by Anne Mortimer, his wife, the Earl of Cambridge left an only son and a dau., viz., RICHARD, Who 8. his uncle as Duke of York. 1. Constance, m. to Thomas de Spencer, Earl of Gloucester. Edmund, Duke of York, m. 2ndly, Joane, dau. of Thomas Holland, Earl of Kent, and sister and co-heir of Edmund, Earl of Kent, but had no issue. The Duke of York attained the highest reputation as a statesman and a soldier, and after vainly endeavouring to sustain his nephew, King RICHARD, upon the throne, he retired to his estate in Hertfordshire, and ubi spiravit, ibi expiravit;-at Langley he was born, and at Langley he died 1 August, 1402, "having lived to see England's sceptre in three several hands, in which the royal stream never kept its immediate channel." In compliance with the terms of his will, he was buried at the Friary of Langley, under a tomb of alabaster and black marble; but upon the dissolution of the religious houses, both the monument, and the body which it had covered, were removed to the parish church of the same town, and placed in the east corner of the chancel. The prince, who was a knight of the Garter, was 8. by his eldest son, EDWARD PLANTAGENET, 2nd Duke of York, who had been created Duke of Albemarle, 29 September, 1397, and was restored to the Dukedom of York in 1406, which he had been previously rendered incapable of inheriting: he was also invested with the Garter. This gallant prince, who had become eminent in arins, fell at Agincourt in 1415, and his brother having been previously put to death, the Dukedom of York (the prince leaving no issue) devolved upon his nephew, RICHARD PLANTAGENET, K.G., who was restored to the Earldom of Cambridge, and allowed to inherit as 3rd Duke of York. This prince becoming afterwards one of the most powerful subjects of the period in which he lived, laid claim to the throne as the descendant of Lionel, Duke of Clarence, 2nd son of EDWARD III., whereas the reigning monarch, HENRY VI., sprang from John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, 3rd son of the same king: thus originated the devastating war of the Roses. In his pretensions, the Duke was supported by the Nevils and other great families, but his ambitious projects closed at the battle of Wakefield in 1460, where his party sustained a signal defeat, and he was himself slain. The prince had m. Cecily, dau. of Ralph Nevil, Earl of Westmoreland, and by her (who d. 31 May, 1495, and was buried at Fotheringhay) left issue, EDWARD, his successor. Edmund, said to have borne the title of Earl of Rutland. This prince at the age of twelve was barbarously murdered by Lord Clifford, after the battle of Wakefield. George, Duke of Clarence (see Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence). RICHARD, Duke of Gloucester (afterwards King RICHARD III.) Anne, m. 1st, to Henry Holland, Duke of Exeter, from whom she was divorced; and 2ndly, to Sir Thomas St. Leger, Knt., by whom she had a dau., ANNE ST. LEGER, who m. Sir George Manners, Lord Ros, ancestor of the ducal house of RUTLAND. Elizabeth, m. to John de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk. Margaret, m. to Charles, Duke of Burgundy, but had no issue. This was the Duchess of Burgundy, so persevering in her hostility to HENRY VII., and her zeal in the cause of York, who set up the pretended Plantagenets, Warbeck and Symnel. Ursula. Richard, Duke of York, was 8. by his son, EDWARD PLANTAGENET, 4th Duke of York, who, after various fortunes at the head of the Yorkists, finally established himself upon the throne as EDWARD IV., when the Dukedom of York merged in the crown. Arms-France and England, with a label of three points, arg., each charged with as many torteaux. PLANTAGENET-EARLS OF BUCKINGHAM, DUKE OF GLOUCESTER. Earldom, anno 1377. Dukedom, 12 November, 1385. Lineage. THOMAS PLANTAGENET, b. at the royal Manor House, Woodstock, co. Oxford, 7 January, 1355, and thence surnamed "THOMAS OF WOODSTOCK," youngest son of King EDWARD III., m. the Lady Eleanor de Bohun, eldest dau. and co-heir of Humphrey, Earl of Hereford, Essex, and Northampton; and in consideration of that alliance was shortly afterwards made constable of England (a dignity enjoyed for nearly two centuries by the Bohtins). At the coronation of his nephew, King RICHARD II., the prince was advanced to the EARLDOM OF BUCKINGHAM, with a grant of 1,000 marks per annum, to be paid out of the exchequer, until provision of so much value should be made otherwise for him, and twenty pounds a-year out of the issues of the county, whence he derived his title. From this period, he was constantly employed as a commander in foreign wars, until the 9th of the same reign, when, for his eminent services, he was created 12 November, 1385, DUKE OF GLOUCESTER. Previously, he had been likewise sent into Essex, at the head of a large force, to suppress the insurrection of Jack Straw. The ceremony of his creation, as Duke of Gloucester, was performed at Hoselow Lodge, in Tividale, by girding with a sword, and putting a cap with a circle of gold, upon the prince's head; the parliament being then sitting at London, and assenting thereto. The parliamentary rolls tell us the king "ipsum ducem de prædictis titulo, nomine, et honore, per gladii cincturam, et pilei ac circuli aurei, suo capiti impositionem, maturius investivit,"-that instalment being by girding on the sword, and adorning his head with a coronet and cap of estate. This is the more worthy of being remembered, as, at a later period, we find dukes invested, " per appositionem cappa suo capiti, ac traditionem virgæ aureæ"-by the imposition, that is, of a cap of estate and the delivery of a golden rod. In two years afterwards, he was constituted justice of Chester, but he subsequently forfeited the favour of the king, by his opposition to Robert de Vere, Duke of Ireland, and his coalition with the lords who assembled in arms, at Haringey Park, to put an end to the power of that celebrated minion. After the disgrace and banishment of De Vere, the Duke of Gloucester obtained some immunities from the crown, but the king never pardoned the course he had pursued in that affair, and eventually it cost the duke his life. The story of his destruction is thus told by Froisart-"The king rode to Havering, in the county of Essex, as it were on a hunting party, and came to Plessy, where the duke then resided, about five o'clock, the duke having just newly supped, who hearing of his coming (with the duchess and his children) met him in the court. The king hereupon being brought in, a table was spread for his supper. Whereat being set, he told the duke, that he would have him ride to London with him that night; saying, that the Londoners were to be before him on the morrow, as also his uncles of LANCASTER and YORK, with divers others of the nobles; and that he would be guided by their counsels, wishing him to command his steward to follow with his train. Hereupon the duke suspecting no hurt, so soon as the king had supp't, got on horseback, accompanied with no more than seven servants (three esquires and four yeomen), taking the way of Bondelay, to shun the common road to London: and riding fast, approached near Stratford, on the river Thames. Being got thus far, and coming near to the ambuscado* which was laid, the king rode away a great pace, and left him somewhat behind. Whereupon the earl marshal with his band, came galloping after, and overtaking him, said: I arrest you in the king's name. The duke therefore discerning that he was betrayed, call'd out aloud to the king, but to no purpose, for the king rode on, and took no notice of it. This was done about ten or eleven o'clock in the night; whence he was forthwith carried into a barge, and so into a ship, which lay in the Thames, wherein they conveyed him, the next day, to Calais. Being thus brought thither, he askt the earl marshal the cause thereof, saying: Methinks you hold me here as a prisoner; let me go abroad, and let me see the fortress; but the earl marshal refused." Froisart concludes by stating: "That the duke hereupon fearing his life, desired to have a priest, who sang mass before him, that he might be confessed; and so he had. When, soon after dinner, having washed his hands, there came into the chamber four men, who suddenly casting a towel about his neck, strangled him." After this violent death, the body of the prince was laid naked in his bed, and it was rumoured that he died of a palsy; the earl marshal going into deep mourning for his lamented cousin. This account of the duke's death is, however, according to Dugdale, erroneous, "As appeareth" (saith that celebrated antiquary) "by the deposition of John Hall, a servant to the earl marshal, then present, and in some sort assisting in that most barbarous murder, viz. 'That in the month of September, 21st RICHARD II., Thomas, Earl Marshal and Nottingham, whom the deposition calls Duke of Norfolk' (by reason he was soon afterwards advanced to This plot to take away the life of the Duke of Gloucester, was previously concerted with Thomas Mowbray, Earl Marshal, and Earl of Nottingham, Richard's great confidant. that honour, as a reward for this bloody fact), and one John "Moreover, that the said duke, with Colfox and Hall went to the church of Nostre Dame, in Calais, where they found William Hampsterley and Bradeston (two esquires of the Duke of Norfolk), as also one William Serle, a yeoman of the chamber to the king; Fraunceys, a yeoman of the chamber to the Earl of Rutland; William Rogers and William Dennys, yeomen of the said Duke of Norfolk, and another yeoman of the Earl of Rutland's, called Cock of the Chamber, and that there it was told to this Hall, that all the rest had made oath, that they should not discover anything of their purpose, causing him in like manner, to swear upon the sacrament, in the presence of one Sir William, a chaplain of St. George, in the church of Nostre Dame, that he should keep counsel therein. Furthermore, that after the oath thus made, they went along with the Duke of Norfolk, to a certain hostel, called Prince's Inn; and being come thither, that the said duke sent Colfox, Hampsterley, Bradeston, Serle, Faunceys, William Roger, William Dennys, Cock of the Chamber, and Hall, into a house within that inn, and then departed from them, with some unknown persons. Likewise, that so soon as they were come into that house, there entered one John Lovetoft, with divers other esquires, unknown, who brought with him the Duke of Gloucester, and delivered him to Serle and Fraunceys, in an inner room of the house, and said, 'Here are Serle and Fraunceys;' and that they, thereupon, taking the duke from Lovetoft, brought him to a chamber, and said, 'They would speak with him;' adding, it was the king's pleasure that he must suffer death.' Whereunto he answered, 'If it be so, it is welcome.' Also, that Serle and Fraunceys, forthwith appointed a priest to confess him; and that being done, made him lie down upon a bed, and laying a feather-bed upon him, held it about his mouth till he died, William Roger, William Dennys, and Cock of the Chamber, holding down the sides of it; and Colfox, Hampsterley and Bradeston, upon their knees all the while, weeping and praying for his soul, Hall himself keeping the door. Which being done, he was attainted in the parliament, held on Monday next, ensuing the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, of the same year.' Of those assassins, Hall, in the 1st HENRY IV., had judgment in parliament, to be drawn from Tower Hill to Tyburn, and there hanged and quartered; and Serle being taken in Scotland, in the year 1404, had a similar sentence. The others, it is presumed, never returned into England. The Duke of Norfolk ended his days, and died of grief, in exile; and Edward Plantagenet, Earl of Rutland, afterwards Duke of York, was slain at the battle of Agincourt. Thus the principal instigators and perpetrato s of this foul deed, all met their deserts. The fate of King RICHARD, himself, is too well known, to require particularizing here. The death of the Duke of Gloucester occurred in 1397. In due Her ladyship m. 3rdly, William Bourchier, Earl of Eu, in Normandy, and d. in 1438-9, being buried at Lanthony Abbey. She had by him a son, Henry, Earl of Ewe and Essex, from whom descend entitled to quarter the Plantagenet arms: 1, the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos; 2, the Marquess of Townshend; 3, Marmion-Edward Ferrers, Esq., of Baddesley, and H. T. Boultbee, Esq.; 4, the Marquess of Hastings; 5, Earl Ferrers; 6, Evelyn-John Shirley, Esq., of Eatington; 7, Lord Hather ton; 8, Sir Robert Burdett, Bart.; 9, Viscount Hereford: 10, Sir Rainald Knightly, Bart., of Fawsley; 11, Troth, wife of the Rev. Richard Jenkyns, D.D., Master of Baliol College, Oxford; 12, Sir Bourchier Wrey, Bart.; 13, John Bruton, Esq.; 14, Wrey-Chichester Bruton, Esq.; 15, George-Barnard-Knighton Drake, Esq.; 16, Lord Berners; and 17, the families of Strangwayes Knyvett, &c., &c. Joane, was designed to be the wife of Gilbert, Lord Talbot, but d. unm. Isabel, a nun. PLANTAGENET-EARL OF KENDALL, By Letters Patent, dated 6 May, 1414. JOHN PLANTAGENET, 3rd son of King HENRY IV., by his 1st consort, the Lady Mary de Bohun, dau. and co-heir of Humphrey, Earl of Hereford, was created by his brother, King HENRY V., by letters patent, dated 6 May, 1414, EARL of KENDALL and DUKE OF BEDFORD, being designated previously, "John de Lancaster." The achievements of this eminent person form so prominent an era in the annals of the Plantagenets, and have been detailed so much at length by all our great historians, that it would be idle to attempt more than a mere sketch of his most conspicuous actions, in a work of this description. His first public employment in the reign of his time, his friends-or rather, the enemies of his enemies -being uppermost, the empty honours of a noble inter-father, was that of constable of England, and governor of the ment were bestowed upon his grace. His body was conveyed to Plashy, where it was laid in a handsome sepulchre, which he had caused to be built during his lifetime in the college of Canons Regular, founded by himself, and dedicated to the Holy Trinity. At a yet later period, his reliques were again removed, and were then deposited under a marble, inlaid with brass, in the royal chapel in Westminster Abbey, upon the south side of the shrine of EDWARD THE CONFESSOR. The Duke left by the Lady Eleanor de Bohun, his wife (who d. a nun, 3 October, 1399), one son and three daus., viz., HUMPHREY PLANTAGENET. Anne Plantagenet (eventual heiress), m. 1st, to Thomas, Earl of Stafford, by whom she had no issue; and 2ndly, by virtue of the king's especial license (22nd RICHARD II.), to the said Thomas's brother, Edmund, Earl of Stafford, K.G., by whom (who was slain at Shrewsbury, 22 July, 1403,) she had a son, town and castle of Berwick-upon-Tweed. In the 3rd HENRY V., he was constituted lieutenant of the whole realm of England, the king himself being then in the wars of France, and the next year he was retained by indenture to serve in those wars, being appointed general of the king's whole army, both by sea and land; whereupon he set sail, and encountering the French near Southampton, achieved a great naval victory over them. In the year ensuing, the king making another expedition into France, the duke was again constituted lieutenant of the king *He had a natural son, SIR JOHN CLARENCE, called the "Bastard of Clarence," who accompanied the remains of his gallant father from Baugy to Canterbury for their interment. This Sir John Clarence had a grant of lands in Ireland from King HENRY VI., and according to Camden, he bore for arms, "Per chevron gu. and az., in chief, two lions combatant, and Humplirey, created Duke of Buckingham. (See STAFFORD.) | guardant, or, and in base, a fleur-de-lis, of the last. dom during his absence. In the 7th HENRY V., he sailed with large reinforcements to the king in Normandy; and the next year assisted at the siege of Melon, which held out fourteen weeks and four days, before it surrendered. Upon the accession of HENRY VI., the duke was constituted chief counsellor and protector to the king, then an infant, and appointed at the same time Regent of France. The prince, who, with his other honours, had been invested with the Garter, m. 1st, Anne, dau. of John, Duke of Burgundy, and 2ndly, Jacqueline, dau. of Peter, of Luxemburgh, Earl of St. Paul, but as he had no issue, the Earldom of Kendall, and Dukedom of Bedford became EXTINCT, at his decease in 1435. The duke's remains were interred in the cathedral of Notre Dame, at Roan, under a plain tomb of black marble. He was deeply lamented by the English people. He had ever borne the character of one of the first captains of his age, and the greatest generals of his time. His widow Jacqueline of Luxemburgh, m. 2ndly, Sir Richard Wideville, and had, with other issue, Elizabeth Wideville, who m. 1st, Sir John Grey, of Groby, and after his decease in the second battle of St. Albans, became Queen Consort of King EDWARD IV. LEWIS XI. of France, says Banks, being counselled to deface the Duke of Bedford's tomb, is reported to have used these generous expressions: pleasure. The duke incurring, however, the jealousy of Margaret of Anjou, fell, at length, a victim to her machinations, Attending a parliament which had been called at St. Edmundsbury, he was arrested upon the 2nd day of the session, by the Viscount Beaumont, constable of England, accompanied by the Duke of Buckingham, and some others, and put in ward; all his servants being taken from him, and thirty-two of the chief of them sent to different prisons. The following night, the prince was found dead in his bed, supposed to have been either strangled or smothered; and his body was exhibited to the lords as though he had died of apoplexy. The duke, who received from the people the title of Good, and was called "the father of his country," had with his other honours been invested with the Garter. He was a proficient in learning; wrote some tracts; laid the fonndation of the Bodleian library, and built the divinity schools in the University of Oxford. The death of the prince happened in 1446, and as he left no issue, his honours became EXTINCT. Arms-Quarterly: France and England, a border, arg. Created in Parliament, 1461. Lineage. "What honour shall it be, either to us or you, to break this PLANTAGENET-DUKE OF GLOUCESTER. monument, and to rake out of the earth the bones of one, who, in his lifetime, neither my father, nor any of your progenitors with all their puissance, were ever once able to make fly one foot backwards; that by his strength or policy, kept them all out of the principal dominions of France, and out of this noble Duchy of Normandy. Wherefore I say, first, God save his soul and let his body rest in quiet: which when he was living, would have disquieted the proudest of us all; and as for his tomb, which I assure you is not so worthy as his acts deserve, I account it an honour to have him remain in my dominions." Arms-France and England, a label per pale of five points, the first two erm., the other three az., charged with nine fleursde-lis, or. PLANTAGENET-DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, Created, 26 September, 1414. Lineage. HUMPHREY PLANTAGENET, 4th son of King HENRY IV., by his 1st wife, the Lady Mary de Bohun, dau. and co-heiress of Humphrey, Earl of Hereford, Essex, and Northampton, constable of England, was made a knight of the Bath at his father's coronation, along with his brothers, THOMAS, afterwards Duke of Clarence, and JOHN, Duke of Bedford. In the 1st HENRY V., he obtained with other grants, the castle and lordship of Pembroke; shortly after which, being made Duke of GLOUCESTER, in the parliament held at Leicester, he had summons by that title, as well as by the title of EARL OF PEMBROKE, 26 September, 1414. In the 3rd of the same reign, the prince assisted at the siege of Harfleur, and he received soon after a dangerous wound in the celebrated battle of Agincourt. During the remainder of the reign of his martial brother, the Duke of Gloucester was almost wholly engaged in the wars of France; and upon the accession of HENRY VI., he was constituted, as he had been twice before, upon temporary absences of the king, lieutenant of the realm. In this year it was, that he was involved in a serious dispute with William, Duke of Brabant, by reason of marrying that prince's wife Jaqueline, Duchess of Hainault, who had come to England, upon some disagreement with her husband. The matter led to open hostilities, and a challenge to single combat passed between the two dukes, and was accepted; but that mode of deciding the affair was prevented by the Duke of Bedford, and the contest was finally terminated by the Duke of Gloucester's bowing to the decision of the Pope, and withdrawing from the lady. He then m. his concubine, Eleanor, dau. of Reginald, Lord Cobham; and in a few years afterwards a complaint was made to parliament, against him, by one "Mistress Stokes and other bold women," because he suffered Jaqueline, his wife, to be a prisoner to the Duke of Burgundy, and for living himself with an adultress. In the 14th HENRY VI., he obtained a grant for life, of the Earldom of Flanders, which was held of the king in capite, in right of his crown of France; and he had numerous and most valuable grants of manors and lordships in England; he had also an annuity of 2000 marks, out of the exchequer, during the king's RICHARD PLANTAGENET, brother of King EDWARD IV., was created according to Dugdale, anno 1461, DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, but he was not summoned to parliament until 10 August, 1469. He usurped the throne, upon the murder of his nephews EDWARD V. and the Duke of York in the Tower, under the title of RICHARD III.; he had previously governed the realm as Protector. RICHARD fell at Bosworth Field, 22 August, 1485, and his rival Henry, Earl of Richmond, s. him as HENRY VII. When the Duke of Gloucester assumed the reins of government as king, the dukedom merged in the crown. Arms-France and England, on a label of three points, ermine, as many cantons, gu. NOTE. The body of King RICHARD was buried in the chapel of the monastery at Leicester, at the dissolution whereof, the place of his burial happened to fall into the bounds of a citizen's garden; which being afterwards purchased by Mr. Robert Kerrick (sometime Mayor of Leicester), was by him covered with a handsome stone pillar, 3 feet high, with this inscription: "Here lies the body of RICHARD III., sometime king of England." This he shewed me walking in his garden, 1612 (see PECK's Collection of Curious Historical Pieces, p. 85.)-BANKS. PLANTAGENET-DUKE OF CLARENCE, EARLS OF WARWICK AND SALISBURY. Dukedom of Clarence, by Letters Patent, anno 1461. Earldom of Warwick and Salisbury, by Letters Patent, dated 25 March, 1472. Lineage. GEORGE PLANTAGENET, K.G., son of Richard, Duke of York, and brother of King EDWARD IV., was created DUKE OF CLARENCE, in 1461, and having m. the Lady Isabel Nevil, dau. and co-heir of Richard Nevill, Earl of Salisbury, and Earl of War wick, was advanced to those dignities by letters patent, dated 25 March, 1472. This unhappy prince was attainted of high treason, and suffered death, by being drowned, it is said, in a butt of Malmsey, in the Tower, 1477, when his honours became FORFEITED. King EDWARD IV. assented, of course, to the execution, but he is said subsequently to have most deeply lamented having done so, and upon all occasions when the life of a condemned person was solicited, he used openly to exclaim, "Oh, unhappy brother, for whose life no man would make suit." The Duke of Clarence left issue, EDWARD, who, after his father's death, was entitled EARL OF WARWICK. This unhappy prince was born the child of adversity, and spent almost the whole of his melancholy life in prison. After the decease of his uncle, King EDWARD IV., his other uncle, the Duke of Gloucester, had him removed to the castle of Sheriff-Hutton, in Yorkshire, where he remained until the defeat of the Yorkists at Bosworth placed him in the hands of HENRY VII., by whose order he was transferred to the Tower of London, and there more closely confined than before, solely because he was the last male Plantagenet living. He was not allowed, however, a pro tracted existence, for being arraigned for high treason, and betrayed under a promise of pardon, into an acknowledgment of guilt, he was condemned, and executed upon Tower Hill, in 1499. MARGARET. This lady upon the execution of her brother, became the last member of the royal and illustrious house of Plantagenet (se Plantagenet, Countess of Salisbury). Arms-France and England quarterly; a label of three points, arg., each charged with a canton, gu. NOTE-From the period that George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, lost his life in 1477, the Dukedom of Clarence lay dormant, until revived in the person of His Royal Highness PRINCE WILLIAM-HENRY (Guelph), 3rd son of His Majesty King GEORGE III, who was created DURE OF CLARENCE AND ST. ANDREWS, in the peerage of Great Britain, and EARL OF MUNSTER, in that of Ireland, 19 May, 1789, all which honours merged in the crown upon the accession of the duke in 1830, as KING WILLIAM THE FOURTH. MARGARET PLANTAGENET, dau. of George, Duke of Clarence, and the Lady Isabel Nevil, eldest dau., and eventually sole heir, of Richard, Earl of Warwick and Salisbury, son and heir of Alice, dau. and heir of Thomas Montacute, Earl of Salisbury, became the LAST OF THE PLANTAGENETS, upon the execution of her brother, Edward Plantagenet, called Earl of Warwick, by HENRY VII. in 1499, and petitioned parliament in the 5th King HENRY VIII., to be restored to the honours of her maternal family. Whereupon she was advanced to the dignity of COUNTESS OF SALISBURY, 14 October, 1513, and obtained at the same time letters patent, establishing her in the castles, manors, and lands of Richard, late Earl of Salisbury, her grandfather, which had fallen to the crown by the attainder of her brother, Edward, called Earl of Warwick. Notwithstanding these substantial marks of royal favour, an opportunity in several years after was seized upon to destroy the only remaining branch of the Plantagenets in this illustrious lady; and at a period of life too, when, in the natural progress of events, her course was nearly closed. At the advanced age of seventy years, 31st HENRY VIII., her ladyship was condemned to death, unheard by parliament, and beheaded on Tower Hill in two years afterwards, 27 May, 1541, when her dignity as Countess of Salisbury, fell under the attainder. Her ladyship had m. Sir Richard Pole, K.G., and had issue, HENRY, summoned to parliament as BARON MONTAGU (see Pole, Baron Montagu). Geffery (Sir), upon whose testimony his elder brother, Lord Montagu, was convicted of, and executed for, high treason. He received sentence of death himself, but did not suffer. Arthur, was charged, in the reign of ELIZABETH, with projecting a scheme for the release of the Queen of Scots, and had judgment of death; but by reason of his near alliance to the crown, no execution followed. REGINALD, in holy orders, was educated at Oxford, and obtained the deanery of Exeter by the gift of King HENRY VIII. He was abroad at the period that king abolished the papal authority in England, and not attending when summoned to return, he was proclaimed a traitor and divested of his deanery. He was afterwards, anno 1536, made a cardinal, and, as CARDINAL POLE, presided (one of three presidents) at the celebrated Council of Trent. When Queen MARY ascended the throne, his eminence returned to England as legate from Pope JULIUS III., and had his attainder reversed by special act of parliament. He was made, at the same time, archbishop of Canterbury, in which high episcopal dignity he continued until his death, which occurred 17 November, 1558, being the very day upon which Queen MARY herself died; the tidings of that event are said to have broken the cardinal's heart, being at the time much weakened by a quartan ague. Whereupon his remains were interred in the cathedral at Canterbury. Few churchmen have borne so unblemished a reputation as this eminent prelate, and few have carried themselves with so much moderation and meekness. Ursula, m. to Henry, Lord Stafford. Among the co-representatives of Margaret, Countess of Salisbury, may be mentioned the Marquess of Hastings; William Lowndes, Esq., of Chesham; William Selby Lowndes, Esq., of Whaddon. PLANTAGENET-VISCOUNT L'ISLE. By Letters Patent, dated 26 April, 1533. Lineage. ARTHUR PLANTAGENET (natural son of King EDWARD IV., by the Lady Elizabeth Lucy), having m. Elizabeth, dau. of Edward Grey, 1st Viscount L'Isle of that family; sole heir of her niece, Elizabeth, Countess of Devon, and widow of Edmund Dudley (see Grey, Viscounts L'Isle), was created Viscount L'Isle, with limitation to his heirs male, by the said Elizabeth, by letters patent, dated 26 April, 1533, upon the surrender of that dignity by Charles Brandon," afterwards Duke of Suffolk. His lordship had issue by the heiress of Grey, * Bridget, m. to Sir William Carden, Knt. Francis, m. 1st, to John Basset, Esq., of Umberleigh, co. Devon, and 2ndly, to Thomas Monk, of Potheridge, in the same shire, from whom the celebrated General Monk descended. Elizabeth, m. to Sir Francis Jobson, Knt., lieutenant of the Tower, and master of the jewel office to Queen ELIZABETH. In the 24th HENRY VIII., Lord L'Isle was constituted lieutenant of Calais, and some time after, incurring suspicion of being privy to a plot to deliver up the garrison to the French, he was recalled and committed to the Tower of London; but his innocence appearing manifest upon investigation, the king not only gave immediate orders for his release, but sent him a diamond ring, and a most gracious message; which made such an impres sion upon the sensitive nobleman, that he died the night following, 3 March, 1541, of excessive joy. His lordship was 3 knight of the most noble order of the Garter. At his decease, the Viscounty of L'Isle became EXTINCT. Arms The coat of his lordship's father, King EDWARD IV, quartered with Ulster and Mortimer under a baton. PLANTAGENET-EARLS OF SURREY. (Refer to WARREN, Earls of Surrey.) PLANTAGENET-EARL OF ULSTER. (See PLANTAGENET, Duke of Clarence.) PLAYZ-BARON PLAYZ. By Writ of Summons, dated 1297. In the 17th King JOHN, HUGH DE PLATZ held seven knights" fees in co. Sussex, and was one of the barons who took up arms against that prince. He m. 1st, Beatrix de Say, widow of Hugh de Nevill, but was divorced from that lady, and m. 2ndly, Philippa, one of the daus. and co-heirs of Richard de Montfichet, by whom he had his successor, RICHARD DE PLAYZ, who, in the 53rd HENRY III., as one of the nephews and heirs of Richard de Montfichet, paid his relief for a third part of the said Richard's lands. To this Richard de Playz, s. his son, RALPH DE PLAYZ, who d. 8. p., and was s. by his brother, RICHARD DE PLAYZ, to whom succeeded, GILES DE PLAYZ. This feudal lord had summons to attend the king on the affairs of the realm, in the 22nd EDWARD I. He had aftewards a military summons to proceed to Gascony, and ultimately summons to parliament as a Baron, in the 25th of the same reign, but not afterwards. He d. in 1303, seized of the manor of Fulmere, co. Cambridge, and was s. by his son, Elizabeth Grey, only dau. and heiress of John, last Viscount L'Isle, of the Grey family, was contracted to Charles Brandon, who was created in consequence Viscount L'Isle, but the lady refusing, when she had attained maturity, to fulfil the engagement, the patent was cancelled. She afterwards m. Henry Courtenay, Earl of Devon |