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DARCY 79 in. 158 1 3 and I. Thomas (Darcy), Baron Darcy of Chiche, to s. and h.,^. about 1565. He was sum. to Pari. 15 Sep. i 586. 1640. His only s. and h. ap., Thomas Darcy, having d. s.p. in his lifetime, his son-in-law, Sir Thomas Savage, husband of his 1st da., Elizabeth, obtained, 8 Oct. 16 13, a "grant of the reversion of the dignity [of Baron Darcy of Chiche] from the death of Thomas, the present Baron without heirs male of his body,"(^) with rem. to the heirs male of his own body by the said Elizabeth, his wife. On 5 July 1621, he, under the style of "Thomas, Lord Darcy, Baron of Chiche," was cr. "VISCOUNT COLCHESTER, co. Essex, for life [j;V],with reversion to [the said] Thomas Savage, Knt. and Bart., one of the Gentlemen of the Chamber, husband of Elizabeth, da. of Thomas, Lord Darcy, and to the heirs male of his body by the said Elizabeth," (^) and finally he was cr., 4 Nov. 1626, EARL RIVERS, with rem. "to the heirs male of his body, with rem. to Thomas Savage Knt. and Bart, and the heirs male of his body,"(^) the said Thomas Savage being himself cr., at the same date, Viscount Savage. He m., shortly before 20 Apr. 1583 (articles dat. 16 Apr.), Mary, da. and h. of Sir Thomas Kitson, of Hengrave, Suffolk, by Elizabeth, da. of Sir Thomas Cornwallis. He d. s.p.m.s., 2 1 Feb. 1639/40, in London, aged about 74, and was I^ur. at St. Osyth's. At his death the Barony of Darcy of Chiche [1551] became extinct. Will dat. 14 Mar. 1635, pr. 25 Feb. 1639/40. His widow d. between 7 May and 28 June 1644, and was l>ur. in Trinity Church, Colchester. M.I. Will dat. 7 May, pr. 16 Nov. 1644. Fun. Cert. P.R.O. Note. — The reversion of the Barony of Darcy of Chiche, granted 8 Oct. 1 613, as above mentioned, with a spec. rem. in favour of Thomas Savage, i^c, was not inherited by the said Thomas, in consequence of his death, 20 Nov. 1635, ^" ^^e lifetime of (Earl Rivers) the then Lord, but devolved (together with that Earldom, (Sifc.) as under. 1. 1640. I. John (Savage), Earl Rivers [1626], Viscount Colchester [1621], Viscount Savage [1626] and Baron Darcy of Chiche [cr. in reversion 1 6 1 3], grandson and h., being s. and h. of Thomas, ist Viscount Savage, by Elizabeth, ist da. and coh. of Thomas (Darcy), Earl Rivers, Viscount Colchester and Baron Darcy of Chiche, next abovenamed. Having sue. his father, 20 Nov. 1635, in the Viscountcy of Savage, he sue. his maternal grandfather in the other dignities according to the spec, limitations of the same. These continued united till they became extinct. See "Rivers," Earldom, cr. 1626; extinct circa 1735. (*) See Creations, 1 483- 1646, in App., 47th Rep., D.K. Pub. Records.