 Jan. 1 536/7, ('^) he was convicted of high treason on the charge of delivering up Pontefract Castle to the rebels, and was beheaded on Tower Hill, 30 June I537,(') when, having been attainted, all his honours became forfeited.{^ He ?«., istly, Dowsabel, da. and h. of Sir Richard Tempest, of Giggleswick, in Ribblesdale, co. York, by Mabel, da. of Walter Strickland, of Sizergh, Westmorland. She was living 1503. He w., 2ndly, before 1520, Edith, widow of Ralph Nevill, styled Lord Nevill, sister of William, ist Lord Sandys of the Vine, Hants, da. of Sir William Sandys, of the Vine, by Elizabeth, da. of Sir John Cheney, of Shurland. She d. at Stepney, 22, and was l>ur. 25 Aug. 1 529, at the Friars Observants, Greenwich. (8) He d. as afsd., 30 June 1537, and was l^iir. in the Church of St. Botolph, Aldgate (as was, in 1561, his yr. son. Sir Arthur Darcy), under a costly monument. (^) He figures in a bogus list concocted by Dugdale (Summonses, pp. 49 1 -2) as having been sum. to a Pari, beginning 12 Nov. 7 Hen. VIII (really the date to which the Pari, which first met 5 Feb. 1514/5 had been prorogued). As to this list see sub II Lord Willoughby (of Broke). His name is also included in two other lists, of 25 and 28 Hen. VIII, fabricated by Dugdale. V.G. C") A full inventory of his goods, dat. 10 Hen. VIII, is given in Letters and Papers, Hen. Fill, vol. iii, part I, p. 386. V.G. (■=) He probably obtained this licence to avoid having to support the King's proposals for declaring himself head of the Church. V.G. C) In 1536 Henry VIII wrote to Shrewsbury: — "It appears by certain letters from Darcy and Aske to you, and from you to us, that Darcy has been of better sort than reported, and would be glad to come in. If he do, we intend to show him mercy, and have delivered secretly to the bearer [Sir John Russell] his pardon." [Letters and Papers, Hen. VHI, vol. xi, p. 493, no. 1225). V.G. (') "On Saturday the 30th inst. Darcy will suffer at Tower Hill." John Husee to Lord Lisle, 29 June. [Letters and Papers, Hen. VHI, vol. xii, part 2, no. 166). The degrading of Thomas, late Lord Darcy, took place 22 July 29 Hen. VIII [i.e. his arms were defaced, and so on]. [Idem, no. 313). [ex inform. G. W. Watson). The other peers concerned in this rebellion were Lords Latimer, Scrope, and Lumley, as also was George Lumley, s. and h. ap. of the last. V.G. (') The Duke of Norfolk writes to the Council in Oct. 1536, " Fye ! Fye ! upon the Lord Darcy, the most arrant traitor that ever was living, and yet both his sons true knights." [Letters and Papers, Hen. Fill, vol. xi, p. 361). V.G. (6) An account of her obsequies is printed in Plumpton Correspondence, p. 268, from MS. I3, Coll. Arm., f. 71 v. Therein it is stated that "By cause it was thought that the said Lady Nevill died of the gret sykenesse or ells ther wold have been there a farre gretter compaigne, wiche for dangier of the sykenesmy Lord Darcy cawsed them to exchew, for the tokens of the gret sykenesse appered on her." [ex inform. G. W. Watson). V.G.